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Rick Wilson's The Enemies List

The Political Herpes and Metastasizing Cancer of Donald Trump

Rick Wilson's The Enemies List

Lincoln Square

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.93.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On The Enemies List, Rick Wilson interviews Hugo Lowell, a political investigations reporter for the Guardian. Hugo dives into the legal cases against Donald Trump, noting the existential threats they pose and the conflict of interest between Trump's lawyer and Boris Epshteyn. Rick and Hugo also discuss the Republican primary race, Trump's campaign, and the implosion of Ron DeSantis' campaign. Lastly, they criticize McConnell and Holmes for giving the Republican Party the 'political herpes' and 'metastasizing cancer' that is Donald Trump. Timstamps: [00:00:01] Trump in legal drama: Indictment four coming soon. [00:02:27] Trump's legal woes threaten his freedom. [00:05:14] Conflicting legal interests in Trump world. [00:07:53] Trump leads, others follow: 6 words [00:10:57] Trump's luck: Vindictive, Retribution, Polls, Fundraising, Competent, Small Team. [00:15:14] Trump runs tight ship with small team. [00:17:30] Veterans of Trump world succeed. [00:20:32] Trump legal team scrambles to survive. [00:23:50] McConnell booed, Josh Holmes helps. [00:26:16] Empowered Trump, McConnell faces consequences. Follow Resolute Square: Instagram Twitter TikTok Find out more at Resolute Square Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:01.0

Resolute Square

0:07.0

There was also maintain what was called an enemy's list, which is rather expensive and continually being updated

0:15.0

Immaculate! Why are we homologated instead?

0:20.0

Where I could stand in the middle of the family and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay?

0:26.0

The women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having a margin!

0:35.0

On January 6th of 2021, you had tens of thousands of people peacefully protesting.

0:41.0

So, that's not right, we didn't fear to hear you duck killin' on! It's real!

0:46.0

I'm Rick Wilson, and this is the Enemy's List.

0:50.0

Hi folks, and welcome back to the Enemy's List. I'm your host, Rick Wilson.

0:55.0

Joining me today is a really insightful guy who knows the ins and outs of Trump World and the cases being played out against him.

1:02.0

It's Hugo Lull. He's the Political Investigations reporter for the Guardian, and if you're not following him on Twitter and on Threads, you are making a huge mistake because he knows what's goin' on!

1:14.0

Hugo, welcome to the Enemy's List. Thank you so much for taking the time to join us today!

1:18.0

Thanks for having me.

1:19.0

So, give us the rundown right now, Trump is in a moment of high drama, and the cases are closing it on all sides.

1:28.0

What's your take and what's your feeling on where they are mentally and legally in the course of, as I like to jokingly say, entering the finding out phase?

1:38.0

Well, I think you may yet find out for an indictment number four, maybe even next week, when Form County brings its indictment.

1:46.0

I think Trump's in this position now where every time he has to go into a courtroom to enraint not guilty, it still hits him like it's the first time.

1:56.0

When we were in the courthouse in DC, on Thursday, he had to take two attempts to say his age and to attempt to say his name, and you would have thought by now, with all of the indictments, it would be a little bit more slick in this, but I think those kind of slips are indicative of the fact that it still hits him in a way that is very visceral for him and very real, and he will certainly be very angry coming out of our courthouse.

2:26.0

Afterwards, and when he was on the plane going back to that, that is something I think you would probably have some real insights into.

2:34.0

A lot of the blustering and the ranting and the chest thumping on true social, it really is quite different from the reality of how this is hitting him in an actual real way when the cameras aren't on and when he's not outtruthing.

2:49.0

In private, I think he still gets rocked by these really negative legal developments. We were talking about even before the first indictment, how he has all this bravado and how he likes to project this image that he is defiant in the face of these prosecutors coming after him.

3:09.0

But in private, and then the trips back from rallies, and when he is just with his senior staff on the plane, the reporting that we have is he is much more solemn and much more grim.

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