In This Episode
Trump has a Twitter meltdown over immigration after a MAGA revolt over the wall, Sinclair Broadcast Group forces local news anchors to read their propaganda, and White House corruption becomes a campaign issue for Democrats. Then Sacramento activist Berry Accius talks to Tommy about the protests over the shooting of Stephon Clark, and Ana Marie Cox joins the pod to talk about the 2nd season of With Friends Like These.
Show Notes:
Trump and DACA:
- Washington Post: ‘No more DACA deal,’ Trump says as he threatens to ‘stop’ NAFTA if Mexico doesn’t better secure border
- BuzzFeed: A Huge Caravan Of Central Americans Is Headed For The US, And No One In Mexico Dares To Stop Them
- New York Times: Ann Coulter to Donald Trump: Beware the Former Trumpers
- Daily Beast: Donald Trump ‘Cherishes’ Lou Dobbs So Much He Puts Him on Speakerphone for Oval Office Meetings
- Vox: No, Donald Trump can’t just use Pentagon money for his border wall
- Just Security: Exclusive: Mattis Drafting Specific Options for Using Defense Dollars to Pay for Trump’s Wall
- Bloomberg: How Failure of a ‘Dreamer’ Deal May Tip Control of Congress
Trump Media:
- New York Times: Sinclair Made Dozens of Local News Anchors Recite the Same Script
- Deadspin: How America’s Largest Local TV Owner Turned Its News Anchors Into Soldiers In Trump’s War On The Media
- Poynter Morning Mediawire: Local news is shrinking from The Sinclair Effect
- Bloomberg: Trump Calls Sinclair ‘Superior’ to CNN as Merger Awaits U.S. Nod
- Think Progress: Democratic congressional candidate stands up to Sinclair, pulls ads from local station
- New York Times: Laura Ingraham Takes a Week Off as Advertisers Drop Her Show
- AP FACT CHECK: Trump Departs From Reality on Wall, Amazon
Corrupt Trump administration has a corruption problem:
- New York Mag: Corruption, Not Russia, Is Trump’s Greatest Political Liability
- New York Times: Scott Pruitt, E.P.A. Chief, Rented Residence From Wife of Energy Lobbyist
- Vox: Why the campaign to force Scott Pruitt out of the EPA could backfire
- New Yorker: Scott Pruitt’s Dirty Politics
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