Trump's apparent legal strategy: Deflect, distract, admit no wrong
The ReidOut with Joy Reid
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🗓️ 30 April 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on the readout. |
| 0:05.0 | You see these bums, you know, blowing up the campuses. |
| 0:09.0 | Listen, the boys that are on the college campuses the day are the luckiest people in the world. |
| 0:16.0 | And here they are burning up the books, I mean storming around about this issue, I mean you name it, |
| 0:22.0 | get rid of the war there'd be another |
| 0:23.7 | President Richard Nixon in 1970 referring to student war protesters as bums |
| 0:30.4 | just three days before four students were shot dead by the Ohio |
| 0:35.0 | National Guard at Kent State. And once again we're seeing the cycle repeating |
| 0:40.1 | itself as universities and police departments clamped down on campus protests. |
| 0:45.0 | Also tonight how Trump's lawyers are appealing more to their client's vanity and |
| 0:49.6 | less to the judge and the jury and why that is a losing strategy. |
| 0:54.7 | Plus, was there ever any doubt that Ron DeSantis would be back in Trump's loving embrace? |
| 0:59.8 | He's one of many former Trump critics now scrambling to get back into his good graces. |
| 1:04.8 | But we begin tonight with a question about a longstanding protection supposedly |
| 1:12.2 | afforded by the US Constitution. |
| 1:14.4 | Namely, what rights do you have to protest in America? |
| 1:18.4 | We assume a lot because of the First Amendment, right? |
| 1:21.4 | But what if you're trying to exercise your free speech rights on a university |
| 1:24.9 | campus? What if your views are unpopular or at least in the minority of the |
| 1:28.6 | general public? It turns out if you're protesting war, your rights are pretty limited. |
| 1:35.0 | In the 1960s and 70s during the Vietnam War, |
| 1:38.0 | we had anti-war protests around the country. |
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