Today we're going to talk about the unexpected consequences of Trump being on trial right now,

and I interview the nation's premier voting rights attorney and my co-host for my YouTube series Democracy

Watch, Mark Elias, about the Supreme Court right now hearing a case that may serve as a gift to

Trump and the January 6 insurrectionists. I'm Brian Tyler Cohen and you're listening to

no lie. So I think we're finally starting to see why Trump so desperately wanted to avoid trial.

First of all, there's the obvious one that he doesn't want to be a convicted felon,

and according to the latest Reuters Ipsos poll from a couple of weeks ago,

when registered voters were asked

that they would vote for Trump if he was convicted of a felony only 24% said yes

while 60% said no even among just Republicans 24% said they wouldn't which is a huge number of voters in a party whose identity

is solely predicated on allegiance to the God King.

And now that the process of this trial has started and is actually moving quite quickly,

this train ain't stopped until it reaches the station.

So we may see Trump become a convicted felon in the coming weeks, not exactly the resume

builder you want ahead of an imminent election.

And granted, Trump will claim that it doesn't matter that if voters don't care.

That's bullshit.

Look, most people aren't totally tuned into politics right now.

I wish more people were, but they're not.

But they will be more and more come November.

And when those independence or those soft

Republicans or those suburban moms do finally tune in only to find that the guy has been

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