Trump's Power Grab Faces Legal Pushback
The Mary Trump Podcast
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🗓️ 10 February 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You might have noticed, but Donald's approach to governance, as it were, has always been |
| 0:07.4 | characterized by a disregard for legal constraints. |
| 0:11.0 | And yes, in case you were wondering, that is the understatement of the last several millennia. |
| 0:17.2 | But this time, his overreach has exceeded even his own breathtaking ability to overreach. |
| 0:25.2 | And his new attempts to break new ground in breaking the law and shredding the Constitution |
| 0:35.3 | have prompted swift legal actions and institutional pushback, |
| 0:40.1 | thank goodness, his latest attempts to consolidate power by doing things like shutting down |
| 0:45.2 | oversight agencies and defying court orders, which is more dangerous than you could possibly |
| 0:50.9 | imagine, reflect a troubling trend that cannot go on challenge. |
| 0:56.7 | When asked about this, this is what Donald had to say. |
| 1:00.8 | Some of your plays have raised some questions and had some pushbacks. |
| 1:05.5 | 19 states' attorneys general filed a lawsuit, and early Saturday, a judge agreed with them |
| 1:10.5 | to restrict Elon Musk |
| 1:12.4 | and his government efficiency team, Doge, from accessing Treasury Department payment and data |
| 1:17.7 | systems. They said there was a risk of irreparable harm. What do you make of that? And does that |
| 1:22.9 | slow you down on what you want? No, I disagree with it 100%. I think it's crazy. And we have to solve |
| 1:29.0 | the efficiency problem. We have to solve the fraud, waste, abuse, all the things that have gone |
| 1:34.4 | in and the government. You take a look at the USAID. Well, we're talking about hundreds of millions |
| 1:39.5 | of dollars of money that's going to places where it shouldn't be going, where if I read a list, |
| 1:44.4 | you'd say, this is ridiculous, and you've read read the same lists and there are many that you haven't even seen |
| 1:48.6 | it's crazy it's a big scam now there's some good money and we can do that through any one of a |
| 1:54.8 | number I think I'd rather give it to Marco Rubio over at the State Department let him take care of |
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