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🗓️ 28 August 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Political Beat Down. I'm Ben Mycellus joined by Michael Cohen. |
0:07.0 | Apologies for being two minutes late. We were just digesting the news of the |
0:12.8 | the indictment filed moments ago against Donald Trump a new |
0:19.2 | grand jury in Washington DC meeting in secret return this superseding indictment. |
0:25.5 | This is the government's notice of superseding indictment. |
0:28.6 | I will read it, but it's basically making the indictment conform to the Supreme Court's ruling, |
0:35.7 | where the Supreme Court found absolute presidential immunity. |
0:39.8 | So what Special Counsel, Jack Smith made very clear in the superseding indictment is, |
0:44.5 | we ain't dealing with him in his official capacity as president. |
0:49.4 | This was a citizen and this was a candidate, right? And so as a result, the Supreme Court's ruling |
0:56.9 | doesn't touch this at all and that this should proceed. Also notable special counsel you see the charges right there |
1:04.4 | saying four charges and what I think is notable as well special counsel |
1:08.4 | jacksmith and the grand jury kept in there that 18 U.S. USC section 1512 C2 obstruction of official proceeding |
1:17.6 | which is very important because you'll remember the Supreme Court in that other |
1:21.0 | ruling the Fisher case said that obstruction of official |
1:24.2 | proceeding has to deal with documentary obstruction. So with Special Counsel Jack Smith saying |
1:30.2 | is I'm also not backing down based on the Supreme Court's ruling in Fisher. |
1:35.2 | That charge carries with it a 20-year sentence and Jack Smith saying, |
1:40.5 | I don't believe that Supreme Court ruling impacts 1512 C2 at all. Of course |
1:45.8 | Trump was trying to obstruct the certification of an election that is |
1:50.3 | documented that involves documents by the very nature of it. |
1:54.4 | Pull up the notice of special counsel. |
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