Wednesday, August 2, 2023
The 7
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🗓️ 2 August 2023
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Wednesday briefing: Trump’s latest indictment; Michigan voting machines; Lizzo allegations; peanut allergies; sun bear; and more
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump was charged with plotting to overturn his 2020 election loss. |
| 0:08.0 | That's where we're starting the show. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Jeff Pierre and this is the 7th from the Washington Post. It's Wednesday, August 2nd. |
| 0:15.0 | Let's get you caught up with today's 7 stories. |
| 0:18.0 | The former president faces four charges. A 45-page indictment accuses him of three |
| 0:27.3 | conspiracies and lists six co-conspirators. Special Counsel Jack Smith has been leading |
| 0:32.4 | the investigation. He spoke about the |
| 0:34.4 | charges yesterday afternoon. Today an indictment was unsealed. Charging |
| 0:39.8 | Donald J. Trump with conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiring to |
| 0:46.3 | disenfranchise voters, and conspiring and attempting to obstruct an official |
| 0:50.9 | proceeding. This is the latest legal and political aftershock |
| 0:54.8 | from the 2021 riot at the US Capitol. |
| 0:57.6 | It's also the third indictment filed against Trump |
| 1:00.4 | who's running for president again. |
| 1:02.2 | Trump was ordered to appear in federal court in Washington tomorrow. |
| 1:06.2 | He may be asked to enter a plea. Number two Michigan Republicans were charged over alleged voting machine tampering. |
| 1:24.0 | This case stems from an attempt by a group of conservatives |
| 1:28.0 | to prove the false claim that the 2020 presidential election |
| 1:32.0 | was wrongly called for |
| 1:33.1 | Joe Biden over Trump. The group turned up no proof and courts and dozens of |
| 1:38.2 | cases across the country ruled that the election was properly decided. |
| 1:43.1 | Yesterday a former state lawmaker and a losing candidate for Michigan Attorney General |
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