What Now For Trump's Court Cases?
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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This episode: political correspondent Susan Davis, national justice correspondent Carrie Johnson, and senior political editor & correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:16.4 | Hi, this is Maddie from Providence, Rhode Island, the Kalamari comeback state. I just landed back in New England after a whirlwind day in Washington, D.C., |
| 0:24.5 | where I got to see President Biden pardon the turkeys. |
| 0:27.5 | This podcast was recorded at 12.23 p.m. on Wednesday, November 27th. |
| 0:33.2 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but hopefully peach and blossom are goblin their lives away back in Minnesota. |
| 0:39.3 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:43.7 | Oh, Domenico, this was clearly a timestamp for you. |
| 0:46.3 | Terrible fact about me. I'm allergic to shellfish, so I don't eat calmer. |
| 0:50.1 | I'm thinking more to the point of turkey partons, which I think you have written more about than anyone in NPR history. |
| 0:55.1 | I was trying to avoid that, but yes. You can read my last 15 years worth of turkey pardon stories, if you'd like. |
| 1:01.3 | You can Google it. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Susan Davis. I cover politics. |
| 1:06.3 | I'm Carrie Johnson. I cover the Justice Department. And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent. And today on the show, Donald Trump's legal troubles are going, going, gone. |
| 1:16.1 | The case related to Trump's actions on January 6th, as well as the case into improperly keeping classified |
| 1:21.6 | documents at Mar-a-Lago are closed. And sentencing in his New York business fraud case where |
| 1:26.8 | Trump was found guilty is on hold |
| 1:29.1 | indefinitely. Carrie, just walk us through these federal cases. Why exactly are they dead in the water? |
| 1:34.4 | Well, this was clear really the morning after the presidential election, but because it's the legal |
| 1:39.6 | system, it takes a little bit of time to work through the process. And the reason why the Justice Department |
| 1:44.5 | has abandoned both of these federal cases against President-elect Donald Trump is because there's a long-standing, |
| 1:50.4 | like decades-old view within the Justice Department that a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime |
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