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GasLit Nation: Indictment Special IV – A New Hope
August 16, 2023
GASLIT NATION WITH ANDREA CHALUPA AND SARAH KENDZIOR
That familiar refrain at Gaslit Nation: So many traitors, so little time. Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis made the time for a sweeping, detailed indictment of Trump and 18 others in his Kremlin Klown Kar for trying to overturn the will of the people of Georgia. You can read the annotated indictment here. And we finally got RICO! Charged with being the crime boss that he is, Trump faces a minimum of five years in prison if found guilty of racketeering.RICO is historically used to break up organized crime as one of the indicted, Rudy Giuliani, knows very well. Trump’s longtime friend and former lawyer Giuliani used RICO to go after the Italian mafia in New York City, which made room for Trump’s longtime benefactors: the Russian mafia and their easy, endless supply of money. The Idiot Sons Don Jr. and Eric have even admited the Trump family’s businesses depended on Russian money.In this fourth (and counting?) Trump Indictment special, Andrea discusses some of the red flags, some reasons for hope, and what’s next as a Russian mafia asset continues to run for president as Russia wages war against the democratic world, carrying out horrific war crimes and genocide in Ukraine.
Show Notes:
Opening clip of Fani Willis https://twitter.com/girlsreallyrule/status/1691458842239148032
Sean Hannity clip of Paul Manafort https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-turns-to-paul-manafort-to-defend-new-trump-georgia-charges
Trump’s 4 indictments, ranked by the stakes https://www.vox.com/trump-investigations/23832341/trump-charges-prison-time-sentence-indictments
Rudy Giuliani, who pioneered the use of RICO when he was a US attorney, just got indicted onRICO charges https://www.businessinsider.com/rudy-giuliani-indicted-georgia-trump-rico-2023-8I asked 11 legal experts if Trump’s lawyer obstructed justice
https://www.vox.com/2018/3/29/17174042/trump-pardons-manafort-flynn-mueller-probe
Paul Manafort’s Book Deal May Breach His Plea Agreement https://www.justsecurity.org/79799/paul-manaforts-book-deal-may-breach-his-plea-agreement/
GasLit Nation: The U.S. vs. Donald J. Trump
August 2, 2023
GASLIT NATION WITH ANDREA CHALUPA AND SARAH KENDZIOR
In The United States vs. Donald J. Trump, Special Counsel Jack Smith hits Trump and Trump alone with four charges of trying to violently overthrow our democracy and install himself as dictator. Read the 45 page indictment of the 45th president here. The case has randomly been assigned to Judge Tanya Chutkan who famously told Trump,” Presidents are not kings.” She also has a record of appropriate tough sentencing of January 6 insurrectionists, another Black woman on the frontlines of protecting our democracy, and doing so at much personal risk to herself and her family. This mini-episode was recorded before the reports of a possible active shooter today at the U.S. Capitol, a chilling reminder of our nation’s slow moving civil war, as recent Gaslit Nation guest Jeff Sharlet appropriately calls it.For those who want to go back in time to see Gaslit Nation’s own indictment of Trump’s violent coup attempt, read the transcript or listen to our January 13, 2021 episode Clear Intent, laying out Trump’s clear intention to overthrow our democracy, something prosecutors must now prove in court in order to send Trump to prison where he belongs.
GasLit Nation: Can Florida, and the rest of our democracy be saved?
May 31, 2023
GASLIT NATION WITH ANDREA CHALUPA AND SARAH KENDZIOR
This conversation was recorded May 24, 2023 as a Gaslit Nation live taping and includes at the end a
Q&A of questions dropped in the chat by our audience. Thank you to everyone who joined us!
Can Florida, and with it, the rest of our democracy be saved? Or is Florida destined to be an authoritarian cesspool under Brooks Brother Viktor Orbán – Ron DeSantis? In this special solution-rich episode of Gaslit Nation, author David Pepper discusses his latest book Saving Democracy: A User’s Manual for Every American.
David shares important lessons from the upset of Jacksonville’s mayoral race; why Florida’s Democratic Party State Chair Nikki Fried could give DeSantis a run for his money, and we discuss how Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota have their acts together while New York’s Democratic Party remains stuck under Jay Jacobs who handed the House to Kevin McCarthy, bringing the American and therefore the global economy to the brink. (Elections have consequences, which is why Jay Jacobs must be replaced – join the movement here!)
If you’re stuck in a so-called blue state like New York that’s failing due to machine politics and complacency, or if you live in a fascist-gerrymandered hostage state known as a red state, this discussion has concrete steps you can take to empower your community. Local elections are the frontlines of our democracy, no matter where you live. And none of us are in this battle alone.
Thank you to everyone who joined our live taping with David Pepper. Be sure to check out his book Saving Democracy. If you would like to join a future live taping of Gaslit Nation, be sure to support the show at the Truth-teller level or higher. And to submit questions for our regular Q&As, sign up at the Democracy Defender level or higher. We’ll be back with an all new Q&A this coming Friday so stay tuned! Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!