Those accused were in the room

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President Donald Trump made accusations during his speech against people who were directly in the room with him, Trump’s former Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney says.  #Trump

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00:00Yeah, I just was wondering, I mean, because we did hear President Trump taking aim at

00:05the Biden administration in a most unveiled way. I mean, very direct, you know, talking

00:11about some of the disastrous policies of the Biden administration as he sees it. He talked

00:18obviously about the what he called the unfair weaponization of the justice system. I mean,

00:21that was quite predictable. But what about taking aim at the outgoing administration?

00:26I mean, is that something that incoming presidents typically do?

00:30Yeah, it's not. Although if anybody didn't expect that from Donald Trump, they haven't

00:33been paying attention. The language I picked up on that I thought was interesting was he talked

00:37about a betrayal of the nation. And keep in mind, again, because they are inside today,

00:42because of the weather, and it's such a cramped setting, the people that he's effectively accusing

00:47of being betrayers are sitting just over his left shoulder to his to his rear. So they're within

00:53five or six feet. That has to be a little bit uncomfortable for both of the people

00:57in in that circumstance. But yeah, there were pieces of this speech that sounded like a rally,

01:03as much as a State of the Union speech or his inaugural speech. And certainly the betrayal

01:08part was part of it. The reference to the weaponization of the legal system was part of it.

01:12And again, the different location, I think, changed the tenor of the speech. It's hard.

01:17It's easy for me to sit here across the ocean and yell at you and call you all sorts of awful names.

01:22It would be a little bit difficult to do that if you're sitting in the chair next to me.

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