As the Trump Administration seeks to dismantle DEI initiatives, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart welcomed New York Times best-selling author and former president of the progressive think tank Demos, Heather McGhee, to The Weekly Show podcast on Thursday to help him make sense of it. During a discussion on Trump’s “shakedown” of elite law firms, McGhee would argue that it is easy for her to call Trump a dictator not only because of the history of racism in the U.S., but because Jim Crow-like systems still exist today.
Stewart asked, “What was the shakedown, Heather? Is it—because I still don't quite understand what he was threatening or why. I know he was gonna say, 'Oh, I'll strip your security or I'll make it harder for you to get clients.' But the why of it is—what is he saying they've done?”
McGhee answered that, “He's saying that one or more of their partners, there's a few things, basically they've defied him, right? So one or more of their partners or people who work there at some point was part of the litigation against him, right? So you have people who were US attorneys who were part of litigation against him.”
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