Important Bonus Show: Trump, Egypt, and Russia
Gaslit Nation
Gaslit Nation
4.7 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Look out for an important deep dive bonus episode of Gaslit Nation publishing August 30th at 12am ET on Trump, Egypt, and Russia, with a special focus on nuclear power in the Middle East and its connection to Trump's MAGA footsoldiers.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, especially my fellow Americans. I know it's the end of August. People are doing |
| 0:08.7 | whatever they can to check out, read some trashy beach read. I'm with you on that. I am doing my |
| 0:16.6 | own self-care. I'm getting a little bit of cocooning in before we're all going to be putting it |
| 0:21.4 | all out on the field in these final critical weeks before the big election. But I want to |
| 0:26.7 | draw your attention to a deep dive bonus episode, a Gaslit Nation that I've been working on |
| 0:32.9 | for several weeks. This is one you are going to want to bookmark. It is very important. It is looking, |
| 0:39.9 | of course, at one of the biggest stories of the last several years, which is getting lost |
| 0:48.6 | in what Steve Bannon likes to call the fire hose of shit, where they're deliberately flooding the zone |
| 0:56.3 | with shit. There's so many scandals, it's hard to keep up in this 24-hour news cycle. It's all |
| 1:01.3 | deliberately done to confuse us, to divide us, to break us down so we don't remember our power |
| 1:07.8 | and join together and fight back and be clear-headed about it. |
| 1:10.9 | And that story that we all need to do a big grounding, a collective grounding exercise around |
| 1:16.3 | is the Washington Post investigation in how Trump broke the law by essentially taking a $10 million |
| 1:26.2 | cash bribe from the dictator of Egypt at a time when he |
| 1:32.4 | was a pariah under President Obama's foreign policy. |
| 1:35.9 | This is a very important story for all of us to sit with and understand. |
| 1:39.9 | I read the original investigation and as any journalist when you're reading what's being reported, |
| 1:45.9 | you always ask yourself, what's missing from this story? What's missing from this story? Where does this go next? |
| 1:52.2 | And so I looked into Trump, Russia, and Egypt. I looked into the nuclear power stations that are |
| 1:58.1 | being built by Russia across the Middle East, including in Egypt starting this |
| 2:02.0 | year, and that a lot of a Trump, a lot of members of Trump's groom squad, including Michael Flynn |
| 2:07.2 | and Bannon and Jared Kushner, were pushing on behalf of Russia. And I did a big old explainer |
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