Emergency Edition: The Trump Jan. 6 Indictment
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 2 August 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
On Tuesday, a D.C. grand jury voted to indict Donald Trump for a range of crimes that all involve the attempt to prevent the peaceful transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election. For this emergency edition of the podcast, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down on Lawfare Live with Senior Editors Scott R. Anderson, Roger Parloff, and Quinta Jurecic; Executive Editor Natalie Orpett; and Legal Fellow Anna Bower to unpack it all.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains advertising to access an ad-free version of the LawFair |
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| 0:25.6 | no bull, and the aftermath. |
| 0:33.7 | They're various clearly establishing not only that President Trump knew that facts he was repeating |
| 0:39.8 | were inaccurate and untrue and fraudulent, also that steps he was taking were illegal. |
| 0:45.2 | Equipped from legal advice, he got from the White House Council. Again, suggesting that White |
| 0:48.6 | House Council at least does not see executive privileges being a barrier to providing the sort of |
| 0:51.6 | information to a grand jury, presumably in a criminal investigation. That's pretty damning if |
| 0:56.2 | your evaluation of this is is the President acting in a concept of presidential duty consistent with |
| 1:01.9 | you know the duty to take care of the law under article two, right? Like it's just hard to frame that |
| 1:07.7 | with actually how we think of the President's duties. If you're not completely immunizing the |
| 1:11.9 | President, if you're saying is within his role as the President, they are clearly building the |
| 1:15.8 | cases outside of that. I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast August 2nd, 2023. |
| 1:24.4 | It's an emergency edition of the podcast and I don't think I need to explain why |
| 1:31.1 | Donald Trump has been indicted for the third time, third and a half time, and this is the big one, |
| 1:38.5 | folks. It is a multi-count federal indictment for January 6th for a range of crimes. We're going to |
| 1:48.3 | go into the details of them that all involve the attempt to prevent the peaceful transfer of power |
| 1:56.8 | in the winter of 2020-2021. Joining me in the virtual jungle studio for this conversation are |
| 2:07.5 | senior editors, Scott Anderson, Roger Parloff, Quinted Jurassic, Executive Editor, Natalie Orpet, |
| 2:17.2 | and our newest legal fellow, Fulton County correspondent Anna Bauer, who I believe this is your |
| 2:26.3 | second day of employment at LawFair, although that is a bit misleading. Let's get into it because |
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