It doesn’t make sense, and so I think he was very confident. I think a lot of people were engaging in profound wishful thinking that Russia was sophisticated enough to rig our election, but not sophisticated enough to get caught. You know, he’s been saying it all along because he knew, I think, that he was going to be exonerated, or at least not be found guilty of collusion. Well, he can barely spell ‘collusion’, so.I’m not really. Now, Roxane, Trump’s been saying all along – he’s been tweeting it on an almost daily basis – no collusion, no obstruction. But I think, right now, what we need to do is focus on who can we support to unseat him in 2020, and that’s where I’m choosing to put my energies.
But is he going to get away with what he did? Absolutely. People are talking about something that literally no-one outside of a few people in the government have read. You know, I think it’s a little too soon to speculate about the Mueller report.
#ROXANE GAY PASS OVER DEATH FREE#
Well, I think Donald Trump already had a free hand, and that power protects power, so. What is your take on this, Roxane Gay, as a “bad feminist”, and will this give President Trump a free hand to do whatever he wants? It appears that President Trump has dodged a bullet in respect of impeachment, given that the Mueller report has concluded that he’s not guilty of any crime. Well, tonight, we’re hoping to get to questions from across the nation via Skype, but our first question comes from right here in the studio. Now, Q&A is live in eastern Australia on ABC TV, iview and NewsRadio. SIMON COWAN, CENTRE FOR INDEPENDENT STUDIES Thank you, Simon, for stepping in at the last minute. Now, before we start, retiring government MP Craig Laundy was forced to withdraw late today because of a family emergency. Here to answer your questions tonight: Liberal Party vice-president, Teena McQueen author, academic, and self-identified “bad feminist”, Roxane Gay New South Wales Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi the Shadow Minister for Environment, Water and Citizenship, Tony Burke and research director at the Centre for Independent Studies, Simon Cowan.