Tom Nichols
speaker
2,378 appearances
19 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 19 May
Tom Nichols’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Who was I?
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How was I going to end up in the White House?
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You know, unless with these folks.
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And I think that's part of the secret here of how Trump maintains his hold, because without him, they're nothing.
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Well, not a lawyer, but again, Lindsay Halligan, right?
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Now, if you were someone else with her background-
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You might say, listen, I'm in the middle of my career.
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If I become a federal prosecutor not knowing what I'm doing, I could look like a fool.
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I could end up messing up my career.
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I could mess up my life.
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Trump's people don't do that.
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You know, U.S.
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attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia?
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Sure, sign me up.
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The problem is that everybody they're working with, and this is something I brought up the first time when Trump was elected in 2016, everybody these people have to work with are professionals who do know what they're doing.
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And while it may sound cool to say, well, yesterday I was hawking pills on Fox and now I'm a cabinet member.
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In the end, you actually have to do stuff and you have to be reasonably competent at it.
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And it sounds like, again, speaking without being a lawyer, it sounds like she just didn't know what she was doing and that there's a whole bunch of process fouls.
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In this whole business.
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But, you know, that's not a surprise because she wasn't chosen because she's a good lawyer.
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