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Hey folks,
Katie Phang is back on Breaking Bread and this one gets heated fast. We dig into Trump’s new $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” slush fund, why it looks like a giant payoff scheme for January 6 loyalists, and what it says about the state of accountability in this country right now. We also get into Jared Polis commuting Tina Peters’ sentence, Mark Cuban showing up at the White House, and why so many powerful people still refuse to say the obvious truth out loud.
Here’s what we got into:
[00:01:10] Mike and Katie break down Trump’s massive “anti-weaponization” fund and why they believe it’s designed to reward loyalists and insurrectionists behind closed doors.
[00:03:51] Jamie Raskin calls the settlement what it is: theft. Katie explains why there’s effectively no oversight and why taxpayers should be furious.
[00:05:22] Mike talks openly about spending hundreds of thousands defending himself from Trump-aligned investigations — and jokes about filing his own claim against the government.
[00:09:42] Katie lays out why Democrats should force Republicans to publicly defend this slush fund and make them answer for it heading into the midterms.
[00:14:38] The conversation shifts to billionaires, political cowardice, and why this moment demands people actually pick a side instead of playing both ends against the middle.
This episode is really about something bigger than one settlement or one scandal. It’s about what happens when corruption stops hiding. When the grift becomes public policy. And when powerful people start acting like democracy itself is negotiable. If you’ve been feeling exhausted, angry, or overwhelmed watching all of this unfold, you’re not alone. But conversations like this matter because they remind us we still have agency — and we still have each other.
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—Mike
