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Skullduggery

Trump’s "Ridiculous Bullshit"

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

42K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

George Papadopoulos, Glenn Greenwald, and Ben Wittes are all a part of this packed episode of Skullduggery. Co-hosts Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman analyze the fallout of the Bill Barr Mueller Report summery even further alongside Wittes, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Then Greenwald joins to talk about journalists from various outlets possibly misleading the public with their coverage of the Russia scandal. Then, excerpts from Isikoff's exclusive one-on-one interview with Papadopoulos from Politics and Prose bookstore in DC in front of a live audience, help paint a clearer picture of what actually did, or didn't happen, to the man who started it all.

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0:00.0

The Democrats have to now decide whether they will continue defrauding the public with

0:08.2

ridiculous bullshit and after three years of lies and smears and slander, the Russia

0:16.4

hoax is finally dead.

0:23.3

So proclaim President Trump in Grand Rapids, Michigan Thursday night as he began what is

0:27.8

likely to be a protracted total exoneration, total vindication tour.

0:33.9

But is that the final verdict on Robert Mueller's nearly two-year investigation?

0:38.7

All we have at this point is Attorney General William Barr's four-page summary of Mueller's

0:43.0

report revealing he found no prosecutable case that anybody in the Trump campaign conspired

0:49.2

or coordinated with the Russians in their interference in the 2016 presidential election.

0:55.5

One that Mueller made no finding one way or another as to whether Trump obstructed justice.

1:02.6

But as always, the devil is in the details and we're now told that much more from Mueller's

1:07.0

more than 300-page report will be shared with the Congress and the public in the next few

1:12.3

weeks.

1:13.5

We'll discuss what to make of the Barr's summary and what's more to come with Ben Wittes

1:17.9

of Brookings and Glenn Greenwald of the Intercept.

1:21.1

And we'll hear some excerpts from my interview with George Papadopoulos, literally the guy

1:25.9

who's conduct triggered the entire investigation on this episode of Skull Duggery.

1:31.6

Because people have got to know whether or not they're President of the Trump, well,

1:41.0

I'm not a crook.

1:42.0

I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage.

1:45.2

My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence

1:50.0

tell me it is not.

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