Jonathan Swan

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222 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 19 Jul

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The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 198. How Trump’s Imperial Presidency Really Works · 19 Jul 2026 podcast

I think we need to be asking sharp, serious follow up questions and being journalists and reporters.

And that's the way I view it.

I didn't give him any lectures or speeches during that interview.

There's no question.

It was both...

very emotionally traumatic as we show um you know for the inner circle but someone like stephen miller immediately saw that this was an opening to crush the left to use the justice department to investigate progressive groups you saw jd vance start talking about the ford foundation you know which has no link whatsoever to this young disturbed

guy who killed apparently killed charlie kirk and this is what always happens uh when you see some kind of you know the the most common example is is immigrant crime of course when there's a murder or something by an illegal immigrant that's the opening for stephen miller to say we need to send in troops to this city or that city or what have you

Yeah, absolutely.

And we document that in the book.

It hasn't actually gone anywhere, interestingly, so far, evidently.

It's possible there's stuff going on behind the scenes that we're not aware of, but it sort of seemed to peter out.

But at that moment, it looked like they were going to try to dismantle

the infrastructure of the left.

We've seen a little bit with the Southern Poverty Law Center investigations into there.

They would like to break apart the left's financial infrastructure, use the DOJ to do that.

So we could see more of that this year, but that was a real moment for the opportunists in that sense.

And one of his aides said the operation has made it even better.

basically the subtext, Iran, the war was very good for engagement online.

They were putting out lots of these videos of the strikes cut to music and video games.

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