If You Go After Me, I'm Coming After You!
Notes from America with Kai Wright
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Former President Donald Trump’s latest indictment leaves a lot to unpack. We answer questions and take your calls.
Brian Lehrer, host of The Brian Lehrer Show, talks to Charlie Sykes, founder and editor-at-large and host of a podcast at The Bulwark, MSNBC contributor and author of How the Right Lost Its Mind (St. Martin's Press, 2017).
Brian also recently invited Kai and others on his show to read the full indictment. Listen to “Reading the Indictment of Donald Trump” here: https://www.wnyc.org/story/reading-indictment-donald-trump
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| 0:00.0 | It's notes from America with Chi-Rite, and before you reach to check your device, no, |
| 0:15.3 | this isn't Chi-Rite, so you don't need to check your hearing either. |
| 0:18.9 | It's alright, it's me, Brian Lehrer, host of the Brian Lehrer Shop. |
| 0:22.7 | Recently, Special Counsel Jack Smith announced the indictment of former President Donald |
| 0:27.7 | Trump, as you probably know, for conspiring to defraud the United States and disenfranchise |
| 0:33.5 | voters in the 2020 election. |
| 0:36.4 | And during that announcement, Smith made a point to encourage everyone to read that indictment |
| 0:41.3 | in full. |
| 0:42.5 | So on my show, I invited Kai and a few other friends of the show to read the major excerpts |
| 0:47.6 | in the indictment live on the air. |
| 0:49.6 | You should check it out. |
| 0:50.6 | There'll be a link in the description of this episode. |
| 0:53.4 | But the Trump and Democracy question is not just for the courts. |
| 0:56.8 | It's also for the political system, obviously. |
| 0:59.3 | And Trump is allegedly trying to straddle the two by making what appear to be threats against |
| 1:04.3 | people in the legal system that he's defending as political free speech for him as a candidate. |
| 1:10.7 | So we invited Charlie Sykes, former long-time conservative talk show host, and co-founder |
| 1:15.4 | of the news organization The Bullwork on my show to discuss the breaking news and help |
| 1:20.0 | take your calls. |
| 1:21.0 | And Kai asked that I share that conversation with you all. |
| 1:25.4 | So here's my conversation with Charlie Sykes, founder, and editor at large of The Bullwork. |
| 1:33.2 | Brian Lair on WNYC. |
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