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

The Third Indictment of Donald Trump: A Reading and Analysis

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 1, 2023

On today's show:

Donald Trump has been indicted in Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith's probe into the former president's 2020 election interference and Jan. 6, 2021.

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 the document.

Then,

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

 

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.

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