This week when special counsel Jack Smith announced the indictment of Donald Trump on conspiring

to defraud the United States and disenfranchised voters in the 2020 election, he made a point

to say this.

The indictment was issued by a grand jury of citizens here in the District of Columbia,

and it sets forth the crimes charged in detail. I encourage everyone to read it in full.

I encourage everyone to read it in full. Special counsel Smith also made sure to remind everyone

of this. My must emphasize that the indictment is only an allegation and that the defendant

must be presumed innocent until proving guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

Special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday. So in the spirit of that presumption and of the

Constitution in one of the most consequential cases that our democracy could ever see,

this is a special edition of the Brian Lair show today. As we take on Jack Smith's plea to all

Americans, again he encouraged everyone to read the indictment in full. Now we don't have time in

this two-hour show for every word, but what we can do is read a lot of it, letting you hear many of

the details of the evidence that the special counsel wants us to judge for ourselves. We will also

save some time at the end of the show for some calls from you to say what jumped out at you from

hearing the text that you may not have realized just from the news reports over the last few days.

And I won't subject you to the torture of hearing just me read for nearly two hours. We're not

that mean around here. So we have five guest readers lined up who've each agreed to take different

sections of the indictment to present as we go. But I will start with the opening section of the 45

page document. It is simply called introduction and here we go. Introduction, paragraph one.

The defendant, Donald J. Trump, was the 45th president of the United States and a candidate for

reelection in 2020. The defendant lost the 2020 presidential election. Paragraph two.

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