EA on Pat Kenny Show: Donald Trump’s Made-Up Civil War

Posted by Scott Lucas | Jan 9, 2024 | 2

Donald Trump speaks at Des Moines Area Community College, Newton, Iowa, January 6, 2024 (Andrew Harnik/AP)

I joined Dublin NewsTalk’s Pat Kenny Show on Monday to evaluate the latest farce from Donald Trump: a rambling, nonsensical depiction of the US Civil War and how he would have prevented it.

Listen to Discussion from 2:28.45

I explain the significance of Trump’s nonsense: a mangling of history which tips off both his ignorance and his ego; the latent denial of race and thus of slavery as part of the Civil War; and his distortion of a 19th-century insurrection to vindicate his own in the 21st century.

And I note: despite the severity of both the assault on the past and the assault on the present, Trump’s opponents for the Republican nomination will never call him out over his lies and threats.

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Scott Lucas

Scott Lucas is Professor of International Politics at the Clinton Institute, University College Dublin; Professor Emeritus of International Politics at the University of Birmingham; and editor-in-chief of EA WorldView.He is a specialist in US and British foreign policy and international relations, especially the Middle East and Iran. Formerly he worked as a journalist in the US, writing for newspapers including the Guardian and The Independent and was an essayist for The New Statesman before he founded EA WorldView in November 2008.

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varharan on January 15, 2024 at 20:18
Dear Editor,
Can you please explain to your readers why states are involved in the selection of candidates during Republican and Democratic primaries but not with caucuses? This would appear to be an internal party affair, so why must states determine who gets on the ballot and count the votes in the case of primaries? It just appears to be as if the two parties are almost
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varharan on January 10, 2024 at 20:55
[Editor’s Note: Commenter is wrong that the prosecutor conceded that Trump has immunity in a situation such as incitement of insurrection or an attempt to overturn an election.]
Fani Willis subpoenaed in divorce case involving Trump prosecutor: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/10/fani-willis-subpoenaed-divorce-case-wade-special-prosecutor-trump
5 Takeaways From the Appeals Court Hearing on Trump’s Immunity Claim: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/09/us/politics/trump-immunity-hearing-takeaways.html
Despite what MSNBC claims, the DoJ counsel stumbled on the point he conceded that Presidents DO enjoy immunity from prosecution for official acts taken in emergency situations. Even so, 2 of the 3 appeal court judges are Biden appointees and will not rule in favour of Trump. who can appeal for an “en banc” hearing with all 11 circuit judges.
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