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The Rich Zeoli Show

What’s Next for Trump? Heritage Foundation Legal Expert Weighs-In

The Rich Zeoli Show

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4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Zack Smith—Legal fellow and manager of the Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy Program in Heritage’s Meese Center—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss a New York grand jury deciding to charge former President Donald Trump for his alleged involvement in hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential election cycle. Smith contends Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office has several major hurdles he’ll have to clear in order to prove guilt including the character flaws of his star witness, Michael Cohen, who is a disbarred attorney that has pled guilty to lying before Congress.

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0:20.5

Now, on Talk Radio 1210 W-P-H-D, Rich Zioly.

0:27.0

According to a source, Trump will be arraigned Tuesday at 2.15 pm in Lower Manhattan.

0:34.0

The circus will officially begin. Welcome back to the show. Glad you're here today.

0:39.0

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0:48.0

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0:52.0

You can see lots and lots of videos, including me reacting yesterday to the breaking historic news of this indictment of a former president.

0:59.0

Here to talk about it, we always turn to the Heritage Foundation. They've got great guests who can always help us out.

1:04.0

Zach Smith is a legal fellow and manager of the Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy Program at the Heritage's MES Center.

1:13.0

Hey, Zach, thanks for joining me today in Philadelphia.

1:16.0

Of course, thanks so much for having me on.

1:19.0

So give me your top line view here of everything it took place yesterday and what you think is likely to occur here.

1:27.0

Well, my top line view is we're an unprecedented territory, Rich.

1:31.0

Obviously, never before has a former president been indicted.

1:35.0

Obviously, we don't know what these charges are yet because the indictment hasn't been released.

1:42.0

But if it's based on what we've heard reported, these hush money payments to stormy Daniels,

1:47.0

it's really a complex, a novel, legal theory that the road district attorney, Alvin Bragg, and Manhattan is pursuing there.

1:54.0

And I think it stands in stark contrast to his position on many other criminal justice issues.

1:59.0

You know, he's one of the Soros backed prosecutors that came into power pledging not to prosecute most misdemeanors, pledging not to seek incarceration for most cases,

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