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"Somebody like Rudy Giuliani, who right now is just a co-conspirator in the Jack Smith election interference case but could be looking at being a codefendant in this [Georgia] case, somebody like Rudy Giuliani would be completely incentivized to flip." -@KatiePhang
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An increasing number of Israelis and American Jews are starting to call Israel an apartheid state, and yet, some top Democrats are running into the arms of Benjamin Netanyahu. @MehdiRHasan says these Democrats will be remembered as being on the wrong side of history.
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"Most of the ethnically-based civil wars are started by people who had once been dominant in a country but are in decline demographically." @bfwalter says the U.S. is closer to a civil war than most would like to believe.
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.@MehdiRHasan warns that the threat of civil war is no longer hyperbole: “Political violence is not something abstract, or something that might happen at some point in the future, it’s happening right now."
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"Trump knows he's in big trouble if he starts spouting violent rhetoric again. He's going to have the people around him do it for him...we're entering a very heightened threat environment." -@FrankFigliuzzi1
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Watch the full interview here: youtube.com/YObrawsstcc
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Before becoming a vocal Trump critic, George Conway actually voted for him. @mehdirhasan asks: "Why didn't you see what so many of us saw in 2016?"
"I wanted to see a Republican win," Conway says, adding: "I was projecting positive qualities onto him."
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Indoctrination by cartoon? In his latest attack on ‘woke schools,’ Ron DeSantis says Florida can now bring in lessons on race and social justice from a right-wing group whose leader *brags* about indoctrinating kids. @mehdirhasan breaks it down. WATCH: youtube.com/4D-x-M5MFuo
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Everybody knows about Pravda in the USSR, but Mehdi asks: How bad is Russian propaganda today, compared to the Soviet era?
"What we have today is much worse," says Russian independent journalist @zygaro. Watch him explain why:
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If convicted, could Donald Trump really see prison time? Experts have doubts, given Trump's Secret Service protection. But before we assume the only option is house arrest at Mar a Lago, @mehdirhasan notes that other countries have figured out how to imprison former leaders.
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Is it even possible for any of Donald Trump's criminal cases to be decided before the 2024 election?
"Absolutely," @gtconway3d tells @mehdirhasan, adding: "I want to see the January 6th case go first."
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The latest Fox News defense of Trump is that his fake electors scheme was no big deal, because JFK did something similar in 1960, in Hawaii.
"Completely inapplicable here!" says @gtconway3d.
Hear him explain why:
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Trump’s adult sons “just keep pretending that it’s the Democrats who are targeting their political opponents with prison, not them.”
@MehdiRHasan and @AymanMSNBC on the hypocrisy of Don Jr. and Eric Trump in tonight’s #handover.
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"Republicans, apparently, want you not to believe your own lying eyes," @MehdiRHasan says of desperate spin efforts from the GOP after their hearing with Hunter Biden's associate Devon Archer - sold as a bombshell event - fizzled and fell flat.
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In tonight's 60-second rant, @MehdiRHasan ticks through Donald Trump's list of firsts that no president should want. Start the clock!
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.@renato_mariotti says that Trump's delay tactics will not work with Judge Chutkan:
"She's going to teach him, ultimately, that at the end of the day she's the decider and there's a real big consequence that comes if you're going to try to constantly flout the judge's rule."
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"Here, it's important he have a timeout and in my view the timeout would be 'oh grab your toothbrush and spend about 3 to 5 days sitting in jail to think about how serious this is,'" @judgecordell tells @MehdiRHasan how she would handle Trump's online threats from the bench.
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"If you attempt a coup, we're going to get you in two years and 220 days." @DeanObeidallah jokes, pointing out that AG Merrick Garland should have appointed Jack Smith as special counsel back in March 2021.
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"The insanity defense. That's what the Trump legal teams seem to be offering in the wake of Special Counsel Jack Smith's stunning and damning 45-page indictment." @MehdiRHasan debunks the top 5 desperate defenses from Donald Trump's legal team.
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Watch the full commentary here: youtube.com/htDhd8wB2JE
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