Inside Trump’s Hush Money Trial With The ElectionLine Podcast; JFK, RFK Jr & The State Of Mean + Fighting Iran’s Death Sentence Against Rapper Toomaj Salehi
10.05.2024 - 13:13
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Editors note: Running until the final general election results come in, the Deadline ElectionLine podcast spotlights the 2024 campaign and the blurred lines between politics and entertainment in modern America. Hosted by Deadline’s political editor Ted Johnson and executive editor Dominic Patten, the podcast features commentary and interviews with top lawmakers and entertainment figures. At the same time, you can follow all the news in the Biden & Trump rematch and more on the ElectionLine hub on Deadline.
“Have you no sense of decency, sir?” asked US Army chief counsel Joseph N Welch famously to Sen. Joe McCarthy in 1954 as anti-Communist fever continued to grip the nation. “At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” the lawyer added, shaming the opportunistic politician and turning the tide on the Second Red Scare.
In an America watching one historic norm after another collapse in Donald Trump’s ongoing hush money trial, and the greater debasing of political dialogue, Welch’s blistering words are perhaps needed more than ever – as you can hear on the Deadline ElectionLine podcast above.
“It was interesting to hear Judge Merchan say to the prosecution team ‘I understand that your client is a little difficult to control,’” says Sean Piccoli of some of the fallout from Stormy Daniels’ testimony this week at the Trump trial. “However much prep work they did up front, as you say, she’s going to play by her own rules, and her brain just seemed to be on fire when she spoke.”
With a unique perspective on one of the biggest stories around right now, Piccoli joins us on the podcast this week straight from the Manhattan criminal courts where he has been covering the former president’s trial for Deadline since its April
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