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The Documentary: The Trumped Republicans

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13/02/2019 GMT

The Trumped Republicans

BBC World Service - The Documentary, The Trumped Republicans

Republican insider Ron Christie assesses how Donald Trump has shaken up his own party

Republican insider Ron Christie assesses how Donald Trump has shaken up his own party.

Republican insider Ron Christie discovers how Donald Trump's presidency is changing his party. Trump arrived in the White House offering a populist revolt in America, promising to drain what he calls "the swamp that is Washington D.C". So what does his own Republican Party - traditionally a bastion of the nation’s establishment - really make of him? Where is he taking them and what will he leave behind?
 
Christie, a long-time Republican who has served in the West Wing under George W Bush, takes us on a journey behind the scenes to meet Trump’s inner circle - including figures like Mercedes Schlapp, White House Director of Strategic Communications, and to influential conservative broadcaster Sean Hannity. He talks to the supporters and the sceptics alike who watch in amazement as one of the most controversial presidents of all time takes his country and his party by storm.

(Photo: President Donald Trump, flanked from left by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Sen. John Thune, R-S. Dak., Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., following his lunch with Senate Republicans in the Capitol on Jan.2018. Credit: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images)

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