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21st Century #30 | The Third Error of President Donald Trump

4.5K views · Apr 29, 2018

Rabbi Mendel Kessin

A lecture on political and spiritual issues in the 21st century.

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I had certain ideas which I wanted to share uh which I think uh is responsible for something that's happening which is very unusual. The what we notice is that there's an enormous amount of of uh attack, if you want to use that word, uh on on Donald Trump. You know, he is being persecuted in many ways by the liberal left, uh you know, uh by the liberal left, uh you know, uh even by the Republicans uh in name only and so and so on. Uh and then you have the um Democrats and Mueller is certainly one of those uh ideas which is of course threatening the whole in many ways the administration of Donald Trump. The question is we see something arising also lately and that is this whole investigation against his lawyer, his personal lawyer, this guy Michael Cohen. And that in this guy Michael Cohen. And that in certain ways is more threatening legally uh than the whole than the whole Robert Mueller. So, the question is why does all this seem to be happening? Uh this certainly is unprecedented in the history of America where a person who is duly elected by the Constitution uh should be so um uh you know, reviled and and uh and and persecuted by people when he is like I said, he's a constitutionally elected president. This is certainly

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  1. 0:04I had certain ideas which I wanted to share uh which I think uh is responsible
  2. 3:41And the uh, the city of St. Louis wanted to open a kollel. And um, he
  3. 7:17people to rip him apart. And I believe it'll continue unless he understands what the problem
  4. 10:53interfere with the nation at some point in time. So, therefore, um what Trump really should
  5. 14:26end of allowed this to occur, you know? And forget about Europe. Well, forget about everybody
  6. 18:01much tremendous amount of of resistance toward administration and so much persecution is it's a punishment
  7. 21:36Because I'm sure he's going crazy with what's happening legally. but it's just just Iran he's
  8. 25:10You must do it because you can. That's why God has given America such unbelievable supremacy,
  9. 29:15because the good hesitates and evil never does. They know exactly what they want and they
  10. 32:50continues in this manner not to defend what is right, then God will take the whole

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