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Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Muckrake podcast uh the weekender edition um things are nuts man

things are just nuts it has been another week uh we have watched uh just a a quick run through

we have watched donald john trump become the first president in the history of the

United States of America, who has been impeached twice, Nick, twice, two times, not one, twice,

two times impeached, including the largest bipartisan vote, including a smattering of Republicans,

including Liz Cheney, who's along for the ride at this point.

Mitch McConnell has signaled that he's okay with convicting Donald Trump.

It does not sound like this is going to get done before the inauguration, something that we need to talk about.

But meanwhile, by the way, the threat completely persist. It seems like members of Congress were

probably complicit in the coup attempt. How are you doing, Nick? How are you processing all

this? I'm doing great. I do think that McConnell is full of shit.

I think he's only doing this to hold it over Trump for the next seven days to keep him in line.

Just to kind of keep him from doing anything else crazy, which I don't know it's possible anyway.

But I feel that McConnell will certainly vote against an impeachment after he's out of office or whatever.

But then again,

there is this distant notion that after they convict him, they can then vote to not allow him to

ever run for office again. Right. And I don't believe they can do that unless he's convicted.

So I suspect that that carrot at the other end of the conviction or at the end of the trial

could be enough for these senators.

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