Never-Trumper and Neo-con Bill Kristol
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🗓️ 24 August 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Bill Kristol has been a leading conservative voice for over 25 years. He was a founding editor of the conservative news magazine The Weekly Standard. He is currently Editor at Large for The Bulwark, an anti-Trump conservative news and opinion website. Kristol is also know as a leading neoconservative(neo-con), a political philosophy that promotes democracy and interventionism in international affairs. He was a strong supporter of the Iraq War.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors. |
| 0:07.8 | Welcome back to the Bill Press 5. |
| 0:10.3 | Well, Donald Trump crawled out of his New Jersey bunker last Saturday night and crawled |
| 0:14.8 | into an Alabama cornfield to endorse crazy Congressman Mo Brooks for the Senate. |
| 0:20.6 | But his return to the campaign trail didn't go so well. |
| 0:24.1 | Trump was booed for urging people to get vaccinated. |
| 0:27.7 | Brooks was booed for suggesting that people move on from arguing about 2020. |
| 0:32.9 | And both of them were slammed for holding a super spreader event |
| 0:36.8 | just two days after the local |
| 0:38.8 | city council had declared a COVID emergency. |
| 0:43.0 | But Trump's appearance proved that he's determined to play a big role in the 2022 midterms |
| 0:49.5 | and may even be planning a bigger role for himself again in 2024. |
| 0:56.3 | So where does that leave those leading Republicans who banded together to stop Trump from |
| 1:01.5 | getting re-elected in 2020 and vowed to rebuild the Republican Party without him? |
| 1:08.4 | Good question. |
| 1:09.6 | Let's find out from Bill Crystal, one of America's top political commentators, |
| 1:15.1 | and at one time an influential leader of the Republican Party, chief of staff to Vice President |
| 1:20.6 | Dan Quayle, founder of the weekly standard, but who became a never-trumer and bolted from the Republican Party to form |
| 1:29.6 | Republican voters against Trump. |
| 1:33.3 | Among other ventures, Bill Crystal is also now editor-in-large of the bulwark and host of his |
| 1:39.7 | own podcast conversations with Bill Crystal. |
| 1:43.9 | Bill Crystal, good to say hello and welcome back to the Bill |
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