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🗓️ 30 April 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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This episode begins with a tribute to Virginia Giuffre who sadly died this week. Marina and Jemma touch on what she suffered at the hands of various abusers and talk about how she took on some of the world's most powerful men. The Trawl ladies consider how much bravery that would have required and let Emily Maitlis have the final word.
And then to America we go for this week's Trump digest: a digest which could cause indigestion. The main theme of this ep is 'how stupid is he?' Falling asleep at the Pope's funeral with his blue suit and tie on, sat there with his mouth open like a cod fish, he hardly comes across as someone with gravitas. Meanwhile, in terms of press attention, the poor old Pope was almost overshadowed by the President's meeting with Zelensky where it seemed to finally dawn on Trump that Putin wasn't taking any notice of his tweets. Still, after the horrific bomb attack in Kyiv he obviously felt it was worth another go so told him to STOP, in caps, for extra oomph. Sure, that ought to do it, Donny.
Marina and Jemma also discuss the ongoing fallout of putting tariffs on Chinese goods and what Amazon has (or rather hasn't post a call from The White House) been up to.
Not only does he not understand tariffs, he also doesn't seem to understand photoshop. It's been a confusing week for Trump but under rated tweets and clips provide some wonderful Trump relief (back to indigestion again...)
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0:00.0 | Jeff Bezos was very nice. He was terrific. He solved a problem very quickly. And he did the right thing. And it's a good guy. |
0:11.6 | Hello and welcome to The Trul where we scroll through social media so you don't have to. I'm Marina Perkis. |
0:17.7 | And I'm Gemma Forte. And we're kicking off with a tiny snippet of Laura Coonsberg's |
0:22.1 | interview with Ed Davy of the Lib Dems. And you're here. She's not even bothering to try and hide |
0:29.8 | her disdain. British memes posted the clip with the caption, When All My Friends are getting |
0:34.6 | engaged, buying houses, and have higher paying jobs than me. |
0:38.4 | Congratulations, I suppose. |
0:40.2 | Oh, she's so bitter. |
0:43.8 | Oh, dearie me. |
0:45.9 | And before we get into the meat of today's episode, we do want to give a mention to Virginia |
0:52.8 | Dufre. |
0:56.8 | Now, you'll know already, I'm sure, Virginia Dufray took on some of the most powerful men in the world, Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew |
1:02.5 | and others. She accused all of them of sexual assault. It was reported last week that Virginia |
1:09.2 | took her own life at her farm in Western Australia. |
1:13.1 | And that came after. |
1:14.5 | I mean, we talked about it very briefly in the trawl. |
1:17.0 | A very strange incident where she was hit basically by a speeding bus. |
1:22.4 | She then proceeded, didn't she, to say, I've got four days to live. |
1:26.2 | And then came suicide. But anyway, there's a tweet that |
1:29.9 | has resurfaced from her from back in 2019, which feels quite haunting, actually. She had written, |
1:37.5 | I am making it publicly known that in no way, shape or form, am I suicidal? I have made this known to my therapist and GP. If something |
1:46.9 | happens to me in the sake of my family, do not let this go away and help me to protect them. |
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