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The Daily Beast Podcast

Preet Bharara: There Could Be An ‘Avalanche of Revelations' If Trump Loses

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4.68.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Preet Bharara, the former U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of New York, joins “The New Abnormal” host Molly Jong-Fast to chat about the last presidential debate, the story leading up to his resignation, and why there could be an "avalanche" of new revelations if President Donald Trump loses the election. Bharara said that the presidential debate was "relatively normal," but that's no thanks to Trump or his opponent Joe Biden. "The person I credit most for that as most people do is Kristen Welker," he said.  Jong-Fast then reminds Bharara of one of his proudest moments from 2016: Not calling Trump back. He details the incident and why he doesn't regret his decision for a second.  "It is a good thing for public servants not to so badly cling to their job… that you won't do the right thing," he said.  Next, Jong-Fast and Bharara chat about the impact of the election outcome and what will happen if Trump loses.  "My guess is there is going to be a cascade of people who are going to write books for a lot of money, or good citizens who are going to blow the whistle on all sorts of things… that we don't know about yet," he said.  Adding, "I also think the potential for bad conduct and bad activity during the transition, if Trump definitively loses, is going to be very high. It's going to be very difficult for either Congress or some prosecution authorities to ignore what could very well be an avalanche of revelations after January 20, about this president and the conduct of the people in this administration." Lastly, they discuss how someone with Trump's background could never get a national security clearance, Bharara's book Doing Justice, plus more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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who is a very good journalist and has seen what's happened to other good journalists,

1:06.3

including Chris Wallace, who I think is a very good journalist and

1:09.0

generally a very good interviewer and a very good debate moderator.

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