1/10/24: Violent threats explode, Trump lawyer says immunity for assassination
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
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🗓️ 10 January 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Sadly, violence is going to be a big topic on today's program. |
| 0:06.8 | Sadly, violence is going to be a big topic on today's program. |
| 0:12.0 | Later in the show, I'm going to talk to you about arguments |
| 0:15.4 | made in front of a judge panel of judges by one of Donald Trump's lawyers that if |
| 0:20.9 | Trump or any president was to order the assassination of their political rivals |
| 0:27.3 | That it might actually be covered by presidential immunity. We are going to talk about calls for violence from the |
| 0:34.8 | failed former president, but all of this goes back to the environment in which we |
| 0:40.8 | now find ourselves, which is that as the 2024 election gets going |
| 0:44.8 | violent political threats are surging and it is becoming a I I hate to call it a legitimate part of the American political system because how could violence be legitimate |
| 0:58.4 | but it is becoming an immovable part it is becoming an unfortunately too common part of the political system |
| 1:06.1 | we are going to link out to this Washington Post article called violent political threats |
| 1:12.3 | surge as 2024 begins haunting American democracy |
| 1:17.8 | and the article quotes among many it quotes a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice who said quote I believe people quote, |
| 1:23.0 | a Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice who said, quote, I believe people when they say they want to hurt us or kill us. I don't think they are idle threats. |
| 1:30.0 | And if there is any, I mean, we'll talk about the implications how to handle the security precautions, all these different things. |
| 1:36.0 | But if there is one theme, one motto, one slogan that we must bear in mind here. |
| 1:43.2 | It's we need to believe the people who say they are going to do horrible things |
| 1:48.8 | because sometimes they do it. |
| 1:50.9 | Now, the article goes through a whole bunch of different examples. It talks |
| 1:54.6 | about the swatting attempt at the home of rusty Bowers with the false report of a |
| 2:00.2 | pipe bomb and a murder. We've talked about this swatting technique before which is phone calls to law enforcement |
| 2:07.9 | meant to encourage law enforcement to deploy a SWAT team or a hostage response team with fake |
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