Welcome to the Bullwark podcast. I'm Charlie Sykes. It is June 14, 2023, and Donald Trump has now been

arrested more times than he has been elected. So let's just review where we're at here. I mean,

Donald Trump was arrested in a rain yesterday. He came face to face with special counsel Jack Smith

and for some reason avoided eye contact with a man he's been calling a thug and a fascist.

Didn't say anything during his court hearing yesterday afterwards, of course,

doubled down on his threats to retaliate against Biden and was, I would say, rather aggressively

unsuttle and rolling out his strategy to influence the trial, including going to a Cuban restaurant

and at least claiming that he was going to buy dinner for everybody. Meanwhile, another judge

granted E. Jean Carroll's request to amend the $10 million complaint against Trump after Trump

redefamed her during that CNN town hall. So much, by the way, for the party of law and order,

JD Vance is saying he's going to block Biden's Department of Justice nominees in retaliation of

the Trump indictment and the Democrats are responding by self-determining themselves. According to

Joe Biden, he's ordered the DNC and his reelection campaign to remain silent about Trump's indictment.

Meanwhile, we get a kind of a low energy scene from Bedminster. I just want to read you this New

York Times account. The surreal scene that awaited him at his private club in Bedminster, New Jersey

was a blend somewhere between a summer garden party and a political victory party. There was an

error of an almost post-arrainment celebration as women arrived in their finery. Fuchsia and

Canary Yellow dresses, embroidered Trump wares and heels, men sported suits and red maga hats,

then Trump arrived. Visibly deflated, after pleading not guilty for the second time in three months,

his dry and low energy resuscitation of his legal defense, even inflected with the usual

references to Marx's communist and fascists, pleased as advisors, but drew a relatively muted

response from a crowd that had minutes earlier cramed their phones for a shot of his motorcade.

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