Trump’s Federal Indictment, Political Rumors and the Dangers of Tech

Our Body Politic

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🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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This week, Our Body Politic host and creator Farai Chideya unpacks the latest indictment against former President Trump, with former Senior Investigative Counsel for the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, Soumya Dayananda. Then, she digs into why political rumors thrive and how to challenge them with MIT Professor Adam Berinsky, author of the new book Political Rumors: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It. Plus, Farai talks with Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist Julia Angwin about how technology is changing our everyday lives through surveillance and fear speech.

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0:46.4	On August 3rd, former President Trump made a quick stop on his private plane to Washington, D.C., where he
0:52.6	pleaded not guilty to federal charges of orchestrating
0:55.5	a criminal conspiracy to try and overturn the 2020 presidential election results. After the 27-minute
1:02.9	arraignment, Trump was back on the campaign trail where the next day he landed in Montgomery,
1:08.0	Alabama for a fundraiser. To find out more about what this indictment
1:12.0	means, we're speaking with Samia Diananda. She's an attorney in Washington, D.C., who served as
1:17.4	Senior Investigative Counsel for the House Select Committee to investigate the January 6th attack
1:22.4	on the United States Capitol, where she led a team of attorneys investigating the law enforcement
1:27.2	and military
1:28.1	response on January 6th. Welcome to the show, Samia. Thanks for having me. So it's been two and a
1:34.8	half years since January 6th, and former President Trump now faces four federal criminal charges,
1:40.7	including conspiracy to defraud the United States. Can you walk us through that charge?
1:46.6	Sure. So the indictment very much reflects the broad, multi-prong plan that the former president
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