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🗓️ 18 June 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Trump’s a buffoon, a jerk, an ignoramus, a moron, a nincompoop, a victim, a maniac, and a racist but he’s also a jackass. Democracyish with guest David Frum on the meaning of Trump and the meaning of the Rayshard Brooks case.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Democracy Isha. |
0:13.7 | And I'm Danielle Moody. |
0:15.0 | And today we're joined by an old friend of mine, David Frum, who is the author of Trumpocalypse. |
0:21.5 | Welcome, David. |
0:22.8 | Hey, thank you so much. |
0:24.5 | We are coming to you just as the Rayshard Brooks case is growing in that prosecutors are laying out the case against the officer. |
0:35.0 | He's going to be charged with felony murder, along with several other things, including kicking Richard Brooks's dying body as it lay on the ground in the |
0:45.5 | parking lot of Wendy's. And, you know, for those of us like me and Danielle, who do not really |
0:52.9 | believe in the possibility of reform, |
0:56.1 | this is yet another plank in that argument as we're having this national conversation about the problems, |
1:07.3 | the epic problems of American policing. |
1:14.2 | Here we see again, cops losing control of a situation, |
1:20.7 | shooting someone in the back, and showing such disregard for his life and his body that not only did they not try to save him, but they kicked him while he was down. Danielle, we have that fact pattern. |
1:29.9 | We also know that his partner is going to take the wind to stand against him, |
1:38.0 | which is not something we normally see. |
1:42.4 | Oh, Steve, you're in a pickle. |
1:44.9 | Yes, Mrs. Jenkins, I will look after your house while you're away. |
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2:13.6 | Should we, do we, do we feel more pain and more anger with policing to say like you shot him in the back and then you kicked him like you're in menace of society or to say we do see |
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