Trump in Court...Again
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🗓️ 13 June 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
He is the first former U.S. president to face federal criminal charges. Trump and many of his supporters have called the indictment politically motivated.
NPR's White House correspondent Franco Ordonez has been following Trump's case and he spoke to Ailsa Chang about how Trump, as well as his opponents in the Republican primary are reacting to the indictment on the campaign trail.
Ailsa Chang spoke with NPR's Andrea Bernstein about why Trump sees so many lawyers come and go.
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| 0:00.0 | We've heard the word unprecedented with Donald Trump from the very beginning from the |
| 0:10.5 | beginning. |
| 0:11.5 | Donald Trump made history again on Tuesday in Miami, becoming the first former president |
| 0:15.3 | to enter a federal court to face criminal charges. |
| 0:18.9 | He pleaded not guilty to all 37 criminal charges, including obstruction and unlawful retention |
| 0:24.6 | of classified documents that has floored a home and private club Mar-a-Laga. |
| 0:28.9 | We love Trump! We love Trump! |
| 0:31.9 | Hundreds of Trump supporters gathered outside the Miami federal court house, believing |
| 0:36.5 | the indictment to be politically motivated, and PR's Greg Allen was on the scene. |
| 0:40.9 | It's really been just something like a carnival atmosphere all day long with vendors |
| 0:44.5 | here selling Trump t-shirts and hats. |
| 0:46.7 | Greg talked to Louise Medina, a supporter of Trump. |
| 0:49.7 | But you got to realize this, today the U.S. Constitution is on trial, because that's |
| 0:54.7 | a citizen Donald Trump, no longer president. |
| 0:58.3 | And if that happens to you and I, how can we defend ourselves? |
| 1:02.2 | Well many Republicans have sought to draw comparisons to President Biden or Hillary Clinton for how |
| 1:06.8 | they handled classified documents. |
| 1:09.3 | Former federal prosecutor Robert Mints told NPR that Trump's case carries a stark difference. |
| 1:15.2 | This is a case about the willful retention of classified documents and the key distinction |
| 1:20.3 | between these charges and the facts that we know about President Biden, former secretary |
| 1:26.9 | of state Clinton, and even former Vice President Mike Pence is that while there may have been |
| 1:32.0 | documents improperly removed in those cases, there is no evidence of intent, no evidence |
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