Obama’s Brutal Takedown of Trump at Rally Reveals a Terrifying Truth

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

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🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

At a rally in Nevada, Barack Obama offered a blistering new warning: Trump’s vows to persecute the “enemy within” should be taken with deadly seriousness. Trump’s displays are deeply dangerous in someone who would be president with no guardrails left. Yet even now, a sizable subset of voters just doesn’t take his threats seriously. We talked to veteran analyst Michael Podhorzer, author of a good new piece warning that we’re “sleepwalking our way to fascism.” He explains how this election could come down to whether those voters grasp the threat Trump poses—exactly what Obama seemed to be saying—and criticizes the media for failing to sound the alarm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.2	At a rally in Nevada over the weekend, Barack Obama offered a blistering new takedown of Donald Trump.
1:06.7	Obama warned that Trump's threats to persecute the enemy within should be taken with
1:11.2	deadly seriousness and made the case that Trump's latest displays are not just unhinged, but
1:17.4	deeply dangerous in someone who could soon be president with no guardrails left.
1:23.1	Yet even now, there does seem to be a sizable subset of voters who just don't take what Trump is saying all that seriously.
1:30.8	And time is running out.
1:33.8	Veteran political strategist and analyst Michael Podhorzer has a good new piece on his substack, weekend reading,
1:40.9	warning that because of this and other dynamics, we may be sleepwalking towards fascism.
1:46.2	Pretty much exactly what Obama was warning against.
1:49.6	So today we're talking to Podhorzer about what can be done to turn this all around before
1:54.3	it's too late. Good to have you back on, Michael. Great to be back, Greg, and really impressed
2:00.6	with all your valuable reporting on this. Appreciate it, Michael. Great to be back, Greg, and really impressed with all your valuable reporting on this.
2:03.7	Appreciate it, Michael. So let's start here. Barack Obama spoke at a rally in Nevada on Saturday,
2:09.9	and he said this. When Donald Trump repeatedly lies or cheats or shows utter disregard for our Constitution or just insults people.
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