A Look at the Evidence Against Trump

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🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Last week, Donald Trump was charged with federal violations relating to his handling of classified material after leaving office. Ben Protess, who covers the government and law enforcement for The Times, discusses the indictment and walks us through the evidence. Guest: Ben Protess, an investigative reporter for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael O'Borrow.
0:04.7	This is a daily.
0:06.3	Good afternoon.
0:08.8	Today an indict moves unsealed, charging Donald J. Trump with felony violations of our
0:15.4	national security laws, as well as participating in a conspiracy to obstruct justice.
0:21.6	On Friday, when the federal indictment of Donald Trump over his handling of classified materials
0:27.2	was finally unsealed, we got a glimpse of the fact that the law was not a crime.
0:29.4	We got a glimpse into just how strong the government's legal case against him will actually
0:35.1	be.
0:36.1	Our laws that protect national defense information are critical.
0:41.0	The safety and security of the United States, and they must be enforced.
0:46.7	Today, my colleague Ben Protess walks us through the evidence.
0:52.4	We have one set of laws in this country and they apply to everyone.
0:59.4	It's Monday, June 12th.
1:12.4	Ben, I want to recap for you where we were as of Friday morning, which is when we published
1:17.5	our last episode about all of this.
1:20.0	At that point, we understood that Donald Trump had been indicted over his handling of
1:23.7	classified materials and that the charges involved obstructing the federal government's efforts
1:28.8	to retrieve those documents.
1:30.2	The indictment itself had not yet been made public, so there was a lot we still didn't
1:35.0	really understand.
1:36.0	I wonder if you can pick up the story from there.
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