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🗓️ 5 May 2025
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The Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson examines Trump’s increasingly deranged media appearances. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson details her new book The Purposeful Warrior: Standing Up for What's Right When the Stakes Are High.
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0:33.7 | We have such a great show for you today. The Lincoln Project Zone, Rick Wilson, |
0:38.6 | joins us to discuss Trump's increasingly deranged media appearances. Then we'll talk to Michigan |
0:45.7 | Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson about her new book, The Purposeful Warrior, standing up for |
0:52.3 | what's right when the stakes are high. But first, the news. |
0:56.0 | Molly, Mr. Trump, back of the day, we used to call people in public office who changed their |
1:02.7 | opinion on things flip-flopper. Now we just see it as a normal thing, and he has flip-flopped on |
1:07.8 | firing Jerome Powell after many, many stern words about him. |
1:12.2 | So Jerome Powell is basically what is standing between us and dollar flight. |
1:18.1 | Okay, dollar flight is when the world gives up the dollar as the default currency and goes into |
1:25.2 | the euro or something else. |
1:27.9 | Part of American exceptionalism is that for some reason people think that our currency is the safest. |
1:33.7 | If Donald Trump continues his behavior as, you know, disappearing grad students and acting like we're an emerging government or the global South or a country that, you know, South America, |
1:47.5 | sort of country that has a continent that has less of this sort of structural democracy |
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