Donald Trump Pleads Not Guilty to Federal Charges
The Rich Zeoli Show
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🗓️ 13 June 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty in federal court in Miami, Florida. Trump has been charged with 37 criminal counts related to his alleged mishandling of classified documents and subsequent refusal to surrender them to authorities upon request. This is the first time a former U.S. President has faced federal criminal charges. You can read more about Trump’s indictment, and his not guilty plea, here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/13/trump-miami-court-indictment-hearing/
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| 0:30.0 | It's a day. It's going to be a day and it is a day as a lot's going on in Miami right now. |
| 0:37.0 | We'll talk about it. As the former president of the United States pleads guilty to not guilty to 37 charges |
| 0:45.1 | in the documents case. Yeah, not guilty. Welcome to the show. Glad you're here. |
| 0:49.6 | 855-839-1210 on Twitter at Rich Ziole. And you know what? |
| 0:54.9 | As I'm watching this entire media obsession with this, and obviously there's, I mean, |
| 0:59.2 | it's just on every, it's on every channel. It's on every network. It's, uh, |
| 1:02.8 | camped out people outside the courthouse, the motor K. They were doing the whole OJ Simpson following |
| 1:07.9 | the motorcade all around. I can't help but think that this looks like a clown show to the entire world. |
| 1:14.0 | It really does. A clown show because this is the former president of the United States of America, |
| 1:20.3 | and the government is going after him much like we go after political enemies in countries |
| 1:25.1 | around the world all the time. And this is not the way the United States of America does business. |
| 1:30.1 | And yet here we are right now at this moment. The espionage act completely ridiculous charges against |
| 1:37.0 | them, the espionage act, the espionage act. I mean, just think about that for a moment. |
| 1:41.5 | Alegion at the former president of the United States of America is guilty of violating the espionage act. |
| 1:48.2 | And even if you believe that he should have returned those documents, |
| 1:52.7 | he even if you believe he shouldn't have had those documents to argue that he violated the espionage |
| 1:57.9 | act of the United States of America is just ludicrous. And this is why I think the prosecution is |
| 2:02.8 | going to lose because these charges are just so over the top. They really are. They're over the top. |
| 2:07.2 | And the presidential records act covers this. And there is more than a way as I've been explaining |
| 2:12.4 | ever since this happened on Friday. There was more than enough of a way for the archivist to pursue |
| 2:19.2 | civil charges against the president and have a federal judge order the documents returned under |
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