Juno News - March 27, 2019


A reversal of fortune： Trump and Trudeau

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Donald Trump Justin Trudeau Mueller Kevin O'Leary Randy Boissoneau Mike Duffy Mark Cuban McKinnon Barrett Cooper
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Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

182.13

Word count

814

Sentence count

70

Harmful content

Misogyny

3

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In contrast, just a year ago, if you listened to a lot of media voices, you would have thought President Donald Trump was destined to be impeached or incarcerated, and Justin Trudeau was on top of the world. Well, not so much anymore.

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00:00:00.000 What an interesting time we find ourselves in.
00:00:07.980 Lab scam ramping up, and the Mueller investigation wrapping up.
00:00:12.100 Done. Finished. Nothing to see here, folks.
00:00:15.260 What a curious study in contrast. What a reversal of fortune.
00:00:19.040 You know, just a year ago or so, if you listened to a lot of media voices,
00:00:22.680 you would have thought President Donald Trump is destined to be impeached or incarcerated or what have you.
00:00:27.520 And Justin Trudeau, he was on top of the world.
00:00:29.800 He'd be Majority Prime Minister for another couple of terms.
00:00:33.080 Well, not so. In fact, it could almost be the opposite now.
00:00:37.240 Donald Trump cleared in his investigation in the Mueller probe for Russian collusion and obstruction of justice.
00:00:43.520 Something that, who knows if it will guarantee him re-election,
00:00:46.020 but it's certainly going to help him in the polls and help him with voters.
00:00:49.420 Meanwhile, Justin Trudeau losing a lot of support from the electorate,
00:00:53.080 losing support from his own cabinet, losing support from caucus.
00:00:56.740 More and more people calling, saying obstruction of justice.
00:01:01.120 We see it happening right here.
00:01:03.000 Is the RCMP doing a probe?
00:01:05.160 Are they going to be called in?
00:01:06.900 Have they already started poking around?
00:01:08.940 And will there be criminal charges against somebody in the Prime Minister's office?
00:01:13.260 One, two, or three people surrounding this matter?
00:01:16.120 You'd think if they could muster 31 charges against Mike Duffy,
00:01:20.460 they'd be able to find a handful, at least, for this affair. 0.67
00:01:24.840 And when you compare it, when you put it all together, it's very curious.
00:01:29.000 And I keep going back to this line that Mark Cuban said that Kevin O'Leary said
00:01:33.980 about why he wanted to run for Prime Minister.
00:01:36.440 Kevin O'Leary apparently said,
00:01:37.640 Because the office of the Prime Minister is more powerful than the office of the American President.
00:01:42.960 Not that Canada has greater weight or leverage in world affairs than the U.S.,
00:01:46.680 but the offices, when you compare them, you see what they have and what they can do and what they don't do.
00:01:52.480 When it comes to the Mueller investigation,
00:01:54.620 there were a whole lot of committee hearings and things that were going on
00:01:57.380 that the American President just didn't necessarily have control over.
00:02:01.160 Whereas when you look here in Canada,
00:02:02.540 well, it's completely within the right of the Prime Minister
00:02:05.300 to appoint who he wants to be a chairman of a committee,
00:02:08.520 the Justice Committee, say, the Ethics Committee.
00:02:11.100 And while the Prime Minister doesn't directly oversee every decision that these committees make,
00:02:16.600 the fact that the cover-up vote moved so quickly
00:02:19.020 and that the Liberal MP shut down the Justice Committee
00:02:21.380 does suggest that the order came from on high.
00:02:25.700 Mr. McKinnon?
00:02:26.500 What a shame.
00:02:28.140 Cover-up! 1.00
00:02:29.440 Mr. Barrett?
00:02:30.500 Cover-up! 1.00
00:02:31.420 No, it's a cover-up.
00:02:32.540 I'm voting against the cover-up.
00:02:33.340 Mr. Cooper?
00:02:33.960 I'm voting against this cover-up.
00:02:35.780 As for the public inquiry, why haven't we seen one yet?
00:02:39.060 Because it's up to the Prime Minister to call one.
00:02:42.260 So we have two different examples that look at the different powers of the Prime Minister and the President.
00:02:47.020 We also look at what they can do and choose to do.
00:02:50.640 Donald Trump could have closed things down and fired other people.
00:02:54.060 And there's a lot of breathless conversation in the American Commentariat
00:02:57.860 about whether Trump is imminently going to fire this person or that person,
00:03:01.320 and what it will mean and how there would be people running for the exits
00:03:05.300 and crying for impeachment unlike ever before if that happened.
00:03:08.480 Well, it didn't happen.
00:03:09.880 And Donald Trump let this investigation proceed,
00:03:12.580 even though he was clearly unhappy with it, didn't like it,
00:03:15.100 called it a witch hunt, and said there was nothing to see here, folks.
00:03:17.840 But he let it happen.
00:03:18.900 Justin Trudeau has likewise said that these whole reports about LAV scam are false.
00:03:24.100 The allegations in the Globe story this morning are false.
00:03:28.740 Neither the current nor the previous Attorney General
00:03:32.040 was ever directed by me or by anyone in my office
00:03:36.100 to take a decision in this matter.
00:03:39.740 That was his initial talking point.
00:03:41.240 We've now realized they are not false.
00:03:43.080 People on the Justice Committee, Randy Bossineau,
00:03:45.580 likened this to fake news and likened this to a witch hunt.
00:03:48.340 So, similar sort of narrative.
00:03:50.200 And yet they shut down the Justice Committee.
00:03:53.300 And for the other side to engage in some sort of rank amateur speculation
00:03:58.000 that somehow one corporation is going to move the government of Canada
00:04:01.900 to change our laws is specious.
00:04:04.680 Donald Trump not shutting down those probes, not firing anyone.
00:04:08.400 Justin Trudeau having these committees shut down.
00:04:12.080 A really curious study of contrasts.
00:04:14.700 Really interesting place that we found ourselves in.
00:04:17.020 Who knew a couple years ago that this reversal of fortune would have taken place?
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