Thread by @TrumpFile

(THREAD) Live tweeting as I listen to "Where Do We Go From Here?," an interview with @Isikoff and @dklaidman, the new episode of the @GaslitNation podcast with @AndreaChalupa & @SarahKendzior.

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Journalists Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff) and Daniel Klaidman (@dklaidman) co-host the podcast @SkullduggeryPod on Yahoo News. Tonight they discuss the institutional decline that gave us Trump and where we go from here. For more on Mike & Daniel ⬇️ patreon.com/posts/where-do…

"We're now living in an era of kind of shamelessness that I think didn't exist in the same way before, and of course, the personification of that is Donald Trump." - @dklaidman

I'm posting the above tweets now & live tweeting as I listen from here. This episode of @GaslitNation is available wherever you get your podcasts, or listen early & get bonus episodes on Patreon.

If you're new here, welcome! I do this every Tuesday.
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P.S. I apologize if I misquote Daniel as Michael or vice versa. I think I've got their voices down, but it's been a long day. ♥️

"To this day, we don't fully understand all the nature of the relationships and everything that went down in 2016. [Trump-Russia] is going to be an ongoing matter that historians are going to be debating for years." - @Isikoff

.@AndreaChalupa: "They used some interview clip of me on Ukrainian independent TV... so we look like a bunch of Ukrainian illuminati, my sister and I coming after Trump." 😂😂😂😂😂😂

"They tried to play down impeachment and make it go away, and Sarah and I would not let it go away." - @AndreaChalupa

"They smeared us, and Pelosi's staff banned volunteers on the Pelosi groups from reading my book, quoting our show. It was crazy." - @sarahkendzior

Wow.

There's been some unanticipated defenses from Isikoff of William Barr and of Democrats not wanting to impeach. I'm at 36:50, and Sarah's pushing back. This is an interesting episode. Not the usual kind of interesting. I wonder what's about to happen.

Q: Looking back, if impeachment helped Trump more than hurt him, was it still worth it?

@SarahKendzior: Yes, because it's upholding their duty to the public as elected public servants, and it's educating the public about the extent of the crimes.

"They say 'if he really did it, if he really did these things, Congress would act...' It's the LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY that lets this lie endure... I think a lot of people saw clearly he was a threat once [officials] responded to him as if he was a threat." - @sarahkendzior

Daniel: Trump, to some extent, was defanged. When was he kicked off Twitter?

Michael: Before the impeachment.

Daniel: But after January 6, right?

Sarah: After he attempted to overthrow the government from within, he was let off Twitter, yes. THAT was his punishment. 😂😂😂

"Who put bombs around the Capitol? Who took the panic buttons out of @AyannaPressley's office? Who gave tours to insurrectionists in Congress. Those just seem like absolutely essential questions we need answered now." - @sarahkendzior

It's been FOUR months. Holy crap.

That's all for this week's @GaslitNation, another great episode from @sarahkendzior & @AndreaChalupa. Get the full discussion, including topics I skipped over, and bonus episodes on Patreon. This week's bonus Q&A is "The Ukrainian Oligarch of Oligarchs." patreon.com/gaslit

Transcripts for past episodes are available at GaslitNationPod.com. I apologize that tonight's thread was shorter than usual; I'm very tired ♥️

In case you missed it, here's last week's thread ⬇️

https://twitter.com/TrumpFile/status/1389789896227758082?s=20