After the first indictment of a former president in U.S. history, longtime federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann joins Margaret Hoover to discuss the 34 felony charges against Donald Trump and what may come next.
Weissmann, who served as a lead prosecutor on special counsel Robert Mueller’s team investigating Trump, details the legal challenges ahead for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Trump’s defense team.
The law professor and podcast host responds to Republican criticisms of Bragg’s case and explains why he would have preferred if one of the other jurisdictions probing Trump on what he says are more serious charges had indicted him first.
Weissmann also addresses Trump’s personal attacks on the judge in his case, the impact of the 2024 campaign on legal proceedings, and whether this indictment could open up a Pandora’s box of politicized prosecutions in America.
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