Democracy Now! 2024-07-17 Wednesday
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🗓️ 17 July 2024
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Headlines for July 17, 2024; “Politics of Hate”: Writer Jean Guerrero on Anti-Immigrant Lies and Fearmongering at RNC; Trump Is Trying to “Gaslight the Black Community” About His Racist Record: Clarence Lusane; Jury Convicts NJ Senator Bob Menendez of Taking Bribes from Egypt & Qatar; Samuel Sharpe Shooting: Ohio Cops in Wisconsin for RNC Kill Unhoused Black Veteran; J.D. Vance Praised 9/11 Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones as Truth-Teller in Private 2021 Speech; Milwaukee Immigrant Rights Advocate Slams “Sickening” Rhetoric at RNC as Trump Vows Mass Deportations; DNC Makes Moves to Lock In Biden as Nominee Early, Despite Growing Discontent Among Democrats
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| 0:00.0 | The From the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:22.0 | I'll start by making one thing perfectly clear. |
| 0:27.0 | Donald Trump has my strong endorsement period. |
| 0:35.0 | My fellow Republican, let's send Joe Biden back to his basement and let's send Donald Trump back to the White House. |
| 0:47.0 | Nicky Haley and Ron DeSantis join other former rivals of Donald Trump, including Ted Cruz to fully back the Trump Vance |
| 0:57.2 | ticket on the second night of the RNC. |
| 1:00.2 | Much of the evening focused on the party's hardline anti-immigrant policies. |
| 1:05.0 | Never before has an election mattered so much. |
| 1:10.0 | We are facing an invasion on our southern border, not figuratively a literal invasion. |
| 1:21.0 | We will speak with reporter Jean Guadeiro and Howard Professor Clarence Lucane, |
| 1:28.0 | who says don't believe Trump when he claims he's not racist. |
| 1:32.0 | Then a jury's convicted New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Menendez |
| 1:37.0 | for taking bribes from Egypt and Qatar. |
| 1:40.0 | This case has always been about shocking levels of corruption. |
| 1:45.0 | Hundreds of thousands of dollars and bribes in the form of cash, gold bars, a Mercedes-Benz. |
| 1:51.0 | This wasn't politics as usual, this was politics for profit. |
| 1:55.0 | And police coming in from Ohio for the RNC |
| 2:01.0 | shoot and kill an unoused veteran in Milwaukee about a mile from the |
| 2:06.7 | Republican National Convention. |
| 2:08.9 | All that and more coming up. Welcome to Democracy Now. |
| 2:13.0 | Democracy Now. |
| 2:17.0 | Welcome to Democracy Now. |
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