36: The Authoritarian Playbook
The Lincoln Project
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🗓️ 8 June 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Host Reed Galen is joined by fellow Lincoln Project Co-Founders Steve Schmidt & Rick Wilson, as well as Lincoln Project Senior Advisor Stuart Stevens to discuss Donald Trump’s recent speech in North Carolina and Senator Joe Manchin’s declaration that he will not be supporting the “For the People Act”. Plus, a story straight from the British Virgin Islands.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Rhee Gaelin. Today I'm joined by |
| 0:12.1 | Co-Founder of the Lincoln Project, host of LPTV's The Breakdown. Author of everything Trump |
| 0:17.0 | touches dies. All while wearing his pants frontwards, it's Rick Wilson. Rick, thanks for joining |
| 0:22.4 | me. |
| 0:23.4 | You bet. Good to be here, man. |
| 0:25.3 | Also on board today is Senior Advisor to the Lincoln Project, and author up It Was All |
| 0:28.6 | Lie. Also while wearing his pants forward, it's Stuart Stevens. Stuart, great to have you |
| 0:33.5 | back. |
| 0:34.5 | Great to be here. I'd like to know how you know that, but you know, I wouldn't jump to conclusions, |
| 0:39.3 | but I appreciate giving me the benefit of the doubt. |
| 0:41.9 | And we are three for three today. Also, I believe wearing pants and rounding out the panel |
| 0:46.5 | is Co-Founder of the Lincoln Project, Steve Schmidt. Steve, great to have you back. |
| 0:49.7 | Did you see Rhee? I'm wearing shorts, though they're not shorts, which is always important. |
| 0:56.6 | Well, after the pandemic, I may never wear pants again. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm thinking we should try to make for the merch store Lincoln Project, Jort Overalls. |
| 1:05.8 | Jort Overalls, huh? |
| 1:07.3 | All right. That's a, that is high fashion in Tallahassee, Florida, gang. |
| 1:11.3 | You have your formal jorts and your everyday jorts, though I don't have any market research |
| 1:17.4 | on this, and it's mostly intuition. It's safe to say that none of us own jorts, but |
| 1:23.9 | I think a lot of these guys around Trump do. And not a good thing at all. |
| 1:29.4 | I would like to say that, Steve, I think you're probably overshooting. I believe that you |
| 1:33.6 | have grown up in New Jersey, Rick being from the greater Tampa area and Stuart being a native |
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