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Podcast: The Common Good Podcast
Episode: State Crimes - Sex Crimes - War Crimes - The Trump Administration in 2025
Description: What happens when a presidential administration treats law as optional and accountability as a threat? In this episode, we take a clear-eyed, fact-based look at the cascading legal, moral, and political crises emerging from the Trump Administration in 2025.
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse break down the three arenas where these dangers are most urgent:
🔹 State Crime – The misuse of government power, the erosion of checks and balances, and the normalization of authoritarian behavior.
🔹 Sex Crimes – The ongoing legal cases, civil findings, and the cultural impact of excusing or minimizing sexual misconduct by powerful leaders.
🔹 War Crimes – Reck...