President & Convicted Felon: Historian on the Unprecedented Trump Verdict | Amanpour and Company
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- It’s a verdict that will be forever cemented in history. In more than 200 years of America as we know it, no U.S. president has ever been convicted of a crime - until this week. Presidential historian Tim Naftali joins the show to discuss where this moment stands in the longer arc of U.S. history.
Originally aired on May 3, 2024
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If one is not allowed to vote for an office as a convicted felon, one sure as heck should not be allowed to hold that office as a convicted felon.
America has become so liberal with giving people so much freedom to do what they that they have made it is legal for diabolical criminals to take over the government.
I agree, but unfortunately that's a loophole in the Constitution.
It needs to be closed.
That's true but what is that an _ipso facto sans facto_ a _reductio ad absurdum_ or something? Some kind of _quasi paradoxical epiphenomenal doctrinal loophole_ in the Constitution
@@ericlipps9459yeah you're right. I was trying to further granularize the type of loophole
Trump’s criminality is one thing, but his reckless unrepentantedness makes him extremely dangerous. This is why we should care less about the precedent of sending this man to prison. We need to safeguard ourselves.
He never change
Three wife didn’t change him
Put him in the WH will be every body fault , the law first for allowed
The Voter second , it will be the biggest mistake ever vote for him
Can you imagine, this odious man had control of America's nuclear arsenal.
Are you suggesting Amendment to the Constitution? The Supreme Court and their outrageous conduct is an even bigger problem in my eyes.
@@ThomasHalwaysfalse prophet minions
Trump is mentally ill.
One thing that was very lightly covered that came out in this trial - Trump did not use email at his business because he didn’t want a paper trail for the things that he did. He has been acting like a criminal for decades.
Exactly. He didn't even do texts, if memory serves. He had his minions do that. But it was mostly all verbal, in person.
Truth is that Trump and his family should have been prosecuted for their dirty business practices decades ago. Manhattan DAs have been way too timid (or worse) in dealing with rich/donor White Collar criminals. That includes Robert Morgenthau, for all his reputation, and more recently Cy Vance Jr/
He has not been acting like a criminal for decades. He has been a criminal for decades. Still is.
Don’t want to be a convicted president. Don’t commit crimes! Not that hard.
There are 45 others, well maybe not Nixon, that haven't had an issue with a prosecution or a prison sentence. There should not be enough citizens that support a TRAITOR. A RAPIST. A CONVICTED FELON.
Explain the crime. 😂
Yes, Ford made a bad mistake pardoning Nixon.
Agree, but he felt he had to in order to get past all the bad blood. South Africa did something similar, on a much bigger scale, after apartheid::the "Truth and Reconciliation commission" scheme effectively gave many people cover or a blanket pardon, people who had (most likely) committed political murders, torture or rape or had ordered such acts - during the apartheid era. It was seen as necessary to avoid a civil war that could tear the country apart.
Last week I saw an interview on the BBC with Gillian Slovo, daughter of Joe Slovo and Ruth First, two famous anti-apartheid activists who were murdered with a car bomb by the secret police of the old (White Supa) republic. She had actually met one of the men who most likely planted the bomb and had been able to ask him; he denied that he had been guilty of course, but he had never been judicially charged for the crime either because the whole thing was covered. He had walked away- "I accept that it was a political necessity, but I am not forgiving the people who killed my parents".
He didn't make a mistake. That's the only reason Nixon made him Vice-President. And it's ironic that Ford's birth name was King, so we had an unelected king running the country and making a mockery of our laws.
Ford did explain why he pardoned Nixon.
Think there is something on YT about that.
Ford did it pre-emptively from keeping Nixon out of a trial and possible jail time. McConnell did it for similar reasons for not impeaching him in the Senate. It's all about the party first. A pardon is just another stay or get out of jail card for the rich and powerful. The other reason may have been that the conservatives saw a window of opportunity to get some political traction and start chipping away of the FDR and Kennedy/Johnson policies after having cleared the way of Irish.
The American media is worried about Trump...😂😂😂😂
What about inflation, illegal immigrants and wars....
How could a convicted felon even get close to public office. - makes absolutely no sense?
Nixon was a choir boy compared to trump. Given Trump's threats intimidation and complete lack of remorse the judge has no choice but to give him the maximum possible sentences!
Hmm, A paranoid alcoholic vs a malignant narcissist, ? I will have to think this one over.🤔
A choir boy in terms of capacity for criminality, but as President and statesman, Trump is the choir boy compared to Nixon.
Both are crooks!
@@user-kn6vy5zj3z Sure, but Trump is its poster boy cuz he brings "crookery" to another level
@@mybachhertzbaud3074 Nixon founded EPA and opened up relations with China.
Good grief! A former President who leaves office doesn't have a thing to worry about - unless he has committed crimes! Let his political opponents knock themselves out charging him with x,y,z. If there were no crimes, a jury will find him not guilty. If a President commits crimes, I WANT him to be held accountable after he leaves office. After 249 years, only Nixon and Trump have done that, so what is the big deal about protecting former Presidents from prosecution? The vast majority do not commit crimes.
Very good points.
(or did they?!)
At the very least, if there were crimes they weren't obvious and poorly obfuscated.
This doesn’t make sense
Joe Biden is too senile to be prosecuted for stealing classified documents, but he still can be president. 😂
I love that line. Don’t elect convicts in office.
If we did that half of congress wouldn't be there, including Biden.
@@darweb3417 the House GOP-led investigative committee failed to produce or show any evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden. 0 evidence, 0 crimes. Keep fishing for fish that don’t exist.
@@writersquill433 There is more evidence of Biden crimes than Trump. What Trump is accused of are made up, fake crimes. Biden on the other hand did get money from his son's "business", which we all know came from foreign "companies" which were buying access by giving his son millions of $$$ for NO ACTUAL WORK OR LEGITIMATE REASON.
The Constitution allows it! What a country!
@@darweb3417 thats just straight up bullshit
This Republican response to a JURY verdict is outrageous !
@arturbello4213No, if the Republican leadership did their job after Jan 6 we wouldn’t have this problem. But even Today we have GOP leaders that are not full blown cult members, defending a convicted criminal. Because keeping control is more important than doing what is right.
That is so correct. It is outrageous behavior. Near criminal.. Immoral actually..
@arturbello4213vote for Biden in any case. It will go further into showing that maga-ism was defeated, and roundly so, by correct thinking Americans.
Biden has been a good President. If you think he's so bad did you give the money he gave us Back? I don't think so. Biden No crimes, Trump Plenty of Crimes committed. Trump will become a Dictator, Watch listen to him.
More reason the Electoral college needs to go
So you Dems are the ones who want dictatorship.
Or it needs to be revamped. Electoral votes should be determined by the popular votes of each state.
at least altered, borrow from Maine & Nebraska, expand it to something that resembles a parliamentary election. But how do we get 50 states to agree when we can't even address gerrymandering? First we have to get past trump, the GOP has to clean itself up & if that can happen, the Dems have to remember not to gloat during the process or exploit the process. SCOTUS needs to be accountable and set term limits as well. Say what we will about Alito and Thomas, I think anybody can become corrupt if they feel above the law & both of them seem to have developed political or social bias.
@@r.pres.4121 All electors going to a state's majority vote is voiding the votes of the others in that state. Win/win for the parties, lose/lose for the voters.
This constitution need to be amended no criminal of first degree charges shouldn’t be allowed to run for office
Yeah
like hiding documents behind the Corvette,
storing of more classified documents on a college campus.
accepting grift money from foreign powers
Thanks for the idea
I 100% agree our constitution needs to be updated. A convicted felon and sex offender should not be able to hold the highest office of our country and title of Commander in Chief. Again, he lost in 2020 and did not accept the outcome and he will not accept the outcome of this election either, unless he wins.
I so appreciate a knowledgeable guest being able to answer at length without the customary sound bite need. This was like a coffee table discussion with a knowledgeable friend! Thank you!
you said it. He's a good talker.
So why don't we hold the supreme Court judges to the same standards?
Ironic, isn't it. All this R flap over "political" judge/prosecutor, after circumventing Senate rules for Supreme Court seats?
Guilty as charged on 34 felony counts!!! A great day for America. All decent Americans are celebrating from coast to coast. Hallelujah baby!!
Not just America, pretty happy with the verdict here in the UK too..
@@chris6559 Is the UK next on the list for political show trials? We now have them here in America.
@@willmont8258Anyone Committing Crimes should be held accountable,Grow Up
@@joancooney7724 There were no crimes here. You need to understand how the law works, because you don't.
Kings and Queens have had their heads lopped off.
Sure have! 😂
Excellent point.
I have been advocating the Robespierre approach for sometime now…
@@kineahora8736 Touché. I would point out however, that those who foment revolution often end up on the scaffold themselves. Sooner rather than later.
@@c.a.savage5689 thoroughly aware of that- and as someone who makes an extremely good salary, the masses tend to not be able to distinguish me from the people that are causing all of these problems (billionaires/captains of industry and such). Yet it takes the buy-in of the upper middle class to really fix things (overthrowing the corrupt status quo), which then redounds against their own short-term interest…
Of course, if things get bad enough for other reasons… (I am Jewish, and things are getting very bad for us -right wing populists have always been deep Jew-haters/NAZIS, but after the poisoning of the liberal minds by Edward Said at Columbia Univ., now he left is just as bad if not worse).
@@kineahora8736
no idea what that is😂 yea, just an average commenter.
But I like the sound of it.
This interview is brilliant. Timothy Naftali brought such profound insights to the table. Towards the end he puts it across so cogently.
The character of the candidate matters.
His greatest virtue is his ability to bring out the worst in us.
So very true,what a legacy,unfortunately due to his cognitive decline he’s beyond contrition,his cult are just emboldened by his crimes and lies 🤡🤡👿
@@TerriObrien-mi5rx W.Shakespeare couldn't have said that better.
Just change "virtue" to "skill" .... he is not virtuous !
Jesus is my Crutch. Trump is my Enabler.
He doesn’t bring out the worst in us. His supporters were already the worst in us. We knew who they were before Trump came along.
Excellent interview. Tim Naftali is an intelligent and lucid man. Such as is rarely seen on American television.
@DonaldDeBerry-gc6rx Pick a language, any language, and write something that makes sense. Please.
The president and The Presidency are two separate things.
The president is a job for which we choose and employ someone to fill for us for a fixed period of time.
The Presidency is the head position of one of our three branches of government.
If someone who happens to have been employed as president is convicted of a crime, they must serve the time.
If they don't, it makes a mockery of The Presidency and our form of government and us.
Nixon should have gone to trial, and if convicted, should have been sent to prison. Gerald Ford made a catastrophic mistake in pardoning Nixon.
Karma is real and finally trump have had a taste of his own medicine 💊
He didn't get anything except elevated in status from his minions. Now they can truly vote for someone who understands them.
He won't go to prison and the three serious trials have been stopped.
@@daydays12 by republican - what a total moral roth they are
@@krisowy79 Yes they are
That remains to be seen (watching from UK)......
This was the most honest discussion I’ve heard
This guest is brilliant!
Mr. Naftali makes a great point about full immunity for sitting and former presidents, and how bad that would actually be. Certainly, in Donald Trump's case, where he clearly craves the ability to commit crimes with impunity, it would be an absolute disaster.
NO person, no matter who they are or what office they hold/have held, should EVER be immune to prosecution for crimes or treasonous speech and behavior.
This guy is great! Thanks for the education.
What is also unprecedented is that no safeguards have ever been put in place to prevent nepotism and sycophants from being appointed to positions for which they have no expertise or proven experience.
Indeed
Thank you for this statement. I believe that experience matters in all areas of human endeavors. Particularly, in ruling over 320 million surfisticated population. America deserves a candidate with proofed experience, integrity, and character to lead them.
Trump was the first true Populist to becoming POTUS.We had populist like Presidents like the two Roosevelts and Andrew Jackson,etc
@@mopelolaadegoke3092 "surfisticated" ! that speaks volumes!
The Founding Fathers never dreamed that someone as blatantly corrupt as trump could ascend the steps towards the Presidency.
What America needs, is to see this accountability in our Justice system. If a convicted felon cannot vote … how, in a legal sense, can he be able to run for any office.
Sadly, whether Trump will be able to vote is still unclear. It is likely to depend on whether he is sentenced to jail time and the timeline of his appeal process.
I beg to differ ... the story that future historians will tell of Trump and the pandemic is one of deadly incompetence and failure by the President.
He had no background in science and wouldn't listen to those that did. Obama had left a response plan, but Trump ignored and dismantled the system.
@@EdwardEmmick More BS.
Hardness to comprehension truth is a terrible disease,
They should build the Trump Presidential Library in a prison, or prison cell. Heck, name a prison after him. He deserves that honor. 😄
The Trump” library” is already kind of an oxymoron- a man who basically didn’t read other than a few Hitler speeches.
It should be constructed of toilet paper and dried excrement , and be built in the Kearney dump.
He's never read a book in his life. A library. Last thing on his mind.
And, put in the banned books ONLY
It would only house one book, though: 1001 Swindles.
Should be constructed of toilet paper with dried excrement…
Long term Felon finally Convicted
I appreciate Naftali perspective always. Just a brilliant mind.
And I quote: "my neighbor said to me..HEY LOOK, NIXON DIDN'T GO TO JAIL" tell your neighbor he's an idiot because Nixon wasn't convicted of a crime! You can't go to jail unless your convicted duh!
So crazy that we are at this point
It has been 247 years in the making.😂
PBS is there to inform an electorate.
PBS is there to spew biased lies.
PBS is BS.
That is why republicans want to either privatize it or shut it down by cutting off all public funding.
@@r.pres.4121 Because if it is funded in part with tax dollars, it should not be one sided in favor of one political party and biased against the other.
This proves that our judicial system works as it is designed to work. It is about time the rich and powerful are held to account for crimes they committ.
Presidents should live their lives like they can be held accountable. Just as the rest of us do. If the evidence rises to the level of an indictment then indict.
6:40 the gentleman has some good & important points. No one & no leader, including presidents,should be looking for a free pass to commit crime.
Excellent !!
Not really. Did not find this presidential historian very informative at all. And certainly not mentioning some of the important failures of the the Chump 4 years of incompetence and virtually nothing accomplished.
@@coreyham3753 l don't agree. He would have sounded extremely partisan if he done so. He is looking at the 4 years of Trump from a long-term historical standpoint. Pretty much everything Trump did: pulling out of the Paris Accords, cancelling the Iran nuclear agreement, cuddling up to dictators, tax breaks for the 1%, rolling back environmental regulations are ALL seen as positive from the Republican side.
@@c.a.savage5689 Really ??? The latest presidential historians survey which included hundreds of presidential historians and ranks presidents on 20 different criterion ranks Chump virtually right at the bottom of all presidents over history. It is hardly partisan to rate Chump as a dismal failure based on his history and record. That is just a FACT and supported by tons
of evidence and observations. To fail to point that out indicates a lack of credibility and probably bias and rank partisianship.
Fantastic discussion, extremely helpful for navigating this moment
Gerald Ford had no backbone to do the right thing.
Very similar to Senator Mitch McConnell. A spineless scardy cat.
He was also part of the sham Warren Commission!
How do we stop this madness
Never elect criminal con men (or women) again... this includes con men like Marco Rubio, LIndsey Graham... con women like MTG... and governors like Abbott of Texas. Just my 2 cents.
Amen.
Vote, phone bank and canvass in key swing states. With a large voter turnout and accurate count of the vote, we should be able to vote out every MAGA Republican.
It’s impossible that no one understood that man character yet ?? Why all keep overpower over valued over credit a buffoon comedian ? the only thing that gives him this much attention is his money and nothing else
Be president it’s just a title for him he didn’t behave like one and he never will
The only reasons he want to be president is for his personnel revenge to show that he is in power and can do what ever he want, it’s just that title give him the permission to do that not because he is powerful inside him such Putin
He is a perfect comedian why no one see that ?
Elect Joe Biden and elect democrats to hold the majorities in the Senate and House. Republicans and Trump supporters have been complicit in damaging our democracy and justice system.
He knew he lost,lies on top of lies.
In South Korea the presidents have often moved from their blue house to jail house after their terms because of corruptions.
For heaven sake…sometimes , for the sake of the republic…you just HAVE TO CONVICT the “ham sandwich”!
yes! It's ok to take out the bad guy. Remember growing up and the refrain was 'should they have taken out Hitler in the beginning'!
Putin to self: "Well, I got him office in 2016 thanks to the Electoral College, but with the conviction, it's not looking too good this year."
Not alleged anymore, he was found guilty
Very interesting interview!
Former president
So proud of my country right now. No one truly is above the law. 'Merica 🇺🇸
It is referred to as ‘The devil on horseback” it is when a political leader causes so much pain and anguish to others that he/she cannot let go of power without suffering extreme punishment.
Hari Sreenivasan, hard-to-spell name but such a talented interviewer.
Tim your commentary is spot on thank you for your candor well said
Wonderful. Thank you ✨️
January 6 was Thumps undoing. He should accept that fact and go away
Even after Jan 6, if tRrump had decided to just fade away & leave politics, having dodged 2 impeachment bullets .. he probably would have avoided charges, bc no one really wants to indict a former President (bc it dishonours the Office of the Presidency).
He won the lottery 3 times - getting elected + 2 impeachments, but he's always been a gambler who backs his own judgment against all odds; in thousands of law suits he imposed his will or escaped responsibility for his deliberate criminal actions, so no chance he'd make a rational decision & take his winnings, & his ongoing risk off the table, he only saw the loss of face in losing to sleepy Joe, so like all big losing gamblers, totally misperceived the odds.
His epithet will be " He did it to himself, all of it!"
Ours, "We let it happen .. !"
Hopefully, "once, not twice!"
This man has mastered the art of hand motions in conversation.
He's been watching Ari Melber.
Hilarious.
Gang signs?🤔
@@mybachhertzbaud3074 could be visual codes sent to all the white supremacists. 🤓
Unfortunately for the GOP they now have no choice but to support Trump because his fan base would absolutely ensure that no other replacement candidate would be allowed to even consider running; anyone other than their Man would be too much of a conspiracy for them to swallow.
I understand. BUT using self preservation trashing the rule of law and the Constituton is a pitiful excuse. {maybe a spine would help}
@@dhix2388 Most of the GOP leadership seems to have lost their spine a while back.
@@deepashtray5605 Indeed. They could have easily cut ties with him during the second impeachment (looking at the senate).
@@dhix2388 The TRump cult and their leaders are spinless to call out their trash..meaning Trump and several others in GOP! Mitch McConnel is a lot at fault here!!
Ladies and Gentlemen we've hit rock bottom, thank you for playing
I envy your optimism.
Now, time to rebuild.
Brillant interview! Many thanks!
Yes, Negative Charisma.
Pretty awesome jury! Glad the judge kept them Anonymous. President Bone Spurs for “inmate of the month” at Rikers!
Brilliant interview. Some really important questions raised. Really really good interview.
Thank you so much for this excellent segment. What a knowledgeable and reasonable historian.
Waiting to see RUMP'S orange jumpsuit match his face power😮
Best quote from this interview: "Don't elect convicts to office." Apparently common sense isn't as common as we would like for it to be.
The voting data does show that the unequal recovery of the economy following the 2008 recession reflects how many working voters felt about the Obama Administration's banks "too big to fail" bailout and that Administration's response to the mortgage crisis -- the HAMP and HARP programs that got the bad mortgage loans off the banks' and mortgage companies' books rather than helping to keep people in their homes + the failure to create jobs -- especially those that paid a living wage with decent benefits, its anti-union stance combined with aspects of the Affordable Care Act that, after too much compromise, are corporate welfare to health insurance, pharmaceutical and health IT companies led voters who voted for Obama twice to vote for Trump in 2016. Add misogyny, racism and homophobia and you can see how Trump's rhetoric played so well to so many. The media's relentless coverage of Trump -- because ratings equals profits -- also helped him get elected.
I think the historian has it out of sequence. It's true that he Special Prosecutor was appointed after DJT announced he would run for another term. But DJT did not announce he would run for a second term until after he was notified that he was under investigation for J6. The Justice Dept made the first move.
When he DECIDED sic BARR on Cohen and any other perceived enemies back in 2017 and 2018...
You Know -- WHEN HE WAS PRESIDENT!!
I had Professor Naftali as a student at the Gilder Lehrman Institute for Teachers and we learned loads from his decades experience as a historian and modern day thinker- PLEASE bring him back on for today's SCOTUS decision.
Fabulous interview with salient points to consider about those left behind. Thank you
"Never before", Trumps favorite phrase....................🤗
If you do the crime you do the time President or not. If the rule of law applies to everyone EQUALLY, then even a President should pay for his crimes. Including prison if that would be anyone else's punishment. PERIOD!!
Great discussion, and respect by the moderator and guest. 👍 MSNBC, CNN, . . . This is your model.
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Not just "a" crime, but thirty-four (34) felonies.
No crimes, no felonies. This will be overturned because there were NO CRIMES HERE.
Excellent analysis.
Those conservatives on the US Supreme Court should learn from history to be impartial upholding the laws of the land.
Yet it is the Dems who don't do that. Charging someone with a fake crime for political reasons is one of the worst crimes of history, and now the US is doing it to Trump, just like the communist block did to people in eastern Europe.
Many constitutions contain "grey areas" or blind angles that are tacitly understood should not be tested, and the effect when somebody finally does test them with force can be explosive or very harmful. A typical example: even if the UK doesn't have a separate, single and "walled-off" constitution, it's part of their foundation of state laws that 1) the PM must have the trust of the Monarch and must not deceive him/her, 2) the Monarch is not supposed to stand down a PM over something the PM himself really wants. No English king or queen over the last three hundred years has forced away a PM by saying "I don't believe you and I am not going to do what you just asked of me" (as head of state).
In late 2019, Boris pushed that button by asking (or pretty much ordering?) the Queen to prorogue parliament (send them home) during a critical phase of the Brexit negotiations. It had to be done in her name, he could not do it himself, and he invented some excuse for it. I think Elizabeth grasped the real reason was that he wanted to be free from parliament during most of the final lap of negotiations with Brussels, and he wanted a fait accompli to present to Westminster. Technically Elizabeth could have said No, but it would have triggered a deep constitutional crisis and a possible breakdown in relations with the EU, which were already strained, , so she held back and did what he asked for., even though many people resented it. Boris' gamble paid off for himself, but the final Brexit deal was rushed and left many questions unanswered.
In the US, the question "How do you hold someone legally accountable for crimes they committed in the course of a presidential election campaign, if they manage to win and take the White House?" is a similar grey zone. POTUS and many of his closest associates enjoy legal immunity once they have entered the White House, so it's almost impossible to indict them or bring them to court over crimes that happened on the road to the White House - an the president has major abilities to stump an inquiry into such crimes. The Mueller inquiry showed that. The Cohen/Daniels trial would have been impossible if Trump had still been sitting in the White House, the January 6-related trials too.
But, the no indictment rule of a sitting President is not in our Constitution; rather, it’s a memo in the Department of Justice that hasn’t yet been challenged.
In America, President Dwight Eisenhower strongly disagreed with the Supreme Court's 1954 _Brown v. Board of Education_ decision declaring school segregation unconstitutional. However, when in 1957 Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus mobilized the state's National Guard to prevent a group of black students from entering Little Rock's Central High School, Eisenhower felt he had no choice but to enforce the Court's ruling and federalized the Guard to instead protect the students as they entered.
If Eisenhower had thought as Trump seems to, he'd have backed Faubus instead and in effect told the Supreme Court that its rulings only counted if he approved of them. Banana Republicanism.
@@margo3367 The entry bar for allowing an indictment of a sitting president is twenty times higher than for any ordinary citizen. Yes, not in the constitution per se but it's still in "constitutional praxis". Many aspects of the US constitution have never really been road tested by SCOTUS either..
@@louise_rose Where do you get the “20 times higher” figure? Also, a memo does not in any way form a part of our Constitution.
With hindsight, it's a pity Queen Elizabeth didn't say NO. Boris Johnson is a fool and a charlatan (inspite of his charm and Eton education) and Brexit is a disaster. Brexit should have been nipped in the bud.
Trump: No one before has been persecuted so terribly! I did nothing wrong!
The Exonerated CentralPark 5: Karma, man. Karma.
A well spoken man. Very insightful.
Maybe you can marry him? 👨🏻❤️💋👨🏻😍
@@user-hi5eh3xi7zTrump said you wanted some of his 🍄.😂
Excellent interview!!
trump has had an affect on how we think about each other. His legacy is the division that is festering.
Candidate with an elephant in the room instead of a wife....... #FemaleVotersTakeNote
Hey Tim, You look great with that smile on your face!
Ive been smiling all day long! 🌊💙🌊💪🏼🌊💙🌊✊🏼
Unless he is punished in a substantial way the convictions mean nothing.
A great analysis. I felt the same difference to Nixon case, and I can understand Gerald Ford's decision to pardon Nixon. However, many Legal Eagles believe that Nixon should have been at the least indited. Trump behaves like a mobster, and the entire Republican party became infested by this way of acting.
For a while, I've genuinely wondered how we as a nation arrived at Trump, Trump-ism and his "negative charisma" (Naftali's characterization). For me, this segment satiates my wonder. In outlining major phenoms of the past 15 years (the great recession, COVID) Naftali argues Trump became their "avatar." Trump also gave voice to cultural/political reverberations that resulted from the tumultuous shifts the two phenoms (and other phenoms) caused. Nothing about Trump is proactive -- only reactive. However, his/this reactive nature has power that neither really he nor us as a nation can neither fully comprehend -- or grasp.
Excellent !
I will never give a damn about those who say they have been left behind again, who supported Trump. Damn everyone who ever supported Trump.
Good Explanation.
To all criminals... run for president or Congress! You'll be amongst friends.
Just throwing it out there, but South Korea has convicted, or actually did to the point of suicide, something like five of its six first presidents. So America is not the only country who has ever done this.
Thank you
The sad thing is: he should have been convicted 2 years ago. That would have given the Republican party an opportunity to regain respectability and select a decent, credible candidate for the presidency. Now the elections are in jeopardy.
That's funny, your guest is from the Ronald Reagan Library. So ironic. He was such a criminal. Teflon Ronnie.
It’s a great day that we proved our politics - no one is above the law.
It’s a disgrace that enough people in this country are willing to support a criminal for elected office. Our system presumes that people would make better choices.
And about - what’s to say every other president won’t be indicted-- well, indicted criminals shouldn’t be promoted by political parties. Assuming indictments are effected in good faith with respect to the law - then we shouldn’t ever have to see this again. People need to make better choices.
Hard to get 12 people to agree to one thing, let alone to get 12 New Yorkers to agree to 34 things in one sitting! Guilty man!
Do the crime...muat do time in jail
I have lived on and off in USA as a student, and as a research worker, and was glad to do so. Now I am glad that it's all in the past - happier, healthier times.
Would like to hear from Jon Meacham on this, please. Maybe a conversation w/him and Maggie Haberman on this topic? They are great together.
Heather Cox Richardson would have been a more powerful quest on this subject than Mr. Naftali. in my opiniion