The Conservative Case Against Trump

Inside the Hive

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🗓️ 18 May 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Donald Trump has always been a blatant liar, making up stories about his worth to how many people were at his inauguration, but do people actually like it when Trump lies to them? Amanda Carpenter, author of a new book, "Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies To Us," joins Nick to talk about why Republicans, and evangelicals, still love Trump, even after all these lies, how Trump actually pulls off these outright deceptions, and why they are only going to get worse in 2020 as Trump does everything possible to try and maintain control of the White House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Inside the Hive. I am your host Nick Bilton. So every week here on
0:07.0	Inside the Hive we bounce around from topics and so on, but we always seem to
0:11.4	have someone on who is a left-leaning anti-Trumper, someone who despises
0:16.9	Donald Trump.
0:18.1	So this week I decided we were going to take a different route.
0:20.5	We're going to have someone on who is a right-leaning Donald Trump
0:24.1	Hater. In fact, we're going to have a never-Trumper on this week. My guest is
0:28.7	Amanda Carpenter. She has a new book out called Gaslighting America,
0:33.0	Why We Love It when Trump lies to us,
0:35.2	although I'm not sure we all love it
0:37.7	when Trump lies to us, including this person right here.
0:41.7	Amanda is a former staffer for two big senators, Jim DeMint and Ted Cruz.
0:47.4	When she was in college, she used to hand out leaflets for none other than homophobic
0:51.5	Mike Pence.
0:52.8	She has written for the Washington Times
0:54.9	and is a contributor on CNN.
0:57.8	She's going to join me today to talk about the book,
0:59.6	talk about why people, especially evangelicals and people on the right, still support Trump even though they know
1:05.7	he's lying or those that don't think he's lying and how Trump goes about actually gaslighting
1:10.9	all of us.
1:11.9	After that, stick around because John Kelly, my editor, not the guy who's running the White
1:16.8	House right now, is going to come on and talk to us about what's going on with Elon Musk,
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