Welcome to Talking Feds, a round table that brings together prominent former federal officials and special guests for a dynamic discussion of the most

important political and legal topics of the day.

I'm Harry Littman.

We now have transition from the room where it happens to the room where it happened as the six week

national drama playing out in a dilapidated courtroom in Lower Manhattan came to a swift culmination last Thursday

with the jury foreperson intoning guilty for each of the 34 felony charges against Donald Trump.

The result brought an end not just to the trial itself,

in which well-prepared prosecutors presented a compelling story

that the defense was never able to counter,

but also to a longer epic about whether the legal system was up to holding Trump accountable

for any of his many charged crimes.

Trump appeared expression list at the first guilty and remained stoic as each and every

juror affirmed they had found the evidence persuasive beyond a reasonable doubt.

Yet his post-trial pronouncements have taken an even darker turn,

and Republican leadership has fallen into line calling the trial rigged and political.

Those attacks, however, don't remotely jibe with what went on in the courtroom where the few dozen observers saw a

straightforward process presided over by a judge who gave Trump every process due

and 12 conscientious jurors who in the wake of the verdict now

look to be in the doxing crosshairs of the irate magga faithful. again, and for the last time,

we've assembled for this podcast a great round table of people

who were in the room where it happened,

as was I.

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