Donald Trump and the corona protests
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The Times
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🗓️ 29 April 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump is under pressure as libertarian demonstrators insist their freedom is being infringed by lock down. Has the virus revealed the gap between the President's rhetoric and the reality of governance? And is the pandemic changing his re-election chances?
Guests:
Josh Glancy, Washington Bureau Chief for The Sunday Times.
Julie Kelly, senior contributor for political blog American Greatness.
Host: David Aaronovitch.
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| 0:00.0 | For some Americans, coronavirus has given the old revolutionary slogan, |
| 0:07.0 | give me liberty or give me death, a new almost literal significance. |
| 0:12.0 | The health care workers, I mean they're heroes, but their rights don't |
| 0:16.8 | supersede a protester's rights. They just don't. And the virus has revealed the gap between Donald Trump's rhetoric and the reality of governance. |
| 0:27.0 | Trump acts as though he's Mussolini, but the government of Trump is much more akin to George W Bush or Ronald Reagan. |
| 0:37.0 | Is the pandemic fatal to his re-election chances? |
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| 2:05.0 | This is America! |
| 2:06.4 | Did they cite you first or did they just put you in handcuffs? |
| 2:09.8 | The US now has over 1 million cases and coming up for 60,000 deaths. However you measure |
| 2:16.6 | them, the highest recorded totals of any country in the world. |
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