Mollie Hemingway

The Atlantic Interview

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Society & Culture, Politics, News

4.4 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Mollie Hemingway, a senior editor for the Federalist and Fox News contributor, finds most of the media's histrionics over President Donald Trump to be overblown. While she won't let her kids listen to the president's most vulgar remarks, she's willing to defend his policies and his record, a fact which has cost her some friends. She talks to Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic's editor in chief, about where she finds Trump most effective, and what his successes mean for American politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Atlantic interview. I'm Jeffrey Goldberg the editor-in-chief and
0:06.0	today I'm talking to one of Donald Trump's most ardent journalistic defenders.
0:10.1	At the end of all of this investigation at the end of all of you know we could not have more reporting on this it looks like the crime that he committed was basically winning the election
0:19.3	Molly Hemingway is one of the most interesting people in Washington. She's a pretty reliable Trump defender on Fox News
0:25.7	and at her magazine, the Federalist.
0:28.5	Although sometimes she seems more interested
0:30.3	in attacking the people who are attacking Trump
0:32.2	rather than defending Trump.
0:33.4	The way the media act like it's unprecedented that someone would get work done at a residence other
0:37.8	than the White House is just it's ridiculous and partly it's because...
0:42.0	I invited Molly on the show this week because I
0:44.4	watch her on Twitter quite often often she's fighting with everyone at once and I find
0:49.8	her writing and her defense of Donald Trump very interesting and challenging.
0:53.4	Welcome to the Atlantic interview, Molly Z Hemingway.
0:56.7	I like that Z.
0:58.0	Yeah, when I got married, I was really sad about changing my name because I loved my maiden name Ziegler so much and my husband,
1:05.6	last name Hemingway, was just very confused. He thought that he had such a good surname that I should be really
1:10.8	happy about. It's not a bad writer surname. I mean it's better than
1:14.3	Ziegler, no offense.
1:16.3	Molly, agree to disagree.
1:17.3	Agree to disagree. Let's start with this basic question. Are you pro-Trump or anti-Antitrump or Trump curious or are you
1:30.1	going to be one of those people who say, I reject all labels?
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