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Did Trump Walk Into a Trap? - Larry Wilkerson

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Larry Wilkerson

Yeah, a Benedict Arnold, you know, you could make a case, as was made by Omar Bradley and George Marshall in the Senate in testimony that wasn't revealed immediately for MacArthur. You know, that this was treason at the very highest levels, especially when he started soliciting the Chinese nationalists to come into the war in Korea and started talking about nuclear weapons all across the peninsula and tried to get the Republican Party to back him in that regard so he could do it.

He wanted to build a radioactive belt all across North Korea by exploding nuclear weapons. You could say, well, similarly, there's probably some truth to that.

But nonetheless, I kind of agree with you, with these high-level traitors.

Paul Jay

And what happened yesterday, it's incitement to riot. It's a crime. If, in fact, McConnell deliberately did not have security in place, at the very least, it's gross negligence. But I think it's, you know, gross negligence leading to death.

But then also a friend, a friend of mine pointed this out to me just as I was writing this thing, just the Covid thing, how many people are going to die and be terribly sick as a result of thousands of people without masks?

Larry Wilkerson

And look at the people in Congress who are still not wearing masks. You know, there's a power in the Congress. That has not been exercised in some time. In fact, I'd have to check my data, but I know it was exercised in some cases at the beginning of the Civil War, we actually unseated serving Congress members, Senate, and Representatives, and we sent them home. That should be done. That's within the prerogative of the leadership of the Senate and the House.

The guy last night, Hawley (R-MO). Show the photograph, leading them on, you're unseated senator, go home. Your state needs a special election for you. Go home now.

Paul Jay

I think this may be and that we can end the interview on discussing this point if Biden is going to be any bloody different.

He needs to use the moment to crush the Republican Party at this point, there's never been an opportunity like this except maybe after the Bush administration and Obama didn't take the opportunity. But now's the time to crush it otherwise. And I'll say the reason he probably won't is because his financial master is Wall Street and so on.

They need both parties. They need the Republicans to be a brake on the Democratic progressives.

Larry Wilkerson

You're making my postscript note in that article I wrote.

Yeah, I don't know how we get out of this Paul. I really don't. As a nation, as a people, I don't know how we get out of this. We're tracking hard for the edge of the cliff. It could take us another 50 to 60 years to get there. And, of course, climate change, nuclear weapons could bring us immediately to that and push us over. But we're headed for the cliff. All right.

Paul Jay

Well, let's build a broad front and change this bloody situation. I agree. Thanks for joining me. Thank you.

And thank you for joining us on theAnalysis.news podcast.

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