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Trump, The Defendant : Consider This from NPR The legal and political worlds officially moved into uncharted waters when former President Donald Trump was arraigned on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.

NPR's Carrie Johnson breaks down the case against Trump, and the difficult path to conviction for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

And Peter Skinner, an attorney who worked alongside Bragg for several years in the Southern District of New York, talks about what Bragg is like as a prosecutor.

In participating regions, you'll also hear a local news segment to help you make sense of what's going on in your community.

Email us at considerthis@npr.org.

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Trump, The Defendant

Trump, The Defendant

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Former US president Donald Trump appears in court at the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on April 4, 2023. CURTIS MEANS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Former US president Donald Trump appears in court at the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on April 4, 2023.

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The legal and political worlds officially moved into uncharted waters when former President Donald Trump was arraigned on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.

NPR's Carrie Johnson breaks down the case against Trump, and the difficult path to conviction for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

And Peter Skinner, an attorney who worked alongside Bragg for several years in the Southern District of New York, talks about what Bragg is like as a prosecutor.

In participating regions, you'll also hear a local news segment to help you make sense of what's going on in your community.

Email us at considerthis@npr.org.

This episode was produced by Connor Donevan, Erika Ryan, Kai McNamee and Linah Mohammad, with engineering from Valentina Rodríguez Sánchez. It was edited by Krishnadev Calamur, Jonaki Mehta and William Troop. Our executive producer is Sami Yenigun.