About this episode

The episode discusses recent political events including Delaware's court ruling on corporate voting, Trump's threats, and taxation proposals in California and New York.

Today's Headlines: A Delaware court ruled that companies can vote in municipal elections in the beach town of Fenwick Island — not just business owners, but the companies themselves as entities — and given that two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies are incorporated in Delaware, that's either a quirky local ordinance or the most efficient corporate takeover of democracy ever attempted. Joe Biden is suing the Trump administration to block the DOJ from releasing audio recordings of his conversations with his ghostwriter, which the DOJ is planning to drop on June 15th purely for the humiliation factor, since the investigation was closed and no charges were ever filed. Trump threatened Oman — the Gulf state that has been acting as the diplomatic channel between the US and Iran — during a Cabinet meeting, saying they'd better "behave or we'll blow em up." On the reflecting pool saga, a National Park Service analysis found that Trump's no-bid pool contractor — his favorite pool guy, does all his pools — submitted a contract with an $850,000 overcharge above the typical profit margin, and it turns out the contractor can't even seal the gaps between the concrete slabs, which is a fairly…

Topics covered

• politics
• corporate governance
• legal issues
• international relations
• taxation
• elections

Keywords

• Trump
• Biden
• Delaware
• Oman
• corporate voting
• Traitor Fund
• luxury tax
• National Park Service
• insider trading

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Department of Justice, National Park Service, California Governor Gavin Newsom

Places: Oman, Delaware, Fenwick Island

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