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Overt Madness, Covert Purpose

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News Commentary, Politics, News

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to The New Yorker's John Cassidy about Donald Trump's press conference and the GOP response to the reports linking members of the Trump administration to the Kremlin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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the night.

0:26.3

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:33.3

I am the least anti-Semitic person that you've ever seen in your entire life.

0:40.3

Number two, racism. The least racist person. In fact, we did very well relative to other people

0:47.3

running as a Republican, quiet, quiet, quiet. So he lied about who's going to get up and ask a very

0:53.3

straight simple question. So, you know, it's welcome to the world of the media.

0:58.3

Tomorrow they will say, Donald Trump, Rents and Waves at the press. I'm not anything in

1:04.3

it. I'm just telling you, you're just honest people.

1:06.3

And that you call us fake news and put us down like children.

1:10.3

President Trump, if you're watching, you're the president. You legitimately won the presidency.

1:14.3

I'll get to work and stop whining about it.

1:21.3

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. I'm Virginia Heffernin.

1:25.3

Trumpcast is the show about the man who is the least anti-Semitic person you have ever seen

1:32.3

in your entire life. That's Donald Trump.

1:36.3

Today we're talking to John Cassidy. He's been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 1995.

1:41.3

And he also writes a column about politics, economics, and more for New Yorker.com.

1:48.3

Following yesterday's astounding jaw-dropping press conference, John Cassidy wrote a column

1:54.3

called Donald Trump's alternative reality press conference. What he brings up is not just how WTF the whole thing was,

2:02.3

but also how effective it might have been in distracting reporters and audiences at home from the bigger issue

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