This week Gaslit Nation gives in-depth context to the ongoing shitshow of the Senate impeachment hearings. We discuss what’s behind the media blitz of Giuliani goon Lev Parnas and the incriminating texts indicating the Trump crew was planning an attack on former US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, and wonder why people are more willing to listen to the “Fraud Guarantee” guy than listen to the victims of the vengeful Trump team. We then analyze the GOP for what it is – an appendage of a transnational crime syndicate – and detail the institutional failures that allowed it to get there.
One of those failures, unfortunately, was the refusal of the House to impeach early in the year and their insistence on narrowing the scope once they finally commenced hearings. While Pelosi’s initial decision to hold the impeachment articles was a wise one, the GOP show trial that we have long predicted has now arrived. And as anyone who studies Trump knows, the most important people in Trump’s life are his lawyers. We review Trump’s legal team from hell, with a special focus on Jeffrey Epstein’s pal Alan Dershowitz and presidential witch-hunt pioneer Ken Starr. We also look at the latest false savior championed by Americans desperately for accountability – SDNY, which has covered for Epstein, Trump, and other NYC elite criminals for decades, and continues to do so now.
We end the episode on an optimistic note however, with an endorsement for our favored Democratic candidate for president! We are truly excited about this individual and the possibilities they represent for a better American future. Listen to the last part of the episode and find out who it is!
For our weekly bonus episode, we interview Kate Kelly, a human rights attorney and host of the podcast Ordinary Equality who is also an expert on the Equal Rights Amendment. For the first time in decades, the ERA has a chance of becoming part of the Constitution thanks to the newly Democratic makeup of the Virginia legislature, and a century of hard work. Kelly breaks down what the passing of the ERA would mean for Americans and what obstacles it faces from the Trump administration and others.
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Show Notes
One Man’s Millions Turn a Community in Florida Around https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/26/us/tangelo-park-orlando-florida.html
The latest Star Wars film satisfies the right wing. Will the left start trolling? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/01/18/latest-star-wars-film-satisfies-right-wing-will-left-start-trolling/
Clip of Rep. Hakeem Jeffries at the Senate Impeachment Trial of Donald Trump: https://twitter.com/andylassner/status/1219831495197515776
Lev Parnas Interview with Rachel Maddow (Excerpt) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4M7vVlpPD8
Ex-Envoy’s Tale of Acid Attack Spotlights Ukraine’s Anticorruption Wars https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/15/us/politics/ambassador-ukraine-corruption-acid-impeachment.html