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It's Complicated

Combating Division and Disinformation: What Can We Do to Heal the Wounds Trump Created? (with John Mitnick)

It's Complicated

Renato Mariotti

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Renato and Patti discuss the division, strife, and distrust caused by Donald Trump and the disinformation spread by Trump and his allies, and how the nation can recover in the wake of Joe Biden's victory.  They were joined by John Mitnick, former General Counsel of the Department of Homeland Security, who was fired by Trump after he reportedly pushed back against some of Trump's illegal proposals and later publicly supported Biden. Subscribe on Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/@Its.Complicated/   Follow Asha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_ Asha's Substack: https://asharangappa.substack.com/ Follow Renato on Twitter: https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti Follow Asha on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asha.rangappa/ Follow Renato on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/renato.mariotti/Follow Renato on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@renato.mariotti   Opening Theme and Bumper music provided by eitanepsteinmusic / Pond5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

M.S.W. Media.

0:10.0

Joe Biden won the election and he'll be the next president of the United States.

0:15.2

But Trump won't go quietly and he's doing everything possible to hold on to power.

0:21.6

How can we possibly repair the damage she's doing to our country?

0:26.0

Let's get on topic. Welcome to On Topic, a weekly in-depth look at a topic that helps us understand the week's news.

0:46.0

My name is Renato Mariati.

0:49.0

I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer and a legal analyst.

0:55.1

And I'm joined by my friend Patty Vasquez, the host of the Patty Vasquez show who joins us regularly

1:01.4

on this podcast. But before I bring in Patty, I want to thank our

1:06.0

patrons who brought us this episode. With special thanks, Andrew Donnelly,

1:11.2

James Frommeyer, Jay Gellhausen, Jamie and Isie Gordon,

1:17.7

Patrick, Steve Hungsberg, Ari Lamstein,

1:22.4

Shannon Wachinsky, and an anonymous patron.

1:26.0

You too can become a patron on our website

1:29.0

on topic podcast.com.

1:32.0

Just click the support link. on topic podcast.com.

1:33.0

Just click the support link at the top of the page.

1:36.0

I have to say this has been an episode of taking us some time to put together

1:41.0

and there's really so much to cover. We are living through an extraordinary

1:46.5

time and I have to say that when I imagine what it would be like for Donald Trump to be defeated in an election,

1:56.0

I hoped it wouldn't look like this, where he's doing everything possible on the way out to damage our country and the Republican Party

2:05.4

or at least the vast majority of it seems to be going along for the ride.

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