‘Informed Rant’: Roles of the Media, WikiLeaks and Vladimir Putin in the Presidential Election
The latest episode of Joshua Scheer's podcast explores how Donald Trump became the next commander in chief.The latest episode of Joshua Scheer’s podcast “Informed Rant,” titled “The Donald Trump Win and Putin’s Useful Idiot,” discusses the election of Donald Trump as the next commander in chief.
Scheer and guests Sarah Burris of Raw Story and Tim Karr of Free Press discuss the media’s role in Trump’s victory. The host also talks with Malcolm Nance, terrorism expert and a member of the U.S. intelligence community, about his book “The Plot to Hack America: How Putin’s Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election.”
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