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May 2024
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Trump Hush-Money Trial: Prosecution Meet...

The Wall Street Journal
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Former President Donald Trump has spent weeks in a courtroom in downtown Manhattan as prosecutors laid out their case that his efforts to bury an alleged sexual encounter with a porn star amounted to election interference in the 2016 race for the White House. WSJ reporter James Fanelli and senior political correspondent Molly Ball join host Danny Lewis to discuss the legal strategies in the courtroom and how the trial is affecting Trump’s current presidential campaign.


Further Reading:

Cohen Wavers on Recollection of Key Conversation With Trump at Trial 

How Stormy Daniels’s Sordid Testimony Could Help Trump 

Judge Finds Trump Violated Gag Order Again, Threatens Jail 

Trump’s Trial and Campaign Collide as Historic Prosecution Begins 


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