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The Brian Lehrer Show

The Courthouse Report of the Trump Guilty Verdict

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

NPR's Andrea Bernstein reports on the guilty verdict for President Trump from her vantage point from the courtroom, and as a longtime reporter on the former president and his business dealings.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The 12 everyday jurors vowed to make a decision based on the evidence and the law and the evidence and the law alone.

0:20.0

Their deliberations led them to a unanimous conclusion beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant,

0:28.4

Donald J. Trump, is guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree

0:34.7

to conceal a scheme to corrupt the 2016 election.

0:40.2

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg focusing on the jury after the 34 felony convictions of Donald Trump

0:46.4

yesterday, as Trump, after the verdict, tried to focus on anything but.

0:52.0

Our whole country is being rigged right now.

0:54.5

This was done by the Biden administration

0:57.2

in order to wound or hurt an opponent,

1:01.4

a political opponent.

1:03.1

And I think it's just a disgrace.

1:05.8

And we'll keep fighting.

1:06.9

We'll fight till the end and we'll win

1:08.5

because our country's gone to hell.

1:18.3

Donald Trump yesterday with us now Andrea Bernstein who covered the trial from inside the courtroom for NPR she was previously the host of the WNYC podcast Trump Inc about

1:24.8

the intersection of Trump's business interests and the public interest,

1:28.6

also the Will Be Wild podcast about the events leading up to January 6th, and she is author of the book,

1:34.8

American oligarchs, the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power.

1:40.3

Andrew has been coming on with us, as some of you know on various days off from the trial,

1:44.2

they usually took Wednesdays off from testimony.

1:47.2

So, Andrea, thanks for coming on again now that it's done.

1:51.0

And now we're really off.

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