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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Donald Trump Faces His Third Criminal Arraignment

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Donald Trump is arraigned in federal court on charges related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Does special counsel Jack Smith have more evidence pointing to the former President's state of mind than the public has seen? Plus, the transcript of Hunter Biden's former business partner Devon Archer's testimony is released, showing that Joe Biden knew more about his son's business deals than previously revealed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:36.9

Donald Trump is scheduled to be arraigned in Washington, D.C.

0:40.6

Thursday on the latest charges against him for conspiracy to defraud the United States after the

0:47.1

2020 election. We'll talk about the fallout from Tuesday's indictment.

0:51.3

Plus, the House Oversight Committee releases the full transcript to the testimony this week by

0:56.0

Devon Archer, the former business partner of Hunter Biden. What does that testimony now that we

1:01.8

can see all of it? Tell us about the Biden business dealings in Ukraine in 2014 and the role that

1:08.5

then vice president Joe Biden played. Welcome. I'm Paul Gigo with the Wall Street Journal

1:14.1

opinion pages here in Potomac Watch and I'm here with my colleagues Kyle Peterson and Kim

1:20.7

Strassel. Welcome to you both. Let's start with the Trump indictment.

1:25.5

Fallout two days removed from the filing of charges by special counsel Jack Smith

1:31.5

with the approval of Attorney General Mary Garland, which would be required for that indictment. Kyle,

1:36.5

as you've examined things over the last two days, how does the indictment on the merits

1:41.8

look to you now? Well, the facts I think are damning and I think I understand why people think

1:48.5

in a karmic sense that this was the indictment that president Trump deserved. But the question I think

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