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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 653 - Now that Trump and his country cousins are being held accountable, Republicans are calling to defund the police

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump is under active investigation by city, state, and federal offices all over the country. And yesterday some of those chickens started coming home to roost - when the FBI executed a search warrant on his home and office in Florida and recovered at least 15 boxes of material.

Today, I'll unpack and explain what I know about the raid/search. What's wild is that it increasingly appears that Trump will never be held accountable for any of the monstrous things he did while in office, but that he made so many mistakes after Election Day in 2020, that it's going to be the window between Election Day and his exit from The White House that ends up truly jamming him up legally.

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0:00.0

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For his entire life, Donald Trump has operated above the law.

0:27.2

When he decided to run for president and won, what I think he never fully accounted for

0:35.3

or estimated was the reality that for the first time in his life, he was going to have to

0:43.0

live and operate, not just according to the law, but the presidency is so deeply embedded

0:50.9

in the law.

0:52.8

And Trump was going to have to live in the law each and every day.

0:58.6

And it's clearly starting to catch up with him yesterday in the evening.

1:03.2

His Florida home at Mar-a-Largo was rated.

1:08.9

And it's the first time in my lifetime that we've seen an American post-presidency ever

1:16.0

go down like this.

1:17.0

Let me unpack and explain what I know, why it's important and some big implications about

1:23.3

what could happen around this raid in the Justice Department's probe.

1:28.0

Mr. Sean King, you're listening to?

1:50.6

When Donald Trump left the White House, he made so many mistakes just on his exit.

2:00.4

Like there is the Trump presidency and then there's the post-election Trump.

2:08.9

And then there's this kind of window of time from Election Day 2020 until Trump actually

2:15.8

leaves office and in that window from Election Day until the date he actually left, he made

2:23.9

so many mistakes in that window that were completely avoidable.

2:32.4

Because in great part what we've learned is that Trump's worst policies like separating

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