Live—from the campus of Hillsdale College in beautiful Hillsdale Michigan— this is Scot Bertram in for Steve on the Steve Gruber Show for
–Friday, March 31st 2023—
—Here are 3 big things you need to know—
One — Former Vice President Mike Pence is calling the indictment of former President Trump an outrage. Pence spoke to CNN Thursday, saying it appears to Americans to be nothing more than a “political prosecution.” Trump will face criminal charges as a New York grand jury has been investigating the hush money case involving his alleged role in a payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels to cover up their alleged affair.
Two— FBI documents say the alleged gunman in the 2017 Las Vegas shooting was motivated by his anger at casinos. A man opened fire at a Country Music Festival killing 60 people on October 1st, 2017, the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. The shooter lost 38-thousand dollars at a casino during a stay weeks before the incident.
Three — Former crypto-king Sam Bankman-Fried is pleading not guilty to bribery charges. Bankman-Fried is accused of bribing a Chinese government official 40-million dollars in 2021 when he was the CEO of FTX. He’s already awaiting trial after being hit with a list of charges due to the collapse of FTX, formerly one of the globe’s biggest cryptocurrency firms.