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The Daily Beast Podcast

Jared Kushner Is Likely Why Trump Made Governors’ Lives Hell During Early COVID

The Daily Beast Podcast

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4.68.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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In this bonus episode of TNA, journalists Carol D. Leonnig and Philip Rucker, authors of I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year, talk about Jared Kushner’s role during the early stages of COVID, why Trump’s whistleblowers stayed so long by his side and rumors from inside the Pentagon about Trump using the military to stay in power. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Hello and welcome to another special bonus episode of the new abnormal. We thank you so much for

0:44.4

being here. Today we have an awesome episode with co-authors Carol Renning in Philip Rucker,

0:49.2

who wrote the hit book Eye Alone Can Fix It. And we're going to talk to him about what you may

0:53.9

have not read in the book and get a little bit more perspective on their writing today.

0:57.7

Welcome to the new abnormal. Carol and Philip, it's super exciting to have you, neither have you

1:03.5

been here before. This book has been out. It's on the best cellar list. It's been there for,

1:08.3

you know, a while filled with interesting revelations. What do you feel like people haven't asked

1:14.0

you about this book? Sometimes I feel like they haven't asked us enough about just sort of the

1:19.4

normalization of crazy. You know, people got pretty numb to the fact that in 2020, inside the

1:26.3

White House, a lot of nutty things happened. And they just accepted that that was part of the

1:31.2

fabric of the place. You know, that the Secretary of Defense was afraid to tell the president that

1:37.9

the vaccine development was going really well because he thought he would force everybody to take

1:42.6

it before it had been, it was ready. You know, Bill Barr was getting yelled at all the time when

1:49.4

he went to the White House because he wouldn't agree to unleash, you know, the US military on protesters

1:57.2

in Portland and Seattle who were rallying against the death and the killing of George Floyd.

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