The People v Donald Trump - Part 1
The News Agents
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🗓️ 4 April 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump will today become the first US president to appear in court on criminal charges.
He arrived in NYC late yesterday and will shortly be heading to Lower Manhattan District Court to have his fingerprints taken and hear the 34 charges of improper business dealings being levelled against him.
Will the criminal charges stack up?
Will Trump keep his cool?
And will his supporters take to the streets in protest?
In Part One we take you through the process step-by-step. In Part 2 - tomorrow morning - the Trump fightback.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | Good morning. I'm Zinclair Samoa. |
| 0:15.6 | And I'm Stephen Romo. Joe and Savannah are on assignment. |
| 0:18.7 | Right now on Morning News Now, historic hearing in just a few hours, history will be made in downtown Manhattan. |
| 0:25.4 | Former President Trump is set to be arraigned on charges related to that high-profile hush money probe. |
| 0:31.0 | We've got full analysis in just a moment. |
| 0:33.0 | This is big. I know we often say that about any drama involving Donald Trump and we know there's a lot of |
| 0:39.9 | it. But this moment is a kind of history books moment because it's the first time ever that we will see |
| 0:48.1 | a president, a former president in court on criminal charges. Just hold on to that thought for one moment. President Trump, |
| 1:00.2 | leaving his Florida home, surrendering himself to the district attorney in New York. |
| 1:06.5 | He doesn't yet know the 34 charges that have been leveled at him in this indictment. |
| 1:13.1 | He's about to find out. |
| 1:15.4 | And we're going to bring you this whole extraordinary 24 hours step by step. |
| 1:20.9 | We're going to have an episode now, which you're listening to, and we're grateful to you. |
| 1:24.7 | But there's going to be an episode recorded in the middle of the night, |
| 1:27.9 | London time, where Emily and I will be drinking lots of coffee and trying to make sense of a news |
| 1:32.7 | conference that Donald Trump is due to give back at Mar-a-Lago. And you will be able to listen to that |
| 1:39.4 | the moment you wake up tomorrow morning, Wednesday morning, because it will be in your feeds then. But let's |
| 1:44.9 | just consider New York today. In a couple of hours' time, he is going to get in his Secret Service |
| 1:52.6 | cavalcade to drive from Trump Tower, the four miles down to lower Manhattan to the courthouse, |
| 2:00.4 | where the Secret Service are going to hand him over |
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