Senate hopeful John Fetterman talks incarceration, gun control, and Trump voters

The Gist

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🗓️ 16 January 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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On the Gist, the QAnon Shaman's lawyer. In the interview, John Fetterman, also known as Lieutenant Governor Stone Cold, talks to Mike about his potential Senate run. The Pennsylvania native talks about his origin story from son of teenagers to Harvard graduate, his thoughts on gun control and incarceration, and the woes of being six-foot-nine. (Not enough suits.) In Remembrances of Things Trump: so many Seans, so little time. In the spiel, supposed contradictions of pro-free speech. Email us at thegist@slate.com Podcast production by Margaret Kelley, Cheyna Roth, and Jasmine Ellis. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast may contain explicit content, which is, I suspect, why many of you are
0:05.4	tuning in in the first place.
0:06.7	It's Friday, January 15th, 2021, from slated to justime, Mike Pesca.
0:15.2	Donald Trump should face actual charges of criminal incitement, will argue that he did not,
0:20.7	as per Washington DC's statute quote, intentionally or recklessly act in such a manner to cause
0:26.8	another person to be in reasonable fear.
0:29.9	They will say no reasonable person could have heard what he said and thought it was a
0:34.5	call to arms.
0:35.5	Now, here's the problem.
0:37.5	The proud boys, the zip tie guy, the beat the policeman with the American flag guy,
0:41.6	the Viking horns and animal Pelt guy, they're not reasonable people.
0:45.9	In fact, here's the lawyer for Viking animal Pelt guy, Jake Angelli, the lawyer talked to CNN.
0:53.1	It was a driving force by a man he hung his hat on.
1:00.3	He hitched his wagon to.
1:02.0	He loved Trump.
1:04.5	Every word he listened to him.
1:07.5	He felt like he was answering the call of our president.
1:13.2	I mean, can you really hang a hat if the hat has horns?
1:17.3	You can pierce his hat on it.
1:18.5	That might be the better idiom.
1:20.5	So to recap, President Trump defense should have come to this or even the defense he'll
1:25.1	make in public and the form of argumentation is no one could possibly think that I made
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