Pudding Ron feat. Jake Lahut

Fever Dreams

The Daily Beast

News & Politics, Government

4.4 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

While prosecutors appear to be closing in on Donald Trump and preparing to file formal charges, he’s been posting up an absolute storm on Truth Social. It’s all happening amid the backdrop of a potential arrest for the former president—which some pundits predict will bolster his re-election campaign. The Fever Dreams team isn’t so sure. Plus! Daily Beast reporter Jake Lahut joins the program to talk about his recent reporting on what appears to be DeSantis’ fledgling campaign—including a number of troubling anecdotes about the Florida governor’s ability to make small talk and press the flesh at his early stops in Iowa and elsewhere.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Will Summer and welcome to The Daily Beast, Fever Dreams.
0:03.5	I'm a politics reporter at The Daily Beast.
0:05.5	My book on Q&N, Trust the Plan, The Rise of Q&N, and the Conspiracy that Unhinged America will be available in February and is available for a pre-order now.
0:13.5	And I'm Kelly Weil. I am also a reporter at The Daily Beast, and I'm the author of the book Off the Edge, Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything.
0:23.1	On this podcast, we're going to take you on plunges into the sometimes hilarious, sometimes scary fanatics, infecting the way that millions of Americans view the world and how they vote.
0:31.4	Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration, the energy of these conspiracy theorists, grifters, and influencers, is still pushing our
0:38.7	mainstream political landscape closer and closer to a breaking point.
0:43.1	All right.
0:43.9	Welcome back to fever dreams.
0:45.8	As always, I'm your co-host, Kelly Wilde.
0:48.3	Will Summer is out today, but we are joined by Daily Beast politics reporter Ursula Perano.
0:53.4	Ursula, how's it going?
0:55.0	It's going good.
0:55.7	It's a nice day in Washington, D.C., so I'm happy to be here.
0:58.5	Yeah, absolutely.
0:59.5	I'm sure it's pretty busy in D.C.
1:01.7	Because Donald Trump, he's been having an interesting weekend.
1:04.8	He's, of course, been having some legal woes that I think we're going to unpack in
1:09.1	great detail later this episode.
1:11.3	But before we get into that, I can't let it go.
1:14.4	He's been having some absolutely top-notch posting on Truth Social that I would hate to get
1:19.8	swept under the rug.
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