Episode 4849: World Leaders Fear Trump; Under Siege A Fight To Save The Nation
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What pretext has Donald Trump been searching for?
It's a presidential crack town looking for a pretext. And Donald Trump has been in search of that pretext for seven or eight years. If J.D. Vance wanted to be honest with the American people, and he knows this, he's a smart guy, I know he knows this. He could just say, you know what, guys? The real truth is my boss, who I'm a heartbeat away from, really just wants to go deploy the military in places to create violence to justify a wire crackdown. Because I can tell you firsthand, Nicole, just before the State of the Union in 2019, we stood in the map room of the White House, and Donald Trump almost spontaneously brought up the idea of weaving a couple of sentences into the speech announcing he was invoking the Insurrection Act.
You can't imagine the panic on the faces in that room. And Donald Trump was just a few moments away from just telling the guy who sits at the teleprompter to write it into the speech. And we had to go spend the rest of the day convincing White House counsel's office to stand up to the president to get him not to do it. But that's how long this has been going on. And Trump wanted to go deploy it and use the border as his pretext. It doesn't matter what they say. This is not about street crime. And by the way, if it was about street crime, you don't need to use the United States military to crack down on street crime. You can increase the number of police on the streets. You can do any number of things.
These excuses are exactly that. They are excuses. The vice president knows it. And it's why, Nicole, by the way, I think you watch him in those video clips. And he has a really tough time defending this because the defenses are so completely threadbare.
Former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton reportedly could be next. And investigations have been opened into other targets, including California Senator Adam Schiff, Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis, and former CIA Director John Brennan.
a current administration that is attacking heretofore innocent people, people who have committed no crimes, people whose only crime exists in the mind of the president of the United States because they attempted to do their jobs before he was in his current position of authority. The last thing you would want anyone to do, whether it's Comey, whether it's Bolton, whether it's Tish James, whether it's anybody else, whether it's a dog catcher who let their dog pee on Trump's yard, and now he wants to go after them because he's unhappy. These people should not stop living their lives because the moment they start cowering in advance, he is simply empowered to do this against anyone else.
How did Trump attempt to invoke the Insurrection Act?
So, Ken, this latest move involves Halligan removing a senior prosecutor in Virginia. What can you tell us?
Good morning, Mika. Yes, Lindsay Halligan has removed, as we understand it, the first deputy in the office, a woman named Maggie Cleary, who appeared to have pretty good MAGA bona fides. She had been a local prosecutor, then she had been a federal prosecutor in the Western District. District of Virginia. She was falsely accused of being present at the January 6th riot. And she said that that experience had sort of made her aware of what she called the weaponization of government. And she had been she made a bid to be the U.S. attorney in the Eastern District, but settled on being the first assistant. But we are told that she was not on board with the case against James Comey, the prosecution of James Comey for lying to Congress.
She did not accompany Lindsey Halligan into the grand jury to present that case. And now we are told she's been removed from her job and sent somewhere else in the Justice Department. And that's part of a series of firings that have taken place in the Eastern District since Lindsey Halligan has taken power there. And remember, Lindsey Halligan, Donald Trump's former defense attorney, no prosecutorial experience. She had been an insurance lawyer, and now she's in charge of one of the most important U.S. attorney's offices in the United States.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What pretext has Donald Trump been searching for?
0:00–2:23
2
How did Trump attempt to invoke the Insurrection Act?
2:23–7:33
3
What are the implications of investigations into Trump's associates?
7:33–8:58
4
How is the current administration viewed by its critics?
8:58–12:19
5
What recent changes have occurred in the Justice Department?
12:19–25:30
6
How has Trump's approach to foreign leaders been perceived?
25:30–26:49
7
What are the potential consequences of Trump's policies?
26:49–36:35
8
What insights does Eric Trump share about his family's journey?
36:35–53:49
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