373: Preet Bharara on Trump’s Endless Legal Jeopardy
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🗓️ 8 August 2024
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Summary
Rick Wilson interviews Preet Bharara on Trump’s alleged ten million Egyptian bribe, as well as his ongoing corruption and legal troubles. They also dive into the impact of Kamala Harris’s campaign, attacks on her identity, and the crucial 2024 election.
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| 0:32.8 | Hey, folks, welcome back to the Lincoln Project podcast. |
| 0:34.5 | Our guest today is Prit Bharara. |
| 0:37.0 | We are recording this on Friday, August 2nd. |
| 0:37.9 | It won't be airing according to the schedule until next Thursday. But I want to say this. Between now and then, |
| 0:45.0 | we're going to have a vice presidential nominee for the Democratic Party. Between now and then, |
| 0:50.5 | we're going to see the fundraising totals really start to impact what people are thinking about the race. |
| 0:56.1 | Trump raised about a book 40. |
| 0:57.9 | Harris raised about $310 million, which I find hard to say the words $310 million. |
| 1:05.0 | Because my first campaign, my first big national campaign, 1988, President Bush spent $54 million on the whole campaign nationally, |
| 1:15.8 | everything, all of it, all in. So raising $300 million in two weeks is quite a remarkable achievement. |
| 1:23.0 | That's inflation. So the content of this podcast will probably be a little different, but it is so always |
| 1:31.1 | we're talking to Preet. |
| 1:32.0 | He is so smart. |
| 1:33.0 | He is so considered as a thinker. |
| 1:36.1 | And he really always brings a perspective to not only politics, but the way law and |
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