Trump Found Guilty; The Right-Wing Media Were Prepared For It
On the Media
WNYC Studios
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🗓️ 1 June 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Count one guilty, count two guilty. |
| 0:04.5 | Donald Trump is the first foreign president in US history to be convicted of felony crimes. |
| 0:10.1 | From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Michael Loeinger. |
| 0:14.4 | This week a jury found Donald Trump guilty of all 34 counts in the historic hush money trial. |
| 0:21.8 | It's an outcome Trump and his boosters have |
| 0:24.6 | been messaging about for months. What they're doing when you lay out the number of |
| 0:28.9 | indictments is the definition of election interference. The weaponization of the justice |
| 0:33.8 | system is in full throttle right now. This is witch hunt political theater. |
| 0:39.3 | People were told how to think about those indictments. They were told that Trump was a victim |
| 0:44.3 | of a weaponized Department of Justice and they were told that the federal government was |
| 0:48.6 | being used to punish political enemies. Trump, conspiracy theories, and truth social. It's all coming up after |
| 0:57.1 | this. Listen to Support it, WNYC Studios. |
| 1:10.4 | From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. |
| 1:13.2 | Brooke Gladstone is out this week. |
| 1:15.1 | I'm Michael Lohanger. |
| 1:17.3 | Thursday at 420 PM, a crowd of reporters sat twiddling their thumbs |
| 1:21.9 | in the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse Press Overflow Room. |
| 1:25.6 | Justice Mertron came back and told us we would not be getting a verdict and he would be excusing the jury at 4.30. |
| 1:31.6 | Tyler McBrien, managing editor for law fair |
| 1:34.7 | speaking on the law fair podcast this week. |
| 1:37.6 | And then it was like 430, 431, 432, |
| 1:41.0 | and then all of a sudden he comes back with a different jury note this one saying that the jury has decided to return a verdict which was shocking |
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