Today's the big day President Donald Trump is expected to accuse China of meddling in the November 2020 election which he lost to Joe Biden and which preceded the events of January 6, 2021.

In a Prime Time performance, Trump is expected to re-hash his accusations of fraud about the election he says he won.

Listen to clips of Trump speaking on the matter earlier this year and comments from Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff about what Senate Republicans really think of Trump.

Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan announced that America has deported more people than ever this month, even as more I.C.E. killings took place this week.

We listen to Obama’s deportations policy and methods and compare it with Trump’s and take a look at The Redoubt's exclusive coverage of a new expansion in Trump's third-country removals for deportees.

The President of the United States is given daily intelligence briefings. He knows things. The difference with Trump is that he often says things, too.

Yesterday, in a flurry of rage against the Islamic Republic of Iran attacking 2 commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, he revealed two pieces of information he is privy to:

(1) the number of Iranian protesters that the U.S. government believes have been killed, on the days of the crackdown on January 8&9 and from executions since.

(2) the press's paltry coverage of this massacre

"They've killed 54,000 people as of now, that were protesting," Trump said on July 8th.

Listen as Charles and Shirin analyze Trump's statements in the latest escalation of the war/not war against the Islamic Republic of Iran and ask why the President is trying to make a deal with a government he calls "liars, cheats...and sick people."

Charles and Shirin take on Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine who dropped out of the race after being accused of sexual assault.

Why did so many pundits — mostly white, usually men — ignore the red flags surrounding a former mercenary with a record of misogyny? Why did it take this long to acknowledge that a guy who lied about his Nazi tattoo should not hold public office? Platner's failed candidacy should serve as a lesson for anyone who thinks the opposition to MAGA needs to get more problematic to win elections.

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In this episode we discuss the SCOTUS asylum decision and compare President Ford's America 200 speech with President Trump's upcoming America 250 rhetoric.

SCOTUS RULING:

At least 250,000 Haitians and 60,000 Syrians who are in the United States legally just lost their Temporary Protected Status a few days ago after the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled that the Trump administration can end that legal status and deport these individuals who are in the process of receiving asylum.

Most of the Haitians under this plan moved to the US after the devastating 2010 earthquake which killed hundreds of thousands of people and destroyed the nation's infrastructure and disrupted the lives of 12 million Haitians. Most of the Syrians moved after the 2013 Civil War which displaced millions of Syrians and killed over 100,000 mostly civilians.

AMERICA AT 200 vs AMERICA AT 250:

Charles and Shirin listen to clips of President Ford's speech and compare them with the rhetoric and speeches of President Trump as America celebrates its 250th anniversary this 4th of July.

As another historic heatwave envelopes Europe, the question must again be asked: why do Europeans hate air conditioning? Is it tradition? Are they Luddites?

Listen as Charles and Shirin discuss the real-world impact of climate change and wonder aloud about the health repercussions of nudist riverbanks in Europe.

This episode also includes coverage of a Europe-wide anti-racist rally against the "Fortress Europe" Common European Asylum System and looks at European reactions to the wonder of American suburbia during World Cup 2026.

Today is the 54th anniversary of the June 17, 1972 Watergate break-in that brought the Nixon presidency down. This week is also the occasion of the first ever American presidential visit to Syria.

Two months before he resigned, Nixon tried to salvage his presidency by showcasing Kissinger's deal between Syria and Israel: the May 1974 Disengagement Agreement that installed a UN-mediated demilitarized zone as a placeholder for peace in the Middle East.

The Assad men, both Hafez and his son Bashar, honored this agreement for 50 years, but just like Trump's MOU with the Islamic Republic of Iran this week, it came with enormous financial benefits.

Edward Lengel, former chief historian for the White House Historical Association, speaks with Critical Support's Charles R. Davis and Shirin Sadeghi about Donald Trump's ballroom and why it's not just a story about corruption.

As Lengel explains, America's "founding fathers" did not want to mimic the pomp and excess of European monarchs. The White House was meant to be a modest residence, not a palace, signaling that no one person was above another.

The White House was also built by enslaved people. Why should we care if its desecrated? Because it's a symbol of democracy, Lengel argues, however flawed — and it's now being transformed into a playground for a king.

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What happens when governments decide who counts and who doesn't? When systematic declarations of who is German enough or American enough lead to the removal of residencies and citizenships and...people. Even if they are generations or centuries long?

Critical Support's @charliearchy.bsky.social and @shirinsadeghi.bsky.social discusses Shirin's on-the-ground report from Amsterdam as she covers the history of the German occupation of the Netherlands and the most famous story of its devastation: that of Anne Frank and her family.

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A Critical Support Special from Shirin Sadeghi, live from Amsterdam's Prinsengracht Street where Anne Frank and her family and friends tried to save themselves from the Nazi occupation of Holland.

It was a time, not that long ago, when all people residing in Nazi controlled nations were categorized as either "native" or "Jewish". And your label signified, literally, life or death.

As political parties based on or propelled by hate movements spread throughout Europe and its former colonies, including the United States, what the Nazi governments systematically applied to the Jews of Europe begs the question of whether we are on the brink of another era of elimination for those who are labelled "non-native".

Listen for a report on Nazi commissioner of Holland Arthur Seyss Inquart's real background and the chilling facts of the Nazi extermination of the Jews of the Netherlands.

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