Ep. 406 - Have you watched the first few days of the 2nd impeachment of Donald Trump?
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
It's a metaphor in some ways to me. An underpaid, undervalued Black man, in a profession that most often hates his guts, in a building that has fought against Black power for decades, putting his life on the line to save a Senator who didn't even remember until yesterday that the Black man who saved him was Officer Goodman. Black people keep saving this country from itself - over and over again.
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| 0:30.4 | Moments ago, the Democratic Party in the Senate just ended their opening arguments |
| 0:37.4 | in the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump. |
| 0:41.2 | In the past few days of their opening arguments, they get, I believe, 16 hours total. |
| 0:48.0 | To make those arguments, I thought they were brilliant. |
| 0:51.1 | And you know me, I'm a willing critic of the Democratic Party. |
| 0:57.3 | I thought their opening arguments were not only impassioned, |
| 1:02.7 | but thorough, professional, and meticulous, insightful, well-prepared, well-conceived. |
| 1:13.2 | And they rightly integrated video and audio and imagery in a way |
| 1:20.2 | that is very 2021 and just super smart and powerful for their presentation, |
| 1:27.6 | as opposed to Donald Trump's team, which was just terrible, |
| 1:31.8 | like of an embarrassingly bad, which is kind of their way. |
| 1:37.8 | But there are two big points that I want to make. |
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