The Real Story: Why Impeachment Helps Trump
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 28 January 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
After 45 Senate Republicans voted to declare his impeachment trial unconstitutional, Donald Trump is almost assured an acquittal. It marks a stunning turnaround for a man who just a few weeks ago was completely isolated and facing the prospect of jail time for seditious conspiracy. How did the Democratic Party fail so spectacularly? Will impeachment ironically be the thing that paves the way for Trump’s reentry into the political spotlight? What does this mean for the rising danger of fascism?
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| 0:00.0 | Today we will talk about why the Democrats' impeachment effort is a gift to Donald Trump |
| 0:05.2 | and will fan the flames of Trumpism in America. |
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| 1:06.3 | I'm Nicole Roussel and I'm here with our host, Brian Becker. |
| 1:10.5 | Brian, this week, 45 Republican senators |
| 1:13.9 | voted for a resolution that said impeaching Donald Trump as a private citizen would be unconstitutional. |
| 1:21.0 | And you've been saying from the beginning, we've been talking about this here on the show, |
| 1:24.6 | that the second impeachment of Donald Trump was I believe your exact words |
| 1:28.5 | were a tactical blunder that seems to be playing out exactly that way is that how you see it |
| 1:34.3 | still see it as a major tactical blunder the Democrats are in fact giving Donald Trump a gift |
| 1:43.4 | what does impeachment actually mean? |
| 1:47.1 | It means that the Senate convicts after it's been, after it's received articles of impeachment |
| 1:53.7 | from the democratically controlled House of Representatives, it could convict Donald Trump |
| 1:59.2 | forcing him to leave office. The only issue is he's not in office. |
| 2:05.0 | He left office at 12.01, January, 12.1 p.m. January 20th, everybody knew he was leaving. So what exactly |
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