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In what I have no doubt was a sternly worded letter, Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer and Minority Leader in the House, Hakeem Jeffries demanded a meeting with Donald as if that’s going to be effective. We learned about this during Schumer’s interview this weekend with Dana Bash. She opened that interview with a question about something Donald posted on his failing social media site in which he urged Pam Bondi, the Attorney General of the United States of America, to use the Department of Justice to go after Donald's perceived political enemies. Schumer responded: I think it's a real threat to democracy. This is our rule of law. This is fundamental to our democracy and we cannot let it stand. We're going to fight strongly as we can in every way. What exactly is the meeting about going to be about? Is it about the Trump regime’s assault on the rule of law? Is it about Democrats drawing a line of the sand to stop the Trump regime’s assault on our civil liberties or to stop the assault to our Democratic way of life? No. In fact, the goal of this meeting is to avoid a government shutdown. If you feel like you have deja vu, so do I. We were in exactly this place a few months ago. Once again, Democrats have real leverage because the Republicans need 60 to bring their funding bill to a vote. That means, if Democrats stand strong, the government will shut down. Who would be blamed for that? Well, the Republicans control Congress—both the Senate and the House; they control the executive branch, and they control the Supreme Court. Under those circumstance, who will be blamed if there's a government shutdown? The party out of power? That’s absurd, but it is exactly the calculation Schumer seems to be making here. When Bash asked him if he was going to vote no on the Republican's bill, in other words, allow a government shutdown, Schumer didn't even answer the question, which suggests that avoiding a government shutdown is more important to him than fighting for our democracy. This is what Schumer said: I hope and pray that Donald will sit down with us and negotiate a bipartisan bill. That's how it's always been done in the past. That's how shutdowns have been avoided in the past. Here's the problem with that, though. This is not the “past.” The past that Democrats like Schumer continue to exist in is no longer prologue to the moment we currently find ourselves in. It literally sounds like once again, Schumer is going to give up all of his leverage, all of his advantages, squander it because he is afraid to be blamed for something that would obviously be the Republican’s fault. Schumer and the Democrats need to allow the government to shut down. That’s exactly what The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the largest union representing federal workers, begged Senate Democrats to do a the last time. They made it clear that a shutdown would be better than allowing this corrupt fascist Trump regime to continue taking a sledgehammer to our institutions, our agencies, our civil service. Every single member of Democratic leadership—ten Democrats in total—in the Senate ignored them, and joined with the Republicans to keep the government open thinking they were going to avoid longer term harm. How is that working out for us? It isn't. I can't believe I have to say this. I can't believe this has to be said, but Democrats, please stop bringing politesse and 35-page white papers and a sternly-worded letter to a bazooka fight. This is not the way to get us out of this mess. Is it because that Schumer and other democratic leadership are more afraid of people on the right into the imaginary middle than they are concerned about what their base wants and thinks? Are they still more concerned about bipartisanship, which is a concept that is no longer operative in our government because one of our two major parties no longer believes in such a thing? Is it because they still to this day do not understand that there are no rules anymore and that pretending there are and playing by them puts us at a massive disadvantage, making it nearly impossible to fight for our democracy? As we have learned far too often over the last decade, the people who've had actual power to slow things down, to impede the destructive agenda of the Trump regime, or to stop Donald and his hideous movement have proven that they are the wrong people at the wrong time. And that includes Mitch McConnell, Merrick Garland, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries. Too many Democrats continue to think they can work with a party that has no interest in working with them or for the American people. By doing so, the Democrats confer the benefit of the doubt on those who have repeatedly shown us they do not deserve it. They continue to confer legitimacy on a party that time and time again has explicitly shown itself to be the enemy of American democracy. This while the fascist Republican Party and the corrupt illegitimate super majority of the Supreme Court are systematically dismantling our institutions and curtailing our rights. We need to do better, we need better leaders. We need people who understand what is going on here, not just what we're fighting for, but how to fight the fight. Let's dive in. Hello everybody and welcome to tonight's episode of Mary Trump Live. It is wonderful to have you with me. Yeah, that's frustrating. I mean, especially if you put it in the context of what happened this weekend, which I'll get into at some point at greater length. Briefly, as I said, Donald asked Pam Bondi to sic the Department of Justice on his perceived political enemies. Emil Bove and Kash Patel threw away the FBI investigation into Tom Holman, the fascist thug who was literally caught in an FBI sting operation taking a $50,000 bribe to help people get contracts after Donald took office in January. Then there’s Donald's corrupt firing of an attorney who would not do his bidding by his failure or unwillingness to bring false charges against Letitia James. And of then there was the fascist pep rally masquerading as a memorial for Charlie Kirk that took place in Arizona. During his remarks, after declaring: “I hate my opponent and I don't want the best for them,” Donald said: The Department of Justice is also investigating networks of radical-left maniacs who fund organized fuel and perpetrate political violence. Stephen Miller took a more apocalyptic and fascistic approach: The light will defeat the dark. We will prevail over the forces of wickedness and evil. They cannot imagine what they have awakened. They cannot conceive of the army that they have arisen in all of us. Because we stand for what is good, what is virtuous, what is noble. And to those trying to incite violence against us, those trying to fment hatred against us, what do you have? You have nothing. You are nothing. You are wickedness. You are jealousy. You are envy. You are hatred. You are nothing. You can build nothing. You can produce nothing. You can create nothing. We are the ones who build. We are the ones who create. We are the ones who lift up humanity. We are the enemy. There is no ambiguity here. Maybe the Democrats will learn something from this. Today we're breaking news on a story that has become the face of one of the greatest assaults on our Constitution since Donald took office. In a statement released today, Disney has announced that Jimmy Kimmel Live! will return to ABC. This is a report from ABC: It's just been announced that Jimmy Kimmel live will return to our air tomorrow, the Walt Disney Company issuing a statement following this news about Jimmy Kimmel live returning. They just shared with us that just last Wednesday they had made that decision to suspend production on the show. This they said in order to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country. The statement also reading it is a decision quote we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive. They have said that … This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marytrump.org/subscribe