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The Documentary Podcast

The Trumped Republicans

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.32.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Republican insider Ron Christie discovers how Donald Trump's presidency is changing his party. Trump arrived in the White House offering a populist revolt in America, promising to drain what he calls "the swamp that is Washington D.C". So what does his own Republican Party - traditionally a bastion of the nation’s establishment - really make of him? Where is he taking them and what will he leave behind?

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the World Service with me, Ron Christine.

0:07.0

So I'm back, I'm back on Capitol Hill.

0:12.0

This is the place where I spent eight years of So I'm back on Capitol Hill.

0:12.7

This is the place where I spent eight years

0:14.8

of my political career learning the ins and outs of politics.

0:18.7

And what goes on in these buildings

0:20.5

and what goes on in the Capitol building is charting the course of the nation.

0:25.4

I'm a Republican who served in the White House of President George W Bush.

0:29.7

I know the White House inside and out.

0:31.8

I've got a pretty good idea of what's supposed to happen in

0:34.3

there and I, like so many of my fellow Americans, are standing by and watching, in some amazement,

0:41.0

as a revolution, the Trump revolution, takes over the country.

0:45.0

We're to build a wall and who's going to pay for the wall?

0:54.0

We're going to build the wall folks, don't worry about.

0:58.0

When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best.

1:03.6

They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists.

1:10.4

We will make America great again. We will drain the swamp in Washington, D.C.

1:17.0

D.

1:20.0

Drain the swamp in Washington, D.C.

1:22.0

Mr President, that's my town you're talking about.

1:25.0

You know, I have to be clear here.

1:29.0

This Donald Trump disruption stuff feels quite personal to me

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