The Coming Storm: Inauguration

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

America through the looking glass, a world where nothing is as it seems. Gabriel Gatehouse follows a cast of characters who have propelled Trump into the White House – twice. Many of them are now set to take power and inject their reality-bending world views into America’s health, security and intelligence infrastructure.

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0:00.0	From the BBC World Service, this is the documentary, the home of original storytelling.
0:06.1	I'm Gabriel Gatehouse with a bonus episode of The Coming Storm to mark President Donald Trump's inauguration.
0:15.4	So the last few weeks have been kind of weird for me and Lucy.
0:20.2	Unsettling.
0:22.1	Do you remember when we came across that bookstall?
0:24.6	What bookstall?
0:25.4	Oh, in Miami.
0:26.9	In Miami.
0:27.5	Nat con.
0:27.8	Nat con.
0:28.5	That's it.
0:29.7	So we've got brave books here.
0:32.2	This one's called The Plot Against the King.
0:34.7	And it's written by Cash Patel, who was deeply involved in the whole pushback against
0:42.3	the Russia narrative.
0:44.5	Cash Patel was one of the characters on the fringes of the fringes of the coming storm.
0:49.9	We'd come across him in the first series.
0:52.4	The episode we did about Russia.
0:58.6	Patel was a government lawyer who'd won the trust of Donald Trump for his work trying to discredit the FBI investigation
1:02.3	into the Trump campaign's links to Moscow in 2016.
1:06.7	By the time he crossed our radar,
1:08.5	he'd left government and was writing children's books.
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