Do The Indict Thing
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 2 August 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Former President Donald Trump was indicted for the third time on Tuesday for the alleged role he played to overturn the 2020 election. He was charged with four criminal counts including conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding and more. We talk with Leah Litman, professor of law at the University of Michigan and co-host of Crooked’s Strict Scrutiny podcast, to break it down.
And in headlines: the family of Henrietta Lacks reached a historic settlement with a biotech company accused of stealing her cells without consent, three of Lizzo’s former dancers filed a lawsuit against the singer and her production company on Tuesday, and Wisconsin’s Supreme Court officially flipped to a liberal majority for the first time in 15 years.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, August 2nd. I want you to talk over. |
| 0:09.2 | And I'm Priyanka Arabandi, and this is what a day. We are going to jump straight into |
| 0:13.8 | the news because it is a big one. Former President Donald Trump was officially indicted for |
| 0:18.9 | the third time yesterday. |
| 0:21.9 | Count him, and they're stacking up quickly against Trump. |
| 0:24.9 | They really are. |
| 0:25.9 | Shout out to Jack Smith and company for delivering this third indictment with federal charges. |
| 0:31.7 | Seriously, this long-awaited indictment is related to the January 6th insurrection |
| 0:36.8 | and the accusation that Trump and his allies tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election. |
| 0:43.1 | To help you get things straight, this new one comes out of a grand jury in Washington, |
| 0:47.3 | DC. The Mar-a-Lago indictment was from a grand jury in Miami. There are a lot of them. |
| 0:52.6 | There's a lot to keep straight. We would not blame you for getting confused. Here is |
| 0:56.6 | special counsel Jack Smith speaking at a press conference yesterday in DC. |
| 1:01.0 | The attack on our nation's capital on January 6th, 2021 was an unprecedented assault on the |
| 1:07.8 | seat of American democracy. It's described in the indictment it was fueled by lies. Lies |
| 1:13.7 | by the defendant targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the U.S. government, the |
| 1:19.2 | nation's process of collecting, counting, and certifying the results of the presidential |
| 1:24.8 | election. |
| 1:25.8 | I mean, cut and dry and delivered like only special counsel Jack Smith could. And when |
| 1:30.6 | I tell you he was out of there at home, he did not accept any questions. And this press |
| 1:35.0 | conference lasted less than three minutes. So in and out. We talked earlier about all |
| 1:40.6 | of this with one of our favorite legal experts. You know her. You love her. It is the one |
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