Trump & the Age of Disinformation (with Barb McQuade)

Stay Tuned with Preet

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Society & Culture, Politics, Government

4.8 • 32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Barb McQuade is the former US Attorney from Michigan, and current University of Michigan Law School professor, NBC legal analyst, and Cafe contributor. She joins Preet to discuss her new book, Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America, and how false information has become a serious threat to national security. Plus, the latest Trump gag order and the Mayorkas impeachment. For show notes and a transcript of the episode head to: https://cafe.com/stay-tuned/barb-mcquade-trump-disinformation-book/ Have a question for Preet? Ask @PreetBharara on Threads, or Twitter with the hashtag #AskPreet. Email us at staytuned@cafe.com, or call 669-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. Stay Tuned with Preet is brought to you by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, welcome to stay tuned.
0:05.0	I'm Preet Barara.
0:08.0	What they really want to do is destroy the whole concept of truth.
0:11.0	That there really is no such thing as truth, truth is
0:14.2	unknowable, truth is for suckers, and so what you really ought to believe is
0:19.3	whichever side shares your values.
0:23.0	That's my friend Barb McQuaid.
0:31.0	She's the former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan and now is a law professor at the University of Michigan Law School. She's also a legal analyst for NBC and MS NBC and our very own cafe contributor, where she writes a monthly column, Note from Barb.
0:46.2	She's out with a new book called Attack from Within, How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America.
0:52.1	In it, she chronicles and dissects this very urgent issue in
0:55.1	American politics. From the lies that led to January 6th, to the ways people
0:59.6	unwittingly spread false information every day. We talk about how disinformation got to be so bad,
1:05.3	the ways polarization feeds lies and the nature of truth itself. We also discuss some recent
1:11.4	legal news in the very busy world of the Trump trials.
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