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The spiked podcast

85: Trump, terror and hypocrisy

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4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Trump’s rhetoric, blasphemy law and jokes about vegans -- Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss.   Support the spiked podcast here: www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and Spike Columnist Ella Wheeler's

0:03.0

I'm Fraser Meyers and with me today a spike's deputy editor and host of the

0:06.0

Last Orders podcast Tom Slater. Hello and Spike columnist Ella Wheeling.

0:10.2

Hi. This week on the spike podcast we discuss Trump's rhetoric, the return of blasphemy, and

0:15.4

if vegans can take a joke.

0:18.2

Our president cannot escape special scrutiny.

0:22.0

Filling the airwaves with heated rhetoric, violent imagery, and conspiracy theories.

0:26.0

People are listening and worse some are acting on what they hear.

0:31.0

Donald Trump used the name of George Soros for the first time in his

0:33.6

presidency and the guy had a pie bomb in his mailbox last night.

0:37.7

The media also has their responsibility to stop the constant false attacks.

0:45.0

The United States is still reeling from a week of terror.

0:49.0

First, pipe bombs were sent to leading Democrats and prominent critics of Donald Trump.

0:54.0

Then, in Pittsburgh, a gunman opened fire on the Tree of Life Synagogue, killing 11.

0:59.5

It's been dubbed the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history.

1:03.8

Many saw one thing to blame for these horrific attacks,

1:06.9

President Trump.

1:08.6

He's accused of inciting violence

1:10.1

with his angry divisive rhetoric. But is it actually right to say Trump is inciting violence?

1:16.0

I don't think it is right to say that Trump is inciting violence and I actually think it's a really

1:19.4

dangerous road to go down. First of all because you end up absolving the people of

1:25.0

responsibility for these attacks or attempted attacks whether it's saes a sale or

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