Stephanie Ruhle: The Trump Family’s Massive Side Hustle
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Hello and welcome to the Bulwark Podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. I'm delighted to welcome back to the show my buddy, MSNOW Senior Business Analyst, host of The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhl. Well, she was or is for just a little while longer the host of The 11th Hour. We're going to be moving on June 15th to a new morning show, Money, Power, Politics, with Stephanie Ruhl airing from 9 to 11 a.m. on weekdays. It's Stephanie Ruhl, of course. How are you doing?
I am great. And there's only one, there's only one, because everything else is excellent, terribly sad part of the new show Money Power Politics. There's only one terrible part.
It is terrible. I know what you're going to say. It airs at the time that I tape this podcast.
Yes.
It's going to be very challenging for us to be on air together, but we're going to try to make it work.
We're going to make it work, especially because the show one day a week is going to have a live studio audience. And if there is one thing that makes Tim Miller light up like a Christmas tree, it's this boy with an audience.
I do need an audience.
I'm aware that you tape at the same time, but I have a feeling we're going to lure you to the Big Apple on those days when there's an audience standing by.
Talk to the producers. Find me a podcast studio in building, and I can pop right over. We'll figure it out. All right, then we're on the case. We'll figure something out. We'll talk offline. Okay. There's a lot of real news. This is real news, too. But there's a lot of news affecting what's happening in our country that you would think we don't start with. But I'm obsessed. And I feel like I absolutely need Stephanie Ruhl's take on this story first. And it is what is happening in Tirana, Albania. I don't know if you've been following this.
Where Ivanka once spotted this beautiful vista while she was on a super yacht. Is that what you're talking about?
Yes. For anybody who has missed it, I want to play for you. Ivanka Trump was doing an interview discussing one of the many issues grips and businesses and entrepreneurial opportunities and daddy's gifts that she is focused on right now. And at the beginning of this, we're going to play Ivanka in this interview, which it feels kind of like a, what was the, what was the guy's name in the hunger games? Who's doing the gay guy doing the, doing the suck up interviews. It feels like one of those.
I'm going to have something to say about that on the other side as well.
So we're going to listen to Ivanka and then in the most veepish fashion possible, after we listen to Ivanka, I'm going to play for you some audio of what the fallout has been of this interview and this attempted conquest. So let's listen.
All right. I'm going to pay attention to Ivanka. Here I go.
unbelievable beautiful 1400 hectare private island in the middle of the mediterranean we were on a friend's boat and we stopped for a swim effectively that's how we found it we swam to the islands we went on a hike barefoot all the way up to the top and we were just captivated and it stayed with us and Ever since, over the course of many years, we developed the opportunity to help realize its potential and transform it. I'm sorry.
Those explosions are the fallout of Ivanka. That is the streets of Tirana. They're so pissed that Ivanka is raping and pillaging their Flamingo Island. And anyway, Steph, what do you think?
But let's just start there. And I want to start with... The problem with the media landscape and Ivanka's announcement, okay? And obviously I'm not dogging on independent media. Here the two, you and I are on your absolutely fantastic podcast.
Thank you.
But the problem is as follows. Because there are so many outlets that just want the opportunity to talk to a person of significance, when a person of influence or significance wants some free PR and wants to just get their message out there, whatever their message is, they never, ever, ever have to sit down with a person who's actually gonna not even take them to the mat, but just ask them critically important questions, right?
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:13–7:08
2
How does Ivanka Trump's island purchase impact Albania?
7:08–23:20
3
What are the implications of Trump's family businesses on American politics?
23:20–30:07
4
How are Democrats failing to connect the dots on Trump's corruption?
30:07–36:12
5
What role does media play in covering political corruption?
36:12–38:51
6
How does the Trump administration influence stock trading regulations?
38:51–59:13
7
What are the consequences of congressional lobbying on public policy?
59:13–1:00:27
Speakers
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