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Has Elon Musk Ruined X? with Lee Smith | RealClearInvestigations Podcast #126
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1:00:23Now PlayingOn this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, J. Peder Zane and James Varney speak with Tablet writer and RCI contributor Lee Smith about conservative media in the Trump era with a special focus on X.
On the news round-up, Zane and Varney discuss how a ProPublica investigation reporting on the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration efforts, which includes a remake of the courts, is targeting a once protected class for deportation: unaccompanied minors who crossed the border. They also looks at a new report from the White House that assails the leadership of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History for “explicitly adopt[ing] an ideological framework that no longer treats the American story as a shared national inheritance to be taught or celebrated, but as a political instrument to divide, dispirit, and discourage our citizens.”
Books & Articles Discussed in This Podcast:
Lee Smith: Is the EU’s Spat with Elon Musk Really About Free Speech?
Lee Smith: The Man Setting Fire to the GOP
ProPublica: Trump Surges Deportation of Minors
White House: Saving America’s Story
New York Times: Inside Trump’s Ideological Fight With the Smithsonian
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