Note From Elie: Donald Trump’s Shot at History
The Counsel
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.7 • 861 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2022
⏱️ 8 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 everyone, Ellie here. Happy Friday. |
| 0:39.1 | Hope you enjoyed this week's note. |
| 0:40.9 | As always, I'd love to hear back from you. |
| 1:01.8 | So please send me your thoughts, questions, or comments to letters atcafe.com. This could be Donald Trump's chance. |
| 1:06.7 | Finally, to join George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in the history books. |
| 1:11.4 | Maybe not quite in the way Trump would have hoped, but it's his big opportunity nonetheless. |
| 1:18.7 | You see, our two most revered chief executives are among the very few who've ever testified in front of Congress. |
| 1:23.0 | Now with the January 6th committee's subpoena to Trump, he can do the same. |
| 1:24.3 | He won't, of course. |
| 1:28.5 | It didn't take an expert in the law or human psychology or common sense to see immediately that Trump would defy the committee's subpoena. He quickly all but confirmed the same |
| 1:33.4 | publicly and predictably denouncing the committee and its effort to procure his testimony |
| 1:37.7 | in a wild rambling missive that my CNN colleague John Avlon aptly characterized as, quote, vomit. |
| 1:45.8 | So where does the committee subpoena to Trump fit in the broader perspective? |
| 1:49.7 | Let's take a quick spin through American history. |
| 1:52.4 | A smattering of sitting presidents have in fact testified in Congress. |
| 1:56.7 | Washington, in 1789, about treaties with Native Americans, Lincoln in 1862. |
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