The criminal charges that could send Trump to prison
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The Times
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🗓️ 16 June 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
This week, Donald Trump became the first US president to be charged with a federal crime. This came less than three months after he was indicted in New York on separate state charges. Why is this time more serious?
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| 0:00.0 | The man whose name is Dominic, he's wearing a white and black pinstripe prison outfit. |
| 0:27.7 | He leaped off the sidewalk toward the former president's motorcade and Mr. Trump's vehicle |
| 0:31.8 | as he left the courthouse, the secret service swooped in, tackled him to the ground and put |
| 0:36.2 | him in cuffs, earlier he was walking around with a sign that said arrest him referring |
| 0:40.7 | of course to Donald Trump. |
| 0:49.8 | On Tuesday in Miami, Donald Trump became the first president to the United States to be |
| 0:55.6 | charged with a federal crime. |
| 1:07.0 | It feels a bit like a witch hunt to me. |
| 1:09.0 | I think that if you're going to investigate Trump, you should investigate both sides. |
| 1:13.5 | As Donald Trump very eloquently says, when they're coming after him, they're really looking |
| 1:18.2 | to come after us. |
| 1:26.3 | You may also have a strong feeling of deja vu. |
| 1:28.8 | Haven't we been here before? |
| 1:30.3 | There's only less than three months ago that Trump was in a state courthouse in New York, |
| 1:34.7 | pleading not guilty to 34 felony counts over all that business with hush money in the |
| 1:39.8 | porn star. |
| 1:41.5 | But there is something different going on here. |
| 1:43.9 | Trump's former attorney general Bill Barr thought so on Fox News of All Places. |
| 1:48.0 | It's a very detailed indictment and it's very, very damning. |
| 1:53.2 | If even half of it is true, then he's toast. |
| 2:01.8 | You're listening to stories of our times from the times and the Sunday times. |
| 2:05.5 | I'm Luke Jones. |
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