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Every day Beast columnist David Rothkopf interviewed greater than 100 individuals concerned with the Trump White Home for his new e-book, American Resistance: The Inside Story of How The Deep State Saved the Nation, and in accordance with his sources, it took nearly no time for Trump’s staffers to understand what sort of boss he was.
“All of them stated they realized this both in the course of the transition or within the first few weeks of the administration, they usually all discovered their approach to work round it. Whether or not it was saying, ‘No, Mr. President, that is the legislation,’ or going to the Congress with oversight or utilizing whistleblower provision,” Rothkopf tells New Irregular podcast host Andy Levy on the newest episode.
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“Donald Trump would name up the Secretary of Protection [James] Mattis at night time and say, ‘We’ve gotta strike the North Koreans now,’ and Mattis’ response can be ‘Fascinating thought, Mr. President, possibly we should always discuss it tomorrow’ and different individuals needed to do the identical factor,” he says.
Rothkopf additionally fully skewers the argument that Republicans are higher for the financial system. They’re really dangerous for it, says Rothkopf, who has a ton of proof to again that declare up.
“The enterprise neighborhood helps them as a result of the Republicans lower taxes and lower regulation, which implies that whether or not the pie is larger or smaller, their slice of the pie is larger,” he says.
Additionally on this episode, Defector Media co-owner David Roth joins Andy as co-host and compares Elon Musk (aka Twitter’s new obliterator, er, proprietor) to a substitute trainer who has misplaced management of his class.
Plus! Michael Edison Hayden, investigative reporter and spokesman on the Southern Poverty Legislation Heart, provides the within scoop on the “hard-right, neo-fascist” billionaire takeover of Newsweek.
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