Podcast: How'd We Get Here?

Assessing the Trump presidency from a conservative Christian perspective.

Can You Compartmentalize Character?

How'd We Get Here?
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Can You Compartmentalize Character?
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Show notes:

I give a brief overview of Donald Trump’s career as an adult up to early 2011, stopping here and there to give telling examples from his personal, business and political life. Here are links to the sources I mention in the episode:

“The Trumpiest Thing Trump Has Done This Week” by Jennifer Rubin, March 15, 2018, The Washington Post.

“Here Comes the GOP Bloodbath” by Erick Erickson, May 19, 2017, The Washington Post.

“Transcript of Mitt Romney’s Speech on Donald Trump” March 3, 2016, The New York Times.

“The Trump Taj Mahal Casino Sold for Four Cents on the Dollar–Here’s How Trump Bankrupted It Twice” by Linette Lopez, May 10, 2017, Business Insider.

“Trump’s Casino Was a Money Laundering Concern Shortly After It Opened” by Jose Pugliery, CNN Investigates, May 22, 2017, CNN Politics.

(Note that I mentioned The Atlantic as the source for the article I was planning to post; these two are more thorough.)

Two books mentioned in passing (both are Amazon Affiliate links):

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff, 2018.

Trump Revealed: The Definitive Biography of the 45th President by Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher, 2017.

And, finally, the clip from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner:

 

First Intimations of Disaster

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This episode is the first in a series of perhaps 6-8 segments giving an overview of the 2016 election by a conservative Christian who is decidedly non-political and a non-pundit. It will pull together at least some of the threads that have led us to the Trump Presidency. Today I’m explaining how I came to the decision to vote for Donald Trump’s opponent, quoting along the way from some excellent sources, including the most excellent one of all, the Bible.

Sources quoted include:

“Why this election makes me hate the word ‘evangelical’” by Russell Moore, The Washington Post, February 29, 2016.

“I’m Endorsing Hillary Clinton, the Devil We Know” by P. J. O’Rourke, Daily Beast, May 11, 2016.

“5 Most Sickening Parts of Trump’s Meeting with Evangelical Leaders” by Rebecca Cusey, The Federalist, June 23, 2016.

“Trump Is Not Hitler–He’s Marion Barry” by Rebecca Cusey, The Federalist, July 1, 2016.

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