The Welcome to Plodd Save America. I'm John Favreau. I'm John Lovett.

I'm Tommy Vittor.

On today's show, George Santos has left the building.

Mike Johnson's finding out why Kevin McCarthy's life was so miserable

and strict scrutiny's Melissa Murray joins to talk about a

flurry of bad legal news for Donald Trump. But first the criminal defendant

Republican front runner campaigned in Iowa over the weekend where he

tested out a new response to accusations

from President Biden and others that he's an authoritarian who represents a threat

to American democracy. No you are. Let's listen. This campaign is a righteous crusade to liberate a republic from

Biden and the criminals and the Biden administration. They're criminals that

think they can do whatever they want, break any law, tell any lie, ruin any life,

trash any norm, and get away with anything they want.

But Joe Biden is not the defender of American democracy

Joe Biden is the destroyer of American democracy and it's and because Trump is an

aspiring dictator who also seems to be losing a step, he then gave us this Freudian slip.

But we've been waging an all-out war in American democracy.

You look at what they...

We have. We we have we got them

People were very excited about that yes Trump campaign also made placards for the event that said Biden attacks democracy a little long for a placard but okay. Yeah that is pretty long.

Is that on the podium? Also put those words they had them up on the screen behind

him too. Okay. So it was I guess I don't know if it was a step-in

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