Trump wants hush money case tossed due to election win
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🗓️ 4 December 2024
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President-elect Donald Trump wants his New York hush money case tossed.
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| 0:00.0 | Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's The Excerpt, ad-free right now. |
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| 0:12.7 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson. And today is Wednesday, December 4th, 2024. This is the excerpt. |
| 0:26.6 | Today, Donald Trump wants his hush money case tossed. Plus, some Senate Republicans are calling for deeper vetting on Trump picks, and we talk about purity culture and |
| 0:32.1 | pop star Sabrina Carpenter. President-elect Donald Trump argued in a court filing made public yesterday that his |
| 0:40.3 | New York criminal hush money case should be completely dismissed based on his election victory. |
| 0:45.6 | Trump was convicted in May of falsifying business records to cover up paying porn star Stormy Daniels |
| 0:51.2 | to stay quiet before the 2016 election about an alleged sexual encounter |
| 0:55.4 | between the two of them. He was initially scheduled to be sentenced in July, but he has now |
| 0:59.9 | gotten several sentencing dates wiped from the calendar as he tries to get his 34 felony convictions |
| 1:05.3 | tossed out. In his motion asking the New York criminal court to throw out both the convictions |
| 1:09.6 | and his indictment, |
| 1:15.5 | Trump said the Presidential Transition Act, which supports the presidential transition process, |
| 1:20.9 | demonstrates that immediate dismissal of this case is required. He also argued the case should be dismissed based on a New York law that allows a court to throw out an indictment in the furtherance |
| 1:25.7 | of justice. The court, for example, is allowed to |
| 1:28.2 | consider how dismissing an indictment would impact community safety or welfare. Trump also cited |
| 1:33.9 | President Joe Biden's comments when he pardoned his son Hunter on Sunday. The president said |
| 1:38.3 | raw politics had infected the legal process for Hunter. Prosecutors must file their responses to Trump's request by Monday. |
| 1:46.1 | They've already said they will oppose the motion, though they've also acknowledged the demands |
| 1:50.0 | and obligations of the presidency. It's not clear if prosecutors will push for Trump to be sentenced |
| 1:55.5 | before his January 20th inauguration, try to argue the sentencing could go forward during Trump's presidency |
| 2:01.7 | or argue it shouldn't take place until Trump's next term ends. |
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