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The Playbook Podcast

May 6, 2022: Trump’s strange silence

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

Daily News, Politics, Government, News

4.2614 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Overturning Roe v. Wade would be the culmination of  former president Donald Trump’s bid to remake the judiciary — the very reason that many social conservatives held their noses and voted for him in 2016.  But Trump, “never one to shy away from taking credit for accomplishments, real or imagined, has yet to crow about the majority draft opinion,” our colleagues Meridith McGraw and Jonathan Lemire report. He’s addressed it only “when asked in interviews.” Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter Raghu Manavalan is the Host of POLITICO's Playbook.Jenny Ament is the Executive Producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0

Presented by Amazon.

0:02.4

Hey, good morning, playbookers from Rugu Munovalin. It's Friday.

0:05.9

Here's a question you don't ask every day. Why's Donald Trump so quiet? It's your Politica Playbook Daily briefing.

0:16.6

Over turning Roe v. Wade would be the culmination of the former president's bid to remake the judiciary,

0:23.1

the very reason that many social conservatives held their noses and voted for him in 2016.

0:28.6

But Trump, political colleagues Meredith McGrath and Jonathan Lemire report,

0:32.1

quote, never one to shy away from taking credit for accomplishments, real or imagined,

0:36.5

has yet to crow about the majority

0:38.0

draft opinion.

0:39.0

He's addressed it only when asked in interviews.

0:41.9

To wit, in an interview in Mar-a-Lago Wednesday night, Trump told McGraw he was waiting

0:46.5

to see, quote, finality in the case.

0:49.1

Quote, nobody knows exactly what it represents, if that's going to be it.

0:52.7

But for current and former advisors

0:54.3

insist that the former president will aggressively claim ownership of a Supreme Court decision

0:58.9

ending rope once a ruling is formally issued. It's all but certain that any decision overturning

1:04.9

rope would remake the terrain of the midterm elections. Indeed, it already has, a few good

1:09.7

examples this morning.

1:10.9

Swing State Democrats are using it as a cudgel.

1:13.0

Nevada Senator Catherine Cortes Mastow is a bellwether for how vulnerable Democrats

1:18.1

hope to use the issue to motivate voters.

1:20.1

Wright's Politico's Burgess Everett, quote,

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