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When Trump Trolls Give Up The War

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to David Weissman, once a hardcore self-described Trump troll, about his story -- how he first came into conservative writing and became involved in “Trump train” social media and group DMs, his interventions with media figures like Sarah Silverman, changing his viewpoints, and strategies to make yourself safe from Internet trolls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I raise for life for my best friend who we lost to so I

0:04.0

Race for life for my mom who was diagnosed with bowel cancer. I

0:07.9

Rays for life from a dad who's living with prostate cancer. I raise for life for everyone. Please in cancer

0:16.4

Who will you race for?

0:19.0

Sign up to your local event at raceforlife.org

0:23.2

And together we will be cancer

0:27.0

Impong the sheet with headlines sponsor standard life. I doubt I'd be here of a war on for social media to be honest with you because

0:33.2

There is a fake media that I get treated very unfairly by the media and I have a tremendous platform

0:38.6

I think I have 125 million people

0:42.1

Between Twitter and Instagram and all of them and Facebook. I have a tremendous platform

0:48.4

So when somebody says something about me, I'm able to go being being being and I take care of it the other way

0:54.0

I'd never be able to get the word

0:57.4

We've spoken to historians and Trump biographers who say the immediacy of Twitter is

1:02.8

Intoxicating for Donald Trump and they're worried that the extent to which he is now turning to the social media feed is getting unhealthy

1:11.0

How do you interpret this man blocking a 16 year old husband? I thought it was weird to have him block someone

1:18.8

Hello and welcome to Trump cast I'm Virginia Heffernan. Okay until all of this is over

1:28.7

When will that day come I will continue to be preoccupied with people like Michael Cohen who leave

1:35.4

Trumpism and I'm also interested in people like Max Boot Michael Bloomberg and James Comey who merely leave the Republican Party

1:43.5

Because of what Trump did to it or also leave it because of what Trump brought to the surface

1:49.9

About the party which they now own had been there all along

1:53.3

That was what Max Boot told us in the last episode

1:56.8

I remember hearing on the first season of Slow Burn the one about Watergate about how agonizing it was for Republicans to turn on Nixon

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