The Campaign Moment: The politics of the Trump guilty verdict
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 31 May 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
It’s Friday, so it’s time for The Campaign Moment — our weekly roundtable conversation to help you keep track of the biggest developments of the 2024 campaign.
This week is a special episode dedicated to the questions raised by having a presidential candidate and former U.S. president who is now a felon. Senior political reporter Aaron Blake, who writes The Post's new Campaign Moment newsletter, and Ashley Parker, his colleague on the politics team, sit down with Post Reports co-host Elahe Izadi.
They talk about the politics of Donald Trump’s guilty verdict, how Republicans and Democrats are reacting to it, and the politicization of the rule of law.
Today’s show was produced and mixed by Ted Muldoon. It was edited by Renita Jablonski and Mary Jo Murphy.
Subscribe to Aaron’s newsletter, The Campaign Moment, here.
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| 0:00.0 | First I did want to ask you both how heavily caffeinated are you how exhausted are you right now |
| 0:08.7 | Not caffeinated enough yet, but we'll get through it. Yeah, my yesterday wasn't that crazy. |
| 0:14.5 | I think it's today that is already shaping up |
| 0:17.4 | to be quite busy. |
| 0:18.6 | So what was going through both of your minds? |
| 0:20.4 | That first thing that went through your mind |
| 0:22.4 | when you heard the verdict, |
| 0:23.7 | the guilty verdict that Donald Trump was guilty. The truth is I think I just |
| 0:27.4 | it's so unprecedented I think I would have been stunned either way like I |
| 0:31.8 | couldn't believe when it came back guilty, guilty, but I also |
| 0:36.4 | think had he been acquitted I would have been stunned in a different way. I think the |
| 0:41.7 | only thing that would have made a sort of intuitive sense to me was a hung jury, right? |
| 0:46.0 | Because Trump is so divisive and so polarizing, I would have been like, yeah, of course, |
| 0:50.0 | you know, 12 people can't agree on anything. Well, welcome to the campaign moment on this Friday, May 31st. |
| 1:02.2 | I'm Elahay Azadi, co-host of Post Reports. |
| 1:05.0 | And I'm Aaron Blake, senior political reporter and author of the campaign moment newsletter. |
| 1:10.0 | We're also joined this week by senior national political correspondent Ashley Parker. |
| 1:14.5 | Hey Ashley. |
| 1:15.1 | Hey, thanks for having me, you guys. |
| 1:16.7 | So Aaron, I wouldn't normally ask you, what's the big campaign story you've been |
| 1:25.0 | following this week, but I'm pretty sure we all know what that story is. |
| 1:29.5 | Yeah, this is the smallest mystery in the history of this podcast. We're going to be talking |
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