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Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

7/18/24 Matt Taibbi on the RNC, the Trump Assassination Attempt and Biden’s Likely Replacements

Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

Scott Horton

News, Politics

4.8989 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Matt Taibbi returns to the show in an interview recorded while he was at the Republican National Convention. He and Scott talk about the Trump assassination attempt, likely replacements for Joe Biden (the interview was recorded before Biden officially announced he is stepping down from the race), how the media’s coverage of Donald Trump has evolved and more. Discussed on the show: “Illa in Manila: Will History Demand Trump-Hillary II?” (Racket News) “The Surrender” (Racket News) Matt Taibbi is a journalist, author and political commentator. Subscribe to his Substack publication: Racket News and follow him on Twitter @mtaibbi. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Roberts and Robers Brokerage Incorporated; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; Libertas Bella; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.

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I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.

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I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute,

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editorial director of anti-war.com.

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Author of the book, Pools Arren,

0:19.6

time to end the war in Afghanistan,

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and the brand new enough already. Time to end the war in Afghanistan and the brand new enough already time to end the war on

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terrorism and I've recorded more than 5,500 interviews since 2003 almost all on

0:31.3

foreign policy and all available for you at

0:34.3

Scott Horton.org you can sign up the podcast feed there and the full

0:38.6

interview archive is also available at YouTube.com slash Scott Horton's show.

0:45.8

Hey guys I got Matt Taibi otherwise known as the greatest guy on

0:49.1

substack on the phone right now and he's at the Republican convention up there in what's a. the I'm doing great. How are you doing? Oh, I'm doing good man. Very happy to have you here.

1:04.8

As I always say, I stop whatever I'm doing and I read whatever you send me when I get a

1:09.7

sub stack in my email and I get quite a few substacks in my email.

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I apologize I have been.

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But yeah man you do such compelling writing all the time I love reading it and you know you're always focused on not exactly what I'm focused on but always

1:25.7

something I'm very interested in like for example in politics and especially right now what I'm enjoying so much is the backstabbing of

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Joe Biden by all the Democrats.

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And you've been writing about this quite a bit.

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It's amazing, isn't it?

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It's just incredible.

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