Assertive figure so they re not as inclined as they were with previous presidents to give him credit when things turn around in the economy the way they are doing right now. the bigger factors are systemic, as you said, the polarization we have. we get news that reaffirm what is we believe, and it s hard to break out of that. i don t think joe biden is going to do it, but i don t think anyone else could do it either. thank you, andrew. i appreciate your time and the piece you wrote, and to andrew s last point, i can t think of anybody on the stage when the republicans debate on august 23rd or among any of the democratic candidates, i just can t see anybody who conceivably is going to have an approval rating of what, i don t know, 60 what are your thoughts? hit me up on social media, i ll read some throughout the course of the program. what do we have, katherine, from the world of twitter. stop procting him every minute and hiding his lies and refusing to do investigation. are you kidding me, we don t want trump and we don t want
What do we have, katherine, from the world of twitter? stop protecting him every minute and hiding his lies and refusing to do any investigation. are you kidding me, we don t want trump and we don t want biden. i m not protecting him every minute. i m saying candidly he has been deserving of a higher approval rate certainly in the time he has been the president thus far. it s not in defense of him. it s rather reflective. i would say that about trump in the course of his one term. something else is going on here. here s a fun thought experiment. go to the live chat feature of my website this hour and give me a name, anyone on the planet, putting aside the requirements necessary to run for the u.s. presidency, give me a name, who could win 49 of 50 states the way that ronald reagan did? nobody. please go to the website for an additional purpose, and that is to answer this week s poll
In other words, you re not here advocating that they should have been acquitted from the get go, but rather saying they were convicted of the wrong charge and the lesser charge that mark geragos thinks is more appropriate, by now they d probably have been released. is that it? that s exactly it. i couldn t have said it better myself. i m going to read aloud a social media response. hang on for just a second in case i want to defer to you. what do we have, katherine? it says, victim gender bias in sexual assault cases is a real thing. eric, i guess, is making your point, mark. i think that s exactly right. i think that you when i frame it in terms of, if this had been the menendez sisters or if eric had been erica, so to speak, i think lyle would have been lauded as a hero, and so i m not defending the any other idea but that they didn t get a fair
All right, there s the result of this week s poll question. interesting. decisive. will donald trump face any trial before election day 2024? let s call it two-thirds say yes, more than 28,000 at least as of now who have already voted. i m in the minority. it might be manhattan. let s see some social media reaction. what do we have, katherine? real quick. why shouldn t all defendants be treated the same? okay, eric swenson, here is the thing, you heard this, many people say, election be damned, treat them like anybody else, well, if it were anybody else, according to ellie, given the complexity of the federal action, that case wouldn t get to trial until beyond november of 2024. so if you hold trump accountable in a court of law before that time period, you re probably treating him differently in a worse way.
Prosecutor s ranks, and, look, it s only a few hundred dollars although i would say that katherine s contributions to biden in the 2020 election cycle would suggest that she was pretty keen on having joe biden beat donald trump that year. but look, i don t think it s really fair to cast dispersions on their professionalism just based on who they donated to but i do think it is really curious the way that they have handled both the patrick case and the gal luft case. patrick was the joint business partner of both the israeli professor gal luft, currently a fugitive, and hunter biden. both hunting and his uncle and gal luft were making money out of this chinese energy company that patrick worked for and when patrick was rounded up by the