Charles C.W. Cooke

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1,251 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 29 Jul

Charles C.W. Cooke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Megyn Kelly Show · America Begins War With Iran - What it Means for MAGA and More, with Marjorie Taylor Greene, Rich Lowry, Charles Cooke, and Sohrab Ahmari | Ep. 1263 · 2 Mar 2026 podcast

And he's partly being Donald Trump and saying, as he loves to say, that he's not scared, that he's not intimidated, that he will do anything that he wants to do.

Working out which is which with Trump is always quite difficult.

The problem with foreign policy is that it doesn't map particularly neatly onto democracy in the sense that, by definition, a lot of what we do in our foreign policy has to be based on lies, spying, a clandestine collection of information that is not released.

Most of the impetus for this action will never ever be seen, at least not by the midterms or by 2028.

So it's quite hard to calculate politically what the consequences will be there or what the consequences should be there.

I think it's, in a sense, either brave or stupid of Trump to do this right now.

Even George H.W.

Bush waited until after the midterms.

Trump is not.

He's effectively saying, trust me,

last thing is there will be a lot of gamesmanship here megan where people if the republicans do lose say the house which i expect them to and expected them to two weeks ago in november will say ah it's because and then they will insert the thing that they dislike to explain it so you know i don't like tariffs right so i would say why it's because it's obviously because of the tariffs um those who oppose this will say oh it's obviously because of the foray

into iran um i think it's it's a difficult balance but you know when you are the commander in chief you really have to take the politics into account and do your best to shape those politics as i've said i don't think trump's doing a particularly good job but not be subordinate to those politics not be a slave to those politics because there are some things you have to do when you're in office that will be unpopular or at least that will take a lot of work to make popular so but

I'm never as persuaded by the sorts of criticisms, I know you're just passing them on from the internet, rather than making them yourself, that you mentioned there, because that is not leadership.

And you need more leadership than followership in foreign policy than in domestic politics, in my view.

The Megyn Kelly Show · "Second Strike" Narrative Falls Apart, Kash Patel Responds, and How To Be a Man, with Rich Lowry, Charles Cooke, Elliot Ackerman, and Bryan Cox | Ep. 1204 · 2 Dec 2025 podcast

Well, that part's not shocking to me.

I was skeptical of the Washington Post story.

That doesn't mean it's untrue, but I have been and remain skeptical of it, having lived through now 10 years of stories relating to Donald Trump.

The way in which the anonymous sources were...

used a scaffolding to build what, as Rich said, looks a bit like a movie scene, made me skeptical.

And then when the New York Times story came out, which is against the interests of the New York Times' editorial bent, I became even more skeptical.

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