Two Convictions That Shook Trump-World
Trump, Inc.
WNYC Studios
4.6 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Trump Inc fans, it's Andrea Bernstein. |
| 0:05.6 | We're busy putting together season two of Trump Inc. |
| 0:08.3 | It's going to launch next month. |
| 0:10.0 | But in the meantime, we're bringing you an update on a big story we worked on last spring. |
| 0:15.4 | Remember this one? |
| 0:16.4 | And I'll do anything to protect Mr. Trump, the family, now Vice President to elect Pence, |
| 0:22.7 | as well as the campaign. |
| 0:24.1 | I'd like to keep myself in that little circle of extremely loyal people. |
| 0:29.8 | We try to understand Michael Cohen's life. |
| 0:31.9 | We're going to follow his paper trail. |
| 0:34.1 | So many of the people around him have been disbarred, disciplined, or arrested, year after |
| 0:38.7 | year. |
| 0:39.7 | Some have been convicted. |
| 0:41.1 | Cohen has never even been accused. |
| 0:44.0 | Well, as of a Tuesday afternoon in late August, that's no longer true. |
| 0:51.1 | In a courtroom in New York, Cohen pleaded guilty to eight felony counts, including tax fraud, |
| 0:57.4 | lying to a bank, and campaign finance violations. |
| 1:01.0 | The same hour he was pleading guilty, some 200 miles to the south, a federal jury was |
| 1:07.2 | reading back charges against someone else. |
| 1:10.0 | It was very important to Donald Trump, his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, |
| 1:15.5 | also eight counts, also bank and tax fraud. |
| 1:19.6 | The day after these dramatic developments, my Trump Inc. podcast co-host Ilya Maritz and |
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