FBI Searches Mar-a-Lago, Trump Takes the Fifth
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🗓️ 12 August 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dispatch Podcast. I'm your host Sarah Isger joined by Jonah Goldberg and David |
| 0:05.2 | French. We are going to talk about, of course, the search warrant executed at Mar-a-Lago. |
| 0:11.2 | We're also going to talk inflation and what we learned from the primaries. But first, I want to |
| 0:15.6 | mention we recorded this episode before Attorney General Merit Garland gave comments from the |
| 0:21.5 | Department of Justice. In those comments, he said that the Department of Justice is moving to |
| 0:26.7 | unseal the warrant and the property receipt absent objection from the former president. He also |
| 0:32.8 | said that he personally approved the search and that he was not going to provide additional details |
| 0:38.1 | as to the basis of the search at this time. So you're not going to hear any conversation of that |
| 0:43.7 | with me and the guys, but I wanted to add my own two cents here at the top of the show, which is |
| 0:48.2 | this seemed like the Attorney General being able to really thread that needle, |
| 0:52.6 | acknowledging what the public already knows about the search and moving to unseal the warrant, |
| 0:59.5 | something, of course, that President Trump could have released at this point himself. I'm sure |
| 1:03.6 | the Department of Justice thought that they would, but seeking to find out whether the former |
| 1:10.1 | president has an objection to that and then releasing that to the public. I don't expect |
| 1:14.3 | necessarily the underlying affidavit, which will have all those nitty-gritty details, |
| 1:18.6 | how they found out who their witnesses are, how recently those were. That's not what they're saying |
| 1:23.1 | they're going to unseal. Just that copy of the cover page and maybe two of the questions underneath |
| 1:29.6 | that again, the president Trump had has and could have released himself. But the AG also, |
| 1:36.0 | of course, not disturbing longstanding protocol of talking about the non-public aspects of an |
| 1:41.0 | ongoing investigation. So threading that needle, batting down some of the rumors that have been out |
| 1:47.7 | there, newsweek at one point publishing yesterday that the AG had not signed off on the warrant, |
| 1:53.8 | didn't know about it, that somehow only Chris Ray had signed off. Which if you listen to our |
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