A Maddening Double-Standard in Trump's Cases (w/ Gregg Nunziata) | Beg To Differ
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
- Society for the Rule of Law's Gregg Nunziata joins to discuss the NY and other cases against Trump; Biden's pivot on weapons to Israel, and RFK Jr's brain worm.
0:00 - Intro
1:59 - Donald Trump’s Many Ongoing Trials
8:48 - New York Hush Money Case
25:59 - Timeline of Trump Conviction
30:14 - Miracle Made
32:07 - Joe Biden’s Strategy for Withholding Weapons to Israel
48:58 - Trump’s Reaction to Biden’s Pivot in Policy
51:38 - BetterHelp
53:28 - RFK Jr’s Brain Worms
54:12 - Highlights and Lowlights of the Week
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Maybe if Trump didn't want to have this laundry aired, maybe his lawyers shouldn't have called her a liar in their opening statement, thus bringing her credibility into question?
It’s always the liberals fault for forcing conservatives to be garbage…
Maybe
Thing is, there is nobody who can testify to that, except tfg.
the guard can
Dawg, she lied. Watch Bill Maher's interview with Stormy ? HE JUST re-aired it. It's bad. Damningly bad
Cannon may be incompetent for this role, but it seem to be by and large in Trumps favour. She needs to be recused.
She’s not incompetent (well, she is) but she’s doing what Donnie gave her the job to do…
She went to Michigan and Duke law school, she knows what she is doing......she's corrupt!
Yes. We do not put rich people in jail unless they steal from other rich people.
🙌🏼TRUTH.
Some times they don't go to jail even then.
Wow this is so true
We're the commentariat, cuh!!!!!
obama refused to indict anyone involved with the 2008 melt down .. why ?? .. because you don't put your classmates and buddies in jail ..
Thanks Merrick Garland. Thanks media. Thank you all for empowering trump and being largely responsible for him likely to never be served real justice for anything.
So true!
Merrick Garland is a HUGE disappointment. Had he stepped up a year earlier we wouldn’t be here.
This is a totally false analysis ... boarding on a disinformation troll's post.
@@deanegoltermann155 Garland spent three years going after the Jan. 6th small frys. If Trump is re-elected then all those people will be pardoned meaning that Garland wasted all that time and energy for nothing...Get it?
It’s sickening !
The document case is not complicated. It's a slam dunk. Trump 2024 for prison.
2025
Dude isn't going to prison. I wish as much as you. But I'm completely cynical now.
Perhaps the evidence makes it seem so, but the process in the issue. An experienced judge would know how to proceed. Eileen Cannon was placed in her seat due to politics and not experience, so she doesn’t know what she’s doing and she feel beholden (allegedly!!) to those who put her there….
@@michaelbray109 a maga trash judge in a maga trash state? I agree 💯
@@michaelbray109 UA-cam is trying to break me. It won't though.
I'm dumbfounded that anyone is surprised that the Judge has deliberately delayed the trial. I assumed this when the Judge was drawn to look over the case, a year ago....
It would be a lot easier to chalk Cannon’s performance up to inexperience, except that she has been systematically refusing to make definitive orders specifically so there is nothing to appeal, and instead doing these silly paperless orders. I doubt she originated that strategy. Given some of her ethics slips, I think they should investigate her and they may well find her taking guidance from Leonard Leo or his fellow travelers. I don’t think anybody of good faith can deny that possibility.
I have been begging the Press and anyone else who will listen to please have Aileen Cannon Investigated. Check her background…it is a blank canvas! Her father, her mother! Where she comes from. She has been programmed to assist in getting anything djtRuMp done… delayed and blocked. She might say she is overwhelmed..:,she is a joke… she is a puppet for the far right Masterminds who are in the process of destroying the United States of America.
Wake-up. VOTE BLUE 🔷🔹🔷🔷
Why is there no repercussions for Cannon, considering her lack of handling this case.
Too many people want to make excuses for Cannon but she should have given the case to another judge. The People demaned it, We are paying Cannon out of tax dollars. She also looks like she was unconcerned how important this case is. She's hoping Trump gets elected and calls off this case so she doesn't have to handle it. She needs to be fired.
How about the Supreme Court rule on the case in front of it. We need 4 new Justices, they are OVER THE TOP. We lose confidence in the Judiciary, and you can damn sure turn out the lights on this Republic.
6 new ones
We're all over intellectualizing this, our system is under such strain because trump belongs nowhere near power but in jail. He should have been under preventive house arrest on Jan 7th 2021. This hand wringing is sickening. Hop to people, save America. Do the duh thing and put him in jail already.
Seems everyone is more concerned with the optics than with the law. Apparently the laws changed when the indicted is a former president.
@@karinaz8756 meaning what? How did the laws change just because they indicted Don the Con?
Why is this a surprise to anyone? The law is for the poor - - not the rich, silly peasants!!
Judge Canon needs to recuse herself and put somebody on bench that knows what they're doing and has no trouble convicting Donald Trump of espionage charges because of course he didn't put them in office to start with I definitely see a conflict of interest here between the law and her allegiance to Trump
Zero chance of that !"!!!!!!!!
Why isn't Trump screaming from the rooftop that he won in the Cannon case like he usually does under similar circumstances? Not one statement? Fishy.
Because he paid her off !! She's rotten to the core !
Donald got us here...his criminality is off the charts, making the incompetency of our justice system obvious.
how about the criminality of those responsible for iraq or the 2008 meltdown ??
People need to get over the "tawdry details" of her testimony. Who gives a crap? Are we really that prudish?
Basically, I think we all just love a low life, seedy, down and dirty story about a former president whom we all despise and detest with a burning passion. It makes our disgust with him so much more fun. You are right not to give a crap. But do enjoy the show.
Plus, the tawdry details mostly came out under redirect, due to Trumps defense lawyers questioning! And what came out under the direct by the prosecution was exactly due to Trumps defense's opening statement calling her a liar, hence making it necessary to bolster her credibility.
No "tawdry" details would have had to come out, if not for Trumps lawyers making it necessary.
Yeah, I agree. Considering how sexualized pop culture is, it is funny that people are shocked such things are discussed in a TRIAL.
Why are we surprised at Johnson…he has truly manipulated the Democrats in the House to rescue him! Now having done this … he’s tossed any hope for leadership cooperation down the drain! Democrats are so naive!WAKE UP!
Imagine if these "tawdry details" had come out just before the election instead of being suppressed. Your disgusted reaction partially goes toward the election interference claim.
What concerns me is that so many people have no problem voting for a man with this degree of dishonesty, corruption, mal feasance and mal intent that Trump holds. And that they justify this with the sense that there is some false equivalency that "all politicians are corrupt" or "we need someone who plays dirty" to fight for their interests. The problem is that when you place your trust in someone of this character, you will come away from this soiled and corrupted, and with no reasonable expectation that he will act honorably in your favor, unless it serves him.
Yes. this is, indeed, the problem with MAGA and Trump. Both are badly soiled.
Exactly. MAGA spent how many tax dollars trying to impeach Joe Biden but think Trump should be given a pass? The man has been found liable for rape and Republicans think we should ignore it because “policies”. It’s why I no longer have Republicans in my life. Zero moral compass.
The only way he gets away with it is if he wins in November.
This is the most profound and true statement of all the comments. Short, sweet and bull's eye accurate.
All 4 indicted cases are related, dealing with different facets of a congenital criminal who eventally betrayed his country. Yet it's only this one incidental "hush money" case that goes forward? Thank God for the People of New York.
Yeah, its been really annoying, how the media, both legacy and independent, has been downplaying this case for years, calling it the hush money case, when its actually only indirectly about hush money, its about election interference and fraud, and theyve been telling us for years, that theres really no case, the evidence is soooo weak etc etc.
Well, so far it looks pretty damn strong to me. And the only sex getting into it was due to Trumps own lawyers.
She’s shady AF and needs to be investigated…..
Who? Judge Cannon? She failed to disclose a luxurious vacation at a Montana Ranch. Owned by, I don't remember.
Trump can be held on a military base. It would be justice.
Solitary confinement at Riker’s is fine.
No need for a military base.
Trump INTERFERED IN OUR COUNTRYS ELECTION AND TRY TO OVERTHROW IT...NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND HELLO...EVERY TIME HE CRIES ELECTION INTERFERENCE I WANNA SCREAM.... WHERE AM I RUSSIA
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So true!
Also known as an attempted coup. If presidents are immune from prosecution for attempting a coup, then forget about democracy, its done.
Right. And he will be remembered that way.
No… I think the sordid details of the (alleged) affair needed to come out. First off… now it will be harder for him to claim it isn’t true… which may have some of his supporters finally give him the boot. Secondly… the Access Hollywood recording where he talks about “just grabbing women” was being written off as just locker room talk. The E Jean Carrol and Stormy Daniels situations made that “meaningless locker room talk” defense less credible. And Daniel’s’ “details” made him clearly more of a rapist than if she had just admitted to “a bit of not exactly enthusiastically consensual sex”. And some… less than flattering details… may also rile him up enough for “outburst” in front of the media… where he may say “too much” and admitting to something that then can hang him… in the court room and the court of public opinion.
This does all sort of seem like a waste of time. We all know trump will appeal every case he loses, all the way to SCOTUS. And with SCOTUS being trump fans, they will certainly take up every case he brings and give him special treatment. May as well fast track all these cases directly to SCOTUS and cut out the middle man with all the other courts.
No. If we just give this process time enough to work, it will work. The Trump SCOTUS justices in reality have no pressure and no motivation to appease Trump whatsoever. They are appointed for life, and Trump cannot do a darn thing about it. What motivates Supreme Court of the United States justices more than anything is not winding up looking like absolute fools and idiots to lawyers, judges, legal scholars and academics in law schools for generations to come throughout the rest of American history.
Good examples of SCOTUS justices who have received eternal legal damnation are those of the Dred Scott case in the early 1850's who judged that black Americans are not really human beings, thus justifying slavery and resulting in the Cival War, and Plessy vs Ferguson in the late 1860's which ruled that total segregation is the law of the land because blacks and whites are separate and unequal. This allowed for the Jim Crow era of total segregation and lynching of blacks for over half a century. (Dred Scott was over-ruled by the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments and Plessy v. Ferguson was over-ruled by Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in 1954).
There is very powerful motivation for SCOTUS justices to get things right the first time. What Trump wants them to do or not do means shit in the long run. See why the Founders made Supreme Court justice appointments to last for the life of the justice? We will be OK now because of it.
As I understand, bringing the sexual details in to the trial was team trumps defense strategy. And no mention of the admonishment Merchan dished out to the defense afterward for NOT objecting to any of the sordid sexual details? Kind of not including then entire context of the story, no?
It was. Necheles went hard for hours about it. Then ultimately, Todd Blanche said "it wasn't about sex."
I think the defense was using it as a strategy for a later appeal. By not objecting and letting the prejudicial testimony into the record, they can use that in their motion for appeal. I think they already know they aren’t going to win this case, but by allowing some prejudicial testimony into the record they can take a shot with a sympathetic appeals court. Theres no reason why they wouldn’t object to that testimony immediately otherwise.
@@michelebella677 But by not objecting during the trial (the judge even objected for them once or twice), theyve lost the right to use it in appeal, as I understand it.
Mona's pearl clutching.
10:25 Times have changed SIGNIFICANTLY since Clinton’s peccadilloes. So much so that comparisons are impossible.
You’re being very kind to Cannon
Extremely kind !! She's corrupt and most likely paid off !!
@chrisolsen4266 yeah. They're OG Republicans. Pictures of Ronny Ray Gun hanging next to blonde Jeezus in their bedrooms. Ugh.
Too kind by half
Yes, much too kind. Cannon is supposed to be a professional in a high position. If she was a doctor or an engineer and as incompetent as that, no one would be excusing her by saying, maybe she is just inexperienced.
Who do they think they are kidding , she is slow walking this case to help trump !!!
To delay the Jan 6/presidential immunity decision assumes there will be a similar future situation with a President as dastardly as Trump. This has never, in our history happened before and hopefully a lesson has been learned. Meanwhile clearly the judiciary must be expanded. SCOTUS is over thinking their way south of effectiveness.
The only way they are thinking is how we can help trump without looking bad. They failed. They have no boss and have a lifetime job, doesn't get any better than that. They can be impeached, 0% chance.
JFK jr. is ALSO a projectionist. Ha! "I had a brain worm." equals "I am a brain worm." Jeez!
JFK Junior has been dead for almost twenty-five years. 🛩🌊🔥
@@PonderousProse Oh yeah. Thanks for the correction. I was talking about the one who's alive.
If the SC court judges have to worry about hypotheticals, they need to consider both sides if they want to consider what would happen to a president that's held to the same standards (if not higher) than the general population, they have to consider what happens to a president that isn't accountable, like the rest of us, to the rule of law and how it can potentially open the door to tyranny.
It’s truly stunning that he has all his rights and freedoms intact with ever mounting evidence in all these ultra serious cases. $$$ talks - BS walks…
I have faith in the American people, Trump will lose AGAIN in 2024 by a landslide. We are all sick of Trump.
Damon, it is the result of the crime that defines its severity. Arguably, this particular crime enabled the Trump presidency. There is little that had a more severe impact than that.
With all due respect to the host and panel--with the exception of Ms Chavez--this conversation is yet another example of "inside the Beltway" tone-deaf chatter. The reason that Stormy Daniel's testimony had to be so detailed was so that it would reach the average, possibly persuadable, citizen (juror). The devil is in the details! As for the law(s) that Donald Trump is accused of breaking in this cover-up, those facts are nearly incontrovertible that he's guilty. But, that's just not sexy enough to get many in our society to see it as worthy of their time. Like it or not, the tawdry nature of the sexual act is what's garnering the public's attention. Will the vast majority of Trump supporters be swayed? Not likely. But, will the jurors be sufficiently convinced that Trump is guilty of the charges against him? Never underestimate the solemnity and seriousness of an American jury. Many a legal observer has described what takes place in jury deliberations as nothing short of magical.
They are simultaneously wrinkling their noses at the "tawdriness" of Stormy's story-like it isn't also Trump's story-and at the same time saying the actual nature of the charges trump faces in this case are inconsequential. How do you say rich and powerful Republican men should be above the law without actually saying it? I think this right wing panel only pretends to be appalled by Trump only in how it reflects on their grand 'ole party.
Plus, they only had to introduce those details, coz Trumps lawyer used his opening statement to testify on Trumps behalf and call her a liar, that it never happened. So they had to introduce details to rehabilitate her credibility from that claim. A claim, btw, which lawyers are not supposed to be allowed to make on behalf of their client, if their client wants to call her a liar, then he, like she did, has to sit down and testify under oath.
And even then, most of the sexual details actually came out under questioning from Trumps own lawyers. They literally asked for it!
The problem is Eileen Cannon was not ready and qualified to be a federal judge. She does not have the experience to run such a complex and important case. Her response is to just push it down the road and avoid doing her job.
It seems the judiciary in America needs some regulating from the top down….
Rich people only go to jail if they steal or harm pruner rich people's money....
This podcast is really good, but man it's depressing at times.
It doesn't need to be said that Misjudgment Cannon is not our intelligence community's fave jurist.
Biden is trying to hold together a lot really...
Exactly & it seems he can’t do anything right while doing his best. To me President Biden has turn out to be a very good President. He truly doesn’t get the credit or respect he deserves. Trump didn’t do shyt but kill millions of Americans. I just don’t get it. And I’m not a democrat but I should be, cuz I will never vote for the traitorous Republican Party.
Thank you, Ms. Charen, Mr. Galston, Mr. Linker, Ms. Chavez & Mr. Nunziata 🕊
Irony is totally lost on Damon, who feigns reason while advocating the "Angry Left" just "Suck on this."
This is just the beginning of your nightmare! And I'm loving every minute of it , you deserve it ❤😂😂😂😂😂😂
"How did we get here?"
Also, Bill is absolutely right that IDF is protecting itself at the expense of civilians. Not ok. Soldier / civilian distinction is always relevant.
if these were american kids being protected do you have an issue ??
Stormy's testimony was not tawdry. Spicy, maybe. Not tawdry.
Agreed, Prosecutors’ witnesses are blowing it … America is so screwed … A Sad prospective from your Northern Neighbour - Get it Together! Vote 💙🇺🇸
Just need to have better regulation of rogue judges. Surely the appeal panel of judges can see what is going on. Tradition of scheduling not being appeal able should be waved. Or perhaps he will get justice next year, so long as he loses the election
I love Bill Galston's question as to which part of RFK Jr.'s brain was eaten by the worm. I laughed out loud. I enjoyed this discussion, especially hearing the different perspectives on topical issues.
It was the defense that needed to object when Ms. Daniels went off topic and was allowed to testify about things that were not pertinent to the case.
I agreed with Mona Charen in her opening statement about other people doing serious time for doing far less than trump. I guess that's where my agreeing with her ends.
26:38 Yes, it was a bit too much but Trump’s lawyers failed to object on numerous opportunities they “opened the door.”
I could be wrong but I think they were doing that as a strategical tactic for a later appeal. I think they know they aren’t winning this case but believe they can say that the judge allowed prejudicial testimony into the record. Maybe they believe they can get a sympathetic appeals judge and if it gets overturned, they have more of a chance of Trump not being retried. Just my thoughts.
44:00 And how many times can you do that? Expect the "left" to just go along as you play republican? Sooner or later you will lose credability with them. And they will stop showing up.
Not sure what this means.
@@roberthenry9319speaking about Damon saying Biden should tell the entire Democratic Party left of center to go "suck it" and court Haley-voter Republicans to replace them, missing the irony that would make him a Republican.
@@dazeyday5699 Not to mention it's what the republicans did on the right for years until the pressure built up so much the fringe ended up taking over the party.
Jack Smith has basically told her when she’s wrong and what she needs to do.
No. That is not how witnessing in a trial case works. Plus, Jack Smith is not involved with this Stormy case in any way. This is a New York State case, not a Federal case. Jack Smith, being appointed as a Federal prosecutor, has nothing to do with it. In any event, what all prosecutors do (whether Federal or State) is educate their witnesses on how to respond properly to opposing counsel's questions in Court so that their testimony can be accepted as proper by the Court. That is how running a trial in our system of justice works. Every time. And that is a good thing. It is what makes sense out of chaos.
@@roberthenry9319obviously the OP is talking about Judge Cannon but you go off
@@dazeyday5699 you are so absolutely correct. Not sure where his tangent came from.
So all you have to do is corrupt a judge - didn't Capone figure that out in the 1930s? The system hasn't evolved from those days?
bootleggers >> drug dealers >> arms merchants >> corrupt cops & politicians ...
Utterly absurd commentary. Cannon should be recused. The Bulwark should be ashamed
Cannon should be impeached, investigated, and thrown under the prison for obstruction and treason.
In mosul, the us didn't drop more than 500lb bombs, and that was after an (at least attemted) evacuation of civilians.
It seems to me that there are too many options to appeal in the system. There's something wrong with the system.
Damon Linker's idea for Biden to hit the left also worked well for Hillary Clinton in 2016, amirite?
Enjoyed the show. First time. Thanks.
Tawdry is the point. You don't want to hear the salacious details about this tryst now, and that's precisely why there was a payoff.
Did it have to do with the business records? No, but Todd Blanche specifically told the jurors in his opening statement that this was all a lie, that It never happened. How does one combat an allegation of lying? Provide little details that no one else would know, regardless of how icky it makes you feel.
Sorry, I cant get through this. Too much inside DC navel gazing and living in the 90s and false equivalences.
looking good for this lifetime crinimal. this is america.
Good Point…public discourse. On podcasts, everyone says, “Oh yea, we you can cuss on our podcast.” But why….Id love it if Bulwark would lead in this
About Galston's comment on the 2000-pound bombs: The stated rationale is the idea of dealing with the deep tunnel network. (Not my argument, but that's what I've heard.)
yes .. we used them as bunker busters ...
It would be great if you could put your highlight reading recommendations in the shownotes
The problem with when the panel has actual differing views, they never actually respond to the other side's case as if everything is black and white. I can't believe Mona actually called Netanyahu an ass and Damon completely ignore that part of supporting Israel.
"We failed as a people." Damn so true.
But we are not done yet.
@@roberthenry9319 That is our only hope.
Michigan has a large MUSLIM population, not necessarily Arabs !!
I love listening to people who are all older than me, so that I can take a humble look at where I'm still naive and have so much left to learn.
Nah. They gave us Reagan, Newt, and Trump. This is their fault
Too right, Mona!
Can you help recuse Cannon?
Not a hope in hell !
Pass the law if it isn't true no harm no foul
Right you are Mona!!!
Thats straight out favouritism by a judge so dishonourable
I agree with Linda. Also, these types of cases are not uncommon in NY (falsification of documents). Also, since there is little chance he will be held accountable for any of the more nefarious cases on hold, he should be held accountable for this, even though it is minor in comparison. Why should he get a pass on this as well?? His cultists will support him no matter what, that doesn't mean he should get a pass on this.
True!
I don't think the possibilities in Gaza are as binary as Linker lays out.
In defense of the tawdry, the social silence of Bill Galston's more prudent days covered a multitude of sins against the powerless -against women, against children, against minorities who had no voice in the early 60s America -in order to maintain the veneer of our pride and prudence. Today our tawdry mess is on public display, but better to bring it to justice publicly than to preserve our social pride at the expense of chronic injustice to the powerless.
21:12 Sorry you’re wrong Mona, this has been prosecuted more than you think. Look into the archives.
Someone has to make a video of different people answering Galatone with "Yo!" every time he does...
I think the fact Trump wont be able to vote for himself as a convicted felon isnt going ro help him.
From a true Christian perspective, Trump is not getting away with anything:
“Their eyes bulge with abundance;
They have more than heart could wish.
They scoff and speak wickedly concerning oppression;
They speak loftily. … Behold, these are the ungodly … Oh, how they are brought to desolation, as in a moment!
They are utterly consumed with terrors” (Psalm 73:7-8, 12, 19).
In the meantime, we lose democracy and change from citizens to subjects. Use your imagination from there...
From the eternal divine perspective, yeah God will eventually judge everyone for their sins. From the earthly perspective, we still need to prosecute egregious wrongdoers like Trump, because we have no idea when Jesus will return.
Hahahahahaha !! Hilarious
From a realistic perspective, there's no Invisible Cloud Being and yeah, he's going to get away with it.
Trump broke man's law and needs to go to trial. Your pretend friend doesn't have a dog in this fight. Separation of Church and State.
45:40 Its not an achievable goal anyway. You might be able to force Hamas under ground but that will not make the less dangerous.
Let me start by saying, thank you for the work your doing for democracy.
Can I please ask that when discussing Donald Von Shitzinpantz and his legal woes. Mar-a-largo= espeonage indictment.💙
Mona, why do you think Trump will get away with the Documents case? Do you think he is going to win the election?
What’s settled is the morbidity of U.S. governance and the pathology of the plutonomy that has acted in concert to corrupted our political system for two generations
It wouldn’t be tawdry if trump didn’t sleep with her and hide it. What a dumb take. It’s tawdry because trump is tawdry. How is that the court/prosecutions fault
They say that they used the heavier bombs to be able to get down into the tunnels.
Big brave Israeli soldiers have "defended themselves" against 20,000 children. Premature infants in incubators, grandmas in wheelchairs, prregnant women in labor. Such big brave soldiers.
Isn't the way to avoid tawdry-ville be for the Trump team to stipulate, "Yep, he had sex with SD"? Then neither the prosecution nor defense would have needed to go into detail. But like pundits have been saying, it doesn't really matter for this case, because it is about falsifying business records, not having sex with SD.
🥰u guys
How unfortunate that even among self-satisfied prigs like these, knowing the individual’s surname so reliably predicts their inhumane stance on Israel’s own inhumanity and the objectors to same. Unforgiveable, especially among so-called thinking people.
Israel used the 2Ks to deal with the tunnels beneath the buildings.
"If 'ifs' and 'buts' were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a Merry Christmas?"
Now let's get back to the reality in which we live.
Citation to Dandy Don Meredith.
Regarding the Documents Case, why didn't trumps lawyer object to SD's testimony? They were called out by Merchan when they tried to have the case dismissed. Funny not one of you mentioned that.
I suggest you have more lawyers on the panel and fewer pundits.
There’s gotta be more than one way to win in Raffa😊
47:00 No incoherent as a policynis doing the same rhing you've been doing for 50 years and expecting it to work this time.
I refuse to give up on any of 45's cases! Justice will come around. Cannon will be gone or do her job This podcast is so negative, I'm going to pass on this roundtable.
So, he will be seen as a martyr?
Not to millions of us. Own and call it
I hate it when I hear the commentators give the no harm no foul argument. His interaction with SD didn't hurt his approval with his base, so what's the big deal? I want you guys are my judge and jury if you are willing to apply that non-standard.
When he wins he will shut it all down.
I agree this is not so much a Trump issue as it is a failure of our own society to come to grips with a person this disgusting and revolting running for office. If the people of this country clap and cheer and laugh at a candidate for president as flawed as Trump then the problem is with the people in the country not him
Gah.