Note from Elie: “Dereliction of Duty” Is Far Too Generous to Donald Trump
The Counsel
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.7 • 861 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Thumbtack presents the ins and outs of caring for your home. |
| 0:05.0 | Out. Indecision, overthinking, second guessing every choice you make. |
| 0:11.0 | In. Plans and guides that make it easy to get home projects done. |
| 0:16.0 | Out. |
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| 0:27.3 | Start caring for your home with confidence. Download Thumbtack today. |
| 0:34.9 | Hey everybody, it's Ellie here with my weekly note to all of you. |
| 0:39.2 | Please keep sending your thoughts, questions, or comments to letters atcafe.com. |
| 1:04.9 | Thank you. Derelliction of duty is far too generous to Donald Trump. |
| 1:10.6 | When it comes to Trump's conduct on the afternoon of January 6th as the Capitol was under attack. |
| 1:14.4 | Deroliction of duty is one of those phrases that just tends to catch on, |
| 1:16.7 | descriptive, alliterative, punchy. |
| 1:20.0 | Google, Trump, dereliction of duty, January 6th, |
| 1:22.5 | and you'll get pages upon pages of results. |
| 1:25.8 | Powerful Republicans have used the phrase to call out Trump for his conspicuous inaction that day, |
| 1:28.8 | including Senator Mitch McConnell, who called it a disgraceful dereliction of duty, and Representative |
| 1:34.3 | Liz Cheney, who called it a supreme dereliction of duty. Democrats have eagerly embraced |
| 1:39.9 | the same verbiage. Indeed, during the fateful three-plus hours while pro-Trump maniac stormed |
| 1:46.2 | the Capitol, Trump did nothing to stop them, despite a slew of text messages to White House |
| 1:51.9 | Chief of Staff Mark Meadows from MAGA heavy hitters ranging from Sean Hannity to Rents Prebis |
| 1:57.1 | to Donald Trump Jr., begging the then-president to call off the rioters who were |
| 2:02.1 | acting in his name. |
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