S9 Ep 8: Trump’s new legal team

Breakdown

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Politics, News, True Crime

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Former President Donald Trump has assembled a legal team to defend him before the Fulton County special purpose grand jury that is investigating possible meddling that occurred in Georgia after the 2020 presidential election. The eighth episode of “The Trump Grand Jury,” the ninth season of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s “Breakdown” podcast, introduces listeners to Trump’s new attorneys. Atlanta lawyer Drew Findling is nationally known for representing hip-hop superstars and, in the past, has been a strong critic of the former president. Jennifer Little is a former prosecutor who has helped targets of criminal probes get out of jams. And Decatur lawyer Dwight Thomas is considered to be an expert on special purpose grand juries, having represented clients before three of them. The episode also covers former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s attempt to delay his testimony before the Fulton grand jury. And it notes that Giuliani, Trump’s personal attorney, learns he is a target of the investigation. There is also a court battle waged by U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina to quash his material witness subpoena. His lawyers, including former Trump White House counsel Don McGahn, appeared in Atlanta before U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May to argue the senator’s case. You can download the Breakdown podcast from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher or your favorite podcasting platform. You can also stream it on your computer from ajc.com. 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	So testifying was I was in there for like three hours and it was interesting because you know we would ever video tapes and I showed things they asked about the state farm to scale the normal things.
0:24.0	My job was going to scale and it's playing with them.
0:30.0	And so that should give everyone great hope.
0:32.0	And I think that you saw that in many people that held positions of authority, positions of influence stood firm on the law, on the rule of law.
0:40.0	And that's a good thing for America.
0:42.0	And she gave us all great hope and great comfort.
0:46.0	I think he's trying to be more cautious than what might be more prudent and more cautious than what a regular case that's not this highly put up we charge and that's not quite a salient.
0:58.0	And that doesn't have such major implications for Georgia politics and national politics.
1:04.0	I think that he's going to do everything we can to keep any potential team out.
1:08.0	Welcome back to season 9 of Breakdown.
1:10.0	The podcast from the Atlanta Journal Constitution that takes you inside, Georgia's most important cases.
1:16.0	We couldn't stay away for too long.
1:18.0	I'm Bill Rankin, the AJC's Legal Affairs Reporter.
1:21.0	I'm AJC Senior Reporter, Tamar Hallerman.
1:24.0	Coming up, we'll explain why prosecutors are focusing on two household names from President Donald Trump's inner circle.
1:31.0	And why the judge says one of them may need to take an Uber to come to Atlanta to testify.
1:36.0	Plus, we dig into the legal team Trump is assembling.
1:40.0	It's led by a heavyweight hip hop attorney who describes himself with the hashtag, Billion Dollar Lawyer.
1:46.0	This is episode 8, Trump's new legal team of Breakdown, the Trump Grand Jury from the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
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