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ANARCHY? Former Washington Post Writer CHALLENGES Prof. Clements on the Gideon 300

Untamed Nation

The Untamed Truth

Politics, News

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

The vast majority of legacy fake news outlets refuse to interview Professor Clements "on the record" based on two stipulations: (1) the interview must be video recorded and (2) the interview can be published in its entirety to ensure context and to curb propaganda-like editorialization. Clements also agrees to not screen any questions in advance. It came as a welcome surprise that Benjamin Wittes, Editor-in-Chief at "Lawfare" and longtime contributor to the Washington Post, agreed to Clements' conditions. What follows is a far reaching interview on Clements' Gideon Strategy, the difference between use of force and violence, First Amendment limits at public protests, and whether its lawful to withhold certification in an election. Curiously, the recording device the parties were to rely on from "Lawfare" on "failed" to video record the interview, and the audio from Clements was inaudible. However, Clements screen-captured the entire video and was able to salvage the audio, and poor image quality to present this interview. Be on the lookout for any potential hit pieces from "Lawfare" and compare their article to the conversation that takes place here.

Transcript

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Yeah, I'll have a few questions for you just on your knowledge of what's going on, but I'm here to answer your questions.

0:08.5

Let's do it.

0:10.5

So you've been traveling around on what you call the Gideon 300 tour and I wanted to start with just your sense of the purpose of the tour,

0:26.6

what are the issues that you're trying to address with it,

0:30.8

and how would you describe the Gideon 300 strategy?

0:37.0

I would describe it as

0:41.0

a necessary civics training in part because the public trust with respect to our elections is so

0:50.7

irretrievably broken.

0:53.0

And one of the ways that you restore trust is by having transparency

0:57.7

and especially in your discussions with people

1:02.1

that administer your elections.

1:05.0

And when you've got arbitrary time limits, for instance,

1:10.0

where you're given three minutes to articulate a concept most people would submit to the fact that

1:16.4

you're not going to be able to discuss all of the myriad of deviations that we've seen over

1:22.0

the past four years in a three minute sound bite.

1:27.0

One of the frustrations from citizen auditors, citizen journalists is that when they try to have a more robust conversation

1:35.8

by placing it on an agenda where you could have an hour or two hours

1:40.3

uniformly those requests were being denied and typically what happens is the machine

1:45.2

company vendors provide talking points they're not accessible and so the

1:52.1

Gideon 300 strategy is basically a citizen attempt to have accountability to make sure that people are confronted over Mel administration ifadministration if they're confronted over things that are being found.

2:07.0

And so I see it as consistent with the First Amendment where we're all lawfully able to assemble and

2:16.1

declare our grievances.

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