Preet Bharara on Trump’s Endless Legal Jeopardy

The Lincoln Project

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🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Rick Wilson interviews Preet Bharara on Trump’s alleged ten million Egyptian bribe, as well as his ongoing corruption and legal troubles. They also dive into the impact of Kamala Harris’s campaign, attacks on her identity, and the crucial 2024 election. Follow Preet Bharara on X @PreetBharara, listen to his podcast - “Stay Tuned With Preet” - on your favorite podcasting platform, and buy his book - “Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law” at fine bookstores everywhere. Follow Rick Wilson at @TheRickWilson on X and subscribe to his Substack at therickwilson.substack.com. Join the fight with Lincoln Project at www.lincolnproject.us and follow us on X at @ProjectLincoln. And please subscribe, rate and review this podcast, thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome back to the Lincoln Project Podcast.
0:03.2	Our guest today is Pre-Barara.
0:04.7	We are recording this on Friday, August 2nd.
0:07.1	It won't be airing according to the schedule until next Thursday.
0:11.3	But I want to say this, between now and then we're going to have a
0:16.2	vice presidential nominee for the Democratic Party. Between now and then, we're going to see the
0:22.1	fundraising totals really start to impact what people are thinking
0:25.1	about the race.
0:26.4	Trump raised about a book 40. Harris writes about $310 million, which I find it hard to say
0:31.8	the words $ million dollars because my first
0:36.2	campaign my first my first big national campaign 1988
0:40.1	President Bush spent 54 million dollars on the whole campaign nationally everything all of it all in so
0:47.9	raising 300 million dollars in in two weeks is quite a remarkable achievement.
0:53.1	That's inflation.
0:55.2	So the content of this podcast will probably
0:58.3	be a little different, but it is so always
1:01.3	we're talking to Preet.
1:02.2	He is so smart. He is so considered as a thinker.
1:06.0	And he really always brings a perspective to not only politics, but the way law and politics interact.
1:13.1	So we're delighted to have him on the show today,
1:16.2	and we're delighted to have him as a friend of the pod.
1:19.4	I also want to just remind everybody on the front end this time, we are all dependent on you, liking, following,
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