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Tommy Vietor: The Marionette in the White House
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What is going on with Trump's legs? He appears to be wearing a brace and a recent video shows him standing in a most unnatural way—as though he is mid-exorcism. But his apparent health issues don't seem to be stopping the administration from re-escalating against Iran with an additional 10,000 troops on their way to the region. Meanwhile, Trump's son-in-law, Jared (AKA the point person on the Gaza peace deal) turns out to be a war profiteer heavily invested in Israeli bomb-making companies. Plus: Some of the recent polls have been too rosy for the Dems, Islamophobia may be at...
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B2 · Upper-intermediate
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- 91% of the words are B1 or easier.
- 199 words a minute: natural, fairly fast speech.
- 295 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.
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But the impure of the water is one of the most important things in the world. My friend, Shopify, is here. He is the only one who is a big fan of the airman tech. My friend,
I love me Hello and welcome to The Bulwark Daily. I'm your host Tim Miller, delighted to welcome back to the show co-founder of Crooked Media, co-host of a little show called Pod Save America. He was Obama's, the Obama Administration's national security spokesman after being a
driver for Barack Obama. He's also the co-host of Pod Save the World, one of my favorites. The last time you were on, Tom, which was in 2025, if you haven't come on at all this year. Really?
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