Media Coverage of the Trump Movement is Missing Vital Context

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🗓️ 29 November 2023

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The rallies and guns aren't "just" theater.

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0:00.0	This is the On the on the Media Midweek Podcast. I'm Brooke Gladstone. In his Veterans Day's
0:07.0	speech a couple of weeks ago, former President Donald Trump said this about his political enemy.
0:13.2	The proposals include leveraging the Department of Justice to go after his political rivals.
0:18.1	On the campaign trail, he has been equally vivid in outlining his proposed agenda for a second term in office.
0:25.8	The 2025 agenda would also expand the hardline immigration policies Trump pursued during
0:30.9	his first term in office.
0:32.4	We will begin the largest domestic deportation operation
0:36.6	in American history.
0:38.1	Trump currently faces 91 felony counts
0:41.0	in four criminal cases in Washington, New York, Florida, and Georgia.
0:45.6	Back in June of this year, right around the time he was receiving his second indictment,
0:50.6	we observed that some of the messages in defense of Trump from members of the GOP
0:55.8	were incomprehensible to the casual reader. For instance, Representative Clay Higgins from Louisiana
1:03.7	tweeted that the summoning of President Trump
1:06.1	to the Miami Federal Courthouse in June was, quote,
1:09.9	a perimeter probe from the oppressors.
1:12.9	Hold, Arapotus has this.
1:15.2	Buckle up.
1:16.5	One slash 50k, know your bridges, rock steady calm.
1:21.8	That is all.
1:23.2	Yeah, after Representative Higgins tweeted that a lot of people were delighted.
1:27.8	They said this was words, salad, and look at these goofballs and they're harmless.
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