How GOP Extremists Will Cost Trump the 2024 Election + A Conversation with Frank Figliuzzi

THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE

Politics, News

4.8 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

On the premiere episode of The Defiant Podcast, Majid spotlights the ongoing GOP meltdown precipitated by the Arizona abortion ruling. Continued overreach by GOP extremists has galvanized Democrats and promises to change the calculus for the 2024 election as voters wake up to what will happen if Trump is allowed to return to the White House. Former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi joins Majid to discuss how Russian propaganda has infected the GOP via extremist Republicans like MGT, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert and Paul Gosar who have become the face of the GOP as they move the party deeper into the arms of Vladimir Putin and QANON. Now GOP strategists and Trump himself are fretting that now that the genie is out of the bottle, people are terrified that the GOP is run by a cabal of extremist lunatics.

Check out Frank Figliuzzi’s new book “Long Haul,” hailed as a true crime classic about the hunt for the long-haul truckers behind an astonishing 850 murders–and counting.

https://www.amazon.com/Long-Haul-Hunting-Highway-Killers/dp/006326515X

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0:00.0	Ola!
0:02.0	Audio Up. Good morning and happy Monday ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the very first episode of the Defiant Podcast.
0:27.0	Thank you for joining me.
0:29.0	I'm your host, Mejeed Padellanen aka Brooklyn Dad Defiant. You know the old saying
0:36.7	opinions are like assholes everyone's got one? The same holds true for podcasts. I read somewhere recently that there are 10,000 new
0:47.3	podcasts every week. 10,000. Think of the collective noise of all those voices talking all at once.
0:56.0	For those of you who know me, all 1.3 million of you in the Brooklyn Dad Defiant Army.
1:03.0	Hello, howdy, bonjure, ola,
1:08.0	Guten tag, salamolekum, chalom, Aloha.
1:13.6	For the rest, you are likely wondering, who the hell is this Brooklyn Dad guy?
1:19.6	Why is he defiant and what's the point of this podcast? Well I'm glad you asked that. So first
1:27.3	things first, Brooklyn. I wasn't born and raised in Brooklyn, but Brooklyn is where I became an adult.
1:36.0	It's where I got my adulting badge.
1:38.0	It's where I became a real dad.
1:41.0	And folks, being a dad is everything to me. My dadness is the most important
1:49.0	thing about me and it's what I'm most proud of. I have a total of five children, three fully grown sons, and a teenage
1:57.0	son and daughter. Being a dad is kind of my approach to life, where I feel a responsibility to speak up because I want to pass a better
2:05.8	world onto my kids.
2:08.7	It's why it became such a prominent voice with 1.3 million followers on Twitter.
2:14.0	Fun fact, most folks know me on Twitter as Brooklyn Dad Defiant,
2:19.7	but I didn't start out that way.
2:22.0	In June of 2016 I had 60 followers and tweeted maybe once or twice a week.
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