Trump ally Dan Crenshaw: Europe needs to boost its defense or 'shut up'
Power Play
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🗓️ 27 February 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | As the Trump administration gets resettled in the White House, it's flanked by a |
| 0:10.1 | supportive cast of figures espousing a new era in Republican politics. That includes members |
| 0:16.0 | of Congress, podcasters, thinkers and financial backers, redefining what defines US conservatism. |
| 0:24.6 | Isn't you interconnected network on the radical right, now making waves across the pond too? |
| 0:36.3 | Welcome to PowerPlay Politico's weekly podcast, where I talk to some of the voices, |
| 0:41.7 | shaping transatlantic thinking in the Trump era. |
| 0:45.4 | I'm Anne McHelvoy, if you haven't already. |
| 0:47.5 | Please follow this podcast week to week so you don't miss out on someone you might really like to hear from. |
| 0:53.3 | And with me is Dan Crenshaw, |
| 0:55.4 | congressman who represents the second congressional district in Texas. I've come to the ARC, |
| 1:01.1 | ARC, Arch Conference, the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship here in London. It's a gathering of |
| 1:07.2 | thinkers on the right intending to challenge many liberal default positions. Crenshaw has been |
| 1:13.0 | a prominent supporter of President Trump from arguments about lockdowns to transgender rights and |
| 1:18.5 | their limits, and he has a podcast, Hold These Truths. He's also a former Navy SEAL, serving in Iraq |
| 1:25.5 | and Afghanistan, where he lost an eye to a bomb blast in |
| 1:29.4 | the Hellman province. Dan Crenshaw, welcome to PowerPlay. Thanks for having me. There is a bit of a |
| 1:35.6 | sense, and I think we've seen it as Donald Trump has got into his role again back in the White House, |
| 1:42.1 | that there is different intent and speed to take the Donald Trump |
| 1:47.8 | worldview, bring it very strongly, bring it to Europe, bring it sometimes others quite aggressively |
| 1:52.5 | and frontfully to Europe. Is that what you were witnessing? You'll hear me in London, but we've had |
| 1:58.2 | a clash of J.D. Vance and others with European |
| 2:01.4 | leaders at the Munich Security Conference. What do you make of that? Look, Trump is a very large |
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