Defending Our Democracy with Liz Cheney and Jon Meacham

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  • Feb 13, 2024
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Hosted in conjunction with the Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy, the event marks the beginning of the Rogers Center’s mission to explore and promote understanding... Show More
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Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya · Feb 18, 2024
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"It's important for people to realize that each step step that Trump takes to try to delay, particularly the January 6th criminal trial, what he's really doing is attempting to suppress evidence. You need to remember who the witnesses will be in that trial... there's a lot of political claims that this is a partisan Witch Hunt. The Witnesses in front of the select committee, the Witnesses in that trial will be the people who know Trump best they'll be the people that he appointed to some of the highest offices in the land. They're the ones that testified that he sat in the dining room next to the Oval Office for over 3 hours and watched the attack on television and refused to tell the mob to leave in the face of people pleading with him to do so."
Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya · Feb 18, 2024
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"One of the the pieces of evidence that hasn't gotten much attention is, we know from testimony to the select committee, that trump was handed a note while he was sitting at the dining room table and the note said that a civilian had been shot at the entrance to the house chamber. Think about that for a minute. This is United States of America and you have a civilian shot at the entrance to the chamber, you've got a violent mob assault underway, you've got the commander and chief watching, he's been notified this happened, he puts the note down on the dining room table and front of him and continues to refuse to tell the mob to leave. It doesn't doesn't matter if you're a Republican or a Democrat or an independent, you know that is dereliction of duty. It's depravity. But Trump doesn't want that kind of evidence in the front the Forefront of our minds before people go to vote in November."
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