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The Daily Beast Podcast

How George Conway Moved Into Donald Trump’s Head

The Daily Beast Podcast

The Daily Beast

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4.68.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of THE NEW ABNORMAL, Republican lawyer George Conway reveals to Rick Wilson and Molly-Jong-Fast what irks him the most about Donald Trump, and how he’s managed to troll the president so hard, so well. (Spoiler alert: Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale accidentally gave Conway the idea.) Plus! Rick and Molly discuss comic opera dictatorships, Facebook’s about-face, and the man who chews Trump’s food. The meme referred to in our George Conway interview: https://twitter.com/skolanach/status/1259511266000830465 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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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

0:16.7

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

0:27.4

bad 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 gas from media, politics, culture, medicine and science.

0:45.7

I'll try to keep ripped to the minimum number of curse words and try to keep our pets and

0:50.8

other wildlife sounds from invading our respective bunkers.

0:54.5

So Molly, the White House has become a hotbed of the Rona.

0:58.6

Yep, it's true.

1:00.0

Senior staff members are now popping up with positive cases of corona, including the

1:05.4

aforementioned Mrs. Katie Miller, wife of Stephen Miller.

1:08.7

11 secret service agents at least have now tested positive, a variety of other senior

1:13.8

officials.

1:14.8

Presidents Valet who feeds him his meals.

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