Political Gabfest - The Defendant Knew They Were False
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🗓️ 3 August 2023
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Summary
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Donald Trump’s third indictment, this one for January 6th and the 2020 election; Trump v. President Joe Biden poll results; and, joined by David French of The New York Times, the country song “Try That In A Small Town.”
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Devlin Barrett and Josh Dawsey for The Washington Post: “Heart of the Trump Jan. 6 indictment: What’s in Trump’s head”
Judd Legum for Popular Information: “The biggest misconception about Trump’s third criminal indictment”
Reid J. Epstein for The New York Times: “Quick to Mock MAGA, Biden Stays Silent on Trump Indictments”
Reid J. Epstein, Ruth Igielnik, and Camille Baker for The New York Times: “Biden Shores Up Democratic Support, but Faces Tight Race Against Trump” and Nate Cohn: “Can the Race Really Be That Close? Yes, Biden and Trump Are Tied.”
David French for The New York Times: “Try Tolerance in a Small Town” and “The Trial America Needs”
18 U.S. Code § 241 – Conspiracy against rights
Jill Filipovic for The Guardian: “Musicians like Jason Aldean love to glorify ‘small-town’ America. It’s embarrassing”
Aaron Zitner for The Wall Street Journal: “They’re the Happiest People in America. We Called Them to Ask Why.”
Here are this week’s chatters:
Emily: Deborah Treisman for The Writer’s Voice: New Fiction from The New Yorker: “Camille Bordas Reads ‘Colorín Colorado’” and How to Behave in a Crowd by Camille Bordas
John: Meghan Bartels for Scientific American: “NASA Detects ‘Heartbeat’ from Voyager 2 Spacecraft after Losing Contact” and John Dickerson for The Prime Time Interview, CBS News: “Author Dan Pink on the meaning of regret, how he captures his ideas, more with John Dickerson”
David: “Exploring a Secret Fort” with David through airbnb and Emma Marris for Nature: “Could this ancient whale be the heaviest animal ever?”
Listener chatter from Alex Callahan: Peter Braul for Maisonneuve: “We’ll Never Be That Drunk Again”
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, David, John, and Emily discuss “The Socio Political Demography of Happiness” by Sam Peltzman.
In the most recent edition of Gabfest Reads, David talks with David Grann about his book, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder.
Email your chatters, questions, and comments to gabfest@slate.com or X us @SlateGabfest. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest. |
| 0:16.4 | August 4, 2023, the Defendant New Day Were False edition. |
| 0:21.4 | I'm David Ploss of CityCast, I'm in Washington, D.C. and joined, of course, by John Dickerson |
| 0:26.8 | of CVS Prime Time. |
| 0:28.1 | He's also in Washington, D.C. where he will be covering Trump's arraignment. |
| 0:33.0 | Hi, good morning, David. |
| 0:34.4 | Good morning, Emily. |
| 0:35.4 | Good morning, America. |
| 0:36.6 | Hello, Emily Vaslon. |
| 0:37.8 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:38.6 | That's Emily Vaslon, who's in the New York Times magazine and Yale University of |
| 0:40.9 | Hospital. |
| 0:41.9 | This week on the Gap Fest, the most consequential Trump indictment yet, what is it? |
| 0:47.0 | Why is it important? |
| 0:48.4 | Then Trump is also running away from the field according to GOP primary polls and is |
| 0:54.6 | evenly, evenly stacked up against President Biden for the general election. |
| 0:59.9 | Is anything going to reshape the dynamics of this race? |
| 1:04.0 | And then we will talk with New York Times columnist David French about country singer Jason |
| 1:08.3 | Aldin smash hit, try that in a small town. |
| 1:12.3 | And David French is piece about what small towns are really like. |
| 1:15.6 | Plus, of course, we will have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:20.6 | The United States versus Donald J. Trump is the most popular title in years. |
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