Throw Cronyism on the Pile

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🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Donald Trump’s Friday night commutation of his associate, Roger Stone, further reinforces the public’s apprehension about his presidency. Parsing the statistics that contribute to the impression that the country is in the grip of a new surge of COVID-19 cases. And Peter Beinart’s attack on Israel even as the Jewish State is again saving the world from the prospect of a rogue nuclear power in the... Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.
0:26.8	Today is Monday, July 13th, 2020.
0:30.2	I am John Pogbord,
0:31.3	it's the editor of Commentary Magazine.
0:33.6	With me, once again, after a week's break,
0:37.7	a well-needed, well-deserved week's break,
0:40.5	Associate Editor-in-Oh Rothman, hi, Noah.
0:42.9	Hi, John.
0:44.2	Christine Rosen, Senior Writer.
0:46.0	Here as she was last week.
0:47.3	Hi, Christine.
0:48.2	Hi, John.
0:49.3	And never, never, never gone.
0:51.9	Always here, executive editor Abe Greenwald.
0:54.5	Hi, Abe.
0:55.3	Hi, John.
0:56.8	OK, so I am going to throw out a challenge to everybody.
1:00.0	Somebody defend the commutation of the sentence of Roger Stone.
1:06.1	Don't everybody jump it all at once.
1:08.0	That's like throwing yourself on a grenade right now, right?
1:11.4	Can anyone come up with a legitimate defense
1:14.2	of the commutation of Roger Stone?
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