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The GOP's Top Trump Buster

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News Commentary, Politics, News

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2016

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Weisberg talks to Stuart Stevens, Mitt Romney's top political strategist in 2012, about stopping Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

He has a lot of great ideas.

0:02.8

He's not a stupid man, he's worth $9 billion.

0:05.4

I feel like our country is going down the drain.

0:07.9

He's actually a very intelligent man who cares deeply about America.

0:12.7

There is no question that this is the person who will go to Washington DC

0:16.6

and be able to absolutely turn the place around.

0:19.6

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, the show about the national emergency known as Donald Trump.

0:33.0

I'm Jacob Weisberg and I'll be here until the crisis passes.

0:36.6

Could be in July, could be in November, could be 2025, though I seriously hope not.

0:42.4

This is the third week we've been doing the show and Trump continues to search

0:46.0

for the bottom of the barrel in American politics.

0:49.2

Yesterday, Trump's Suggish campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski,

0:53.5

was arrested and charged with battery in Jupiter, Florida, after allegations that he manhandled.

0:59.3

And I think that word is totally appropriate here.

1:01.6

Michelle Fields, a female reporter from a right-wing news organization

1:05.6

that's actually in the tank for Trump, Breitbart.com.

1:09.4

Any other candidate would have rushed to employ Trump's catchphrase.

1:12.4

You're fired.

1:13.4

Instead, Trump defended his flak and accused the reporter, Michelle Fields, of faking her injury.

1:19.3

Maybe those bruises on her arms were already there.

1:22.2

On Twitter, Trump complained that Fields touched him and claimed that she was menacing him

1:26.9

with a dangerous object. She was holding a pen.

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