Getting Through Trump’s First Week—Mostly
Boom! Lawyered
Rewire News Group
4.6 • 600 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, fellow law nerds. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyer, a Rewire News Group podcast hosted by the legal |
| 0:17.7 | journalism team. I don't know, man. Just, it's going to be a bumpy ride, |
| 0:24.2 | but we're going to get through it. I'm Rewire News Group's editor at large, Ymani Gandhi. |
| 0:29.0 | And I'm Jess Peklo, Rewire News Group's executive editor. ReWire News Group is the one and only home |
| 0:34.1 | for expert repro journalism that inspires you to take it day by day in the |
| 0:39.6 | Trump administration. And the boom laird podcast is part of that mission. So a big thanks to our |
| 0:44.6 | subscribers and a welcome to our new listeners. Well, it's here. Trump presidency 2.0. |
| 0:55.6 | They promised a shock at awe on day one, but when you've spent three months gloating about the harm you're going to inflict on people, it's not so much shock and awe as it's shock and dread. |
| 1:09.1 | I think this blue sky post, which I still refuse to call a skeet, sums it up. |
| 1:15.5 | It's from policy skeeter. Policy Skeeter, is that what we're going to call them? |
| 1:22.6 | NYC Southpaw. But truly a solid follow and really kind of hits the pulse when it matters. |
| 1:30.2 | And this is what they had to say. |
| 1:31.6 | In the space of half a day, the new administration has trashed the Constitution, subverted |
| 1:36.4 | the independence of the DOJ, granted a broad amnesty to traitors, abandoned the global community |
| 1:41.6 | on climate and public health, and launched a wide-ranging attack on |
| 1:45.9 | minority rights. |
| 1:47.8 | Yeah, he did. |
| 1:49.0 | And that's what he said he was going to do. |
| 1:51.4 | He telegraphed what he was going to do by way of a thousand page document, right, Project |
| 1:58.0 | 2025. |
| 1:59.3 | So that's what he done did. He issued an executive order |
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