Old men and corrupt tyrants: America's choice for 2024
The News Agents - USA
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4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
After a deeply unedifying week of US politics we look at the choice before America in November.
Is Biden too old to stand for President?
Is Trump too corrupt?
And what happens next if the answer to both those questions is 'yes'?
On today's episode we look at the report by special counsel Robert K. Hur who calls the president a 'well-meaning elderly man' and the kind words of encouragment Trump has for Vladimir Putin.
Will any of the court cases land a decisive blow either way?
And what is going to happen to the conman congressman George Santos's seat in the Long Island special election this week?
Editor: Gabriel Radus
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Production: Rory Symon
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.3 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.9 | What I didn't realize, and I've been around, I know I don't look like it, I've been around a while. |
| 0:20.3 | I do remember that. |
| 0:21.6 | That was President Joe Biden fighting back, making jokes about his age, after a a week which has been an absolute shocker. |
| 0:40.2 | Yeah, Emily, it was utterly dismal for Joe Biden, bringing back to life Mitterrand, |
| 0:46.3 | Helmut Cole. And then Donald Trump decides he'd go one better. He'd talk about NATO |
| 0:52.7 | and how Russia had the right to go and start |
| 0:56.0 | to bomb or invade countries that weren't paying their fair share into NATO's coffers. |
| 1:02.4 | What a choice in November 24. Welcome to the Newsagents USA. |
| 1:12.7 | It's John. It's John. It's Emily. |
| 1:14.7 | And if you are a US voter right now, then boy have you drawn the short straw, because you |
| 1:21.7 | have facing you two candidates that we already know 70% of the electorate would not choose from either party. That is 70% of a |
| 1:32.3 | disenfranchised country heading, hurtling into one of the most significant elections we've probably seen. |
| 1:39.1 | So let us try and just dissect a little bit of the past week. And things got really bad for Biden. |
| 1:46.9 | His Mitterrand and his Chancellor Cole comments aside. |
| 1:51.1 | Right after I was elected, I went to what they call a G7 meeting, all the NATO leaders. |
| 1:57.6 | I was in South England. |
| 2:00.9 | And I sat down and I said, America's back. |
| 2:04.5 | And later on from Germany, I mean from France, looked at me and said, how long are you back for? |
| 2:12.0 | Things got really bad for Biden when a special counsel called Robert He Hur published what looked to be an exoneration |
| 2:20.7 | of Joe Biden for missing documents where he explained, first of all, that there was no criminal |
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