What Is, and Isn’t, in 3rd Trump Indictment, Legal Expert Explains

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🗓️ 3 August 2023

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INTERVIEW: Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday was indicted for a third time, and "it's striking that there's really nothing new in the indictment," Steven Bradbury says. The latest indictment by special counsel Jack Smith is "all based on what we already knew publicly from the work of the Jan. 6 committee and from all the news coverage," Bradbury said, adding that the new indictment is "hollow in the sense of no new allegations." Bradbury, a distinguished fellow in the executive vice president’s office at The Heritage Foundation, joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" ahead of Trump's arraignment in federal court in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to explain what charges Trump is facing. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.) Bradbury, who served as the Department of Transportation's chief legal counsel in the Trump administration, also explains what the indictment says about the Biden administration’s Department of Justice. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the day this bill podcast for Thursday, August 3rd, I'm Virginia Allen.
0:12.1	President Donald Trump has been indicted for a third time.
0:15.7	The former president is expected to appear in court on Thursday.
0:20.1	So why was the president indicted again?
0:23.3	And what charges is the former president facing and how will this latest indictment affect
0:29.4	Trump's campaign for re-election?
0:32.2	Heritage Foundation Distinguished Fellow Steve Brabbury joins us now to answer those questions.
0:38.4	Thank you so much, Mr. Brabbury, for being with us today.
0:40.4	Thank you, Virginia.
0:41.4	Good to be here.
0:42.4	Well, let's talk big picture first off.
0:44.3	This is the third indictment that former president Donald Trump is facing.
0:48.7	Who has brought this indictment against Trump?
0:51.8	Special counsel Jack Smith, he's the same special counsel who brought the indictment in Florida
0:57.6	for the Mar-a-Lago documents.
1:00.1	He was appointed to this position by Attorney General, Merrick Garland, and Justice Department
1:07.7	has procedures for appointments of special counsels in cases where there may be a conflict
1:12.1	of interest with the current administration in power.
1:15.8	And because this involves the leading candidate to take the job of the current president in
1:21.0	power, Merrick Garland went through the motions of appointing him as special counsel.
1:26.4	Okay.
1:27.4	Let's talk about the specific charges within this indictment.
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