What Happens To The Investigations Involving Now-Candidate Trump?
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🗓️ 16 November 2022
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University of Michigan Law Professor Barbara McQuade, a former U.S. Attorney, explains how his status as a candidate might weigh on those investigations.
And NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik explains another development since Trump's last campaign: the conservative media properties run by Rupert Murdoch appear to have cooled on the former president.
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| 0:00.0 | The last time Donald Trump ran for president, the election culminated in an insurrection at |
| 0:05.2 | the U.S. Capitol. |
| 0:06.6 | That was after Trump and his allies exhausted every legal avenue to overturn the vote and |
| 0:11.2 | remain in power, plus some other avenues, including urging his vice president to just throw |
| 0:16.9 | out the results. |
| 0:17.9 | All vice president Pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify and we |
| 0:25.7 | become president and you are the happiest people. |
| 0:30.4 | So now that he's announced another run for president, it's prompting some difficult |
| 0:42.5 | decisions. |
| 0:43.7 | First among fellow Republicans who have to decide whether to stick with the former president. |
| 0:47.9 | I could not support him. |
| 0:49.6 | I just couldn't. |
| 0:51.0 | That's the lieutenant governor of Virginia, Winsom Earl Sears, speaking with Neil Kuvuto |
| 0:55.1 | on Fox Business before Trump's announcement. |
| 0:58.0 | She'd been a strong Trump supporter, but last week joined a growing chorus of Republicans |
| 1:02.0 | criticizing him. |
| 1:03.9 | To explain her change of heart, she didn't point to Trump's attempted election subversion |
| 1:08.0 | in 2020. |
| 1:09.4 | Instead, she noted Trump's negative impact on Republicans in the midterms. |
| 1:14.0 | You know, the voters have spoken and they have said that they want a different leader and |
| 1:20.7 | a true leader understands when they have become a liability. |
| 1:25.7 | And it's not just Republican politicians, reckoning with the Trump candidacy. |
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