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Anthony Scaramucci

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

Remember?

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

It was gunned down right before Christmas, you know, December 16th, 1985, in front of Spark Steakhouse.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

So, I mean, we had a gang shooting each other back in this time period.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

But you did a couple of things here that I...

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

I want to address, okay, you were going to write about the 1985 move bombing, but there was something about the Trump administration and the January 6th situation, the 2020 election that made you pivot to Bernie Getz.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

So what was that?

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

Okay, so I grew up in this era, right?

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

And I remember the movie Death Wish.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

And so for listeners listening in, Charles Bronson plays a subway vigilante.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

And so now, ironically, 10 years later, we actually have a subway vigilante.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

He gets accosted.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

He feels like he's had enough.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

He fires the gun.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

The blacks are very upset.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

And the whites are also upset.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

And this is sort of the rage that you're talking about.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

And I want to address it from a sociological point of view because I think you say something in the book that people need to hear.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

We cut the social programs.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

And when you cut the social program, guess what happened?

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

You create more crime because whether you like it or not, the people are just, you know, you got to help certain people, okay?