Trump Leverages Presidential Power To Juice Convention TV

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🗓️ 26 August 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Melania Trump gave her Republican National Convention address from the Rose Garden of "the people's house." Campaign videographers were there as Donald Trump issued a presidential pardon and presided over a citizenship ceremony, relying on the constitutional powers of his office to generate slick videos for his re-election effort. It was unprecedented.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's the MPR Politics Podcast.
0:05.1	I'm Susan Davis, I cover Congress.
0:07.0	I'm Tamer Keith, I cover the White House.
0:09.0	And I'm one of Summers, I cover demographics and culture.
0:11.7	And it is 11.48 pm on Tuesday, August 25, and the second night of the Republican National
0:18.5	Convention has just concluded.
0:20.8	We all know Donald Trump makes no secrets about how he feels about things.
0:27.6	Our total honesty is what we as citizens deserve from our president.
0:33.4	Whether you like it or not, you always know what he's thinking.
0:37.4	Tonight, speakers included two of the president's children, Tiffany and Eric and first lady,
0:42.4	Melania Trump.
0:43.4	I believe that we need my husband's leadership now more than ever.
0:47.8	In order to bring us back, once again, to the greatest economy and the strongest country
0:54.2	ever known.
0:56.2	God bless you all, your families, and God bless the United States of America.
1:03.7	First things, what stood out to you?
1:05.5	What is your first main takeaway?
1:07.4	So what stood out to me is from almost the very beginning of the convention proceedings
1:13.1	tonight, all the way through to the very end.
1:16.4	There was a blurring of the lines between political and official.
1:22.3	You had the president in a made-for-TV moment giving a pardon to a guy in the White House
1:29.3	as part of his convention.
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