About this episode

The episode discusses Trump's alleged extortion of the IRS, the Ebola health emergency, and various political and global issues.

Today's Headlines: Trump is reportedly willing to drop his $10 billion IRS lawsuit in exchange for a $1.7 billion government slush fund to pay out political allies — including $230 million for himself, a waiver on all family tax audits, and a public IRS apology — totally extortion. Meanwhile, Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy, one of the only Republicans who voted to convict Trump after January 6th, lost his primary and became the first senator in 12 years to lose one, because minimal backbone has a price in today's GOP. Because hantavirus clearly wasn’t enough to worry about, the WHO declared Ebola a global health emergency after outbreaks in Uganda and the DRC with 246 suspected cases, no available vaccine, and no functioning USAID to help — and the person Trump put in charge of the hantavirus response is a urologist who specializes in penile implants and has promoted pandemic conspiracy theories, so we're in great hands. In other news, Trump's new counterterrorism strategy ranks drug cartels above Islamist militants, considers leftists on par with al-Qaeda, and doesn't mention far-right extremism at all, though Sebastian Gorka did find time to call out Tucker Carlson…

Topics covered

• counterterrorism
• politics
• health emergency
• taxation
• global affairs

Keywords

• Trump
• IRS lawsuit
• Ebola
• hantavirus
• Bill Cassidy
• Kataib Hezbollah
• counterterrorism
• global health

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: WHO, USAID, Kataib Hezbollah

Places: Iran, Uganda, DRC, UAE

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