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The Politics Guys

Trump’s Trials, Immigration, McConnell Stepping Down

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5772 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Mike, Jay, and Justin open the preview of this midweek supporters’ episode with a discussion of the maneuvering over the schedule for Donald Trump’s documents trial. Jay argues that Trump’s actions aren’t all that unreasonable, a position with which Mike and Justin don’t agree, with Mike arguing that removing or destroying documents is never a legally justifiable response to a document subpoena. Next, they consider the recent southern border visits by President Biden and Donald Trump. None of them sees this as a good issue for Biden, with Trey writing in to argue that focusing on the border in any way can only weaken Biden. Mike suggests that the only thing Biden could do to turn the issue around would be to take the sort of dramatic action he has previously shown a willingness to do on student loan debt, but that he’s been unwilling to take on immigration. After that is a look at Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell’s career in the wake of his announcement that he’ll be stepping down as Republican leader after the November elections. They close the episode by responding to a supporter’s question concerning whether Jay moderates his comments on Trump out of concern for partisan blowback as well as the larger issue of Republicans who may be afraid to speak their minds about Donald Trump. The Politics Guys on Facebook | X Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo we’re @PoliticsGuys.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Atheists, agnostics, long-haired widows, short-haired widows, vandal,

0:04.9

gulagos.

0:05.1

I love the government, hug the government, hug the government, hug the government, love, the government, hug the government.

0:12.0

Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.

0:18.7

I'm Northern Kentucky University Political Scientist, Michael

0:21.4

Barronowski. I'm joined today by not one but to co-host, my conservative counterpart, Cleveland

0:27.4

Area Attorney and Defender of Freedom, Jay Carson, as well as University of Northern Iowa

0:33.4

political scientist Justin Holmes. Jay and Justin, welcome back. Good morning. Good to be here.

0:41.1

So there were a number of things, guys, that we didn't have time to get to on the regular show.

0:46.3

Starting with, actually, another Donald Trump trial issue. And with I think it's 91 indictments and all kinds of other things

0:56.7

going on, it's hard to keep track. And in the last week or so, so much of the focus has been on

1:03.4

his January 6-related trial, that other federal criminal trial concerning Trump's alleged

1:10.4

retention of classified documents,

1:12.2

that's been getting less attention, although in the last week, prosecutors asked the judge in

1:17.7

the case, Eileen Cannon, to set a July 8th start date. Now, Donald Trump's attorneys have been

1:23.4

saying from the beginning that in the interest of fairness, the trial should be delayed until

1:28.0

after the November presidential election. But they said, well, if you can't do that in a recent

1:32.4

filing, how about August 12th as an alternative? Now, that if the judge went that way, would

1:40.1

potentially complicate the government's efforts to try Trump on the January 6th case,

1:45.2

which were, of course, waiting on the Supreme Court immunity ruling on, in what could be

1:49.5

an overlapping window, depending on how and when the Supreme Court rules on that other case.

1:55.4

On Friday, March 1st, Judge Cannon held a hearing concerning the scheduling, and as of the

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