The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVega

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Ep. 141: Dr. Mary Trump on Escaping the Nightmare Black Hole That is the Age of Trump and the MAGAverse Sep 12, 2024

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This is special joint episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show and The Truth Report.

Dr. Mary Trump is a clinical psychologist and businesswoman. She is also Donald Trump's niece.

Mary Trump is the author of the books Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man and The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal. Mary Trump's new book is Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir.

Mary Trump is a friend of the podcast and is always so generous with her teaching and sharing. She reflects on the state of our individual and collective mental and emotional health over these last 8 or so weeks, and the importance of balancing joy and hope about Kamala Harris with the reality that there is so much hard work to be done until (and after) Election Day.

Mary Trump also discusses the personal cost of being a real member of the Resistance and the pro-democracy movement to our relationships and lives. In this expansive conversation, Mary shares her thoughts about why we must imagine a world beyond the Age of Trump and then do everything we can to make it a reality.

Chauncey DeVega provides "proof of life" and shares how he was under attack by the super DNC cooties bug and how that left him discombobulated and delayed the podcast. Chauncey also shares some quick thoughts about the first debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump and how the mainstream news media continues the "sanewashing" of the obviously very dangerous aspiring Dictator Trump.

And Chauncey DeVega honors the titan James Earl Jones who passed away on Monday and is now one with the Force.

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Ep. 140: Felon Donald Trump and The Mainstream News Media's Dangerous Obsession With "The Vibes" Jun 18, 2024

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On this episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares a version of his recent essay at Salon, "Making sense of the post-Trump conviction polls".

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Ep. 139: Heather Cox Richardson Warns That We Can Still Stop Dictator Trump and the American Fascist Movement Jun 14, 2024

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Heather Cox Richardson is Professor of History at Boston College. She is the author of numerous books including her most recent, Democracy Awakening. Richardson's Substack newsletter "Letters From an American" is essential reading and is subscribed to by 1,400,000 people.

She explains how the study of American history and peoples' movements to expand real democracy are critical for defeating Trumpism, American neofascism and global illiberalism today. Heather also reflects on how her background as a working-class person helped to prepare her for the intellectually, spiritually, emotionally, and physically demanding work of defending American democracy in her role and responsibility as someone who thinks and writes publicly for a living.

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Ep. 138: How Professional Wrestling Helps to Explain the Upcoming Debates Between President Biden and Aspiring Dictator Donald Trump Jun 12, 2024

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On this episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares a version of his recent essay at Salon, "How Professional Wrestling Helps to Explain the Upcoming Debates Between President Biden and Aspiring Dictator Donald Trump".

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Ep. 137: Glenn Kirschner Warns That (Convicted Felon) Donald Trump and the Republican Party MAGA Fascists Are Trying to Murder American Democracy Jun 01, 2024

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Last Thursday, Donald Trump was found "guilty" in his New York hush-money and election interference trial. He is now the first former or sitting president to be convicted of a felony. Given these historic events, I am sharing my conversation with Glenn Kirschner here on The Truth Report about Trump's trial(s) and the extreme danger(s) he continues to pose to the country and its democracy. My conversation with Glenn Kirschner was recorded several weeks ago.

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Glenn Kirschner is an NBC News/MSNBC on-air legal analyst and teaches criminal justice at George Washington University. He has a YouTube channel and Podcast, "Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner." Kirschner is also a former federal prosecutor with 30 years of trial experience. He served in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia for 24 years, rising to the position of Chief of the Homicide Section. In that capacity, Kirschner supervised 30 homicide prosecutors and oversaw all homicide grand jury investigations and prosecutions in Washington, DC.

He explains why and how Donald Trump (and his confederates) have been able to evade serious accountability for their public crime spree against American democracy and society, including the Jan. 6 coup attempt and lethal terrorist attack on the Capitol.

Kirschner cautions that contrary to the mainstream media's narrative that the "walls are closing in" on Donald Trump given his multiple criminal and civil trials where he may face hundreds of years in prison and hundreds of millions of dollars in fines and judgements, the reality of the situation is much more perilous and uncertain.

He warns that Donald Trump and the Republican fascists and the larger "conservative" movement are trying to kill American democracy and will not stop until they achieve their goal of unlimited power and putting Dictator Trump in the White House.

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Ep. 136: Donald Trump's Hush-Money and Other Criminal Trials Are Like a Blackhole or Bottomless Maw May 28, 2024

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On this episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares a version of his recent essay at Salon, "Trump trial delays bring focus to crucial Supreme Court case".

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Ep. 135: President Biden and the Democrats Need to Learn That Being Boring and Nice Will Not Defeat Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement May 24, 2024

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On this episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares a version of his recent essay at Salon, "When Trump gets dark, Biden goes light".

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Ep. 134: From The Walking Dead to Hannibal Lecter: You Have Been Warned About Donald Trump's Neofascist Horror Politics May 22, 2024

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On this episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares a version of his recent essay at Salon, "Donald Trump is testing out a new campaign strategy: horror politics".

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Ep. 133: Dr. Bandy Lee Warns That Trumpism Is a Public Health Emergency Which is Reaching Terminal Levels For American Democracy and Society Jan 12, 2024

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Dr. Bandy Lee is a forensic psychiatrist and a leading expert on violence who taught at Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School for 17 years before transferring her activities to Columbia and Harvard.

Dr. Lee is also the editor of the New York Times bestseller, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President.

She is currently president of the World Mental Health Coalition, the largest professional organization to address the problem of dangerous leadership and its contribution to a "mental health pandemic."

Dr. Lee continues to warn that Trump and his MAGA movement and American neofascism constitute a public health emergency, which as seen on Jan. 6 and with Trump's escalating threats of massive violence and destruction is only continuing to get worse. She also warns that Trump's megalomania and the enduring power of the MAGA cult reflects how American society is sick with malignant normality and how that collective state of evil and pathological behavior can only lead to doom and destruction.

Dr. Lee reflects on where the country would now be if the news media, political class, and other elites had responded properly to the warnings issued by mental health professionals more than seven years ago that Donald Trump represented an extreme threat to American society and that his obvious unwellness would spread and infect the nation if he were to become president – and if he wins the 2024 Election Dictator for Life will become a terminal disease for American democracy and society.

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Ep. 132: On Jan. 6 Capitol Hill Police Officer Sgt. Aquilino Gonell Defended American Democracy From Donald Trump's Coup Attempt and MAGA Attack Force Dec 21, 2023

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Sgt. Aquilino Gonell is a Dominican immigrant, former U.S. Army Soldier, and Iraq War veteran. He's been a Capitol Hill Police Officer for the past 17 years and was one of four police officers who testified before the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Insurrection. He's been recently featured in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, NPR, CBS Mornings, NBC News, Fox-TV, MSNBC, The Daily Beast, The Hill, and Rolling Stone. He is the recipient of the Carnegie Immigrant Award.

Sgt. Gonell's new book (with co-author Susan Shapiro) is American Shield: The Immigrant Sergeant Who Defended Democracy.

Sgt. Gonell shares what it was like on the ground as he and his fellow officers tried to defend the Capitol on Jan. 6 against Trump's MAGA terrorist mob and attack force who were trying to end American democracy as part of the coup attempt.

Sgt. Gonell also reflects on his personal trauma, healing, questions of character, and how he became the type of man he is as shown by his service to the country when it would have been much easier to not have shown up to work on that historic Jan. 6.

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