27: The Crazy Train
The Lincoln Project
The Lincoln Project
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🗓️ 6 May 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Host Reed Galen is joined by fellow Lincoln Project Co-Founder Rick Wilson and Lincoln Project Senior Advisor Tara Setmayer to discuss the latest in the McCarthy/Cheney saga, Josh Hawley’s recent livestream with the The Washington Post, and how the media chooses to cover Washington. Plus, Donald Trump has a new blog.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Gaelin. Today, I'm joined by |
| 0:13.4 | Senior Advisor to the Lincoln Project and host of LPTV's The Breakdown, Tara Setmare. |
| 0:18.6 | Tara, thanks for joining me. |
| 0:20.1 | Always a pleasure, Reed. |
| 0:21.5 | Also on board today is my fellow co-founder, also host of LPTV's The Breakdown and author |
| 0:26.6 | of Everything Trump Touches Dies, Rick Wilson. Rick, welcome back. |
| 0:31.2 | Hey, Reed. |
| 0:32.2 | So guys, today I want to talk about the latest and the McCarthy Liz Cheney saga, as well |
| 0:38.2 | as how media covers DC in itself a little bit. And I want to talk a little bit about |
| 0:43.7 | Josh Hawley's recent livestream with the Washington Post and just sort of what that |
| 0:47.4 | means more broadly. But first, Donald Trump's return to social media. And when I say that, |
| 0:54.3 | I mean, he has created a blog. So congratulations, Mr. President, party like it's 1999. |
| 1:01.0 | I mean, everybody talked about a platform, guys, right? |
| 1:06.2 | Dear live journal. |
| 1:07.4 | Yeah, dear diary, Mitch looked at me in class today. |
| 1:10.1 | He's got a slam book and he's going to write things in it. |
| 1:12.7 | I mean, former President of the United States, he is, I assume, still has tens of millions |
| 1:20.4 | of dollars of political money flowing in the coffers still has, if not a talented political |
| 1:26.4 | team, at least a passable digital team. And Tara, this is the best they could come up |
| 1:31.2 | with. So is this just one more way to get people to sign up or is like the Donald think, |
| 1:35.5 | well, it's on my blog now. So it's just like Twitter. |
| 1:38.1 | I mean, it's really quite remarkable that someone who paid tens of millions of dollars, |
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