43: Pulitzer Prize Winner Dave Fahrenthold Catches Us Up on Trump’s Corruption

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🗓️ 1 March 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In a time of an international health and economic crises, it’s good to have a POTUS who can be trusted by the world community. Instead, we have a grifter with an entire family of money-grubbing, lying grifters.

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1:00.8	Hey, everybody, we've got a great one today, you know, for a change. I'm excited about having
1:07.2	David Farrantold, who is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Washington Post.
1:12.7	David won the Pulitzer for his meticulously researched reporting on the Donald Trump Foundation.
1:21.6	As you probably recall, Trump's Foundation turned out to be completely fraudulent. And the state of New York
1:30.8	shut it down after finding, and I quote, a shocking pattern of illegality. This is the
1:39.4	president of the United States found in court to have engaged in a shocking pattern of illegality.
1:48.7	Not just a pattern of illegality, a shocking pattern of illegality, the president of the United States.
1:59.2	Now, I think you'll enjoy the interview and find a tremendous amount of entertainment value,
2:05.5	as David recounts hilarious anecdotes of corruption, malfeasance, and utter mendacity.
2:14.4	These are just priceless tales of greed from a hilarious craven and sick family led by Donald Trump, who is now, as I said, president of the United States.
2:28.3	There are a number of themes that come across in the shameless tales that David reported in the Washington Post and talks about in our conversation.
2:39.6	First of all, there is the tawdry, tawdry money grubbing of this guy, our president, and his entire family.
2:49.6	These are grifters, ladies and gentlemen. They're almost
2:53.0	caricatures of grifters because one of the other themes is just the lying, the constant,
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