Trump Hints At Shift On Gaza, Witch-Hunt Against Students In the US Grows, Millions Face Deportation
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 12 April 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Brian and Layan discuss Trump’s possible shift in his policy of genocide on Gaza while the witch-hunt against U.S. students grows and Trump terrorizes millions by shutting down their bank accounts to encourage “self deportations” on this patrons-only episode.
Brian Becker is joined by Layan Sima Fuleihan, a Palestinian organizer with the Shut It Down for Palestine coalition, a popular educator, the Education Director at The People’s Forum, and an editor at 1804 Books.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Socialist Program. |
| 0:04.0 | This is John Prysner, a producer of this show. |
| 0:07.0 | This is a preview of a patrons-only episode. |
| 0:10.0 | Subscribe at patreon.com slash the Socialist Program to hear the full episode, |
| 0:16.0 | get access to all our patrons-only content, including live Q&A seminars with Brian Becker, and help |
| 0:22.4 | keep this show on the air. |
| 0:27.1 | Donald Trump is coercing thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of immigrants |
| 0:32.7 | to self-deport by shutting down their bank accounts. |
| 0:36.4 | While the drama of the tariff war continues, |
| 0:39.3 | Trump's friends get richer, perhaps from having insider knowledge that Trump was going to |
| 0:43.9 | pause the tariffs against many countries. And while the genocide in Gaza continues, Trump may be |
| 0:50.9 | considering a new ceasefire agreement. Why? To sweeten his deals with Saudi Arabia. |
| 0:57.3 | I'm Leanne Seema Fullahan here with Brian Becker, and this is In the News, a segment of the |
| 1:02.6 | Socialist program, a patrons-only show. |
| 1:05.6 | Leanne, we have a lot to talk about again this week. We say that every week, but of course |
| 1:10.1 | there's so much in the news. |
| 1:12.8 | I want to start, though, because, you know, $7 trillion was lost on the stock market last |
| 1:18.5 | Thursday and Friday. The stock market continues in chaos. You mentioned Donald Trump's |
| 1:25.1 | friends got suddenly even richer because they apparently had insider |
| 1:29.0 | knowledge that he was going to pause at least some of the tariffs. |
| 1:32.9 | This has been a complete debacle for U.S. capitalism. |
| 1:37.3 | And for millions of people, pensions are tied up with the stock market. |
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