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The Political Orphanage

Trump Conviction: Kangaroo Court or Al Capone?

The Political Orphanage

Andrew Heaton

Comedy, Moderate, Politics, Independent, News, Nonpartisan, Libertarian

5951 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Last week a New York court found former president Donald Trump guilty on thirty-four felony counts. Is this rule of law in action, or a corrupt judiciary undermining the law?

Paul Townsend and Anna Gorisch join to sort things out.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits and problem solvers.

0:14.4

I'm your host Andrew Heaton.

0:17.2

And unless you've been living in the woods, you are no doubt aware that former President

0:21.8

Donald Trump has been convicted of multiple felony counts in a New York court as of last week.

0:28.0

I, however, was living in the woods, so I found out later than you. I have been traveling slash camping

0:36.5

on my way back from Washington DC to Texas and was deep deep in the mountains of

0:41.8

West Virginia in Scrumpox County or or Bulbus

0:47.0

West Virginia. I don't know it was beautiful I don't know why I'm putting

0:49.6

West Virginia down it was absolutely gorgeous but I didn't have cell reception and I went on a two hour hike at one point

0:56.0

Enough electromagnetic energy was able to dribble out of the sky or however cell phone signals work that my mom squeezed one into my phone and said

1:06.8

Donald Trump's been indicted on 34 counts that's how I found out I found out in the

1:11.3

middle of the woods and then could do nothing because the phone

1:15.1

reception was no longer there, hiked back, eventually got back into cell phone

1:20.1

range and pieced together today's episode with two fantastic guests and as

1:25.1

well as a fair amount of research that I had to do wild in the woods. If you hear

1:31.4

sounds of crickets, owls, bears, axe murderers in the background, that's because I'm in the woods as I recorded this and put it together and put it out early to try and be relevant to this very big story.

1:47.0

Now in preparation for researching said story I went through a lot of media coverage

1:52.0

because what I was trying to figure out was the following.

1:55.0

What the hell happened?

1:58.0

What happened exactly?

2:01.0

And that's not a dumb question because I'm not an attorney and I wasn't in the jury and I've never been convicted of a felony as a former president and I wanted out, okay, what did he actually get convicted on and would I agree with said conviction? That seems like a reasonable starting point. And I have never, in my entire career, seen more deviance in the coverage of

2:29.3

this event in partisan media. If you are watching Blue Team Media, this trial was rock solid, an elegant

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