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FiveThirtyEight Politics

The Politics Of Prosecuting Trump

FiveThirtyEight Politics

ABC News

News, Politics

4.620.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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As the House Select Committee for Jan. 6 publishes its final report, the crew considers what the committee's impact has been on American politics and former President Donald Trump's standing with voters. They also look ahead to how the Department of Justice will navigate the complexities of deciding whether to bring charges against Trump and how a Republican majority in the House could respond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Slack.com slash DHQ. Oh my goodness. Kaley, happy birthday. Thank you.

0:34.2

You so hard haven't gotten the one thing you wanted, which is really inconsiderate of

0:38.9

the committee. I just want this report. It's all the women asked for just a congressional

0:45.6

report. Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics podcast. I'm Gaelyn Druke. After 18 months

1:01.3

of investigation, the House January 6th committee has, uh, oh wait, it still has not released

1:08.5

its final report. We were expecting it to come out on Wednesday. It is now Thursday afternoon.

1:15.3

For scheduling reasons, we got to go ahead and record this podcast. I'll say we already

1:20.4

have the over 100 page executive summary of the report. Of course, the House committee

1:26.7

also voted to refer former President Trump to the Department of Justice for four criminal

1:32.4

charges, including inciting insurrection, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and

1:37.3

obstruction of an act of Congress. The committee also referred five allies of the former president

1:42.1

to the Department. And I think we have enough to discuss. We are, it is Kaley's birthday.

1:49.2

Happy birthday, Kaley to you. I should say you're also trying to avoid a snow storm. The

1:54.1

snow is piling up where I am right now. So we have to go ahead and record if folks you have

2:00.0

the final report by the time you are listening to this, all of this should still stand. If

2:05.3

we miss anything, really juicy, feel free to get in touch with us. But I think we have

2:10.5

enough to try. Do you guys feel you guys feel comfortable? It's two, it's quarter past

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