The Bushra Amiwala Interview
Gaslit Nation
Gaslit Nation
4.8 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Gaslit Nation is excited to announce a new show, for our subscribers, featuring Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman, a researcher on investigative journalist Craig Unger’s bestselling books House of Trump, House of Putin and American Kompromat.
“The oligarchs see the people like the sh*t they grow their money in.” That’s what Andrea heard while living in Ukraine in 2006, and it perfectly captures the crisis the world faces today. Chaos weapon Donald Trump is a reality TV star of terror whose job is to destroy laws, regulations, and protections to enrich the shadowy elite profiting from global misery. They hide behind Trump. It’s time to make them famous.
Follow the Money will feature Andrea and Olga every week, exposing who’s getting rich off Trump, Putin, and other merchants of chaos, and what can be done about it.
Gen Z is rising up. In this special episode, community organizer and school board official Bushra Amiwala, now running for Congress in Illinois’s 9th District, shares her story, her generation’s view of a world in turmoil, and how they plan to build a more progressive and inclusive future, with our help.
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Show Notes:
DOD accepts anonymous $130M donation to partially cover troop pay White House and military officials will not say who the donor is or whether the gift has been properly vetted. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/24/dod-accepts-anonymous-130-million-donation-to-partially-cover-troop-pay-00622219
Watch ad and Reagan address at centre of Trump ending Canada trade talks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCKmMEFiLrI
Bushra for Congress: https://www.bushraforcongress.com/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to this special interview. I'm going to play it in a moment, but first, |
| 0:08.4 | I have an exciting announcement. Longtime Gaslit Nation listeners have often heard me, quote, |
| 0:15.7 | a saying that I heard in Ukraine back when I lived there in 2016 for a couple months, like half a year. |
| 0:23.4 | And this saying was, the oligarchs see the people like the shit they grow their money in. |
| 0:30.6 | And that is everything that we are up against. |
| 0:33.3 | As I've long said on Gaslit Nation, it is infuriating that narcissist Trump sucks all the energy, all the oxygen out of the room. |
| 0:42.0 | Like he is a reality show host of terror. He knows exactly what he's doing. And his narcissism is giving cover to a lot of criminals, a lot of corruption, including of extremely elite, fancy-looking people |
| 0:56.9 | that are hiding in the shadows, profiting off of this chaos and the world's misery. So it is time to |
| 1:04.3 | make them famous. For that, the fantastic, fearless Russian mafia expert, Olga Lottmanman of the Trump tyranny tracker over on |
| 1:13.9 | Substack, she and I are joining forces to launch a new show called, of course, follow the money, |
| 1:22.2 | where every week we are going to highlight names, names, names, name them, make them famous, drag people |
| 1:31.0 | out of the shadows into the light because it's not all Trump. It's not going to stop with Trump |
| 1:38.0 | when he goes away. Trump came to power with the help of elites, with the help of a lot of corporations shadow networks |
| 1:47.2 | and it's time to highlight who is getting rich off with this who is having a grand old time |
| 1:52.1 | so i'm excited for this show if you are a gaslit nation subscriber you will get access to this |
| 1:57.5 | show so don't worry you don't have to do anything. You are all set. |
| 2:05.2 | And it's going to come out. We're not sure yet. We're doing our first episode this coming week, |
| 2:11.4 | probably on Wednesdays or Thursdays. And we're so excited to bring it to you. And for the Gassett Nation listeners who are joining us over on Patreon for our Monday salon happening |
| 2:16.7 | today at 4 p.m. Eastern. The Zoom link is there for you. |
| 2:21.7 | And I am obviously, as you can hear from this on my voice, very amped up. There's a lot for us to talk |
| 2:26.0 | about. We can talk about the Pocodot-a-dressed woman, the woman who was just on her way home, |
| 2:31.2 | dressed, you know, as though she's like walking out of corporate America in the streets of Lower Manhattan, where she made it her business to try to stop an ice |
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