What the Donald Trump Jury Has Heard So Far

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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As the New York hush-money trial ends its first week of testimony, why are Alvin Bragg's prosecutors talking about "conspiracy" and "election fraud," considering Trump is charged with neither? Plus, the court hears testimony from former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, and listeners weigh in on the widening anti-Israel protests on college campuses, including Columbia University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.0	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:35.7	The New York-Hush Money Trial of Donald Trump closes at its second week.
0:39.6	What has the public and the jury learned so far.
0:42.7	Plus student protests about Gaza spread as Columbia University
0:46.8	appears to push back a deadline for the encampment there
0:49.9	to disperse.
0:51.4	Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.
0:54.5	We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Kim Strassal, and editorial board member
0:59.7	Manet Uquay Berua.
1:02.0	We are in the middle of the fourth day of arguments in testimony as we tape this
1:06.5	in the trial of Donald Trump in Manhattan, but to my eye still pretty far afield from the
1:11.3	34 felonies for falsifying business records that are the basis of the case.
1:17.6	Most of this week has been taken up by a witness for the prosecution, National Inquirer, media impresario David Becker who was not a party to the payoff of Stormy Daniels in 2016 that is the basis for the charges against Trump.
1:32.6	Let's listen to a clip of Donald Trump at the courthouse today speaking about the
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