On this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, journalist and author David Sirota discusses rampant political corruption under the Trump administration.
In the first season of his award-winning podcast, Master Plan, Sirota exposed the 50-year plot to legalize corruption in the In the second season, Master Plan: The Kingmakers, which premiered this week, he explores how Trump has been able to wield so much power as president.
Sirota writes: "For more than four decades, a small but determined network of lawyers, operatives, and ideologues has worked to transform the U.S. presidency—quietly concentrating power, weakening oversight, and dismantling the constitutional restraints meant to prevent abuse. Their tool was an obscure legal doctrine known as the unitary executive theory. Their goal was to build a presidency powerful enough to dominate the system it was supposed to serve. Now, in Donald Trump’s second term, that project has fully broken free of theory and into reality."
What can be done to limit Trump’s power?
Guest:
David Sirota, journalist, bestselling author, founder and editor of The Lever, and creator and host of the award-winning podcast, Master Plan
Resources:
The Lever: Even Oligarchs Know The System Is Rigged
The Lever: THE KINGMAKERS, Ep 1: After The Fall Of The Imperial President
The Lever: The Only Way To Stop Trump’s Mad War
The Lever: Who Sold America on the Iran War?
The Lever: The Democratic Party’s Moment of Reckoning
