Clarence Thomas Is a ‘Grifting Faucet You Can’t Turn Off’

The New Abnormal

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🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Clarence Thomas’s “grifting” faucet just won’t turn off, says an exasperated Danielle Moodie on this episode of The New Abnormal politics podcast. It was recently revealed that the Supreme Court Justice reported income from a firm that doesn’t exist, and hasn’t for a while, and Moodie, and her co-host of the show Andy Levy, are over this man’s antics. They discuss a lot of them on this show in particular given the recent news. Later, Spencer Ackerman, columnist for The Nation and writer of the Forever Wars newsletter, breaks down the case ofJack Teixeira, the 21-year-old Air National Guardsman accused of leaking classified documents and why it’s different than the whistleblowing cases of Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden. Then, George M. Johnson, author of All Boys Aren’t Blue, one of the now-many banned books in America, shares with co-host Danielle what it’s like to be the author of a banned book and the most “fascinating” and mind-boggling thing about Republican behavior.

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0:56.6	Our goal is to try and make sense of our current crazy world, our new abnormal, and hopefully
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1:09.8	What a great show we have for you today. Columnist for the nation and writer of the Forever
1:13.0	Wars newsletter Spencer Acerman joins us to break down the case of Jack Tashira and the
1:16.9	classified intelligence he leaked on Discord. Then, George M. Johnson, the author of All
1:20.9	Boys Aren't Blue, is here to tell us what it's like to be the author of one of the most
1:24.3	banned books in America. But first, let's have some fun.
1:28.1	So Andy. Hi Daniel. Hi, hi, hi, hi. I love to start the week on a high note, but unfortunately
1:36.9	we live in America. So we just have to start in reality, which is the reality that the
1:44.2	news about Clarence Thomas and his grifting, money-grubbing, criminal activity just won't
1:54.1	stop. It's like a faucet you can't turn off.
1:57.2	So the latest is that he's been receiving paychecks from a firm that no longer exists.
2:07.7	Hasn't existed. This real estate firm, which was launched in the 1980s by his wife and
2:12.9	her relatives, hasn't existed since 2006. I don't know how you continue to receive paychecks
2:19.2	from a place that doesn't exist, but evidently you can. He continued to report income that
2:25.1	was between $50,000 and $100,000 annually in recent years. And if I'm confused, I know
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