Of Course, the Trump Indictment Is Political

The Reason Roundtable

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🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman consider the recent announcement...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Reason Round Table, your weekly reminder that most presidents and preemptive
0:07.3	wars really suck.
0:09.3	Brought to you by the magazine of Free Mines and Free Markets.
0:11.3	I am Matt Welch, joined by Nicholas B. Peter Suterman and Katherine Mangu, ward happy post-reason
0:18.3	weekend, everyone.
0:19.3	Hey, Matt.
0:20.6	Happy Monday.
0:21.6	Howdy.
0:22.6	You guys are putting up a big front there.
0:25.4	I know that you are more bejaggled than you sounded in that initial greetings, but we'll
0:31.0	tease that out of you yet.
0:32.4	Let's talk about Donald Trump.
0:33.4	Over the weekend, former president Donald Trump announced on Truth Social in all caps that
0:41.2	the far and away leading Republican candidate and former president of the United States of
0:45.6	America will be arrested on Tuesday of next week.
0:49.2	Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, not a Bragg brother as far as we know, has neither
0:54.9	confirmed nor denied reports that an arrest is looming in the now six-year-old grand jury
1:01.4	case involving hush money payments given by officials involved in Trump's presidential
1:06.1	campaign to porn actress Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about sexual relations she allegedly
1:13.5	had with that man, Donald Trump.
1:16.2	But Bragg and the various overlapping armies that occupy lower Manhattan have been busy sending
1:21.4	out defiant memos and erecting steel barricades.
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