Thank You for Your Servitude with Mark Leibovich
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The Lincoln Project
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🗓️ 9 September 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Host Reed Galen is joined by Mark Leibovich, author and Staff writer for The Atlantic, to discuss how Trump’s Washington was a result of inaction from those who “knew better”, why the media continues to hire people to toe the Trump line, and what will happen on election day if the GOP continues to take political losses. If you’d like to connect with The Lincoln Project, send an email to [email protected].
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, it's read before we get started, I just want to ask you to go to join the union.us |
| 0:06.2 | heed our words heed the words of President Biden get involved in saving American democracy |
| 0:12.2 | this fall by getting involved in your states and your communities to ensure that pro-democracy |
| 0:17.2 | candidates win go to join the union dot us and join the fight and now on with the show. |
| 0:31.8 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Gaillan. Today I'm joined by Mark |
| 0:37.1 | Leibovitch author and staff writer for the Atlantic. Prior to his time at the Atlantic, |
| 0:41.6 | Mark spent 10 years as chief national correspondent for the New York Times magazine |
| 0:45.4 | covered national politics in the Times Washington Bureau and worked for the Washington Post in |
| 0:49.7 | San Jose Mercury News. Mark's four books including his latest New York Times bestseller thank you |
| 0:55.3 | for your servitude Donald Trump's Washington and the price of submission are available wherever |
| 1:00.1 | fine books are sold. Today he's coming to us from Washington DC. Mark, welcome. Reed, thanks for |
| 1:06.4 | having me. So you know we were talking before we started recording here and that the book thank you |
| 1:12.3 | for your servitude and I thought it was a brilliant title and actually a very interesting cover |
| 1:16.6 | that the cover artist came up with. It was the unwelcome tiptoe back through 2020 that I needed. |
| 1:23.1 | I guess is the best way to put it. Oh I don't know if you needed that. There was so much happening |
| 1:27.3 | so fast that once in a while you know you sort of pick out the moments of like oh god I remember |
| 1:33.6 | that. Oh god I remember that. You know we Rick and I and Stewart as we were talking about before |
| 1:39.5 | like so many of the people that you mentioned in this book were friends of ours we've worked with |
| 1:44.0 | we've known for many years and Rick and I were talking about this actually this morning on a |
| 1:48.6 | call like you know Rick was sort of the tip of the tip of the spear as far as never Trump Republicans |
| 1:54.0 | you know as soon as the guy came down the escalator Rick said this is bad freaking news and to see |
| 2:00.3 | so many of them just go and I was thinking about as you're writing about sitting in the Trump hotel |
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