Our Democracy in Peril. Part 1: The Coup Timeline
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 14 September 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode we go over the timeline of events leading up to the January 6th insurrection and explore the ways Donald Trump and his Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, tried to overturn the presidential election.
Our guide is Ryan Goodman, founding co-editor-in-chief of Just Security, an online forum for the rigorous analysis of national and international security. Goodman is a Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Reiss Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law. He served as Special Counsel to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense (2015-16). He is a frequent guest of Chris Hayes on MSNBC.
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| 1:07.3 | Here we are with another edition of the Bill Press Pod. Welcome back, good friends, and welcome to all of you newcomers. |
| 1:12.5 | Please subscribe to the Bill Press Pod and come back and see us often. You know, it's still hard to believe that an armed ban of domestic terrorists, and that's what they were, |
| 1:16.9 | stormed the United States Capitol on January 6th and almost overran the United States government. |
| 1:23.2 | It's harder to believe that another mob will rally at the Capitol on September 18 in support |
| 1:29.2 | of those who trash the Capitol on January 6th. |
| 1:33.4 | And even harder to believe that to date, neither Donald Trump nor any of his top lieutenants |
| 1:38.9 | have been held responsible for inciting that mob. |
| 1:43.1 | It makes you wonder, could Donald Trump actually stage a coup d'etat, |
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