Trump Emboldened
Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
New York Times Opinion
4.0 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Michelle Goldberg. |
| 0:01.2 | I'm Ross Dathett. |
| 0:02.4 | I'm David Lee and Hart. |
| 0:03.8 | And this is the argument. |
| 0:10.2 | This week, as the Trump presidency entered a new, |
| 0:14.0 | even bolder phase. |
| 0:16.0 | A lot of the president's aids and operatives are in prison or going to prison, |
| 0:20.4 | and none of his political enemies are. |
| 0:22.8 | Then Donald Trump as architectures are. |
| 0:26.6 | We debate the proposal to require all new federal buildings to be built in the |
| 0:31.2 | classical style. |
| 0:32.5 | Imitations of classical architecture is just going to be this like hideous world of |
| 0:39.2 | kitsch. |
| 0:40.1 | And finally, a recommendation. |
| 0:42.4 | I sacrificed my wife and unborn child rather than go into the Cheetah cage myself. |
| 0:47.5 | Earlier this month, president Trump stood in the east room of the White House and held up a copy |
| 0:56.9 | of the Washington Post with the front page headline, Trump acquitted. |
| 1:01.9 | He clearly felt vindicated, and he's been acting like it. |
| 1:05.2 | He is fired officials he considers disloyal. |
| 1:08.4 | He has issued pardons to people with ties to him. |
| 1:11.6 | His justice department has intervened in the sentencing of his ally Roger Stone. |
| 1:16.1 | And Trump has signaled that he may issue a pardon anyway. |
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