106: The GOP’s Russian Love Affair with Julia Davis
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🗓️ 11 February 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Host Reed Galen is joined by Daily Beast columnist and Russian Media Expert Julia Davis. They discuss why Vladimir Putin is acting the way he is in regards to the escalating Russia/Ukraine tensions and what he hopes to gain from the situation, how Trump, Tucker Carlson, and the rest of the GOP came to love Russia, and why Russia is actively angling for Trump to make his return to the Oval Office in 2024.
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| 0:42.7 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Gaillan. Today, I'm joined by Julia Davis, |
| 0:49.1 | creator of the Russian media monitor contributor to the Washington Post and a columnist at the Daily |
| 0:54.4 | Beast. Her wide-ranging expertise is not limited to the issue of Russian media and disinformation, |
| 1:00.0 | and is also well versed in the areas of national security, counterterrorism, and immigration. |
| 1:05.0 | She's appeared as an expert on a variety of television outlets including MSNBC, CNN, and PBS. |
| 1:11.3 | As an investigative journalist, her work has been cited by a multitude of publications including |
| 1:15.7 | USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, and The Hill. Julia's Ukrainian native speaks |
| 1:22.4 | four languages fluently and holds a master's degree in aviation and spacecraft engineering. |
| 1:27.2 | Julia, that means you speak three more languages than I do fluently. Actually, four more languages |
| 1:31.6 | than I do fluently. And I've only ever flown in an airplane or looked at a spacecraft. So, wow. |
| 1:37.7 | Julia, welcome to the show. Thank you so much, Reed. That is quite an introduction. And I think |
| 1:42.4 | you're being too modest. You're doing quite a lot yourself. Well, thank you. So, Julia, |
| 1:47.5 | today I want to talk about, obviously, Russia and Ukraine, as well as how Trump, Tucker Carlson, |
| 1:52.0 | and the rest of the GOP came to love Russia. But first, I want to talk a little bit about your |
| 1:56.3 | background. So, you have quite a resume and an incredibly diverse set of experiences. I mean, |
| 2:01.6 | speaking four languages and having an aerospace and spacecraft engineering degree, how did you |
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