No, Trump Isn't Cracking Down on Crime. Plus, How Ukrainians Tell Their Story of the War.

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🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Trump's deployment of troops; how MAGA talks about authoritarianism; and Ukraine's memorials.

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0:00.0	This isn't about crime.
0:02.6	That's not what Donald Trump is doing.
0:03.9	He's seizing power.
0:05.1	President Trump is threatening to deploy federal troops to more cities, and news outlets
0:10.1	are falling for his justifications.
0:13.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:15.9	I'm Michael O'anger.
0:17.6	Four of MAGA's leading intellectuals just met to debate their visions of a more right-wing
0:23.6	America.
0:24.8	The inter-right argument that they're having is not over whether we should be authoritarian.
0:29.6	It's over just how naked, how aggressive, and how weird that authoritarianism should be.
0:35.7	Plus, why a Ukrainian mayor
0:37.6	invited the press to her town
0:39.3	in the aftermath of a mass tragedy.
0:42.1	When we were burying heroes
0:43.7	and when we were burying unknown
0:45.7	killed civilians, we did it
0:47.5	with the press to
0:49.5	record what really happened.
0:52.2	It's all coming up after this.
1:00.9	Music Record what really happened. It's all coming up after this. This is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:03.7	And I'm Michael Onger.
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