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The Michael Steele Podcast

Hold Ruling Class Criminals Accountable! (Quick Take)

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Michael Steele speaks with Glenn Kirschner about our government's inability to hold Trump accountable for his crimes. They also discuss Pam Bondi and Pete Hegseth's hearings. 

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0:00.0

Maybe we shift to the Pam Bondi hearing because we saw her.

0:03.3

Yeah, I was going to say this.

0:04.4

It made me laugh out loud.

0:05.8

Our government does not hold the ruling class criminals accountable for their crimes.

0:11.9

We've decided we don't have an appetite for it.

0:14.3

We don't have an interest in it.

0:16.3

And God forbid, somebody accuses us of being political.

0:19.6

We're just not going to do it.

0:20.9

We're not going to hold the ruling class criminals accountable.

0:23.1

So that does dovetel nicely into what's also happening as Israel and Amas have worked out their arrangement, the United States Senate.

0:36.1

And, you know, I guess Trump are working out their arrangement on his nominees.

0:43.5

In particular, you had Pete Hick-Seth a few days ago sitting in front of the committee, which

0:50.6

was actually, it was embarrassingly laughable watching that unfold.

0:59.9

You know, I still don't think Democrats know how to do politics, and it was very evident.

1:05.0

And I know that's not a political environment, but it is in a very highly charged setting where there was a lot to go after

1:16.8

that guy on other than his affairs in trying to prove, you know, do the, oh, you're, you know,

1:23.2

you're a Christian, but this is what you did.

1:25.6

And of course, heck Seth talking about, look, I'm never, you know, going to sit here and

1:30.1

judge another man's Christianity in his walk with Christ.

1:34.6

But I always have, I've always, since I was a young kid, had a problem with people who

1:39.2

pull that card out and start playing that shit when they get in trouble.

1:43.4

And publicly like that, the way he did.

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