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Podcast: The Muckrake Political Podcast
Episode: Salad Politics: Filing for Guardianship of Grandpa Trump
Description: Nick Hauselman is flying solo while Jared Yates Sexton is out, so he grabs his buddy Brian Kaplan for a relaxed Weekender that starts as a casual lunch in LA and somehow turns into a full-blown political autopsy. Between salad-fork confessions and talk of suspicious bruises, they dig into: whether Trump needs full time care, why congressional hearings are basically soundbite factories, and how “we all saw it happen” doesn’t matter when a party’s committed to an alternate reality.
From Matt Gaetz and the ethics report mess to the Supreme Court’s consequence-free zone, the conversati...