Ep 61: Trump Gets Thumped and Punch & Judy PMQs...
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Turns out that yes, the UK is a basket case, but you can rest assured that in our times of trouble and strife, across the pond, the US tends to always find a way of saying: hold my beer. Because this week, former US President, Donald Trump was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation. But sadly the stench made its way over here with sitting MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, a devout Christian no less, appearing on GB News to leap to Trump's defence.
Jemma and Marina ponder the absurdity of it all, the glaring absence of Ofcom, the worrying normalisation of male violence against women and then unironically segue to the Punch and Judy politics of the UK - as displayed in this week's PMQs.
Verbal punches were thrown, knock-outs were landed - and yet Jemma and Marina can't help feeling that literally no one emerges as the winner. Least of all our exhausted and exiting GPs, who it appears the Govt is seeking to placate by installing...a new phone system for a better hold experience.
And the Lords are very much awake for this episode...doing some great work to try and stop the human rights-breaching immigration bill.
Then it's onto pudding from comedian, Trevor Noah that might just leave a sour little taste in one's mouth...
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| 1:02.8 | don't have to. I'm Gemma Forte. And I'm Marina Perkis. And let's kick off with the reassurance that |
| 1:10.3 | although it's a big old British binfire here, |
| 1:13.4 | sometimes it's quite nice to look across the pond to the states, |
| 1:17.7 | because then at least we can perhaps feel a tiny bit better, |
| 1:21.2 | because this week a jury found ex-president Donald Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation of writer E. Gene Carroll |
| 1:31.3 | in the 1990s. And do you want to hear his actual legal defense in this civil case? Well, actually, |
| 1:39.3 | you ain't going to hear it anyway. It's coming in a clip posted by at Betty Bowers. |
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