Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Tuesday, August 15th, 2020.

It is the Ides of August and that of course raises questions about whether this is the

Ides of August the way March 15th was the Ides of March for Julius Caesar. I'm John

Pauldhård's the editor of Commentary Magazine with me as always executive editor A Greenwald

Hi Abe. Hi John. Media commentary columnist Christine Rosen-Hykristine. Hi John. Matt

is at this week we are privileged to have with us maybe America's foremost analyst of the

Trump legal troubles former prosecutor man who I believe used the Rico statutes himself on

several occasions and if he didn't he will tell us why not Andrew C. McCarty of National Review

Hi Andy thanks for coming on again. Good morning John. Andy so I want to talk so the indictment

in Fulton County Georgia was handed down last night Donald J. Trump and I believe 18 associates

including Rudy Giuliani were indicted alongside him in a 41 count indictment alleging

at criminal enterprise entered into by the defendants that therefore comes is being treated

as a racketeering conspiracy and the indictment induces not I believe 91 separate occasions on which

the conspiracy scheme of what it keeps calling the enterprise how it was furthered from

a day or two after the election until January 6th so I want to break this down because obviously

it's too deep and too detailed to go into and to you know take a part case by case and break it

into three separate issues one is how strong is the case legally as a matter of what will go on

in the courtroom in Fulton County Georgia with a jury of 12 and a judge who has to look at the

indictment and decide whether there are parts of it or that that are don't pass the smell test

or not whether or not the the DA Fannie Willis refiles to simplify the case because she said last night

that she was going to try all 19 defendants at once which is I believe insane given the fact that

simply 90 19 people 41 counts the process of jury consideration of guilt or innocence after the

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