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Trump's Never-Ending Enemies List

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Daily News, News

4.6 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Former special counsel Jack Smith testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday about the steps President Donald Trump and his allies took to overturn the 2020 election and to foment the January 6th insurrection. Smith did this knowing that he is already at the top of Trump’s enemies list — which the President is increasingly using the Department of Justice to prosecute. For more on the Trump administration’s latest investigations, we spoke with Ken White. He’s a former federal prosecutor and criminal defense attorney who hosts the legal podcast, “Serious Trouble.”

And in headlines, Vice President JD Vance arrives in Minnesota to “tone down the temperature a little bit,” Trump establishes the Gaza ‘Board of Peace’ as an official international organization, and the White House Twitter account gets caught being dishonest.

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0:00.0

It's Friday, January 23rd. I'm Jane Koston, and this is What Today, the show that has three questions for Vice President J.D. Vance about his Thursday comments on the economy. First, what was the Titanic?

0:15.8

Second, is the current U.S. economy comparable to the Titanic? And third, what happened to the Titanic?

0:23.1

You don't turn the Titanic around overnight.

0:26.1

It takes time to fix what was broken.

0:29.3

Happy to talk by phone or email about the Titanic, JD.

0:32.7

I'm looking forward to it.

0:50.4

On today's show, Vice President Vance arrives in Minnesota and the temperature just happens to dive to 7 degrees below freezing.

0:55.8

Coincidence? Almost certainly. And the small horde of in cells that appears to run the White House Twitter account gets caught being dishonest. Can you imagine? But let's start with the Department

1:01.5

of Justice. You know how there are phrases that you just don't want to hear? Let's add, wow,

1:06.9

the Trump Department of Justice is sure busy to the list. On Thursday, the DOJ announced charges

1:12.4

against protesters in Minneapolis, who interrupted a church service to protest a pastor who is

1:17.3

alleged to be a top ICE official in the Twin Cities. This happened basically just as

1:22.8

Vice President J.D. Vance arrived in the state. He spoke at a press conference where he said it would be

1:27.4

crazy to think that members of immigration and customs enforcement had some kind of J.D. Vance arrived in the state. He spoke at a press conference where he said it would be crazy

1:28.2

to think that members of immigration and customs enforcement had some kind of immunity.

1:32.9

No, I didn't say, and I don't think any other official within the Trump administration said

1:36.9

that officers who engaged in wrongdoing would enjoy immunity. That's absurd.

1:41.1

Which is so weird, because here's White House Deputy Chief of Staff and worst personal

1:46.3

lives, Stephen Miller, saying the exact opposite thing last week on Fox News.

1:50.6

You have immunity to perform your duties, and no one, no city official, no state official,

1:56.1

no illegal alien, no leftist agitator or domestic insurrectionist can prevent you from fulfilling your

2:03.6

legal obligations and duties. If you're thinking, well, maybe Stephen Miller doesn't mean immunity

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