Eli Lake on Trump Indictment: “Obvious Prosecutorial Abuse”
The Rich Zeoli Show
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🗓️ 5 April 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Eli Lake—Contributing Editor at Commentary Magazine & Host of “The Re-Education Podcast”—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his latest article at The Free Press, “Alvin Bragg’s Dangerous Stunt.” Lake writes, “Many campaign finance law experts say it’s unclear whether hush money would be an in-kind contribution to a political campaign, since Trump himself has said he made the payments to spare his family from embarrassment—not to win the 2016 election. What’s more, President Biden’s own Justice Department, which would be the appropriate venue to prosecute this case, has declined to do so—presumably, because there’s not much there there. Finally, reporting violations of campaign finance law are almost never prosecuted as felonies.” You can read the full editorial here: https://www.thefp.com/p/alvin-braggs-dangerous-stunt
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| 0:00.0 | The Zeeoli Show on your schedule from talk radio 1210 WPHT in the Free Odyssey app. |
| 0:07.3 | All right, welcome back 855-391210 on Twitter at Rich. |
| 0:12.6 | Zeeoli, if you'd like to weigh in, excellent, excellent piece I read yesterday by Eli Lake |
| 0:17.8 | Alvin Bragg's Dangerous Stunt. |
| 0:21.3 | The author of this excellent piece joins me right now. |
| 0:23.2 | Eli Lake is host of the Re-Education Podcast. |
| 0:26.3 | Eli, thank you for making the time today. |
| 0:28.2 | How are you? |
| 0:29.6 | I'm great, thanks for having me on again, Rich. |
| 0:31.6 | Absolutely, I always enjoy having you on the show. |
| 0:34.2 | Your piece is excellent and what you really get across here, I think, is what so |
| 0:40.3 | many people have been thinking, which is, you know, this progressive resistance is |
| 0:44.3 | fantasized about this day, was it really worth it for them in the end? |
| 0:51.2 | No, I mean, I hope not. |
| 0:54.5 | I mean, listen, my original headline for this was humble brag, because this case is the |
| 1:04.4 | excrement of male cows. |
| 1:08.4 | It is so thin, it's the novelty of it, it's just like, what is he even saying, if we |
| 1:17.4 | were to take the logic of this particular indictment seriously, then Donald Trump would |
| 1:24.3 | have not run a foul of the law, had he used his campaign funding and then basically declared |
| 1:32.0 | that and filed it to the FEC and said the campaign money, which would have also included funds |
| 1:41.6 | from his donors, and he said, okay, this expense was for hush money to stormy Daniels. |
| 1:47.8 | Now think about that. |
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