Happy Tuesday! Donald Trump has been arrested. Today, during his arraignment, we got to see the indictment he’s facing, which includes 34 felony counts. The felonies in question refer to his alleged falsification of business records connected to hush money paid to Stormy Daniels during the ‘16 election. If found guilty, Trump could serve up to four years; today, in Manhattan criminal court, he pled not guilty. Prosecutors, however, argue that he “repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal criminal conduct that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election.”
We’re at the beginning of a landmark trial, uncharted territory for the American legal and political system: no other former president has ever been charged with a crime. There’s a chance that the trial will go into or reach past the 2024 election, which (to say the very least) opens up a new series of questions about what the presidential race will look like. How does this criminal case affect the landscape of Republican presidential hopefuls and their affinity for or disavowal of Trump? What would it mean for Trumpism if the former president is found guilty? We’ll be getting into these big questions on the show, and we look forward to having you with us. Paying subscribers can access the full conversation as a video on Friday evenings, and everyone else can tune in Saturday through Pandora, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.
I think you meant Alvin Bragg makes history as the first DA to indict a former president with a felony he did not commit
Watching BP’s episode about Taibi v Hasan and it’s so sped up I can hardly catch what they’re saying. Why does every video have to be sped up? I get it if it’s a convo between two slow talkers or whatever where it makes sense but damn, this is ridiculous