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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - Why Trump’s Road to the White House Runs Through His Four Black Athlete Friends

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Meadowlark Media

Sports

4.732.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

What do Mike Tyson, Lawrence Taylor, Darryl Strawberry and Herschel Walker have in common? They were Donald Trump's New York superstar allies in the 1980s — and they remain his time-warped avatars for Black American voters in 2024. Semafor political reporter Kadia Goba transports us from selling handbags at Trump Tower to receiving calls from these aging MAGA all-stars on a nostalgic, notorious and downright criminal journey toward interviewing Trump himself at Mar-a-Lago. Further reading: 'They see strength': The Black sports icons shaping Donald Trump's take on race, politics, and masculinity (Semafor) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what this sound is.

0:06.0

If I never saw Donald Trump and they know he was white, I would think that he was black for the way to retreat him in the papers and in the trash.

0:14.8

Right after this ad.

0:17.6

You're listening to Draft Kings Network. So I believe personally that the single worst place to process the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump is the platform formerly known as Twitter, which is obviously exactly where I was on Saturday night,

0:46.4

watching people grandstand and argue, and generally use a horrifying shooting in Pennsylvania

0:51.6

to spread conspiracies and rank propaganda.

0:56.1

But there is one viral story that I came across from Forbes.com on Saturday that I want to tell you

1:01.5

about here in particular because it provoked what I can

1:04.5

only describe as a refreshingly and even inspirationally bipartisan level of

1:10.9

disgust. The headline,

1:14.0

quote, will surviving gunfire be Donald Trump's next appeal to black voters?

1:21.0

Question mark.

1:22.0

Forbes had published this story within hours of the shooting and they then took it down the very next day after

1:29.1

managing to insult both leftist and MAGA Republicans for the obvious reasons.

1:34.9

But the underlying premise here spoke to a story,

1:38.3

a sports story, in fact, that had put us

1:41.7

in the company of some of the greatest athletes ever,

1:44.8

a story that we had been working on actually for more than a month

1:48.0

long before the chaos of this weekend.

1:50.1

This was back when, you know, most of the headlines were about Joe Biden's alleged

1:54.3

senility and or Trump's felonies. And we started working on it because another

1:59.8

enduring condition of American democracy, all the guns is that for all the twists

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