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Amanda Carpenter

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first: 2018-11-29
most recent: 2018-11-29
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“Talking about his problems with the Republican Party, and then every interview he does, he falls flat. He doesn't make the argument in person that he does on paper. And so to me, this is a non-starter. I think you want someone else to do the job and he would enthusiastically support them if someone else would do it.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, John Kasich is like begging for the draft Kasich movement to materialize. It's not happening. Now he doesn't have the nerve. It's funny. Flake wrote a pretty decent book.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Taunted them after the election. I know, and I think that was very deliberate because you want to teach them a lesson. You speak out against me in part, it's. I think he is smart because he realizes that any kind of primary challenge to him in 2020 can be damaging even if the primary challenger is not successful. And so I think they are obsessed with rooting out Republicans who are not 100% on board. They're obsessed with rooting out voices of never-Trump Republicans like me. I mean, I've seen it. It is a thing. And strategically, I understand it because having a Republican party that is not united going into 2020 does not bode well for him.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's funny, Trump had a rally recently to kind of burnish his credentials with women, and the only woman that would get on stage to support him were either paid by him, like Kelly and Conway or had the last name Trump, like Ivanka. So if that's their women's outreach, get lost. That's not going to work. And it all comes down to the fact, I don't think he can do this. I think it's like Charlottesville. It's Access Hollywood tape. If a condition of being part of the Republican Party is defending that as locker room talk, which was him bragging about assault on tape, whether he did or not, he was bragging about that he could do it. If that's a condition of being a woman in good standing with the Republican Party, you're not going to have women. That's just the end. And look at what happened in the midterm election. Some of the women who would not go there me a love. Barbara Konsak, they're gone. And they were great candidates. They were good people. They were the kind of”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I see him as a VP. I just don't think, and we will see people prove themselves on the campaign, as you know, and they grow. Maybe he could. He can raise money. I don't think he has the depth, but I think he'd be a good VP. Why not?”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Texas and yeah, he retired as a congressman so he could focus on that, which was if you're going to try to win, it takes that kind of dedication. But you also have to be able to capture the imagination. And there's no perfect formula for that, but he has a little bit of that spark. And it's unique and special. Obama had it.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, there's the fresh face. He campaigned. I mean, lights out. He was on all the time. He was charismatic figure. He could give a speech. And this is part of the things I think Democrats, because people say, what are Republicans going to do? Like, nothing that's going to happen. So it is up to Democrats to try to stop this and to compete with Trump. You have to put on a little bit of a show. Betto can put on a show he had big rallies, he could get people excited. I mean, and I don't say this as a bad thing. Barack Obama could get people excited to show up. You have to.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Activating new voters. The biggest constituency in America is not Republican or Democrats. People don't vote. If you can find a way to get people who don't vote to the polls, you're going to win.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No tolerance for a family in fighting. And so the people either find a way to work with Trump or you leave, like Paul Ryan or Jeff Flake. You leave your surprise.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think because I work for Cruz, I think if you parse the statements very closely, you will see that he's never taken back the things that he said during the campaign. But Republican base voters do, if you are Republican that supports Trump or maybe not, you see everyone coming after him. You see the Democrats, you see the media after him all the time, justifiably so in my mind. But you don't want to see the Republicans attack them too. You have no tolerance for it. You just want to get stuff done. Give me my judge. Give me my tax cut. Secure the border. Like, can you guys just help him? Because everyone else is coming after him. Can you at least get him in line? That's where the base is even among skeptical people.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is a question I get all the time What role Republicans do? And I don't want to be dire nothing. It is Trump's party now. I work for the guy, Ted Cruz, who blew up the convention, saying vote your conscience is a way of saying I will not endorse Trump. And then ultimately he came to heal.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Someone who's observed a lot of it. I mean, the conflict is enticing to an audience. And it's sort of like social media too. The algorithm doesn't care where the cloaks come from. They don't care about democracy in the end. And at some point, someone has to take responsibility as a human with human judgment to say, this is what I will allow on my platform because I believe it's for the greater good. You can have a lot of debate, but once you succumb to... Democracy becomes the”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. So I explain it to people imagine you're walking down the street and it's a beautiful day. And someone says, how is the weather today? And you look at the sky and it's a beautiful day. They said, no, there's storm coming. Look up, it's a beautiful day. No, no, no. Clouds are coming. It's gonna rain. There's tornadoes, duck can take cover now. And one of two things happens. And maybe there's a CNN panel that comes to debate you and tell you why you're wrong. So you either succumb to it and say, you know what? Okay, I'll just go inside. I'll go inside with you. It might be bad. This is a safer thing to do. Or maybe you get a little hysterical and say, no, you're crazy. Stop. I can see the sky and then you blow up and they say, look at her. She's lost your mind. That's gaslighting. And Trump does it on a daily basis.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I do. Well, I can't say it, but that was my never Trump piece. Never work for him, never support him, never endorse him. People don't do this.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so I wrote a piece just kind of laying a marker down as a warning and almost as a plea to my fellow friends, don't work for these people.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And naturally, it was critical of Trump, his escalator speech, oddly the stuff that sounds so quaint now, his support of eminent domain, the comments that he made about wanting to embrace torture, that to me just red flags. This guy should not be commander-chief. You wouldn't even say things about making the military do these things that are against their own military law red line. And so I had a pretty clear view early on. And I think I became a target. I wrote a piece in March of that year. 2015 because I saw people endorsing him that were elected officials and I said this is this is not good these people are it was Chris Collins and Duncan Hunter two congressmen who recently run re-election are now indicted Those were his first two more the”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Was such a blindside because at that point, you know, I had not been working for Ted Cruz, and so we didn't really go through that. And so I worked with Ted Cruz in the Senate, and then Dref Row, the campaign manager he had. He wanted everyone to move to Houston to work on the campaign. At that point, I had two kids, both under two. I was not going to move my family to Houston for 18 months. Just I wasn't going to do it, even though I really like working for the office because my goal was always to go back to media at some point in time. So to me, that was a natural departure. Okay, we'll get him launched. We'll get tech crews through his book tour. July 1st, I'll leave the office. So that's what happened. CNN happened to come together. They picked me up right away in August or July and August. So I had like a month off. And so I was just doing commentary.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And it comes back to I mean, the Charlottesville Muhammad Donald Trump will never be able to undo what he said about both sides there. There's people dressing up as Nazis in the streets. There's no both sides to it. And so from that moment, and there was other stuff with Obama and the frog stuff and the anti-Semitism, they've been given a green light. I don't see any guardrails within Republicans. A lot of people have just thrown off their hands and left because it's hard to do all the time. You get no thanks for it. A lot of people say, oh, you know, I'm kind of in the never Trump contingency. And that comes from an article I wrote during the campaign saying, I don't think a good conservative would ever work for Trump or anyone who's endorsed him because of their bad judgment. And this was before Charlottesville. That was just.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Republicans have their problems, liberals and Democrats have their problems. I mean, there's environmental people that want to go blow up buildings and things like that. Everybody has their own set of issues to deal with, but the race issue is one that's unique to Republicans. And it's coming to a head now. I mean, you can't look at the stuff that's happening in the Mississippi race. I mean, it keeps happening.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, there's been cycles of this where, you know, National Review had to go against the birchers. There's been people in the Republican Serve movement that have had to beat that back. And now there's nobody beating it back anymore. And so... That's been my observation.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, but then. And I do think a lot of that was pure. It had the right intentions. And so the Republican outpouring that started in the wake of that was focused on the Constitution and fiscal responsibility. But slowly but surely, there were other forces that came into play there. And I saw this a few times. I had worked with people at Freedom Works and they were doing a lot of stuff at the Tea Party rallies. There were people that were showing up with signs. I'm sure you saw them. Obama is Hitler Mustache, and there was a contingent of us like policing it. Get those out of here. This is not what we're about, but that like to me, that was always in the background. And I think good people during 2010, 2014 could keep that at bay. But when Trump came on the scene, That stuff got unleashed because he played to it. It's always been there”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A wig of the bailout. Tea Party became the ballot. Because of Obama. There was that anger there that started. The Wall Street bailouts, yes, yes. And Bush, it wasn't about Obama. It was about Bush. And like, why are you doing this? And so I understood all that, and I was there for it”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not the only problem I have with Mitch McConnell, but stuff like that where he was not this is why part of the reason I think we ended up with Trump because people couldn't figure out where the base was at and figure out how to lead it into a landing path. And if that was our mistake, we couldn't get it to a soft landing. We thought we get to that point of the filibuster and went on for what, 13 days or something? There was no coming together to figure out the landing spot. That”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, although it didn't. End up as we all anticipated. I mean, this is always a thing. You think if you do everything right, you know, we can disagree with this, but there was a movement there that wanted to make a stand on the healthcare issue that was terrified of government-run healthcare and the cost and everything else. There was all that energy. And so the house wanted to do something and crews kind of got in front of that parade and said, okay, if you guys don't do this funding bill, we'll send it over here. And we kind of thought once we did all that, ultimately Mitch McConnell would see this is where the energy of the conservative movement is. This is where Republicans want to do. And then we'll find a way to make a deal, whether it be whatever, like once we get to this point, we can work together to figure that out. That was not the case. We got to that point and they just were willing to cut out his knees and say, you're on your own buddy. And that's.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It wasn't obvious, but I think there was always the intention to. Our job as staff was to preserve the opt Don't screw up because this is a guy who might run for president someday. I didn't necessarily think it'd be. But we were kind of on our best behavior as staff to say this is somebody special to the conservative movement. Make sure he's on the right path, kind of thing, you're furthering. No, no, no.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And they said, Would you just give it two or three months? And at that, I was five months pregnant at the time. I'm like, well, I got the fine. I'll just, you know, see what happens. Let me give it till the summer. And they came in ready to rock. You know, that January, the first couple weeks, he was picking fikes with Chuck Hegel. John McCain was calling him Wack a Bird. And I knew, okay, there's something special going on here. So I was in the...”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The Yeah, we got him launched so I came in. It's funny. So Dement was leaving Congress in 2012. Cruise is coming in. I thought at that point, I just try to go back to media. That's where my passion was. You know, I wanted to, you know, got my government experience, check that box, let me find a way to go back, do writing, whatever it is. Let me see what happened. And then, you know, these Texans came in. I said, Amanda, we really like what you did for Senator DeMet. You know, Ted Cruz might want somebody in his communication shop like you. What do you think? And I said, I don't know, freshman senators are really boring. I don't want to work for somebody who's not going to do anything. I mean, I was kind of high on my horse about it. And they said, Amanda.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Get a fair price for treatment. My biggest beef you go to the doctor first question is where's your insurance card? Well, I have money because I'm in the system now where you try to pay your own way. Where's your insurance card? What does it cost for a doctor? They don't want to tell you. They send you to billing. They send you to a nurse. They make you feel like... Dirt, and it's like, well, I can pay the $500. What is it going to be? Nobody can tell you what it will cost to see a doctor.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I know, and those are the fights we had in the office. Like, why wouldn't we do this? Well, you have to get rid of that if you want to have competitive programs. I mean, I've been in a million meetings going around that. And it's on the”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Although Working on Capitol Hill, the debate over pre existing conditions was not one people wanted to have. The promise you can't realize you can't.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yeah, that was my second week back from attorney leave with my second son. Which is great because it was, and I was fine with staying up. Everybody's like, oh, do you need something for the couch? No, I haven't slept for two years.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, yeah. And so the Metashare thing or buying into Medicare, I find interesting because there's no good options. And so if the math can work, if it's an actual program where people pay their way into the system, I don't have a huge problem.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I haven't. I have a Christian Metashare program, which is the so-called junk insurance, but it's $300 a month for the family. And every time we go to the doctor, we just pay out of pocket. We get vaccines, we get totally gouged. When my son had to get vaccines for schools, $800. Okay, but that's cheaper than Obamacare at $1,200 a month. And then we just bank and do HSA, you know, what do we do?”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no. And I completely, but there's got to be a place for people to go where they can get something that is a value. Yes, if you're back against the wall, you'll pay anything 100%. And so, my point was Republicans, we've been making the argument once you allow people to buy state across state lines, there'll be better options. I haven't seen those better options come to fruition. And so the thing is people have to go to it.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, it's basically been a reality for four now, right? And so for anyone to campaign on that now, when Republicans didn't do anything about it earlier. Where are people gonna go Republicans have not given them a better option. I was waiting for, you know, I'm on the individual market. Obamacare for my family to join on the bronze plan $1,200 a month with the $6,000 a person deductible. That's outrageous. We're not a family that has health problems. We're happy to pay a certain amount, but $1,200 a month is too much”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, because you have to, like my brother, we talked about earlier in the program, you have to make sure those programs are there for people that need it. And I don't think those programs are going to be there on this path. You know, my grandparents depend on those programs. Like, it's not sustainable. And so if we just keep overloading it. It's gonna bust”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, it's with entitlements. I think there's very easy medication like raising the age and ramping that back a little bit.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, and that's why I'm saying the chance for transformational change with a full Republican White House in Congress. If you're not going to make corresponding spending cuts with the tax cuts to get the country on a firm path, then what's the point? And people say, well, what happened? Paul Ryan, I said, listen, there's no appetite for constituency for spending cuts. And so I think the calculation was, well, we're not going to take money from people and to send it down the black hole of government. We'll just cut taxes and what happens half.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, I like tax cuts, but you got to have spending cuts too. And so that's to me where the lost opportunity for transformational change.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, if you care about power, yes, if your endgame is power at all times, very effective in terms of getting anything done, solving the deficit, balancing the budget, anything that might actually make the country better from my perspective, he's a miserable failure.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, completely. Completely. Capitol Hill is a place that does thrive on relationships. And if you go against the grain, it's a miserable place. If you don't love Washington and Dement, you know, like a lot of people I work with. That the career isn't the end game. He'd much rather be home in South Carolina, you know? Like, you've got to have a family. And he had that. And so when you're away from your family four nights a week just getting pummeled by the media and your Republican establishment bosses, Mitch McConnell, you know, being embarrassed, you know, being leaked things in the press constantly you got to deal with. President of the Heritage Foundation is pretty nice. And so he decided it was time to go mission accomplished.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and that's really funny. So Demit was successful in helping bring new blood to Washington, but had made his life pretty miserable for himself, I think. And so in the opportunity to join the Heritage Foundation came up and lead that. And that was kind of a dream of saying.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Which is so funny because he's such a mild mannered guy. You know, he is very gentlemanly quiet, but he just had had enough.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“People that he endorsed were Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, and that Pat Toomey in that freshman class. And he caused holy hell in the Republican Party.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because I had been doing some cable TV, and I kind of had been established meeting my voice as an outsider conservative type. And someone from Jim DeMint, the former Center from South Carolina's office, called and said, you know what? Jim DeMint is really about to amp up his profile. He's frustrated. He wants to do work in seeking out other candidates who can change Washington. And we're going to need writing help. Are you interested? And I thought, you know, there's probably only two people I would ever go work for, and that was Tom Coburn and Jim DeMint. And I thought about it for about a day. So, yeah, yes. Yes. Yes. And so I went and did that. And that's just as he was establishing a pack outside of his Senate duties called the Senate Conservatives Fund because he was so upset with the trajectory of the Republican Party that they weren't getting new blood in the”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, that was one of those things that came up. I never thought I would, I always wanted to work on the hill and get that experience, but I never thought there'd be the right person. You know, I always think like, you know, I miss that boat because I didn't go to the hill immediately when I was, you know, 21 years old and do the internship and climb the ladder.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, yeah. And they've navigated it. Rush, you know, I followed very closely through the primaries to see how he navigated that. And it's not journalism. Maybe, and it makes me sad to think about this, but I do think it's partially true. Maybe Republicans and conservatives can only be honest as a minority. And I wonder that because in the age of Trump and watching them get the majority and really lose the honesty and focus, maybe we can only be effectiveness a minority party. And I hate to say that, but what other conclusion can I draw from what's happened to the two things I really care about conservative journalism and conservative media?”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's what I came to DC to do. That's what I thought I was doing. And I did that, but there was people around me that weren't interested for sure. And I think all that has completely fallen apart under Trump. I wrote a piece for Politico after Trump was elected. You know, I used to do Sean Hannity to show all the time before I went to work for Ted Cruz. And, you know, this whole idea that you need to have conservatives in the media and do all this no. What happened was someone like Sean Hannity who railed against this just wanted the chance to suck up to his own president. And so there's a big disillusionment there. And I always knew there was an entertainment factor with that. But I feel...”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, this is part of my beef. You know, when I came to DC, I didn't, I wasn't involved in this political world. I actually believe all the stuff like, oh, we need journalists with a conservative perspective to actually do journalism.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sure. Yeah, that's always Oh, yeah, in the Age of Earmarks, absolutely. Although the thing with Hillary, which I do think hung her up, is that they were taking all these international donations, raking it in. And I'm not the only person to make this critique. When she went on to become Secretary of State, I mean, like, it's very problematic to have this revolving door of money and interest. The public to not know you're only representing the public. Mean, that has a lot to do with the breakdown of trust. And, you know, I think she's a decent secretary of state, but that baggage is always with her because of the Clinton Foundation.”
2018-11-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source