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Ronan Farrow, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and contributing writer to The New Yorker, joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the impact of rulings made this week by Judge Juan Merchan in Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York, where he faces thirty-four felony counts for falsifying business records related to hush-money payments made to adult-film star Stormy Daniels around the time of the 2016 election. Farrow explains why two other hush-money payments, made to former Trump Tower doorman Dino Sajudin and former Playboy model Karen McDougal, are central to the Manhattan District Attorney’s case. As Farrow explains, “the coverup is ultimately a much, much bigger story than any of the underlying things being covered up would have been.”
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Inside a Trump 2024 Rally in Iowa
Which War Does Washington Want?
How New York, a City of Immigrants, Became Home to a Migrant Crisis
Jennifer Egan Discusses a Solution for Chronic Homelessness
A Week of Chaos in Kevin McCarthy’s Washington
A Master Class with David Grann
Mark Meadows and the “Congeniality of Evil”
From “Amicus”: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas
Washington’s Age-Old Problem
Bob Woodward Discusses His Trump Tapes
Does Diplomacy Have a Chance of Ending War in Ukraine?
How Does Extreme Heat Affect the Body?
At a Trumpless G.O.P. Debate, Trumpism Dominates
Ronan Farrow on the Rule of Elon Musk
Talking to Conservatives About Climate Change: The Congressional Climate Caucus
Will the Summer of Trump Indictments Shake Up the Election?
Will the End of Affirmative Action Lead to the End of Legacy Admissions?
The One-Per-centers Pushing Democrats to the Left
Emily Nussbaum on Country Music’s Culture Wars
“This is The Big One”: The Third Trump Indictment
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