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That ‘Trump is Anti-Corruption’ Defense

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4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to Washington Post opiner and Talking Feds host Harry Litman about the latest defense of Trump over Ukraine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I learned nothing from Adam Giff, I think he's a man.

0:02.8

I want to learn to protect him.

0:03.8

And I think Adam Giff is a deranged human being.

0:06.8

I think he grew up with a complex for lots of reasons that are obvious.

0:10.6

I think he's a very sick man.

0:12.8

And he lies.

0:13.8

Adam Giff made up my conversation with the President of Ukraine.

0:20.0

This report chronicles the scheme by the President of the United States to coerce an ally Ukraine

0:26.2

that is at war with an adversary Russia into doing the President's political dirty work.

0:33.0

It involves a scheme in which Donald Trump withheld official acts, a White House meeting,

0:38.4

as well as hundreds of millions of dollars of needed military assistance in order to compel

0:43.6

that power to deliver two investigations that he believed would assist his re-election campaign.

0:52.4

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast.

0:54.2

I'm Virginia Heffernan, so certain cognitively imperiled Republicans in their kind of special class

1:00.8

have taken another standardized test and submitted their pre-bottle in advance of this week's hearings

1:06.8

on impeachment in the House Judiciary Committee.

1:09.6

They managed to fill in many of the circles on their standardized tests, which is great,

1:13.8

though they did it in the usual crayon and it looks kind of puse and burnt orange to my eyes.

1:20.4

But sadly, they used the circles not to answer the questions posed,

1:25.0

but to draw a picture as far as I can interpret here, I was leaked a copy of this thing.

1:29.8

Santa Claus as a kind of hustler cartoon with his big butt showing, plus crowd strike,

1:35.5

plus a hasa to their godhead, it says godhead here, David Koresh and the branch dividends.

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