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Oh, for the best, expect the worst.

Welcome to the commentary magazine, Daily Podcasts. Today is Tuesday, June 13th, 2023. I am John Puthorch, the editor of commentary magazine with me.

There's always executive editor, A Greenwalt, high ape.

John.

Media commentary columnist, Christine Rosen, high Christine.

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Washington commentary columnist, Matthew Cone, Eddie. Hi, Matt.

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And joining us today are tech commentary columnists, James B. Megs. Hi, Jim.

Hi, nice to be back.

It's a busy day for Donald Trump today. He shows up in a Miami courthouse at 3 p.m. to be arraigned for his indictment on 38 counts of various acts of malfeasance in a federal indictment brought by the Justice Department.

And at 8 p.m. tonight, I believe he will be giving a speech from his country club in Bedminster, New Jersey, that will presumably be a response to the events of the day.

All relevant indications seem to be that the courthouse will be tightlocked, solid sort of like what happened in New York.

And there will be no video in the courtroom. There will be no video of him being fingerprinted. He may not be fingerprinted. He will not be handcuffed.

It's not clear that a mug shot will be taken. And in general, there will be a, I assume the networks are going to go live or cable networks will certainly go live with nothing.

And there will be hours of talk about nothing. And then there will be a huge debate over whether or not to cover Trump speech at Bedminster.

Despite the fact that they will have spent three or four hours covering the fact of his arrangement, the news of making event will of course be the speech.

Then, you know, if anybody dares cover the speech, the entire Twitter, Roddy, both opponents of both sides of believers and making sure that Trump isn't allowed to look into your eyes and hypnotize you and then bite your neck and turn you into a zombie.

All of that, all of those people will come out in force. I think in the end, they will probably everybody will probably cover the speech. I don't know. Matt, what do you think?

Yeah, maybe a little bit of it. It's hard to say, you know, Fox, for instance, has been pretty responsible in putting on many Trump critical voices.

And I have noticed in the last 24 hours, a shift among some Republicans, you know, of course, when the indictment was released last Friday, Chris Christie immediately began criticizing Trump.

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