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🗓️ 22 January 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
It’s the first Politix podcast of Donald Trump’s second presidency, and it began more or less how we expected: with a lot of bluster and bullshit, but also real demonstrations of lawlessness. Thanks John Roberts?
In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss:
* Trump’s immigration executive orders, with a special focus on his effort to unilaterally suspend the Constitution’s birthright citizenship guarantee;
* Will Trump follow the law if and when this and other orders are enjoined by federal judges?
* Why does birthright citizenship make the United States a better country?
Then, behind the paywall, where does Trump’s appetite for lawlessness leave things going forward? Will there be any consequence for his day-one decision to pardon over 1,500 January 6 insurrectionists, even exceptionally violent ones? Will Democrats come to the defense of any affected immigrants, or will they remain divided (as they were through the GOP push to pass the Laken Riley Act)? And why did Biden fritter away the lame duck period instead of doing more to protect the country?
All that, plus the full Politix archive are available to paid subscribers—just upgrade your subscription and pipe full episodes directly to your favorite podcast app via your own private feed.
Further reading:
* Brian argues House Democrats should move to impeach Donald Trump over the January 6 pardons, even knowing Republicans will rally to protect him.
* Matt on the basic fact that because Trump is so self-serving and dishonest, nobody actually knows what he’s going to do. thinks Democrats can just follow Joe Manchin’s lead.
* Greg Sargent on Trump’s executive order to declare illegal crossings an “invasion” and thus justify the deployment of troops to the southwestern border.
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| 0:00.0 | You know, what's scary about this is that, like, say Donald Trump in no way means this to be an encouragement of political violence, but like 1% of the thousands of criminals he just let off hook, reads it that way. And that means that, |
| 0:23.5 | like, several people, I don't know, murder Trump political adversaries. |
| 0:35.5 | Hey, everyone, you're listening to a free preview of the politics podcast. |
| 0:39.6 | This is the first politics episode of the second Trump presidency, which began with |
| 0:44.9 | about as much disgrace as we figured it would. |
| 0:48.4 | So in this episode, we'll talk about President Trump's executive orders, the blanket pardons he gave to January 6th |
| 0:56.3 | instructionists, and the Democratic response or lack thereof. |
| 1:01.6 | If you want to hear all of it, you can upgrade your subscription to paid at |
| 1:05.0 | politics.fm. |
| 1:13.7 | Hey, everyone. Welcome to the politics podcast. I'm Brian Boyler. |
| 1:14.8 | I'm Matthew Glazias. |
| 1:23.5 | So we're recording this on Tuesday, January 21st. Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term yesterday as I speak. |
| 1:29.3 | And he quickly did what he promised. He signed a blizzard of executive orders and took other executive actions. And I think we're finding, as we sift through him, that a lot of these |
| 1:35.4 | are, like, stupid or meaningless or symbolic or, like, ordinary what you'd expect when a president |
| 1:43.3 | of one party leaves and a president of the other |
| 1:45.8 | party comes in. But some of it is really, I think, quite bad. And so we wanted to narrow our |
| 1:53.0 | focus to like the genuinely worst things we see in it. And so I think to me those aren't, I'll throw to Matt in a second to see if he wants to augment this, but they're the pardons for the January 6 rioters, over 1,500 pardons, including for the ones who assaulted cops and so on. |
| 2:10.9 | And then an executive order which will, if it's implemented, effectively and or like put into abeyance the constitutional |
| 2:20.3 | guarantee of citizenship to people born in the U.S. to non-citizen parents. That's |
| 2:26.1 | birthright citizenship. Those are the two where I feel like Trump is saying, I'm lawless, |
| 2:32.5 | try to stop me. We'll see what happens. Would you add to that list, |
| 2:36.8 | or you think that's about... I mean, you know, I'm sifting through it. You know, I don't |
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