Follow the Money and You Won’t Lose the Plot!
Gaslit Nation
Gaslit Nation
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🗓️ 4 January 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to the fifth year of Gaslit Nation and the fiftieth year of the quest for Donald Trump’s tax returns!
This week we discuss a panoply of government criminals and their dirty donors, ranging from newly minted oligarch cash receptacle “George Santos” (or whatever his name really is) to fellow recipients of mafia money in Congress (sadly it’s nearly everyone) to Trump’s half-century free ride from the IRS (because, again, they’re all in on it!) to the backers of Putin and Netanyahu’s wars (again it’s the same network enabling the crimes!) We also discuss the chaos and corruption that will ensue under a GOP House, the disturbing rhetoric of new Democratic House Minority Speaker Hakeem Jeffries, and give an update into Putin’s war on Ukraine.
We come fully armed with receipts and discuss what this entrenched corruption means for American democracy in the year 2023, a year in which Congress may have lost its illusions but has not found its soul. We discuss the lackluster release of Trump’s tax returns and stress the urgent need for release of his returns going back to the 1970s, which is when he allegedly made a pact with the US government to not pay taxes for thirty years in return for unnamed favors. (Read about it in Sarah’s book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT which is having a $2.99 Kindle sale.)
We are recording our weekly bonus episode, available to Patreon subscribers at the Truth-Teller level or higher, on Wednesday to mark the second anniversary of the January 6 attack on the Capitol and the continued inaction of Merrick Garland’s DOJ to hold the organizers accountable. We will also be answering your questions so please keep them coming! If you subscribe to Gaslit Nation at the Democracy Defender level or higher, you can ask us anything you want and we will answer it in depth! Subscribers at that level are also invited to a live Gaslit Nation taping on January 24! Stay tuned for more details and thank you for your continued support of the show – we could not make it without you.
Show Notes:
Russian Oligarch’s Cousin Funneled Cash to N.Y. Politician https://www.thedailybeast.com/republican-george-devolder-santos-got-cash-from-andrew-intrater-cousin-of-russian-oligarch-viktor-vekselberg
Conservatives turn to a new message: ‘God bless the Ukrainian people’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/27/conservatives-cpac-ukraine/
Here's the first evidence Russia used Twitter to influence Brexit https://www.wired.co.uk/article/brexit-russia-influence-twitter-bots-internet-research-agency
Scrutiny mounts over tech investments from Kremlin-connected expatriates https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/19/russia-expatriates-links-probed/
The Russia Investigations: Another Oligarch Becomes Embroiled In The Imbroglio https://www.npr.org/2018/05/12/610466404/the-russia-investigations-did-a-nice-oligarch-pay-trump-s-lawyer
Russian Oligarch’s Cousin Funneled Cash to N.Y. Politician https://www.thedailybeast.com/republican-george-devolder-santos-got-cash-from-andrew-intrater-cousin-of-russian-oligarch-viktor-vekselberg
Moscow Heat: George Santos and His Moscow Trips https://petestrzok.substack.com/p/moscow-heat?r=1pz15w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Russians getting seized off the street by police to go fight in Ukraine https://twitter.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1609668327525203969
Firm Tied to Russian Oligarch Made Payments to Michael Cohen https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/us/politics/michael-cohen-shell-company-payments.html
A tiny paper broke the George Santos scandal but no one paid attention https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/29/north-shore-leader-santos-scoop/
GOP operative convicted in scheme to funnel Russian money into Trump campaign https://www.axios.com/2022/11/18/trump-campaign-jesse-benton-russia
$858,000,000,000 - by Judd Legum - Popular Information
SBF and the Injustice Democrats - by Max Berger (substack.com)
The Ties That Bind: Ehud Barak’s Business Network - CTech (calcalistech.com)
‘Israel today, Israel tomorrow, Israel forever,’ Rep. Hakeem Jeffries says at NY rally – Mondoweiss
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Sarah Kenzier, the author of the best sellers, the view from flyover country and hiding |
| 0:15.7 | in plain sight, and of the book They New, how a culture of conspiracy keeps America complacent |
| 0:21.8 | out now. |
| 0:22.8 | I'm Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker, and the writer and producer of the journalistic |
| 0:28.9 | thriller Mr. Jones about Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine. |
| 0:33.8 | The film The Cremlin does not want you to see, so be sure to watch it. |
| 0:37.6 | And this is Gaslit Nation, a podcast covering corruption in the United States and rising |
| 0:42.4 | autocracy around the world. |
| 0:45.0 | And on Tuesday, January 24th at 12 p.m. Eastern, Sarah and I are going to show you how the |
| 0:52.2 | sausage gets made here at Gaslit Nation. |
| 0:54.9 | You are invited to a live taping of the show, followed by a live Q&A. |
| 1:00.0 | We'll answer questions. |
| 1:02.3 | Whatever you got, we will answer it because the questions we get here for our listeners |
| 1:07.0 | are always interesting, funny, deeply personal and profound. |
| 1:11.7 | So we look forward to that. |
| 1:13.7 | And if you want to get a ticket to that event, just support the show at the democracy defender |
| 1:19.2 | level or higher on Patreon. |
| 1:21.3 | And by subscribing there, you also get our weekly bonus episodes and our regular Q&As. |
| 1:26.1 | And thank you to everyone who keeps Gaslit Nation running. |
| 1:29.0 | It is a show that, you know, we started off as an outlier. |
| 1:33.2 | And voila, here we are all these years later. |
| 1:35.2 | Fifth year of Gaslit Nation. |
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