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Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Did Obama Know?

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Hear the ad-free version at http://usefulidiots.substack.com “But if Obama knew,” Aaron and Katie ask Status Coup’s Jordan Chariton, “why didn’t he go to Flint and bust Wall Street and the Republicans for poisoning the city? It would’ve been an easy political win.” “If Obama didn’t go after Wall Street for tanking the global economy,” responds Chariton, “what makes you think he would’ve done anything to go after them for a fraud financial deal that led to a city being poisoned?” Today, Chariton is breaking stories in Flint about Obama’s complicity, Wall Street’s greed, a state-government coverup, and the continued pandemic of Flint residents who are still dying. “I talk to people who are still getting rashes, whose hair falls out in the shower, whose children are growing with learning disabilities, people with early development of Parkinson’s. If you just look at the cherry-picked data, it seems like everything’s fine. These people are still in an 8 year pandemic. It’s not over.” But why don’t we hear about it? No one wants to run the story. “The hardest part of investigative journalism should be breaking the story, not getting outlets to pick it up.” Chariton laments. “But the amount of time and money is not worth the amount of clicks for the New York Times and CNN. Some, like Mother Jones, even asked: ‘Is there a connection to Trump?’” And, darker still, when he publishes his reports himself, it’s hard for people to see them. Youtube refuses to send video notifications even to his subscribers and they dampen every video and livestream. It’s the reason we couldn’t put “Flint” in the title and why Jordan thinks it might be easier to just start making videos about who’s feuding in the political punditry world. So go subscribe to Status Coup on Youtube. It’s real journalism that you will miss if you look anywhere else. One silver lining, however, is that the children of Flint may be reassured that the US Government just sent 200,000 pounds of new weapons to Ukraine. So they’ve got that going for them. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. Plus, watch the ad-free episode here, and stay tuned for the full interview with Jordan on Monday at 7am. Peace out, Useful Idiots. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots. I'm Katie Halper.

0:08.6

Can I marry Matti? I'm sitting in for Matti, Eddie.

0:11.6

For the year. For the year. Yeah. I think we can stop saying that.

0:16.6

I think you can just say I'm Aaron Malta. Yeah. Okay. All right.

0:19.7

Yeah. All right. Peace out Matt. Yeah. Bye.

0:22.8

I'm my own man. I'm my own man now. Yeah. Yeah. You don't want to, you don't want to give out that vibe of impostor syndrome.

0:28.8

No, I don't. No, I do not. No. No. All right. Cool. So I also just just I call myself Aaron Matti.

0:37.4

You be too. Yeah. I know. Although that's a fun one. You could transition with that.

0:41.6

You could do that for a couple of weeks. Okay. Okay.

0:43.6

Well, Matti. Well, keep that going. Yeah. How's your week?

0:47.6

Go on my parents' basement. Being held hostage. By choice. But by choice. By choice. Yes.

0:52.8

By choice. No, I have a great time. And you have just watching this, you know, unfolding Russia.

1:01.1

US standoff with great interest. Every day is a new adventure.

1:07.3

Yeah. I saw that Ukrainian leaders and officials were trying to warn the world that Russia is not

1:13.3

about to invade them. Yes. The US has been pulling out its embassy staff from Kyiv.

1:18.8

The US has been warning of a false flag by Russia. The US has been warning of a coup by Russia and

1:25.5

Ukraine. But unfortunately, Ukraine's not getting the memo because they're telling everyone to

1:29.2

chill out, including the US, and that they don't think that a Russian invasion is imminent.

1:33.5

So they're not exactly all on message right now. You don't remind me of it's like when you're when

1:38.7

you have a breakup and your friends like gather like gathered the troops and tell you how terrible

1:44.0

your ex is. You're like actually no, it's fine. Like he wasn't that bad or he didn't do that or

1:51.3

you don't have to hate him. Do you know what I mean? It's like Ukraine is like the the the the X

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