Illegal Orders: What Happens When Trump Orders His Administration to Break the Law? (with Miles Taylor)

It's Complicated

Renato Mariotti

News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Renato and Patti discussed Trump's instructions to his aides to break the law, as well as his fitness to hold office, with Miles Taylor, former Chief of Staff to the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security in the Trump Administration. Subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Its.Complicated/ Follow Asha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_ Asha's Substack: https://asharangappa.substack.com/ Follow Renato on Twitter: https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti Follow Asha on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asha.rangappa/ Follow Renato on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/renato.mariotti/Follow Renato on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@renato.mariotti Opening Theme and Bumper music provided by eitanepsteinmusic / Pond5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	M.S.W. Media.
0:03.0	What?
0:09.0	What happens?
0:10.0	What happens when Donald Trump asked his own administration to break the law?
0:17.5	Let's get on topic.
0:30.0	Welcome to on topic. Welcome to on topic.
0:32.0	A weekly in-depth look at a topic that helps us understand the week's news.
0:38.0	My name is Renato Mariati.
0:40.0	I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer and a legal analyst, and I'm joined by my friend Patty Vasquez,
0:48.0	the host of the Patty Vasquez show who joins us regularly on this podcast. But before I bring in Patty, I want to thank
0:56.5	our patrons who brought us this episode. With special thanks to Michelle Dew, Andrew Donnelly, James Frommeyer, J. Gellhausen, Jamie and
1:08.5	Isie Gordon, Patrick, Steve Hungsburg, Ari Lamstein, Shana Wachinsky, and an anonymous patron.
1:18.4	You too can become a patron on our website on topic podcast
1:23.4	podcast dot com just click the support link at the top of the page so Patty you know this
1:29.9	week we have I think a bit of a special episode because we have somebody who's
1:34.9	going to be joining us who was a high-ranking official in the Trump
1:38.4	administration who's come out and talked about the times in which his department was asked to break the law.
1:47.6	And I have to say it seems like a regular occurrence now in the Trump administration from from week to
1:55.2	week that there's something illegal that Trump is asking people to do or
2:00.6	asking his own administration to do, you know, just yesterday, you know, of course he
2:06.2	asked voters to vote twice publicly, which of course is illegal.
2:11.7	I don't think you need to be a lawyer to know that you shouldn't be voting more than once.
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