Has the Republican Party become 'a cult'?
The News Agents - USA
Global
4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
US prosecutors have charged Donald Trump for attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 Election. It’s the second federal indictment brought against the former president in as many months.
We knew this was on the way.
So why is he still the leading Republican to be president? And why doesn’t the party care ?
On this episode of The News Agents USA, two former Republican congressmen - one of whom challenged Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election - go head to head on whether Trump is the right person to lead the Republican Party into the 2024 election. Trump still dominates the field.
Ron de Santis keeps saying the word “ woke “ but Republican voters just keep getting turned off by him.
And Hunter Biden’s business associate has claimed Joe Biden joined more than twenty work calls with his son - while he was Vice-President. A pretty major breach if the current president was improperly involved in his son's business proceedings, but how damaging could that be for the current incumbent of the White House?
Editor: Gabriel Radus
Planning Producer: Alex Barnett
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Producer: Will Gibson-Smith
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.9 | They want to try and demean and hurt us, all of us. |
| 0:17.6 | You know, they're not indicting me. They're indicting you. |
| 0:20.4 | I just happen to be standing in their way. |
| 0:22.8 | That's all it is. |
| 0:25.1 | That was Donald Trump talking about his indictment. And as if by magic, he's just been indicted |
| 0:31.8 | again. It's the third time, the second federal indictment in two months. And this time it's for his |
| 0:40.9 | attempts to overturn democracy, trying to change the results of the 2020 election. What does it all |
| 0:48.4 | mean for his Republican Party? And why is he still so far ahead? Welcome to the Newsagents USA. |
| 0:58.6 | This is the Newsagents USA with Emily Maidliss and John Sobel. |
| 1:07.5 | It's Emily in Newsagents USA HQ and it is my dog, Moody, also in Newsagents USA. |
| 1:14.9 | There is this big, absent, empty, gaping, hole, chair where John Sopal once sat before he decided to run off to son himself in the south of France. |
| 1:26.7 | Yes, I should clarify, he's not actually dead. |
| 1:29.1 | We understand he's coming back. |
| 1:30.7 | He's returning to the show next week. |
| 1:32.9 | But for now, let me tell you what we've got in store, |
| 1:36.4 | because we have an extraordinary encounter |
| 1:39.2 | between two former congressmen, |
| 1:42.4 | both Republicans, one challenged Trump for the presidency, and one is a firm |
| 1:48.1 | supporter. And they take each other to task on our show a little bit later. And we're also going to be |
| 1:53.7 | talking about the latest twist in the Hunter Biden story, son of Joe Biden, because a former |
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