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Ronan Farrow, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and contributing author to The New Yorker, joins Tyler Foggatt to debate the affect of rulings made this week by Judge Juan Merchan in Donald Trump’s prison trial in New York, the place he faces thirty-four felony counts for falsifying enterprise information associated to hush-money funds made to the adult-film star Stormy Daniels round the time of the 2016 election. Farrow explains why two different hush-money funds, made to the former Trump Tower doorman Dino Sajudin and the former Playboy mannequin 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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