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Is Our Megalomaniacal Wannabe Dictator About to Give Putin the Ultimate Gift of Destroying NATO and Imposing a Death Sentence on Ukraine? We begin with Trump’s apparent determination to take Greenland by force if he has to in spite of a bipartisan delegation of US lawmakers visiting Denmark and NATO countries sending in troops as … Continued
Trump, Vance, Hegseth and MAGA’s Deadly War on “Woke” Women We begin with the video released by VP Vance who apparently thought it was exculpatory, taken by the ICE murderer who filmed his victim, Renee Good, a 37 year-old mother of three whose last words to him were “I’m not mad at you” before she … Continued
Trump’s Monroe Doctrine: Threaten Greenland, Canada, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil But Support Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Honduras and Ecuador Whose Authoritarian Leaders Like Him and Keep on Maduro’s VP While Spurning the Nobel Prize-Winning Leader of Venezuela’s Opposition We begin with the seizure of Venezuela’s Maduro and his wife, hauled out of bed in the … Continued
An Interview From July on How We Are Already in a Constitutional Crisis Today we are continuing our retrospective of the major news stories of 2025 from the Background Briefing archives and go to an interview on July 20, 2025 when many were fretting over whether we might be in a constitutional crisis when we … Continued
Trump’s Deteriorating Mental and Physical Health We begin with the dam breaking in response to Trump’s disgusting remarks following the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife as tolerance for this sick, stupid, cruel and vulgar man’s behavior even upset some in MAGA world while Trump’s poll numbers crater and his public appearances are reduced … Continued
An Assessment of Trump’s New National Security Strategy We begin with Trump and Vance complaining that Europeans aren’t racist enough, wanting them to expel all the Muslims just as he is expelling all the brown skinned immigrants and minorities as fast as Stephen Miller can push ICE to meet his quotas. We assess Trump’s National … Continued
A Former JAG on Hegseth and Trump’s Murder Spree Which Are Not War Crimes Because We are Not at War We begin with emerging evidence of a war crime following a closed-door intelligence briefing at which a select group of Republican and Democratic lawmakers saw the full video of the September 2 strike on a … Continued
An Investigation Into the CIA-Run “Kill Or Capture” Zero Units the D.C. Shooter Worked With We begin the Trump administration’s racist focus on the Afghan shooter of 2 National Guard soldiers in Washington D.C., one of whom has died, prompting Trump’s call to deport all immigrants from the third world. We investigate the CIA-run “kill … Continued
Trump’s Decades-Long Obsession With Getting On the Forbes 400 List and How Much Saudi Money Has Lined His Pockets We begin with Trump and his family’s monetization of the presidency and U.S. foreign policy as witnessed this week with the White House state visit of Saudi Arabia’s previously-shunned Crown Prince. Joining us to assess how … Continued
Epstein’s Ties to Foreign Leaders and How Much the CIA Has an Epstein Problem We begin with Trump trying to pin the Epstein scandal on Bill Clinton as the recent release of Epstein emails implicate Trump further with Epstein thrashing his former friend, writing “I have met some very bad people. None as bad as … Continued
