Trump 2024 wants to Make Executions Exciting Again? / Asawin Suebsaeng

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🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Journalist Asawin Suebsaeng discusses his Rolling Stones articles "Twitter Kept Entire 'Database’ of Republican Requests to Censor Posts " and "Trump Plans to Bring Back Firing Squads, Group Executions if He Retakes White House". This episode also features this week's Hangover Cure, new Question from Hell!, and a Past Inside the Present about Jim Crow Laws from historian Sebastion Wuepper. https://www.rollingstone.com/author/asawin-suebsaeng/

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0:00.0	And the Take it back.
0:13.0	Take it back. This is hell.
0:35.0	Hell.
0:36.0	Oke-Doke.
0:37.0	Manufacturing descent since 1996.
0:42.0	This is hell according to multiple sources including
0:48.7	former White House officials and those familiar with the re-election
0:51.5	campaign of Donald Trump, the former president has
0:54.4	apparently made an even harder right turn in his rhetoric, which now sounds like that of a full-blown
1:01.2	dictator. Specifically, it appears Trump has taken a page from
1:04.8	former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's playbook. Duterte, while in
1:11.2	office from 2016 to 2022,
1:14.0	infamously executed anywhere between nearly 7,000
1:18.7	to more than 12,000 suspects in his war on drugs. Not that this kind of admiration by Trump for such a brutal
1:26.8	leader should be a surprise only four months after taking office a leaked
1:32.1	transcript of phone records to the Washington Post and New York Times received,
1:35.0	or revealed a call by Trump to Duterte.
1:38.0	While Duterte's government was in the midst of executing thousands,
1:42.0	records show Trump said to Duterte, midst of the
1:45.0	the the records show Trump said to Duterte, I just wanted to congratulate you because I am hearing
1:48.0	of the unbelievable job on the drug problem.
1:51.0	Many countries have the problem.
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