TRUMP INDICTED AGAIN!! - August 30th, 2024
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Good evening and welcome everyone to the Don Lemon Show. I'm so happy that you all are here. Welcome, welcome, welcome everyone. Lemon Live at 5. This is a show where you get to say what you have to say. We listen to you. We read your comments. We have great guests. We have great conversations and we build our Lemon Nation. And so you can be a part of, you can be a Lemonhead as well. So there's a lot to talk about. You know, we had the big interview last night, but with all that happened this week, you might've missed this. The former President Donald Trump was indicted, again, as our thumbnail says. This week, he was indicted again this week for his efforts to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss.
Now, on Tuesday, a federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment. We'll talk about what that means. Charging Trump with the same four counts that he faced in the original indictment that was last August. Conspiracy to defraud the United States. Conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. Obstruction of... attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights. What does all that mean? We've got some legal eagles here to discuss, okay? That's just the beginning of Trump's legal woes, though, because this afternoon, the Lincoln Project sent a letter to the Department of Justice, the DOJ, requesting that Merrick Garland's office open an investigation into Donald Trump to determine if he violated federal law by promising to appoint or support for an appointment
support for appointment RFK Jr. to a public office in exchange for his endorsement. So I am so grateful to have both of these people on, seriously. One of them I've known forever. The other one I've respected forever. I respect both of them. But very brilliant legal eagles here. Mario Nicholas is a general counsel for the Lincoln Project, right? So perfect person to have on. And Kimberly Whaley is a professor of law, an ABC News legal contributor, and the author of? This new book is called Pardon Power, How the Pardon System Works and Why. There's some great information in that that we're going to discuss a little bit later on. But thank you both for joining. How are you guys doing? It's a very busy day, very busy time for the Lincoln Project, Mario.
It is. It is. Certainly, it seems it's hard to believe that it's been just over a week since Kamala Harris was nominated because it feels like it's been a good two or three years.
What new superseding indictment was announced against Trump and what charges does it include?
um but you know so much is happening so fast right now and i think that's one of the things that we get to talk about right now and we'll talk about is in that week look at all the legal issues that we've had come up simply because donald trump is involved in this election
Yeah. So we're going to talk about the new Jack Smith indictment, the Lincoln Project letter to the DOJ and Trump's potential legal trouble at Arlington National Cemetery. Remember, he pulled that stunt, right? That was a photo op. That's a no-no when it comes to this certain area in Arlington National Cemetery. So I want to get started. I want to play just as a quick breakdown of what's new and different about this superseding indictment this week. Here it is.
indictment, you'll probably recall, charged a broad-ranging conspiracy that essentially entailed a whole bunch of different buckets of conduct by Donald Trump. His pressure campaign on Mike Pence, his pressure campaign on the Justice Department, his attempt to pressure state officials, the fake electors scheme. Well, in this new indictment, which is called a superseding indictment and now essentially replaces the old indictment, the part about the Justice Department is out. The part about Mike Pence is out. And all we're left with in this superseding indictment is the charges relating to trump's effort to pressure state and local officials and to submit false slates of electors now if you're wondering why would jack smith pare back cut back his own case the answer is because of the u.s supreme court's immunity ruling which came down in july and in that ruling the supreme court said that many of the things that donald trump did while he's in office including specifically his interactions with doj some of his public communications
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:16–2:42
2
What new superseding indictment was announced against Trump and what charges does it include?
2:42–14:28
3
How does a superseding indictment differ from the original indictment and why was it filed?
14:28–19:51
4
What did legal experts say about the Supreme Court immunity ruling's impact on Trump’s case?
19:51–45:52
5
How did critics like J.D. Vance respond and are their legal claims accurate?
45:52–1:01:42
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