The January 6th Case Against Trump
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🗓️ 9 March 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The congressional committee investigating January 6th has outlined potential criminal charges against former President Trump. Why did the Department of Justice let someone else beat them to it?
Guest: Ankush Khardori is a DC-based lawyer and a former federal prosecutor who specialized in financial fraud and white-collar crime. He’s a contributing writer for Intelligencer and a contributing editor at Politico.
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| 0:26.9 | Slack.com slash DHQ. Last week, a dense legal filing from California went public. And for |
| 0:38.7 | a certain kind of Washington legal reporter, it made a splash. |
| 0:42.5 | So this is the breaking news I was telling you about at the top of the show, the January |
| 0:45.2 | 6th select committee says that they believe that the former president Donald Trump and |
| 0:49.5 | a right-wing lawyer were part of a criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential |
| 0:54.8 | election. This filing was not an indictment or a criminal charge. It wasn't even really |
| 1:01.7 | about Donald Trump. But you might not have caught that if you're scanning cable news. |
| 1:06.8 | They signal in this filing, Don, that they may be willing to make a criminal referral to |
| 1:12.1 | the Justice Department against former president Trump and others, depending on what they |
| 1:16.2 | find in the rest of this investigation. One of the biggest headlines out of this committee |
| 1:20.1 | so far. |
| 1:21.1 | The House is really laying it all out here. They are saying that they believe there was |
| 1:25.6 | some sort of planning of a crime happening between Trump. |
| 1:29.1 | What it is is a roadmap for DOJ if DOJ cares to take this up, which they ought to. |
| 1:39.0 | I asked on Kush Cardori, a journalist who used to try cases over the DOJ if he could translate |
| 1:45.4 | this filing for me. |
| 1:46.4 | I wanted him to hone in on the most damning portion of the document. |
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