Did Trump Blow Off Some Sketchy Intel? Or Commit Treason?

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🗓️ 30 June 2020

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Rick Wilson and Molly Jong-Fast have some thoughts on the matter in the latest episode of The New Abnormal. “It's not just treason. It's historic treason,” Rick says about the revelation that the Russians offered bounties on U.S. soldiers—and Trump kissed up to the Kremlin anyway. “This is a guy who was already going down into the dustbin of history. And now there's going to be a line at his grave where they're going to have to throw cat litter down. Because people are gonna piss on it for all time.” Plus! Democratic Rep. Connor Lamb talks up his favorite Republican. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison gets real about police unions. (“I'm reluctant to even call it a police union because a union is an honorable, wonderful institution,” he says. “These institutions are not like that at all. The teacher's union does not deliberately harm the kids. Nurses don't hurt the patients. UAW doesn't break the cars.”) And Molly dishes on White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany: “At least with Sean Spicer, you did feel he possessed a human soul. Whereas with Kaylee, it's just this sort of terrifying, blonde sea of obfuscation.” Want more? Become a Beast Inside member to enjoy a limited-run series of bonus interviews from The New Abnormal. Guests include Cory Booker, Jim Acosta, and more. Head to newabnormal.thedailybeast.com to join now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi folks, it's Rick Wilson and welcome to the Daily Beasts, the new abnormal.
0:04.6	Hi, I'm Molly Zhangfast, a left-wing pundit and editor at large at the Daily Beast.
0:09.7	I'm also an editor at the Daily Beast, a former Republican political strategist,
0:13.5	best-selling author and full-time troublemaker.
0:15.9	We're here to have fun, sharp conversations with some of the smartest people in media,
0:19.8	politics, business and science that help make what's happening in the country and the world clear.
0:25.6	I'll try to keep Rick to the minimum number of F-bombs and try to keep our kids, pets and other wildlife
0:32.5	sounds from invading our respective bunkers.
0:35.0	So Rick, wild weekend, this weekend?
0:37.8	Well, as I spent the majority of my weekend staring into computer screens, making ads,
0:42.0	but that's just me and my humble Garrett.
0:44.9	You came out a little bit to focus on the blockbuster Russia Story,
0:50.9	which was reported first by The New York Times.
0:53.0	You mean the story where the most pro-true president ever didn't do a goddamn thing
0:57.6	when he found out that Vladimir Putin was offering the Taliban cash to murder American soldiers?
1:02.0	Yeah, that was what I was thinking about.
1:04.0	You mean that president who wraps himself quite literally wraps himself in the flag
1:08.4	and sits quietly by while Vladimir fucking Putin pays the fucking Taliban to kill American soldiers?
1:16.0	That president?
1:16.7	He's also the president who signed off on the largest concentration camps in the world.
1:21.6	You know, look, he's got to have a diverse sort of set of egregious fucking behaviors
1:26.3	that he wants every day.
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