Georgia v. The Trump 19

Political Gabfest

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Politics, Government, News

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🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week, Emily Bazelon and David Plotz are joined by Lulu Garcia-Navarro of The New York Times to discuss the indictment in Georgia of Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants for trying to overturn the state’s 2020 election results; the court win by Montana youth for “a clean and healthful environment” and the devastating losses of Maui residents to wildfire; and the lawsuit of Michael Oher against his supposed “Blind Side” parents. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: C-SPAN: “Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on the Indictment of Former President Trump” David Gelles, Brad Plumer, Jim Tankersley, and Jack Ewing for The New York Times: “The Clean Energy Future Is Arriving Faster Than You Think” Christopher Flavelle and Manuela Andreoni for The New York Times: “How Climate Change Turned Lush Hawaii Into a Tinderbox” Josh Levin for Slate: “The Other Blind Sides” and Hang Up and Listen podcast Robyn Autry for MSNBC: “’The Blind Side’ isn’t the only film that gets things wrong. All white savior movies do.” Kristine Parks for Fox News: “Liberal columnists seize on ‘Blind Side’ controversy: ‘White savior’ story looks ‘even more fake’ than before” Emily Laurence and Jeff Temple for Forbes: “The Psychology Behind The Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)” Here are this week’s chatters: Emily: The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts by Stephen Bright and James Kwak and The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America by Katherine Turk Lulu: Only Murders In The Building on Hulu David: Hijack on Apple TV+ and hiring for Host, City Cast Las Vegas Listener chatter from Julian: Liz Lindqwister for The San Francisco Standard: “San Franciscans Are Having Sex in Robotaxis, and Nobody Is Talking About It” For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Lulu, Emily, and David discuss the return of FOMO. In the most recent edition of Gabfest Reads, David talks with David Grann about his book, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder. Email your chatters, questions, and comments to [email protected] or X us @SlateGabfest. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna Roth Research by Julie Huygen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gabb Fest.
0:16.9	August 17th, 2023, the Georgia versus the Trump 19 edition.
0:22.0	I'm David Plott of CityCast, I'm still up here in Gorgeous Vermont.
0:27.8	Thank goodness.
0:29.1	John Dickerson is still young and beyond elsewhere, nowhere to be found,
0:34.4	but Emily Bazzlon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School
0:38.1	is here from New Haven.
0:39.4	Hello, Emily.
0:40.4	Hello, David.
0:41.4	That is not to say that John is actually disappeared.
0:43.4	We know where he is.
0:44.2	He's just not here.
0:45.6	I didn't mean to imply that he had gone somewhere else.
0:48.7	It's okay, because in John's dead, we have first time Gabb Fest co-host,
0:53.6	Lulu Garcia Navarro, Lulu is, of course, a great journalist of a long heritage at NPR.
1:00.3	She's now a host with the New York Times audio section where she's developing a new show.
1:05.5	Hello, Lulu, welcome.
1:06.5	I don't even know where you are.
1:07.3	Welcome from wherever you are.
1:08.7	I am in Washington, DC, which is not the center of the political universe at the moment.
1:14.1	It is though very hot.
1:15.5	This week on the Gabb Fest, Georgia indites Trump and his lackeys and enablers
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