Donald Trump Charged With 37 Federal Crimes

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🗓️ 10 June 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Prosecutors say that the former president kept classified documents that he was no longer allowed to possess after leaving office and stored them in widely-accessible areas in his Florida club. He is set to appear in a Miami courtroom on Tuesday.

And: upcoming Supreme Court decisions and a send-off for Scott Detrow, who is a new host at NPR's All Things Considered.

This episode: White House correspondent Scott Detrow, White House correspondent Tamara Keith, national justice correspondent Carrie Johnson, and legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's the Imperial Politics Podcast.
0:05.9	I'm Scott Detro.
0:06.9	I cover the White House.
0:07.9	I'm Tamara Keith.
0:08.9	I also cover the White House.
0:09.9	And I'm Carrie Johnson.
0:10.9	I cover the Justice Department.
0:12.5	And we are coming at you at 518 Eastern on Friday, June 9th, because in an era of unprecedented
0:19.2	political stories, today we have another one.
0:22.8	Former President Donald Trump is facing 37 federal criminal charges related to his
0:27.0	possession of classified documents and his refusal to return them to the federal government.
0:32.2	We have one set of laws in this country and they apply to everyone.
0:37.3	Applying those laws, collecting facts, that's what determines the outcome of an investigation.
0:44.3	Nothing more, nothing less.
0:46.9	That was Special Counsel Jack Smith speaking earlier today.
0:49.7	Carrie, Trump posted news of his indictment on social media last night.
0:54.5	This afternoon, shortly before Smith made that statement, the government released the
0:57.9	details in a 49-page document.
1:00.7	What did it tell us?
1:02.0	You know, it told a story really.
1:03.8	It was a narrative.
1:05.2	Starting on the day that Donald Trump left the White House in January 2021, when the indictments
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