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What did we learn from Trump's interview with Farage?

Americano

The Spectator

Politics, News, News Commentary

4714 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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With Dominic Green, Life and Arts editor of Spectator USA.

Presented by Freddy Gray.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics and the Trump presidency.

0:14.6

I would like to remind you all that we have just launched our print edition, and I'd like to encourage you all to subscribe. You can do that by

0:22.4

going to www. spectator.us forward slash subscribe and there you can take advantage of our various

0:30.5

offers. I'm joined today by our life and arts editor, Dominic Green, who is over from Boston

0:35.6

in London and we're going to be talking about

0:39.3

the Donald and the Nigel, the President of America, and Nigel Farage, the leader of the

0:44.6

Brexit party. So, Dom, yesterday, as impeachment proceedings were beginning, as the first

0:50.6

rules of how the impeachment quarry is going to go were passed through the House of Congress.

0:55.2

Donald Trump reacted not by going on a sort of Twitter rampage,

0:58.0

but by doing quite a long telephone interview on Nigel Farage's British LBC radio show.

1:07.3

You listen to it. I listened to it. Give me your thoughts.

1:10.8

Well, at first I was appalled, Freddie, because I'd come over on Brexit duty and was looking

1:15.4

forward to getting away from Trump land for a few days.

1:17.8

And instead, he followed me here.

1:19.3

I thought for a moment I might be hallucinating.

1:21.6

But he really was appearing on the radio in the cab that I was in, talking to Nigel Farage,

1:27.2

not about the impeachment,

1:28.6

really, but about the state of Brexit, the state of Britain and the state of Nigel Farage's

1:33.8

campaign to get his Brexit party into the parliament in the elections in December.

1:40.0

Well, it's interesting. You say that because I've often thought that there is this sort of

1:42.5

strange cosmic magnetism between Trump and Brexit. He seems to just sort of get involved in British

1:48.1

life at all the crucial phases of Brexit. For instance, you know, the day after the vote. He

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