How Democrats Botched Impeachment
Deconstructed
The Intercept
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🗓️ 22 October 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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In their new book “Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress's Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump,” reporters Karoun Demirjian and Rachael Bade lay out how Democrats put political self-preservation ahead of a genuine effort to hold President Donald Trump accountable for his abuses of power. The authors join Ryan Grim to discuss the missed opportunities and historical what-ifs of Trump's two impeachments.
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| 0:00.0 | A new book out this week unchecked the untold story behind Congress's botched impeachments |
| 0:08.1 | of Donald Trump is chock full of new details about both of the failed attempts to impeach |
| 0:12.7 | Trump, including, but I consider to be one of the most significant on the day of January |
| 0:17.1 | 6th, there was a concerted effort by rank-and-file Democrats to impeach Trump that very night, |
| 0:22.5 | and Democratic leaders from Nancy Pelosi on down rebuffed their effort in a way that |
| 0:26.8 | may have changed the course of history. |
| 0:28.6 | I'm Ryan Grimm, and this is deconstructed, and I'll be talking about this and more with |
| 0:32.2 | the authors of the new book, Rachel Bade of Politico and Karen Demergin of The Washington |
| 0:37.5 | Post. |
| 0:38.5 | Rachel, welcome to deconstructed. |
| 0:39.5 | Thank you for having us on. |
| 0:41.5 | Sure, and Karen, thanks for being here. |
| 0:43.1 | Thank you for having us on, Ryan. |
| 0:44.7 | Sure, and so let me start with Nancy Pelosi. |
| 0:47.3 | So after she became speaker in 2006, the first time, basically the first thing that she |
| 0:52.6 | did was say, look, I understand that you all want to impeach George W. Bush. |
| 0:56.9 | It's not happening. |
| 0:57.9 | She's off the table. |
| 0:58.9 | She was extremely firm about that. |
| 1:00.5 | So this time, she's under all sorts of pressure again. |
| 1:04.5 | And before Bushita Tilly was even sworn in, she made this promise. |
| 1:08.0 | We're going to go in there. |
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