The Trials of Donald Trump, Explained | Roundtable x Collision

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🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump's trials represent an unprecedented clash of American politics and law. To make sense of the madness, The Dispatch launched The Collision newsletter, written by Sarah Isgur and Mike Warren. With the ex-president's multiple cases crawling through the courts, Sarah and Mike (and a spice-addled Jonah) compare the legal arguments of the different trials, break down the possible timelines, and consider the political ramifications of this mess we're in. The Agenda: —SCOTUS hearing Trump’s immunity case —The lawfare argument —Majorities can be wrong —Alvin Bragg’s hush money case —Different rules for elites —Dead to rights on obstruction —Georgia on their mind —Biden impeachment update Show Notes: —The Collision newsletter —Liam Neeson does improv Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Whoa. Welcome to the dispatch podcast. I'm Sarah Isger and this is a collision takeover. Mike Warren and I are taking this podcast and we're doing our own thing.
0:25.6	We just need someone to interview us.
0:27.6	Who could come and interview the two of us?
0:31.2	Well, I for one welcome my new collision overlords.
0:36.0	And I have agreed to do this even though I do not endorse this podcast version of settler colonialism.
0:44.4	And the reason we thought we should do this is
0:49.6	you may have noticed a lot of legal stuff a lot of legal stuff that has to do with political stuff
0:58.0	Has come on the come down the pike of late and we thought we should try and do a kind of
1:03.4	explainer where Sarah doesn't have to be like the moderator person and and ask the
1:09.0	question type things so instead I'm going to be a very light moderator.
1:13.6	I mean that figuratively.
1:16.0	And we'll just go down the horn.
1:20.8	I think we got to start with the breaking news from earlier today,
1:26.7	which was the Supreme Court's decision to hear the case about immunity, but here it on a time
1:31.6	frame that has caused several MSMC hosts to spontaneously
1:36.6	combust.
1:39.5	So why don't we start with a law type thing and go to Sarah what is your what is your
1:46.5	interpretation of these events? So first of all you said it happened earlier
1:50.0	today and just in no world neither the world of the listener who's going to be
1:54.2	hearing this on Friday nor the world of the Supreme Court that released that
1:59.2	order on Wednesday evening was it earlier today?
2:03.2	But,
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