Just What Putin Wanted

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The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Moscow Mitch capitulated to Trump's electoral interests, Justice Scalia speaks from beyond, Lindsey may have flipped on Trump in Georgia, and reading the tea leaves on why the presidential immunity ruling is taking so long. Ben Wittes joins Charlie Sykes for The Trump Trials.

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https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what-justice-scalia-thought-about-whether-presidents-are-officers-of-the-united-states

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0:39.5	the Bulwarks podcast Trump Trials in 2024 Donald Trump faces criminal trials. Trump He faces fraud charges in New York and today he will be in a courtroom where he faces charges of defamation involving a woman that the court has already found he sexually assaulted.
1:01.3	He prepped for that by putting out more than 30 attacks on
1:05.0	social media because I don't know political reptilian genius or something. So
1:10.7	because it is Thursday we are joined by our good friend Ben
1:14.0	Wittis editor-in-chief of lawfare to break it all down. Happy Thursday Ben.
1:18.8	Happy Thursday. I forgot to even mention that Peter Navarro is being sentenced today. So there's that story as well.
1:27.0	For those who have forgotten the Peter Navarro case, this is actually a really interesting moment because Peter Navarro stiffed the January 6th committee refused to cooperate along with a number of other people including Steve Bannon and Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino and some of them were charged
1:48.5	criminally for contempt of Congress including Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro.
1:54.0	Some were not, but this is a good reminder to those of you who are considering simply
2:02.2	ignoring a congressional subpoena that, you know, sometimes that
2:07.3	act will catch up with you and it is a, if memory serves, contempt of Congress is a misdemeanor offense that can get up to a year I believe Peter Navarro faced two counts of it but I could be wrong about that.
2:23.0	So, you know, a day of reckoning, he may actually serve some time in jail.
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