Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast. Corruption, for those

who indulge, isn't just a perk of power. It can also be a method for maintaining it. And Trump is

not even bothering to hide the corruption he's working to facilitate, or how it's geared towards supporting

his desire for unchecked power?

For those looking for a quick overview, the sources providing our top takes in about 50

minutes today includes Trump's terms, The Real News, Amicus, the Brennan Center for Justice,

All In with Chris Hayes, Democracy Now, the Ralph Nader Radio Hour, and the Brian Litterer Show.

Then in the additional deeper dives half of the show, there will be more in four sections.

Section A, the Cabinet of Greed, followed by Section B, Quid Pro Quo, Section C, Corporate Interests, and Section D, King Trump.

Back in April 2023, without a whole lot of fanfare, a conservative political operative made Paul Danes, laid out what was basically a political battle plan.

What we're doing is systematically preparing to march into office and bring a new army of

aligned, trained, and essentially weaponized conservatives ready to do battle against the deep state.

It was called Project 2025, a 900-plus page blueprint for a future conservative

president, because it's worth flagging that at this point, President Trump had not yet locked down

the Republican nomination, to hit the ground running on day one. It outlined a suite of very

conservative policies that would, for example, outlaw the mailing of abortion pills and abolish the Department

of Education. It even suggests a return to the gold standard. Democrats saw this as a vulnerability

for Trump in the 2024 campaign, and so we saw social media videos like this one from then

president and then candidate Joe Biden. Project 2025 will destroy America. Look it up. We saw Saturday Night Lives

Keenan Thompson on the stage at the Democratic National Convention holding up a giant

bound copy of the plan. You ever seen a document that could kill a small animal and democracy

at the same time? After the plan became a Democratic talking point, Trump repeatedly disavowed Project

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