Trump Indicted By New York Grand Jury
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🗓️ 31 March 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's the MPR Politics Podcast. The time is now 8.23 pm on Thursday, March 30th. |
| 0:11.3 | I'm Susan Davis, I cover politics. |
| 0:13.3 | I'm Domenico Montenegro, Senior Political Editor and Correspondent. |
| 0:16.1 | And I'm Carrie Johnson, National Justice Correspondent. |
| 0:19.2 | And for the first time in U.S. history, a former president will face criminal charges. |
| 0:24.0 | Donald Trump has been indicted by a New York grand jury. |
| 0:27.1 | The case is related to hush money payments made in 2016 to an adult film star known as |
| 0:32.3 | Stormy Daniels, through Trump's former attorney, Michael Cohen. |
| 0:36.0 | The money was paid to Daniels to keep her from going public about an alleged sexual relationship |
| 0:40.5 | with Trump back in 2006. |
| 0:43.2 | Trump denies the extramarital affair. |
| 0:45.6 | Carrie, we don't know a lot, but let's talk about what we do know. |
| 0:49.2 | What is at the heart of this case that prosecutors in New York were looking at and what are |
| 0:53.3 | prosecutors saying? |
| 0:54.7 | So we haven't got our hands on this indictment yet. |
| 0:57.2 | It seems to be still under seal. |
| 0:59.5 | But we do know a lot based on what witnesses before the grand jury have talked about. |
| 1:03.6 | Among those witnesses is Trump's former fixer, Michael Cohen, |
| 1:07.2 | new reference to him Cohen, says he was directed by a former president, Donald Trump, |
| 1:12.4 | to pay Stormy Daniels $130,000 in the waning weeks of the 2016 election to keep her quiet. |
| 1:20.4 | We do know that these kinds of hush money payments are not illegal under New York law, |
| 1:25.7 | but making false entries in one's accounting books are. |
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