US of Ed

"Trump and his team keep falling over their own faces."

Take him away, boys, former President Donald Trump tagged and bagged at Fulton County Jail this week caused a worldwide stir. Meanwhile, a category three storm bearing down on the state of Florida highlights the ongoing insurance crisis in the sunshine state. Also discussing Rudy Giuliani's court loss in Georgia, the Jacksonville shooting, DC gun laws, prescription drug prices, and a new city founded by Silicon Valley billionaires.

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"They are really making asses of themselves, doing contortions over [Trump]."

A meeting of the minds, eight Republican presidential hopefuls are coming together for the first of the GOP candidate debates. Bur will there be much to discuss with the omission of frontrunner Donald Trump? And a rare hurricane has struck the US and Mexican West Coast, originally forecast for late 2016 Hurricane Hillary has finally made an appearance. Also discussing the latest on Trump and alleged conspirators' criminal cases, Yevgeniy Prigozhin's untimely but not unexpected end, Greg Abbott, and Ron DeSantis wants mercy from the Mouse.

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"He's going down and he's going to bring everyone else down. He's not playing this to win or lose, but to destroy."

One, two, three, four! Four indictments for former president Donald Trump as this week allegations for election tampering in Georgia are added to the pile. Why does it now all seem to be happening so fast? And how will roping in co-conspirators on RICO charges affect the case? Also discussing the devastating wildfires in Hawaii, Russia's crashing ruble, UAW and auto manufacturer negotiations, and carbon capture technologies.

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"He's either going to kill the American democracy, which he will do if he's reelected, or he's going to go down fighting."

Legal cases proceed against former president Donald Trump this week, and he can't help throwing threats around in spite of specific warnings. Meanwhile, China has hacked the defence servers of one of the US's closest allies and seen further sanctions taken out against it due to fears of its burgeoning military. Also looking at abortion rights, regulations for ghost guns, Ukraine, and the FIFA Women's World Cup.

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"There's no turning back now."

It's been a long time coming, but Donald Trump has officially been indicted over charges relating to his alleged attempted overthrow of the US government and subversion of the electoral system. With so many charges being faced in various cases, one wonders how he'll have time to run a presidential campaign. But maybe it's all just a distraction from the real story, not Hunter's laptop, the coverup of extraterrestrial life on Earth. Also talking this week about escalating climate anomalies and Project 2025's efforts to halt all climate action, another coup in Niger, and Elon Musk's interference in Ukraine.

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"We have this massive corporation situation where they're not really competing with one another, so they can mutually set higher prices."

The Federal Reserve has again raised interest rates in a bid to fight off inflation, this time to their highest in 22 years, but doing so is a balancing act as they struggle to avoid an economic recession. Meanwhile, Republicans are doing their best to keep Joe Biden from filling military and defence positions over the abortion rights fight. Also discussing the latest on Trump, migration policy struck down in court, US heat waves, and university legacy admissions under scrutiny.

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"He could be going for the presidency from jail."

Hot on the heels of the charges brought against Trump over classified documents, he has officially been made a target of prosecutor Jack Smith's January 6th investigation but with charges yet to be named. But it's not just Trump that's feeling the heat, with record-breaking high temperatures across the American Southwest set to continue. Also talking this week about fraudulent Michigan electors, Israel, migration, and Ron DeSanis' disastrous presidential campaign.

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"It is a war crime."

Mixed news for Ukraine this week, with the offer of an eventual admission, maybe, into NATO, and the United States agreeing to deliver cluster bombs to the war effort despite humanitarian criticisms. But first, Donald Trump is pushing for the Mar-a-Lago documents trial to take place after the 2024 election - all part of the plan, or running scared? Also talking CQ Brown Jr.'s ambitions for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Supreme Court, flooding in Vermont, and fifty years of the War on Drugs.

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"This is a court that has turned totally political, and the next president will have to do something to blow it up."

Bad news for the Biden administration, and for those nursing massive amounts of student debt, as a key promise is struck down in the Supreme Court this week. In fact, the Supreme Court appears to be more and more comfortable with letting its conservative slanting show with more decisions on racial and LGBTIQ discrimination. Also looking this week at Ukraine and Russia, the destruction of Twitter, China, record-breaking heat, and moderates an endangered species in the GOP.

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"Putin knows he's not loved by his own countrymen, he's weak."

An attempted overthrow of the Russian government has ended with Putin retaining his grip on power, but with the continuing chaos resulting from his invasion of Ukraine how much longer can he last? Plus a smoking gun in the Trump classified documents case but what is the impact when prosecutors already had a whole smoking arsenal? Plus we look at the January 6th investigation, Biden impeachment resolution, and an attempt to reshape election laws thwarted in the Supreme Court.

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