This Is When Trump’s Staffers Realized He Was Out of Control

The New Abnormal

The Daily Beast

News & Politics

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🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Daily Beast columnist David Rothkopf interviewed over 100 people involved with the Trump White House for his book American Resistance: The Inside Story of How The Deep State Saved the Nation, and according to his sources, it took almost no time for Trump’s staffers to realize what kind of boss he was. He tells New Abnormal host Andy Levy about the ways these staffers had to adapt to Trump’s ineptness as well as obliterating the argument that Republicans are better for the economy (spoiler alert: they’re not and he has proof.) Also on this episode, Defector Media co-owner David Roth joins Andy as co-host and compares Elon Musk (aka Twitter’s new obliterator, er, owner) to a substitute teacher who has lost control of his class and Michael Edison Hayden, investigative reporter at spokesman at the Southern Poverty Law Center, gives the inside scoop on the “hard-right, neo-fascist” billionaire takeover of the publication Newsweek.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Andy Levy, former Fox News and CNN HLN Guy and current cable news conscientious
0:06.4	objector.
0:07.4	I'm a former libertarian who now sits pretty comfortably on the left.
0:10.2	And I'm producer Jesse Kettin, and I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off
0:14.0	the rails.
0:15.0	We're here to have fun, smart conversations with some great guest co-hosts, as well as
0:19.4	some of the most knowledgeable and entertaining people in politics, media, and beyond.
0:24.1	Our goal is to try to make some sense of our current crazy world, our new abnormal, and
0:28.8	hopefully even make you laugh through the tears.
0:31.4	What an excellent show we have today.
0:33.2	First we're going to be joined by David Rothkoff, who's the CEO of TRG Media and the Rothkoff
0:38.1	Group.
0:39.1	And the author of the new book, American Resistance, the inside story of how the deep state saved
0:42.8	the nation.
0:43.8	And he's going to talk to us about why you should trust the Demsmore with the economy.
0:47.0	Then we'll talk to Michael Edison Hayden, senior investigative reporter at Spokesman for
0:50.7	the Southern Poverty Law Center.
0:52.0	And he's going to talk to us about some funny stuff going on over at the magazine News
0:55.6	Week.
0:56.6	First, we have editor of Defector, host of the podcast, It's Christmas Town and the
1:01.2	destruction, David Roth.
1:02.8	A joining me now is my guest co-host for today.
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