The Opening Days of Trump’s First Criminal Trial

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🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Political and legal history are being made in a Lower Manhattan courtroom as Donald J. Trump becomes the first former U.S. president to undergo a criminal trial. Jonah Bromwich, who covers criminal justice in New York, explains what happened during the opening days of the trial, which is tied to Mr. Trump’s role in a hush-money payment to a porn star. Guest: Jonah E. Bromwich, who covers criminal justice in New York for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	It's the first day of the Trump trial and just walking out the door on my house.
0:07.0	It's a beautiful day. 6-11 a.m.
0:12.0	The thing that keeps running through my head is kind of amazing that hundreds of jurors
0:18.8	are going to show up at the Manhattan Courthouse and some of them are going to know what they're there for probably talking to their friends their relatives about it
0:28.6	Some of them are going to learn this morning talking to other jurors in line asking what all the fuss is about but I
0:36.3	really do imagine that there's going to be at least one potential juror who you
0:40.6	know headphones on get into court.
0:44.0	Here, they're going to be there for the first criminal trial of Donald J. Trump and just...
0:48.0	I mean, how would you react? From New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro. This is the Daily. Today.
1:00.8	What it's been like inside the lower Manhattan courtroom,
1:05.0	where political and legal history are being made.
1:09.0	My colleague, Jonah Bromwich, on the opening days of the first criminal trial of a US president.
1:17.0	It's Thursday, April 18th. Do, is that his mic? Hello, I'm doing.
1:24.0	Do...
1:28.0	Is that his mic?
1:30.0	Hi there.
1:32.0	How are you?
1:33.0	I'm doing good.
1:36.0	Okay, thank you for coming in, Jonah.
1:39.0	Thank you for coming in, Jonah. Thank you for having me.
1:40.0	In the middle of a trial.
1:41.0	Can you just explain why you're able to even be here?
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