This week, an update on two cases facing former President Donald Trump: the classified documents trial in Florida and the New York case involving hush money payments to an adult film actress.
SCOTT DETROW, HOST:
It’s time for Trump’s Trials…
(SOUNDBITE OF MONTAGE)
DONALD TRUMP: This is a persecution.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: He actually just stormed out of the courtroom.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
DETROW: …Our weekly take on all of the legal challenges former President Trump is facing, all while running for president again. Yesterday, a New York jury ordered Trump to pay the writer E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million for defamation. This is the second time that Trump has been ordered to pay Carroll. Last year, a different jury ordered him to pay her $5 million for a separate instance of defamation in a case where the jury also found that Trump sexually abused Carroll.
You can hear more about yesterday’s verdict on our companion podcast, Trump’s Trials. But now we are going to focus on two of the criminal cases against Trump that we’ve not talked a lot about recently. That’s the classified documents case out of Florida, where Trump is facing 40 charges, including violating the Espionage Act. And this case centers around Trump allegedly taking classified documents to his Mar-a-Lago club slash residence, and then allegedly refusing to return them to the government. We’ll also check in on the hush money case out of New York, where Trump is facing 34 state-level counts, all surrounding payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. These payments centered around the 2016 election and Trump’s attempts to hide the affair that he had with Daniels.
To break all of this down, I am joined by justice correspondent Carrie Johnson. Hey, Carrie.
CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE: Hey, Scott.
DETROW: So let’s start with Florida, the classified documents case, again, all about Trump taking classified documents…
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