Trump hosts white supremacist

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Republican officials remain largely publicly silent after Trump posted and dined with two antisemites at Mar-a-Lago. Top House Republican Rep. James Comer joins to discuss why Republicans do not speak out about Trump’s actions more often. Plus, Dr. Fauci joins to discuss the protests in China as its citizens fight against new Covid-19 restrictions. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The sound of silence the lead starts right now Republican officials largely publicly silent
0:11.5	after Trump hosted and dined with two notorious anti-Semites at Mar-a-Lago Trump so far has
0:17.3	not publicly condemned either man's bigoted views Alaska Top House Republican about the
0:22.2	actions of the party's defacto leader and more as the GOP readies a host of new investigations
0:29.3	mass defiance against the Chinese government protests not seen on this scale since 1989's
0:34.7	Tiananmen Square demonstrations against new COVID restrictions in China will have a report live
0:40.6	from Beijing and will talk to Dr Anthony Fauci about China's overly restrictive rules and
0:46.7	a deadly act of online catfishing involving a former state trooper a teenage girl who was horribly
0:53.8	duped and a deadly ender. Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper nearly one week after Donald
1:04.0	Trump dined at Mar-a-Lago with openly anti-Semitic Holocaust denier and white nationalist Nick Frantes
1:11.0	along with another anti-Semite rapper Kanye West also known as Yeh not only has Mr. Trump not
1:16.9	publicly condemned Frantes or his sick ideology or Yeh's the number of Republican officials
1:23.7	willing to publicly criticize Frantes by name or Trump for meeting and helping to mainstream him
1:31.0	remains shall we say rather small I reached out to the offices of a few top Republican congressional
1:36.6	leaders today none none offered comment a few Republicans have publicly condemned Trump's actions
1:42.7	Congress members Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger senators Bill Cassidy and Susan Collins among them
1:49.3	but Trump is the only declared Republican 2024 presidential candidate and he remains the
1:54.1	presidential frontrunner for his party and only a couple possible 2024 rivals have criticized Trump's
1:59.8	move former New Jersey governor Chris Christie and this man Arkansas governor Aza Hutchinson.
2:08.2	We need to avoid those kinds of empowering the extremes and when you meet with people you
2:13.6	empower and that's what you have to avoid you want to diminish their strength not empower them
2:21.0	Frantes is certainly at the extremes in addition to spewing racist sexist garbage
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