The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVega

This is special joint episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show and The Truth Report. Dr. Mary Trump [https://www.marytrump.org/] 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 [https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/trump_incoherent_media_sanewashing.php]. And Chauncey DeVega honors the titan James Earl Jones [https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/09/entertainment/james-earl-jones-death/index.html] who passed away on Monday and is now one with the Force. WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW? Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thechaunceydevegashow [https://www.patreon.com/thechaunceydevegashow]    https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast  [https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast]

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”. [https://www.salon.com/2024/06/14/making-sense-of-the-post-conviction-polls/] WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast  [https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast] https://www.patreon.com/thechaunceydevegashow [https://www.patreon.com/thechaunceydevegashow]

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” [https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/] 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. WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast  [https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast] https://www.patreon.com/thechaunceydevegashow [https://www.patreon.com/thechaunceydevegashow]

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”. [https://www.salon.com/2024/06/07/biden-baits-into-a-debate-trap/] WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast  [https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast] https://www.patreon.com/thechaunceydevegashow [https://www.patreon.com/thechaunceydevegashow]

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. **** 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. WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast  [https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast] https://www.patreon.com/thechaunceydevegashow [https://www.patreon.com/thechaunceydevegashow]