Will Trump Case Be Dismissed Before a Trial Even Begins?
The Rich Zeoli Show
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🗓️ 5 April 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 4:
- On Tuesday former President Donald Trump was arraigned in New York City, appearing before State Supreme Court Justice Juan M. Merchan and pleading not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. As NewsBusters notes, even mainstream media outlets like ABC and NBC News have expressed skepticism about Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s legal reasoning for bringing charges against Trump. Is the case legally risky?
- MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle criticized former President Donald Trump for fundraising off being criminally charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. According to Axios, former President Donald Trump raised an estimated $5 million in the first 48 hours after news he had been indicted by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office.
- John Yoo— the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley & a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss former President Donald Trump being charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. After reading the unsealed indictment, Professor Yoo concludes that the Manhattan District Attorney’s charges against Trump are “weaker than we thought.” Will the case be dismissed before a trial even begins?
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| 0:08.0 | I'm Kami McCormick. A spokesperson for Mike Pence has indicated he'll cooperate |
| 0:13.2 | in the investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. |
| 0:18.0 | Former Vice President Mike Pence is one step closer to testifying before grand jury, |
| 0:22.6 | investigating Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. |
| 0:26.6 | Pence's spokesperson till CBS News, the former Vice President will not appeal a judge's |
| 0:31.0 | decision, compelling him to testify. The judge last month partially ruled in Pence's favor, |
| 0:35.8 | granting him constitutional immunity from entering questions about his role on January 6, 2021. |
| 0:40.4 | But the judge did order Pence to answer questions about Trump, striking a blow to the former |
| 0:44.4 | president's claims of executive privilege. Robligary CBS News, Washington. |
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| 1:00.8 | sometimes agonizing detail on cases of child sexual abuse dating back 80 years and involving |
| 1:06.8 | 600 victims all at the hands of priests and personnel with the Archdiocese of Baltimore. |
| 1:12.5 | Archbishop William Laurie offered an apology to survivors and said while hard to imagine, |
| 1:17.6 | quote, these evil acts did occur. Kate Ryan for CBS News, Washington. |
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