Dr. Anthony Fauci in a Senate committee hearing, July 29, 2026 (Kevin Dietsch/Getty)
In a 73-minute special, I joined CEO Retort’s Tim El-Sheikh last Wednesday to analyze both charlatans like Donald Trump and life-saving experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci.
After taking apart Trump’s latest disinformation — and the media who prop it up — I get full and frank about the Republican Senators, led by the libertarian Rand Paul, threatening the imprisonment of Fauci for his work during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- 00:00:00 – Introduction
- 00:03:06: The danger of falling into the “breaking news” whirlpool and losing track of important developments
- 00:06:46: Trump’s recent antics at the White House Correspondents Dinner and his manipulation of the media through disinformation
- 00:14:58: The Trump administration’s diversionary tactics to hide their failures on the economy and immigration: Blame Communists!
- 00:22:02: When activists fall into the media manipulation trap
- 00:30:02: The threat to America from the “culture wars” of MAGA and radical Christian fundamentalists
- 00:38:3: The media at the center of this theater, failing to call out Trump’s blatant lies that mislead the public
- 00:46:30 – The urgent need for the “Two-Minutes” analysis model to help the public understand and follow complex issues
00:47:10: The two-minute analysis — The Congressional hearing persecuting Dr Anthony Fauci - 00:50:56: Trump and MAGA’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic and their disinformation campaign today
- 00:59:03: How grifters in politics and tech convinced the public not to trust experts, and how the media failed to hold the grifters accountable
