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These Rhetorical Devices Help Trump Maintain Power

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to Dr. Jennifer Mercieca, professor of rhetoric and author of Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump, breaking down how he uses language to control his audience, philosophical explorations of Hobbes and Descartes, the unexamined rhetorical life of Hillary Clinton, and rhetorical devices to watch in the 2020 presidential campaigns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Ah, the sound of spring cleaning.

0:03.6

Steam clean your way to brighter bathrooms

0:06.4

and sparkling kitchens with the carcass deen cleaner.

0:09.4

You'll be done before you know it,

0:11.4

with more time to pitch your feet up.

0:13.8

Find your carcass deen cleaner at carcature.co.uk

0:18.3

or a carcure retailer.

0:20.0

It is my profound honor to be the first president in history

0:24.6

to attend the March 4 life.

0:28.2

We're here for a very simple reason to defend the right of every child,

0:39.8

born and unborn, to fulfill their God-given potential.

0:47.3

The president's obstruction is very much a constitutional crime in progress.

0:52.1

Arming Congress as it deliberates these very proceedings

0:56.1

and the American people who deserve to know the facts.

1:00.4

A president who believes he can get away with anything

1:03.8

and can use his office to conceal evidence of abuse threatens us all.

1:11.9

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast.

1:13.9

I'm Virginia Heffernan.

1:15.1

On the Mount Rushmore of Evil American Men,

1:17.8

you might find the murderer, O.J. Simpson,

1:20.7

the sex slave trafficker and child rapist, Jeffrey Epstein,

1:24.4

the sexual predator who's been accused of sexual assault over 100 times,

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