The This is the Libertarian Podcast

from the Hoover Institution.

I'm your host Tom Church

and I'm joined by the Libertarian Professor Richard Epstein.

Richard is the Peter and Kirsten Bedford senior fellow here at the Hoover Institution.

He's also the Lawrence A Tish Professor of Law at NYU and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago.

And as we are recording this on Wednesday morning, former President Trump has not yet been

indicted, but it certainly looks like it's going to happen soon, perhaps today or within the next few days.

If you aren't up on the news, you may find yourself asking for which case, because there are

of course multiple cases in which he is facing potential charges.

Now the case in question is surrounding the falsification of business records related to

hush money payments to Stormy Daniels, an adult film star who reportedly had an affair with Trump.

Now Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg appears to be finishing up the grand jury today,

which could then vote on an indictment and be announced when it is unsealed by a judge.

Now an indictment, Richard brings many, many questions, and I'll start with simply,

why now will the charges stick and what happens next?

Well, I mean, I'm not a real sear on this, but the first question we have to ask is whether

or not he's actually going to go through with this particular indictment.

This is ultimately a very big political judgment that he has to make given the fact that normal rules

of prosecutorial discretion seem to be out the window in this case. But is Democratic Party people say the last thing we want to do now is to have a very weak set of charges bought against Trump so that he can go parade about the corruption of the legal system and the

democratic origins behind all of that in an effort to bolster his re-election campaign.

It's been reported that Mr. Trump would love

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