More Damaging Epstein Emails Emerge While the Real “Smoking Gun” Remains Epstein’s Ties to Israeli Intelligence
We begin with House Democrats releasing incriminating emails from Epstein expressing surprise that Trump had not been tied to his and Maxwell’s sex trafficking victims, one of whom Epstein said Trump spent hours with at his house, going on to describe Trump in a 2018 email to Larry Summers as “borderline insane.” In response, Republicans on the House Oversight Committee just released 23,000 pages of documents from the Epstein estate. We discuss how the real “smoking gun” yet to be fired is Epstein’s ties to Israeli intelligence. Joining us is Nina Burleigh, a senior editor at The New Republic, best-selling author, documentary producer, and publisher of the Substack American Freakshow. A professor at New York University’s Arthur J. Carter Journalism Institute, she’s written seven books, the latest of which include Golden Handcuffs: The Secret History of Trump’s Women, and she has a new novel, Zero Visibility Possible. She is the Producer of a documentary series on Apple TV, “Epstein’s Shadow.”
Silicon Valley’s Migration to Texas with Musk’s Monarcho-Capitalism Embracing the Christian Nationalism of Petrobaptists
Then we look into the migration of big tech from Silicon Valley to Texas where the demand for electricity from giant AI and crypto server farms is driving up electricity prices for Texans as well as the fusion of techno-fascism and Christo-fascism with Elon Musk’s monarcho-capitalism embracing the Christian nationalism of Petrobaptists. Joining us is Fred Turner, the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University. He is the author or co-author of five books including Seeing Silicon Valley: Life inside a Fraying America and From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism, and he has an article at The Baffler, we discuss, “The Texan Ideology: Silicon Valley looks for Lebensraum in the Bible Belt.”
A New Poll That Finds GOP Voters See Trump as Tough, Intelligent or a Peacemaker While Democrats and Independents Say He’s Destructive, Erratic or Reckless
Then finally we assess a new poll that finds GOP voters are most likely to call Trump tough, intelligent, or a peacemaker while Democrats and independents say he’s destructive, erratic, or reckless. Joining us is Jonathan Guyer, program director at the Institute for Global Affairs at the Eurasia Group. A reporter and editor focused on foreign policy, national security, and the Middle East, he is an Arabic and Hebrew speaker and spent 5 years as a correspondent in Egypt. He is a regular contributor at The New Republic, New York Magazine, The Guardian among others, and is the co-author of a new study at The Eurasia Group we discuss, “Reckless Peacemaker: How Americans See Trump’s Foreign Policy.”