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What Trump’s Federal Indictment Could Mean for the Presidential Race

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

News, Daily News

4.14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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A.M. Edition for June 9. Donald Trump is the first former U.S. president to face a federal indictment. WSJ Washington reporter Alex Leary discusses the charges and how they could affect the 2024 presidential race. And Facebook owner Meta is exploring a new app to compete with Twitter. Plus, signs of distress for “buy now, pay later” users. Keith Collins hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:03.3

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0:06.8

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0:20.3

Donald Trump faces the first federal indictment of a former US president in history.

0:25.2

What happens next? And the owner of Facebook and Instagram is working on a new

0:30.0

app to compete with Twitter. Plus, signs of distress for people who buy now pay later.

0:36.5

If a consumer's wallet is more stretched now than a year ago,

0:40.8

whether you're spreading the payments out over four weeks or not, it can still present

0:45.9

a risky dynamic for the consumer's budget.

0:49.2

It's Friday, June 9. I'm Keith Collins for the Wall Street Journal,

0:53.2

filling in for Luke Vargas. And here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines

0:58.4

in business stories moving your world today.

1:05.9

Donald Trump was indicted yesterday by federal grand jury in the investigation into how he

1:10.6

handled classified documents at his floor to home. It's the first time ever that the federal

1:15.6

government has brought charges against a former US president. And it comes after an earlier

1:20.8

indictment of Trump by Manhattan's District Attorney and connection with its probe into the former

1:25.5

president's role in a hush money payment. Joining us to discuss the federal indictment and what

1:30.6

it could mean for the 2024 presidential race is our Washington reporter Alex Liri. So, Alex,

1:36.5

can you remind us how we got here and what led to this indictment?

1:40.4

Yeah, this dates back to when Trump left the White House in January 2021 after losing the

1:45.8

election to Joe Biden. He relocated to his Florida estate, which is called Mar-a-Lago,

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