The Legal and Political Implications of Trump's Conviction by a Manhattan Jury; Prof. John Mearsheimer on Israeli Escalations, Ukraine's Losses and More
System Update with Glenn Greenwald
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🗓️ 31 May 2024
⏱️ 80 minutes
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TIMESTAMPS:
Intro (0:00)
Trump Guilty Verdict (3:17)
Interview with Professor John Mearsheimer (30:25)
Outro (1:18:55)
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. It's Thursday, May 30th. Welcome to a new episode of |
| 0:07.7 | System Update. Our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at |
| 0:11.5 | 7 PM Eastern exclusively here on |
| 0:13.8 | Rumbull the free speech alternative to YouTube tonight. |
| 0:17.4 | No matter what one thinks of the felony charges brought against Donald |
| 0:20.4 | Trump by a Democratic prosecutor in Manhattan and we covered our views |
| 0:24.1 | of the legal issues many times including last night where we said and I |
| 0:28.2 | continue to believe that this is the most dubious of all the cases. There is no denying that today's verdict, |
| 0:36.0 | finding Trump guilty of all 34 felony counts he faced is a historic moment in American history. |
| 0:41.6 | It is the first time ever that I'm an American history. It is the first time ever that an American president current or |
| 0:45.5 | former has been convicted of felonies, has become a felon. |
| 0:50.3 | To begin with, Trump's sentencing date is now set for July 11th, which is just a couple of weeks |
| 0:56.9 | after or close to the Republican National Convention, and only three and a half months until |
| 1:02.2 | the November election. |
| 1:03.4 | There is a very plausible chance, maybe not probable, but definitely possible, |
| 1:07.8 | that Trump will be sentenced to some amount of jail time for this conviction. |
| 1:11.3 | He just got convicted after all what is technically |
| 1:13.4 | 34 felonies and the judge who sentenced him has as we talked at length about |
| 1:19.2 | last night has been extremely hostile to Donald Trump that means that Trump may spend some or all |
| 1:25.4 | of the campaign in jail and will have to run there from president as a felon and as |
| 1:31.2 | a prisoner. |
| 1:33.0 | There is also, of course, the looming political question of whether this will |
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