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Hello and welcome to the daily beans for Tuesday, August 22nd, 2023.

Today, Trump wanted to schedule his self-surrender in Fulton County the same day as the GOP primary

debate to usurp the media attention. A new exposé on Elon Musk shows how he met with Putin and

then began sabotaging Ukraine battlefield communications. Trump's bond is set in Fulton County at $200,000

and contains robust restrictions against witness intimidation, and Jack Smith responds to Trump's

April 2026 trial date recommendation for the conspiracy against Wright's case. I'm Alison Gill.

And I'm Dana Goldberg.

Oh boy. I know.

So a lot of this stuff is is Jack Smith related and Fulton County related and we're going to go over all

that in very good granular detail on the Jack podcast and on cleanup on all 45, but we definitely

wanted to get you the headlines here at the daily beans. And this Musk, this Elon Musk exposé by

Ronan Farrow is long, but it's got a lot in it, Dana. And you're only going to go over a tiny

tiny portion of what's in there. Something that I thought was that like the most important part,

which was his Starlink communications thing and Ukraine. So totally whenever Ronan drops something,

I'm like, let's go. It's going to be good. Yeah. He's just absolutely incredible. He's written

this piece for the New Yorker. I recommend you read the entire thing. So anyway, we do we do have a

lot of news to get to today. It was a heck of a news day. Did I just say it was a heck of a

news day? It's a heck of a news day, says Alison Gil. And how?

All these shenanigans and goings on. Yeah, I was fucking crazy news day. So let's hit the hot notes.

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