Republicans Turn To Cheap Fakes In The Presidential Election
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🗓️ 26 June 2024
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Summary
Ready or not, tomorrow is debate day. And both President Joe Biden, 81, and former President Donald Trump, 78, are under a lot of pressure to show they're fit for re-election. While Biden hunkers down at Camp David to prepare, Trump has been getting an assist from his supporters sharing selectively edited "cheap fake" videos that pray on voter concerns over Biden's age. Tom Nichols, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins us to talk about why Republicans are resorting to spreading these easily debunked videos, and why they're so insidious.
And in headlines: The Israeli Supreme Court ruled that ultra-Orthodox Jewish men must enter the military draft, Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange pleaded guilty to one felony count of illegally obtaining and disclosing U.S. military secrets, and the U.S. surgeon general declared gun violence a public health crisis.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, June 26th. I'm Alexis Johnson. |
| 0:04.3 | And I'm Travel Anderson, and this is what a day. |
| 0:07.8 | The show where we're very intrigued by a plan developed by French economist Gabriel Zookman to tax the world's 3,000 billionaires. |
| 0:17.0 | The plan would net an extra 250 billion dollars per year in tax revenue |
| 0:22.0 | which gets a big we male C from us. |
| 0:25.0 | Pay in their fair share? |
| 0:27.0 | What kinds of crazy schemes will they think of that? |
| 0:31.0 | On today's show, the US Surgeon General declares gun violence is a public health |
| 0:35.4 | emergency in the country. Plus, the judge in disgraced former President Trump's |
| 0:39.9 | hush money case has partially lifted the gag order. |
| 0:43.2 | Unfortunately, so prepare yourself to hear a lot more from Trump about this case. |
| 0:48.1 | We gonna be very sick of him, very soon if you are not already. But first, ready or not tomorrow is debate day. President |
| 0:57.6 | Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will face off for 90 minutes on CNN starting at 9 PM Eastern. |
| 1:05.0 | And frankly, both of them are under a lot of pressure to show that they're fit for re-election. |
| 1:11.0 | Whoever wins in November, they'll be the oldest person ever elected president. |
| 1:15.9 | Joe Biden is 81, Donald Trump just turned 78. And Trump is also dealing with the extra baggage of being a convicted felon now, so the stakes really couldn't be any higher. |
| 1:27.4 | Yeah, Trevel, I know that Biden has spent the last few days hold up with his team at Camp David to study and practice for the debate. |
| 1:34.8 | But what about Trump? |
| 1:36.2 | What have he in his campaign been doing? |
| 1:38.3 | Well Trump is reportedly holding some informal policy meetings with his advisors, but mostly he's just running his |
| 1:45.1 | mouth on the campaign trail and of course he's going very low at rallies over the |
| 1:50.0 | weekend he spent some time attacking the CNN moderators as biased he also made fun of |
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