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joins me live to discuss the new strategy. and, rebellion, speaker kevin mccarthy s far-right flank isn t happy, and that has messed things up in the house. could a government shutdown be in our future? i am jonathan capehart, this is the saturday show. it has been a rough week for twice impeached, and twice indicted former president donald trump. you re seeing a former president of the united states under the espionage act of 1917. it wasn t meant for this. and act for a crime so heinous that only the death penalty would do. it s one of the most outrageous and vicious legal theories ever put forward in an american court of law. the espionage act has been used to go after traitors and spies, it has nothing to do with a former president legally keeping his own documents. okay, let s be clear. the classified documents, legally did not belong to trump. which is why on tuesday donald trump had to surrender at a miami federal court to face 37 counts of mishandl ....
Ruth, as always, thank you very much for coming to the show. just here, i ve read the words in the newspaper, but to hear him say that is rather chilling. what stood out to me is his conflation, of his legal woes, with grievances of people who follow him. this is classic authoritarianism, isn t it? yes. you have stated it very nicely. the conflation of his personal legal troubles with the nation. what he s doing now is he s a cult leader, jonathan, i think you know i feel he s a cult leader. not a conventional politician. he has people, thousands of people to assault the capitol to save him. but that was sometime ago. so he has got to keep those bonds, refreshed. how do you do? that because he s in such trouble, he fears people will turn away from him. so he s making them victims as ....