How Trump's guilty verdict shifted the race for president (if not the minds of the voters)

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🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

After a New York jury found former President Donald Trump guilty of 34 felonies last week, the reactions were swift and vehement.

The former president’s calls for vengeance have become louder. GOP attacks on the justice system have become nearly universal, backed by specific threats and proposals. And Democrats seem to be struggling to find a way to respond.

Susan Glasser writes a weekly column about life in Washington for The New Yorker, and is co-author of the book, “The Divider,” a best-selling history of Donald Trump in the white house, co-written with her husband, Peter Baker.

Glasser joins Diane to talk about what has happened in the presidential race since Trump’s verdict and the starkly different worldviews the candidates are presenting to the American people.

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0:00.0	Hi it's Diane on my mind the presidential race post verdict after a New York jury found former President Donald Trump guilty of 34
0:18.4	felonies, the reactions have been vehement. The New Yorker Susan Glasser says it took the conflicts already present this
0:29.2	election cycle and put them on steroids.
0:33.4	It is the explicit use of the language of, you know, really the 20th century's worst
0:41.5	dictators and totalitarian.
0:43.4	The former president is loudly calling for vengeance.
0:47.7	GOP attacks on the justice system are vicious and Democrat's strategy to counter it all is not yet clear.
1:00.4	Susan Glasser writes a weekly column about Life in Washington for the magazine.
1:06.5	She's co-author of the book The Divider, a best-selling history of Donald Trump in the White House.
1:16.2	Susan, Time magazine,
1:18.4	as we grant an interview with President Biden. In April, they ran an interview. with dueling worldviews, didn't it?
1:33.4	Yeah, I mean, it really, it was unusual in the sense
1:36.5	that Joe Biden has been a very sparing president
1:40.8	when it comes to traditional interviews
1:42.4	with print news
1:43.4	organizations. This is really the first major extensive interview of this
1:48.1	kind that he's given and it seems you know he just couldn't resist when Donald Trump had given a very unusual, rare, big print interview to Time magazine earlier, outlining some of his agenda, very radical agenda for a second term, it seems to me that the Biden
2:06.5	campaign, the White House, saw this as an irresistible opportunity to present the direct comparison between the two, you know, the responsible actor,
2:18.0	president and the guy who would blow things up.
2:21.0	And obviously, Trump, with his kind of digressions, fulminations, his
2:27.5	preoccupation with revenge and retribution he sounds very different in the head-to-head comparison than Joe Biden who you know seems like he's sort of that the last champion of
2:40.2	the liberal world order as exemplified by you know the meeting of the allies that will
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