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The Playbook Podcast

August 15, 2023: Late-night indictments for Trump and allies

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

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3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

On Monday night, a Georgia grand jury delivered a 98-page indictment against Donald Trump and many of his close allies on charges of interfering with the 2020 election. Legal Affairs reporter Kyle Cheney joins Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels to explore the most wide-ranging indictment against the former president yet. Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels talks with reporter Kyle Cheney.

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0:00.0

Presented by Climate Power.

0:02.7

Hey, good morning.

0:03.9

I'm Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels.

0:06.2

It's Tuesday, August 15th.

0:08.7

There is only one thing driving the day today, and that is a brand new indictment

0:16.3

returned by the Georgia Grand Jury Light last night.

0:19.3

I'm talking late, y'all.

0:20.6

Very late. If I sound gross,

0:22.0

that's because it's their fault because we stayed up late waiting for this. Former President

0:27.7

Donald Trump and 18 others were indicted by this grand jury. People like Rudy Giuliani, his former

0:35.4

lawyer, Mark Meadows, his former White House chief of

0:38.3

staff, John Eastman and Jenna Ellis, folks that were lawyers for President Trump at the time.

0:45.0

And it's very, very complicated. So joining me now to discuss what we know, what we still don't

0:50.0

know in this case is legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney. Kyle, it is just after midnight, just

0:57.6

hour or so since we heard the news. We thought we'd be having this conversation maybe Tuesday

1:05.3

afternoon, Wednesday morning for this podcast. But Fannie Willis in Georgia and the jury pushed through,

1:13.9

finished their interviews. You know, by the looks of it, this is by far the most extensive and kind

1:19.0

of complicated web of the fourth indictments. And maybe the one for the folks involved,

1:26.2

Donald Trump and his 18, the 18 other people here,

1:29.8

maybe the most difficult to fight.

1:32.0

And I'm curious if you can untangle that for folks.

1:35.7

Sure.

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