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And now, welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast

in which we shall take a look at the criminal charges against Donald Trump

that the January 6th Committee has referred to the Department of Justice, but examined them through the lens of past

presidential crimes that have gone unpunished from Nixon to George W Bush.

Clips today are from Democracy Now, the Brian Lehrer show, Counter-Spin This Week, and the Young Turks with an additional

members-only clip from the Medi Hassan show. Robert Weisman, uh, head of public citizen.

If you can talk about these four criminal charges, obstruction of an official

proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the United States, false statements to the federal government, and inciting

or assisting an insurrection.

These are the criminal charges that the House Select Committee is referring to the Justice Department.

Yeah, I think what's important about them is maybe two things.

One, you know, for those of us who are watching January 6 unfold in real time,

it sort of seemed as a rally that sort of spun out of control. the January 6th committee has shown beyond any doubt

and is now referenced in the referral

to the Justice Department

is that the insurrection was planned and intentional.

In fact, we have reason to believe that Trump actually hoped to be at the capital

leading the physical insurrection.

So it wasn't something that was an accident

or a spur of the moment thing.

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