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The Atlantic Interview

The Atlantic Interview: Mollie Hemingway

The Atlantic Interview

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Society & Culture, Politics, News

4.4977 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Mollie Hemingway, a senior editor for the Federalist and Fox News contributor, finds most of the media's histrionics over President Donald Trump to be overblown. While she won't let her kids listen to the president's most vulgar remarks, she's willing to defend his policies and his record, a fact which has cost her some friends. She talks to Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic's editor in chief, about where she finds Trump most effective, and what his successes mean for American politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.3

Welcome to the Atlantic interview. I'm Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief, and today I'm talking

0:37.1

to one of Donald Trump's most ardent journalistic defenders., the editor-in-chief, and today I'm talking to one of Donald

0:38.2

Trump's most ardent journalistic defenders. At the end of all of this investigation, at the end of all

0:43.1

of, you know, we could not have more reporting on this. It looks like the crime that he committed

0:47.6

was basically winning the election. Molly Hemingway is one of the most interesting people in Washington.

0:52.4

She's a pretty reliable Trump defender on Fox

0:55.3

News and at her magazine, The Federalist, although sometimes she seems more interested in attacking

1:00.8

the people who are attacking Trump rather than defending Trump. The way the media act like it's

1:04.7

unprecedented that someone would get work done at a residence other than the White House is just,

1:10.1

it's ridiculous.

1:15.3

And partly it's because I invited Molly on the show this week because I watch her on Twitter quite often.

1:16.2

Often she's fighting with everyone at once.

1:19.1

And I find her writing and her defense of Donald Trump very interesting and challenging.

1:23.4

Welcome to the Atlantic interview, Molly Z. Hemingway.

1:26.7

I like that Z.

1:28.0

Yeah, when I got married, I was really sad about changing my name because I loved my maiden name Ziegler so much.

1:34.9

And my husband, last name Hemingway, was just very confused. He thought that he had such a good surname that I should be really happy about.

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