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1 big thing

Another possible Trump indictment and what sets it apart

1 big thing

Axios

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🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Former President Trump announced on Tuesday that he received a target letter from special counsel Jack Smith and expects to be indicted. The former president's legal challenges are mounting, just as the 2024 campaign is heating up. But this latest indictment could hit voters differently. Plus, America’s therapy boom. Historic temperatures hit three continents. And, one year of the 988 hotline. Guests: Axios' David Lindsey and Erica Pandey. Credits: Axios Today is produced by Niala Boodhoo, Alexandra Botti, Fonda Mwangi, Lydia McMullen-Laird and Alex Sugiura. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at [email protected]. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893. Go deeper: Trump legal woes heat up with prospect of Jan. 6 indictment America’s therapy boom 988 hotline's long road ahead Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Wednesday, July 19th. I'm Nyla Boudou. Here's

0:09.1

what we're covering today. America's therapy boom. Plus, historic temperatures hit three

0:14.4

continents. But first, another possible Trump indictment and what sets it apart. That's

0:20.7

today's one big thing.

0:25.4

Special counsel Jack Smith looks likely to indict former President Trump for his efforts

0:29.9

to overturn the 2020 election. That means as soon as next month, Trump could be facing

0:35.5

four indictments in four different jurisdictions. Axios is managing editor for politics. David

0:41.2

Lindsey has more. Hi, David. Hi, Nyla. How are you? David, what do we know about these

0:46.2

possible new charges against Trump? We don't know exactly what the charges might be, but

0:52.0

we do know what they've been looking into based on in part, the letter that they sent

0:56.0

to Trump and his team, assembling fake electors, 16 people were charged in Michigan yesterday

1:02.0

over that fundraising based on false claims of election fraud. Trump's team raised tens

1:08.8

of millions of dollars by claiming fraud. And then Trump's actions on January 6, 2021,

1:15.0

the day of the insurrection. There's been a lot of discussion that these indictments

1:18.9

may actually help Trump in his run for president. Could this latest one be different, though?

1:24.3

The previous indictments against him hushed money to a porn star classified documents were

1:29.8

things that we didn't see. Everyone saw January 6. We saw the speeches. We saw the tweets.

1:38.6

We saw the march to the Capitol. We saw police officers being killed. So I think it might

1:44.4

resonate certainly with voters a little differently. With a Republican base, that's hard to say.

1:50.2

They're pretty well committed to Trump. I think each time you might see a little peeling

1:54.3

off of support, but not yet. When we talk about January 6, our Democrats on Capitol Hill

2:01.2

reacting differently to a possible January 6 indictment versus all of these other ones.

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