How ‘Wannabe’ Instagram Models Kneecapped Matt Gaetz
Fever Dreams
The Daily Beast
4.4 • 767 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
If the federal investigation into Matt Gaetz does indeed end up spelling the MAGA congressman’s downfall, it’ll be partly because of a group of wannabe Instagram influencers.
On this week’s episode of The Daily Beast’s Fever Dreams podcast, hosts Will Sommer and Asawin Suebsaeng welcome fellow Beast reporters Jose Pagliery and Roger Sollenberger, the duo that’s been breaking story after story on the Gaetz scandal in recent weeks. The pair reveal new details on the Gaetz saga that haven’t been publicly released before, including additional passages from the confession letter secretly written by disgraced Gaetz wingman Joel Greenberg, and sent to Trump associate and longtime GOP ratfucker Roger Stone.
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| 0:28.0 | UK forward slash plan. Hey guys, this is Aswin Tsubang, but please call me Swin. |
| 0:44.8 | And welcome to The Daily Beast's fever dreams. |
| 0:47.4 | Hi, I'm Will Summer, a politics reporter at The Daily Beast, where I dig into all the darkest recesses of American extremism and extremely online |
| 0:55.3 | militants. I'm currently working on a book about QAnon and its disastrous impact on our society. |
| 1:00.6 | I'm also a senior political reporter at The Beast and co-author of the book Sinking in the Swamp. |
| 1:05.4 | I've spent years covering the intersection of entertainment and politics. And in the post-Trump era, |
| 1:10.4 | that seems like the only |
| 1:11.3 | sensible way to cover politics in this beautiful, hideously stupid country of ours. On this podcast, |
| 1:17.6 | we're going to take you on deeply reported plunges into the sometimes hilarious, sometimes scary |
| 1:21.5 | fanatics infecting the way that millions of Americans view the world and how they vote. |
| 1:25.8 | Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration, |
| 1:28.2 | the energy of these conspiracy theorists, the grifters, and the influencers is still pushing our |
| 1:33.4 | mainstream political landscape closer and closer to a breaking point. We're here to help you better |
| 1:38.3 | understand how and why this is happening, and who in the halls of power are letting it happen. |
| 1:42.8 | Along the way, we'll regularly bring on guests, including political pros, hard-nosed |
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