Monday Morning Politics: Charlie Sykes on Trump's Latest Indictment
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Charlie Sykes, founder and editor-at-large and host of a podcast at The Bulwark, MSNBC contributor and author of How the Right Lost Its Mind (St. Martin's Press, 2017), discusses the politics of former President Donald Trump's latest indictment.
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks for your many appreciative comments about Friday's show on which we read out loud |
| 0:19.2 | most of the Trump January 6th and Big Lie indictment. |
| 0:23.2 | Member Special Counsel Jack Smith had said all Americans should read it for ourselves |
| 0:27.1 | to understand the allegations. |
| 0:29.5 | So we did that live reading so you don't have to. |
| 0:32.5 | And thanks again to our guest readers Tiffany Hansen, Kai Wright, and Michael Lohinger from |
| 0:37.4 | WNYC and Ellie Mastal from the Nation and former Watergate prosecutor Jill Weinbanks. |
| 0:44.0 | You can still hear the special online of course at WNYC.org or sign up for our politics |
| 0:49.8 | podcast or do go read the document which many news organizations have on their sites. |
| 0:56.1 | How many historians and legal analysts I don't have to tell you are calling this one |
| 1:01.2 | of the most important cases for American democracy in the history of the American legal system. |
| 1:08.2 | And a whole new round is also scheduled for today in court because later in the day on |
| 1:14.9 | Friday I don't think it was in response to our show but later in the day after our show |
| 1:19.9 | on Friday Trump posted this which sounds through a lot of people like a threat. |
| 1:25.8 | If you go after me I'm coming after you. |
| 1:29.6 | He posted those words. |
| 1:30.8 | If you go after me I'm coming after you. |
| 1:34.6 | So he's been told to respond in a court filing by five o'clock this afternoon in regard |
| 1:40.0 | to that. |
| 1:41.0 | Is he trying to I don't know activate lone wolf domestic terrorists to attack prosecutors? |
| 1:47.3 | Is that an illegal intimidation of prospective jurors? |
| 1:51.4 | What is that post in a legal context? |
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