This week on Ring of Fire!
Donald Trump has picked conspiracy-peddling podcaster Dan Bongino to serve as the Deputy Director of the FBI immediately under Kash Patel. Bongino has no FBI experience, but he has plenty of experience trying to “own the libs” on social media while also spreading conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and COVID. His COVID lies were so bad that he was actually banned from YouTube several years ago, and now he brings his “I hate the left” mentality to the top law enforcement agency in the country.
A federal court ordered Donald Trump to immediately pause his pause on federal funding, but that order doesn’t appear to have had any impact on Trump’s decisions. The administration has continued to halt funding for National Institute of Health’s medical research development, meaning that new, potentially life-saving treatments are no longer being funded. This decision along could cost countless lives across the globe.
A hunting pal of Donald Trump, Jr. has been installed as the acting deputy commissioner for human foods at the FDA. The man, Kyle Diamantas, has been a hunting partner of Junior for years, and his friendship is being rewarded with a position that he is grossly unqualified to hold. Diamantas is also a lawyer who has spent his career representing major food companies – the same companies he’ll now be “trusted” to regulate.
Donald Trump appeared to lose his mind this week in a post on Truth Social where he threatened to start suing people who write mean books about him. He then went a step further and suggested that he may start suing any writer or commentator that talks bad about him, and THEN went on to suggest that maybe he’ll change libel laws to make that easier to do. This is fascism at work.
All that, and much more, on this week’s Ring of Fire Podcast!
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