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Hello and welcome to the Slate political Gavvest.

March 31st, 2023, Gavvest Special.

Trump is indicted edition.

I'm David Plott's city cast. I'm here in Washington, DC.

I'm as ever joined by Emily Bouslons in your Times Magazine in Yale University Law School

from New Haven, Hello, Emily. Hey, David.

Our New Haven slash some TV studio where she probably has spent the last 16 hours.

Also, someone who has spent the last 16 hours in TV studio, John Dickerson,

if CBS Prime Time. Hello, John. Good morning, David. Hello, Emily. Hey.

Today on the Gavvest, President Trump becomes the first ex-president or president.

Ever criminally indicted, what is the case against him? What effect will it have on American

politics and potentially on the 2024 election? A grand jury in New York working at the behest of

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg has indicted former president Donald Trump, presumably for charges related

to the payoff of Stormy Daniels. The indictment is still sealed. Trump will likely be arraigned in

Manhattan next week. Will there be handcuffs? Will there be a prison cell? Will there be bail? We will

find out. Then there is potentially going to be a trial at some point, perhaps in the midst of

the 2024 presidential campaign. Perhaps in the morass, in the stew, in the measma, in the

the asteroid belt of up to three other criminal indictments of Trump relating to the Georgia

election manipulation that he attempted to do, the absconding with and hiding top secret documents

that he may have done, and the attempt to overturn the election on January 6th. There are all

these multiple investigations happening. Emily, as far as we know, what is Trump likely to be

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