Biden Doesn’t Want to Prosecute Trumpland. But His AG Still Might.
The Beast’s DC bureau chief and its Trumpland reporter join Rick and Molly to chat about a possible Trump prosecution–and Rudy Giuliani reaching the “peak of batshit mountain.”
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Team Biden has made his incoming style of presidency very clear: Keep the peace. Or in his aides’ words, “move the country forward.” Unfortunately, moving forward doesn’t include prosecuting Donald Trump and his band of thieves, er, White House staffers and campaign confidants.
In this bonus episode of The New Abnormal, which happened LIVE on Zoom, The Daily Beast’s D.C. Bureau Chief Jackie Kucinich confirms this to co-hosts Rick Wilson and Molly Jong-Fast.
“Where we’re at in the process, it doesn’t seem like that’s going to happen,” she says.
BUT. And this is a big BUT: Biden’s attorney general still could go after Trump, points out Beast Trumpworld Reporter Asawin “Swin” Suebsaeng: “It will be interesting to see how that particular pick moves forward.”
Speaking of “what ifs,” the quad also muse about what the political world will look like without Trump as president, and sorry to say, not too much different.
“One of the worst liberal fantasies is that he’s going to go to Mar-a-Lago and not come back,” Molly says, but that ain’t gonna happen.
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“Biden will be president January 20. But the Trump presidency as it is a state of mind is going to continue. Anyone who thinks the Republican party is going to go back to how they were before Trump is living in a fantasy land,” says Jackie.
Rick and Swin have even more sinister predictions: “I don’t want to jump the gun here, but we should see if he tries to run some shadow foreign relations [scheme] from Mar-a-Lago or the Trump organization,” says Swin.
Don’t forget the rallies, either! According to Rick, they’ll continue, but “they’ll be ticketed. He’ll use them as a revenue source.”
Then! Jackie talks about the chances of Biden’s old buddy Mitch McConnell coming around, and the group makes their pick for which MAGA bot will make the best bachelor or bachelorette.
Plus! Will Democrats have to drag GSA official Emily Murphy out of her post? Is Rudy Giuliani OK? And what the hell is happening in Georgia!?
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