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The Muckrake Political Podcast

Trumper? I Hardly Knew Her

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump begins in the Senate, but already people are looking to move on and forget the whole sordid presidency. Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss the chances for conviction and the very real threat of what happens if he isn't held accountable and the Republican Party continues on its fascistic trajectory.   To unlock exclusive content, including Friday's Weekender episode, become a patron at http://patreon.com/muckrakepodcast

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0:00.0

Once politicians attempt to control what you believe, they are no longer politicians.

0:06.0

They are, by definition, dictators.

0:09.0

And if they succeed in controlling what you believe, you are no longer a citizen.

0:13.0

You are not a free man. You are a slave.

0:16.0

Next time Republicans are in power, they could reach back and impeach a former Democratic president.

0:21.9

I think that would be profoundly disruptive and a big mistake.

0:28.1

The First Amendment may protect the right of my Democrat colleagues to slander me and to lie,

0:35.0

but it does not give them the right to try to abuse the power of the

0:38.5

Senate. I'm not going to be intimidated by the liberal mob.

0:44.3

Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Muckering Podcast. I'm Jerry D.A. Sexton. I was always here with

0:48.4

Nick Alciamon. We are taping this on January 25th, 2021, which is a historic day in a few sort of, huh, ways.

1:03.0

It is the beginning of the first time that a former president is going through a trial by the Senate for impeachment,

1:13.9

and the first time that a president is going through that trial for the second time,

1:21.0

I don't know how you feel about it, Nick.

1:23.7

I am not under any sort of, I have false ideas that he's going to be convicted or kept

1:31.7

from running again or anything along those lines. But it is important that we talk about because

1:38.3

obviously the Republican Party is now just like, you know, we don't endorse storming the Capitol.

1:45.4

Not that we can prove it was Republicans who did that or Trump supporters.

1:48.6

It was probably Antifa or whatever.

1:50.5

But a lot of them are like, why are we worrying about this?

1:53.8

Why is this a thing that we're even doing?

1:55.7

What a waste of time.

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