James Fletcher on "The Accidental President," the 2022 Election, and Senate Seats

That Trippi Show

Joe Trippi

News, Government, Politics, News Commentary

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This week we're talking to James Fletcher, director of the documentary "The Accidental President," which chronicled the 2016 election. His central question was: "How did we all miss it?" While we're mercifully past the Trump presidency, the film helps us understand just how dangerous a period we are in as 2022 approaches. We also discuss whether there's a chance the people will see Trump or someone in his mold win the 2024 election and whether Joe Biden might be the most difficult president in history to run against. You can watch James' documentary here: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/movie/the-accidental-president/id1548613882 Jon Last's article on The Bulwark: https://thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/reading-the-republican-autopsySupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/that-trippi-show/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey everybody it's Joe Trippy and welcome back to that Trippy show.
0:11.6	Today we have a great guest, a great friend of mine,
0:15.8	James Fletcher.
0:18.2	He's a friend and the director of the accidental president,
0:22.4	a film, I think everybody should watch to take the time.
0:26.5	It's a documentary on the 2016 election released recently and kind of asked the question how did we all miss this the
0:36.6	Trump thing and I look I know people you know they don't want to hear about Trump they
0:41.1	want them in the rearview mirror. I think the reason this
0:44.2	film is so important and the reason I'm so happy, Fletcher is with us today, is I still think
0:52.4	2022 democracy is still in a very dangerous rocky place here in the states.
1:00.0	What we can learn from this film, how we, the things we missed, the things we need to be on the lookout for and why we need to be so vigilant in our democracy going forward.
1:11.0	This film really kind of sheds a real light in a way that's not partisan.
1:19.0	Just really, I was very impressed, James, how factually based and how sort of even handed it was and how
1:25.0	scary that was to see people on both sides completely missing it and completely
1:31.4	not seeing the danger we were all in and the danger we continue to be in.
1:38.0	So great to have you with us, James, and I'll call you Fletcher Fletcher which is what I'm used to so we've been through a lot of
1:46.9	battles a lot of campaigns mostly overseas together over the years.
1:52.9	So it's great to have you, good friend.
1:54.8	Thank you, thanks for having me.
1:56.3	Well, one of the things is I just realized that I think
1:59.1	one of the last times you were in a campaign
2:01.1	with me together was in the great place called Iraq in the middle of the war.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Joe Trippi, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Joe Trippi and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.