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Like this one, download 11 Reader for free on your favorite app store today. Hello, and welcome to episode eight of the David Fromm show.

I'm David Frum, a staff writer at The Atlantic.

My guest this week will be George Packer, an Atlantic colleague, an author of an

incisive new profile

of Vice President J.D. Vance, the talented Mr. Vance. At the end of the program, I'm going to

discuss a little bit. I have some thoughts about an important new book, a biography of former

National Security Advisors Zbignia Bersinski by Ed Luce, a columnist for the Financial Times.

But first, let me offer some thoughts on the week just past.

I record this discussion on Memorial Day 2025, the day when Americans honor those who have served

America to the utmost of human capability by laying down their lives for their country.

It seems a fitting occasion to try to address the monstrous display of self-service

we've seen in the past days from the Trump administration, this staggeringly corrupt

administration, not just the most corrupt administration in American history, but one of the

most corrupt administrations of any Democratic country ever.

Two things just from the week's docket.

This past week, President Trump hosted a dinner for some 200, more than 200 people who were invited to dinner with the President of the United States because they had purchased souvenir meme coins directly from his company.

They paid millions of dollars. Many of them were

foreign nationals. We don't know their names because those have not been disclosed, but they

directly bought access to the president of the United States by putting money into the hands

of his own company in exchange really for nothing because these are just mean. They're souvenir

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