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Donald Trump allegedly sued his own administration and settled with himself, creating a $1.8 billion fund. This fund is reportedly intended to compensate January 6 rioters and others deemed 'unfairly prosecuted' for their politics. The settlement also includes blanket immunity for Trump and his family from IRS audits and investigations of past tax returns, with the fund terminating right before a new president would take office in 2028.

The president sued his own administration, settled with himself, created a slush fund that I guess he's going to be using to compensate people who engaged in rioting and assault at the capital on January 6th. [...] we're going to put a $1.8 billion fund together for January 6 riers and anybody else who Trump's who Trump deems to have been unfairly prosecuted in the past. [...] Trump also, as part of this settlement, seemed to carve out immunity from any IRS audits and investigations of his tax returns and his family's tax returns.

JD Vance, when questioned about Trump's stock trading and potential corruption, employed a tactic of lecturing the questioner on how to ask questions rather than directly answering. The hosts describe this as a 'slimy' and 'evasive' method, noting that while it might work for a Vice President flying under the radar, it would be ineffective for a presidential campaign.

what he does there is effectively very slimy and it's and it's evasive and you know he's like rather than answer your question I'm going to give you a lecture about how you should be asking questions then pretend that you asked a different question then you know go on a long filibuster to avoid actually answering that's fine you can get away with that from the uh podium in the White House briefing room when you are the vice president and therefore inherently never above the big like never the biggest story of the day because Trump's doing such crazy stuff, you can fly under the radar and get away with that. If you are campaigning for president and you are answering questions that way, it just won't work.

New revelations suggest that an early goal for a potential war with Iran, from Israel's perspective, was to install former hardline Iranian Prime Minister Ahmedad. This plan involved creating a leadership vacuum through targeted attacks, expecting Ahmedad to make a political comeback. The hosts found this plan 'amazingly stupid' and 'incompetent,' especially since Ahmedad was reportedly injured during an attempt to release him from house arrest by bombing his house.

the early uh goal for the war, I guess, from Israel's perspective, was to install Akmad, who might not [...] he was the prime minister of Iran. He was there was a period uh during mostly during the Obama administration where we didn't talk that much about the uh you know the supreme leader or whatever he's called um in Iran because uh like the Ayatollah because uh Ahmedad was a huge figure and he was a super right super like hardline Iranian politician who uh would say things you know death to America death to Israel we have to wipe Israel off the map that was his whole deal. [...] they thought they were going to do was they were going to create this leadership vacuum via all of these uh you know attacks from the air and all of these you know targeted missile attacks which they did somewhat do but instead of having uh a line of succession with the Ayatollah which is what it turns out has happened which has just empowered you know the revolutionary guard even more instead what they thought was going to happen was that that vacuum was going to be filled by Ahmedat that he was going to make his political comeback [...] in the process of trying to release him from house arrest by apparently bombing his house, uh he was injured. It's just like amazingly it turns out this plan was even stupider than we thought.

Graham Platner, Democratic candidate for US Senate in Maine, is running an entirely different kind of campaign focused on community organizing and movement building. He prioritizes extensive face-to-face engagement, holding multiple public events daily and building a robust volunteer base of over 15,000 people. This strategy aims to counter the influence of money in politics and connect directly with voters on material issues, contrasting with traditional, DC-style campaigns that have failed against Susan Collins in the past.

we are just running an entirely different kind of campaign. My background is in community organizing. My theory of power is fully derived from the idea of organizing and mobilizing people building a movement. I think that's a necessity in today's modern society. It's the only way that people can push back against the money that has taken over our political system. And for that reason, we are engaged in a field operation that from what we've been told has essentially never existed in the history of main politics. [...] I go everywhere. I talk to everyone. I have multiple public events a day and we engage our volunteer base to get the message out across all the small communities in Maine.

Graham Platner argues that education policy has long been driven by think tanks and consulting firms, rather than by listening to the people who do the work: teachers. He advocates for a shift in approach, emphasizing that while increased federal funding is important, these resources must directly benefit teachers and schools (e.g., higher pay, more supplies) instead of being diverted to consultants and policy papers, which he believes leads to poor outcomes.

for a long time the conversation and honestly the policy around education has primarily been driven by these like think tanks in educational consulting firms, not by listening to teachers, not by teachers unions. And I just come from a almost an ideological position that the people you should always listen to when it comes to any kind of job are the people that do the work. [...] if we put resources into it but those resources get diverted away from providing actual frankly like higher paychecks for teachers, more resources in schools, better schools, and it's diverted more into like the think tank world and the policy papers and the consultants. You can do all the spending you want, but you're still not going to get good outcomes.