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4.5 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2016

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:03.2

I don't think I've ever met him. I never met him. I don't think I've ever met him.

0:07.2

You would know it if you did. I think so. Yeah, I think so.

0:09.6

Three times he asked, at one point, if we have them, why can't we use them?

0:15.1

I've had a beautiful, I've had a flawless campaign. You'll be writing books about this campaign.

0:19.2

Put this in the long, long list of things that are very unusual in the 2016 race.

0:30.7

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. The show about the man who says he will sue all of his accusers

0:36.7

after the election. Donald Trump. I'm Jacob Weisberg. Part of the original idea of this show was to

0:43.7

talk to some Trump supporters to try to understand what they thought. One I spoke to back in June with

0:49.6

Jan Jennings, an electrical engineer who lives in Chattanooga, who had written me to explain why he

0:55.0

thought you could support Trump without being a racist or a bigot. We had a really interesting

1:00.0

conversation. It focused on the government's response to the financial crisis in 2009,

1:05.2

and Jan's view of Trump as someone who was good at telling banks to go screw themselves.

1:10.2

I got another message from Jan a couple of weeks ago, just after that grab him by the pussy

1:14.8

video surfaced. Here's what it said. Jacob, I hope all as well. Okay, you win. I don't think I can

1:22.0

vote for Trump anymore, and I'll admit your reporting started the process, but this new video

1:26.6

pushed me over the edge. I still strongly dislike Hillary, and Gary Johnson does not impress me.

1:32.5

I don't know what to do. Have a good weekend. Jan. Jan's a rare species, a Trump supporter who

1:39.5

is taking in information he disagreed with, and then actually changed his mind. So of course,

1:45.2

I asked him to come on the show again to talk to me about it. I'll be back with that conversation

1:50.3

right after we do the tweets. The results are in on the final debate, and it is almost unanimous.

2:04.0

I won. Thank you. These are very exciting times. We cannot take for more years of Barack Obama,

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