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A Brief History of the Drumpfs

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News, Politics, News Commentary

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2016

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Weisberg talks to Gwenda Blair about three generations of the Drumpf family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I tell you why, he's a lot more obsessed with me than I am with him.

0:04.3

If Donald is the nominee, Hillary wins and she wins by double digits.

0:07.7

If you're a Hillary supporter, you're rooting for Donald.

0:10.1

Obfuscate the real problems facing our society and find somebody you can blame.

0:15.1

That's what the Megojury is about.

0:25.0

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast,

0:26.7

the show about the much married presidential candidate Donald Trump.

0:30.7

I'm Jacob Weisberg.

0:32.4

In its new issue,

0:33.7

Politico Magazine gathered five Trump biographers together for a roundtable discussion.

0:39.2

Two of them have already been on this show, Wayne Barrett and Tim O'Brien.

0:42.9

Today I'm going to speak to a third, Gwendoblehr.

0:45.8

It was a great idea Politico had to get them all in one room to compare notes.

0:50.0

And I think their key point of agreement was that you can't find out anything about Donald Trump

0:55.3

from Donald Trump, or at least you can't find out much that's true.

0:59.9

Here's how Harry Hurth III put it.

1:02.5

An hour's worth of quotes equals about six or seven hours worth of fact checking.

1:07.3

It's either half-truths, non-truths, or lies.

1:11.2

Michael Dantonio, another biographer continues,

1:14.3

that's the big challenge of interviewing Donald Trump.

1:17.0

Do you get anything you can rely on?

1:19.0

How much truth is in there and how much is distortion?

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