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The American Mind

Subpoena Party

The American Mind

The Claremont Institute

Philosophy, News, Society & Culture

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

As midterms loom, Biden’s DOJ is handing out subpoenas like they’re going out of style--which in a sense they may be, since a traditional election moratorium on political maneuvering makes coming for Trump an increasingly bad look. But at this point, will the public really believe that the DOJ is dispassionate? Or, for that matter, that the economy is under control? Biden seems to be hoping against hope that they will, throwing a White House celebration while a massive freight rail worker strike is looming and inflation is still over 8% for the year. Plus: famed attorney Kenneth Starr passed away this week. What legacy did he leave behind, and how has the use of celebrity in the White House affected our politics? Our editors analyze it all.

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0:00.0

coming up on this episode of The Round Table.

0:03.0

To this very day on a, you know, maybe for some Americans,

0:06.8

a weekly and not a daily basis,

0:08.5

but for many people still a daily basis,

0:10.8

you cannot go through the news without having

0:16.2

a non-consensual encounter with a Clinton

0:19.0

or with another figure from that time.

0:22.9

These political dynasties have done a marvelous job

0:27.9

of responding to the star investigation

0:32.0

by saying, well, if, you know,

0:35.6

having sort of, you know, moral standards

0:38.0

will destroy our dynasty in the making,

0:41.7

then we have an easy choice to make

0:44.2

and long live the dynasty.

0:46.9

That seems to have been the way

0:49.2

that events have unfolded.

0:50.9

We don't need to spend more time talking

0:52.4

about the Epstein expanded universe right now,

0:55.9

but it's all there and, and, you know,

1:00.2

you alluded to Megan V. Stallion and I mean,

1:04.1

Clintons and Jenna Taylor, man, you just,

1:06.7

you know, but are in jelly.

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