Ep. 12.1.18: The Noose Tightens Around Trump (with due apology to Mississippi’s new senator, who would prefer to see it elsewhere)

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This Week’s Discussion:

In this week’s episode we address the latest evidence of criminality in the Trump family.  What seemed like a damning revelation gleaned from Ivanka's use of private emails for government business has turned into serious small beer once Michael Cohen began cooperating with the independent counsel.  Cohen testified under oath in court that President Trump is a criminal and that he is effectively being blackmailed by the President of Russia.  Following Cohen's testimony of impeachment-worthy behavior by President Trump, we wonder if there is enough integrity in the GOP or among its voters to think that a Republican president who is proven to be a criminal and effectively an agent of a hostile foreign power might be able to be impeached.  We ponder whether there is any accountability for wealthy white criminals anymore.  We go to Mississippi, where racist statements do not undermine your senate aspirations, and where Cindy Hyde-Smith thereby was elected.  We wonder why Mississippians are so resentful of the federal government even as they continued to be over-represented in it and continue to be its greatest welfare recipients.  We discuss how Republicans have finally found the elusive electoral fraud they have long been seeking, and all they had to do to find it was look in a mirror.  We discuss how instant runoff elections, or ranked choice voting works, and why it should be implemented nationwide.  Finally, we discuss how Donald Trump managed to finally win an argument...against his Chief Justice.

 

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