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Monday Aug 27, 2018
Monday Aug 27, 2018
President Donald Trump and many of his chief aides, advisers and cohorts have reason to worry. Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, last Tuesday was found guilty of bank and tax fraud and hiding overseas bank accounts. He faces a second trial next month. Also last Tuesday, Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, in a plea agreement admitted to campaign finance violations and bank and tax fraud.
The Manafort and Cohen charges grew out of a broader federal investigation into possible Russian interference in U.S. elections in 2016.
Curiously, while Special Counsel Robert Muller's Russian-interference probe proceeds apace, the federal probe into Hillary Clinton's contentious and ethically challenged tenure in office as secretary of state has gone dormant. Why?
Dr. Jerome Corsi, author of several books and authoritative articles on politics and deep-state issues, offers his perspective on why Hillary Clinton continues to be shielded from prosecution.
Later in the program, retired Wall Street banker turned anti-charity-fraud crusader Charles Ortel reports on the latest legal actions against The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, which Ortel calls "the largest inprosecuted charity fraud in history."
Friday Aug 24, 2018
Friday Aug 24, 2018
It’s the best open forum on the planet—a free-form, unscripted hour dedicated to your thoughts, opinions and ideas. Whether on what’s in the news or what ought to be, choose your subject and opine away. But don’t be surprised if someone picks up the gauntlet you throw down.
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Thursday Aug 23, 2018
Thursday Aug 23, 2018
The fallout continues after the conviction Tuesday of Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, on bank and tax fraud charges and, also Tuesday, Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, pleading guilty to bank and tax fraud and paying hush money to women with whom Trump was romantically involved as a married man.
Although the Manafort and Cohen cases do not directly involve Trump, it is widely believed the president is a likely target of prosecutio and eventually will be shown as linked to his henchmen's wrongdoing.
Leid Stories listeners continue yesterday's discussion on the impact of, and possible fallout from, the Manafort-Cohen legal gutpunches to Trump.
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In a separate development, Trump's former personal attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, pled guilty in a plea agreement to bank and tax fraud, paying hush money (at Trump's direction) to women with whom the then-presidential candidate allegedly was romantically involved, and violating federal campaign finance laws.
The Manafort and Cohen cases now threaten to draw Trump into the circle of criminal wrongdoing.
Leid Stories discusses Trump's predicament.
Wednesday Aug 22, 2018
Wednesday Aug 22, 2018
President Trump didn't have a good day yesterday, and from the looks of things he's in for many more such days.
Trump's former campaign chairman and trusted political operative, Paul Manafort, was convicted of eight counts of bank and tax fraud (the jury deadlocked on 10 other counts; a mistrial was declared on those).
In a separate development, Trump's former personal attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, pled guilty in a plea agreement to bank and tax fraud, paying hush money (at Trump's direction) to women with whom the then-presidential candidate allegedly was romantically involved, and violating federal campaign finance laws.
The Manafort and Cohen cases now threaten to draw Trump into the circle of criminal wrongdoing.
Leid Stories discusses Trump's predicament.
Tuesday Aug 21, 2018
Tuesday Aug 21, 2018
Another grisly, violent weekend in Chicago--59 people shot, six fatalities, between Friday and Sunday night. It was the second weekend in a month that Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson was outmatched by a level of gun violence a beefed-up police presence on the streets could not deter. The "tragic, senseless and cowardly" shootings, Johnson said, were carried out by many of "the same people" involved in the previous mass attacks.
Leid Stories contends that the shooting and killing sprees not only are mindless acts of violence, but ultimately will serve as templates for managed self-annihilation as a means of social control.
Monday Aug 20, 2018
Monday Aug 20, 2018
Two current stories are the focus of Leid Stories' attention today. We look at how the Catholic Church is dealing with a tidal wave of sex-abuse cases. And so far, Omarosa Manigault Newman isn't convincing as a White House "insider."
Friday Aug 17, 2018
Friday Aug 17, 2018
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Thursday Aug 16, 2018
Thursday Aug 16, 2018
Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, died at her home in Detroit today after a long battle with cancer. She was 76.
We remember her.
Wednesday Aug 15, 2018
Wednesday Aug 15, 2018
Elisa Llenza, a citizen-journalist and activist, reports that crisis is the order of the day in Puerto Rico in just about every sphere of life for most Puerto Ricans. Ten months after Hurricane Maria hit the island, and after promises of federal aid to restore basic services, for example, thousands of school children and their teachers have no idea where classes are to be held. And there still is not a true accounting of how many lives were lost to the hurricane. For most, life is at bare subsistence level, Llenza reports, and even as the people persist, there is little indication things will change soon.
Tuesday Aug 14, 2018
Tuesday Aug 14, 2018
Historian and political scientist Dr. Gerald Horne gives an authoritative guided tour of global hot spots and their connection to U.S. trade, military and foreign policies.
Horne holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. He has written more than 30 books and 100 scholarly papers on struggles against imperialism, colonialism, fascism and racism.
He regularly decodes complex social, political and economic issues on Leid Stories.