Trump Brings the War Home [UNLOCKED]
5-4
Prologue Projects
4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
California has become a testing ground for Trump's police state ambitions. In Los Angeles and across the country, he’s merging the military and the police into one entity, with its guns aimed inward.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, y'all. Reanne here with a gift to our beautiful, smart, and powerful listeners. |
| 0:06.2 | We are unlocking the premium episode that we released earlier this week, so that now it is on |
| 0:12.1 | the free feed and available to everybody. This episode is about the militarization of immigration |
| 0:18.1 | enforcement and the police, about how the Trump administration is incorporating |
| 0:23.0 | the U.S. military into this racist and violent kidnappings of our neighbors. We start with talking |
| 0:31.6 | about what happened in Los Angeles earlier this summer, and you actually have many of our |
| 0:37.2 | paid subscribers to thank for us releasing |
| 0:40.3 | this. A bunch of people said that they wanted to see this episode unlocked for everyone |
| 0:45.2 | so that it can be heard by more people and shared widely. So go off kings, queens, royalty. |
| 0:53.8 | Before I turn it over to the episode, I just want to remind |
| 0:56.7 | everyone that if you like this episode, you can check out our entire backlog of premium |
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| 1:10.6 | about more ambitious topics in law and |
| 1:14.5 | politics, from episodes on copaganda to the legal battles under authoritarianism, to what |
| 1:23.4 | the hellie is going on in John Roberts' mind. These episodes are usually a little longer |
| 1:30.5 | than our case episodes. We will talk to an expert sometimes or a lot of the time bring in |
| 1:36.6 | our own extra research. And Michael usually has at least two rage rants per premium episode. So check it all out by subscribing for $5 or $10 a |
| 1:49.4 | month at patreon.com slash 54pod, all spelled out. See ya. |
| 2:00.0 | Hey, everyone. |
| 2:01.2 | This is Leon from Prologue Projects. |
| 2:04.0 | On this subscriber-only episode of 5 to 4, Peter, Riannon, and Michael are talking about President |
| 2:10.0 | Trump's immigration crackdown, specifically as it relates to two ongoing cases in California. |
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