The Purest Boy Scout

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The Purest Boy Scout

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May 19, 2017

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Jacob Weisberg is joined by WIRED Magazine writer Garrett Graff to discuss his recent cover story for Politico, "What Donald Trump Needs to Know About Bob Mueller and Jim Comey."Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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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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A Contested Convention?: Jacob Weisberg talks to Jeff Greenfield about possible GOP scenarios. 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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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
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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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Negotiation 101: Seth Stevenson guest-hosts and talks to Columbia Business School lecturer Aaron Wallen about negotiation tactics. by Slate News
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Is Trump A Racist?: Jacob Weisberg talks to Jamelle Bouie about his latest article "How Trump Happened" by Slate News
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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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The Paul Ryan School of Contortion: Jacob Weisberg talks to Bret Stephens of The Wall St. Journal about the mental gymnastics Paul Ryan is performing around Donald Trump. by Slate News
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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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America's Berlusconi: Jacob Weisberg talks to Beppe Severgnini about the parallels between Donald Trump and Silvio Berlusconi. 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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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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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
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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
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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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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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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
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Dictators’ Favorite Sleazebag: Jacob Weisberg talks to Frank Foer about the history of Paul Manafort, Trump’s political strategist. 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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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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Don’t Call Him a Fascist: Jacob Weisberg talks to Professor Stanley Payne about why we should reconsider calling Trump a fascist. by Slate News
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The "TP" Ticket: Jacob Weisberg talks to Ezra Klein about Donald Trump's VP pick, Governor Mike Pence. by Slate News
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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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The Pivot: Jacob Weisberg talks to Mark Leibovich about Trump's transition into a more tolerable candidate. 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 Other Side of His Wall: Jacob Weisberg talks to Enrique Krauze about how Trump is destroying decades of progress in Mexican-American relations. by Slate News
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The Johnald: Jacob Weisberg talks to John Di Domenico, our voice of Donald Trump about life as a Trump impersonator. by Slate News
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