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The Playbook Podcast

June 12, 2023: Déjà vu for Donald Trump and Kevin McCarthy

The Playbook Podcast

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🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Former President Donald Trump gets arraigned in Miami Tuesday. House conservatives are still unhappy with Speaker Kevin McCarthy and are talking about possibly tanking more GOP legislation. All that, and the rest of the news you need to know today.  Playbook co-author Rachael Bade breaks down her reporting.

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0:00.0

Hey, good morning. I'm playbook co-author Rachel Bade. It is Monday, June 12th. This week is looking like some unwelcome deja vu for two top Republican leaders, Donald Trump and Kevin McCarthy. I'm going to start with Trump. The former president is going to be arraigned for the second time on Tuesday afternoon, this time in a federal courthouse in Miami. In case you've been living

0:22.0

under a rock since Friday, Trump is facing 37 charges from special counsel Jack Smith for

0:28.1

mishandling classified documents at Marlago. Over the weekend, we started to see some chatter

0:33.6

circulating online from Trump supporters calling for people to protest and resist on his behalf.

0:39.7

One of those people was Congressman Clay Higgins, a Republican from Louisiana, who told people

0:45.3

to essentially be ready with military-scale maps and guerrilla warfare tactics. He didn't use those

0:50.7

words specifically, but he did use shorthand for those exact phrases.

0:55.8

We should be clear here that Trump warned of, quote, potential death and destruction ahead of his

1:01.0

April hush money indictment in New York. And while some of his protesters did end up showing up,

1:06.7

no violence ever broke out. Still, federal authorities are going to be taking every precaution to make sure that a riot does not occur.

1:13.8

But Trump will certainly be stoking the fires all weekend. He was speaking to Republicans in Georgia and North Carolina, where he railed against President Joe Biden and the special counsel, Jack Smith, his family.

1:25.8

Everyone he sort of blames for being in this predicament,

1:28.9

everyone but himself. One other development over the weekend, we started to see some of Trump's

1:33.7

longtime defenders actually go on television and say the case against him is fairly strong. One of

1:38.9

those people was Jonathan Turley, who is a well-known and prominent Republican lawyer, who's also a Fox News contributor,

1:45.2

but said the case looks extremely damning. We heard something similar from one of Trump's former

1:50.2

attorneys, actually, as well. And even Trump ally Alan Dershowitz, who defended him in the first

1:55.6

impeachment trial in the Senate, said that there was some evidence in the case that Trump should

2:00.2

be concerned about. Enough about Trump, because he's going to evidence in the case that Trump should be concerned about.

2:01.7

Enough about Trump, because he's going to be dominating the whole week.

2:04.6

Let's come back to Washington, where Kevin McCarthy is dealing with his own headache.

2:08.7

Last week, McCarthy was forced to cancel votes and adjourn the House early because of a budding

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