I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Wednesday, June

night. Many things are different in the Biden administration than they were under Donald Trump, right?

We could spend the next hour counting the ways.

Let's not minimize that.

But some things are not that different.

A Washington Post column by Ruth Marcus today says, quote,

rather astonishingly, the Biden Justice Department is continuing the Trump administration's efforts

to shield the former

president from a defamation suit filed by author E. Gene Carroll, who says that Trump sexually

assaulted her in the 1990s and then slandered her when she went public with her claim in 2019.

The column notes that Attorney General Merrick Garland is also appealing a federal judge's

order to release a full version of a memo about the Mueller report from the Trump administration,

and Garland is arguing to dismiss a lawsuit against Trump and former Attorney General

William Barr for violating protesters' civil rights

during the violent clearing of Lafayette Square last year, that from the Washington Post

on the Justice Department.

Then there was this headline in Forbes on June 1st.

When it comes to weapons, the Biden administration's budget is just like Trump's.

We'll explore that on another day.

But Vice President Kamala Harris returned last night from a two-day trip to Mexico and

Guatemala facing criticism from some in her own party because while in Guatemala, maybe

kind of sort of like Trump would have done, she said

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