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Transcript:
Today, the presidency is somehow getting even darker, but also dumber, at the same time.
We are going to start with Donald Trump’s $1,776 cash payout to troops. It’s wrapped in patriotism and grievance and costume-playing like the founding fathers, but Trump is meanwhile ramping up this oil-driven war talk about Venezuela, and there is a reason that people are getting a little nervous about the timing.
Then Trump actually does something on cannabis. It’s not legalization, and it’s not really reform, but it is a move that Republicans swore would never happen, and now it blows a hole straight into their own talking points.
And then we also have Susie Wiles, the current Chief of Staff, starting to push Trump into sabotage, as it was her idea for Trump’s deranged Wednesday night speech this week.
We will also hear from a doctor about the medical state of play, and then a Fox News host, of all people, calls out Howard Lutnik for this ridiculous math of reducing the price of something 600%.
We’ll also have your emails and comments and so much more.
What a day.
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