Emergency Podcast: Trump Charged In Jan. 6 Investigation
FiveThirtyEight Politics
ABC News
4.6 • 20.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:30.0 | Hello, and welcome to this emergency edition of the 538 Politics Podcast. I'm Galen Druck. |
| 0:41.0 | Did former President Donald Trump conspire to defraud the United States, conspire to obstruct an official proceeding, and actually obstruct that proceeding, and conspire to willfully deprive American citizens of their right to vote? |
| 0:57.0 | Those will now be questions for a federal jury after a grand jury indicted the former president on four felony charges on Tuesday. |
| 1:06.0 | The Department of Justice made its 45-page charging document public alongside the announcement, and it's available for anyone to read. |
| 1:14.0 | It details Trump's attempts to stay in office after losing the 2020 election from pressuring state lawmakers and elections officials to assembling a fake slate of electors to the events of January 6th. |
| 1:27.0 | As severe and unprecedented as Trump's actions were in the aftermath of the 2020 election, even legal scholars who support the theories behind these charges acknowledge that this may be a challenging case to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, |
| 1:43.0 | in front of a jury. And so begins the highest stakes case facing the former president and current front runner for the 2024 GOP nomination. |
| 1:54.0 | And here with me to discuss it is senior reporter Emilia Thompson-Douveau. Welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:59.0 | We're Galen. |
| 2:00.0 | Also with us is senior elections analyst Nathaniel Raikich. Welcome to the pod. |
| 2:04.0 | Hey, Galen. |
| 2:06.0 | So I will say we probably would have recorded an emergency podcast last night after the announcement was made, but it was my grandmother's 90th birthday and she had to come first. |
| 2:16.0 | Also, if you've been listening to this podcast for a while, you may know that my grandmother actually listens to every episode of this podcast and has even attended virtually our live shows in the past. |
| 2:26.0 | So happy birthday, grandma. |
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| 2:30.0 | Happy birthday, grandma. |
| 2:31.0 | Happy birthday, grandma of Galen. |
| 2:34.0 | And now aggressive pivot back to the third indictment of former president Trump. |
| 2:41.0 | So Emilia, can we just begin by discussing the four charges in plain language. |
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