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A Clear and Present Danger to Voting Rights

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Weisberg talks to Bruce Ackerman, a professor of constitutional law at Yale, about the impending destruction of The Second Reconstruction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:04.7

He really has a deep animosity to the press.

0:08.7

So keep reminding yourself, this is not normal.

0:11.7

And we've normalized it already.

0:13.7

Less than a week after the election is over,

0:16.3

suddenly Washington is going about its business,

0:18.6

talking about who's going to get what jobs,

0:20.3

and you would think that Mitt Romney had won.

0:22.5

It's a hallucination.

0:31.0

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast,

0:33.3

the show about the man who just found a new

0:36.3

multi-million dollar tenant for Trump Tower,

0:39.2

the secret service.

0:40.8

He's Donald Trump.

0:42.3

I'm Jacob Oysterberg.

0:44.3

So everybody expected Donald Trump to claim

0:46.9

that the election was rigged if he lost.

0:49.3

Nobody expected him to claim it was rigged if he won.

0:52.6

That's what he did on Sunday afternoon

0:54.5

when he said a ridiculous tweet,

0:56.2

claiming that in addition to the electoral college,

0:58.8

he would have won the popular vote

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