The Campaign Moment: Trump jurors and Biden on Israel
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 19 April 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Elahe Izadi talks with Aaron Blake and Liz Goodwin about Week 1 of Trump’s first criminal trial, how Israel is dividing Democrats in Congress, and whether GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson’s strategy to approve aid to Ukraine could cost him his job.
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In Friday’s episode of “The Campaign Moment,” we look back at the political news of the week and dive into how it could shape the 2024 election. This week, senior political reporter Aaron Blake – who also writes The Post’s newsletter of the same name – talks about former president Donald Trump’s first criminal trial in New York with Elahe Izadi and congressional reporter Liz Goodwin.
They also chat about how foreign policy is dividing both Democrats and Republicans in Congress. President Biden’s approach on Israel continues to be top of mind for many Democrats following Israel’s strike inside Iran on Thursday. And far-right Republicans are threatening to remove GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson after he put forward a plan to send aid to Ukraine this week.
Today’s show was produced and mixed by Ted Muldoon. It was edited by Lucy Perkins.
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| 0:00.0 | So Donald Trump apparently nodded off during the first week of his criminal |
| 0:07.6 | trial in Manhattan. It may be more than once and it got me thinking what is the most inopportune time that you have |
| 0:15.2 | fallen asleep in public? |
| 0:17.6 | When he did this it reminded me of being in school and I have very long hair so I would not off but like cover my face |
| 0:24.2 | with my hair to hide it. I like the idea of Alahay having like the glasses with the |
| 0:28.7 | wide open eyes like Homer Simpson. I remember falling asleep on an airplane and I woke up when they said like you know |
| 0:36.1 | we're beginning our initial descent or whatever so and then I realized I had completely |
| 0:40.6 | been asleep on this guy's shoulder |
| 0:42.8 | for that whole time. |
| 0:43.6 | And he was too nice to like nudge me. |
| 0:45.6 | It must have been at least like an hour. |
| 0:50.6 | Welcome to the campaign moment. |
| 0:52.4 | This is Friday, April 19th. I'm Alahay Azati, co-host of Post Reports. |
| 0:57.0 | And today I'm joined, as always, by Senior Politics Reporter and author of the campaign moment newsletter, Aaron Blake. |
| 1:04.7 | Aaron, hello. |
| 1:06.0 | Hey Alahay, and rounding out the group this week is Post Congress reporter, Liz Goodwin. |
| 1:11.1 | Thanks for being here, Liz. |
| 1:12.1 | Thanks so much for having me. |
| 1:14.0 | So Aaron, what are we talking about this week? |
| 1:19.0 | Well, we actually have a criminal trial of former President Donald Trump. |
| 1:23.6 | This is the first criminal trial that he's facing among four indictments. |
| 1:27.4 | It's also the first criminal trial of a former president period. |
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