Trump Will Use the Assassination of Charlie Kirk to Further His Dictatorial Takeover of the United States
We begin with the heated rhetoric coming from Trump and his MAGA influencers following the assassination of the very successful right wing activist Charlie Kirk with calls for civil war, this is WAR and fight or die. We assess the probability that Trump will use Kirk’s killing to further his dictatorial takeover of the United States and explore the possibility that an upsurge in right wing violence will follow if the assassin is a far-leftist and in turn, left wing violence will follow as a response to a fascist takeover of America. Joining us is Barbara Walter, the Rohr Professor of International Affairs at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California San Diego and one of the world’s leading experts on civil wars, violent extremism and domestic terror. The author of five books, her latest is the New York Times bestseller How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them.
Can We Trust Anything Coming From Patel and Bongino’s FBI?
Then we examine whether we can trust anything coming from Patel and Bongino’s FBI since Trump’s unhinged fanboy Patel has already shown his amateurism by announcing the FBI had a suspect in custody after he had already fired the highly respected FBI agent in charge of the FBI field office in Salt Lake City. Joining us is Tom Mockaitis, a professor of history at DePaul University, where he teaches courses in British, Modern European, and Military History. His research and writing cover international security, terrorism, unconventional conflict, and military history. He has taught counter-terrorism courses at venues around the world as part of the U.S. Department of Defense Counter-terrorism Fellowship Program and is the author of many books including ‘New’ Terrorism: Myths and Reality and Violent Extremists: Understanding the Domestic and International Terrorist Threat and his latest article at The Hill is “Trump’s Orwellian revisionist history rewrites America’s reality.“
South Korea’s President Warns That Companies Will be “Very Hesitant” to Invest in the US After the Massive ICE Raid on a Hyundai Plant in Georgia
Then finally we speak with Bruce Cumings, a Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago. He has won numerous awards and is the author of the acclaimed books Korea’s Place in the Sun, War and Television, and The Origins of the Korean War. He writes regularly for The Nation, the Atlantic Monthly, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times Book Review. and we discuss the warning from the South Korean president that companies will be “very hesitant” about investing in the US following the massive immigration raid on a Hyundai battery plant in Georgia.