“Unusually Strong”: A Mueller Prosecutor Says Trump's Indictment #3 Packs a Wallop

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🗓️ 3 August 2023

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Host Brian Stelter breaks down the latest indictment against Donald Trump with Andrew Weissmann, a former federal prosecutor, NYU professor, and co-host of MSNBC’s “Prosecuting Donald Trump” podcast. The “variety of sources of evidence” in the DOJ’s election case against Trump is “rock-solid,” says Weissmann, and the forthcoming trial, he adds, should not be viewed through a political lens, but about “whether we are going to adhere to the rule of law.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Andrew, here we are on Trump indictment number three.
0:04.2	You have so much experience reading these filings.
0:07.1	What do you look for first when a new one drops?
0:10.1	You know, I try and keep an analytical mind and I think about the facts and the law, but
0:17.3	in this one, it was really hard not to just react as a human being to the allegations
0:22.9	here because it's, it's unfortunately, it's surreal, but all too real.
0:29.9	That is Andrew Weissman, the acclaimed lawyer, former federal prosecutor, and now NYU
0:34.1	professor and MSNBC regular.
0:36.2	He's the co-host of their prosecuting Donald Trump podcast.
0:40.8	And I'm Brian Steltler.
0:41.8	Let me welcome you to our podcast inside the hive from Vanity Fair.
0:46.1	Today, we're going inside the Trump trials and, of course, the latest indictment, one
0:50.6	of the most dramatic in American history.
0:53.8	A former president charged with trying to steal an election using fraud and lies to hold
0:58.3	on to power no matter what.
0:59.7	We will never give up.
1:01.0	We will never concede.
1:02.5	It doesn't happen.
1:03.7	You don't concede when there's theft involved.
1:07.0	So Andrew reacting to this as a, as a human being, but also as someone who has lived through
1:12.7	this story for the last few years.
1:16.5	What stood out to you about the newest indictment?
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