Trump pleads not guilty
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 5 April 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Former US president Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony charges in court on Tuesday, Credit Suisse held its last annual general meeting, and shareholders at HSBC rail over the company’s decision to buy Silicon Valley Bank’s UK business.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Donald Trump pleads not guilty to criminal charges in New York
Credit Suisse chair apologises to investors at bank’s final AGM
HSBC forced to defend SVB UK deal to fractious Hong Kong shareholders
Credit Bloomberg Televsion: Credit Suisse Chairman: This Is a Sad and Historic Day
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| 0:00.0 | The FT News Briefing is supported by Equinole, the UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.3 | Learn more at equinole.co.uk |
| 0:09.8 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:11.3 | Today is Wednesday, April 5th, and this is your FT News Briefing. |
| 0:18.9 | Donald Trump is officially the first former US President to be indicted on criminal charges. |
| 0:24.8 | Plus, Credit Suisse held its last shareholder meeting ever yesterday. |
| 0:29.9 | And there were fireworks. |
| 0:31.4 | And Walnuts, for that matter. |
| 0:34.1 | And investors in Hong Kong took on HSBC executives. |
| 0:38.4 | We'll tell you how that meeting went. |
| 0:41.6 | I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:45.0 | Donald Trump appeared in court in New York yesterday for the first time. |
| 0:57.0 | The former US President pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. |
| 1:03.4 | They're related to alleged hush money payments to porn actress Stormi Daniels during his |
| 1:08.1 | 2016 presidential campaign. The FT's US legal correspondent Joe Miller was at the courthouse |
| 1:14.2 | yesterday. So I got to downtown Manhattan at roughly 6 a.m. and at about 8 a.m. we were all given |
| 1:22.8 | passes to eventually go into the building and be either in the court room or in the overflow |
| 1:29.5 | court room as I was when Donald Trump's hearing took place later that afternoon. |
| 1:34.5 | Roughly 2 p.m. we heard that Donald Trump was on his way. We as journalists were |
| 1:40.8 | shepherded through two security checks. We couldn't use our phones and then we just sat there in |
| 1:45.8 | silence as Donald Trump's lawyers walked in as the prosecutors walked in. And what followed was |
| 1:52.5 | a fairly standard arrangement hearing a little bit longer than the ones you would usually have in |
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