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🗓️ 23 October 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You believe that it's a war about the inclusion of the House of the World of H. |
| 0:03.0 | Well, I think they want to, any Democrat wants to, because they're not going to beat me in the election. |
| 0:07.5 | So, of course, they want to impeach me. |
| 0:09.0 | Why would they want to impeach me? It's so illegitimate. |
| 0:12.0 | It cannot be the way the founders, our great founders, meant this to be. |
| 0:19.0 | The infeasement process is the closest thing of a political death-road trial. |
| 0:25.0 | So, I get his absolute rejection of the process. |
| 0:30.0 | Given the history in our country, I would not compare this to a lynching. |
| 0:36.0 | That was an unfortunate choice of words. |
| 0:43.0 | Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. I'm Virginia Heffernin. |
| 0:46.0 | So, the impeachers, I mean, inquirers in Congress, had a behind closed doors hearing |
| 0:51.0 | with William B. Taylor Jr. the acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine today. |
| 0:56.0 | Do you remember Taylor? He's the one who's slid into DMs with his fellow diplomats |
| 1:00.0 | to say, hey, this president is on tilt. |
| 1:04.0 | Those who heard Taylor's testimony today said it was wait for it. |
| 1:07.0 | Fucked. |
| 1:08.0 | No, they didn't say that. They said it was disturbing. |
| 1:12.0 | Whatever. For us, the disturbance ship has sailed long ago, |
| 1:16.0 | but I guess proper people in Congress have reached the limits of the language they can use in mixed company. |
| 1:22.0 | I'm guessing, though, that Taylor spelled out the details of what we already know about Trump's dealings with Ukraine. |
| 1:28.0 | Trump solicited help to bullying smear a political rival and offered to withhold military aid if he didn't get his way. |
| 1:35.0 | Quids, quos, it's all there, disturbing, to say the least. |
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