Princeton political history Professor and CNN Commentator Julian Zelizer returns to the Dworkin Report to discuss his book, Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party (affiliate link) about former House Republican Speaker Newt Gingrich and the modern Republican party. Professor Zelizer tells us how Gingrich’s rise to …
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Fmr. Melania advisor reveals the Trump family profited off of 2017 Inaugural Committee
Scott interviews Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who served as executive producer and adviser to the Inaugural Committee for Donald Trump, as well as an advisor to Melania Trump in this first part of a multi-part interview. Winston Wolkoff authored the revelatory NY Times #1 best-selling book: Melania and Me (affiliate link) , an intimate look at her now broken relationship …
Read More »Top Georgia journalist warns about Herschel Walker’s political assets
Award-winning journalist and author Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution joined our show to talk about what lessons can be learned from the 2020 special elections in Georgia and shared wisdom about Herschel Walker’s campaign. We discussed his excellent book, Flipped: How Georgia Turned Purple and Broke the Monopoly on Republican Power (affiliate link) . Greg takes readers through …
Read More »Inside Trump’s willful dereliction of duty on Jan. 6th with Philip Rucker
Scott interviews Philip Rucker, co-author of the New York Times bestselling book “I Alone Can Fix It: Donald Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year” (affiliate link) with his Washington Post colleague, Carol Leonnig, which details the ex-president’s willful dereliction of duty. Their book opens at the very beginning of 2020 when the COVID pandemic arrives, carries through the January 6, 2021 …
Read More »Michael Cohen can’t hide his disgust at new Manhattan DA’s failure to prosecute Trump
Scott interviews former Trump fixer Michael Cohen, who knows Trump’s playbook better than anybody, and tells us if he believes “the Don” will ever be convicted for any of his crimes after the Manhattan DA dropped the ball and what approach he thinks law enforcement would have to take to get it done. Michael’s New York Times bestselling book is …
Read More »Michael Cohen just explained how Trump set up a GOP Congressman seeking a pardon
Scott interviews friend and former political opponent, Michael Cohen in part one of this two-part interview. He provided key insight into the unsavory way that the disgraced ex-president handled one of his key House Republican allies at the end of his term, soon after inciting an insurrection against the United State Capitol. As the former personal attorney for Donald …
Read More »Lev Parnas just revealed how Ron DeSantis got Trump’s endorsement and the Florida governorship
Scott and Grant interview Lev Parnas, who became well-known for his leading role in the former President’s efforts to pressure Ukraine to launch an investigation into political rival Joe Biden which led to the first of two impeachments against the disgraced former Commander-in-Chief. This is part one of a two-part interview with Parnas recorded on August 5th, 2021. In …
Read More »Author reveals how Peter Thiel helped Trump cut a deal with Facebook to evade fact checking
Scott talks with author and journalist Max Chafkin, who is a features editor and a tech reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek. Max is the author of “The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power” (affiliate link), which is a biography about the enigmatic, controversial, and hugely influential power broker Peter Thiel who sits at the dynamic intersection of …
Read More »Reporter reveals Facebook paid Eastern European troll farms and the sinister secrets behind its algorithm
Scott speaks with Karen Hao the senior Artificial Intelligence editor for MIT Technology Review whose groundbreaking work looking into Facebook just got validated in a massive way this week by whistleblower Francis Haugen’s testimony to the U.S. Senate. Hao holds a mechanical engineering degree from MIT, which she took to outlets like Mother Jones and Quartz where she honed …
Read More »Reality Winner’s mom calls on President Biden to grant her daughter clemency
Scott speaks with Billie Jean Winner-Davis, whose daughter Reality spent years in federal prison for revealing Russia’s cyberattack on America’s elections in 2016. Reality’s mom shared some of her frustrations, several of her hopes, shots of her wisdom, and situations she personally experienced through years marked by the most unexpected events, and recently punctuated by her reunion with her daughter. …
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