414: Trump’s Authoritarian Appointments
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🗓️ 15 November 2024
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Summary
This week there is a big elephant in the room that we must start talking about: Defeat. Host Rick Wilson stresses the importance of continuing to fight the corruption of Trump and his allies despite the electoral defeat. As the groundwork for authoritarianism is already being laid with Trump’s most recent cabinet selections, Rick reminds listeners who some of these people, such as Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard, really are.
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| 0:00.0 | Your task will not be an easy one. |
| 0:02.4 | Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and battlehardt. |
| 0:06.1 | There is not a liberal America and a conservative America. |
| 0:09.8 | There is the United States of America. |
| 0:14.8 | Good night. |
| 0:15.7 | And good luck. |
| 0:16.6 | Hey, folks, I'm Rick Wilson. |
| 0:17.7 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project podcast. |
| 0:19.3 | A couple of things have happened since we were last together, including Donald Trump. Now, we're going to see a lot of |
| 0:27.1 | things unfold about Donald Trump, but this week we're starting to see the shape of his cabinet. |
| 0:32.1 | And that, my friends, is the elephant in the room. |
| 0:39.8 | Okay. |
| 0:40.8 | What do you got so far? |
| 0:42.3 | Let's break it down on a couple of axes. |
| 0:45.7 | Let's start out with Trump's appointments on the national security side. |
| 0:48.8 | And by the way, I know you all want to talk about the election. |
| 0:50.9 | We're going to talk about the election later. |
| 0:52.1 | We're going to go through this. |
| 0:53.0 | We're going to work it through. |
| 1:15.3 | We're generating through all of our numbers, our data, our reports. I know everybody else is too. There are a lot of, there are a million reasons why Trump won, but we're going to find the ones that we're the central reasons and we're going to work it. We're going to fix it, we're going to help the pro-democracy forces in the future respond appropriately to the things like this media ecosystem that they built and all the lies that the machine feeds their people. |
| 1:19.5 | But I want to talk about right now these appointments because the consequences to the country |
| 1:24.2 | are gigantic. |
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