Mehdi Hasan

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4,624 appearances 9 recordings 7 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 9 Jul

Mehdi Hasan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 9 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 3.

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They don't just deny the claims.

They don't deny he's lying.

They don't deny he's corrupt.

They say...

That's who Donald Trump is.

And that's why we voted for him, to shake things up.

He's a businessman.

That's the kind of nonsense defenses they offer.

The good news is that's not transferable.

I don't think J.D.

Vance or Marco Rubio will get the similar pass.

I think it's sui generis to Trump.

I held onto that for about three years, Alistair.

I had that as a hygiene test when I was a host at MSNBC.

I told my team, we're not going to book any Republican who's an election denier, which means you basically can't book Republicans.

Right.

Because they're all election deniers now.

The few who were not have been cleared out from the party.

Donald Trump reasserted his control.

Maybe if Ron DeSantis or someone else, Nikki Haley, had won the primary in 2024, they might have been able to move on from it.

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