Is Trump a “fascist”? And do Americans care?
The News Agents
Global
4.2 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
We have an interview with Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of Alexei Navalny - the Russian opposition leader murdered in prison earlier this year by Putin's government. Why did he go back to Russia after his poisoning? And what did Putin make of his death?
But we start in America with Kamala Harris who last night told a CNN town hall that yes, she agreed Trump was a fascist. The Democrats can't seem to decide how to play him - as a weirdo, an entertainer or a threat to Western Democracy. Are they strategically targeting different groups in their messaging? Or is it all getting a bit lost?
Editor: Tom Hughes
Executive Producer: Louis Degenhardt
Producer: Natalie Indge
Digital Editor: Michaela Walters
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Production: Rory Symon, Shane Fennelly & Arvind Badewal
Digital Journalists: Michael Baggs & Jacob Paul
Don’t forget you can also subscribe to our other News Agents podcasts via the link below:
https://linktr.ee/thenewsagents
You can listen to this episode on Alexa - just say "Alexa, ask Global Player to play The News Agents"
And you can grab your News Agents merch, including t-shirts, hoodies and water bottles at the link below.
https://store.global.com/collections/the-news-agents
The News Agents is brought to you by HSBC UK - https://www.hsbc.co.uk/
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.4 | This is a global player original podcast. You've quoted General Millie calling Donald Trump a fascist. |
| 0:14.9 | You yourself have not used that word to describe him. Let me ask you tonight, do you think Donald Trump is a fascist? |
| 0:20.6 | Yes, I do. Yes, I do. And I also believe that the people who know him best on this subject |
| 0:27.9 | should be trusted. That was Kamala Harris being asked point blank if she thinks that Donald Trump |
| 0:34.0 | is a fascist, and she says, yes. What does that tell us about the state of the |
| 0:40.6 | American presidential race right now, 13 days out? It says that Kamala Harris still isn't quite sure |
| 0:49.8 | how to land a blow on Donald Trump. We are back to 2016, where no politician seems to have found |
| 0:58.8 | the way to really hurt him. What does that mean for November 5th? Welcome to the Newsagents. |
| 1:09.3 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:12.2 | It's John. It's Lewis. |
| 1:13.1 | It's Emily. |
| 1:16.0 | And later I will be speaking to Yulia Navalny. |
| 1:19.2 | She is the wife, the widow now, of Alexei Navalny, |
| 1:23.9 | the Russian opposition leader who was poisoned and then incarcerated and then sent to a penal colony and then murdered by Putin. She has just published |
| 1:29.4 | a book, Patriot, which is Navalny's own voice, essentially memoirs that allow him to speak to us |
| 1:37.1 | from beyond the grave of everything that he was going through. And it is incredibly funny. |
| 1:41.8 | It is electrifying. And by sheer dint that it even exists, it is devastatingly sad. |
| 1:47.5 | I'll be speaking to her in a moment. |
| 1:49.2 | But we're going to start with where we are in the US race and the change of tone from Kamala Harris. |
| 1:56.4 | When Lewis, you and I were out for the Democratic Convention, It was all this stuff about, oh, Donald Trump, |
| 2:01.8 | he's not a serious person. He was to be laughed at rather than to be taken that seriously. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Global, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Global and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.