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🗓️ 8 December 2021
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0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Fever Dreams. My name's Will Summer. I'm a political reporter at The Daily Beast and the author of an upcoming book on QAnon for Harper Collins. |
0:07.8 | And I'm Aswin-Sub-Tang, but please call me Swin. I'm a senior political reporter at the Daily Beast and co-author of the book Sinking in the Swamp. |
0:15.2 | All right, here on Fevered Dreams, we're going to take you on plunges into the sometimes hilarious and sometimes scary world of the American right as they continue to influence our politics. Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration, |
0:25.4 | the energy of these conspiracy theorists, these grifters, and these influencers is still pushing |
0:30.5 | our mainstream political landscape closer and closer to a breaking point. Will, I got to say, |
0:35.6 | I wish I did anything as well or as prolifically as our |
0:39.7 | beautiful former president, Mr. Trump, does at having himself or his various entities investigated. |
0:46.6 | Will, what do you think? Yeah, I mean, he's really racking him up. The latest investigation |
0:50.9 | that broke this week is the investigation of the SPAC that is taking Trump's |
0:55.5 | recently existent media company public. I think this is an interesting situation. You know, |
1:00.8 | this was a few weeks ago. Trump announced the launch of the Trump media group that was going to |
1:05.3 | go public through this SPAC that trades as DWAC. And it actually was an incredibly successful meme stock. |
1:12.1 | If you hang out with, you know, with lions who keep their eyes on their money and getting |
1:16.8 | their money up, you know that this stock blew up. |
1:19.4 | I think I saw the all-time high, I think was $175 going from roughly $10. |
1:24.2 | So pretty good spike there. |
1:25.8 | And it appears that the SEC said, well, huh, already, already. |
1:31.8 | This is just the new kid on the block in terms of pro-Trump media and social media ventures that have been rolling out ever since the end of his presidency. |
1:41.8 | And already, it's like, okay, maybe it's time for federal regulators to look into this. |
1:47.6 | Because obviously, how else would this turn out? |
1:50.4 | Right. |
1:50.6 | I mean, so this is the company that's based around Truth Social, which is the... |
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