Podcast: The Felonious Fan Club

(Corrected to include actual podcast!)

Once a media mogul, Conrad Black – a.k.a. Baron Black of Crossharbour and onetime inmate of the Federal Correctional Institute in Sumter County, Florida – has reinvented himself in recent years as a leading pro-Trump voice. His cheerleading for Trump and his presidency extends beyond a long-winded volume of hagiography and into op-eds for venues like the New York Sun, National Review and the National Post (a Canadian newspaper he founded in 1998). Black was, it seemed, angling for a pardon, which he’s won. But at what cost? Since being pardoned, Black has taken up the cause of Trump as a wronged president who deserves to return to power.

To figure out what the disgraced Baron is up to, I chatted with Douglas Bell, journalist, broadcast and actor. Bell is long time Black watcher who covered the press lord’s court room troubles. It’s a very spirited and entertaining conversation.

(Podcast produced by Julia Elinor Peterson Elinore Peterson; text edited by Emily M. Keeler)

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