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Trump’s Contributions to the Fixer Economy

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4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to Michael Rothfeld, New York Times reporter and co-author of The Fixers, about the special cadre of supporters and enablers that allowed Trump to rise to power. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

History will not be kind to Donald Trump.

0:03.0

I think we all know that.

0:05.0

Not because it will be written by never-Trumpers,

0:08.0

but because whenever we have departed

0:10.0

from the values of our nation, we have come to regret it,

0:14.0

and that regret is written all over the pages of our history.

0:17.0

I do think overall there is a corruption issue.

0:22.0

In Ukraine, we have pointed this out for years.

0:26.0

The library is an abuse of power.

0:28.0

The president has obstructed this process.

0:30.0

He tried to cheat. He got caught.

0:32.0

And he worked hard to cover it up.

0:35.0

And I think history will haunt any of my colleagues

0:38.0

particularly on the Republican side who vote to acquit.

0:44.0

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. I'm Virginia Heffron.

0:46.0

And I want to give one cheer.

0:49.0

I know I'm alone with this, but one cheer for the Iowa caucus

0:52.0

or half a cheer.

0:54.0

That's because there really is excitement

0:57.0

in the spectacle of people showing up in physical space

1:00.0

to mill around and talk and try to get delegates

1:03.0

for their candidates.

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