Audio Post: Trump Gets Raided. What Does This Mean?

Trump and the GOP are freaking out about this new, extraordinary development in the criminal investigations into the former president.

Aug 09, 2022

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Scenes outside former U.S. President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. Image: Giorgio Viera/AFP via Getty Images

by Ben Cohen

Our newsletter platform Substack has just released a very neat way of recording audio files and uploading them directly into posts, so please take a listen to our very first “podcast post” (or “podcast article”?).

The raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate last night was extremely significant. I discuss the GOP’s freakout, what this says about Merrick Garland, and what it could mean for the former president:

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