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Political Gabfest

Will Trump’s Conviction Help Biden?

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.58.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the fallout from Donald Trump’s felony conviction; the spin-up for Hunter Biden’s trial; and the upshot for college speech from campus protests with Charles Homans. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Nathaniel Rakich for 538: Trump’s conviction may be hurting him – but it’s early Sarah Longwell in The Atlantic: The Two-Time Trump Voters Who Have Had Enough Dafydd Townley for The Conversation: Trump guilty verdict: the fallout for US democracy Politico Magazine: 22 Experts Predict What the Trump Conviction Will Mean for 2024 and Beyond CBS News: Watch: Biden speaks at D-Day commemoration ceremony Perry Stein for The Washington Post: Gun counts Hunter Biden faces are rarely stand-alone charges and Perry Stein, Devlin Barrett, and Matt Viser: How a fight over immunity unraveled Hunter Biden’s plea deal Cris Barrish for WHYY: Lawyers spar in Wilmington court over whether Hunter Biden ‘knowingly’ lied on federal gun purchase form about drug use Eugene Daniels for Politico: Biden issues a rare statement on his son’s criminal trial Mini Racker for Time: How Hunter Biden’s Scandals Compare to Those of Trump’s Family Members Matthew Yglesias for Vox: Nepotism and the 2020 election, explained Emily Bazelon and Charles Homans for The New York Times: The Battle Over College Speech Will Outlive the Encampments Here & Now on WBUR: Pro-Palestinian protesters at Brown reach deal with university Emma H. Haidar and Cam E. Kettles for The Harvard Crimson: Harvard Will Refrain From Controversial Statements About Public Policy Issues Paul Alivisatos in The Wall Street Journal: Why I Ended the University of Chicago Protest Encampment Greta Reich and Caroline Chen for The Stanford Daily: Pro-Palestine protesters detained following occupation of president’s office, face immediate suspension Here are this week’s chatters: Emily: Liz Goodwin for The Washington Post: Senate Republicans vote against making contraception a federal right and Ellen Wexler for Smithsonian Magazine: The 150-Year-Old Comstock Act Could Transform the Abortion Debate John: Marco Hernandez, Jeffrey Gettleman, Finbarr O’Reilly, and Tim Wallace for The New York Times: What Ukraine Has Lost and Helena Skinner and Emma Ogao for ABC News: Satellite images show devastation in Sudan 1 year since conflict began David: Alina Chan in The New York Times: Why the Pandemic Probably Started in a Lab, in 5 Key Points Listener chatter from Kevin Cassidy in Sawyer, Michigan: Dyartorin Crafts: How to make Leonardo Da Vinci Bridge using popsicle sticks and HeyDadHey: How To Make A Da Vinci Bridge For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Emily, John, and David talk about changes at the Washington Post and the state of journalism. See Oliver Darcy for CNN: Washington Post abruptly replaces executive editor Sally Buzbee in shakeup, David Folkenflik for NPR: New CEO of ‘The Washington Post’ puts former colleagues in power, and David Bauder for AP: With its top editor abruptly gone, The Washington Post grapples with a hastily announced restructure. See also Edward Helmore for The Guardian: ‘The final act’: fears US journalism crisis could destabilize 2024 election and Jack Shafer for Slate: The New Vanity Press Moguls. In the next Gabfest Reads, David talks with Sierra Greer about her new book, Annie Bot: A Novel. Email your chatters, questions, and comments to [email protected]. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna Roth Research by Julie Huygen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to this late political Cabfest. June 6th, 2024, the will Trump's conviction help Biden addition. I'm David Plots of CityCast. Happy 80th

0:25.6

anniversary of D-Day. Happy Operation Overlord Day. From CBS's daily report, it's D-Day for him every day, storming the beaches of streaming media, John Dickerson hello.

0:39.0

Hi, good morning.

0:41.0

Good afternoon and good evening to all of the ships at sea.

0:45.0

And from the New York Times magazine in Yale University Law School,

0:49.0

she probably on D day would have been doing some keen legal analysis about whether this invasion was legal,

0:55.2

Emily Bazelon.

0:56.2

Was it legal Emily?

0:57.2

Huh, yeah, I think so.

0:58.7

Also, I think the laws of war were different then, but now I'm trying to remember. You asked me an actual

1:04.2

question for my intro that seems like. I'm sure it was like it. Obviously it was

1:08.7

I'm definitely was legal. They had the they had authorization from the free French

1:12.0

who I think were considered the legitimate

1:13.7

government of France.

1:15.7

So yeah, for sure.

1:16.7

More has how much has the international law of war changed since then?

1:20.1

That was the part that I asked myself and then stumped myself.

1:23.0

This week on the Gap Fest we will not be talking about Operation Overlord.

1:26.4

We will be talking about what the consequences will be of Trump's conviction,

1:30.4

which happened just after we taped last week, will it sway enough voters to keep

1:35.6

Biden in the White House? Then why is Hunter Biden on trial? Should he be, what

1:41.8

does that spectacle of a trial tell us about something

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