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Background Briefing: September 28, 2026

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As Trump Warns the Communist Menace Is About to Take Over the Country, We Enter The CPUSA’s Shadowy Lair

We begin with Trump’s taxpayer-funded commercials asking the American people to love him at the same time warning us of the communist menace about to take over the country. We go to the heart of the communist menace with Alexander Sammon, a politics writer at Slate who has previously written for Mother Jones, The New Republic and the American Prospect. We will discuss his latest article at Slate, “They’re the Greatest Political Villains in America. Trump Can’t Stop Talking About Them. I Went Into Their Shadowy Lair” which is about his meeting with the co-chair of the Communist Party of the USA.  Alexander reveals how this tiny organization whose peak membership comprised mostly undercover FBI agents, is benefiting from wise capitalist investments which have made the party the landlord to venture capitalists.

Having Cowered the Press Away From Investigating Trump’s Ties to Putin, We Explore What Possible Compromat Putin Has on America’s Pedophile Protector 

Then we explore how Trump has cowered most of the press away from investigating his ties to Putin which are so blatant that the right wing Wall Street Journal editorial board just castigated him for inviting the wanted war criminal Putin to the G-20 at Trump’s Florida golf course in December. Joining us is David Corn, a veteran Washington, DC, journalist who has written or co-written five New York Times bestsellers, including the number-one bestseller Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump; Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War; and, most recently, American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy. He is the Washington, DC, bureau chief of Mother Jones and we discuss his new book, just out, How Russia Won: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America.