next president. take a look at these headlines. the atlantic devoting an entire issue to the subject of a second trump term with the words, if trump wins. from the new york times, why a second trump presidency may be more radical than the first. from the guardian, a second trump term will be far more autocratic than the first, he s telling us. the washington post, a trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. the through line is a warning donald trump could transform every institution that comes under the sway of the presidency from the justice department to the federal bureaucracy that makes every government agency tip, to the allianct underpin our foreign pocy. don t assume trump will fall sort of his goals like did so often in his first term. a second-term trump would be different. from the atlantic, i his first term, corruption and brutality were mitigated by lay v llaziness. in a second term, he woul have more willing enablers in tow and a much more
anyone from watergate would ve avoided the exact track that trump put himself into with the documents situation. it s not even just keeping the documents, it s the cover-up. we knew about the obstruction before reporters behind the scenes had obviously heard about the surveillance footage, but the allegations that his age aides and requests seem to go to length daily surveillance footage here. it s quite remarkable. the obstruction of justice crime was not well-known before watergate. i never heard of in law school, i never thought anything about it. only a few prosecutors know about it. after watergate, everyone knows about obstruction and how easy it is to do, interfere with any investigation. so, i think anybody s antenna has been a post-watergate. trump committed alleged obstruction doing the russian investigation, as he was charged by the then special investigation. so, he knows what it is to hide
it was a wild time. they say history doesn t repeat itself. there s a lot of rhyming when it came to the distrust and disillusionment so many americans felt, post-watergate and post-vietnam. and suspicion that the government wasn t telling them everything they needed to know, when a it was this fake cancer cure. that reminded me of the distrust of the cdc during the covid epidemic. it was fun as an era to play with. i m sure people can you, how can you have a commanding career, and be the father of teenagers and crank out best-selling books. when i have a writing situation, when i have a writing project, i m focused. i m an architect. george r.r. martin says writers aregardeners.
we don t know the sourf the story. cnn has is not putting that out. but i doubt that if it s the department of justice, that would be very on like the department in modern times. post-watergate, they have put out very strict rules, and neither the fbi or the department judges are leakers anymore. yes, and i was a subject to prosecution if you do in fact a leak. don, i have to ask you politically if you look at this, we have seen so many things in terms of the background of donald trump whether it has to do with his past, his past as president presidents, voted in his weight do not seem to care. we are certainly looking at a situation where if you were a betting person it is likely that donald trump could become the gop nominee, and then presidents again. in the context of everything you just heard, what would a second donald trump charm look like when it comes to national security issues knowing what you know now? voters are not concerned