Gretchen Whitmer’s Chilling Call With the White House

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🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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On the latest episode of THE NEW ABNORMAL, Rick Wilson and Molly Jong-Fast talk with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer about the protesters who stormed the Michigan capitol, the sheriffs who refuse to enforce the lockdown, and a terrifying call she had with the White House. Plus! Rick and Molly chat about the ad that drove the president batty, the Trumpkins who want to wrestle Rick, and the former MAGAites finally departing the S.S. Dumbf*ck. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi folks, this is Rick Wilson and welcome to the Daily Beasts, the new Abnormal.
0:05.2	Hi, I'm Molly Junkfast, novelist and editor at large at the Daily Beast and the person
0:10.0	who tells Rick not to tweet the things he wants to tweet.
0:12.7	I'm an editor at large at the Daily Beast, a former Republican political strategist, best
0:16.8	selling author and full-time troublemaker.
0:18.9	The new Abnormal is about one nation under a pandemic and how it's changing all of us.
0:23.5	We'll talk about what's happening in the country and the culture and look at good and bad
0:27.6	people, leadership and ideas.
0:29.8	Molly and I come from very different political worlds, but what brings us together is that
0:33.8	we both love America.
0:35.1	We realize that putting our country over party and ideas over ideology might be the only
0:39.2	thing that gets us through this.
0:40.7	We'll be joined by smart guests from media politics, culture, medicine and science.
0:45.7	I'll try to keep Rick to the minimum number of curse words and try to keep our pets and
0:50.9	other wildlife sounds from invading our respective bunkers.
0:54.5	So Rick, I would like to read you a little bit.
0:59.7	We're going to talk about Trump's Twitter and you can tell me...
1:03.5	Wait, Donald Trump has a Twitter?
1:05.3	No, he doesn't.
1:06.3	I'm just kidding.
1:07.3	But if he did have a Twitter, it might say the following tweet because they don't know
1:11.9	how to win and their so-called Lincoln Project is a disgrace to honest Abe.
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