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The Brian Lehrer Show

Trump's Trials and the Campaign Trail

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Andrea Bernstein, journalist reporting on Trump legal matters for NPR, host of many podcasts including "Will be Wild" and "Trump, Inc." and the author of American Oligarchs: The Kushners The Trumps and the Marriage of Money and Power (W. W. Norton & Company, 2020), talks about the financial penalties and political benefits of former President Trump's legal trials, both past and upcoming, plus the news that the Supreme Court will take up Trump's claim of immunity.

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0:00.0

It's the Brian Laird show on WNYc, good

0:10.0

It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC.

0:13.2

Good morning everyone.

0:14.5

So if you did nothing else yesterday

0:16.4

but follow a Donald Trump legal affairs breaking new sticker,

0:20.7

you would not have been bored.

0:22.4

A New York judge, as you probably heard, refused to let

0:25.3

Trump post a $100 million bond to cover the $455 million in civil suit judgments against him.

0:35.5

Trump might have to post the whole thing

0:37.5

while the appeals of his cases proceed,

0:40.6

which might even mean selling some of his buildings or other properties.

0:44.9

Also yesterday, the United States Supreme Court in a decision that you probably heard the headline

0:50.4

on and that surprised and disappointed many legal analysts.

0:55.0

The Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will hear Trump's claim of immunity

0:59.0

from any criminal responsibility for anything one does as president, even citing an insurrection, and even

1:06.8

his lawyers argued if he were to order the Navy to assassinate a political rival.

1:12.8

Hello, Putin, and Navalny,

1:14.6

maybe that will become legal in the United States of America.

1:18.1

And then last night, a judge in Illinois

1:21.0

became the latest to remove Trump from the ballot in that state

1:25.0

under the insurrection clause of the Constitution.

1:28.0

The Supreme Court is already currently considering a case involving that from Colorado.

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