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Today in Focus

‘I am your retribution’: Trump’s radical plan to remake the presidency

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Guardian US’s chief reporter, Ed Pilkington, explores Donald Trump’s plans for a second term as president if he wins next month’s election, and how they would give him unprecedented power. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:09.0

Today, Donald Trump's radical plan to reshape the US presidency. The Magisterial New Novel from Richard Powers.

0:27.0

She had the ocean, and the ocean absorbed all her hope and excitement all her panic and

0:36.8

pain and love into a place far larger than anything human.

0:43.0

Playground by Richard Powers, long listed for the Booker Prize.

0:49.0

Out now, in Hardback, e-book and audiobook. Do you remember what Donald Trump as president was actually like?

1:06.3

President speaking about his controversial executive order.

1:10.0

Blocking millions from entering the country.

1:13.0

That was his first week.

1:15.0

One that bars 134 million people

1:17.6

from seven Muslim-majority countries from coming to the United States.

1:21.3

Appointing his family members to pretty important jobs.

1:25.7

The President-elect turned to his son-in-law at a gala dinner the night before he was sworn in.

1:30.9

If you can't produce peace in the Middle East, Donald Trump told

1:33.9

Jared Kushner, nobody can.

1:37.2

These hair-brained schemes, like buying Greenland.

1:41.8

Essentially it's a large real estate deal.

1:45.0

A lot of things could be done.

1:47.0

It's hurting Denmark very badly because they're losing almost 700 million dollars.

1:52.0

Or treating COVID with disinfectants.

1:55.0

Right, and then I see the disinfectant

1:58.0

where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute,

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