Democracy Now! 2023-05-11 Thursday
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🗓️ 11 May 2023
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Headlines for May 11, 2023; E. Jean Carroll Wins Major Victory for Sexual Abuse Survivors Even as Trump Continues to Target Her; Web of Lies: George Santos Charged with 13 Felonies, But GOP Leaders Refuse to Expel Him from Congress; One Year After Israeli Sniper Kills Shireen Abu Akleh, No Justice for Palestinian-American Journalist
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| 0:56.0 | I'm overwhelmed with joy and happiness and delight for the women in this country. |
| 1:04.0 | Overwhelmed with joy, those are the words of Eugene Carroll after a New York jury found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming her. |
| 1:14.0 | Despite the jury's decision, Trump mocked Carroll during a prime time CNN town hall last night. |
| 1:21.0 | The Republican crowd applauded and laughed at his remarks. |
| 1:25.0 | We'll speak to Jane Manning, a former sex crimes prosecutor who now directs the Women's Equal Justice Project. |
| 1:33.0 | Then Republican Congressmember George Santos has been arrested on 13 felonies, including wire fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds and fraudulently collecting unemployment benefits for building a web of lies as he ran for Congress. |
| 1:47.0 | Santos is refusing to resign. |
| 1:51.0 | I'm going to fight my battle, I'm going to deliver, I'm going to fight the witch, I'm going to take care of clearing my name and I look forward to doing that. |
| 1:58.0 | And we remember the Palestinian American journalist, Serena Buakla. |
| 2:03.0 | She was shot dead a year ago today by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. |
| 2:08.0 | No one's been held accountable for her death. All that and more coming up. |
| 2:13.0 | Welcome to democracy now, democracy now, dot org, the warrant peace report. I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 2:24.0 | Israeli airstrikes continue to rattle the Gaza Strip where at least 27 Palestinians, including children, have been killed since the aeroids started Tuesday. |
| 2:34.0 | Scores of others have been injured in dozens of homes have been destroyed or heavily damaged. |
| 2:38.0 | The UN and other groups have condemned the killing of civilians, they're calling for an immediate ceasefire. |
| 2:44.0 | This is 19 year old Muhammad Sayed, whose fiance was killed in an airstrike Tuesday. |
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