Trump Is Right for Once
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🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Lost Debate Show for Politically Ecclectics. I'm Ravi Gupta, and today we begin with a mixture of history and literature. |
| 0:08.2 | So let's take it back to the 16th century, England, to Robert Bolt's brilliant play, a man for all seasons. |
| 0:15.1 | And at the center of that story is Sir Thomas Moore, who is a man of unwavering principles. |
| 0:20.4 | And in a pivotal exchange, Moore finds |
| 0:23.3 | himself in a heated debate with William Roper, who's his idealistic son-in-law. And they're |
| 0:28.6 | debating whether to bend the rules to go after evil. And Moore would not bend the rules. But his |
| 0:36.5 | son-in-law, William, felt differently. He said, |
| 0:39.3 | so now you give the devil the benefit of the law, sir. Thomas Moore said, yes, what would you do? |
| 0:45.4 | Cut a great road to the law to get after the devil? William Roper said, yes, I cut down every |
| 0:50.6 | law in England to do that. And Sir Thomas Moore said, oh, and when the last law was down |
| 0:55.9 | and the devil turned round on you, where would you hide, Roper? The law's all being flat. If you cut |
| 1:01.9 | down and if you're just the man to do it, do you think you really could stand upright in the winds |
| 1:06.7 | that would blow then? I think about this story because in New York last week, Judge Arthur Orgeron ordered Trump |
| 1:15.4 | to pay more than $350 million in a civil fraud judgment for inflating the value of his real estate |
| 1:21.4 | holdings. |
| 1:22.4 | And the case was brought by Attorney General Lettisha James. |
| 1:26.7 | And this is one of these moments where we really need to |
| 1:28.9 | think straight and think about, are we really applying the law equally? And I wrote about this two |
| 1:36.2 | years ago. And I had issues with James from the get-go on this case, because when she was running |
| 1:41.8 | for Attorney General in 2018, she gave an interview in which she said, quote, the President of the United States has to worry about three |
| 1:47.8 | things. |
| 1:48.8 | Mueller, Cohen, and Tish James were all closing in on him. |
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