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This week on CounterSpin: The lame duck White House is engaged in a virtually unprecedented spree of federal executions, eight so far this year with more scheduled. As with many aspects of his presidency, it’s both Trump being especially gruesome, and his simply making use of a gruesome machinery he certainly didn’t create. And federal executions are, of course, just a part of the picture. We’ll talk about the death penalty with Liliana Segura, investigative journalist at the Intercept.
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Transcript: ‘These Executions, Disturbing as They Are, Have Flown Largely Under the Radar’
Ajit Pai and friends.
Also on the show: Between the time he made a video in which he danced with a Pizzagate propagator to celebrate the repeal of net neutrality, and the time he misled Congress about how the agency’s public comment system was cyber-attacked just at the moment that John Oliver urged viewers to leave comments supporting net neutrality, there are things about exiting FCC chair Ajit Pai, the human, to make one glad to see the back of him. We’ll talk less personally about the Pai FCC—and how they’re holding water for Trump til the end—with Gaurav Laroia, senior policy counsel at the group Free Press.
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Transcript: ‘The Chairmanship of Ajit Pai Has Been a Disaster’
We talk about Putin, Erdoghan, President of Hungary being evil, yet Trump turns around and executes 8 people with more on a list. WHY?? What does he have to brag about? Usually, nothing he does is without planning to brag about it. The information you began with was in the NY Times sometime in the past week. But many people don’t read the National back pages. If readers stay with the online pages, they most likely missed the article. Your mention of the prosecutors that were the ones that put the men/woman on trial seem to have little care. But that has been a pattern in the Southern States. Mississippi is notorious for regarding unethical prosecutors that hold back evidence and pay witnesses to lie against the one/s on trial. The other Southern States have done the same. To them the best criminal is a dead criminal. The only people that are important to them are white and preferably rich. Greg Iles, a fiction author about the South has a series of three books starting with Natchez Burning. They illustrate what the white male in particular does to blacks and those that try to back them in court. Although it’s all fiction, most readers will see the similarities that have taken place over the past 20 years and not just in Mississippi. Florida’s small towns, Georgia–as one can see with the politicians’ actions and Trump arriving tonight to rile the crowd to vote for 2 White Supremacists over two others that don’t have their heads stuck in the Civil War and man’s superiority and many others from Kentucky south!! Trump has a long history of wanting blacks and others of color to “go back to their shit huts” even those born and raised here. I wish there was something that could be done to him for this and other illegal, unethical and IMMORAL actions on his part. But other than fraud and taxes unpaid, he seems free and clear.