Trump's Last Stand Part I: Where It Starts

Axios Re:Cap

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🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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In part one of How It Happened: Trump's Last Stand, Axios political correspondent Jonathan Swan draws a direct line from President Trump's Election Night speech, in which he falsely declared victory, to the insurrection on the Capitol on January 6. But, but, but: The story really starts in early October, as Trump is recovering from COVID-19 and struggling to turn around a flailing campaign. New episodes out each Monday. In the meantime, subscribe to our daily news shows, Axios Today and Axios Re:Cap. Credits: This show is produced by Amy Pedulla, Naomi Shavin and Alice Wilder. Dan Bobkoff is the executive producer. Additional reporting and fact checking by Zach Basu. Margaret Talev is managing editor of politics. Sara Kehaulani Goo is Axios’s executive editor. Sound design by Alex Sugiura and theme music by Michael Hanf.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dan Pramak, host of Axios Recap. Today we're sharing the first episode of a brand new
0:06.8	Axios podcast. It's called How It Happened, and our initial series features Axios political correspondent
0:13.1	Jonathan Swan's exclusive reporting on the final month of the Trump administration. I hope you like it.
0:19.2	And if you do, please be sure to take a moment and
0:21.6	subscribe to how it happened on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts so that you don't miss
0:27.2	the next episode. And I'll see you back here tomorrow on Axios Recap. Now here, Swan.
0:33.1	So I've covered Donald Trump since 2015. You know, I started covering him during his campaign and followed him through to the White
0:40.8	House and have covered him for the last four years.
0:44.7	And I fully intended on transitioning over to cover Joe Biden's presidency, which I'm going
0:50.1	to be doing at some point.
0:52.6	But this period of transition was so insane and so
0:59.6	consequential that it just sucked me back in.
1:03.2	You'll never take back our country with weakness.
1:09.0	And breaking news tonight, the deadly siege on Congress as an angry pro-Trump mob storms.
1:14.7	I'm Jonathan Swan.
1:15.9	For this series, I talked to a range of senior West Wing officials,
1:20.9	senior administration officials, senior campaign officials,
1:24.8	and close personal advisors to the president.
1:27.2	I talked to them on the basis of deep
1:29.0	background, many I could use the information, but not say where it came from. The scenes that you'll
1:35.0	hear about in this series are fly on the wall. They're described with dates, names, who's in the room,
1:43.7	who sat where.
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