Trump Fought the Law and the Law Won
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🗓️ 11 January 2025
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Summary
Rick breaks down the news from today regarding the Supreme Court's ruling on Trump's sentencing.
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| 0:00.0 | Your task will not be an easy one. |
| 0:02.4 | Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and battlehardt. |
| 0:06.1 | There is not a liberal America and a conservative America. |
| 0:09.8 | There is the United States of America. |
| 0:14.8 | Good night and good luck. |
| 0:16.9 | Hey, everybody, it's Rick. |
| 0:18.1 | This is a slightly abbreviated elephant in the room this week because I am out of some meetings at a conference out in the beautiful, beautiful state of Oregon. |
| 0:26.6 | As you can see, it is spectacularly gorgeous today and we brought the clear weather. |
| 0:34.6 | Now, look, Donald Trump has had a terrible, terrible week. Why has it been terrible? |
| 0:43.8 | While the court did not punish him, his conviction is now affirmed. He is a convicted felon |
| 0:50.4 | and always will be. No governor of New York is ever going to pardon Donald J. Trump. He is a convicted felon and always will be. No governor of New York is ever going to pardon Donald J. Trump. |
| 0:56.7 | He is a convicted felon forever. Look, I know it doesn't change the ball game, but it was never |
| 1:02.7 | going to change the ball game. I wish they would have punished him. I wish they would have |
| 1:07.9 | fined him. I wish they would have put him in jail for even five minutes. But he's still a convicted felon. It's a stain that will not wash out. It's not |
| 1:16.4 | going to go away. It doesn't magically get better. It doesn't suddenly, you don't wake up one more and go, |
| 1:21.3 | hey, I'm not a criminal anymore because he's a criminal. He has been and he always will be. |
| 1:27.4 | The second really, I think significant reason that Trump had a very bad week this He has been and he always will be. |
| 1:27.7 | The second really, I think significant reason that Trump had a very bad week this week was |
| 1:32.5 | his own Supreme Court, the one he handpicked, the famous Red Court, did not protect him. |
| 1:40.6 | They could have easily. |
| 1:43.0 | But even Amy Comey Barrett said, nah, not this time, bro. |
| 1:47.0 | The Magas are very angry. I hope they become more angry with Amy Comey Barrett and John Roberts |
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