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Starting point is 00:01:19 this is Tangle. Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, and welcome to the Tangle Podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and coming to you live from the Tangle studio here in Philadelphia, John Law, our trusty Tangle podcast producer and editor, is in the building with me today. The Tangle team is descending on the Northeast for our big event tomorrow night in New York City. And I want to start there just to say thank you. We have now sold out the show completely, officially, in all capacities. We sold out initially the general admission tickets,

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Starting point is 00:03:56 to go into effect that bans minors from receiving medication or surgery related to gender transitions. Separately, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas missed oral arguments for a case on Monday without a reason given by the court. Number two, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant told Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin that Israel has no choice but to respond to Iran's drone and missile barrage from over the weekend. Number three, Tesla is expected to lay off 14,000 workers or about 10% of its global workforce in a cost-cutting measure. The electric car company experienced its first ever year-over-year decline in quarterly sales last month. Number four, House

Starting point is 00:04:37 Speaker Mike Johnson, the Republican from Louisiana, is expected to bring separate funding bills for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan to the floor this week for a vote. And number five, a federal criminal investigation has been opened into the crash that led to the Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsing. Today, political history and legal history is being made as a jury is selected in the first criminal trial of a former president of the United States. This is the first time this has ever happened. And making this even more unprecedented, Donald Trump is a former president who is also currently running, of course, to return to the White House for a second term. Jury selection continues today in the New York criminal trial

Starting point is 00:05:25 of former President Donald Trump. Trump has disparaged the judge, the district attorney, and others. He continues to insist he is experiencing political interference. Because he has to appear at the trial, Trump cannot get out on the campaign trail. I'm not in Georgia or Florida or North Carolina. I'm not in Georgia or Florida or North Carolina. are that Trump orchestrated a scheme to influence the 2016 election by identifying and purchasing negative information about him and suppressing his publication, then covering his tracks by illegally falsifying business records. With jury selection underway, Trump now becomes the first former president ever to stand trial in a criminal case. A quick rewind here, the case is based on allegations made by Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen,

Starting point is 00:06:26 who pleaded guilty in 2018 to federal campaign finance crimes that implicated the president and then served three years in prison. Part of Cohen's admission was that he had paid Stormy Daniels $130,000 in 2016 to keep quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump roughly 10 years earlier. Cohen also said he paid the publisher of the tabloid National Enquirer to kill his story about a 10-month affair Trump allegedly had with former Playboy model Karen McDougal. Trump denies any sexual relationship with either woman. Federal prosecutors alleged that both of the transactions were crimes.

Starting point is 00:07:00 However, they did not pursue charges following long-standing precedent against prosecuting a sitting president. Prosecutors made the case that Cohen's payment to Daniels was meant to influence the 2016 election, acting as a personal donation to the Trump campaign, almost 50 times the legal contribution limit at the time. Furthermore, the payment by the National Enquirer publisher American Media to McDougal violated federal restrictions on corporate contributions to a campaign, prosecutors argue. In his plea, Cohen said Trump coordinated both payments, and federal prosecutors found that Cohen was repaid for the Daniels deal in monthly increments disguised as a retainer for legal services. Those payments and the disguise represent the crime that state prosecutors are pursuing, falsifying business records. That crime is a misdemeanor under New York state law,

Starting point is 00:07:49 but it can become a felony if the records are falsified to conceal or commit another crime. New York officials had all but abandoned the case, determining that it'd be difficult to build. In 2022, shortly after Joe Biden was elected, Bragg and his team revived the case, deciding to present evidence to a grand jury. Bragg and his team revived the case, deciding to present evidence to a grand jury. Bragg charged Trump with three felony counts, one for each record he allegedly falsified while reimbursing Cohen. The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has left several avenues open for pursuing the case, saying in court filings that other crimes like campaign finance violations, tax offenses, or breaches of a state election law might be at play,

Starting point is 00:08:25 arguing that Trump prevented someone from being elected to public office by unlawful means while acting in a conspiracy with others, which is illegal in New York. Prosecutors do not need to prove that Trump committed those crimes, only that he intended to. In some ways, the case is the lowest stakes of all the criminal charges Trump is facing. He would face no mandatory prison term if convicted, and though the case is full of salacious allegations, its criminal elements are fundamentally about whether Trump falsified financial or business records to account for hush money payments. However, the trial may also have some political potency. Polling shows roughly seven in ten voters believe Trump acted unethically or illegally in the actions alleged in the case, the highest of any of the charges he faces. It is also the only one of his trials that and 10 voters believe Trump acted unethically or illegally in the actions alleged in the case,

Starting point is 00:09:09 the highest of any of the charges he faces. It is also the only one of his trials that looks likely to be completed before Election Day. Trump is also required to attend the trial, meaning he'll be seated at the defendant's table for four days a week instead of campaigning. Jury selection in the heavily Democratic district began on Monday and is expected to last about a week, and so far at least 50 potential jurors have been dismissed because they say they could not be impartial. Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the case, declined requests from Trump's legal team to recuse himself and denied another effort to delay proceedings, which once started, are expected to last as long as two months. Today, we're going to break down the latest on the trial. You can read our previous coverage with links in today's episode description.

Starting point is 00:09:57 We'll be right back after this quick commercial break. First up, we'll start with what the left is saying. The left thinks the trial underscores the stakes of the 2024 election. Some say the evidence suggests Trump committed a serious criminal offense, while others struggle to find anything of consequence in the charges. In Slate, Jeremy Stahl wrote about the real stakes of the first criminal case against the former president. Although I personally find the substance of the prosecution more compelling and legally significant than lots of other observers do, it would be impossible to argue that this is a bigger deal than Trump's efforts to steal the 2020 election, culminating in the violent effort to overthrow the government

Starting point is 00:10:38 on January 6th or the classified documents case. And yet, this is the case we're getting first, Stahl said. If Trump is convicted, he'll face the potential of case. And yet, this is the case we're getting first, Dahl said. If Trump is convicted, he'll face the potential of a prison sentence or, more likely, home confinement. If he manages to reclaim the presidency anyway, he'll be free of those consequences for a while. But that sentence will hang over the entire course of his time in office. Here is the problem. That knowledge will cause him to do whatever he can through the power of the presidency to postpone that day forever. Whether that means attempting to hold on to the office past the expiration of his term, or seeking to destroy his enemies in New York in other ways that prevent them from enforcing judgment on him, the country will be plummeted into a crisis. not escape with our democracy intact. That danger itself, that of Trump actually becoming the dictator he claims he wants to be, with all that that entails so that he can once again escape consequences at any cost, will be what awaits us on the other side of this. In MSNBC, Christy

Starting point is 00:11:36 Greenberg argued why you should take Trump's hush money trial seriously. For starters, the alleged cover-up of a presidential candidate's hush money payments to a porn star to try to win an election is captivating and easily comprehensible. In stark contrast, for example, to the financial statements and property valuations from Trump's civil fraud trial, Greenberg said, Trump initially denied knowing about the hush money payments when they were first reported, a provable lie. first reported, a provable lie. Only after law enforcement searched Cohen's premises and Trump realized he would be caught did Trump acknowledge that he knew about the payments and had reimbursed Cohen for them. Trump's lie exhibits his consciousness of guilt. I expect the jurors' common sense will tell them that Trump made the hush money payments on the eve of the presidential election to help him win. This was a close election, and Trump's candidacy may not have

Starting point is 00:12:24 survived another setback after the Access Hollywood tape fiasco, Greenberg added. The reimbursement payments were made by Trump and the hush money payment was made for Trump's benefit. Any defense that attempts to distance Trump from those payments won't pass the smell test for a New York jury. In the Los Angeles Times, Richard L. Haston said it's hard to muster even a meh over Trump's New York criminal trial. People want the hush money case to be the big case that can take down Trump because it may be the only one that goes to trial before the election, Hasen said. I have a hard time even mustering a meh. Trump may not be convicted of a felony in the case,

Starting point is 00:12:59 and if he is, there's a reasonable chance of an eventual reversal on appeal. Besides, the charges are so minor I don't expect they will shake up the presidential race. They may actually make that situation worse. I certainly understand the impulse of Trump opponents to label this case as one of election interference, but any voters who look beneath the surface are sure to be underwhelmed. Calling it election interference actually cheapens the term and undermines the deadly serious charges in the real election interference cases, Hasen said, anything less than a felony conviction would only embolden Trump. He's already convinced a chunk of Republican voters that all the claims

Starting point is 00:13:34 against him are a witch hunt, a hung jury, or acquittal, or even a conviction on minor charges would only feed the lie that all the indictments he's racked up are bogus. Alright, that is it for the leftist saying, which brings us to what the right is saying. The right says the charges against Trump lack merit, and the prosecution is solely motivated by political aims. Some suggest Bragg is damaging the integrity of the legal system by pushing this case. Others say their opinion of Trump will remain unchanged, regardless of the verdict. In National Review, Rich Lowry wrote, Alvin Bragg makes history, preposterously. If this alleged crime doesn't shock your conscience, the drafters of the relevant New York statute agree with you. They made it a misdemeanor, Lowry said. This presented two obstacles for Alvin Bragg.

Starting point is 00:14:29 One was that charging a former president with a misdemeanor would be too ridiculous, even for him. The other was that the statute of limitations for such a misdemeanor offense is two years, so he'd be out of luck even if he wanted to indict Trump anyway. By redefining Trump's offense as a felony, Brad got several years back on the statute of limitations clock. He then proceeded to charge basically every keystroke related to these payments as a separate offense. It's likely that none of this is going to matter because the New York legal system is so stacked against Trump. Still, it's possible that the former president could wiggle off the hook with a hung jury or a request that the judge let the jury consider the lesser included misdemeanor offenses.

Starting point is 00:15:10 Anything less than a resounding victory would be a major embarrassment for Bragg, and it couldn't happen to a better prosecutor. Based on Charles Yu's award-winning book, Interior Chinatown follows the story of Willis Wu, a background character trapped in a police procedural who dreams about a world beyond Chinatown. When he inadvertently becomes a witness to a crime, Willis begins to unravel a criminal web, his family's buried history, and what it feels like to be in the spotlight. Interior Chinatown is streaming November 19th, only on Disney+. cell-based flu vaccine authorized in Canada for ages six months and older, and it may be available for free in your province. Side effects and allergic reactions can occur, and 100%

Starting point is 00:16:09 protection is not guaranteed. Learn more at flucellvax.ca. In the New York Post, Jonathan Turley called the trial an embarrassment for the New York legal system. Lawyers have been scouring the civil and criminal codes for any basis to sue or prosecute Trump before the upcoming 2024 election. This week will highlight the damage done to New York's legal system because of this unhinged crusade, Turley wrote. Bragg used the alleged federal crime to bootstrap a defunct misdemeanor charge into a felony in the current case. He's arguing that Trump intentionally lied when his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, listed the payments as retainer costs rather than a payment to avoid reporting it as a campaign contribution to himself. Thus, if he had simply had Cohen report the payments

Starting point is 00:16:55 as hush money, there would be no crime. Making this assorted business even more repellent will be the appearance of Cohen himself on the stand. Cohen is a long record as a legal thug who has repeatedly lied when it served his interests. Cohen is a long record as a legal thug who has repeatedly lied when it served his interests. He has a knack for selling his curious skill set to powerful figures like Trump and now brag, Turley said. So this is the case. A serial perjurer used to convert a dead state misdemeanor into a felony based on an alleged federal election crime that was rejected by the Justice Department. Whatever the outcome, it may prove a greater indictment of the New York court system than the defendant. In PJ Media, Matt Margolis asks, why should anyone care if Trump is convicted?

Starting point is 00:17:34 After Trump left office, we saw a coordinated effort by the George Soros-funded district attorneys to abuse the legal system by going after Trump. District attorneys like Alvin Bragg and Fannie Willis and attorneys like Letitia James literally campaigned on the promise of getting Trump. For what? Well, you just had to elect them so they could find something, Margolis wrote. Democrats made it clear from the beginning of Trump's presidential ambitions that they were and still are afraid of him. It wasn't even a secret that Democrats were plotting Trump's impeachment before Inauguration Day. And of course, they ultimately did, Margolis said. However, their efforts to impeach him failed to achieve a conviction, and the current efforts to convict

Starting point is 00:18:14 him of various bogus charges are just a continuation of the impeachment movement against him. So, no, why should I care if any of these carefully plotted partisan prosecutions succeed? They'll only serve as proof that our legal system is broken. All right, that is it for what the left and the right are saying, which brings us to my take. So this is the fourth edition we've devoted to this case, and it's dragged on so much that it's almost hard to believe the trial has actually begun. Since the days when the details about this potential indictment were leaking, the specifics of what Bragg was going to charge Trump with and how he was building the case have not changed much. So my opinion hasn't changed much either.

Starting point is 00:19:06 First, Trump almost certainly did what he is accused of. I know this will be very controversial to many of my listeners who support the former president, but the evidence strongly suggests that Trump's team paid Daniels not to share her story and then tried to cover their tracks. The paper trail is pretty overwhelming. It's actually so obvious that it's kind of amusing, which is why Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison. Did Trump actually instruct and orchestrate these payments? I don't know. That's what a trial's for. Did they actually have an affair? That is something only Trump and Daniels are likely to ever know for sure. But did Cohen make these payments, and did he attempt to cover them up?

Starting point is 00:19:45 Yes. Second, that this case is being brought at all makes me feel very uncomfortable. Trump has a lot of legal trouble, but of all the cases that have been brought against him, I think this one has the least justification. Remember, Bragg brought this indictment by introducing multiple potential theories of how Trump broke the law without actually specifying which one he was pursuing. He has not argued the payments were covering up a specific crime that would potentially elevate these charges from a misdemeanor to a felony. Instead, Bragg elevated the charges by claiming the payments might have violated election laws, or perhaps the documents were to execute some state tax crimes. When the indictment was unsealed, the general reaction was surprised at how much weaker it was than many even expected it to be.

Starting point is 00:20:30 The case isn't just weak because it introduces a novel legal theory against a former president. It's not weak just because, had Trump not left New York to be president and paused the statute of limitations, this case would be too old to bring. Or because Bragg stacked the charges by separating each alleged falsified document into old to bring. Or because Bragg stacked the charges by separating each alleged falsified document into its own count. Or because other prosecutors have already opted not to bring this case when they saw the same details. It's weak because of all those things combined. On top of all that, the case marks the very first time a former president has ever stood trial, and the first time a former president or a presidential candidate has been

Starting point is 00:21:05 indicted by a district attorney from the opposing party. It's also worth pointing out that Trump has a decent chance of simply beating this case. If prosecutors fail to prove intent, or Trump shows he was just doing what his legal team told him, or there's no smoking gun showing Trump instructing Cohen, or the jury determines Cohen is an incredible witness because of his past perjury convictions, or Trump convincingly argues the scheme was simply meant to protect his wife from embarrassment, then he will probably avoid conviction. That's the legal stuff. Judging the politics of this case has always been hard. When we first wrote about it a year ago, it was hard to predict this case's impact. Back then, it seemed possible Trump might not even be the nominee. Interestingly, despite everything I said above, I think the politics

Starting point is 00:21:49 have actually gotten worse for Trump, not better. Trump's delay tactics in his other cases have been remarkably successful, so this case is going to be the one that dominates the news pre-election. And in that regard, there is a lot of bad news for Trump. For starters, the basic allegations are simple. He paid off women he slept with to stay quiet and then falsified business records to cover it up. That's not nearly as complicated as the RICO case in Georgia or the business fraud case in New York. Second, he's stuck in court four days a week for the next two months, which might be the worst news for him. One of Trump's great strengths as a politician is campaigning, and now he is essentially locked in New York for 60% of

Starting point is 00:22:31 the week, right as Biden's campaign goes full throttle. Third, and finally, most people believe Trump did something wrong here. Even though only roughly one in three Americans think Trump is guilty, roughly 70% of the country already believes he acted illegally or unethically. So a lot of priors are going to get confirmed. The best thing Trump has going for him is that he'll get to use the buzz around the case to make himself a victim of an overzealous district attorney. But for the millions of voters figuring out what to do in 2024, weeks of salacious news stories and two months of being limited on the campaign trail are just not good news for Trump, no matter how you slice it.

Starting point is 00:23:13 We'll be right back after this quick break. All right, that is it for my take, which brings us to your questions answered. Today's question is from Keith in Pennsylvania. Keith said, what are your thoughts regarding the U.S. government allotting billions of dollars in foreign assistance to other countries every year when the U.S. national debt is more than $34 trillion and growing daily? I get that the U.S. uses foreign aid as a tool to further its interests abroad, to provide military support, and to promote democratic and humanitarian outcomes for the benefits of people worldwide. Shouldn't we be using a lot of that money here at home

Starting point is 00:23:53 for infrastructure, education, health, energy, crime, homeless vets, especially considering our increasing debt? Okay, so I think I'd be remiss if I didn't start off by trying to put our foreign aid payments in perspective. The federal government obligated $70.4 billion in foreign aid in 2022, which is a lot of money, but that's only 1% of total federal spending. For a long time, Israel received the most military funding from the U.S. of any country until Russia attacked Ukraine, but in 2023, it got just $3.6 billion in military aid. As I like to remind readers, anytime we talk about the national debt or federal spending deficits, if you want to decrease spending, then you have to focus on where we're spending the most. That means healthcare, the military, and social security, which I'll talk more about in a future reader question. On that note, $659 billion of last year's federal budget was spent on interest

Starting point is 00:24:51 payments. That's almost 10x the amount spent on foreign aid, and it's more than was spent on Medicaid. Bringing deficit spending down will decrease the government's loan obligations, which then lowers the growing amount of our federal budget that is allocated to paying off interest. That alone provides good reason to want to rein in our spending. But I don't think foreign aid is the best place to do so. First of all, you're right. Foreign aid is a tool to further its interests abroad, to provide military support, and to promote democratic and humanitarian outcomes for the benefits of people worldwide. It's also an investment in our national security. Put differently, a lot of U.S. foreign aid money

Starting point is 00:25:29 is money that's spent addressing domestic issues. I know that's counterintuitive, but consider something like this. One of the most pressing issues in the country right now is the security of our southern border. We don't have the infrastructure to handle migrant searches, we don't have the personnel to prevent drug smuggling and human trafficking, and we don't have the infrastructure to handle migrant searches. We don't have the personnel to prevent drug smuggling and human trafficking. And we don't have the judges to speedily process asylum claims. I'm a person who is very interested in resolving those issues. But one of the most cost-effective tools we have in mitigating all of them is foreign aid. If we can help the governments of Nicaragua or Honduras or Venezuela or Haiti with their

Starting point is 00:26:02 domestic issues, that means fewer people will need to flee their homes. Nobody wants to become a refugee. And if we can put a relatively small portion of our federal budget towards preventing that, then it's a win-win. It's money that doesn't have to go to increase border security or more asylum judges, and it's money well spent. All right, that is it for today's reader question, which brings us to our Under the Radar section. Americans spent more than economists expected in March, with retail sales rising 0.7% despite persistent inflation and other economic challenges. The increase was double what economists expected and comes after spending rose 0.9% in February, a figure that was revised upward. This snapshot offers just a partial look at consumer spending and doesn't include things like travel or hotels, but it did record an uptick of 0.4% spending at restaurants.

Starting point is 00:26:59 Retail sales aren't increasing just because prices are going up, Ted Rossman, senior industry analyst at Bankrate, said. Americans are actually buying more stuff. This is one of the strongest retail sales reports we've seen in the past couple of years. ABC has the surprising story, and there's a link to it in today's episode description. All right, next up is the numbers section. The percentage of Americans who said they believe Donald Trump did falsify business records to conceal a hush money payment is 48%, according to an Economist YouGov poll released last week. The percentage of Americans who said they believe Trump did not falsify business records to conceal a hush money payment is 26%.

Starting point is 00:27:41 The percentage of Americans who think Trump will get a fair trial in New York is 36%, while the percentage who do not think that is 26%. The percentage of Americans who think Trump will get a fair trial in New York is 36%, while the percentage who do not think that is 42%. The percentage of Americans who think it is likely Trump will be convicted of a crime in the hush money case is 40%, while the percentage who think it is unlikely is 38%. And the percentage of Americans who think the charges that Trump falsified business records related to hush money payments are serious is 57%, while just 37% think the charges that Trump falsified business records related to hush money payments are not serious. All right, and last but not least, our have a nice day section. A recent poll from Pew Research Center shows that more teenagers than you might think are

Starting point is 00:28:25 conscious of the positive and negative aspects of smartphone use. In an online survey from last year of 1,453 US teens between the ages of 13 and 17 and their parents, 72% of the teens said they often feel peaceful without their smartphone while only 44% said it gives them a kind of separation anxiety. 70% of those surveyed said that the negatives of their smartphone, while only 44% said it gives them a kind of separation anxiety. 70% of those surveyed said that the negatives of their smartphone outweigh the positives. Furthermore, many more teens say they spend the right amount of time on social media at 64%, then say they spend too much time at 27%. Pew has the survey, and there's a link to it in today's episode description. in today's episode description.

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