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The Muckrake Political Podcast

How Trump Chose Greed Over Humanity

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The pandemic gets worse as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is now in an ICU, but meanwhile Donald Trump and Republicans are pushing a miracle drug like they're set to profit from its sales. Co-hosts Nick Hauselman and Jared Yates Sexton dissect the history leading up to this pandemic and how the ceaseless need to profit has put all of our lives in danger.

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0:00.0

I was at a hospital the other night where I think there were actually a few coronavirus patients

0:06.0

and I shook hands with everybody. You'll be pleased to know and I continue to shake hands and

0:11.0

I think it's very important that we, you know.

0:15.0

I've seen things that I sort of like, so what do I know I'm not a doctor. I'm not a doctor, but I have common sense.

0:23.3

Would you also weigh in on this issue of hydroxychloroquine?

0:26.8

15 times. You don't have to ask you. He's your medical expert, correct?

0:31.0

He's answered the question 15 times.

0:34.7

Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Muckrake podcast. I'm your co-host, J.J.8 Sexton. I'm here with my favorite

0:42.3

co-host, Nick Houseman. It is April 6th, 2020, as we are taping this, the coronavirus pandemic

0:49.5

keeps getting worse and worse. The news of the moment, well, there's a lot of news of the moment.

0:54.6

When is there not?

0:56.1

Is that Joe Biden has apparently talked to Donald Trump on the phone about the

1:00.7

coronavirus pandemic.

1:01.7

I'm sure that was an interesting, productive conversation.

1:05.5

And British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been put in the ICU and apparently might be put on a ventilator,

1:13.4

which does not vote well for his status. Nick, this just keeps getting worse.

1:20.8

It is. It gets worse. And I don't want to, you know, there are people who I think factually need

1:26.2

to point out that Boris Johnson had been quoted as saying, you know, he was continuing to shake hands and not observe social distancing.

1:33.5

And he even, there's even a soundbite out there of him saying he'd gone to visit a hospital and was shaking hands with people, including people that had the virus.

1:41.4

So the scariest part about all of that is that, you know, getting admitted to the

1:45.9

ICU is not good at all. Not good. Didosis is terrible for that. And if you go on a ventilator,

1:52.9

I think we've talked to this before, the odds of surviving are somewhere around 40%, which is better

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