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Special Counsel’s Report: Trump’s “Unprecedented Criminal Effort to Overturn the Legitimate Results of the Election”

Elon Musk’s Not-So-Secret Mission: Overthrow the UK Government


I joined LBC’s James O’Brien on Tuesday in a discussion of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on Donald Trump’s “criminal efforts” to overturn the 2020 election and incite the Capitol Attack, Trump’s imminent return to the White House, and what they indicate about the threat to democracy in the US.

I also refer to Elon Musk’s threat to UK democracy, with a misinformation/disinformation campaign to topple the British Government.

Listen from 38:17:

We face the challenge of whether people will cut through disinformation and ask for a legitimate examination of the facts around the issues.

We face Donald Trump pledging to “act like a dictator on Day One”. We face Trump trying to put in political appointees to bend agencies to his will. We face his alliance with Elon Musk to systematically attack those whom they don’t like as “enemies”. And we face the possibility that millions of people will be deported without benefit of resort to law.

But I’m still an optimist:

You have to try and reach out to those Americans who are concerned about the day-to-day issues for their families. You’ve got to get beyond the “white noise” of social media to engage in dialogue rather than division and decency rather than confrontation.

James Baldwin summarizes it for me: “I can’t be a pessimist because I am alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So, I am forced to be an optimist.”