Trump's Legal Woes
The Briefing Room
BBC
4.8 • 731 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
David Aaronovitch and guests discuss Donald Trump's appearance in a New York court this week, his other looming legal cases and what all this means for him politically.
Guests::
Anthony Zurcher, BBC North America correspondent Renato Mariotti, legal affairs columnist for POLITICO magazine, a former federal prosecutor and host of the It’s Complicated podcast Dr Leslie Vinjamuri, Director of the US and the Americas programme at Chatham House Dr Mitchell Robertson, associate lecturer in US History at University College London
Produced by: Kirsteen Knight, Isobel Gough and Ben Carter Edited by: Richard Vadon Sound engineer: James Beard Production co-ordinator: Janet Staples
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.4 | I'm David Ronebitch. This is the briefing room, where we get briefed on a big issue by the top experts in just 28 minutes. |
| 0:15.1 | This week, the consequential saga of the Trump era reaches the law courts. |
| 0:20.8 | And this is just on the first set of charges the former president and would-be president again faces. |
| 0:27.0 | Is it a witch-hunter's Republicans claim, or the wheels of justice getting into gear without fear or favor? |
| 0:34.6 | And what might it mean for next year's presidential election? |
| 0:41.8 | Music favour. And what might it mean for next year's presidential election? If you were digging for titanium on Alpha Centauri, you might have missed Tuesday's |
| 0:46.8 | appearance by former US President Donald Trump in a court in New York to face criminal charges. |
| 0:53.0 | Earthdwellers who witnessed it, however, |
| 0:55.0 | might be forgiven for getting lost in the hubbub of claims, |
| 0:58.5 | counterclaims, takes and prognostications |
| 1:01.2 | that surround Trump's current legal troubles. |
| 1:04.6 | So what exactly is he up against? |
| 1:07.1 | And what's the best guess on how it may all affect |
| 1:09.6 | next year's presidential election? |
| 1:12.1 | Step into the briefing room and together we'll find out. |
| 1:18.4 | First of all, the Stormy Daniels case, the one that led to Trump's court appearance earlier this week. |
| 1:25.3 | Anthony Zerker is the BBC's North America correspondent. Anthony Zirker, |
| 1:30.4 | Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump, where does this story begin? It begins in July of 2006 at a charity |
| 1:37.7 | golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, where Donald Trump met an adult film star. Her name is Stephanie Clifford, but her screen |
| 1:46.2 | name is Stormy Daniels. And there's a photograph of the two of them together there. What Stormy |
| 1:51.3 | Daniels says is that after they met, they went back to Donald Trump's suite at the resort, |
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