Is a Trump Dictatorship Inevitable?
Donald Trump deflects from his authoritarian impulses by accusing Joe Biden of undermining democracy, while warnings about a second Trump term grow more dire. George Santos gets the boot from Congress while Mike Johnson finds himself in a very similar position to his predecessor Kevin McCarthy. And finally, Strict Scrutiny’s Melissa Murray joins the show to talk about Trump’s flurry of bad legal news. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
- Duration
- 54m
- Broadcast on
- 05 Dec 2023
- Audio Format
- other
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(upbeat music) - Welcome to Pod Save America, I'm John Favreau. - I'm John Lovett. - I'm Tommy Vitor. - On today's show, George Santos has left the building. Mike Johnson's finding out why Kevin McCarthy's life was so miserable, and Strix scrutiny's Melissa Murray joins to talk about a flurry of bad legal news for Donald Trump, but first, the criminal defendant, Republican front-runner, campaigned in Iowa over the weekend, where he tested out a new response to accusations from President Biden and others that he's an authoritarian who represents a threat to American democracy. No, you are. Let's listen. - This campaign is a righteous crusade to liberate our republic from Biden and the criminals and the Biden administration, their criminals, that think they can do whatever they want, break any law, tell any lie, ruin any life, trash any norm, and get away with anything they want. But Joe Biden is not the defender of American democracy. Joe Biden is the destroyer of American democracy, it is. - And because Trump is an aspiring dictator who also seems to be losing a step, he then gave us this Freudian slip. But we've been waging an all-out war in American democracy. You look at what they've-- - We have, we have. - We got him. (laughing) - People were very excited about that. - Yes. - Trump campaign also made placards for the event that said Biden attacks democracy. A little long for a placard, but okay. - Yeah, that is pretty long. - A podium. - Also put those words, they had them up on the screen behind him too. - Okay. - So it was, I guess, I don't know if it was a step in a repeater just on a screen. - Sure. - So it wasn't just some Trump ad lib, they were all in on this, they were giving quotes to the post in the time saying that we're turning the tables on Joe Biden.
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Donald Trump deflects from his authoritarian impulses by accusing Joe Biden of undermining democracy, while warnings about a second Trump term grow more dire. George Santos gets the boot from Congress while Mike Johnson finds himself in a very similar position to his predecessor Kevin McCarthy. And finally, Strict Scrutiny’s Melissa Murray joins the show to talk about Trump’s flurry of bad legal news. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.