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The Counsel

Note From Elie: Why DOJ’s Trump Trial Should Go First

The Counsel

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics

4.7861 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Note From Elie is part of the free weekly CAFE Brief newsletter. Audio recordings of Elie’s Note are part of the CAFE Insider subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.2

Hey everyone, Ellie here, wishing you a very happy Friday.

0:35.0

Well, now we have not one, but two pending indictments of Donald Trump.

0:40.1

Wanted to share a couple thoughts with you today about how these two cases will intermingle and

0:45.9

intertwine. Lots of moving parts. It's a dynamic situation. Stay with me and we'll continue to break it down.

0:52.2

Also, please keep sending me any thoughts, questions, or comments to Letters atcafe.com.

1:15.9

The Justice Department's indictment of Donald Trump for willful retention of defense information and obstruction of justice is timely, serious, detailed, and firmly grounded in specific evidence.

1:23.1

The Manhattan District Attorney's indictment of Trump for falsifying business records of a hush money

1:28.4

payment to a porn star is none of those things. This is the inadvertent genius of Donald Trump.

1:35.1

He commits so many wrongs, some criminal, some unethical, others simply boorish, that the grievous

1:40.7

bad acts tend to overwhelm the lesser ones. And now it's an unavoidable reality that the new federal charges against Trump

1:47.7

underscore just how trivial and ill-conceived are the state-level charges pending against him

1:53.0

in Manhattan.

1:54.0

The problem here is that the Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg, who is a friend and former colleague

1:59.1

of mine, I should say, he got there first.

2:01.8

And his trial now occupies prime real estate on the all-important calendar, perhaps to the

2:07.0

exclusion of any other potential pre-election trial.

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