The Backstory: Bloody politics
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Think politics today are the most angry and violent they’ve ever been? What about the days when senators and congressmen came to work armed with guns and knives? Or the murder of one congressman by another just because they had an ideological disagreement? That’s when politics were bloody.
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, we're getting pretty close to the next presidential election. |
| 0:04.5 | Is it going to be the current President Joe Biden or the former President Donald Trump? |
| 0:09.0 | Now, you may think the politics, the emotions, and the hostility around this election seem kind of |
| 0:16.0 | unprecedented, but that's where you're wrong. Imagine senators and congressmen regularly |
| 0:22.0 | carrying weapons into the capital simply to do their and Congressman |
| 0:24.1 | regularly carrying weapons into the Capitol simply to do their job. |
| 0:25.6 | A Congressman being beaten almost to death on the House floor |
| 0:29.4 | or another being murdered by a colleague, |
| 0:31.9 | all because a guy on the other side of the aisle |
| 0:34.8 | doesn't agree with his politics. |
| 0:37.1 | It all happened in the 1800s. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm Patty Steele, bloody politics. |
| 0:41.8 | Next on the backstory. |
| 0:43.4 | Last season, millions tuned into the betrayal podcast |
| 0:47.2 | to hear a shocking story of deception. |
| 0:49.4 | I'm Andrea Gunning, and now we're sharing an all new story of betrayal. |
| 0:55.0 | Stacy thought she had the perfect husband. |
| 0:58.0 | Doctor, father, family man. |
| 1:01.0 | It was the perfect cover for Justin Rutherford to hide behind. |
| 1:07.8 | They led me into the house and I mean it was like a movie. |
| 1:11.0 | He was sitting at our kitchen table. |
| 1:13.9 | The cops were guarding him. |
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