Episode #419: Trump Won, And His Cabinet Choices Prove It

Ken Rudin's Political Junkie

Ken Rudin

Politics, News

4.6 • 633 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Republican strategist Terry Holt explains what happened on November 5th and dissects some of Donald Trump’s more controversial Cabinet picks.
Aubrey Jewett of the University of Central Florida handicaps who will succeed Secretary of State-designate Marco Rubio in the Senate.
Former Congresswoman Jill Long Thompson (D-IN) has a new book filled with essays from Democrats and Republicans alike making the case that bipartisanship really works … and must work.
And former Oklahoma TV anchor Scott Thompson talks of his experiences with former Sen. Fred Harris, who sought the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination on a platform of fairness and equality. Harris died last month at the age of 94.
Music in this episode:
They’re Coming to Take Me Away by Napolean XIV
I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor
Pick Me by Alec Benjamin
Long, Long, Long by the Beatles

Transcript

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0:00.0	Trump scouts the Star Wars bar scene for his cabinet.
0:04.3	A former House member makes the case for bipartisanship.
0:07.6	I think she's serious.
0:09.2	And we remember Fred Harris.
0:11.5	This week on the political junkie.
0:13.9	You like Ike.
0:15.0	I like like, like, everybody likes like for president.
0:18.1	Add light to you and lead to me.
0:20.3	I don't care how you quoted. Come on and vote for president. Add light to you and think to me. I don't care how you quoted.
0:22.2	Come on and vote for Kennedy, vote for Kennedy,
0:26.8	and we'll come on top.
0:29.2	Vote for Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Loss,
0:33.0	because they're the ones to lead the USA.
0:45.5	Thanks for joining us, and welcome to episode 419 of the political junkie.
0:46.9	I'm Ken Ruden.
0:50.3	First, let's address the elephant in the room.
0:56.3	President Biden's pardon of his son Hunter on gun and tax charges on who knows what else for crimes and possible crimes dating from December 2014 to December 2024. Unsurprisingly,
1:04.9	the move has been met with criticism from both parties, and Biden made it easy for everyone
1:10.2	because he insisted on several occasions
1:12.9	that he would not pardon his son.
1:15.5	I'm extremely proud of my son, Hunter.
1:18.3	He has overcome an addiction.
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