Trump Hush-Money Trial: Prosecution Meets Politics

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🗓️ 19 May 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Former President Donald Trump has spent weeks in a courtroom in downtown Manhattan as prosecutors laid out their case that his efforts to bury an alleged sexual encounter with a porn star amounted to election interference in the 2016 race for the White House. WSJ reporter James Fanelli and senior political correspondent Molly Ball join host Danny Lewis to discuss the legal strategies in the courtroom and how the trial is affecting Trump’s current presidential campaign. Further Reading: Cohen Wavers on Recollection of Key Conversation With Trump at Trial How Stormy Daniels’s Sordid Testimony Could Help Trump Judge Finds Trump Violated Gag Order Again, Threatens Jail Trump’s Trial and Campaign Collide as Historic Prosecution Begins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:16.8	Hey what's news listeners,'s Sunday, May 19th.
0:23.0	I'm Amary Fertoli.
0:24.0	And I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal,
0:27.0	and this is What's News Sunday,
0:29.0	the show where we tackle the big questions
0:31.0	about the biggest stories in the news by reaching out to our
0:33.9	colleagues across the newsroom to help explain what's happening in our world.
0:37.3	This week Wall Street Journal audio reporter Danny Lewis is checking in on
0:41.1	Donald Trump's first criminal trial to go to court.
0:44.5	It's over whether his efforts during the 2016 presidential campaign to cover up an earlier
0:49.0	alleged affair with a porn star amounted to election interference.
0:53.1	Here's Danny to help explain the legal maneuvers,
0:55.2	where the case is headed next,
0:56.6	and what it could all mean for Trump's presidential run.
1:02.2	For about a month now, instead of hitting the campaign trail ahead of the Republican National Convention in July,
1:08.0	former President Donald Trump has spent several days a week in Manhattan Criminal Court. He's facing 34 felony counts of
1:15.2	falsifying business records and at times the witness stand has been like a
1:19.5	flashback to an early Trump administration scandal.
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