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It's Complicated

What's So Complicated About Hush Money, Spy Balloons, and Satanic Music

It's Complicated

Renato Mariotti

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Pomerantz wrote a book saying he really wanted to prosecute Trump. Now Bragg seems like he might be resurrecting Trump's hush money case. But the prosecution could still be complicated. A Chinese balloon captivated the United States and made many Americans act really dumb. The Grammys are a full-fledged offering to Satan...or maybe it's just entertainment. 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/ Would you like to fill out a brief survey to help us know our listeners? http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=short 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-S-W media.

0:09.0

So Renato, former prosecutor Mark Pomerance claims in his latest book that there was more than enough

0:14.9

evidence to charge Trump in New York. Does that mean that we should blame

0:19.1

Alvin Bragg for not doing marry at any

0:23.0

uh... it's complicated

0:29.2

i'm not to marryotti i'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer, and a legal analyst.

0:36.0

And I'm Asha Rangappa.

0:38.0

I teach national security law at Yale University.

0:41.0

I'm a former FBI special agent, and I'm a legal and national security analyst.

0:45.0

And we're here to help you understand topics that can't be boiled down to a sound bite for a tweak.

0:52.0

So Renato... sound bite or a tweak.

0:58.7

So Renato, I've been watching a lot of these interviews with former prosecutor Mark Pomerance about his latest book.

1:06.2

And his big thing, what's getting a lot of press

1:10.4

is that he says that there was more than enough evidence to charge Trump for tax

1:20.3

related crimes and I think it was Alvin Bragg's refusal to move forward on that that

1:28.6

caused him to leave that office.

1:32.4

So I'm wondering what you think.

1:34.4

I know you've always been skeptical of the ability to bring a case there for a number of reasons.

1:40.9

So I'm wondering if you can unpack that and whether your opinion has changed in light of what

1:46.0

Pomerance has brought to light.

1:49.5

So my opinion has not completely changed. I would say that my opinion of Mr.

1:54.0

Pomerance has gone down. I actually I think I mean he he comes off to me like

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