BONUS: Has the Supreme Court just saved Trump?
The News Agents - USA
Global
4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 29 February 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
It's been some 24 hours for Donald Trump. In one evening, he scores a major win as the Supreme Court kicks the election inteference case down the electoral road. Plus, a major congressional thorn in Trump's side, Reaganite senator Mitch McConnell announces he's stepping down as Senate Republican Leader. Trump is ever so close to total ownership of the Republican party.
We digest in this bonus episode of The News Agents - USA.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA Podcast is brought to you by HSBC, UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.7 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.3 | And we're back with our breaking news. |
| 0:15.1 | The U.S. Supreme Court has decided they will hear arguments on Donald Trump's claim of immunity. |
| 0:21.8 | He claims he cannot be prosecuted in the 2020 election subversion case. |
| 0:25.6 | Special counsel, Jack Smith, wanted the U.S. Supreme Court to hear it early |
| 0:29.1 | and now is finding that President Trump, former President Trump's delay, delay, delay strategy is working. |
| 0:36.5 | The Supreme Court last night did Donald Trump one big favor. |
| 0:43.9 | They have announced that they will hear Donald Trump's claim of immunity from prosecution, |
| 0:50.2 | but they won't hear it yet. |
| 0:52.9 | They have managed to delay justice to the point where it might just be denied completely. |
| 1:01.8 | And Donald Trump is smiling from here to ear. |
| 1:04.7 | Absolutely. This is a big, big win for Donald Trump. |
| 1:08.9 | And there was something else that happened yesterday, which we will come |
| 1:11.7 | to about Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader, Republican Party, announcing that he was standing |
| 1:17.9 | down. He was the last thorn in Donald Trump's side. Trump rules the roost in the Republican |
| 1:26.2 | party now, and it seems on the Supreme Court as well. |
| 1:30.2 | Welcome to a bonus episode of the Newsagents USA. |
| 1:40.0 | It's John. |
| 1:41.1 | It's Emily. |
| 1:41.6 | And I know you have a point that when you think a man quotes a poet, it's |
| 1:46.6 | going to be Rudyard Kipling and it's going to be success and failure the impostors that they are. |
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