Ep. 414 - Are we supposed to be silent when Democrats do wrong?
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
She provided detailed receipts, text messages, and emails - and gave names, dates, and locations.
And by and large, prominent Democrats were COMPLETELY SILENT. I mean nothing.
And here's what I know - if the exact same person, wrote the exact same story, with the exact same evidence, but Cuomo's name was substituted with Donald Trump - Democrats would be OUTRAGED.
And this simply is not OK.
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| 0:00.0 | I've got a question and I don't mean it as a rhetorical question. |
| 0:04.8 | I sincerely, earnestly want us to have a conversation. |
| 0:10.2 | When we see Democrats or any Democrats or a Democrat, a Democrat elected official, when |
| 0:17.4 | we see them doing something horrible, are we supposed to remain silent about it or do |
| 0:24.1 | we speak up? |
| 0:26.5 | And if we speak up, are you still going to say, hey, you support Donald Trump? |
| 0:33.7 | I'm that serious because yesterday we learned something truly horrible about New York's |
| 0:40.3 | governor, Andrew Cuomo. |
| 0:41.3 | I want to talk about it. |
| 0:43.0 | I want to unpack it. |
| 0:44.5 | And I particularly want to talk about the complete silence from prominent Democrats with |
| 0:50.6 | what they just saw. |
| 0:52.1 | Let me unpack and explain it. |
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