Trump Pleads Not Guilty To 34 Felony Charges

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🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Prosecutors in New York allege Donald Trump falsified business records to conceal hush money payments made by allies, which prosecutors say was an effort to keep scandalous allegations against him from coming to light during the final months of his 2016 presidential campaign run. Trump is expected to speak to the allegations tonight at a Florida campaign event.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:06.8	I'm Tamer Keith.
0:07.8	I cover the White House.
0:08.8	I'm Dominic Amantin, our Senior Political Editor and Correspondent.
0:11.6	And I'm Carrie Johnson, National Justice Correspondent.
0:14.2	And it is 5.11 PM on Tuesday, the 4th of April.
0:18.9	And we are also joined by NPR's Andrea Bernstein, who is with us from New York.
0:24.2	Hello.
0:25.2	Hello.
0:26.2	So you are here because today, former president Donald Trump turned himself into authorities
0:31.7	at a courthouse in Manhattan to hear the 34 felony charges that he is facing.
0:37.0	And Andrea, you were there.
0:39.2	Talk through what it was like in the courtroom.
0:41.1	It was security like I have never seen before.
0:43.5	We were two rows of court officers lined up in the middle.
0:46.8	Court officers on the side, Secret Service, court officers on the front.
0:51.5	About 230, the former president walks in, surrounded by his
0:56.2	Secret Service agents.
0:57.4	He walks in a manner which I think is probably quite familiar to most listeners sort of striding,
1:02.5	looking serious to grim, sat down at the defense table, and shortly thereafter the proceedings
1:10.2	began.
1:11.7	And right at the top, the judge, Judge Juan Morshan, asked the former president how he pleaded.
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