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America's Putin

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Politics, News, News Commentary

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Weisberg talks to Masha Gessen about the similarities and differences between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. We are brought to you today by MeUndies, the world’s most comfortable underwear.  Get 20% off your first order when you go to MeUndies.com/TRUMPCAST. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.0

I'm saying why there's a lot more obsessed with me than I am with this

0:23.0

Donald is the nominee Hillary wins and she wins by double digits if you're a Hillary supporter you're rooting for Donald

0:29.1

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0:43.6

Hello and welcome to trumpcast the show about the purveyor of tasteless and melee stakes Donald Trump. I'm Jacob Oyspurt

0:51.6

So one of the things we've been doing on this show is looking for international and historical analogs to Donald Trump

0:58.6

As his wife Melania says he's not Hitler fair enough Melania, but that leaves the question if he's not Hitler who is he a few weeks ago

1:07.6

I talked to the Italian journalist bepe Severnini about all the points of similarity between trump and Silvio Berlusconi

1:15.6

But there's another comparison that I think may be more apt and even more scary Vladimir Putin

1:22.6

On today's show I'll talk about that comparison with Moshe Gesson the Russian American journalist who's written brilliantly about Putin

1:30.6

But first let's do the tweets

1:37.6

Crooked Hillary Clinton has zero imagination and even less stamina

1:42.6

Isis, China, Russia and all would love for her to be president for more years

1:47.6

Hillary Clinton is not qualified to be president because her judgment has been proven to be so bad would be four years of stupidity

2:00.6

Goofy Elizabeth Warren has been one of the least effective senators in the entire US Senate. She's done nothing

2:09.6

Amazing that Crooked Hillary can do a hit ad on me concerning women when her husband was the worst abuser of women in US political history

2:21.6

I look so forward to debating Crooked Hillary Clinton. Democratic primaries are rigged. Email investigation is rigged so time to get it on

2:39.6

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