Trump's Beef Deal Expires After the Election, His Iran Threat Fizzled, and Canada Hits Back

Everybody in power announced something this week. Almost nobody showed the paperwork.

Trump promised an economic D-Day against Iran, then his Treasury Secretary stood at a podium and declined to pull the trigger, saying out loud that he did not want to blow up the global financial system. Trump announced a beef deal to bring your grocery bill down, but there is no executive order, no named suppliers, and the window closes days after you vote. The Supreme Court handed him a win on mail ballots without ever ruling on whether the order is legal. Mark Zuckerberg published a manifesto about how communities benefit from data centers, and two days later, in the exact parish he named, regulators voted to keep his numbers sealed.

Tonight we go looking for the paperwork.

Full Follow the Money segment on the ballroom and the nuclear bunker already sitting under the White House, the Wall Street Journal reporting on Live Nation and the Kennedy Center, the Trump Organization filing trademarks on flight suits and shuttle buses, and the Taylor Farms donation timeline. Then Research on a Dime on what the finished primary season actually proved, including Darline Graham winning South Carolina by four points after a full Trump recruitment effort. Breakdown in the Public asks who is even allowed to know what your town agreed to.

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CHAPTERS

00:00:00 Pre-Show

00:11:19 Cold Open: Everybody Announced Something, Nobody Showed the Paperwork

00:14:40 Hasan Piker, Gavin Newsom, and Where Democrats Are Actually Focused

00:21:13 Follow the Money: This Week in Trump Corruption

00:21:32 The Ballroom and the Nuclear Bunker Already Under the White House

00:26:22 Live Nation, the Kennedy Center, and the Oval Office Meeting

00:31:10 Airport Trademarks: Flight Suits, Shuttle Buses, and DJT

00:38:06 Taylor Farms, a Million Dollar Donation, and a 30 Month FDA Delay

00:40:48 Eric Swalwell vs Max Miller: Who Actually Gets Investigated

00:49:01 Nuanced News: SCOTUS Let the Mail Ballot Order Move Without Ruling It Legal

00:57:53 Iran: The Economic D-Day That Never Fired

01:06:40 40 Trillion in Debt and 50 Percent Tariffs on Canada

01:12:14 Trump's Beef Deal Has No Signed Order and Expires After the Election

01:15:55 Quick Hits: Vaccine Order, Maxwell, TikTok, Meta, MAHA, ARIA, Alex Jones

01:20:48 Research on a Dime: What the Primary Season Actually Proved

01:22:25 Darline Graham Wins South Carolina by Four Points

01:25:28 Oklahoma Nominates a Democratic Socialist for Senate

01:26:50 The Florida Turnout Number Nobody Covered

01:28:51 Buttigieg in South Carolina and the 2028 Opening

01:29:27 Breakdown in the Public: Who Is Allowed to See the Terms

01:30:16 Data Centers: Hochul, Abbott, Shapiro, and the NDA Fight

01:36:00 Meta, Richland Parish, and the Numbers Louisiana Sealed

01:40:54 Inclusionary Zoning: Does It Actually Build Housing

01:45:43 Good News

01:46:52 The First Drug That Treats the Cause of Narcolepsy

01:48:10 Oregon's Psilocybin Data: 346 People, 24 Service Centers

01:49:58 The First mRNA Cancer Vaccine to Clear a Phase 3 Trial

01:53:30 Closing Thoughts

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