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The Dispatch

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🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

During Tuesday’s press briefing, a reporter asked the president about Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite and confidante of Jeffrey Epstein who is facing charges for grooming and sexually abusing minors. When pressed on whether Maxwell will turn in other powerful people, the president said, “I just wish her well, frankly.” This took many by surprise, but as Steve reminds us in today’s episode, “it’s not as if this is the first time he has had kind words or well wishes for a moral bottom-dweller.” Tuesday also saw a fiery showdown in the Republican House Freedom Caucus, when members bullied Liz Cheney for being insufficiently loyal to Donald Trump. In today’s episode, Sarah, Steve, Jonah, and David talk about how the biggest fault line in the conservative movement ultimately boils down to unswerving fealty to the president. Tune in to hear our podcast hosts also discuss the long-term relevance of the Lincoln Project, the Chinese government’s human rights abuses against the Uighur people, and end with a lighthearted discussion on their favorite concert memories. Show Notes: -Trump’s comments on Ghislaine Maxwell. -Steve's reporting on the Liz Cheney attacks. -Washington Post interview with Greg Sargent and John Weaver about the Lincoln Project. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dispatch Podcast. I'm your host Sarah Isger.
0:03.6	Join us always by Steve Hayes, David French and Jonah Goldberg.
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0:21.3	Today, we're going to try something a little different.
0:24.3	Each of us have come with a topic.
0:26.7	We'll hit the return of the president's Coronavirus Press Conference,
0:30.1	the crack up of the House Republicans, never-truck campaigning,
0:33.2	and what to do about China's human rights abuses.
0:36.8	But each of those will be introduced by one of us,
0:40.5	and we'll sort of go from there.
0:42.5	At the very end, we were supposed to talk about rock concerts,
0:46.1	but instead we got some very weird vignettes into David Frenchism.
0:50.9	I'm going to call it.
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