Trump Gets His $280 Million Lucky Break
Somebody's Gotta Win with Tara Palmeri
The Ringer
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🗓️ 26 March 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | An Instagram post gets an unexpected boost. A Tik-Toc catches in the algorithm. |
| 0:05.0 | Sometimes that's all it takes to launch someone into internet fame. |
| 0:09.0 | But then what? |
| 0:11.0 | This blew up is a new podcast documentary that reveals how social media stardom is made. |
| 0:16.0 | It's a different kind of fame that's not always as glamorous as it looks. |
| 0:20.0 | From Spotify and the Ringer Podcast Network, I'm |
| 0:23.3 | Melissa Bresnack. You can listen to this blue up on Spotify |
| 0:26.8 | or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, Ter'm Tara Paul Mary. I'm Puck Senior Political Correspondent, and this is somebody's gotta win. |
| 0:50.0 | It was another lucky day in the courts for Donald Trump. |
| 0:53.7 | He had a half a billion dollar civil judgment against him |
| 0:57.6 | and his business for fraud. |
| 0:59.5 | And he had to put up a hefty bond, right, |
| 1:02.3 | about the same amount of money. But today an appeals court |
| 1:06.3 | basically lowered that, reduced the bond to 175 million dollars and gave Trump 10 days to come up with the money. I mean I went to bed |
| 1:15.2 | last night thinking how is he going to come up with $455 million by Monday? |
| 1:20.6 | And I think a lot of other people thought that too because it was a hard |
| 1:23.7 | deadline, but again, court just ruled in his favor. But also at the same time, there is an actual |
| 1:30.8 | date for his hush money payment case to the film star Stormy Daniels. |
| 1:36.1 | It's now set for April 15th. |
| 1:39.1 | So he'll be back soon enough in court in a few weeks. |
| 1:42.6 | I don't know, Chris, what do you think about all this? |
| 1:44.6 | By the way, Chris is my producer, he's amazing, |
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