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The Owen Jones Podcast

Is Trump VP's Pick JD Vance More Extreme Than Him? - w/. Ryan Grim

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Government, News, News & Politics, Politics

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump just made JD Vance his Vice-President pick. Is the US heading for authoritarian tyranny and conflict - or is it all overblown?


Joined by the brilliant US journalist Ryan Grim, who has just helped launch the new Drop Site News: https://www.dropsitenews.com/

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0:00.0

Now we are just months away from the US presidential election and as things stand it looks exceptionally likely that Donald Trump will be reelected a far more vengeful Donald Trump.

0:11.0

He has just appointed his vice presidential pick,

0:14.6

Jaini Vance, who has gone from never Trump to a extreme right-wing

0:19.4

Trump-Trump-Republican.

0:21.4

Joe Biden visibly flailing before us, his polling is catastrophic, but the

0:25.8

Democratic machine divided, but Biden remains in place. No better person to speak to

0:32.2

than this, about this, the brilliant reporter,

0:35.4

Ryan Grimm, who formerly the Intercept, but now was just set up along with the also

0:41.6

brilliant reporter, Jeremy Skarhill, drop site news. Do check that out. up along with the also brilliant reports of Jimmy

0:42.8

Skyhill, drop site news.

0:44.2

Do check that out.

0:45.0

I include a link to that.

0:46.7

And they do brilliant independent investigative work

0:50.6

on domestic US politics, but also foreign policy, policy war so make sure you check that out

0:55.1

Ryan is a big honor speak to you as ever how you doing I'm good on how you doing great

1:00.0

let's start shall we with J.D. Vance who is a few days older than me and is now the

1:05.7

Vice presidential nominee. Now just that you just explained this guy because he

1:10.3

was a never trumpet wasn't he he was like well I'd vote for I might have to vote for

1:14.0

Clinton over Trump back in 2016 where's he at what's his political sort of journey being where

1:20.7

where's he out what's the significance of this appointment?

1:24.2

So he grew up kind of poor and working class raised by a single mom, as anybody knows

1:29.7

who's read, you know, Hillbillology or Hillbilliology or seen, I guess, the resulting cinematic portrayal of it.

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