The Trump Trials... Cases Closed?
Americast
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4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This week the last federal criminal case against Donald Trump was dropped. It's a dramatic end to a year in which began with Trump facing nearly 100 criminal charges connected to the two federal cases and others.
It was unprecedented legal territory for a former president, becoming the first to face a criminal trial and later conviction, in a case tied to a payment made to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels.
With just under two months until he's back in office, is he likely to use the Justice Department to pursue his enemies, and will there be wholesale pardons for people convicted for the January 6 riots?
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| 0:16.4 | I like it. Because it's political warfare, as you would call it, or political lawfare. I've got a lot of names for it, but usually it's political warfare as you would call it or political lawfare. Another name, |
| 0:23.0 | I got a lot of names for it, but usually it takes place in Third World Cup in Banana Republics. |
| 0:28.1 | This was a sham trial, but when you have an opportunity to see it up close and personal, |
| 0:32.6 | you can see it's actually a scam trial. You know, if I started a story with a convicted felon in a hooker |
| 0:38.9 | walk into a bar, you would immediately know that it's a joke. That's what we have here, a joke |
| 0:44.5 | of a trial. This is a made-up crime. It's like the Mr. Potato Head doll of crimes, where they had to |
| 0:50.6 | stick together a bunch of things that did not belong together. |
| 0:58.7 | That was Donald Trump and some of his closest allies complaining about the legal cases that were brought against him over the course of the last year or so, |
| 1:01.8 | which they repeatedly called a legal witch hunt and said was the political weaponization of the Justice Department. |
| 1:08.3 | Well, he's about to be in charge of that department, |
| 1:10.5 | and it seems that |
| 1:11.8 | winning re-election has made a lot of his legal problems simply disappear. Two of the most |
| 1:17.2 | important cases have been dropped. Two of them are pretty much at a standstill, and he's going to |
| 1:22.2 | put his guys in to run this very department. Could that mean he'll be indulging in that political lawfare he was |
| 1:29.3 | complaining about? That's what we'll be discussing. Welcome to AmeriCast. Americaast from BBC News. |
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