A Washington Lobbyist Dishes on the Trump Swamp He Helped Create
This week, we discuss what it’s like operating as a Washington lobbyist in the Donald Trump era. Fortunately, we have a former Trump adviser and longtime Republican operative on the show to take us through the gory details, what it was like working for The Donald, and how President Trump changed and repopulated the “Swamp” that he campaigned to destroy with extreme prejudice.
This week’s guest: Barry Bennett, a former senior adviser to the 2016 Trump campaign and a founder of lobbying firm Avenue Strategies.
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Why Liberals Should Want to Nuke The Filibuster
This week’s guest: Adam Jentleson, Public Affairs Director at Democracy Forward and former Deputy Chief of Staff to former Senator Harry Reid.
This week we discuss the latest policy debates pulling the Democratic Party sharper to its left, how to separate the noise from the actual substance with candidates such as Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren, and lastly, we try to solve the age-old puzzle: How do you make discussions about the costs and benefits of nuking the filibuster sexy??
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Trump Called Tom Brady for His Birthday to Joke that ‘Ivanka Chose Jared’
Today's guest is Jason Miller, a former top Trump campaign adviser, who, among other things, talks about the time when Donald Trump called one of his favorite athletes—New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady—to wish him a happy birthday and to give him a gentle ribbing.
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Here's Some Advice From a Former Trump White House Staffer
On this week’s episode of Omnishambles, host Jackie Kucinich welcomes The Daily Beast’s White House reporter Asawin Suebsaeng, and our very first guest from the upper ranks of Trumpworld: Marc Short, President Donald Trump's former legislative affairs director and a current Miller Center senior fellow at the University of Virginia. On this episode, Marc talks about his experience working in the Trump White House, the advice he would give Republicans and Democrats today caught in the border-wall and immigration standoff, what "the administration should have done from the start," and why he believes Trump's emergency declaration is now all but an inevitability.
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Is This 'The Onion' Or Headlines in the Trump Era?
On this week’s episode of OMNISHAMBLES, host Sam Stein welcomes The Daily Beast’s tech reporter and "Extremely Online" expert Will Sommer and White House and Trumpworld reporter Asawin Suebsaeng to discuss an almost quaint topic: What is truth, even, in the era of Donald Trump?
Will breaks down the online and conservative backlash to the Covington students, and how the immediate, social-media-fueled fury rivaled partisan passions not seen since perhaps the Brett Kavanaugh hearings.
Swin and Sam discuss how when Trumpworld and Rudy Giuliani denounce Michael Cohen as a proven, prolific liar who cannot be trusted, they—well—have a point.
And all three take a much-unneeded jaunt down Memory Lane, to conspiracy theories and racist rumor-mongering of years past, and how it all paved the way for the current era of political and media "post-truth."
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