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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Anyone rushing to defend him?

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

Daily News, News

4.5840 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 138 minutes

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How the narrative has changed. This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio; to join the conversation: 0345 60 60 973

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0:00.0

This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien.

0:14.4

Three minutes after ten is the time.

0:16.2

Very good morning indeed to you.

0:18.5

And I think we begin inevitably with further contemplation of the

0:23.5

astonishing collapse of Donald Trump's administration in America. And increasingly, of course,

0:30.4

the questions that are being asked about people here who cheered for him. I mean, this is really

0:37.0

tricky. One of the great curses of being a liberal

0:38.9

is that you endeavour to think the best of people.

0:43.0

You always believe in redemption, for example,

0:45.9

or in the importance of allowing people the space and the time

0:49.8

to change their minds.

0:51.4

So I started thinking about this last night,

0:53.8

and I came up with the idea

0:55.1

that there were three categories of people that were not calling out Trump's depravity from

1:04.5

day one, okay, because it's a little bit kind of smug and holier than now to keep patting

1:10.3

ourselves on the back.

1:11.4

Those of us who did call it out from day one, that's just a matter of record now,

1:14.9

a matter of fact.

1:16.4

But people who didn't, I was thinking maybe there's sort of three categories in total of people.

1:21.7

There are the people who saw Trump and saw what he was and called it out.

1:26.2

Okay, I was brilliant, wasn't it, listening to John Burko

1:28.6

with Nick earlier, just describing the absolutely disgusting notion of defending his right to

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