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🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for May 13, 2025; Gift or Grift? Trump Under Fire over Qatar’s Plan to Give Him $400M “Flying Palace”; “Unprecedented” in U.S. History: Trump & Family Rake In Money from Gulf States, Crypto & Real Estate; “People Are Starving to Death”: Oxfam Warns Israel’s Blockade on Gaza Is Catastrophic; If I Stayed, I Would’ve Died: Journalist Abubaker Abed on “Agonizing” Decision to Leave Gaza
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0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
0:19.1 | It's not a gift to me. It's a gift to the Department of Defense. |
0:23.8 | Fifting and grifting, that's what anti-corruption experts are charging. |
0:29.1 | Over reports, Cutter is preparing to give President Trump a $400 million luxury plane known as the Flying Palace. |
0:40.2 | Due corruption is orders of magnitude worse than Trump won, which was already the worst in American history. |
0:48.8 | As President Trump lands in Saudi Arabia, then on to Qatar and the UAE. |
0:55.7 | We'll speak with Robert Weissman of Public Citizen, the New York Times reporter Eric Lipton, |
1:02.3 | who's exposed how Trump's two oldest sons are profiting from their dad's presidency, |
1:08.5 | negotiating overseas deals worth billions of dollars. |
1:13.1 | Then to Gaza, where Save the Children's warning, every child is now at risk of famine due to Israel's 10-week-long blockade. |
1:21.3 | We'll speak to an Oxfam representative in Gaza City, and then to Abu Bakr Abed, the 22-year-old Palestinian |
1:30.0 | accidental war correspondent, who we last spoke to in Gaza. |
1:36.7 | There's no food available. All those people are being taken to the hospital to receive |
1:40.9 | treatment where doctors cannot really give the proper treatment for them. |
1:47.0 | And the medications are not available. |
1:49.6 | Israel has been blocking the two crossings, now allowing a trickle, one single track into Gaza. |
1:56.5 | And that has really left to be born the cusp of imminent death. |
2:00.9 | Today, Abubacher Abed joins us from Dublin, Ireland. |
2:05.9 | His new piece for DropSight is headlined, |
2:09.2 | The Unbearable Pain of Leaving Gaza. |
2:12.4 | All that and more coming up. |
2:22.7 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. |
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