The Dworkin Report

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The Dworkin Report is one of the most listened-to independent podcasts in the world. New releases are ranked top 200 in news & politics on iTunes in 30+ countries. The podcast has listeners in almost every country in the world. Some of Scott’s guests have included Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Alyssa Milano, Alec Baldwin, Bill Browder, Rob Reiner, Rep. Steve Cohen, Mary L. Trump, Bandy X. Lee, Lev Parnas, Lilly Ledbetter, Judd Legum, Tom Arnold, Sen. Masie Hirono, Rosie O’Donnell, David Priess, Michael Rapaport, and Malcolm Nance. The podcast covers news, politics, books, culture, and more.

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Author reveals how GOP became toxic, from the rise of Gingrich to Trump

Oct 26 2022 16 mins  
Princeton political history Professor and CNN Commentator Julian Zelizer returns to the Dworkin Report to discuss his book, Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party. Professor Zelizer tells us how Newt Gingrich’s rise to power in the Republican party was the turning point that led to the birth of the Tea Party movement

Fmr. Melania advisor reveals the Trump family profited off of 2017 Inaugural Committee

Oct 20 2022 21 mins  
Scott interviews Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who served as executive producer and adviser to the Inaugural Committee for Donald Trump, as well as an advisor to Melania Trump in this first part of a multi-part interview. Winston Wolkoff authored the revelatory NY Times #1 best-selling book: Melania and Me, an intimate look at her now broken relationship with the former first lady and

Top Georgia journalist warns about Herschel Walker's political assets

Oct 18 2022 18 mins  
Award-winning journalist and author Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution joined our show to talk about what lessons can be learned from the 2020 special elections in Georgia and shared wisdom about Herschel Walker's campaign. We discussed his excellent book, Flipped: How Georgia Turned Purple and Broke the Monopoly on Republican Power. Greg takes readers through the r

Inside Trump's willful dereliction of duty on Jan. 6th with Philip Rucker

Oct 13 2022 22 mins  
Scott interviews Philip Rucker, co-author of the New York Times bestselling book "I Alone Can Fix It: Donald Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year” with his Washington Post colleague, Carol Leonnig. Their book opens at the very beginning of 2020 when the COVID pandemic arrives, carries through the January 6, 2021 insurrection, and ends with Joe Biden's inauguration 14 days later. The

Michael Cohen can’t hide his disgust at new Manhattan DA’s failure to prosecute Trump

Jul 19 2022 25 mins  
​Scott interviews former Trump fixer Michael Cohen, who knows Trump's playbook better than anybody, and tells us if he believes Donald Trump will ever be convicted for any of his crimes after the Manhattan DA dropped the ball and what approach he thinks law enforcement would have to take to get it done. Michael's New York Times bestselling book is Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Sto

Michael Cohen just explained how Trump set up a GOP Congressman seeking a pardon

Jul 14 2022 24 mins  
Scott interviews friend and former political opponent, Michael Cohen in part one of this two-part interview. He provided key insight into the unsavory way that the disgraced ex-president handled one of his key House Republican allies at the end of his term, soon after inciting an insurrection against the United State Capitol. As the former personal attorney for Donald Trump from 20

Lev Parnas just revealed how Ron DeSantis got Trump's endorsement and the Florida governorship

Feb 01 2022 17 mins  
Scott and Grant interview Lev Parnas, who became well-known for his leading role in the former President’s efforts to pressure Ukraine to launch an investigation into political rival Joe Biden which led to the first of two impeachments against the disgraced former Commander-in-Chief. This is part two of a two-part interview with Parnas recorded on August 5th, 2021. In this episod

Author reveals how Peter Thiel helped Trump cut a deal with Facebook to evade fact checking

Jan 25 2022 25 mins  
Scott talks with author and journalist Max Chafkin, who is a features editor and a tech reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek. Max is the author of "The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power," a biography about the enigmatic, controversial, and hugely influential power broker Peter Thiel who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech business and politics. Thie

Lev Parnas just explained how Rudy Giuliani acquired Russian disinformation for Trump

Jan 18 2022 28 mins  
Scott and Grant interview Lev Parnas, a former political associate of President Trump and a close confidant to his lawyer Rudy Giuliani. This is the first part of a special two-part interview with Lev Parnas, who revealed some stunning, never before known facts to us and our listeners exclusively. In this first installment, Parnas details precisely who linked the former President�

Reporter reveals Facebook paid Eastern European troll farms and the sinister secrets behind its algorithm

Oct 10 2021 27 mins  
Scott speaks with Karen Hao the senior Artificial Intelligence editor for MIT Technology Review whose groundbreaking work looking into Facebook just got validated in a massive way this week by whistleblower Francis Haugen's testimony to the U.S. Senate. Hao holds a mechanical engineering degree from MIT, which she took to outlets like Mother Jones and Quartz where she honed her cra