Trump's Legal Jeopardy Mounts as He Racks Up GOP Primary Victories

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🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on whether Colorado can keep former President Trump off of the state primary ballot for his actions on January 6. Meanwhile, Trump faces 91 felony counts across multiple jurisdictions in cases involving election subversion, hush money payments and the illegal handling of classified documents. We’ll talk about the legal and political implications of it all for Trump, who by a wide margin remains the GOP primary frontrunner. Guests: Shanlon Wu, criminal defense attorney; legal analyst, CNN; former federal prosecutor who also served as counsel to Attorney General Janet Reno David Graham, staff writer, The Atlantic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Scott Schaefer and Vermina Kim.
0:50.7	Coming up on forum, this is shaping up to be another big week in court for Donald Trump.
0:56.0	He attended a hearing in Florida this morning on the case involving alleged mishandling of national security documents,
1:02.5	and the U.S. Supreme Court seems likely to hand Trump a legal victory, reversing Colorado's decision to remove Trump from that state's presidential primary ballot.
1:12.0	But Trump could file an emergency application with the high court, asking it to block
1:17.2	last Tuesday's ruling from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled against his claim
1:22.7	of immunity from prosecution. This hour, the state of Trump's legal defense, and the stakes are huge for him and the
1:29.1	country. Coming up after the news. This is Forum. I'm Scott Schaefer in Fermina Kim. Well, this is shaping up to be a
1:37.8	momentous week for Donald Trump. He was in court this morning in Florida for the case involving
1:43.3	national security documents.
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