Welcome to the Bullwork Podcast. I'm Charlie Sykes. It is August 16, 2023. We are in the

second half of August. And of course, this is the week that the fourth indictment against

Donald Trump dropped. And I think people are still getting their heads around the fact

that the insanity, the lies, the conspiracy to overthrow an American presidential election

is going to be front and center in the 2024 election. There is no indication the Republican

Party has decided that it is this is the moment to move on from the twice impeached disgrace

defeated and now four time indicted former president. So if you subscribe to Morning Shots,

we have a pretty complete rundown of many of the reads that I think that you might find

helpful of Vox asking is Trump going to digail and they provide a list of all the

criminal charges and the potential prison time ranking the indictments and order of

importance of the Washington Post. Why Trump might fear the Georgia indictment of the

most? Well, why? Prison, no pardons, Rico, mug shots, bail restrictions, television.

What the heck happened in coffee county, Georgia and a power from law fair has an account

of this weird sort of keystone cops effort to tamper with the voting machines to access

the voting machines. And of course, here's a reminder that we're going to be talking

about Ukraine today. We're going to be talking about the war. But tomorrow, we are going

to have another episode of the Trump trials, which will be a deep dive into all of all

of this. In the bowl work, Will Salatin as a piece was actually new in the Georgia indictment.

We have Phil Rotner, the beating heart of the Georgia indictment, which is the fake

elector scheme that was not really a contingency plan. It was an action plan. The New York

Times looks at the whole question of how far is Trump going to go in bullying, intimidating

and baiting the judges, biased corrupt, deranged Trump's taunts, test limits of release.

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