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The Lincoln Project

The Tipping Point

The Lincoln Project

The Lincoln Project

News, Government, Politics, News Commentary

4.69.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In this week's Elephant in the Room, Rick details the constitutional tipping point we find ourselves in as a democratic republic. If Trump and his administration continue to defy court orders, what can be done about this, and who else could they soon target?


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Your task will not be an easy one.

0:04.3

Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and battle-hardt.

0:08.1

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America.

0:11.7

There is the United States of America.

0:16.3

Good night and good luck.

0:18.9

Hey folks.

0:20.3

The elephant in the room this week is the tipping point.

0:28.1

I think for a lot of folks, they realized this week at long last that the administration

0:34.2

currently holding the White House is lawless, reckless, and escalating

0:40.2

in its lawlessness and recklessness. Now, look, a lot of this comes from an understanding

0:44.6

that they want to have a fight. The Trump White House wants to have a fight about immigration.

0:49.9

They want to try to turn Abrago Garcia into a monstrous criminal MS-13 gang member

0:55.8

and to justify ignoring a series of court orders to return him to the United States.

1:01.5

Maybe he's not a terrorist, but he's a potential terrorist.

1:04.9

He's a terrorist watchless person.

1:06.9

And that woman that he is married to and that child he had with her, they are safer tonight because he is out of our country.

1:16.3

Nothing will change the fact that Obrigo Garcia will never be a Maryland father.

1:21.3

He will never live in the United States of America again.

1:24.3

To justify ignoring the Supreme Court of the United States, because they look at this

1:29.9

particular case as one that has a salutary political effect on their base.

1:36.3

There's nothing they love more than a brown monster to frighten the white women.

1:40.5

Because that's what they're after.

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