#1315 The Wrecking Crew (The Trump appointees running the government)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 29 October 2019
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Air Date: 10/29/2019
Today we take a look at some of the main characters that make up the Trump administration to get a sense of who they are, where they're coming from and how they're working tirelessly to ruin everything good about our government and find brand new ways to be terrible
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Trump went to a World Series game and was booed by the crowd, including chants to “Lock Him Up!”:
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Rudy Giuliani - Past Present - Air Date 10-15-19
The crew discusses the political history of Rudy Giuliani and he's always been a snake.
Ch. 2: Unitary Executive Theory with Charlie Savage - Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill - Air Date 2-27-19
Jeremy Scahill and Charlie Savage discuss Bill Barr and Trump and their takeover of the Dept of Justice.
Sam discusses Bill Barr and his role in corruption in the Trump administration.
Pompeo has a history of making Islamophobic statements. He’s also been a major ally to the billionaire right-wing Koch brothers.
Aaron Glantz discusses how Steven Mnuchin profited from ruining people's lives.
Ch. 6: Mike Pence with Tom LoBianco - BradCast with Nicole Sandler - Air Date 10-1-19
Nicole chats with Tom LoBianco about the dangerous "Christian" Mike Pence.
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 7: My puddle of grey is confusing - Erin from Philadelphia
Ch. 8: The impact of election 2000 - Holly from San Francisco
Ch. 9: Broadcast stations selling ad space full of lies - Chris from San Diego
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 10: Final comments on the legality of running political ads with lies
Ch. 11: Limerick of the Day from @LouC17
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'A threat to democracy': William Barr's speech on religious freedom alarms liberal Catholics (The Guardian)
Bill Barr’s First Epistle to the Heathens (The New Republic)
William Barr Is Neck-Deep in Extremist Catholic Institutions (The Nation)
Mike Pence's problem with science (CNN)
The Danger of President Pence (The New Yorker)
Mike Pence: power, religion and America's 'shadow president' (The Guardian)
The Decline and Fall of Rudy Giuliani (GQ)
Where Did Rudy Go? (The Atlantic)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast, in which we shall have |
| 0:07.5 | a bit of a refresher course on some of the main characters that make up the Trump administration |
| 0:13.2 | to get a sense of who they are, where they're coming from, and how they are working tirelessly |
| 0:18.2 | to ruin everything good about our government and find brand new ways to be terrible. |
| 0:23.8 | Because just sort of a mix, not on a specific topic, other than these people are all in the |
| 0:31.3 | Trump administration and they're all completely horrific. |
| 0:35.9 | So it's sort of a who's who, who are these people and what's up with them. |
| 0:40.4 | You get the question these days, like, hey, what happened to Rudy Giuliani? |
| 0:44.2 | I have this vaguely positive memory of him after 9-11 before he could talk about nothing. |
| 0:53.6 | And other than 9-11, and that went a little off the rails, but like, didn't he used to be |
| 0:57.4 | not the worst? |
| 0:58.8 | Well, we're going to find out. |
| 1:00.7 | Bill Barr, of course, is very much in the news as he's working tirelessly to cover up Trump, |
| 1:07.5 | Ukraine, etc. |
| 1:09.5 | So we'll see about his history, Mike Pompeo, sort of similarly, you know, going around |
| 1:14.1 | the world trying to stir up trouble with some foreign adventures. |
| 1:17.6 | So we'll see what he's all about. |
| 1:19.4 | Steve Mnuchin is probably, we probably don't hear enough about him, but he's running the |
| 1:25.0 | Treasury Secretary. |
| 1:28.3 | We probably don't hear, we probably don't hear enough about him, but he's running the |
| 1:32.7 | Treasury. |
| 1:33.7 | So we'll find out what he's about. |
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