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It's Complicated

No Absolute Immunity: Is Trump Above the Law? (with Joyce Vance)

It's Complicated

Renato Mariotti

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Renato and Patti discuss the recent Supreme Court decisions regarding Trump's tax returns and whether courts can hold Trump accountable.  They were joined by MSNBC Legal Analyst Joyce Vance, former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama. Subscribe on Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/@Its.Complicated/   Follow Asha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_ Asha's Substack: https://asharangappa.substack.com/ Follow Renato on Twitter: https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti Follow Asha on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asha.rangappa/ Follow Renato on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/renato.mariotti/Follow Renato on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@renato.mariotti   Opening Theme and Bumper music provided by eitanepsteinmusic / Pond5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

MSS W media.

0:08.0

This week, the Supreme Court found that Trump is not above the law.

0:16.0

But we still don't have his tax returns.

0:19.0

Can he ever be held accountable?

0:22.0

Let's get... Can he ever be held accountable?

0:23.0

Let's get on topic. Welcome to On Topic, a weekly in-depth look at a topic that helps us understand the

0:41.0

week's news.

0:42.9

My name's Renata Mariati.

0:44.9

I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer and a legal analyst.

0:50.7

And I'm joined by my friend Patty Vasquez show who joins us regularly on this

0:57.2

podcast. But before I join Patty I want to thank our patrons who brought us this episode.

1:05.2

With special thanks to Michelle Dew, James Frohmeyer, Jay Gellhausen, Jamie Gordon, Patrick, Steve Hungsberg, Chana Wachinsky, and an anonymous patron.

1:21.2

You too can become a patron on our website, on topic podcast.com. Just click the support

1:28.6

link at the top of the page.

1:32.8

So Patty I have to say, you know, this has been a eventful week and you know, there, we could

1:39.8

have talked a lot about a lot of different topics this week, but I think that yesterday's decisions

1:46.8

from the Supreme Court regarding Trump's tax returns really brought to light sort of a ongoing struggle that people have and

1:56.1

frustration that many people have which is no matter how many courts rule

2:00.3

against him no matter how many times that we hear all sorts of people whether

2:05.7

they're judges or prosecutors or former prosecutors or anyone telling us that

2:12.2

Trump is not following the law or didn't follow the law.

2:16.0

He still seems to be able to get away with, you know, pushing things forward, not really

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