Matt Taibbi
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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You have to retell the whole thing so that they don't have to go looking for another story to find out what this means. Exactly. And one of the subtle little changes that happened to the media business in the last eight years is they stopped doing that. They would tell you... That's fascinating. Right?
They would tell you the thing that happened that day, and they wouldn't tell you all this backstory that you needed to know to really understand... What you were reading. And so, yeah, I think we're going to have the opportunity now to see these things laid out in full and, you know, in hindsight, and that's hopefully going to be able to persuade people who who didn't see it the first time.
But isn't it true?
Even simple things like when, you know, if Anthony Fauci comes out and says, well, masks are important because of X, well, you have to put in the timeline of what he originally said about that. Yes. Or, you know, Joe Biden saying, you know, we have to...
you correct misinformation because they're killing people and you got to point out that they were wrong about things themselves that the the or that the biden administration itself was uh de-amplified uh by by some of these um platforms accidentally but they were right um but yeah they just left out a lot of backstory and we have to get back into the the business of telling people the whole story from the beginning
Okay, so Russiagate. Russiagate, I mean, and that's one of the reasons why the pardon of Adam Schiff is kind of interesting, because he's a central figure of both the J6 committee, but also the Russiagate story. And, you know, he was somebody who was giving interviews saying that preemptive pardons should never be given, but Whatever. Yeah, Russiagate is a thing.
Then there's the whole question of lawfare, right? And the effort to make sure that Biden faced no opposition at all in his reelection campaign. And here I'm not just talking about, you know, Donald Trump and the lawsuit to prevent him from being on the ballot because of the 14th Amendment and all that.
this extends to even to groups like no labels or the green party or dean phillips or marianne williamson or cornell west there was an extraordinary calculated effort to prevent competition now yes that's not necessarily illegal parties can do whatever they want uh internally But it's still fascinating that there had to have been some kind of coordinated campaign.
If there's any communication between the White House, say, and the groups that were suing, you know, no labels or RFK or, you know, issuing challenges, no labels went through this process.
extraordinary incident where somebody created a dummy no-label site and it had a big picture of Donald Trump on it so they would try to associate no labels with Trump and there's a lawsuit going on about it right now. What was the real origin of that? Who financed that whole thing? I think there are a lot of stories about Little tiny dirty tricks that are going to be coming out.
Right. And how is that done? How was the coordination managed with these people? sort of legal action committees that were mass filing suits about everything from, you know, the ballot access issue to, there were clan act suits that were filed against people. I mean, did that have any connection to people who were actually in office?
If it did, you know, then we have another corruption situation involved. But yeah, the larger question of who was managing all this stuff Because it clearly wasn't Joe Biden. Right. Who runs the country? Who runs the country? In a democracy, we have a right to know. Right.
Our mutual friend, Walter Kern, talked about this, saying that this was the first time that we had a president that had a sign on his desk basically that said, the buck does not stop. here, right? We don't know where the buck stopped during this period. And so that's a fascinating question. But the whole wargaming of the last election season, there are a lot of stories.
People don't even remember this. New Hampshire held a primary, right? People went and they voted in the New Hampshire primary. And then the results were canceled and they held a second nominating event on a Saturday night, months later, where a bunch of officials got together and they just decided to allocate the delegates together.
Like, I'd never heard of that before, just canceling an election and just sort of redoing it in a closed meeting. Like, how does that happen? And just turning the spoils over to somebody else? I mean, I think it ended up mostly... having the same result, but for some reason they held the second contest. It's just very strange, you know, why that happened.
So that we got to get into, you know, then there's the whole question of the investigation of the Trump assassination incidents. we heard nothing about that it was the most extraordinary news story that i've ever i mean apart from the disappearing president and the mysterious nomination and covet uh you know presidential candidate and ex-president gets shot
And the story's dead within like 48 hours. And all you read in the news from the FBI, there are these comments saying that they don't have any motive evidence. We've done 100 interviews, but we don't know anything about why this happened or, you know. What was going on there? Do you believe that? I have a very hard time believing that there's nothing interesting.
Right.
Right. It's like your first joint. Your first joint. Yeah. And then the second one, I mean, you know, the Ryan Routh thing, that's not weird at all. Like... I just flew into Florida last night. I don't think I could have gotten gotten my hands on, you know, a Chinese made SKS semi-automatic rifle without help. I mean, I don't know. That's being a little conspiratorial.
So I've talked to some of them, and I've heard a lot of anger about this, that the And I think this is the impetus for these investigations. I think probably the second attempt was the last straw for some of the people on his staff. And it's part of the reason why I think... They're going to be very public about this. It can't come too soon, I really think.
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