What Next: What the DOJ Should Do About Trump

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🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

After an FBI search of Mar-a-lago last week, it was revealed that Donald Trump is being investigated for federal crimes including violating the Espionage Act, obstruction of justice, and criminal handling of government records. How can the Justice Department do its job with the former president calling the investigation a hoax and his supporters demonstrating a willingness to respond violently? Who should be worried here? Guest: Ankush Khardori, contributing writer for New York Magazine's Intelligencer, and contributing editor at POLITICO Magazine. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.4	When news broke last week that the FBI was searching Mar-a-Lago, it took Ankush Kardori
0:42.2	a few minutes to process the headlines.
0:45.3	Honestly, it was momentarily surreal, truly.
0:51.1	Kardori was a very young and talented writer, and he was a very talented writer.
0:56.5	He's got used to the agency's cautious approach to Donald Trump.
1:00.7	So he was stunned when reporters confirmed that the DOJ sent federal officials to retrieve
1:06.5	classified documents from the former president's home.
1:10.7	Is this really happening?
1:11.9	It's so assertive and unexpected, but it was crazy.
1:17.7	It was really crazy.
1:19.7	Now Ankush is trying to slot this piece of information into the bigger picture of what
1:24.4	we know and what he knows as a former federal prosecutor himself.
1:31.3	It's like endlessly vexing because you get these kind of data points, but then you try
1:38.8	to say, okay, if I were prosecuting or investigating this case myself, what is the full gamut of
1:44.1	information that I would want or need to kind of reach some sort of informed decision,
1:48.1	and it's always way, way, way more than is publicly available?
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