Background Briefing: August 13, 2026
Our Banana Republic Dictator Orders Blanche and Pirro to Punish Innocent Americans For Embarrassing the “Dear Leader”
We begin with the DoJ turning into a Banana Republic dictator’s plaything with Trump demanding trumped up charges get reinstated against innocent Americans because the “dear leader” was made to look like the fool he is for hiring incompetent clowns to turn the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool into a swimming pool blue but instead it ended up algae green. Joining us to discuss Trump’s aggressive lawfare and how citizens groups can be deployed to stop the stealing of the next election is Garrett Epps, the Legal Affairs Editor at The Washington Monthly. He taught Constitutional Law at the University of Baltimore Law School and Oregon University Law School as well as American University, Boston College, and Duke University and served for ten years as Supreme Court Correspondent of The Atlantic. We discuss his latest article at The Washington Monthly, “Trump’s Election Subversion Plans? Which ones are most concerning, and how you can save democracy.”
Iran Plans to Drag Out the Stalemate in the Gulf Past the November Elections to Punish Trump
Then we look into how Iran plans to drag out the stalemate in the Gulf past the November elections to punish Trump and go to Israel to speak with Ori Goldberg, an Israeli author, academic, and political commentator. A former university professor who has written extensively on Iran and Israel and the relationship between religion and politics in the Middle East, he is currently an independent Israeli political analyst and he has an article at +972 Magazine, “As Iran and the U.S. talk, Israel chooses eternal war.”
As Putin Destroys Ukraine Which He Cannot Conquer, VP Vance Leans on Zelensky Not To Bomb Russian Oil Terminals Chevron and Exxon Have Stakes in
Then finally we examine how VP Vance leaned on Zelensky to stop Ukraine from bombing Russian oil terminals that Chevron and Exxon have stakes in and assess the dangerous escalation of Russia’s war on Ukraine which Putin cannot conquer but can destroy. Joining us is Anders Aslund, a senior fellow at the Stockholm Free World Forum, a professor at the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies at Georgetown University and a former senior fellow at The Atlantic Council. A member of the Russian academy of Natural Sciences, he worked as a Swedish Diplomat in Moscow and served as an economic advisor to the governments of Russia and Ukraine. His books include Ukraine: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It and Russia’s Crony Capitalism: The Path From Market Economy to Kleptocracy.