Wednesday, April 5, 2023

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Part I (00:13 - 08:18)
A Dark Day in American History, But What Does it Mean? Former President Donald J. Trump Arraigned in New York Court on 34 Felony Charges

Five takeaways from the Trump indictment in New York by Washington Post (Philip Bump)
The Trump indictment is a dangerous leap on the highest of wires by Washington Post (Ruth Marcus)

Part II (08:18 - 15:34)
Lord, Please Save Us From Ourselves: The Dangerous Political Precedent Set in That Manhattan Court Today

Part III (15:34 - 25:54)
A Precedent-Shattering Election: Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Flips With Huge Implications for the Future of American Politics

Liberals win control of Wisconsin Supreme Court ahead of abortion case by Washington Post (Patrick Marley)

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, April 5, 2023.
0:08.0	I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from
0:12.7	a Christian worldview.
0:14.3	We knew it was coming for several days, but still yesterday it came as a shock to the
0:18.1	American body politic and to the American moral conscience.
0:22.7	What we saw yesterday was in the name of justice, but at the very same time we understood it
0:27.4	bearing the weight of history.
0:29.1	We had a former president of the United States, as the British would say, sitting in the
0:33.2	dock.
0:34.2	That has never happened before.
0:35.9	It's unprecedented in American history, and it's not unprecedented because there have
0:40.3	not been opportunities previously to indict American presidents on criminal charges or
0:46.0	former presidents.
0:47.6	But because in this country, the fear of using the legal system as a matter of political
0:52.5	retribution and just thinking about the symbolic nature of an American president being the
0:58.0	subject of a criminal trial, all of this had put a significant set of breaks on the
1:03.8	American political and legal system in such a way that this just hasn't happened before.
1:08.9	But now it has, and as yesterday unfolded with all the helicopters in the air with all
1:13.7	the reporters there at the courthouse, although very few actually in the courtroom, with video
1:19.4	about the president getting into the building going down a corridor and then the still
1:24.1	photographs of the former president sitting in the courtroom, all of this still probably
1:29.0	hasn't settled in in terms of the enormity of the issues involved for the American people.
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