Political Gabfest - The "Trying to Find Someone Who Was Not Assaulted By Donald Trump" Edition
Political Gabfest
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4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2016
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John
Dickerson discuss the sexual assault allegations against Donald
Trump, the latest from WikiLeaks on Hillary Clinton and whether its
ethical to choose not to vote in this election.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for October 13th, 2016, the trying to find someone who was not assaulted by Donald Trump edition. |
| 0:17.8 | I am David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:20.0 | John Dickerson of Faced the Nation has finally loosed his shackles. I'm glad to see that you have loosed your shackles, John. You're free to love once more. Hello, John. Let's all loose our shackles. Why not? I am unshackled. That's Emily Bazelon of the New York Times magazine. She's unshackled. She's unsackled from modernity. So she's now just wearing period costume as she's always wanted to. On this week's Gab Fest, oh my God, a day feels like a year these days. First, first, the turmoil and the Republican Party, Paul Ryan disassociating Donald Trump disrupting the Republican Party. |
| 0:57.8 | But as that story unfolds, look, there are four new women alleging sexual assault by Donald Trump. |
| 1:04.1 | Oh, no, five. Hold on. There's four more of them. Wait, now there's another one. |
| 1:09.2 | Yesterday on Wednesday, there appeared to have been 10 very credible allegations of sexual assault by Donald Trump by tons of different women in tons of different circumstances. |
| 1:20.7 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:21.4 | By the time we're done taking today, who knows what could have happened. |
| 1:25.3 | Then, after we've exhausted that, we will talk about the revelations in the |
| 1:29.4 | WikiLeaked Clinton documents, the excerpts from her Goldman speeches, they're backs in force with |
| 1:33.5 | reporters. Is this the October surprise we've been waiting for? Or is there something else coming? |
| 1:39.2 | And then we'll talk about whether it is ethical not to vote in this election and whether |
| 1:44.0 | it's ethical to vote for |
| 1:45.0 | a third party when you know that there's a villainous candidate to be defeated on the other |
| 1:51.0 | side. Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter and enslaved plus how do you talk to your children about |
| 1:57.7 | this presidential election? John Dickerson has some lessons for us. |
| 2:02.8 | We have some good news. |
| 2:04.6 | The bad news is our Boston show is sold out. |
| 2:06.8 | The good news is we have a live show in New York just after Thanksgiving, Wednesday, |
| 2:11.4 | November 30th. |
| 2:12.1 | Not just any live show, my friends. |
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