Ep 4. Trump's Killer China Con
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Seth and Thomas discuss how Trump's thirst for a U.S.-China trade-deal photo op, lucrative Chinese trademarks, and dirt from Beijing on Hunter Biden; his administration's unprecedented rejection of fall 2019 U.S. military intelligence on the SARS-CoV-2 virus; and his desire to protect his European golf-course investments all combined to kill more than 200,000 Americans. Also discussed: how in 2016 Donald Trump amassed a digital army of trolls and white supremacists—largely on once-anime-oriented websites like 4chan and 8chan—to aid him during his first presidential campaign; how certain of Trump's collusive plots have been successfully thwarted by pushback in Congress, the intelligence community, publishing, and the courts; how Trump's collusion extends beyond Russia and Ukraine to pre- and post-2016 energy-market quid pro quos involving the United Arab Emirates, Israel, and Saudi Arabia; and how Trumpism persists within the GOP because the alternative is unthinkable to the party's leaders in Washington—the end of the Republican Party.