🇺🇲 Read An Article From CNN With Me | Trump & Stormy Daniels | Hush Money Scandal

In this lesson, you're going to learn English with the news.

We're going to read a news article together, so you can learn Advanced vocabulary, Advanced

grammar, and even correct pronunciation.

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Welcome to our article.

We're talking about Donald Trump and his recent legal troubles, let me read the headline,

Trump indictment A Simple Guide to what it means.

First, let's talk about this word.

Notice the pronunciation, indictment, indictment indictment, the spelling and the pronunciation

are quite different.

Now, indictment, this is a legal term.

So, if you're not a lawyer, even in your own native language, you might not know what this

means.

An indictment is the act of making a formal statement, accusing someone of something.

So that means that

Donald Trump has been formally accused which means they can.

Now bring charges against him and he must go to court and prove that he's innocent.

This is the noun form, you may frequently hear the verb form as well.

So the verb is to indict pronunciation, indict indict to indict.

So as an example,

He was indicted on drug charges now.

This is not what Donald Trump was indicted of.

So let's find out what the charges are former US President.

Donald Trump is being charged with a crime in relation to a payment he made to a porn

star named Stormy Daniels.

So we could say,

Trump was indicted on charges related to a payment he made to the porn star.

So this is how we could use our verb indicted.

So in this case, notice it's in the passive to be indicted.

Trump was indicted I could say the US government indicted Trump.

So

Would be the subject doing the action.

But here Trump is receiving the action notice in my example, how I used related to instead

of in relation to, there's no reason why I did that they mean exactly the same thing.

I this is just the one that I use more commonly in my vocabulary, but you could replace this

with in relation to and then whatever it is, then you have the now

Noun, mr.

Trump's, first court, appearance will take place on Tuesday.

So a court appearance.

This is from the word to appear, of course.

So that's when Trump must appear in court, he's expected to be released on bail.

So, again, bail, this is another legal term bail is when you pay money in order to make

sure you actually.

We attend the court proceedings.

So Trump is charged, he won't go to jail because he paid bail which might be a hundred thousand

dollars, a million dollars, I have no idea how much it will be and he's paying that money

to make sure that he will appear in court.

If you don't make bail or you don't have the money to pay for

Bail.

You have to wait in jail until your court appearance so he was released on bail.

This is a legal term, here's the summary of Baal now, don't worry about writing this down

because I prepared a free lesson PDF so you can look in the description or the comment

section for the link to download the free lesson PDF.

Let's continue on.

What is Trump accused of

Stormy Daniels says she had an affair with mr.

Trump in 2006.

So this happened quite a long time ago, which he has always denied.

So when you deny something you say I didn't do it.

Let me show you an example sentence because there's something important grammatically.

You need to know Trump denies having an affair with Stormy Daniels.

What do you notice?

About this sentence.

Well, you might notice we have our Jaren verb have, and then ing having he denies having.

Now, I put this in the present simple because he is still denying it.

Now, I could also put it in the past to say, when it happened in 2006, or even yesterday

Trump denied it, but I put it in the

Simple to suggest that he still denies, it Trump denies having an affair with Stormy

Daniels.

So, our verb deny is a Jaren verb, which means the verb that comes after it is in the ing

form.

Let's continue on.

I'll just highlight this for you.

So you remember it.

And remember the verb deny means you say, I

Don't do it.

So someone accuses, you of something.

Did you eat the last piece of cake?

And then you can say, no, I didn't do it.

I deny eating the last piece of cake.

Okay.

In 2016, she tried to sell her account of what happened to the media.

So her account of what happened.

This is just her story.

Re she is sharing her story but she wanted to be paid.

She tried to sell it.

So she approached the media.

Let's just say CNN and said, I'll share my story with you and you can print it if you

pay me.

So that's sell her account of what happened.

This is just her story.

Her story.

Her story.

So you might go to a meeting or go to a conference and then summarize what happened?

But you could say, that's my account of what happened.

That's your interpretation of what happened.

So you can say

that's my account of what happened at the conference.

So maybe you thought the conference was a huge success but your colleague also went

to the conference and thought it wasn't very good.

You could say well that's my account of the conference, that's my story, that's my personal

interpretation of it.

Mr. Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen paid her 130 thousand dollars to keep quiet.

So to not sell her story to the media that kind of payment is called hush money so they

just defined what this means in a casual way.

It's called hush money.

Hush you might be wondering.

What is hush mean.

Hush is another way of saying quiet.

So let's say your kids are being

Really noisy.

You can say hush which is another way of saying quiet.

It's not as common to be honest, I would say just quiet is more common but it is another

way of saying quiet.

So you could think of it as quiet money, but here's the thing.

When we have Expressions you can't just replace one part of the expression for a different

word, even if it means the same thing.

So, quiet money.

It doesn't make any sense because the expression is hush money.

Okay.

It's just an expression.

Let's continue.

So, that is not illegal.

Very interesting what they're saying the that is paying someone money.

Any in order to be quiet, hush money is not illegal.

So let's say, you know, that I did something wrong and then I say well I'll give you a

million dollars if you don't tell anyone apparently that isn't illegal so that is not illegal,

but mr.

Trump is accused of falsifying.

His business records.

So falsifying is just the verb

Term of making Falls.

That would be the literal translation but we wouldn't say that.

So when you make something false, which means not true inaccurate, that is falsifying that's

the verb form.

Now, notice, it's in the ing as well, and that's because we have our preposition and

the Jaron verb follows the preposition.

So, you can notice, here you can

Use someone of something and then that something is going to be in the gerund form.

So it is illegal to say on your taxes that you paid this money for legal fees.

When in fact, it was for something totally different because he might be taxed differently

for legal fees.

So he could probably deduct that from his

Which means he probably didn't pay taxes on this 130,000 dollars, which is probably the

issue.

This is the illegal part of it that he's trying to avoid paying taxes by saying it was a legal

fee when it wasn't a legal fee it was Hush money, right?

So let's continue on.

Is Trump going to jail if found guilty okay

Okay.

Now, I think most students know this, but you can say jail or prison interchangeably.

There's no difference between them.

Prison jail.

Exactly.

The same thing.

It's the location where you go.

If you are found guilty, found guilty of a crime, you go to jail, you go to prison and

notice the verb, go to jail, go to

If you've ever played Monopoly you know, that expression, go to jail.

I don't know if they call it jail or prison in Monopoly.

I think they call it jail, right?

But it's the same same word the most likely outcome so the outcome is what happens.

So the most likely end to this story is what at the End of This legal process is a fine.

So the most likely outcome, what's going to

to happen is that Trump will pay a fine.

Let's talk about a fine, this is a noun and it's an amount of money paid as punishment

for breaking a rule or law.

Most of us are familiar with this with parking or something to do with driving a car.

If you park in a location and then you get a ticket on your windshield and there's, oh,

man, I got a ticket and then

Have to pay a fine and that's your punishment for not parking in the right location.

Of course, there are many other fines but the most common one, I think is a parking

ticket.

Have you ever gotten a parking ticket?

Well, I have obviously, because I think everybody has gotten a parking ticket at some time in

their life.

Okay.

So that's the most likely outcome.

What will happen?

He'll have to pay a fine.

But there is

Also, a chance he could be sent to prison.

So we're using the verb sent but you could also just change this with the verb.

Go, he could go to prison.

Instead of be sent it would, he could go to prison when you're sent to prison, it just

really emphasizes that it's not in your control, that is not your choice but it's pretty silly.

Because obviously

Really, nobody would choose to go to prison.

So you can simply use go to prison for a maximum of four years.

That's the maximum.

It doesn't mean he's going to go to prison for four years.

That's just the upper limit of what's possible, but more likely

They say the most likely outcome is the fine.

So he'll have to pay some amount of money.

Can Trump still run for president.

So notice our verb here, you run for a political office, a political appointment.

And in this case president, but you could run for mayor or you could run for city council,

for example, so it doesn't have to be president and you run for it.

So can he still run for president?

Yes, there's nothing in the US Constitution to prevent mr.

Trump from continuing, his election campaign.

Now, he is being charged, okay?

So instead of charge remember, we could use our term indicted now that he's being indicted

indicted, same thing.

Indicted and remember that pronunciation indicted indicted.

It doesn't say this in the article but I learned that Trump is the first u.s.

president in history to be indicted, so he'll go down in history.

Okay.

Let's continue on.

Even if he was imprisoned, even if he was imprisoned to be M imprisoned, this is just

another way of saying, even if he goes to jail, okay, you could.

I'd say, even if he goes to jail when you're imprisoned, it means you're in jail is just

another way.

But in this case with the word imprisoned, we never change it to em jailed for example,

because remember I told you you can use the word jail or prison.

But we have this one specific word imprisoned but in this case it means go to jail or go

to prison but you

Use the word prison in this specific word.

He could theoretically still run for president and win an election.

Now they're saying theoretically because this has not happened, he hasn't been imprisoned,

he hasn't been sent to jail.

He hasn't gone to jail.

So it's a theoretical situation is a situation that right now is not real but the possibility

T is there?

So I could say for example theoretically I could run for prime minister.

I actually can't run for president because I'm not a US citizen.

I'm a Canadian Citizen and our leader is called prime minister, but theoretically I could

run for prime minister so it seemed like the possibility exists.

But

am I going to do it?

No but theoretically I could so we use this a lot to suggest like it's a hypothetical

situation.

The possibility is there but it doesn't mean I'm going to or there's even any chance of

it, even though the possibility is there,

Wasn't Trump investigated before.

Yes, he faces a number of criminal investigations.

Notice our verb tense is in the present simple, which tells me that he still faces criminal

investigations.

Because if it were in the past simple he faced it would mean that he's no longer facing them.

Now is a completed action.

In in the past but he is not being accused of them anymore but because they used it in

the present simple.

It means he could still get in trouble for these other criminal investigation so it's

not just this one issue.

There's the possibility.

Theoretically he could be indicted for other issues as well because he faces a number of

criminal investigations.

They

Continuing and we will hear more about them in the months ahead.

So in the months ahead I had is a future time reference.

You could also say in the months to come in the months to come both of, these are quite

common.

I like ahead in the months ahead and then you can change your time reference to in the

years ahead in the weeks ahead in the days ahead.

Even something like

The hours, it doesn't have to be a long period of time in the hours ahead, and that is the

end of our article.

So, what I'll do now is I'll go to the top and I'll read the article in full.

And this time, you can focus on my pronunciation and practice along with my pronunciation.

Let's do that now.

Trump, indictment A Simple Guide to what it means.

Former US President.

Donald Trump is being charged with the crime in relation to a payment.

He made to a porn star named Stormy Daniels mr.

Trump's first court appearance will take place on Tuesday.

He is expected to be released on bail.

What is Trump accused of Stormy Daniels?

Says, she had an affair with mr.

Trump in 2006, which he has always denied in 2016.

She tried to sell her account of what happened to the media, mr.

Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen paid her 130 thousand dollars to keep quiet.

That kind of payment is called hush money.

That is not illegal, but mr.

Trump is accused of

Falsifying his business records by saying the payment was for legal fees is Trump going

to jail.

If found guilty the most likely outcome at the End of This legal process is a fine, but

there is also a chance he could be sent to prison for a maximum of four years.

Can Trump still run for president?

Yes, there's nothing in the US Constitution to prevent mr.

Trump from continuing, his election campaign.

Now, he is being charged.

Even if he was imprisoned, he could theoretically still run for president and win an election.

Wasn't Trump investigated before.

Yes, he faces a number of criminal investigations.

They are continuing and we will hear more about

In the months ahead and I highly recommend you watch this lesson, nice.

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