“Trump’s Covid World Tour.”
Democrats and journalists still haven’t figured out how to handle the threat of another Trump presidency, Senator Chris Murphy joins to talk about Congressional action on gun violence and whether Joe Biden’s economic agenda can pass by Christmas, and the White House announces a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
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.
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
- 53m
- Broadcast on
- 07 Dec 2021
- Audio Format
- other
This episode appears to contain dynamically inserted ads. Transcript timestamps may be approximate.
The Supreme Court has had a busy summer loosening gun restrictions in states, overturning Roe vs Wade, and severely threatening our Miranda rights. I'm Leah Litman, and each week on Strix scrutiny, I'm joined by my co-hosts and fellow law professors Melissa Murray and Kate Shaw to break down the latest headlines and the biggest legal questions facing our country. It's more important than ever to understand the repercussions of these Supreme Court decisions and what we can do to fight back in the upcoming midterm elections. Listen to new episodes of Strix scrutiny every Monday wherever you get your podcasts. [Music] Welcome to Potsave America, I'm John Favre. I'm John Lovett. I'm Tommy Vitorth. On today's show, Democrats and journalists still haven't figured out how to handle the threat of another Trump presidency, Senator Chris Murphy joins to talk about whether Joe Biden's economic agenda can pass by Christmas, and the White House announces a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. But first, if you're still looking for a last-minute holiday gifts, check out all of our holiday merch at the Crooked Store, including our Santa My Ho Ho Home is Melting Ornament. When you say it, it's a little differently. It's funny to read. It's great. We also got some yes-we-danned t-shirts and mugs. Those are flying off the virtual shelves. Sweat-shirts too. Wait, there's a sweatshirt? I believe it's a yes-we-danned sweatshirt. If there's a yes-we-danned sweatshirt, I'm wearing it. I wore the t-shirt two days ago. Anyway, make sure to place your orders by December 11th to ensure holiday delivery. Head to crooked.com/store. All right, let's get to the news. The front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination is back in the headlines for knowingly exposing hundreds to a deadly virus and laying the groundwork to steal the next election in the event that he loses it. A new Washington Post report says that from the day that Donald Trump first tested positive for COVID and started feeling sick until he was hospitalized a week later, he came in contact with more than 500 people. Five hundred people. Trump responded by saying, quote, "Biden goes around coughing on people all over the place, and yet the corrupt news doesn't even cover it." It's such a funny, I'm rubber your glue. It's a bias. And then he added in at the end, just for good measure, probably because he's not supposed to be in office in the first place. Again, it doesn't make any sense, but he had to add it. Message discipline. Right. But alas, a new analysis from the Washington Post, Dana Milbank found that Joe Biden's press coverage for the past four months has been as bad as, and for a time worse than the coverage that Donald Trump received for the same four months in 2020. I mean, in fairness, in fairness to the press core, maybe they thought it was cool when Trump tried to kill Michael Sheer on the plane. Yeah. He tried to technically try to kill all of it, he only succeeded in wounding one, which he really murked Michael Sheer. Milbank went on to write. So while Trump's allies are busy trying to give Republican legislatures control of elections in states like Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, and Georgia right now, Milbank wrote quote, "My colleagues in the media are serving as accessories to the murder of democracy." It's a very understated there. Lots to unpack here. So Dan and I touched on this story about Trump and COVID last week briefly, but Ashley Parker and Josh Dossy at the Post did a pretty great job laying out just how many people he knowingly exposed to a virus that nearly killed him. I saw a few reactions to this that were some version of, why does this matter now? Or like, it doesn't matter. He's going to get away with it. What do you guys think? Love it. What do you? We can get to that. We can get to all that. And I have to say, like when I first saw the story, yeah, we can get to what does it mean? How does it help us in the midterms, I suppose? When I first saw the headline that Mark Meadows was too stupid to realize he was revealing something incredibly damning in his book, and that Trump had had a positive test days before the debate, I had the same sort of instinctive reaction, which is I honestly, I can't, I can't get back in that water. You know what I mean? I just can't get myself to go back into that inky black Trump personality disorder water. And then I saw the post piece and I started reading it. And it is, it is the one of the more galling
Transcription truncated.
Democrats and journalists still haven’t figured out how to handle the threat of another Trump presidency, Senator Chris Murphy joins to talk about Congressional action on gun violence and whether Joe Biden’s economic agenda can pass by Christmas, and the White House announces a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
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.
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.