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Is a Local Prosecutor Making the Strongest Case Against Trump?

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 29 August 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Since he left office, former President Donald J. Trump has been facing several investigations. They include the congressional inquiry into the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol and the F.B.I.’s search of Mar-a-Lago, his club and Florida residence, as part of an investigation into his handling of classified material. Of all the government investigations, the one that is receiving the least attention — a case being made by a local prosecutor in Georgia — may end up being the most consequential. Guest: Richard Fausset, a correspondent based in Atlanta for The New York Times.

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From New York Times, I'm Michael Borrow.

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This is a daily.

0:11.8

Today of all the government investigations now underway into Donald Trump, the one that

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is receiving the least attention may end up being the most consequential.

0:27.3

My colleague Richard Fossette on the case being made by a local prosecutor in Georgia.

0:36.7

It's Monday, August 29.

0:44.3

So Richard at the outset here, I want to explain why we're having this conversation

0:48.2

with you.

0:49.2

We at the daily have covered many of the investigations stemming from the final days

0:54.3

of Donald Trump's presidency.

0:55.8

We have covered the Department of Justice probe into his efforts to overturn the 2020

1:00.8

election results.

1:02.0

We've covered the congressional investigation into his role in inciting the January 6th riot.

1:08.2

And we've covered the FBI search for classified documents that Trump took tomorrow.

1:13.0

But there's one investigation into Trump that we've never really covered on the show.

1:18.2

And that's the one unfolding right now in Georgia.

1:22.8

And that's because honestly, we didn't quite know what to make of it.

1:27.8

Well, it makes a certain kind of sense that this investigation would fly under the radar

1:31.9

for a lot of people.

1:33.6

You know, Atlanta is just far from the traditional kind of hallways of power nationally.

1:40.5

And it's just a really unique situation where you have a local prosecutor who's looking

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into a matter of just tremendous national importance.

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