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It's Complicated

What’s So Much More Complicated about Arresting Trump Than SBF?

It's Complicated

Renato Mariotti

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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What is taking DoJ so long to indict Trump?  Why did it only take them a few weeks to nab SBF?  What will be the impact of the Jan 6. Committee criminal referrals? In loving memory of Dolly. 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, Asha, why is Donald Trump so much harder to prosecute than Sam Bankmanfreet?

0:14.3

It's complicated.

0:17.5

I'm...

0:20.5

I'm Asha Ringauba. I teach National Security Law at Yale University. I'm a former FBI special agent and I'm a Legal and National Security analyst.

0:34.0

And I'm Renata Mariati.

0:37.0

I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer and a legal advocate.

0:42.0

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

0:47.0

Renato, we learned recently that Sam Bankman freed, the previous owner of FTX was arrested in the Bahamas and we talked about him

1:07.2

we talked about FTX and cryptocurrency and all the stuff that makes my eyes

1:10.3

glaze over in our first episode.

1:13.6

But I have to say, I mean, you know, when we were talking about that,

1:18.0

it was so fresh.

1:19.3

I mean, he, I think he had just fled to the Bahamas.

1:21.2

Everything had just collapsed. We Bahamas, everything had just collapsed.

1:23.0

We're now here, just what, two or three weeks later,

1:26.7

and he's being indicted.

1:29.1

I mean, that's very, very fast. And here we've been you know for years telling people it takes so

1:38.3

long to investigate and you know it takes time and so what what is going on and what what do we make of it? I mean I have you know

1:48.4

Obviously I thoughts about Trump, but I'm I'm curious if you can fill in the blanks on the on the SEC side.

1:56.0

Yeah I have to say, Asha, I was really surprised myself at the speed of this.

2:00.8

In fact, there was a reporter from

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