Mary Trump, Brandy Zadrozny & Emma Janssen

**Molly Jong-Fast** (0:00)
Hi, I'm Molly Jong-Fast, and this is Fast Politics, where we discuss the top political headlines with some of today's best minds. And Alex Jones says it's time to impeach Trump and, quote, Trump literally sounds like an unhinged super villain from a Marvel comic movie. This is not what I voted for. We have such a great show for you today, The Mary Trump Show, as Mary Trump stops by to talk about her uncle's decline. Then we'll talk to Msnow's Brandy Zadrozny about the disinformation campaign that is affecting the midterms. Plus, as a bonus, we have The New Republic's Emma Janssen, and she's going to talk to us about The New Republic's first newsletter, The Blue Book, but first the news.

**Jesse Cannon** (0:49)
So, Molly, Dr. Fauci, one of the Republicans' great, great, great villains, he really just said, hey, you all want clips for Hennedy today? I ain't giving them to you.

**Molly Jong-Fast** (1:02)
Yeah. He did the thing that my grandfather did, and a lot of people did. Actually, my grandfather, he mostly talked because he loves to talk. He loved to talk. He's been dead for a long time. But not Anthony Fauci. Anthony Fauci took the fifth.
Look, Rand Paul decided that he wanted to have this insane hearing with Anthony Fauci about COVID. Why did he do this? Because he thinks the base wants this. The reality is, that's not what's happening here. The base doesn't want it. They do not remember this, and also more importantly, it's years and years ago. Fauci hasn't even been in the government in a couple of years.
This is just like pure theater, and the theater is over. I mean, it's just really so stupid, and good for Dr. Fauci for not giving them anything, just taken the fifth, could not get out of there fast enough. I saw Laura Ingraham, all she had to talk about was that he couldn't get out of there fast enough, and to which I say, good for him.

**Jesse Cannon** (2:09)
I think it's funny that Trump is saying that it's okay that Biden pardoned him, because part Trump loves pardons so much. This is like the one time he's ever been ethical in his life. So funny. He's like, oh yeah, we gotta love the pardons people, we love them.

**Molly Jong-Fast** (2:26)
By the way, when Democrats went back power, no more pardons team, no more presidential pardons. This is the scammiest thing, almost the scammiest thing we have to talk about, but not quite.

**Brandy Zadrozny** (2:40)
Jesse Cannon.

**Jesse Cannon** (2:41)
It's probably running about 10th place with the way they're running things these days. Anyway, okay.

**Molly Jong-Fast** (2:46)
But we have a scam we're about to talk about too, right?

**Jesse Cannon** (2:49)
That's true because it's just mind blowing.

**Brandy Zadrozny** (2:52)
I don't wanna talk about this.

**Molly Jong-Fast** (2:53)
It's getting me so upset.

**Jesse Cannon** (2:55)
Ken Martin. I feel like we're now about to have the trickle of every day we're gonna find out that like Scooby Doo like blunders just occurred so bad. All through the DNC. And this is who we're still letting run this. This is who Democratic officials are, elected officials are still not calling forward to resign. Here's the headline. DNC lost tens of thousands to scammer pretending to be Ken Martin. What the fuck?

**Molly Jong-Fast** (3:19)
I don't know what happened here, team, but $28,000 DNC senior campaign finance analyst wrote, they got scammed. Okay, this is some really great reporting from Notives, which is a new outlet, which it's just so stupid. I mean, these guys, like, what are we doing here? Like, this is, I mean, the leadership needs a real overhaul at the DNC. But more than that, we need like, they got scammed by an email from someone pretending to be chair Ken Martin last year. So, you know, those emails that are like, I've lost my phone and I've need you to give me your bank account. Well, the DNC did that. And that is why you should give directly to candidates.

**Jesse Cannon** (4:07)
Yep. Unfortunately, Ken Martin was hanging out with a Saudi prince who needed money.

**Molly Jong-Fast** (4:12)
It's real bad. It is real, real bad.

**Jesse Cannon** (4:15)
So we have a leaked memo from the Republicans and Mike Johnson that apparently the scare tactic of saying socialist is not working very well anymore since, as we keep seeing in polls, socialism is becoming more and more popular.
So now they have to say the bookie man, communists. And, you know, I should say this doesn't seem like that new strategy. Like they've been doing this literally since 2012