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A System of Silencing

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Weisberg talks to Ronan Farrow of the New Yorker about Trump's way of silencing the women he has had affairs with. Plus, why did Jared get a down graded security clearance? Please fill out the Slate podcast survey at slate.com/podcastsurvey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The White House is denying a new report that President Trump had an extra marital affair

0:05.5

before he launched his political career.

0:08.1

The White House has said that this was an allegation which was talked about prior to the election

0:13.6

that was shot down. She acknowledges that this is a different kind of case but it has the

0:17.5

commonality of powerful men using elaborate systems to silence women.

0:22.8

And when you're started, I'd like to do it. You can do anything.

0:31.8

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, the show about the man who would have rushed the parkland floor

0:37.6

to school shooter if he'd been there. Even if he were unarmed. For sure, Donald Trump.

0:43.8

I'm Jacob Weisberg. So that's Trump's fantasy about being a hero. But what I want to talk about

0:49.1

today is his daughter of Ivanka's fantasy about him not being a sexual harasser or an abuser of

0:54.8

women. I believe my father. I know my father. She told NBC News. But it was what Ivanka said right

1:01.6

after that that I found so interesting. I think I have that right as a daughter to believe my father.

1:07.6

That right to believe Donald Trump in the face of overwhelming evidence that he's lying

1:12.6

isn't just claimed by Ivanka or other members of his family, though apparently not by his wife

1:17.7

Melania. It's the right being asserted every day by millions of its supporters by the majority

1:24.2

in both houses of Congress by Fox News. The right to believe Donald Trump in defiance of the facts

1:31.6

is the new Republican version of the First Amendment. In a moment, I'll speak to the New Yorkers

1:37.2

Ronan Farrow about the Trump method for covering up affairs. But first news today the Jared

1:43.0

Kushner and security clearance has been downgraded. It might have had something to do with this

1:48.8

interview last week. Okay, Jared Kushner, thanks for coming in. Ah, thanks for having me. Is this

1:54.4

about the security clearance? It is. Yeah. So General Kelly wanted us to just settle this once and

1:59.2

for all. So great. I feel so good about that. Thank you so much. I'm glad you feel good. So we

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