Trump Confidential

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Trump Confidential

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May 11, 2016

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Jacob Weisberg talks to John McLaughlin about the classified information candidates receive after the convention and how things can change if/when that candidate is Donald Trump.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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May 11, 2016

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A quasi-daily podcast from Slate chronicling Donald Trump's rise to the presidency and his current administration. Journalists Virginia Heffernan and León Krauze talk to reporters, historians, psychiatrists, and other experts to help explain who this man is and why this is happening, right now, in the United States of America.

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My Mom's Voting For Him: Hanna Rosin of Slate's DoubleX Gabfest and NPR's Invisibilia calls her mother to ask why she's voting for Trump. by Slate News
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A Man of His Generation: Jacob Weisberg talks to Stephen Metcalf about his Slate cover story "Donald Trump, Baby Boomer." by Slate News
22 min listen
Brussels, ISIS & Islam: Jacob Weisberg talks to former Islamic extremist Ed Husain about how Trump is perceived within Muslim communities. by Slate News
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Let's Talk To A Shrink: Jacob Weisberg talks to Dr. Ben Michaelis, a clinical psychologist, about narcissistic personality order. by Slate News
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Life on the Trump Trail: Leon Neyfakh guest-hosts and talks to Seth Stevenson about what it's like to write about a candidate who hates you. by Slate News
22 min listen
Is Trump A Racist?: Jacob Weisberg talks to Jamelle Bouie about his latest article "How Trump Happened" by Slate News
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The GOP's Top Trump Buster: Jacob Weisberg talks to Stuart Stevens, Mitt Romney's top political strategist in 2012, about stopping Trump. by Slate News
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Why This Podcast Isn't Neutral: Glenn Greenwald on media neutrality, objectivity, and the history of an opinionated press. by Slate News
32 min listen
What's With The White Working Class?: Slate’s Jacob Weisberg talks to Barbara Ehrenreich about the white working class. by Slate News
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A Campus Outlier: Jacob Weisberg talks to a college student about his support for Donald Trump. by Slate News
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A Public Display of Autoeroticism: Jacob Weisberg talks to Mark Singer, a staff writer at The New Yorker, about his 1997 profile of Donald Trump and whether he's changed in the past 20 years. by Slate News
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Trumpcast University: Jacob Weisberg talks to Helaine Olen about Trump’s wealth seminar, otherwise known as Trump University, and how several of those he scammed are still supporting him. by Slate News
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Moral Larceny...With Flair!: Jacob Weisberg talks to Wayne Barrett about "the first detailed examination of Trump’s business practices to appear in the press." Plus, another round of Donald’s latest tweets. by Slate News
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No Koch Money: Jacob Weisberg talks to Jane Mayer, a staff writer at The New Yorker, about the Koch brothers and whether or not they're serious about supporting Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. by Slate News
18 min listen
A Brief History of the Drumpfs: Jacob Weisberg talks to Gwenda Blair about three generations of the Drumpf family. by Slate News
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I LOVE Women!: Jacob Weisberg talks to Slate's Christina Cauterucci about Trump's core philosophy: misogyny. by Slate News
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A Contested Convention?: Jacob Weisberg talks to Jeff Greenfield about possible GOP scenarios. by Slate News
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Reporting The Future From The Boston Globe: Slate’s Leon Neyfakh talks to Katie Kingsbury, Editor at The Boston Globe, about this weekend’s satirical front page that looks a year into the future at Donald Trump’s presidency. by Slate News
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Slate's Trumpcast Trailer: A roundup of all things Donald Trump. Hosted by Jacob Weisberg. by Slate News
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Trump Confidential: Jacob Weisberg talks to John McLaughlin about the classified information candidates receive after the convention and how things can change if/when that candidate is Donald Trump. by Slate News
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The Pivot: Jacob Weisberg talks to Mark Leibovich about Trump's transition into a more tolerable candidate. by Slate News
22 min listen
America's Berlusconi: Jacob Weisberg talks to Beppe Severgnini about the parallels between Donald Trump and Silvio Berlusconi. by Slate News
21 min listen
When Trump Doesn’t Win: Slate’s Jacob Weisberg talks to EJ Dionne about the results of the Wisconsin primary and why it’s OK for the media to be calling the demise of Trump (again). by Slate News
29 min listen
Negotiation 101: Seth Stevenson guest-hosts and talks to Columbia Business School lecturer Aaron Wallen about negotiation tactics. by Slate News
22 min listen
What to Call Donald Trump: Jacob Weisberg talks to Aaron James about different types of a-holes and where Trump fits in. Plus a sketch about "John Miller." by Slate News
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Here Come the Vichy Republicans: Jacob Weisberg talks to John Podhoretz, Editor at Commentary Magazine, about Vichy Republicans and striking back at Trump’s twitter supporters. by Slate News
20 min listen
Cycles of Panic: Jacob Weisberg talks to McKay Coppins of BuzzFeed News about Mr. Trump's upcoming check up on Dr. Oz, Colin Powell's leaked emails, and why we need to constantly remind ourselves how difficult it will be for Trump to win. by Slate News
24 min listen
Are You Nervous?: Jacob Weisberg talks to Jamelle Bouie to reassure everyone (kind-of) that Donald Trump will never be President. by Slate News
27 min listen
Bernie or Burn It Down (Live from Philadelphia): Jacob Weisberg talks to YahNe Ndgo, a Bernie Sanders supporter now stumping for Jill Stein, about playing the role of a spoiler in this year's election. by Slate News
19 min listen
Dictators’ Favorite Sleazebag: Jacob Weisberg talks to Frank Foer about the history of Paul Manafort, Trump’s political strategist. by Slate News
19 min listen

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What Next: Columbia Cracks Down: Every single thing about this is completely maddening. And none of it had to happen.” by Slate News
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What Next: Biden’s Climate Report Card: We're doing more than ever, and still not nearly enough. by Slate News
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What Next: The Man Who Wrote the Trump Playbook—30 Years Ago.: Republicans these days are ceding popular elections but holding on to power. That strategy is older than you think. by Slate News
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Hear Me Out: Student Protests Can Backfire (Badly): It’s the law of unintended consequences. by Slate News
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A Word: True Life, True Crime: How journalist Tonya Mosley got to know her sister Anita decades after she died. by Slate News
29 min listen
What Next TBD: The Failures of ‘Organic’ Farming: Organic farms try to make their products better for people, but that doesn’t mean better animal welfare. by Slate News
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Well, Now: Living and Loving With OCD (feat. Allison Raskin): And finding humor with it, too. by Slate News
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Slate Money: The Rich People Restaurant Crisis: Slate Money (party of three) discusses restaurant reservation resellers, the ban on non-compete clauses, and Biden’s crackdown on airline junk fees. by Slate News
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Amicus: Democracy Dies at SCOTUS: Justice Alito suggests it’s better for democracy to let Presidents commit crime with impunity. Cool. by Slate News
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What Next TBD: So ... Is TikTok Banned?: Or has the long journey to banning the short-video app just begun? by Slate News
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What Next: How Trump Found His Lawyer: An ex-prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, Todd Blanche left one of the oldest Wall Street law firms to represent the former president. by Slate News
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AMICUS PREVIEW: Abortion Gaslighting is Back at SCOTUS: Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern take you through the arguments in the emergency abortion care case and a look ahead to Trump’s immunity case. by Slate News
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What Next: Columbia Calls the Cops: How student protests have intensified and spread. by Slate News
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Hear Me Out: Third Parties Are Saving Democracy: It’s just that their job isn’t winning (yet). by Slate News
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What Next: Your Right to Protest? Not the Supreme Court’s Problem.: Looks like the highest court will let the wildly conservative Fifth Circuit judges violate the Constitution a bit, as a treat. by Slate News
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What Next: What the WNBA Salary Debate Misses: Caitlin Clark’s $76,000 pay is shocking—but the story is bigger than her. by Slate News
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Well, Now: We Don’t Need to Cure Autism: “If your kid didn’t have autism anymore, they would be a different person. A person that doesn’t exist.” by Slate News
41 min listen
What Next TBD: The Internet Archive Endangered: A non-profit site just digitized Aruba’s history. They could be sued out of existence. by Slate News
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