26: The Anthropologists of Trump
The Lincoln Project
The Lincoln Project
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🗓️ 4 May 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Host Reed Galen is joined by fellow Lincoln Project Co-Founder Rick Wilson and Lincoln Project Senior Advisor Stuart Stevens to discuss a new ad from the Lincoln Project, Trump’s latest statement regarding “The Big Lie”, and the recent bizarre proclamation by Ted Cruz to swear off corporate PAC donations. Plus, one year has passed since the Lincoln Project released the ad, “Mourning in America.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm your host, Reed Gailan. |
| 0:12.3 | Today I'm joined by my fellow co-founder, host of LPTV's The Breakdown, which will |
| 0:16.7 | be back later this month, and author of Everything Trump Touches Dies, Rick Wilson. |
| 0:22.4 | Rick, thanks for coming. |
| 0:23.7 | Hey Reed! |
| 0:24.7 | Also on board today is Senior Advisor to the Lincoln Project, an author of It Was All |
| 0:28.8 | Alive, Stuart Stevens. |
| 0:30.8 | Stuart, welcome back. |
| 0:33.3 | So gang, I'm not one who gets fired up on the air very often, but it's like something |
| 0:38.0 | is in the Republicans drinking water in the last week or 10 days. |
| 0:43.1 | I don't know if it's the moon, and they're all becoming their werewolf selves, or what, |
| 0:47.8 | but it is a truly magical and scary time to be watching the Republican Party in this |
| 0:53.2 | country, even more so than usual, which is saying something. |
| 0:56.8 | And so today we're going to talk about a few things. |
| 0:59.1 | We're going to talk about Ted Cruz explaining what pay-to-play actually means on Capitol |
| 1:03.2 | Hill. |
| 1:04.2 | We're going to go through a couple of Lincoln Project ads, one we just released, and one |
| 1:08.0 | that helped us make our name. |
| 1:09.6 | But before that, I want to talk about the fact that Donald Trump put out a statement yesterday, |
| 1:14.0 | calling last year's election rigged, and that the big lie was that Joe Biden actually |
| 1:19.0 | won. |
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