GOP plots revenge as Trump conviction hits Congress
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🗓️ 4 June 2024
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Republican lawmakers are plotting revenge after former President Donald Trump's hush money conviction.
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Tuesday June 4th, 2024. This is the |
| 0:19.2 | excerpt. Today, GOP lawmakers are looking for revenge after Trump's conviction. |
| 0:28.0 | Plus Dr. Fauchy was grilled on Capitol Hill, |
| 0:31.0 | and one of our reporters relays her experience as a poll worker. |
| 0:36.5 | Republican lawmakers are seeking revenge for the historic conviction of former President |
| 0:40.8 | Donald Trump in his hush money case, which some are calling a miscarriage of justice and a political maneuver. |
| 0:47.0 | In the Senate, a group of conservative lawmakers are pledging to stop all Democratic priorities and block Biden administration nominees from approval. |
| 0:56.0 | And in the GOP-led House, lawmakers plan to interrogate the Manhattan prosecutors that sought the conviction, |
| 1:02.0 | strip federal funding from the state of New York, and to fund the conviction strip federal funding from the state of New York |
| 1:04.2 | and to fund the efforts of special counsel Jack Smith who is overseeing Trump's |
| 1:08.7 | classified documents case. Their efforts may not be successful. The House's pushes will face a dead end in the |
| 1:15.0 | democratically controlled Senate, but it shows the party's continued loyalty to Trump |
| 1:19.4 | and the political opportunity they see to rally support for his re-election bid. |
| 1:24.6 | On the campaign trail, they're using the conviction to their advantage. |
| 1:27.8 | The GOP's donor platform, Win Red, was overwhelmed with traffic following the ruling and both the Senate and House |
| 1:34.5 | JOP campaign arms have reported a surge in fundraising. He can read more with a |
| 1:39.8 | link in today's show notes. |
| 1:55.0 | Dr Anthony Fauchy faced questions yesterday during a hearing from the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability over the COVID-19 pandemic response. Things got heated at times, including when Representative Marjorie Taylor Green referred |
| 2:00.1 | to Fauchy as Mr. instead of Dr. Fauchi and said he deserves to be in prison. |
| 2:06.3 | For his part, Fauchy talked of threats to his family, faced questions on China and others. |
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