About this episode

The episode discusses recent political events including Lindsey Graham's Senate appointment, Trump's election claims, and ICE's actions in Maine.

Today's Headlines: Lindsey Graham's sister Darline Graham Nordone was appointed to his Senate seat within days of his death — never held office, framed as a neutral placeholder, and now South Carolina's first female senator, which would be more historic if it weren't handed to her by Trump as a favor. The FBI also showed up at Graham's DC home less than 48 hours after his death with at least 8 agents, claiming "abundance of caution" and "nothing indicated foul play." On the administration's ongoing efforts to undermine election integrity, Trump announced a primetime speech Thursday night, which MSNBC immediately reported will be used to declare the 2020 elections of Warnock and Ossoff illegitimate due to "voting machine vulnerabilities" — part of a broader whole-of-government effort to relitigate 2020 that includes a new White House task force run by Bill Pulte, whose dad is in the Epstein files, and thousands of pages of classified documents they claim show election irregularities. Two FBI agents in Atlanta were also fired for refusing to join the sham Georgia election probe. On Iran, US strikes on Iran entered their third consecutive night with the naval blockade back in full…

People in this episode

Host: Betches Media

Topics covered

• politics
• election integrity
• immigration
• government actions
• Iran relations
• Trump administration

Keywords

• Lindsey Graham
• Trump
• ICE
• election integrity
• Iran
• FBI
• Georgia
• South Carolina

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FBI, MSNBC, ICE

Places: South Carolina, Georgia, Maine

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