Background Briefing

Then, with Trump’s war on Iran a distraction from the Epstein scandal, we will look into the leak by the DoJ to The Guardian and Breitbart of the missing files Pam Bondi held back of FBI reports containing accusations by a then 13 year old girl that Trump raped her which cast doubt of the victim’s credibility. Joining us is Nina Burleigh, a senior editor at The New Republic, best-selling author, documentary producer, and publisher of the Substack American Freakshow. A professor at New York University’s Arthur J. Carter Journalism Institute, she’s written seven books, the latest of which include Golden Handcuffs: The Secret History of Trump’s Women, and she has a new novel, Zero Visibility Possible. The Producer of a recent documentary series on Apple TV, “Epstein’s Shadow”, she has an article at American Freakshow, “Where Are The FBI’s Missing Interviews with a Woman Who Named Trump?”

Then finally, with right wing Trump-friendly billionaires buying up the mainstream media following the authoritarian playbook of Putin and Orban, we will speak with Jessica González, the Co-CEO of Free Press and a public-policy lawyer and activist at the intersection of racial justice, media, technology and democracy. She was a staff attorney and teaching fellow at Georgetown Law’s Institute for Public Representation, where she represented public interest and civil rights groups before the FCC and in the courts of appeal. She has testified before Congress on multiple occasions to support Net Neutrality.