Biden Doesn’t Want to Prosecute Trumpland. But His AG Still Might.

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🗓️ 20 November 2020

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Team Biden has made his incoming style of presidency very clear: Keep the peace. Or in his aides’ words, “move the country forward.” Unfortunately, moving forward doesn’t include prosecuting Trump and his band of thieves, er, White House staffers and campaign confidants. In this bonus episode of The New Abnormal, which happened LIVE on Zoom, The Daily Beast’s DC Bureau Chief Jackie Kucinich confirms this to co-hosts Rick WIlson and Molly Jong-Fast: “Where we’re at in the process, it doesn’t seem like that’s going to happen.” BUT. And this is a big BUT: Biden’s Attorney General still could go after Trump, points out Beast Trumpworld Reporter Asawin “Swin” Suebsaeng (“It will be interesting to see how that particular pick moves forward.”) Speaking of “what ifs,” the quad also muse about what the political world will look like without Trump as president, and sorry to say, not too much different. “One of the worst liberal fantasies is that he’s going to go to Mar-a-Lago and not come back,” Molly says, but that ain’t gonna happen. “Biden will be president January 20. But the Trump presidency as it is a state of mind is going to continue. Anyone who thinks the Republican party is going to go back to how they were before Trump is living in a fantasy land,” says Jackie. Rick and Swin have even more sinister predictions: “I don’t want to jump the gun here, but we should see if he tries to run some shadow foreign relations [scheme] from Mar-a-Lago or the Trump organization,” says Swin. Don’t forget the rallies, either! According to Rick, they’ll continue, but “they’ll be ticketed. He’ll use them as a revenue source.” Then! Jackie talks about the chances of Biden’s ole buddy Mitch McConnell coming around and the group makes their pick for which MAGA bot will make the best bachelor or bachelorette. Plus! Will Democrats have to drag GSA official Emily Murphy out of her post? And what the hell is happening in Georgia!? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another edition of the Daily Beast, a new abnormal live series.
0:05.8	I'm new abnormal producer Jesse Cannon and I'll be hosting this fun Q&A with some of the
0:10.8	smartest people in politics today.
0:12.9	But before I introduce our guests, I just want to lay out the functions of this.
0:17.1	As you can see at the bottom, there's a chat and there's a little tab for Q&A.
0:21.4	That Q&A you can submit questions and vote them up.
0:24.9	So as the YouTuber say, if you smash that like button, we'd really appreciate it on your
0:28.8	favorite questions.
0:33.1	So there'll also be a few fun polls we'll do which we'll get to in a minute.
0:36.5	But without a further ado, I'd like to introduce the new abnormal host Rick Wilson and Molly
0:41.3	John Fast.
0:42.8	And as well, we have some special guests including the Washington Bureau Chief at the Daily
0:48.6	Beast, Jackie Kucinich and Aswin Sub sang, aka Swin, who is a white house reporter at the
0:55.1	Daily Beast.
0:57.4	And I'm very excited to have everybody here today.
1:00.2	I'm a little scared since Swin and Rick have some of the most colorful language in
1:03.6	Skylar, I have big politics, but I think we're going to keep it on rails.
1:07.9	And so with that, I believe we have a poll to start us off.
1:14.2	What will you be doing on January 20th?
1:15.8	And if everybody could answer that real fast, we'd really appreciate it.
1:21.0	And from there, I'm going to start with a really fun question that we got submitted beforehand
1:31.2	that I think everybody will have something fun to weigh in on.
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