Scott Morefiled is a reporter for the DailyCaller and a columnist for Townhall. His writings have also been featured  on Breitbart, BizPac, TheBlaze, National Review, The Federalist, The Hill and others.

In the podcast we discussed his article from 2016, and I mentioned a quotation from HL Mencken, and the fact that Trump’s cabinet has a collective wealth of over four billion dollars.

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In the U.S., President

Trump was

reported recently as saying that EU countries must take back the estimated 800

Isis fighters captured in Syria by US-backed forces and put them on trial.

In the UK, Home Secretary Sajid Javid, the minister in charge of internal affairs, has announced that he is stripping Shamima Begum of her UK citizenship. Shamima Begum, in case you haven’t been following, is the girl who, at the age of 15, ran away from home with two of her classmates and flew to Turkey, crossed the border into ISIS-controlled Syria, and became the wives of Islamic State fighters.

Shamima Begum

It seems Begum’s friend

Kadiza Sultana was

killed in an air raid, and the fate of the third girl, Amira Abase is not

clear.

There’s been some

debate in the UK about whether to they were traitors or victims, and whether it

was right to remove her citizenship. She didn’t do her case any favours when

she gave an interview defending the bombing of the

Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, which specifically targeted young

girls,