Americanswers! More legal trouble for Trump... And why did RFK Jr drop out?
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
US prosecutors have issued revised charges against Donald Trump for the former president's alleged attempts to interfere in the 2020 election after losing the contest. How do they differ from the charges he’s already facing?
RFK Jr has officially dropped out of the race for the White House after a campaign which at one point saw him polling in double digits. How will his withdrawal affect the race?
And, it’s been confirmed that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz will do an interview with CNN this week. Why are Democrats nervous about Harris’s first interview as a presidential candidate?
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* Marianna Spring, Disinformation & Social Media Correspondent * Sumi Somaskanda, BBC Chief Presenter
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, it is Mariana, aka misinformation in the worldwide headquarters of America |
| 0:09.5 | in London. |
| 0:10.8 | And hello for me, this is Sumi in our Bureau in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:14.3 | Welcome back to American answers, where we answer the questions that |
| 0:17.3 | Americasters want to know. |
| 0:18.8 | And if you want to share your questions with us, please get in touch. |
| 0:22.1 | You can send us a message or voice note via |
| 0:23.9 | what's up to plus 4.330, 1239480. Email AmeriCast at BBC. |
| 0:30.3 | CO. UK. You can use the hashtag Americaast on social media and you can join our discord the link is in the |
| 0:36.0 | description of this episode and actually to get started why don't we talk a bit about |
| 0:40.1 | discord it's relevant because there is a thread on discord where |
| 0:44.5 | Americasters have rolling updates about Donald Trump's various legal cases. You |
| 0:49.3 | kind of need them because there's a lot going on and sometimes it can be easy to |
| 0:52.2 | forget which indictment |
| 0:53.8 | or which charges or which allegations we're talking about and there has actually been |
| 0:58.4 | an update hasn't there Sue me? There has been Mariana and our AmeriCasters are so |
| 1:02.4 | impressive to keep that going because it is not really easy |
| 1:06.5 | So Special Counsel Jack Smith has been toiling away. I just imagine him sitting at home |
| 1:11.3 | Updating these indictments and he actually issued a revised |
| 1:14.2 | indictment on the charges on election interference in the 2020 election |
| 1:19.4 | and he basically revised it because remember back in July the Supreme Court issued the ruling that |
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