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George Conway Explains It All (To Sarah Longwell)

9: Trump Convicted!

George Conway Explains It All (To Sarah Longwell)

The Bulwark

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Sarah and George record an emergency episode of George Explains It All to cover Donald Trump’s jury finding the former president guilty on 34 counts!

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0:00.0

Here we all know one more life. Oh, the stream is live. Great. Wow, okay. Okay.

0:05.0

Hello everyone. Welcome to George Conway explains it all to Sarah. I'm Sarah

0:09.2

Longwell publisher of the Bullwork and we just got a guilty verdict. George, where are you?

0:13.2

How are you feeling?

0:13.9

We are doing this very quickly, very live.

0:16.6

I'm sorry that I'm dressed like this.

0:18.2

But what do you think?

0:48.2

It was never a close case. I mean, I just I think there's just a lot of people out there shocked and surprised and I'm you know I'm not I'm a little bit surprised that they didn't take the night and do it tomorrow, but I mean I thought that the only I thought there was a zero chance of an acquittal as I previously said elsewhere and I didn't think that a split verdict was necessarily that likely but if it were it probably would have been on 27 counts

0:51.9

the checksy sign but I didn't think that made sense.

0:55.3

So I don't know how they I don't know how they couldn't have convicted unless you had one nut job on the jury, which

1:02.0

you know it's hard to it's hard to hang a jury. And so the evidence was just overwhelming.

1:07.2

The defense, there was never really a defense, and the defense made lots of mistakes, but probably driven by the fact that Donald Trump is a complete nut job.

1:18.0

I'm just not surprised. So I'm forgive me for not jumping up and down.

1:25.0

This is the result that I've expected all along.

1:29.0

I'm happy that everybody thinks it's exciting and all,

1:32.0

but you know, this is just one case and there will be others.

1:37.1

I don't think he will win the election.

1:38.7

I think he's probably going to spend the rest of his life in prison and should.

1:44.8

Well he's not going to spend the rest of his life in prison for this conviction, right?

1:48.4

No, I think he'll probably get what probation. I, no, I don't know why that's the next thing that I think people don't yet.

1:56.7

I mean I'm getting it from like Twitter analysis.

1:59.6

Yeah I mean everybody's just I think he's got everyone so psyched out that oh he's never he's he's managed to evade responsibility for 77 years that people just don't think it's possible for him to be found guilty in a court of law and to go to jail.

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