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The Confidence Man

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Weisberg, Katie Roiphe, and Philip Gourevitch discuss Herman Melville's The Confidence Man and just what the book can tell us about President Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:04.0

A few days ago I called the fake news the enemy of the people and they are.

0:10.0

We could make deals in Russia very easily if we wanted to.

0:13.0

I just don't want to because I think that would be a conflict.

0:15.0

I have no conflict of interest, provision, as present.

0:19.0

And that's something that Nazi Germany would have done and did do.

0:23.0

I think it's a disgrace.

0:28.0

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast.

0:30.0

The show about the man who thinks exercise uses too much of the body's finite energy.

0:37.0

Donald Trump.

0:38.0

I'm Jacob Weisberg and we're back to the second edition of the Trumpcast book club.

0:43.0

I want to welcome back Katie Roy Fee of NYU and Philip Gravich of the New Yorker.

0:48.0

Thanks for coming back for another round guys.

0:50.0

Good to be here.

0:51.0

I imagine at some point in the last several weeks you were cursing me.

0:55.0

Both of you were cursing me reading this book.

0:58.0

That's a uncomfortable laugh.

1:01.0

That was the uncomfortable laugh of truth.

1:03.0

I want to explain why I picked it because I was trying to remember.

1:06.0

But we had to do with our last book.

1:09.0

Philip Roth wrote an email to the New Yorker, apropos of our first book,

1:14.0

The Plot against America.

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