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The Michael Steele Podcast

Quick Take: Trump Is Playing His Own Base

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

This is an excerpt from the full episode, "When They Go Low: With Roland Martin."

Michael Steele speaks with Roland Martin, commentator and host of Roland Martin Unfiltered. The pair discuss the changing landscape of media, the future of broadcasting and the importance of understanding the business and adapting to new technologies. They also discuss the Trump trial, the relationship between Black men and Trump and whether Black people identify with him due to shared experiences with the criminal justice system.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey Michael Steele podcast listeners, Michael Steele here with another quick take from the Michael Steele podcast. Check out what's going on right now.

0:16.0

Welcome back everybody to Michael Steele Podcast. As I said,

0:20.0

before we went to break, we wanted to dive into the deeper into the pool with my man

0:26.4

Roland Martin because Roland you have been it's funny I've known you a long time and I have I could never and I can say this honestly I could never

0:39.6

pinpoint your

0:44.0

political persuasion.

0:50.4

There days you sound like a liberal Democrat and there days you sound like a conservative.

0:52.7

Most people will say, well, that's a moderate in the main.

0:55.7

It's not that.

0:56.7

You bring sort of a perspective to politics,

1:01.0

your political analysis, I think people underrate your ability to sort of talk about and give analysis to current events, relate them to historical events, and push it forward to say, y'all need to be looking

1:16.4

for this because this is what's about to happen.

1:18.9

How do you assess this current political climate?

1:21.6

And I got some specifics I want to get into,

1:23.5

but just broad-based off-top-line,

1:26.5

looking at the bullshit coming out of Trump world,

1:30.8

looking at the inability of our court system to deal effectively with this

1:35.2

asymmetrical player looking at Republicans just bend over backwards and just

1:40.8

expose themselves to Trump.

1:43.0

What is, what's your assessment?

1:45.0

Oh, and by the way, Democrats not having a clue how to run a campaign to beat this M effort.

1:51.0

What, what is your assessment right now? The first thing is

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