#Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus compare the smears and lawfare of Cicero's Rome with the smears and lawfare of US politicss: no dofference.Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/02/11/donald-trump-russia-nato-allies/
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| 0:37.0 | he's got his pass through the enemy lines, I hope he comes back with his head on his shoulders. |
| 0:41.0 | The picks can be ruthless when they discover a Roman citizen |
| 0:45.3 | behind their lines. But he has his way and I have mine and we're enjoying laughing at the 21st century so we're going to laugh at the |
| 0:54.9 | first century B. C. This is the time before Caesar, before the Civil War, before Octavian took on Antony in Cleopatra. |
| 1:08.0 | This is when a man named Cicero commanded the Senate because he could talk. |
| 1:14.5 | He could talk beautifully for hours. |
| 1:17.4 | And he was spellbinding. |
| 1:19.0 | Although he had his weaknesses, and one of them was he had grudges he kept grudges and the reason I bring this up to Germanicus is that we're dealing these days with a 21st century America. It uses lawfare as a form of political |
| 1:37.0 | electioneering. Witness one candidate on the Republican side with multiple juries in his future. |
| 1:47.0 | Witness on the Democratic side, a sitting president who's now completely tangled up in what did or did not |
| 1:56.7 | happen with classified documents at his home in boxes mixed in with his sons, mementos, the answers he's given. It's all very complicated, |
| 2:09.1 | but it does suggest that there'll be more to this, lawfare to this, and promised lawfare in the |
| 2:16.2 | event that the Republicans take control of the White House in 25. |
| 2:22.2 | And Germanicus, I just bring up the fact that we Romans use lawfare too. |
| 2:27.2 | As I understand it, Claudia, a fine Roman matron, well married to a general who is always away, so that's very convenient |
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