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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.”
This week’s reading:
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How the Wagner Group Became Too Powerful for Putin to Punish
How to Buy Forgiveness from Medical Debt
Hunter Biden and the Mechanics of the “Scandal Industrial Complex”
The Historic Battles of “Hot Labor Summer”
Adapting Oppenheimer’s Life Story to Film, with Biographer Kai Bird
What Happens if Trump Is Elected While on Trial?
The Family Heritage That Led to Hunter Biden
A Mysterious Third Party Enters the 2024 Presidential Race
Will Record Temperatures Finally Force Political Change?
The Conspiracy Theories of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
What It Takes to Be White House Chief of Staff
Russia’s Accidental No-Good, Very Failed Coup
The Dark Money Supreme Court
What Comes After Affirmative Action
A Year of Change for a North Dakota Abortion Clinic
Why Ukrainians Targeted the Author of “Eat, Pray, Love”
Dexter Filkins on the Dilemma at the Border
Donald Trump’s Dangerous War on the Justice Department
The Battle Over Presidential Records, from Nixon to Trump
In a Divided Era, the New York Times’s Publisher Makes a Stand
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