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How A President Could Get It Done (feat. Theo Wold)

Season 2, Ep. 85
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In Today's episode of "Moment of Truth," Saurabh sits down with Theodore Wold, former Deputy Assistant to President Trump for Domestic Policy and Visiting Fellow at the Claremont Institute's Center for the American Way of Life, to discuss the disastrous state of America's immigration policies, triumphs and tragedies of the conservative legal movement, pitfalls faced by the Trump administration, what the midterms reveal about America's future, and what the next Republican administration must do to succeed where others have failed.


Theodore Wold was the Acting-Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Policy at the Department of Justice and Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy during the Trump Administration. He previously served as Deputy Chief Counsel to United States Senator Mike Lee on the Senate Judiciary Committee. He holds a B.A. from Georgetown University, where he studied government and English; an M. Litt. from the University of St. Andrews, where he studied English literature; and a J.D. from the University of Notre Dame. Mr. Wold clerked at the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for Judge Janice Rogers Brown and the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico for Judge José Antonio Fusté. He has also lectured at the law school of the Universidad of Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala. Mr. Wold was a John Marshall Fellow at the Claremont Institute and a Madison Fellow at Hillsdale College’s Kirby Center.


Learn more about Theo Wold's work:

https://dc.claremont.org/scholars/?scholar=wold

https://twitter.com/realtheowold


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