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The Gist

Hoisted By His Own Petard

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

On the Gist, Trump's mask strategy. In the interview, Mike is joined by David Priess, COO of the Lawfare Institute, an organization and online magazine which focuses on national security issues. Priess posits some worst case scenarios in light of President Trump contracting Covid-19, the unexpected vulnerabilities and uncertainties that lay ahead, historical norms of disclosure for a president, and the ultimate Continuity of Government Plan - the election. Priess is a former CIA officer, and author of The President's Book of Secrets and How to Get Rid of a President: History's Guide to Removing Unpopular, Unable, or Unfit Chief Executives. In the spiel, Trump has no one to blame but himself. Email us at thegist@slate.com Podcast production by Margaret Kelley and Jamila Bey. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Following program has the potential dare I say probability to give offense.

0:08.9

It's Friday, October 2nd, 2020 from Slate, it's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.

0:13.6

Now, I'd like to talk to you guys because I think I know what you're thinking,

0:19.1

what you must be thinking.

0:20.6

And it's what I'm thinking that the president must recover.

0:26.5

That he simply cannot must not perish from this earth,

0:31.3

purr the words of the other president who he acknowledged possibly did more for African

0:36.3

Americans than he.

0:38.2

This is a time of great uncertainty.

0:40.1

You're asking, how will we go on?

0:42.3

How can we recover if he doesn't?

0:44.9

What will happen next?

0:46.6

Well, in these times, I harken back to words that Donald Trump himself once said,

0:51.6

it's not much worse than the flu.

0:53.8

Remember that?

0:55.1

Let that be your rock in these uncertain times.

0:57.5

And also let's remember when he said, it's all going to go away one day.

1:02.4

All go away.

1:04.2

He said that we got to remember.

1:06.4

I know you're also asking of all the people to have gotten it.

1:11.0

How could it be him?

1:12.2

I know.

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