Dan Goldman
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400 appearances
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12 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 25 Jun
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Es könnte sein, aber es gibt auch, das ist, besonders in den affirmative civil cases, in den civil areas, das ist, wo die politischen Voraussetzungen eines Präsidenten wahrscheinlich noch mehr zählen als auf der kriminellen Seite. Und so musst du die Tatsache balancieren, dass es eine Politik gibt, die die Departement der Gerechtigkeit implementiert.
Es sind nicht nur individuelle kriminelle Verhandlungen.
Ja, aber was sich auch ändert, und das ist typisch, ist, dass die republikanischen Regierungen viel weniger Fraud-Aufgaben machen, viel weniger Weihrauch-Fraude. Ich meine, Donald Trump hat die Vor- und Korrupt-Praktiken-Akt effektiv nullifiziert. overtly and openly. And Republican administrations focus much more on drugs and gangs and crime.
That's where the traditional only because there's a limited amount of resources. So what are you going to prioritize? Right. I think most people would agree all of that is is important to do so. But that's a policy product. Right. So how do you balance the fact that a president gets to implement policy priorities for the enforcement of our laws.
And that's even more so, I think, in the civil division, where any affirmative case is really much more a focus of policy, because people's lives and liberty are not at stake. And rarely, in a lot of cases, You're not even suing individuals.
It's much more larger issues related to whether it be civil rights, as you say, police departments or environmental justice, environmental issues against companies. There's a lot more sort of business-oriented litigation. That is much more driven by policy than any individual prosecution. And what you really have to avoid is using the threat or the actuality of imprisonment as a political tool.
That's the stuff of Banana Republics. That's what our State Department goes around the world telling countries that we will not support them if they continue to prosecute their political opponents. I mean, Ukraine is a great example of that, that when Joe Biden said, you better fire the prosecutor general or we're not going to support a billion dollar loan.
Es war, weil dieser Prosecutor General korrupt war und politische Gegner und seine politischen Begleiter verurteilt hatte. Wir haben also die Ukraine verletzt und gesagt, dass wir diesen IMF-Lohn nicht unterstützen werden, wenn dieser korrupte Prosecutor in seinem Job nur politische Gegner verurteilt hat. I mean, imagine that was 10 years ago and here we are.
Well, I... Yeah, I mean, it's sort of a back. I mean, I think it's a circular way of looking at it, which is that the impeachment process has been so corrupted by politics. And one of the other things that the founders were very concerned about was extreme partisanship.
Look, you know, we have not encountered a situation like that where there were, I mean, at a minimum, Es gab Verhältnisse und Aktionen von einem Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten, die eine kriminelle Untersuchung garantieren. Und schau, lange bevor Donald Trump sogar erklärte, dass er wieder für Präsidenten rannte,
I went on, I may have been on your show at the time, I certainly went on TV and said, this is his plan. He is going to say that they're trying to keep me off the ballot, it's election interference, that's why they're coming after me, even though he's not a candidate. He's a private citizen before he announced that he was running.
And like anybody else, you know, if a grand jury of, you know, finds that there's probable cause to indict and a jury, unanimous jury of 12 convicts, It's not that easy to do that beyond a reasonable doubt with admissible evidence and this is the foundation of our legal system and we rely on that jury system and it should be able to apply to a former president.
The question then becomes, alright, what do you do with a candidate for president, a candidate for office? Well, we deal with that all the time. I mean, there have been many corruption cases of elected officials, members of Congress and others. They're candidates for office and they are charged. And we have to make sure that our public officials are also following the law.
What Merrick Garland did is, while Donald Trump was a private citizen, he had the Justice Department investigate. And I think, frankly, the primary reason why Merrick Garland was nominated by Joe Biden is that he was completely apolitical. He had been a judge for 20 years.
Yeah, and I think that is a very legitimate criticism and one that I've made as well. But we do have a special counsel system. And I think what is that not only has impeachment broken down, I think, as a form of accountability, because it is near impossible. Well, if Donald Trump is not going to get convicted by.
Ja, ich meine, ich denke, es ist tiefer als das, weil ich denke, dass er eine unerklärte Infatuation und Obsession mit Wladimir Putin hat. Und ich denke, was wir gerade sehen, ist, dass Wladimir Putin das Modell des Leiters ist, das Donald Trump gerne sein würde. I thought a lot about this, as you can imagine. I bet.
Why would he trust Vladimir Putins word over our entire intelligence communities word? which he did in 2018 when he said he believed that Putin didn't interfere in the election, even though our intelligence community had really unequivocally for the intelligence community said that he had, they had. And it didn't add up, right? And so, well, was it Trump Tower Russia? Right.
Maybe there is a little bit of that. I don't know. Is it being an asset or they are holding something over him? All of that's possible, but there's been no evidence of that that's ever been brought public. And I think what ultimately is going on is that Donald Trump wishes he had the power and the government structure that Vladimir Putin does.
And that's why he's got Elon Musk and the other oligarchs.
Well, and what's really fascinating about it is how he's been able to do that while also maintaining a very populist approach.
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