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Trump Wants You To Forget about the Epstein Files | First Draft with Susan Demas & COURIER Newsroom's Nina Burleigh

The good, the bad, and the ugly of Trump's first year back in office.

Susan J. Demas and Nina Burleigh
Jan 22
 
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We have officially crossed the one-year mark of the second Trump presidency. And no matter how hard he tries to distract the American people with threats of war and global unrest to invading cities in his own country, some dogged journalists, like COURIER Newsroom’s Nina Burleigh, who writes the American Freakshow Substack, are distracted from his attempts to hide the Epstein files from us all.

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Nina joins Lincoln Square Editor Susan J. Demas for a no-holds-barred look at the damage Trump has done over the last year. But you’ll want to stay to the end, when Nina discusses her almost daily conversations with one of her loyal conservative readers who she calls her “MAGA penpal” — which may just give us all some hope.

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A weekly newsletter from veteran journalist Nina Burleigh keeping an eye on MAGA extremism and its absurdity.
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Rupert Murdoch May Want to Stay Away from Open Windows

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Rupert Murdoch May Want to Stay Away from Open Windows

The drama unfolding in Rupert Murdoch’s world is a perfect metaphor for the self-defeating evil of appeasement. It’s like Murdoch is starring in a one-man adaptation of Cabaret. Want to know how Germany in the 1930s came to be? Welcome to the Murdoch Cabaret.

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Nina Burleigh
National political journalist, author of 7 nonfiction books including The Trump Women: Part of the Deal; and the novel Zero Visibility Possible, the first in a trilogy of dystopic satires.
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