Trump’s Money Laundromat w. Leigh McGowan

**Erin Gloria Ryan** (0:07)
Hello, and welcome to Hysteria, I'm Erin Ryan. And this week, we are welcoming Leigh McGowan to the show. We're so excited you're here, Leigh. You may know Leigh as the host of the Politics Girl Podcast, or I am Politics Girl on social media, or as the hilarious lady behind the headline, CNN panelists can't hide her contempt for Scott Jennings.

**Leigh McGowan** (0:28)
I mean, can any of us really?

**Erin Gloria Ryan** (0:31)
Welcome, Leigh. We're so glad you're here. Okay, Leigh, this week among the right-wing conniption fit over John Ossoff's room temperature reference to Natalie Harp, it was revealed that Harp was so obsessed with President Trump, she once rode in the trunk of an SUV so she could accompany him to court. What's the most humiliating thing that you've ever done for a guy who didn't like you as much as you like him?

**Leigh McGowan** (0:52)
Oh God, are you serious? Did you hear that Natalie also slept in the locker room of Bette Midster because they couldn't find her a room? Yes. So she lived there for a while.

**Erin Gloria Ryan** (1:01)
But I'm questioning the physics of that. What did she sleep on one of those little benches?

**Leigh McGowan** (1:07)
Yeah, like the bench.

**Erin Gloria Ryan** (1:08)
Cuffin style?

**Leigh McGowan** (1:09)
Maybe she did. Maybe she hung upside down.

**Erin Gloria Ryan** (1:11)
Yeah?

**Leigh McGowan** (1:11)
Yeah. I mean, who knows? But this woman is obsessed. I think the thing is that, like you said, the very lukewarm comment from John Ossoff, he would rather travel with Natalie and everyone's like, outrageous! Scott himself did his podcast yesterday that was like, why I am so outraged.

**Erin Gloria Ryan** (1:28)
He's a feminist. Feminist icon, Scott Jennings.

**Leigh McGowan** (1:30)
A feminist icon that keeps blowing by the Epstein files. Like, this is bananas. And I think we should know what's going on with, you know, a woman who stays four feet from Donald Trump at all times and was chosen among all people above our secretary of state to travel on the plane that wasn't going to get blown up, you know, that is something we really should know.

**Erin Gloria Ryan** (1:49)
I just want to know, where's Melania? Where is she?

**Leigh McGowan** (1:52)
As far away as she possibly can be. Let's be honest, Melania wants nothing to do with it. She loves Natalie. She's very happy Natalie is doing her job and Melania can be off doing her thing. Yeah.

**Erin Gloria Ryan** (2:02)
Natalie Harper is her human shield.

**Leigh McGowan** (2:04)
Yep. Absolutely. She's thrilled.

**Erin Gloria Ryan** (2:06)
Today, we're diving into Trump's personal lawyer, aka Attorney General, Todd Blanche's corrupt first weeks in his new post, the administration's blatant denial of the chaos unfolding on the USS Abraham Lincoln, Trump's scheme to take over the US banking system. Great. And the new data centers popping up all over the country. Then we're going to talk about a surprising new discourse of family estrangements. Finally, we'll wrap up with Sandy Putty.
And welcome back, you're listening to Hysteria, the podcast that enjoys dancing on Corey Mills' political grave. Now, Corey Mills, as you are aware, Leigh is a Florida representative who has, I think the political science term is a fucked up history. It's like he's been accused of all the bad stuff.
He is like a, when all the Transformers get together and they become one like-

**Leigh McGowan** (3:05)
Auto, like one giant, I don't think that's the Transformers. I feel like that's a kid show where they all became one creature, what was that thing called?

**Erin Gloria Ryan** (3:13)
There was a Power Rangers, they do that.

**Leigh McGowan** (3:15)
Power Rangers thing that did that.

**Erin Gloria Ryan** (3:16)
They also did that in Transformers when they became like the super Autobot. But I think he's like an Autobot of all the bad things that Republican men are right now. He's got domestic violence accusations. He's got accusations of running kind of a crooked, like arms dealing adjacent business.

**Leigh McGowan** (3:32)
Check.

**Erin Gloria Ryan** (3:35)
He was dating a 19-year-old when he was 43, and he was like, adults just want to find love.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:40)
Check, check, check.

**Erin Gloria Ryan** (3:42)
Well, he lost his primary in Florida last night, so I don't know. What do you think is in the future for Representative Mills?

**Leigh McGowan** (3:48)
Fox News host. Fox News host? OAN, you know what I mean, like something. Ooh, good point. They do like the handsoms.
Maybe he'll pull over to one of the other networks. But I mean, like you said, he's the epitome of what this party stands for now and what people should really be distancing themselves from. I mean, I think somebody put out a stat the other day that said once a week, a Republican representative comes out as having an inappropriate relationship with a child. Once a week is too many. Too many. That's a real problem.