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Talking Feds

Trumping the Shark

Talking Feds

Harry Litman

Government, News, Politics

4.84.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The world feels more upside down than ever, as Donald Trump staged a victory tour in the wake of his convictions and Republicans on the Hill fell completely and obsequiously in line. A great Talking Feds panel of Susan Glasser, Jacob Weisberg, & Rick Wilson analyze Trump’s total capture of the party & what it portends for November. We then move to the Hunter Biden conviction & why it ties Rs in knots, and close by discussing the sophomoric vote in the House to hold Merrick Garland in contempt. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I say what would happen if the boat sank from its weight and you're in the boat and you have this

0:06.7

tremendously powerful battery and the battery is now underwater and there's a shark that's approximately 10 yards over there.

0:15.0

By the way, a lot of shark attacks lately, do you table that brings together prominent former federal officials

0:30.4

and special guests for a dynamic discussion on the most important political and

0:34.8

legal topics of the day.

0:36.9

I'm Harry Littman.

0:39.0

If a time traveler from 20th century American government landed in today's political landscape,

0:45.3

she would be stunned by the sheer depth of the debasement.

0:49.4

Every conversation, every policy, every fact has become the subject of fierce dispute driven by a Republican Party that is reflexively contrary,

1:01.0

pure- aisle, and entirely under the sway of an apparent madman.

1:06.8

With the full backing of the Republican House, Donald Trump waged war on the very notion

1:12.4

of his conviction on 34 counts of falsifying

1:15.9

records. The entire Republican leadership now is promoting the delusion that a

1:21.5

conviction by a New York State jury on New York State

1:25.0

charges brought by a local New York City prosecutor is somehow the work of

1:30.5

President Biden. Trump has used this manufactured outrage to swell his

1:36.6

campaign coffers, raking in 53 million dollars in the 24 hours after the verdict.

1:43.0

At his first major rally since the conviction,

1:46.0

Trump compared the relative dangers of sharks and electric boat batteries.

1:51.0

Later that week, he returned for the first time since the insurrection to Capitol Hill, where

1:56.8

Republican lawmakers climbed over each other to kiss his ring.

2:01.3

Meanwhile, President Biden presented a stark and complete contrast to Trump

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