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@#44
Thanks for the follow-up.
I found this ...
Phil Donahue's Prediction of Live Executions Comes True with Hegseth: Talk Show Host Tried to Make It Happen in 1994 But Was Rejected
www.showbiz411.com
... Phil Donahue, the late talk show host, predicted we would one day have live executions on TV.
In 1994, he petitioned the Supreme Court to videotape Lawson's execution for television, arguing that the public needed to see capital punishment to decide if it was right or wrong.
The death row inmate, David Lawson, convicted of a 1980 murder, joined him in the petition, the SCOTUS turned them down.
Donahue wasn't asking for the access to advocate for capital punishment. Rather, he wanted people to see how barbaric it was. He told Larry King on King's show: "I am on record as being against capital punishment,. I am making this argument not as an ideologue, but as a person who believes that this free-press establishment has a responsibility to show this issue, which has split families." ...
@#31
To wit ...
2016 General Election: Trump vs. Clinton
www.realclearpolling.com
171 electoral votes in the "toss-up" (a.k.a., too close to call) category.
Time to Admit It: Trump Is a Great President. He's Still Trying To Be a Good One. (2025)
www.politico.com
... Donald J. Trump in his second inaugural address was everything his supporters hoped he would be: Breathtakingly expansive about his intention to reshape the vast federal government around his vision; raucously jingoistic in proclaiming that the country will do whatever it wants to advance its interests around the world; openly triumphal in asserting his belief that his survival from an assassin's bullet and his victory show he is God's chosen instrument to lead an American revival.
Trump was also everything his adversaries feared: Messianic in tone; lovingly protective of his grievances; wholly uncharitable to the people, sitting just feet from him under the Capitol Rotunda, who he defeated so convincingly.
In one light, it was all quite familiar.
But the second occasion of Trump taking the oath of office also put him in an entirely new light. For the first time, he is holding power under circumstances in which reasonable people cannot deny a basic fact: He is the greatest American figure of his era. ...
@#44 ... He wanted to televise executions so the US could decide if they were the correct way to deal with heinous crime. ...
From the link in #46..