Trump threatens to imprison political opponents. Experts are worried
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🗓️ 12 September 2024
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USA TODAY Justice Department Correspondent Aysha Bagchi breaks down what democracy experts say about former President Donald Trump's threats to jail rivals.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's the excerpt, ad free right now. |
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Thursday, September 12th, 2024. This is the |
| 0:19.0 | excerpt. Today I look at Donald Trump's threats to imprison opponents and whether they should be taken |
| 0:27.1 | seriously. |
| 0:28.1 | Plus let's take a closer look at this week's debate now that the dust is settled and |
| 0:32.4 | we hear about efforts to push back against |
| 0:34.3 | DEI at big companies. Former President Donald Trump threatens to |
| 0:40.2 | imprison his political enemies and experts on democracy and the rule of law say the risk is real. |
| 0:46.0 | I spoke with USA Today Justice Department correspondent Aisha Bogchi for more. |
| 0:50.7 | Aisha, thanks for hopping on. |
| 0:52.0 | Thank you, Taylor. It's good to be here. So Aisha, thanks for hopping on. Thank you, Taylor. |
| 0:53.0 | It's good to be here. |
| 0:54.0 | So, Aisha, let's just start with this. |
| 0:56.0 | Who has Donald Trump threatened to imprison? |
| 0:59.0 | Which political rivals are we talking about? |
| 1:01.0 | How have we seen this play out? |
| 1:02.0 | He's brought those kinds of threats to a host of different groups. This past weekend, most recently he posted on Truth |
| 1:08.6 | Social that people who cheat in the upcoming election will be prosecuted. |
| 1:13.7 | He listed a handful of groups including lawyers and corrupt election officials. |
| 1:18.7 | That's what he said. |
| 1:19.3 | But in the same post he said that there was rampant fraud and cheating in the last presidential election |
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