Rep. Adam Schiff on the Culture of Cheating

Trump thinks it’s what you have to do to win.

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Episode Notes

Virginia Heffernan welcomes back Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) to talk about how Trump champions cheating and has a sour response to empathy, and why Schiff’s colleagues are so afraid to speak out against Trump’s misdeeds and behavior.

Podcast production by Melissa Kaplan. Engineering help from Richard Stanislaw.

About the Show

A podcast from Slate chronicling Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency and his current administration. Journalists Virginia Heffernan and León Krauze talk to reporters, historians, psychiatrists, and other experts to help explain who this man is and why this is happening, right now, in the United States of America.

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Virginia Heffernan is the host of Trumpcast, a contributing editor at Wired, and a columnist at the Los Angeles Times. She’s the author of Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art.

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