Charles C.W. Cooke
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1,251 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 29 Jul
Charles C.W. Cooke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There are bad sides to that.
But the deal is that as a government employee, you work for the president until you can't.
So if you've been in the FBI or any other agency in the last 15 years, you've worked under Barack Obama and Donald Trump and Joe Biden, and now
Donald Trump, again, those are very different people.
They've done very different things.
Half the country likes one of those guys.
The other half does not.
So, I think, unless there is a lot more to the report, I think the answer to that is nobody cares.
The notion that the military in particular, but police forces ought to be subordinate to the civil power is one of the core elements in America.
I don't know if you need to go see Oprah, but if you're upset with your leadership, then suck it up because that is how our democracy works and you wouldn't want it any other way.
Yeah, it's absolutely outrageous.
They make it sound as if the United States staged an unprovoked invasion of, say, Australia, and then these two young people were shot, at which point you would say, well, why were they there?
But that's not what happened.
The District of Columbia is a federal district.
It is under federal control.
It's not a state.
It's not a foreign country.
The federal government is allowed to deploy federal agents in the federal district.
So, once you get past that, then what Jane Mayer and others effectively are saying is the equivalent of saying, well, if you don't like the police, you can just shoot them.
which is crazy.
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