Brad and Dan begin by going through the nuts and bolts related to the FBI's search of Trump's residence--what it requires to get a warrant, who had to sign off on it, and what it means that the GOP has no faith in the process or belief in the rule of law.
They then examine the reactions to the search from MAGA Nation, followers of QAnon, and influential right-wing politicians, pundits, and influencers. The overall tone: This means the next civil war. Unfortunately, the consequences are already being manifest--yesterday a man tried to enter an FBI facility in Cincinnati and was killed in a standoff with law enforcement.
The last segment examines the revelations that the FBI's search centered on classified information related to nuclear plans, weapons, and/or secrets. Brad lays out the case that this could be related to the billions of dollars Trump officials (including Jared Kushner) have received from the Saudi family. Dan argues it could be as simple as Trump wanting to show off to old golfing buddies.
Michael Flynn and Saudi Arabian nuclear plans: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/white-house-pushed-saudi-nuclear-power-plan-report-says
The Saudis invest in Kushner: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/us/jared-kushner-saudi-investment-fund.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
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Welcome to Straight White American Jesus.
My name is Brad Onishi, faculty at the University of San Francisco.
Our show is hosted in partnership with the Kapp Center at UCSB.
And I'm here today on what feels like a historic day or week or something, which we'll get into in a minute with my co-host, Dan Miller.
I am Dan Miller.
Thank you, Brad.
And I am a professor of religion and social thought at Landmark College.
It's good to be with you.
Other people can't see you, but I can and you're like in like a storage closet recording today or something.
So yeah, so it's where we're living the life.
I'm wearing a tank top.
I'm in a storage closet.
I feel like I'm just peak dad right now.
I'm actually peak Asian dad because I'm wearing my Zodis, which are my, what y'all call flip flops.
I'm wearing those with socks, which is like a very, really good sign you're an old Asian man, which is, and I'm just, I don't care.
You can email me, you can write to me and say, please stop.
And I'm just going to put on another pair of socks and then put on I can't say anything because if anybody were to were to check my dresser drawers the the number of cargo shorts are it's um you know the cargo pockets and I'm keeping them.
I will own that about me.
All the people who say those are dad shorts, I'm a dad, and they're my shorts, and I use the pockets.
So there.
So you do you, Brad.
We're losing listeners quick.
I think some people just turned this off because they thought we were more competent as middle-aged men than this.
But anyway, please stay with us.
I promise the cargo shorts and the socks will not get in the way of the analysis.
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So, friends, if you're listening to this, I want you to just know that over the course of every week, Dan and I exchange emails and communication about what we're going to talk about.
And I know Dan gets tired of it, but I'm always emailing him stuff I find.
He does the same.
And by the time we get to Friday morning, I feel like I really want to organize my thoughts around, like, Some really important stories, some really important angles as a scholar, as a former evangelical, you know, all of that.
Like, I always just want to wake up on Friday, Dan, 6 a.m., my ducks in a row.
I really know what we're going to say and how we're going to say it and what the argument is because, hey, that's what we do, right?
And this week is just, I went to bed last night just like totally like, I don't know what's happening.
And I have no idea how to get my brain from like spinning because of all that went down.
I'll just say Joe Biden, if this is infrastructure week, damn, what an infrastructure week you've had Joe Biden.
You were in Trump structure, Mar-a-Lago, and now it turns out that He might have been holding nuclear documents.
So we'll get to all of that.
Let's start here.
Dan Miller.
Give us the nuts and bolts of the Mar-a-Lago search heard around the world.
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