With Trump’s trial over (for now), what’s next?

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🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

A New York jury found Donald Trump guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records. It is the first time a former president has been convicted of a crime. The case was rooted in Trump’s attempt to keep a damaging story about himself and actress Stormy Daniels out of the news during the 2016 election. With any potential punishment still far out, the focus now is on how the conviction will impact politics in the upcoming weeks and months. Will Trump or Joe Biden find the best way to capitalize on the ruling? Will voters who were already unmoved by the proceedings be stirred to action?

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito notified Congress that he would not recuse himself from cases involving the January 6th riots or the 2020 election. Members of Congress were calling for a recusal following reports that flags associated with the Stop the Steal movement were flown over his residence and a vacation home in 2021 and 2023. Alito claims his wife put up the flags and he was not involved. The situation rekindled conversations about justices’ responsibilities for their spouses’ actions. But more concerning is how this incident (and the Donald Trump trial) plays into growing levels of public mistrust in the judiciary.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the left right and center. I'm Domenico
0:03.2	Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent at NPR and a
0:06.3	regular on another political podcast you may have heard of the NPR
0:09.4	politics podcast. I'm your host this week filling in for David Green. We start with a historic moment.
0:15.8	A jury found former President Donald Trump guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying
0:21.0	business records the prosecution says in order to influence the 2016
0:25.4	election. The jury was in deliberation for less than 10 hours when the decision
0:29.9	came in. Here was Donald Trump right after the ruling.
0:33.2	This was a disgrace.
0:35.4	This was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who was corrupt.
0:40.5	This was a rigged disgraceful trial that the real verdict is going to be
0:46.3	November 5th by the people and they know what happened here and everybody knows what happened here
0:52.4	And this was Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg happened here and everybody knows what happened here.
0:52.9	And this was Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg later in the day.
0:56.2	And while this defendant may be unlike any other
1:00.6	in American history, we arrived at this trial and ultimately today at this verdict in the
1:07.7	same manner as every other case that comes to the courtroom doors. by following the facts and the law and doing
1:16.4	so without fear or favor. We're joined by our left right and center panel, Moel Lathie,
1:22.2	director of Georgetown University's Institute
1:24.7	of Politics and Public Service, a former communications director for the Democratic National
1:28.9	Committee and advisor to Hillary Clinton.
1:31.5	And Sarah Isger, a lawyer lawyer senior editor at the dispatch and
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