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The Perils of Prosecuting Trump

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

There are two basic camps of thought when it comes to upholding the norms and laws that the Trump administration has broken. On the one hand: How will these norms and laws ever be respected again, if President Trump and the people around him are not investigated, and possibly charged, for any abuses? One the other hand: Could additional investigations into Trump tear the country apart? Guest: Dahlia Lithwick, host of the Amicus podcast.  Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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When I asked Slate's Dolly O'Lithwick to try to picture Donald Trump's last day in

0:39.2

office, she couldn't do it.

0:41.9

I feel like as is often the case in just horrific abusive relationships, I can't quite

0:50.4

imagine yet that this gets fixed. You don't want to get too optimistic.

1:00.3

I just feel as though once you give over to the reality that Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani

1:08.3

will do absolutely anything, break absolutely anything, burn absolutely anything to win

1:14.6

this thing. It's hard to just seed the fear that there's some pathway to doing that.

1:23.4

Dalia knows she's being irrational here. She says she was actually more worried a few

1:28.2

weeks back.

1:29.8

Now I think he's going to go and he's going to go clawing the carpet on his way out,

1:35.0

kicking and screaming, but go he will. But I do think that there is this real question

1:40.8

about, does he take off for some foreign land? Does he pardon himself on the way out?

1:51.6

In an administration that has broken so many rules, leaving office isn't as simple as

1:57.3

packing up a few closets. Leaving the White House makes the president much more vulnerable

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