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Liberal Brit Ian Dunt joins The New Irregular to speak about the way it’s going for Jeffrey Epstein’s previous good friend Prince Andrew or, as co-host Molly Jong-Quick calls him, the alleged “space intercourse trafficker.”
Spoiler: It’s not going properly!
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“He’s basically persona non grata within the royal household, and you understand, the royal household survives as a result of—it could seem like this kind of a constitutional construction made solely of cobwebs, however in reality it’s acquired a very sort of canny PR operation behind it,” says Dunt. “And so they know when to chop their losses. It’s a household, sort of, but it surely’s not a household like some other sort of household. And whenever you acquired a nasty (one) in there, you might be gonna minimize your losses and that is just about what they’ve accomplished.”
The no-longer Royal Highness could not have common individuals cash worries, says Dunt, however “perhaps extra of a wrestle is the whole reputational collapse that he’s skilled over this era. And that goes fairly deep. I imply, it’s extra even than the ethical outrage, it’s additionally that he's now a really common determine of mockery. In the event you noticed the interview the place he mentioned that he was incapable of bodily sweating, that has by no means gone away. Just about anytime anybody in dialog mentions the topic of sweat… that's the joke that can comply with.”
Plus, Dunt tells Individuals what Boris Johnson’s associates name him (it isn’t Boris), co-host Andy Levy considers the civil case in opposition to the Trumps and lets the world know that, identical to Letitia James, he gained’t be working for governor of New York, and New York Occasions reporter Peter S. Goodman discusses his wild new e book, Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World.
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