Penny Anty's Case in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office

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Vox's Andrew Prokop says the Manhattan DA has been looking for ways to make a misdemeanor a felony. The political incentive for being the one to charge Trump has been pretty high, he says. It's hard to say with a straight face that a case like this would have been given such high priority by the District Attorney's Office unless it involved Donald Trump," said Prokop.

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This episode was produced by Haleema Shah and Amanda Lewellyn with help from Avishay Artsy. It was edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Cristian Ayala, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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