Denver Riggleman, Part 1

Impolitic with John Heilemann

Audacy | Puck

News, Politics

4.8 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In this special two-part episode previewing the forthcoming hearings of House Select Committee on January 6, John Heilemann talks with Denver Riggleman, former Republican congressman from Virginia, and, until recently, 1/6 committee staffer. Heilemann and Riggleman discuss the staggering scope of what the committee has learned since its inception (including the explosive text messages to and from former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, which Riggleman helped uncover) about the involvement of Donald Trump and his inner circle in the attempt to overturn the 2020 election; how the story of the pressures placed on Mike Pence to prevent Joe Biden from taking office will be among the key facets of the hearings; and Riggleman’s assessment of the case for bringing criminal charges against Trump for his role in the 1/6 insurrection. They also discuss the part Q-Anon played in ending Riggleman's career in Congress, the centrality of conspiracy theories to the identity of today's GOP, and strange tale of how Riggleman's interest in Bigfoot became part of his public profile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:55.8	Hey everyone, John Heileman here and welcome to Hell in High Water.
1:00.1	My podcast for the recount about politics and culture on the edge of Armageddon
1:03.8	with big ups to my power is a the presiding genius behind the sound of Wu Tang Clan
1:07.6	and the producer of our dope theme music and is important as Rizza is to this podcast.
1:11.6	There's one person who's more important. That's my buddy Grace Weinstein.
1:14.0	Grace, great to see you again.
1:15.4	Here's the thing we've got this podcast. It's a two-parter this week.
1:18.4	So we got a two-parter. This is week is a very big week in American politics.
1:21.7	We're starting the series of hearings that the 16th Committee are going to put on national
1:27.3	television on Thursday night in prime time in honor of that to preview the 16th Committee hearings.
1:33.1	We have a special guest on the podcast, someone who is an important player and he's a little
1:38.1	bit of a get for this podcast, but I'm guessing you might not even know who he is.
1:41.8	Does the name Denver Rigelman mean anything to you?
1:44.0	Sounds like a RuPaul Draghery star, so no, I'm familiar all around, but I'm excited to find out.
1:50.0	I don't believe that Denver Rigelman has ever been on RuPaul's Drag Race, although I probably
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