David Rohde, National Security editor for NBC News, author of Where Tyranny Begins, talks about Donald Trump and his war against the Justice Department and the FBI. His meticulously reported book argues that Trump trashed a number of Watergate-era norms in Washington, which allowed him to organize something far worse than Watergate on January 6, 2021. David also talks about being held hostage by the Taliban in 2007-08, but overall this first episode of Radio Free Mike is a dispassionate review of Trump’s first term: we review the Story So Far.
Link to full episode on Substack: https://michaelscottmoore.substack.com/publish/post/153594742
Resources:
Where Tyranny Begins, by David Rohde
A Rope and a Prayer, by David Rohde and Kristen Mulvihill
Two Treatises of Government (1689) by John Locke
“Wherever law ends, Tyranny begins . . . Is it reasonable that the eldest brother, because he has the greatest part of his father’s estate, should thereby have a right to take away any of his younger brothers’ portions? Or that a rich man, who possessed a whole country, should from thence have a right to seize, when he pleased, the cottage and garden of his poor neighbour?”
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