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Trump Appoints Another Unqualified Hack as the Deliberate Destruction of the IRS Continues

We begin with the appointment of the discredited Hunter Biden whistleblower to be the latest Acting Commissioner of the IRS as Trump and Musk destroy two pillars of the American government: the Social Security Administration and the IRS. While it has long been the dream of the far-right to privatize Social Security and get rid of the IRS and substitute the income tax with a consumption tax, both are happening with speed and determination in spite of denials and lies from Trump that he is protecting Social Security. Joining us is Edward McCaffery, the Robert C. Packard trustee chair in law and a professor of law, economics and political science at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Fair Not Flat: How to Make the Tax System Better and Simpler and founder of the People’s Tax Page.

Biden is the Wrong Person to Lead the Effort to Save Social Security

Then we look into the deliberate destruction of the Social Security Administration as Musk steals its data and fires its workers, closes its offices and shuts down its phone services to make it dysfunctional so that Trump will eventually tell desperate retirees that the system is not working and they’ll just have to privatize it. Joining us is Nancy Altman, the President of Social Security Works and chair of the Strengthen Social Security coalition. With a fifty-year background in the areas of Social Security, Medicare, private pensions, and related programs, she serves on the Social Security Advisory Board, a bipartisan, independent federal government agency established in 1994 to advise the President, Congress, and the Commissioner of Social Security. Her books include The Battle for Social Security: From FDR’s Vision to Bush’s Gamble and The Truth About Social Security: The Founders’ Words Refute Revisionist History, Zombie Lies, and Common Misunderstandings.

How Credible are Rumors Witkoff has Ties to Russian Money Launderers?

Then finally we assess rumors that Trump’s amateurish and pliable negotiator with Putin, the real estate developer Steve Witkoff, has ties to Russian money-launderers which appear to be overstated. Joining us is  Craig Unger, the author of several books, including the New York Times bestsellers House of Bush, House of Saud, and House of Trump, House of Putin. For 15 years he was a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and was a longtime staffer at New York Magazine, has served as editor-in-chief of Boston magazine and has written about the Trump-Russia scandal for The New Republic, Vanity Fair, and The Washington Post. His latest books are American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related: Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery and Den of Spies: The Untold Story of Reagan, Carter and the Treason That Stole the White House and we discuss his article at his Substack, “The Putin Point Man: What’s Behind Steve Witkoff’s Ties to the Russian Mafia? And who is the mysterious “mutual friend” who got Witkoff to do a favor for a Russian mobster?”