Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: Three Pleas in a Pod
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🗓️ 28 October 2023
⏱️ 77 minutes
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It's another episode of “Trump’s Trials and Tribulations,” recorded live before an audience of Lawfare Material Supporters on Thursday. Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Roger Parloff and Quinta Jurecic, and Lawfare Fulton County Correspondent and Legal Fellow Anna Bower to talk about all the pleas that have happened in Fulton County and all the pleas that are coming. They talked about whether you can take back a plea by announcing that it was extorted, about the blizzard of motions to dismiss that Donald Trump has filed in the D.C. District Court, and about the government's response to the claims of presidential immunity.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains advertising to access an ad-free version of the LawFair |
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| 0:25.6 | no bull, and the aftermath. |
| 0:34.1 | There exists immunities that the courts and that the Justice Department Office of Legal |
| 0:39.5 | Council have recognized in terms of presidential conduct that sort of provide a backstop. |
| 0:46.5 | So you know, we don't need to be worried about presidents being prosecuted all over the |
| 0:50.1 | place once they leave office, and they do sort of end on the argument that yes, okay, |
| 0:56.4 | even if the court does want to recognize some kind of Fitzgerald style immunity here, |
| 1:01.7 | this is just so far over the line that it's simply not within that category. |
| 1:09.3 | I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast October 28, 2023. |
| 1:16.9 | It's another episode of Trump Trials and Tribulations. |
| 1:21.2 | This one was recorded live before an audience of LawFair material supporters. |
| 1:27.3 | On October 26, joining me in the virtual jungle studio were LawFair senior editors Roger |
| 1:35.3 | Parloff and Quintet Jurassic and LawFair Fulton County correspondent and legal fellow and |
| 1:42.4 | a bower. |
| 1:44.0 | We talked about all the pleas that have happened in Fulton County and all the pleas that are |
| 1:50.1 | coming. |
| 1:51.1 | We talked about whether you can take back a plea by announcing that it was extorted. |
| 1:57.3 | We talked about the blizzard of motions to dismiss that Donald Trump has filed in the |
| 2:04.5 | DC District Court and we talked about the government's response to the claims of presidential |
| 2:13.0 | immunity. |
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