SPECIAL Rick Wilson

Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Rick Wilson is a political strategist, media consultant and a best-selling author based in Florida who has produced political commercials for governors, U.S. Senate candidates and super PACs. Rick has written for the Daily Beast, Politico, the New York Daily News, Medium and he is the author of the New York Times Best Seller Everything Trump Touches Dies.. His next book, Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump—and Democrats from Themselves will be published on January 14, 2020. His is also one of the Founders of The Lincoln Project, a Super PAC that "will be dedicated to defeating President Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box and to elect those patriots who will hold the line.” Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart.
0:12.0	Welcome to Words Matter, I'm Katie Barlow.
0:15.7	Our goal is to promote objective reality.
0:18.8	As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts.
0:25.1	Have power and words have consequences.
0:33.1	Our guest today is a political strategist, media consultant and best-selling author based
0:38.9	in Florida who has produced political commercials for governors, US Senate candidates and superpacks.
0:45.8	Rick Wilson has written for the Daily Beast, Politico, the New York Daily News, Medium,
0:52.3	and is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Everything Trump Touches Dies.
0:58.2	His next book, Running Against the Devil, A Plot to Save America from Trump and Democrats
1:03.4	from themselves, will be published on January 14, 2020.
1:08.9	He is also one of the founders of the Lincoln Project, a superpack that quote,
1:13.8	will be dedicated to defeating President Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box and to elect
1:19.3	those patriots who will hold the line.
1:22.3	Rick Wilson, welcome to Words Matter.
1:25.1	Thank you so much for having me.
1:27.5	Now before we get to your last book or your next book or even impeachment, let's talk
1:34.1	about the Lincoln Project.
1:36.0	What is it who is involved and without giving away the secret sauce here, tell us as much
1:41.0	as you can of the strategy for achieving its goal?
1:45.0	There's nothing more dangerous in politics than people who will put country before party
1:48.4	and who know all the tricks.
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