How Wrestlemania influenced Donald Trump’s cabinet picks
The News Agents - USA
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4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Later in the episode we will hear from James Orr - the Cambridge University theologian and academic who was one of JD Vance’s guiding voices and a close confidant.
But we start with the world of wrestling - what does it tells us about Donald Trump’s cabinet picks? And, how many of them have faced, or continue to face, allegations of sexual harassment ?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA Podcast is brought to you by HSBC, UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.7 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | Oh, who's the worst now, Mom? |
| 0:15.2 | Who's the worst now? |
| 0:16.5 | Who's the worst now? |
| 0:17.5 | Who's the worst now? |
| 0:18.2 | Oh, that's just too bad. |
| 0:19.5 | Who's the worst now? |
| 0:20.7 | Who's the worst now? The woman the worst now? Oh, that's just too bad. Who's the worst now? Who's the worst now? |
| 0:21.6 | The woman's voice that you hear in that clip is Linda McMahon. |
| 0:26.6 | She is a former wrestler. |
| 0:28.6 | She is the co-founder of World Wrestling Entertainment, what used to be known as |
| 0:33.6 | as WWE before the old Pandas got in the way. |
| 0:36.6 | And she is now the President |
| 0:38.6 | Alex pick for Education Secretary. Given the other nominations that we've heard for these key |
| 0:44.6 | critical roles, you might think it's all of a par. But Donald Trump is remorselessly going |
| 0:50.1 | around assembling his team. But to think that they are all one camp, it's not quite |
| 0:55.8 | right. There are divergences within which will make it seem like there is a coalition |
| 1:01.7 | government being formed. Welcome to the Newsagents USA. |
| 1:09.8 | It's John. It's Emily. And let's introduce you a bit more to Linda McMahn because she is quite formidable, really. I mean... |
| 1:18.6 | You wouldn't want to get in the ring with her. I wouldn't want to get in any ring with anyone, but she does seem to know what she's doing. But she was made part of the transition team in |
| 1:28.4 | August. Obviously, there was sometimes a correlation between amounts donated and rolls then given out. |
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