The Trump Indictment Roils Presidential Politics

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Donald Trump denounces the Biden Administration's charges against him for mishandling documents, but former Attorney General Bill Barr says the charges are serious and strong. Does Trump have a good defense, and how will this affect the 2024 election campaign? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Three, two, one.
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0:15.5	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:24.6	Our President Donald Trump and the rest of the political world respond to the 37 count
0:30.2	indictment unveiled Friday against the President by the Justice Department and special counsel
0:35.5	Jack Smith for mishandling documents and obstructing justice.
0:40.0	How strong is the indictment now that we've had a weekend to absorb its content?
0:45.4	And what is the impact going to be on the 2024 election and the rest of American politics?
0:52.0	Welcome on pause you go.
0:53.6	Editor of the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal and here with two of my colleagues,
0:58.6	Kim Strassel and Kyle Peterson.
1:01.5	Hello, Kyle.
1:02.5	Hello, Kim.
1:03.5	So, Kim, we talked about this a little last week, but now that you've read this in detail,
1:08.0	what do you think about the indictment and its strength?
1:10.9	Well, I think one of the failings of the indictment is that it completely fails to deal with this
1:19.0	other law on the Books of Presidential Records Act, which presumably does give Trump some
1:24.9	very wide latitude in the handling of documents.
1:28.8	And we don't exactly know the contours of where that law ends and the ones that the prosecutors
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