What Mika Brzezinski Did When She Read Trump’s ‘Bleeding Facelift’ Tweet

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🗓️ 13 April 2021

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Trump’s tweet about Mika Brzezinski “bleeding badly from a face-lift” originated from a conversation between her and the former first couple in their bedroom. Really. In this episode of The New Abnormal, the Morning Joe co-host gives her hilarious retelling of the events that led up to this infamous tweet, and exactly how she responded when she found out about it: “I'm talking to Melania about it, woman to woman, then Donald came up and said, you know, Melania has had no work done. She's perfect. I'm like, ‘that's great.’” Then! The National’s Elie Mystal breaks down the Derek Chauvin trial and why it’s unlike any other cop murder trial he’s ever seen. Plus! Why are Matt Gaetz’s Republican enablers just as skeezy?

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0:00.0	Hi I'm Molly John Fast and welcome to the Daily Beast's Venue Abnormal. I'm
0:05.7	a left-wing pendant and an editor at large at the Daily Beast. We're here to
0:10.5	have fun, sharp conversations with some of the smartest people in media,
0:15.6	politics, and science that help make what's happening in the country and the
0:20.2	world clearer. Our world has been turned upside down. On the new abnormal we'll
0:26.0	talk about the people who got us into this mess and figure out how we get
0:30.4	ourselves out of it. And I'm producer Jesse Cannon and I'm here to make sure
0:34.1	everything doesn't go too far off the rails while we have fun discussions about
0:38.5	our world gone mad. And why take that duty seriously? Ourself's not so much.
0:43.9	On today's episode we have the one and only Mika Bersinski, co-host of Morning
0:48.3	Joe, an author of the Know Your Value series. She's gonna tell us one hell of a
0:52.5	story about her time interacting with Trump throughout his presidency that you
0:56.4	won't want to miss. But first today we have one of Mali and I's favorite people to
1:00.1	talk to. Justice correspondent at the nation Ellie Mistal. Who's gonna talk to us
1:05.1	all about the fuckery happening right now. Welcome Ellie Mistal back to the new
1:11.1	abnormal. Thank you so much for having me. You are like a favorite guest. In fact
1:15.4	I think every week I'm like can we just have Ellie on? The fact check says
1:19.9	true yes. And Jesse's like we can't just have him on every week. But he knows so
1:26.9	much stuff. But all the stuff I know about is horrible stuff. Well that may be a
1:33.5	function of what's happening right? And not you. Can we talk about the show
1:38.7	in trial? Yeah I mean I guess we have to. We're being re-traumatized by this
1:43.2	mess every day for four weeks now. I think of you as an expert on among other
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