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It's Complicated

Episode 53 - Benchslapped 2X

It's Complicated

Renato Mariotti

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This week; Judge Chutkin rules on Trump’s motions; she will not be dismissing the case. Jack Smith introduces evidence that goes to Trump’s intent to cause the insurrection and ongoing sympathy and support for insurrectionists.Plus Asha and Renato talk about getting fit for winter.

Transcript

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0:00.0

MSW media.

0:05.0

So Renato, now that Judge Chuckkin has thrown Trump's absolute immunity claim out the window.

0:16.0

Does this mean that he'll be going to trial in March?

0:20.0

It's complicated.

0:22.0

I'm Renant to Mariati.

0:25.0

I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer, and a legal analyst.

0:31.0

And I'm Aisha Renga.

0:32.0

I teach national security law at Yale University. a legal analyst. And I'm Asha Renga.

0:32.8

I teach national security law at Yale University.

0:35.8

I'm a former FBI special agent and I'm a legal contributor for ABC News.

0:41.3

And we're here to help you understand topics that can't be boiled down into a sound bite or a tweet.

0:47.4

So we had a double whammy last week or a double bench slap as I like to say.

0:57.0

So in the same day, basically, the Trump's claim of. basically the

1:03.7

Trump's claim of absolute immunity was rejected both by the DC Court of Appeals

1:12.0

with regard to the civil lawsuits that have been filed against him for

1:16.7

January 6th about injuries that resulted from the riots and by the district court, Judge Tanya Chuckin, hours later in his criminal case for January 6th.

1:32.0

And this was kind of, you know, his big claim,

1:37.0

and we can unpack it, that pretty much was trying to argue that if the president does it it's legal.

1:45.4

To paraphrase Richard Nixon. To paraphrase Richard Nixon, yes. So yeah, I mean I

1:52.1

guess we can unpack what she said. I thought both of the opinions I thought were very well written and Judge

2:02.2

Chuckkins definitely flowed from the DC circuit's reasoning.

2:07.0

But they are slightly different, right?

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