Trump trial day 5 recap: Opening arguments wrap, witness testimony begins
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🗓️ 23 April 2024
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USA TODAY Justice Department Correspondent Aysha Bagchi recaps opening arguments in Donald Trump's hush money trial.
A judge approves safeguards for Donald Trump's $175 million civil business fraud appeal bond.
Tensions over the Israel-Hamas war continue on college campuses.
USA TODAY Supreme Court Correspondent Maureen Groppe breaks down a major case centered on ticketing the homeless.
Britain approves a Rwanda asylum seekers plan.
The World Anti-Doping Agency says 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive before Tokyo Olympics.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's the excerpt ad free right now. |
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024. This is the |
| 0:18.8 | exit. Today moving on to witness testimony in Trump's hush money trial. |
| 0:27.0 | Plus tensions continue on college campuses over the war in Gaza. |
| 0:31.0 | And we look at a major Supreme Court case centered on homelessness. |
| 0:36.3 | Lawyers made their opening arguments yesterday |
| 0:38.3 | in the hush money trial of former President Donald Trump. |
| 0:41.6 | I caught up with USA Today Justice Department correspondent |
| 0:44.2 | Aisha Bogchi for a recap. |
| 0:46.5 | Aisha, thanks for wrapping on today. I'm glad to be here, Taylor. |
| 0:49.3 | Let's start with the prosecution. What did we hear from the prosecution's opening arguments yesterday? |
| 0:54.9 | The prosecution said that Donald Trump's actions that are at issue in this case |
| 1:00.0 | were election fraud, pure and simple. |
| 1:03.0 | So they used very strong language to go after |
| 1:06.3 | what can seem kind of boring charges on the surface, |
| 1:09.2 | 34 counts of falsifying business records. |
| 1:12.2 | That sounds really technical and about paperwork, but the big |
| 1:16.0 | argument the prosecutors made is this is really about unlawfully interfering in the 2016 |
| 1:21.5 | presidential election. |
| 1:23.0 | So they're getting at the heart of allegations |
| 1:26.0 | about what it means to interfere in the electoral process in the United States. |
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