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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The Rest Is Politics · 552. Trump's Red Card Saga and Germany's Far-Right Machine · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

We have a live audience, which always holds a politician's feet to the fire in a way that even journalists cannot.

And so we thought, let's have him on at TED.

And he agreed to come on.

he was actually a last minute change because the previous guest from the AFD, Markus Fronemeyer, had just come back from Russia and had got into a controversy in Germany as being too close to Putin.

And he pulled out of our show.

And then Maximilian Kry agreed to join our show.

Kry is an interesting character because he's part of what is basically a neo-fascist party.

But he has a smile.

He has a charm.

He has a sense of humor.

Yes, very stylish.

Says, I have Muslim friends.

I love the Turks.

In that way, very Trumpian.

In fact, he's been described and has described himself as Germany's Trump.

He's not the leader of the party.

That's Alice Weidel, who is a very interesting person herself.

She's a lesbian co-leader whose partner is Sri Lankan.

And again, they wheel out her partner to say, we can't be racist.

Our leader's

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