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Media Gloats Over Trump Indictment—Ignoring Dangers, Blinken Rejects Australia Demands to #FreeAssange, & Worst Pro-Iraq War Journalist Promoted (Again), w/ Michael Tracey | SYSTEM UPDATE #123

System Update with Glenn Greenwald

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The Indictment Alleges That It Is a Crime to Argue Against the Legitimacy of Presidential Elections in the United States

In the 21st century alone every time literally the Democrats have lost a presidential election Democrats have stood up and accused the government of defrauding voters. This indictment essentially would say that it is a crime now to argue against the legitimacy of the certified outcome of presidential elections in the United States. It's not about anything other than a claim that Trump took class by documents that he had the power to classifier declassified a willman president  and store them there without authorization or refused to give them back, says Julian Zelizer. The idea is we're gonna get to try him before a set of Manhattan jurors who are almost certainly likely to be very hostile to Trump politically and hope that they

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