They Want To Pitch Grand Plans — Instead They're Talking Trump
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🗓️ 14 June 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Noah. Over the past 20 years my wife and I have lived in Oregon, |
| 0:04.7 | Rhode Island, Maryland, Florida, Mississippi, California, a different part of Maryland, |
| 0:09.8 | a different part of California, and over the past three years we've lived in Japan. |
| 0:14.0 | Today, I'm at London Heathrow Airport picking up my family so we can plead or move to the United |
| 0:19.2 | Kingdom. This podcast was recorded at 1.33 pm on June 14, 2023. Things may have changed in the time |
| 0:28.7 | of you here at, but I'll still be using mpur politics podcast to get caught up on what's going on |
| 0:33.1 | at home. All right, here's the show. I had no idea where that time stamp was going. I feel like I |
| 0:41.5 | did not know what location he was going to be in next. Yeah, what does the guy do? A good question, |
| 0:45.4 | good question. Hey there, it's the mpur politics podcast. I'm Miles Parks. I cover voting. |
| 0:50.3 | Susan Davis, I cover politics. And I'm Mara Liason, National Political Correspondent. |
| 0:54.9 | I have demanded that every other candidate in this race either sign this commitment to pardon |
| 1:02.0 | on January 20, 2025 or else to explain why they are not. You might recognize that voice. It's |
| 1:09.2 | Vivek Ramaswamy, the entrepreneur and investor running against Trump for the Republican nomination |
| 1:15.0 | for president. Ramaswamy was outside the federal courthouse in Miami yesterday pledging to pardon |
| 1:20.8 | Trump for his alleged hoarding of state secrets and confidential documents at his resort in Florida. |
| 1:26.8 | So let's start here. We're going to be talking a lot about pardons today. Sue, where does Ramaswamy fall |
| 1:34.0 | in terms of the Republican candidates on this issue? He's certainly been the most out there and |
| 1:38.1 | the most aggressive and saying unequivocally as soon as the indictment was delivered that he would |
| 1:44.2 | pardon Donald Trump if he were elected president. One of the most fascinating dynamics of the |
| 1:50.4 | Republican presidential nomination fight right now is that you could have a front runner |
| 1:55.0 | indicted on federal crimes and none of his opponents are trying to use it against him essentially. |
| 2:00.8 | Yeah, instead they're like basically like, no, it's great. It's fine. Everything's fine. |
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