Indictment Day

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Jack Smith will move very quickly on a new indictment, numerous court appearances and trials can be quite disruptive to a presidential campaign, and Trump may have violated civil rights laws by trying to block qualified votes from being counted. Lawfare's Ben Wittes and Anna Bower join Charlie Sykes for The Trump Trials. show notes: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/judge-cannon-holds-a-hearing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the week that Donald J. Trump got a letter from the Department of Justice telling
0:14.3	him that he was a target in the grand jury investigation into the attempts to overturn
0:20.3	the 2020 election.
0:23.4	This would be the third indictment of the former president, but it will not be the last,
0:28.8	which is one of the reasons why we launched this podcast, the Trump trials with our partners
0:35.2	at law fair.
0:36.5	So once again, in a very, very timely week, we are joined by Ben Wittis, Editor-in-Chief
0:42.2	of Law Fair and Anna Bauer, correspondent for Law Fair, Ben, Anna.
0:46.1	Good morning.
0:47.1	Hey.
0:48.1	Hi.
0:49.1	Okay.
0:50.1	I need to start off with a public service announcement though.
0:52.4	I feel it is necessary on this particular July 20th, 2023 as a public service announcement
1:00.4	to tell all of our listeners, you did not actually take crazy pills this morning.
1:06.6	You are not the crazy ones.
1:08.6	I bring this up because we wake up in a world the day after a federal judge very explicitly
1:14.7	said, yes, Donald J. Trump did rape a woman, E. Jean Carroll.
1:21.1	It may not have been the technical definition of rape under New York law, but it is rape.
1:27.3	He is saying that the former president of the United States is a rapist.
1:31.9	And it's probably not the top 10 story of the day.
1:34.0	Okay.
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