S9 Ep. 19: The Referee

Breakdown

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Politics, News, True Crime

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney says his oversight of the special purpose grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump and his allies has been "quite a ride." Episode 19 of the ninth season of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Breakdown podcast includes an interview with McBurney, who has now been a judge for 10 years. The AJC's metro columnist, Bill Torpy, interviewed McBurney because it has seemed the judge is the busiest member of Georgia's judiciary. McBurney ruled on the challenge to Georgia's abortion law; he presides over a state judicial watchdog panel; he oversees a drug court program; and he is the trial judge in the murder case against Tex McIver, the former Atlanta lawyer charged with killing his wife, Diane. The latest episode of "The Trump Grand Jury" also includes interviews with two authors of a Brookings Institute report on the Trump investigation. And it covers a hearing for Trump's former National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn, who has been summoned to testify here in Atlanta. You can download the Breakdown podcast from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher or your favorite podcasting platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's worth knowing which really going on.
0:04.0	This is the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
0:08.0	Previously on Breakdown.
0:14.0	Yes, a lot of threats.
0:17.0	We shouldn't death upon me.
0:21.0	Telling me that, you know, I'll be in jail with my mother
0:27.0	and saying things like, be glad it's 2020 and not 1920.
0:35.0	A lot of them were racist. A lot of them were just hateful.
0:39.0	We're so far ahead of these numbers.
0:42.0	Even the phony ballots of Ruby Freeman, known scammer.
0:47.0	You know what was trending on the internet?
0:50.0	Where's Ruby?
0:52.0	Because they thought you'd be in jail.
0:54.0	Where's Ruby?
0:57.0	It's crazy.
1:00.0	The minimum number is 18,000 for Ruby.
1:04.0	But they think it's probably about 56,000.
1:07.0	But the minimum number is 18,000.
1:09.0	The Ruby Freeman night where she ran back in there
1:12.0	when everybody was gone and stuff.
1:14.0	She stuffed the ballot boxes.
1:16.0	Let's face it, Brad.
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