French: I feel, Michelle, the exact authorized phrase for that argument is “bonkers.” [Laughter]
It’s simply wild. All of us bear in mind it. This was the largest story in America, and this was the primary time that you just started to see Republicans fleeing the marketing campaign after the conference. After the Republicans consolidated on the conference, you started to see cracks within the facade after the “Entry Hollywood” tape.
That was a nine-alarm hearth. That was an emergency for the marketing campaign.
Healy: And but he held it collectively. And that goes to why I felt stunned by this. It touches on issues that you just two have each raised now. Whereas our establishments have usually held up, the place —
Goldberg: Effectively, I feel our authorized establishments —
Healy: Our authorized establishments have held up. That’s the factor — the power of Donald Trump and his crew to have a playbook for nearly any state of affairs the place on the finish of the day, even when reputations are scarred and persons are thrown underneath the bus, he’s nonetheless capable of evade accountability. I solely actually noticed that within the 2020 election, in the end on the poll field.
And I’ve simply discovered myself pondering, and possibly it’s a little bit jaded, however you get 12 jurors in a room, listening to the proof, that there could also be only one or two that see a former president within the dock and need such clear, smoking-gun-level, “Regulation & Order” drama that simply actually type of nails him —
Goldberg: However they’d it.
Healy: They’d it, however they —
Goldberg: They’d smoking — I imply they —
Healy: However they didn’t actually have Donald Trump saying a model of what he mentioned in Georgia, which was, you realize: Discover me the umpteen thousand votes I must get —
