Ben Wittes and Steven Shepard: He Is Still a Criminal

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The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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No matter how much the Supreme Court pretends that the words 'high crimes and misdemeanors' are not explicitly in the Constitution, Donald Trump is still a disqualified law-breaker and is exactly the kind of guy the Founding Fathers warned us about. Character is now the only real check on presidential power. Plus, if push comes to shove, what are the basic rules that govern a change at the top of the ticket? Ben Wittes and Steven Shepard join Tim Miller.

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0:00.0	Feeling overwhelmed by the state of politics, finding it hard to get motivated, you might be suffering from electile dysfunction, but POD Save America has got the cure.
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0:33.0	Hello and welcome to the board podcast I'm your host Tim Miller. We are here
0:47.2	today with our man Ben Wittis on the Trump trials on the scotis craziness.
0:53.6	He's the editor-in-chief of lawfare,
0:55.6	senior fellow in governance studies
0:57.1	at the Brookings Institution.
0:58.3	He also writes dog shirt daily.
0:59.8	When we're finished with Ben,
1:01.3	I'll be giving you an update on the state of play in the presidential
1:04.5	race and we'll have Steve Shepard on to discuss what a Broker Convention may or may not look like.
1:10.0	Ben Wittis. A lot of news. How are you doing? Yeah, a lot of news how are you doing yeah a lot of news and it's all bad you
1:16.9	think the debate sucks so you say well there's going to be a French election and
1:21.4	then that sucks and you're like well to heck with France at
1:24.5	least we're gonna get a Supreme Court opinion and then that's a disaster you know
1:29.7	you got a look at puppy videos at this point.
1:33.0	Yeah, puppy videos.
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