‘Their Goal Is the End of America’

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🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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What President Trump’s divisive speech at Mount Rushmore reveals about his re-election campaign. Guest: Maggie Haberman, who covers the White House for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily Background reading: Missteps by a fractured campaign and a series of self-inflicted wounds added up to a very bad June for President Trump.In speeches at the White House and Mount Rushmore last weekend, the president promoted a version of the “American carnage” vision from his inaugural address.

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0:26.0	From The New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro.
0:33.0	This is The Daily.
0:40.4	Today, in a major speech at Mount Rushmore, President Trump said that the goal of nation-wide
0:48.4	protests is not, quote, a better America.
1:02.0	It's Tuesday, July 7th.
1:21.0	Maggie heading into this July 4th weekend, what was our understanding of what this Mount
1:26.3	Rushmore speech from President Trump, what it was for, what it was intended to do?
1:31.7	So Michael, the month of June was pretty calamitous for President Trump politically and
1:37.4	in terms of his legacy.
1:39.4	It began with the federal government having protesters forcibly cleared using chemical
1:45.4	irritants from Lafayette Park across from the White House so that the President could
1:49.9	then take a photo op to mass protests across the country to a huge spike in coronavirus
1:57.4	cases in areas of the country where it really had not been that prevalent and where the
2:03.0	governors in those states were looking toward reopening.
2:06.3	So the President tried for a reboot of his campaign with a rally in Tulsa on June 20th.
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