Could Trump Become Speaker?

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🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson joins the show to talk about testifying against her former boss, her new book, "Enough," and the current disarray in the House. Then, Dan and Jon talk about the race for a new Speaker. How did we get here, what happens next, and is it somehow all Democrats' fault? At least one Republican is planning to nominate Donald Trump—even as his legal dramas mount.

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0:00.0	Music
0:20.0	Welcome to Puzzle of America, I'm John Favre.
0:22.0	I'm Dan Fifer.
0:23.0	On today's show, Donald Trump is gagged by the judge and his fraud trial for attacking the judge's staffer
0:28.0	and former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson stopped by to talk about her decision to testify against her former colleagues in the Trump administration.
0:37.0	But first, the Yays are 216.
0:41.0	The Nays are 210.
0:44.0	The resolution is adopted.
0:46.0	Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table.
0:50.0	The office of Speaker of the House of the United States House of Representatives is hereby declared vacant.
1:03.0	Someone said, now what?
1:06.0	Kevin McCarthy is no longer Speaker.
1:09.0	He's no longer Trump's Kevin.
1:11.0	He's no longer anyone's Kevin.
1:13.0	It's just a backbencher from Bakersfield who got cucked by Matt Gates and seven other House Republicans that he helped elect in the first place.
1:23.0	They joined every House Democrat in voting to remove McCarthy after Gates filed a motion to vacate, which he was allowed to do because of a deal McCarthy agreed to back in January in order to get the job that he has now lost.
1:36.0	Anyway, McCarthy ally Patrick McHenry is serving as temporary Speaker until House Republicans hold an election next week, but between now and then we can all continue to enjoy a whole lot of this.
1:49.0	Those eight people are anarchists and they're chaos caucus members.
1:53.0	They're traitors.
1:54.0	All eight of them should in fact be primaried.
1:56.0	They should all be driven out of public life because ultimately Matt Gates who hates, let's be clear, he hates Kevin McCarthy.
2:04.0	And I hope they are expelling from the conference.
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