The indictment against former President Donald Trump charging him by the Justice Department for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election is photographed Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2

Summer Friday: Reading the Third Indictment

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 1, 2023

Donald Trump was indicted on August 1 in Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith's probe into the former president's 2020 election interference and Jan. 6, 2021.  On this Summer Friday, a special encore presentation of selections from the indictment, plus analysis and listener reactions.

First,

  • WNYC host Tiffany Hanssen; 
  • Kai Wright, host of WNYC's Notes from America; 
  • Micah Loewinger, correspondent for WNYC's On the Media;
  • Elie Mystal, justice correspondent for The Nation, host of its new podcast Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal and the author of Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution (The New Press, 2022); and
  • Jill Wine-Banks, MSNBC legal analyst, former Watergate special prosecutor, co-host of the podcasts #Sistersinlaw and IGenPolitics and the author of The Watergate Girl: My Fight for Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President (Henry Holt and Co., 2020),

take turns reading key passages from the document.

Then,

  • Jill Wine-Banks offers analysis of this latest indictment of the former president.

 

This encore presentation was edited slightly for time and clarity.  The original live presentation is available here:

The Third Indictment of Donald Trump: A Reading and Analysis (Aug 4, 2023)

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