How Trump Branded His Assassination Attempt
The Michael Steele Podcast
The Bulwark
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Michael Steele speaks with CNN correspondent and Emmy and Peabody award-winning journalist, Elle Reeve about her new book, "Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics." The pair discuss internet trolls, the empathy and masculinity of Donald Trump and how he branded his assassination attempt.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Michael Steele podcast listeners, Michael Steele here with another quick take from the Michael Steele podcast. |
| 0:13.7 | Check out what's going on right now. |
| 0:16.3 | Something I heard over and over in different groups where there was white nationalists |
| 0:21.2 | Q&A on gun rights advocates was it started as a joke |
| 0:25.4 | and then became real. |
| 0:27.2 | So in the beginning, it was just kind of funny |
| 0:29.7 | to like Donald Trump because he made people angry and they particularly made the people they didn't like angry you know with the comment people reacting to |
| 0:40.4 | Trump calling Mexicans rapists that made so many people angry and they love that. |
| 0:44.9 | That's when they thought that wasn't really captured their attention. |
| 0:50.8 | He and that Trump wasn't cowed like people would criticize what he had said and he |
| 0:56.8 | wouldn't back down from it they loved that after the 2016 election one fascist told me that Trump was a pussy grabbing |
| 1:07.6 | asshole but he was our pussy grabbing asshole. They said he reminded them of the 80s that of this like time with like masculine |
| 1:16.3 | swagger you look at the movies and TV and ads from back then and it's mostly all |
| 1:20.6 | white and the men are dominant and the women are ornamental bimbos and they liked that and they wanted to go back to that. |
| 1:28.0 | My at Hainbach, a white nationalist who has since said he's no longer part of that world. He's a Marxist |
| 1:34.2 | Leninist now, he says. He described Trump's election as better than sex. |
| 1:39.8 | That it was not so much about Trump himself but just that all of the people who had hated him and made his life miserable were so angry and upset about it. |
| 1:50.0 | You know, there are all those viral videos of Hillary fans crying. |
| 1:54.0 | Well, this is the audience for it. |
| 1:56.5 | And they got off on that. |
| 1:58.8 | They loved it, absolutely. |
| 2:00.9 | They wanted to see pain in these other people. |
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