About this episode

Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette discusses his recent testimony on waste and fraud in the Trump administration and the implications of Trump's financial dealings.

The late great editorial cartoonist Pat Oliphant had an interesting aversion to politicians. Ben riffs. Dylan returns just one day after he testified before the senate on waste and fraud in the Trump administration. All those inside deals and conflicts of interest that helped Trump make over $2 billion last year. His crypto deals and his hotel deals and his coin-meme deals and so on. Is Trump accurate when he says, “no one cares”? Also, the performative antics of senate hearings. Dylan is acting VP of policy and government for POGO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

People in this episode

Host: Ben Joravsky

Guest: Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette

Topics covered

• politics
• Trump administration
• senate hearings
• waste and fraud
• conflicts of interest
• editorial cartooning

Keywords

• Trump
• waste
• fraud
• senate
• conflicts of interest
• Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette
• Pat Oliphant
• POGO

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Trump administration, POGO

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