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Following Kushner’s Receipts to Democide

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🗓️ 7 August 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to Katherine Eban, contributing editor for Vanity Fair and author of Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom, about her recent piece on Jared Kushner’s botched COVID-19 response, and what happened when she followed a suspicious trail of his receipts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The true nature of science is that, particularly when you're in evolving situation,

0:06.3

you've got to be flexible enough and humble enough to say, you know, two months or three months

0:12.0

down the line, we're starting to see a different set of data and a different set of facts that we may

0:20.4

want to modify a bit, the kinds of decisions and recommendations that we make.

0:26.8

The president has revealed to us his method for getting rid of the pandemic. There is no need for

0:34.6

testing, except to test our ability to simply wish it away. If we don't do something significant,

0:42.2

we won't not only be delinquent in our duties to fight this virus, but we will also be increasing

0:49.3

damage to our economy.

0:54.3

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, I'm Virginia Heffernan. What is far more toxic and lethal and

1:00.7

uncontained than a mere dumpster fire? Dumpsters are at least containers and the fire while

1:07.5

noxious burns through garbage to the whole gigantic vat is just an ash tray. I miss simple dumpster

1:15.6

what we have now is more like Chernobyl, like a sprawl of poison polluting the groundwater for

1:20.9

years to come and never fully burning out. Trump has cost a generation of kids their orderly

1:27.1

educations and even their shot at feeling safe in the world and a generation of senior citizens

1:32.4

have seen their lives or their friends lives unnecessarily cut short. Coronavirus fatalities

1:38.3

passed those of the Vietnam War months ago and it is now killed more Americans than Vietnam,

1:44.6

the Gulf War, the Afghanistan War and the Iraq War combined. And so much of this destruction was

1:51.2

both predictable and preventable. Trump wasn't removed after his illegitimate win by Hamilton

1:57.6

electors. He wasn't removed under the 21st Amendment. He wasn't indicted after the Mueller

2:02.4

Report or removed after the impeachment with so many good reasons to do so. And so we have a

2:07.7

commander in chief whose unfitness has been obvious from the beginning, leading the nation into

2:13.1

unprecedented devastation because he's too stupid, crazy and evil to have done anything about it.

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