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Trump’s ‘complete betrayal’ of US service members — he’ll be ‘burnt at the stake’ for this
Season 2, Ep. 153
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Former Trump White House official and national security expert Olivia Troye joins Maddie Hale to discuss Trump’s secret Air Force One switch over the Iranian assassination threat, the ‘alarming’ treatment of US sailors in the Gulf, Trump’s handling of the Iran war and his tendency to ‘spiral out of control’ when things go wrong, plus the growing Epstein files showdown with his DOJ.
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