The Gutowski Files Ep. 21 LIVE From New York At The NRA Trial
Active Self Protection Podcast
John Correia and Mike Willever
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🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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On this installment of the Gutowski Files we sit down with investigative reporter Stephen Gutowski of thereload.com and discuss the ongoing NRA corruption trial in New York. Stephen has been in the courtroom and brings us the latest developments including his take on the closing arguments.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, all ready, gang, welcome back to the Gatowski Files, starring Stephen Gautowski. |
| 0:11.5 | Stephen is in New York City. |
| 0:13.7 | He is covering the NRA corruption trial. |
| 0:16.6 | Can I call it a corruption trial? |
| 0:17.5 | Is it fair enough? |
| 0:18.0 | I think I can. |
| 0:18.8 | I will call it that. |
| 0:20.1 | It is a trial ongoing in New York City, and today were the final arguments in said trial. |
| 0:24.9 | First of all, Stephen, you look to be leagered, sir. I take it you've been a very busy man this past week. |
| 0:30.5 | Yes, yeah. It's a lot of travel lately. I was up in Pennsylvania for former President Trump's speech to the NRA at the Great American Outdoor Show. |
| 0:41.4 | And then now I'm back here again in New York in Manhattan for the NRA corruption trial, the end of it. |
| 0:48.9 | And yeah, so it's been a lot of travel. |
| 0:50.8 | But I'm doing okay. |
| 0:52.1 | They keep the courtroom very hot for some reason. It's a very old courtroom. It's a very old courthouse. And so it gets very hot in there and you have to sit in there for eight hours or whatever. Ah, it is what it is. Yeah, courtrooms can be painful enough to sit in for long periods of time. The heat cannot help at all. I know I've done it. |
| 1:12.1 | You know, when I used to testify in cases that I brought before the federal courts, it became very painful at times to be in there because there's no one to complain to. The judge doesn't care if you're too hot or too cold. You've got to sit there and take it. So I do, I can definitely relate to that. So as I mentioned earlier |
| 1:28.0 | today were the closing arguments. Can you kind of break down what went on today and what you think |
| 1:32.6 | it means? Yeah, sure. So there's obviously each side gave their their closing argument. Their |
| 1:39.9 | basic summary of why they think the jury should side with them. |
| 1:45.5 | And you had beginning, you had the defense. |
| 1:49.5 | So it's an interesting case, right, because you have individual defendants and then you |
| 1:55.5 | have the NRA as an organization is a defendant as well. |
| 1:58.3 | So you have Wayne LaPierre, who was obviously the head of the NRA, |
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