Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org. I'm Ian Masters,

and today we'll examine a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with a reporter who I spoke to with Live from the Scene on January 6th, 2021,

as the U.S. Capitol is being stormed by Trump's insurrectionists.

We'll discuss how Trump is now castigating his followers for being stupid and weaklings after having fed

them lies and delusions in line with QAnon for years, which now are inconvenient as Trump

tries to shut down all talk about his former best friend, Jeffrey Epstein.

Joining us is Will Summer, a senior reporter at the Bullwark where he authors the false flag

biweekly newsletter.

The author of Trust the Plan, The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy that Unhinged America.

He previously worked as a politics reporter for The Daily Beast and as a host of the podcast, Fever Dreams.

His work covering QAnon and other conspiracy theories has been featured in multiple documentaries,

including HBO's Q Into the Storm and his latest articles at The Bullwark we will discuss

are the five maga factions waging an Epstein civil war, a taxonomy of truculent trumpists,

and Trump's right-wing media machine turns on him.

Then we're looking to the firing by Attorney General Bondi of Maureen Comey, who was a Southern

District of New York prosecutor in the Epstein, Maxwell and Sean Combs cases,

whose father, the former director of the FBI, James Comey, is high up on Trump and Patel's

enemies list. Joining us to discuss this and other matters is Scott Horton, a former lecturer

at Columbia Law School, and a contributor at Harper's and Legal Affairs and

National Security. He serves on the American branch of the International Law Association and has

represented a variety of journalists and whistleblowers. Then finally we'll examine the walkout by

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