Trump and The Law- w/ The Washington Post's David Fahrenthold
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 25 May 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Two criminal investigations in NY. One in Georgia. Lawsuits all over. Can Trump escape accountability one more time? Bill talks to David Fahrenthold, the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for The Washington Post. Fahrenthold has been on the Trump legal/finance beat since 2016.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Bill Press Pod. |
| 0:10.6 | You know, when he left the White House, Donald Trump may have thought he left his troubles |
| 0:14.2 | behind him, but surprise, surprise, that's not the case. |
| 0:18.7 | His legal problems continue to plague Donald Trump and have just gotten worse. |
| 0:24.1 | He's under investigation in Georgia for allegedly interfering with election officials. |
| 0:29.8 | He's under criminal investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney for various financial irregularities. |
| 0:36.8 | And just last week, the New York State Attorney General announced |
| 0:39.8 | that she was upping her own investigation of Donald Trump from a civil inquiry to a criminal one. |
| 0:46.9 | So how much legal trouble is Donald Trump really in? And what could be the consequences? |
| 0:53.0 | From the beginning, nobody's tracked Trump's legal woes more closely than the Washington |
| 0:58.5 | host David Ferenhold, who was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his early reporting on candidate |
| 1:05.3 | Donald Trump. |
| 1:06.9 | David is still on the case, and he joins us today from The Washington Post. |
| 1:12.3 | David Farenhold, good to connect with you again. |
| 1:14.9 | Thanks so much for joining us on the Bill Press pod. |
| 1:17.3 | I'm so glad to be here. |
| 1:18.6 | So let's just ask, it looks like Donald Trump could be in serious legal jeopardy, is he? |
| 1:28.3 | Well, there's no charges filed yet and no lawsuits filed yet. |
| 1:32.3 | But what I can tell you is that two different authorities in New York, the New York |
| 1:35.8 | at State Attorney General and the Manhattan DA, are doing investigations of Trump's finances |
| 1:40.1 | that are unlike any that have come before. |
| 1:42.2 | They have more data. |
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