The Edition: Trumps's second act
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🗓️ 11 May 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Having been found guilty of sexual assault, is Donald Trump still in the running for the White House? In his cover piece, Niall Ferguson says he could still defy gravity. He joins the podcast alongside Jacob Heilbrunn, editor of The National Interest. (01:00)
Also this week:
Journalist Andrew Watts interviews the Reverend Canon Dr Jason Bray, the Bishop of St Asaph’s ‘deliverance minister’, or the Anglican priest charged with exorcising evil spirits. They both join the podcast. (17:50).
And finally:
Author and journalist Sophia Money-Coutts writes about the British women opting for Danish sperm donors to conceive. She joins us on the show, along with Annemette Arndal Lauritzen, CEO of the European Sperm Bank. (34:07).
Hosted by Lara Prendergast and William Moore.
Produced by Oscar Edmondson and Natasha Feroze.
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| 0:34.3 | Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator, where each week we look at three pieces from the magazine with the writers behind them. |
| 0:43.2 | I'm Lara Prendergars, the Spectator's executive editor. |
| 0:46.3 | And I'm William Moore, the Spectator's Features Editor. |
| 0:49.1 | On this week's episode, we'll be asking whether Donald Trump could still be the next president, despite everything. |
| 0:55.1 | We'll be looking into the ghoulish world of Anglican exorcisms. |
| 0:58.8 | And finally, we'll be learning about why Danish sperm is so popular in the UK. |
| 1:04.8 | First up, in his cover piece for the magazine this week, Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, |
| 1:11.8 | Stanford, and columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, Neil Ferguson, argues that in spite of everything, |
| 1:18.2 | Donald Trump could still win the 2024 presidential election. He joins us now with |
| 1:24.8 | Jacob Halbrun, editor of the national interest. |
| 1:29.2 | Neil, this week Donald Trump has been charged with sexual abuse, |
| 1:33.8 | which would in any normal times sink a presidential candidate, |
| 1:39.7 | yet you say that he's likely to be the next president of the United States. Why? Well, there's nothing |
| 1:48.7 | normal about Donald Trump's political career. And as he himself said, if he committed homicide |
| 1:57.4 | in Fifth Avenue, he could still count on voters. The many legal cases, |
| 2:03.9 | behind him and ahead of him, will serve only one political function, namely to keep him in the |
| 2:11.8 | news. And as long as he's in the news, it's very, very difficult for any other Republican candidate |
| 2:17.7 | for the presidential nomination to get airtime. |
| 2:22.9 | And this isn't accidental. |
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