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George Conway Explains It All (To Sarah Longwell)

Felon in Chief

George Conway Explains It All (To Sarah Longwell)

The Bulwark

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

George and Sarah dissect how a convicted felon and active national security threat got elected to the White House, plus what will happen now to his many ongoing prosecutions.

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The law is now that if he engages in something that resembles an official act that is within

0:06.0

something like the type of thing that a president can do, which is order somebody to shoot somebody,

0:12.0

take the SEAL Team 6 example that Judge Florence Pan and the D.C. Circuit gave. The answer to the

0:18.0

question is the president's immune. Yeah.

0:21.0

That is just shocking and bad and completely contrary to what anybody you had asked this of

0:28.8

would have thought until 2024.

0:36.6

Hello, everyone, and welcome to George Conway explains it all to Sarah. I'm Sarah Longwell,

0:42.8

publisher of The Bullwork, and because I'm not a lawyer, I'm best my good friend, George Conway,

0:47.0

to explain the legal news to me, and today the legal news is George. America has decided to elect

0:53.9

its first convicted felon as president,

0:57.2

and I'm sure that our listeners are wondering what you think about that.

1:01.4

I think convicted felon should not be president. I think they should not hold public office.

1:07.2

Hot take. Yeah. But apparently a majority of the people who voted on on Tuesday and up until

1:14.8

Tuesday felt differently. Who knew? Well, I didn't know. I did think that she was going to eke it out

1:26.6

in the industrial northwest states, Pennsylvania,

1:29.8

Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nebraska, too.

1:32.0

Thought there was going to be enough, you know, white voters to sort of offset the slide

1:41.0

with Hispanics and others. But the fact is, as we're digging through the data,

1:47.8

as my whole team is, the bottom fell out of Hispanics, but the entire country shifted about

1:54.2

six and a half, six point seven points to the right. And in those industrial, like in the swing states where the campaign was being waged,

2:03.6

she did considerably better, about three and a half points better,

2:06.2

but it wasn't enough in the face of sort of an overwhelming rejection that, you know,

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