What Next - U.S. vs Trump
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🗓️ 20 August 2015
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Summary
We’re eight months into the year—and former president Donald Trump has now been indicted three times. On Tuesday, a federal grand jury charged Trump with three counts of conspiracy and one count of obstruction. But what exactly does that mean? And can someone really run for president…while juggling three different trials?Â
Guest: David Graham, staff writer for “The Atlantic”
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| 0:28.0 | and geographical restrictions apply. Last night Special Counsel Jack Smith gathered the press in a conference room in Washington, D.C. for an announcement. |
| 0:44.0 | Good evening. |
| 0:46.0 | Today, an indictment was unsealed. |
| 0:49.0 | Charging Donald J. Trump with conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiring to disenfranchise |
| 0:57.4 | voters, and conspiring and attempting to obstruct an official proceeding. |
| 1:09.0 | Trump's now been indicted three times, twice by Smith himself. Back in June, Smith charged Trump with risking national security by taking classified documents from the White House. |
| 1:16.0 | Now, the former president will face a trial for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election. |
| 1:22.0 | The attack on our nation's capital. to overturn the 2020 election. |
| 1:23.1 | The attack on our nation's capital on January 6, 2021 |
| 1:28.2 | was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American Democracy. |
| 1:36.0 | As described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies. |
| 1:39.0 | Lies by the defendant, targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the US government, the nation's process of |
| 1:45.1 | collecting, counting, and certifying the results of the presidential election. |
| 1:50.0 | There's a lot we still don't know about the case Smith's been building over the last few months. |
| 1:56.0 | But when I got the Atlantic's David Graham on the phone, my first question for him was easy. |
| 2:02.0 | How's Trump taking all this? My first question for him was easy. |
| 2:04.7 | How's Trump taking all this? It's interesting. |
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