This week Rachel and Aaron investigate the three words that hit hardest from Donald Trump’s recent interview on NBC's Meet the Press, and the one word missing from the New York Times’s editorial criticizing his first 100 days. Plus: Jews and fascism? An eye-opening comparison between Trump’s “Lord of the Shadows” and the rise of the Third Reich.

LINKS:

• NBC’s Meet the Press: Full interview with Donald Trump
• NBC News: Fact-checking Donald Trump’s May interview with ‘Meet the Press’
• 60 Minutes: How law firms targeted by Trump are responding to White House pressure
• Marc Elias: Democracy Docket
• SNL: ‘Lord of the Shadows’
• Stephen Miller: ‘Children will be taught to love America’
• New York Times: Editorial: There Is a Way Forward: How to Defeat Trump’s Power Grab
• Mike Pence Receives JFK Profile in Courage Award
• Hit ‘Em Where It Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game
• The Cycle on Substack

As another texting scandal jolts the Pentagon into “full-blown meltdown,” Rachel earns national attention for her internet sleuthing skills and gets vindicated in the aftermath of the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. Plus, she and Aaron take a close look at the first rule in fighting tyranny… and share a masterclass from a European internet troll.

LINKS:

• Politico Opinion: Former Top Pentagon Spokesperson Details ‘Month From Hell’ Inside the Agency
• The Daily Beast: Rachel catches bad White House photoshop job
• George Carlin: Methods of Execution
• SplitTicket.org tweet: The story of Wisconsin's Supreme Court election was turnout
• Timothy Snyder on Substack: Obeying in Advance
• European Parliament Member Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy trolls Trump’s New York
• Hit ‘Em Where It Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game
• The Cycle on Substack

This week Rachel and Aaron change up the format to take a deep dive into the arrest and deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, imprisoned in El Salvador without due process despite a U.S. Supreme Court order to “facilitate” his return. The case has chilling parallels to what happened in Germany between 1933 and 1945. This is a warning from history worth understanding.

LINKS

• The Persecution and Murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany, 1933–1945
• Full news conference: Trump and President Bukele of El Salvador
• Rep. Steven Horsford blasts U.S. trade rep after Trump tariff pause
• Hit ‘Em Where It Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game