Episode 135 | Trump’s City Takeover Scheme — and Maxwell Twist

It's Complicated

Renato Mariotti

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Is Trump's federal law enforcement and military takeover of D.C. legal? And can he really do this in other cities across the country? Asha and Renato do a deep dive with a special guest to look at what to expect. Also, big surprise (not) -- a judge denies the release of grand jury transcripts in Ghislaine Maxwell's case and the judge calls out the Trump administration's shenanigans. Tune in to get the whole story! Cruise with us: https://www.travelstore.com/group-travel/its-complicated-cruise-2026/ Asha Substack: https://asharangappa.substack.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: https://link.chtbl.com/its-complicated Follow Asha on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/asharangappa.bsky.social Follow Renato on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/renatomariotti.bsky.social Follow Asha on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asha.rangappa/ Follow Renato on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/renato.mariotti/ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/legalafmtn.bsky.social Follow Michael Popok on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mspopok.bsky.social Subscribe to the Legal AF by MeidasTouch podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/legal-af-by-meidastouch/id1580828595 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.2	So Asha, does this mean Trump can send the military into all of our cities? It's complicated.
0:40.6	I'm Renato Miriati.
0:42.5	I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer, and a legal analyst.
0:47.6	And I'm Asherangappa.
0:49.4	I teach national security law at Yale University.
0:52.1	I'm a former FBI special agent, and I'm a legal and national
0:55.6	security analyst. And I'm Steve Vlattick. I teach at Georgetown University Law Center in not quite
1:01.3	federalized Washington, D.C., and I write the one first substack newsletter. And we're here to
1:06.8	help you understand topics that can't be boiled down into a soundbite or a skeet.
1:15.7	Welcome back.
1:19.0	I feel like every time you guys have me on the show, something bad has happened.
1:23.5	Yeah.
1:24.4	Pretty much.
1:25.4	Something really complicated.
1:27.0	It's so complicated and so sinister that we need you to help
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