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PivotHillary Clinton Warns About Trump’s Next Move After the Midterms
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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Clinton on midterms, corruption, and tech power—plus markets and AI
- Live from New York on the eve of Election Day, Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway interview Hillary Clinton about the midterms, messaging, and what Democrats should do if they win Congress.
- Hillary Clinton predicts Democrats will win both the House and Senate and credits voter concern about affordability, strengthened by a campaign linkage between cost-of-living pressures and corruption.
- Clinton argues a Democratic Congress should prioritize an affordability agenda and anti-corruption reforms, including investigations focused on repairing damage rather than scoring points.
- The episode shifts to business and tech news, including Binance’s major crypto hack, a broader tech sell-off debate, and skepticism about rebranding AI data centers as “compute campuses.”
- In wins/fails and audience Q&A, Galloway attacks the cultural “idolatry” of tech innovators, the hosts debate the value of investigations, and they urge younger voters to participate despite cynicism or living in a blue state.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasAffordability + corruption is presented as the winning midterms frame.
She argued voters are responding to lived economic pressures (healthcare costs, gas/diesel prices) and that Democrats improved their message by tying cost-of-living concerns to claims of corruption and self-enrichment by people in power.
Clinton says a Democratic win would only endure with a disciplined post-election agenda.
She said Democrats must arrive with a clear agenda and the discipline to enact it, naming an affordability package (including healthcare and housing) and an anti-corruption package (closing loopholes and enforcing constitutional constraints) as priorities.
A pardon wouldn’t necessarily shield tech figures from being compelled to testify.
She said pardons wouldn’t prevent Congressional subpoenas and added that some legal experts argue a pardon could remove Fifth Amendment protection because there’s no longer jeopardy.
Clinton worries Trump’s coherence and impulsiveness have national-security consequences.
She said she can’t explain why Trump is held to an “easier standard,” noted his “word salads,” and expressed concern about serious decision-making (including potential renewed attacks on Iran) and that a Congress flipped to Democrats could further “short-circuit” his thinking.
Galloway frames deference to billionaire innovators as a civic and political failure.
He argued the public “idolatry of innovators” has led to excusing behavior he characterized as traitorous, specifically targeting Elon Musk and saying such figures shouldn’t be held to a different standard than others.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesBecause we haven't really had politics. We've had a cult in charge of our country over the last, uh, years.
— Hillary Clinton
I thought the Emoluments Clause in the Constitution meant something. I thought it meant that you could not be the President of the United States and report a $1.2 billion, you know, income from making deals through crypto and other things while you were in the Oval Office.
— Hillary Clinton
So let him pardon Elon, and then let's call him in and- ... figure out- ... what he has to say.
— Hillary Clinton
Elon Musk is a traitor to the West.
— Scott Galloway
The IPO market is rigged, folks.
— Scott Galloway
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