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Trump’s revenge agenda

Marketplace All-in-One

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4.5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Some critics of President-elect Donald Trump are preparing for the possibility of being prosecuted when he takes office. We’ll discuss Trump’s “retribution” agenda. Then, we’ll get into his pick to lead the Federal Communications Commission. Plus, what a meeting between “Morning Joe” hosts and Trump represents about access to information during the next administration. And, we’ll smile at the woman behind the curtain who inspired the “Wicked” lore.

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0:00.0

All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. Yeah, Jake's looking at me and I'm like, no, man. You just go.

0:08.7

Hey, everybody. I'm Kyle Rizzol. Welcome back to Make Me Smart. Where we make today makes sense.

0:14.4

And I'm Kimberly Adams. Thanks for joining us on this Monday, November the 18th. Monday, news, smiles, and off we go. Kimberly Adams, news, please.

0:24.2

A couple of things all related to the transition and the incoming president-elect. The first,

0:31.1

I just want to mark this moment. So we're getting this deluge of Trump's pick picks for various federal agencies and things like that, including who he wants to run the Federal Communications Commission, guy named Brendan Carr.

0:46.6

Many interesting things to say about that pick, but the one that I care about is that this is the guy who wrote the chapter on the FCC in Project 2025, lest anyone

0:57.2

believed the distancing language we heard during the campaign from the Trump.

1:04.1

And she's like, oh, it's not my thing.

1:06.7

And it's a totally different group of people.

1:10.7

And there's definitely like, I had heard rumors that, like, the Trump folks were really mad at the Project 2025 folks for, like, getting out ahead and giving them such bad press.

1:20.9

But apparently not that mad.

1:22.9

No, clearly not.

1:24.1

And if you actually believe that Project 2025 wasn't going to find its way into this administration, I got a bridge in freaking Brooklyn.

1:32.9

So the other thing is I've seen a couple of articles on this, one in the Washington Post and the other in The Guardian about the people who are legitimately concerned about retribution from Trump and his allies.

1:49.5

You know, I know we talked about the people who didn't like the outcome of the election and are talking about leaving the country for, you know, just because they don't want to be here.

1:57.5

But there are a lot of people, including many former military officials

2:02.5

and people who've signed like open letters, denouncing Trumps, people at the Department of

2:07.5

Justice who've been investigating the president-elect, who are legitimately fearful of retribution.

2:14.9

And so the Guardian has reporting about how a lot of them are starting to talk to lawyers. The post has the headline on the post story is go bags, passports, foreign assets, preparing to be a target of Trump's revenge with a lot of people literally making plans to be out of the country come inauguration day. And, yeah, that's, it's dark.

2:37.6

That's dark.

2:38.6

But not unreasonable.

2:40.4

No, no, totally.

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