Foreign Governments Paid Trump Millions
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🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
This week on Politix, Matt and Brian discuss:
* Donald Trump’s predictable, big (but not actually all that big) victory in Iowa
* Why leading Republicans (who know Trump is an electoral liability for the party) are trying to end the primary as quickly as possible, even with a semi-viable alternative who could make it a real race.
* Whether the media screwed up by calling the caucuses for Trump minutes after they opened, or whether it marks a return to the ratings and profit-driven mania of their 2016 Trump coverage.
Then, paid Politix subscribers get an in-depth look at a report by Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, which proves Trump accepted payments from foreign governments (including millions from China, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates) throughout his presidency. Matt and Brian debate:
* The political significance of Raskin’s findings.
* Why Democratic leaders seem uninterested in flogging or building on the report.
* What’s changed between 2006, when Democrats saw political value in exposing Republican corruption, and the Trump era, when they have more often than not downplayed it.
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| 0:00.0 | Mitch McConnell said it out loud if you just make your the leader of the opposition party |
| 0:04.6 | less popular by denying him successes and calling him a whatever all the time his whole party will |
| 0:10.8 | suffer up and down the ballot and like that's the road not |
| 0:13.7 | taken by the Democrats that I can't wrap my head around. The key thing here is that |
| 0:20.0 | Democrats honestly don't care. |
| 0:26.3 | Yes. Hey everyone you're listening to a free preview of the politics podcast in this |
| 0:36.3 | episode Matt and I will discuss Donald Trump's victory in Iowa what it means for |
| 0:40.6 | the GOP in the country going forward, |
| 0:43.0 | with a look ahead to the New Hampshire primary as well. |
| 0:46.0 | And then paid subscribers will get to hear Matt Gril Me |
| 0:48.7 | about this new report from Jamie Raskin, |
| 0:51.3 | which proves that Donald Trump took millions of dollars in payments from foreign governments while he was president. |
| 0:57.0 | And why the Democratic Party as an institution just doesn't seem that interested in it. So we hope you enjoy the conversation and if you like |
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| 1:18.0 | Hello and welcome to politics, the podcast. |
| 1:20.0 | I'm Brian Boiler. |
| 1:22.0 | I'm Matthew Iglesias. |
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