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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 867 The Trump Win and the Hillary Loss: Presidential Historian Doug Wead Breaks It All Down

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Historians will be discussing and debating the election of 2016 for a long time to come. Doug Wead's new book takes us through the history of the Clintons and the Trumps, all the way through the election season and its unlikely outcome. You'll enjoy this conversation.

Show notes for Ep. 867

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 867.

0:03.4

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:08.0

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

0:14.4

To all my young listeners, you want to stand out from your peers, then don't do what they do.

0:19.2

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0:23.8

job. Be entrepreneurial. Get all the details at Tom Woods.com slash praxis. Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. Doug

0:32.4

Weed has a brand new bookout. It's doing very well, and I thought I'd have him on to talk about it.

0:37.0

It's called Game of Thorns,

0:38.6

the inside story of Hillary Clinton's failed campaign and Donald Trump's winning strategy.

0:44.4

This is after, you know, we've been through the weeds of this thing. This is a bird's eye

0:48.6

overview of what the heck happened. How was it possible that we had this outcome? What led up to it? And there's a lot of

0:56.1

great history in here, history of Trump himself, history of the Clintons, a lot of really great

1:01.0

material and written in such an engaging style. Doug Weed is a presidential historian. He's

1:07.7

the author of more than 30 books, including several New York Times bestsellers.

1:11.8

He served as special assistant to President George H.W. Bush. And he went on later to work for both

1:17.9

Ron Paul and Rand Paul. Doug Weed, welcome to the show.

1:23.2

Hey, thank you, Tom. Great to be with you. Good to hear your voice.

1:26.6

Very interesting book. Let me tell you something. Game of Thorns is a guilty pleasure in a way because you're going to read about a lot of things that the media doesn't want us reading about. But you tell the story like a story. It does not read like a New York Times article. It reads like a story. And it's a

1:46.5

compelling story. I had forgotten just how corrupt the Clintons were. And you give a lot of the

1:52.5

background from all the way back in the 1990s telling stories that I barely remember. And a lot of

1:58.3

my listeners, I have a lot of young listeners, they don't even

2:00.9

remember the Clintons. They were three years old during the Clinton years. And this book,

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