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It's Complicated

What's So Complicated About Holding Trump Accountable; Traveling; Dogsitting

It's Complicated

Renato Mariotti

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This week Asha and Renato discuss Trump's many growing legal issues and which cases have the best chance of sticking. Plus some vacation talk.  Subscribe to our podcast: https://link.chtbl.com/its-complicated Follow Asha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_ Follow Renato on Twitter: https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti Follow Asha on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asha.rangappa/ Follow Renato on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/renato.mariotti/ Subscribe on Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/@Its.Complicated/   Follow Asha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_ Asha's Substack: https://asharangappa.substack.com/ Follow Renato on Twitter: https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti Follow Asha on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asha.rangappa/ Follow Renato on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/renato.mariotti/Follow Renato on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@renato.mariotti   Opening Theme and Bumper music provided by eitanepsteinmusic / Pond5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

M-S-W media.

0:08.7

So Renato, there are so many legal walls closing in on Trump.

0:14.5

Which one is the biggest threat to him?

0:19.1

It's complicated.

0:30.0

I'm Renata Marietti. I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer and a legal analyst. And I'm Asha Rangappa. I'm a former FBI agent. I teach national security law at Yale

0:35.9

University and I'm a legal and national security analyst.

0:40.1

And we're here to help you understand topics that can't be boiled down to a sound bite or a tweet. So, Asha, there were so many problems swirling around Donald Trump this past week from the oathkeepers guilty verdict

1:06.8

to the guilty verdict for the Trump organization to the disciplinary

1:11.0

proceedings for Rudy Giuliani down in the District of Columbia.

1:16.4

There have just been a whole host of problems that have surrounded him. And actually, I'm not even going to be around for much of December,

1:27.0

so I'm actually crossing my fingers hoping that Jack Smith takes his sweet time

1:31.0

and doesn't return any indictments later this month.

1:35.0

And so I think this may be a good time for us to do a recap of where we're at

1:39.0

with the Trump legal cases.

1:41.0

I agree, sort of the end of the year, you know,

1:45.1

countdown of all the different cases.

1:48.0

It's going to take us a full episode

1:49.6

to go through them all, right?

1:50.9

Yeah, I think it will. Should we start with January 6th? Sure I mean I think that's got the most

1:57.5

attention although I don't I actually don't think that's the most problematic for

2:02.1

Trump you know when we saw the other day think that there's grand jury subpoenas issued by the special counsel Jack Smith

2:10.1

to various state officials in Wisconsin, Arizona, other states.

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