The Great America Show Mid-Day Update - June 23, 2023
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Summary
Former President Barack Obama says he disagrees with the Constitution permitting President Trump to run for office after being indicted by the Democrats. And Obama says it s awful that media gave the Titans' submersible tragedy more attention than the sinking of a ship overloaded with more than 700 refugees off the coast of Greece.
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Securities and Exchange Commission fines JPMorgan Chase for deleting emails.
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JPMorgan Chase hit with only a $4 million fine for deleting 47 million emails,
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JPMorgan Chase deleted emails that had been subpoenaed
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for at least a dozen civil securities-related investigations.
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A $4 million fine for a bank with $3.7 trillion in assets.
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By the way, JPMorgan Chase is the most heavily fined bank in the country over the past two decades.
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Obama says he disagrees with the Constitution permitting President Trump to run for office
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And Obama says it's awful that media gave the Titans' submersible tragedy
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more attention than the sinking of a ship overloaded with more than 700 refugees off the coast of Greece.
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The former president sat down for an interview with CNN this week in Greece.
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He was asked for his thoughts about Trump being allowed to run for president while under indictment.
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But the fact that we have a former president who is having to answer to charges brought by prosecutors
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does uphold the basic notion that nobody is above the law.
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And the allegations will now be sorted out through a court process.
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And I think I'm more concerned when it comes to the United States with the fact that
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not just one particular individual is being accused of undermining existing laws,
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but that more broadly we've seen, whether it's through the gerrymandering of districts,
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whether it's trying to silence critics through changes in the legislative process,
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a strand of anti-democratic sentiment that we've seen in the United States.
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It's something that is right now most prominent in the Republican Party.
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Obama, you notice, neglected to mention the role of his FBI, Justice Department,
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and his intelligence agency heads in the conspiracy to block Trump's candidacy
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and then to try to overthrow Trump's presidency.
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Please join us today on The Great America Show.
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Our guest is Republican strategist and pollster John McLaughlin.
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We're talking about the latest polling, President Trump's big numbers, post-indictment, and much more.
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And a reminder to join us each and every weekday for The Great America Show.