Pro-Trump Meet-Up Features Call to Kill Political Enemies

Fever Dreams

The Daily Beast

News & Politics, Government

4.4 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In this episode of FEVER DREAMS, hosts Will Sommer and Asawin Suebsaeng go deep on the far-right “Health and Freedom Conference” in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where thousands of attendees flocked to reaffirm their commitment to Donald Trump, the QAnon conspiracy, coronavirus denialism, and the belief that their high-profile political enemies deserve to be shot and killed. Sommer recounts his time reporting from the terrifyingly mask-free conference. Suebsaeng and Sommer also welcome Sara Kenigsberg, a former video producer for Biden 2020, who opens up about what it was like to become an object of the Trump campaign’s hate last summer. Her crime? Well, in part, it was loving pigs, and arguing that these animals don’t racially profile humans. Seriously.

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0:00.0	Imagine winning £15 million on Christmas Day.
0:05.5	The £15 million lotto jackpot must be won on Christmas Day.
0:10.7	There's still time to get in the draw.
0:13.1	Lotto, will you be the next millionaire?
0:16.1	The National Lottery, rules and procedures apply.
0:18.5	Players must be 18 or over.
0:31.2	Thank you. lottery, rules and procedures apply, players must be 18 or over. Hey guys, this is Aswin Tsub Singh, but please call me Swin, and welcome to The Daily Beast's
0:36.1	fever dreams. Hi, I'm Will Summer, a politics reporter at The Daily Beast, where I dig into all the darkest
0:41.9	recesses of American extremism and extremely online militants. I'm currently working on a book
0:47.3	about QAnon and its disastrous impact on our society. I'm also a senior political reporter
0:52.2	at The Beast and co-author of the book, Sinking in the Swamp.
0:55.4	I've spent years covering the intersection of entertainment and politics.
0:59.0	And in the post-Trump era, that seems like the only sensible way to cover politics in this beautiful, hideously stupid country of ours.
1:06.5	On this podcast, we're going to take you on deeply reported plunges into the sometimes hilarious, sometimes scary fanatics infecting the way that millions of Americans view the world and how they vote.
1:15.8	Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration, the energy of these conspiracy theorists,
1:20.4	the grifters, and the influencers is still pushing our mainstream political landscape closer
1:25.2	and closer to a breaking point. We're here to help you better understand how and why this is happening, and who in the halls of
1:31.3	power are letting it happen. Along the way, we'll regularly bring on guests, including
1:35.5	political pros, hard-nosed reporters, and some influential voices from Hollywood.
1:40.5	Okay, Will, for the past few days, you have been out in the COVID and Q&ON Wilderness.
1:46.9	Can you please tell us a little bit about your misadventures in the real world or at least something parallel to it?
1:53.2	Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, so this is the first report from The Daily Beast, Fever Dreams, Roving Correspondent.
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