Hear Me Out: Don’t Celebrate the Trump Indictment

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🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… a former president got indicted, and all we got was this stupid t-shirt. Writer and former federal prosecutor Ankush Khardori joins Celeste to make the case that, while historic, this indictment is not a victory for anyone; it’s far from a legal slam dunk, it’s a symptom of a sluggish Justice Department, and it might actually worsen this nation’s political divide (which, in case you haven’t noticed, is already pretty bad). Read the pieces Ankush mentions here and here. Podcast production by Maura Currie You can skip all the ads in Hear Me Out by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/hearmeoutplus for just $15 a month for your first three months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hear Me Out.
0:03.2	I'm your host Celeste Headley.
0:04.8	Donald Trump is now the first president of the United States to be indicted.
0:10.2	If you like more than half of the country according to you gov, don't like the former president,
0:15.7	it's easy to see this as a win, or maybe karma, or perhaps a pathway to a former president
0:20.6	in prison.
0:21.6	But it might not be that simple.
0:23.5	And because the Justice Department did not move swiftly, this might not be the legal slam
0:27.5	dunk many on the left are hoping for.
0:30.3	Nobody will go on the record.
0:31.8	All of them say this is not a good case.
0:34.0	Let's say you want Trump in prison.
0:35.6	It doesn't mean that this is going to get you there.
0:38.6	Former federal prosecutor on Cush Cardori joins us on Hear Me Out in just a moment.
0:42.9	Stay with us.
0:48.2	You're listening to Hear Me Out.
0:49.6	I'm Celeste Headley.
0:50.6	Thank you so much for joining us.
0:51.9	Okay, so you might have heard news about a former president facing a little legal trouble
0:57.6	during the past few weeks.
0:58.8	No worries if you didn't hear about that.
1:00.4	It has definitely flown under the radar.
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