Should Trump Make It Official? Depends If He's More Worried About The FEC Or DOJ
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🗓️ 24 August 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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This episode: political correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben, political reporter Deepa Shivaram, and justice correspondent Ryan Lucas.
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| 0:23.3 | Hi, this is Steve from the USCIS parking lot in Santa Clara, California, where I'm about to enter |
| 0:31.3 | to take my citizenship test. This podcast was recorded at... |
| 0:35.2 | 106 PM Eastern Daylight Time on August 24, 2022. |
| 0:40.0 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this, and hopefully I'll be eligible to vote in the midterm elections. |
| 0:45.2 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:47.5 | Well, that's fantastic. Congratulations. That's so cool. |
| 0:54.3 | That's great news. Hey there, it is the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Danielle Kurtz-Layburn. |
| 0:58.7 | I cover politics. I'm Tifa Shiberam. I cover politics. |
| 1:02.0 | And I'm Ryan Lucas. I cover the Justice Department. |
| 1:04.0 | And today we're talking about some news that hasn't happened, namely that Donald Trump has not |
| 1:10.0 | announced whether he will run for president in 2024. And yet, there is plenty of political |
| 1:16.0 | news swirling around the former president. There's of course the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago |
| 1:20.8 | club in Florida. And then there's the fact that Trump has used the search to raise copious |
| 1:25.6 | amounts of money for his Save America pack. So all of this raises some new questions. |
| 1:30.2 | He's not running for president that we know of yet. So how is he going to spend all those |
| 1:35.1 | millions of dollars he's raised? And how would a presidential run change that? And while we're at it, |
| 1:41.0 | what would it mean for his apparent legal problems if he declared that he would run for president? |
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