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🗓️ 23 February 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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A month into Donald Trump's second term, how do voters feel about the job he's doing? We talk to Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark and host of The Focus Group podcast. We discuss how Trump is currently in the "honeymoon" period of his presidency and how plenty of voters are just happy that Trump is doing SOMETHING. Sarah also gives advice to Democratic leaders about messaging and how to fight back against the onslaught of bad policy coming from the White House.
Listen to Sarah's podcast, The Focus Group: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-focus-group-podcast/id1586423406
Check out The Bulwark: https://www.thebulwark.com/
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0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. We got a great one today, you know, for a change. The amazing Sarah Longwell |
0:10.2 | joins us again. Sarah is the publisher of the bulwark and host of the Focus Group podcast. And we're going to |
0:17.4 | get an idea where Trump stands with the American public. |
0:21.6 | Because his insane comments about the war in Ukraine had not yet been focused grouped, |
0:27.3 | Sarah and I don't talk about that, but I will now. |
0:30.6 | President Trump has been blaming the war on Vladimir Zelensky. |
0:35.3 | You'll remember, of course, that the Russians invaded Ukraine and had |
0:39.0 | expected to roll over Kiev in a matter of hours. Well, that didn't happen, and here we are |
0:45.1 | three years later, and there are more than a million dead and wounded with Russian troops |
0:49.8 | taking the larger number of casualties, but with Ukrainian civilians taking a toll from Russian missiles |
0:56.7 | and in eastern Ukraine being tortured and murdered by Russian troops, not to mention the atrocities |
1:03.6 | they committed close to Kiev at the beginning of the war. |
1:07.6 | The fact that Trump won't acknowledge that the Russians started the war is a travesty. |
1:13.4 | That Trump asked Keeve for half the $11.5 trillion value of their rare earth minerals is disgusting, |
1:22.2 | and that Ukraine is considering even a piece of it speaks to how desperate Ukraine is. Russia invaded Ukraine |
1:31.5 | thinking it would take Kiev in one day. Three years later, with so many dead and wounded on both |
1:38.7 | sides, and Putin caring only about a deal that would make the remaining piece of Ukraine vulnerable in a few years is going to be part of Trump's legacy. |
1:49.4 | And I hope and pray that I'm wrong about that. |
1:53.0 | But let's remember what this is really about. |
1:55.8 | This is payback time for Zelensky because Zelensky wouldn't make a deal with Trump to lie about then |
2:03.2 | former vice president Joe Biden. Zelensky wouldn't open an investigation into Biden and his son |
2:08.6 | Hunter, which Trump suggested Zelensky do if he wanted to get some weapons from us, which you'll |
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