Trump's Picks Are So Bad He Wants To Subvert His Own Congress. Can He?

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🗓️ 15 November 2024

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OA1087 - We examine how the incoming President and his administration are already breaking the law with his transition team before taking on his announced intention to subvert the Constitution--and his own political party--through an unprecedented clown car of forced recess appointments. From the Defense Secretary the National Guard determined they couldn’t trust with a gun around Joe Biden to the Attorney General who just resigned from Congress to avoid the details of what he has been doing with high school students to the deputy chief of staff who is Stephen Miller, there are plenty of good reasons these freaks might not clear even a Republican Senate. Could this one weird Constitutional trick force them through?

Finally, the world’s richest man wants to tell the federal government how to spend its money. What’s the deal with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency?

Harris-Walz Transition Team Ethics Plan
“Will Trump Pursue a Bonkers Plan to Adjourn Both Houses of Congress?,” Ed Whelan, National Review (11/13/2024)
House Ethics Rules (2024)

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0:00.0	You must never ever give up or give in.
0:03.1	You must keep the faith and keep your eyes on the prize.
0:07.5	That is your calling.
0:08.9	That is your mission.
0:10.0	That is your moral obligation.
0:12.0	That is your mandate.
0:13.4	Get out there and do it.
0:15.0	Get in the way.
0:26.6	Change. Change happens because people care. You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
0:36.6	I still believe with all my heart, America can't. free and beautiful to make this life a wonderful adventure.
0:48.3	I still believe with all my heart, America can be a place where no child is left hungry, no community is left behind, and no one gets told they don't belong.
0:55.0	The fight for our country is always worth it.
1:03.7	Hello and welcome to opening arguments. This is episode 1,087. I'm Thomas Smith. That's real life attorney Matt Cameron. Boy, it's hitting me hard today, Matt. It's hitting me hard.
1:08.8	He now comes in waves. but seeing some of these picks for
1:12.6	Trump's cabinet and other various things, he's ruined. I'm just going to pre-answer. I'm not doing
1:17.5	great. How are you not doing it? I'm having a constitutional crisis because I forgot to eat, but that's
1:22.6	different. My constitution is affected. I'm going to be talking a lot about constitutional crises
1:26.4	today. I feel you on these
1:27.9	appointments. They are demoralizing, but that's the point, right? So I'm going to talk about how maybe we
1:33.0	could stop them or not or what's going to happen. We are facing just a whole slew of things we've
1:38.1	never seen before. We knew that was going to happen, but I don't think I knew that it was going to
1:41.0	happen within one week of the election. Yeah. It certainly accelerated our timetable, mine and Lydia's, for covering the appointments.
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