Democracy Now! 2023-08-02 Wednesday

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🗓️ 2 August 2023

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Headlines for August 02, 2023; “Presidents Are Not Kings”: Unpacking Historic Indictment of Donald Trump for Plot to Overturn Election; Conflict in Ukraine: Putin & Zelensky Dig In for Long War Amid Nuclear Risks, Global Food Disruption

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0:00.0	From New York, this is Democracy Now.
0:18.6	Today, none indictment was unsealed.
0:21.7	Charging Donald, Jay Trump, with conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiring to
0:28.5	disenfranchise voters, and conspiring and attempting to obstruct an official proceeding.
0:34.2	For the first time in U.S. history, a former president has been criminally charged with
0:39.6	conspiring to overturn an election.
0:42.7	We'll look at this historic indictment of Donald, Jay Trump, who remains the Republican
0:47.6	frontrunner in the 2024 election.
0:50.9	We'll speak to former federal prosecutor Dennis Aftergett and Robert Weisbent, president
0:56.3	of public citizen.
0:57.9	Welcome to the war in Ukraine.
1:00.2	We do, of course, support this summit.
1:02.9	We have long said that it is important that Ukraine be in the driver's seat when it comes
1:08.2	to any potential diplomatic resolution to this war.
1:12.6	As Saudi Arabia prepares to host a peace summit this weekend, we'll look at the state of
1:16.4	the war as Russia attacks grain ports in Ukraine while Kiev escalates drone strikes inside
1:22.4	Russia.
1:23.4	All that and more coming up.
1:33.4	Welcome to Democracy Now, democracynow.org, the war in peace report.
1:38.0	I'm Amy Goodman.
1:39.4	For the first time in U.S. history, a former president has been criminally charged with
1:43.6	conspiring to overturn an election.
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