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The Gist

Republicans Are Using Leeches to Cure Cancer

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, Trump critic and longtime Republican consultant Stuart Stevens shares his bleak take on his party's chances at winning the White House anytime soon. Stevens was a top strategist for Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign and is the author of The Innocent Have Nothing to Fear.  The Spiel is taking a brief hiatus.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:07.9

It's Tuesday, August 9, 2016 from Slate It's The GIST I'm Mike Pesca,

0:13.0

recording from a remote location.

0:15.5

No spiel today, but I do note that 50 top former or current GOP security officials

0:23.0

have joined together to declare that Donald Trump lacks the character values and experience to be president.

0:28.5

Now the problem is that the kind of people who would listen to the words of 50 top GOP security officials

0:34.5

are probably not Trump voters anyway.

0:37.5

And when you or I hear the names, he said flattering you because you obviously know who Michael Hayden and Robert Zolik and Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff are,

0:45.5

you're like, whoa, those are some heavy hitters.

0:48.0

But do you think a Trump supporter is like, wow, Chertoff said that?

0:52.0

I was following him since he was a federal appeals judge.

0:55.5

And would it help you to know that he once studied to be a rabbi?

0:58.5

Well, it would.

1:00.5

I could put that in context.

1:02.2

No, the 50 top officials who can have any impact on the minds of the people who may think to follow Trump

1:09.5

are not four stars or three stars or heads of homeland security.

1:14.5

They're people like this.

1:16.5

Ha, I'm Duane Chapman.

1:19.0

You might know me better as Doug the Bounty Hunter.

1:23.0

And I'm Paul Dene and I'm Lee DeAnne Venzano.

1:27.0

I used to be married to one of the mob wives.

1:30.0

Please do not join the inferences on my profession.

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