“Pod Save America” ’s Jon Lovett on Trump: “The Threat of Jail Time Sharpens the Mind”

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🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The co-host of the popular show explains how the withering of the media and the threat of political violence are warping the Presidential campaign, and what Biden’s team needs to do.

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0:00.0	This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC studios and the New Yorker.
0:11.0	Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour, I'm David Remnick. After Donald Trump won in 2016,
0:17.0	stunned Democrats found ways to cope. Some marched, some donated, some screamed into
0:21.9	their pillows.
0:23.0	John Lovett launched a new podcast,
0:26.0	and more than a podcast, A Media Empire.
0:29.0	Now, Lovett had been in politics for a long time.
0:32.0	He worked on John Carey's campaign when he was just out of college and then he went on to write speeches for Hillary Clinton and finally in the White House for Barack Obama.
0:42.0	Lovett then got together with some of his former Obama administration friends, John Favreau, and
0:46.6	Tommy Vittor to launch crooked media.
0:51.0	Crooked media is an unabashedly partisan effort to counteract powerful conservative outlets like Fox.
0:57.0	Crooked media's flagship show is Pod Save America, which has been a huge success in a pretty crowded field.
1:05.9	And now two elections later, Donald Trump is once again on the ballot and ahead in a lot of polls.
1:12.2	So I called up John Lovett to talk about what we learned last time and
1:16.0	why America still needs saving.
1:21.1	John, welcome and I'm thrilled to be with you. I listen to you guys all the time
1:26.0	and I want to get into how POD's Save America came about and the thinking behind it,
1:32.0	but I got to get right to the big question the
1:36.6	Biden campaign. The latest damage was a report about the classified
1:41.5	documents case and the special counsel said
1:45.3	okay Joe Biden's not going to be charged with a crime but it included the
1:49.6	unfortunate phrase about a quote well-meaning elderly man with poor memory and other
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