Jan 11 2025 43 mins 2
What You Need to Know is about the body of literature that has shaped Donald Trump. Trump’s formative years were spent on the tail end of a great period of American literature (Horatio Alger and others) that taught us we can work hard and make it. Anyone can work hard and make it. You can see in Donald Trump, in Elon Musk, and in many famous, successful business folks of the line of these works of literature and the ethos they inspired.
Todd Bensman, Senior National Security Fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies and author of Overrun, joins Ed to discuss what border policy will look like over the next 4 years under Trump’s administration.
AJ Rice, President & CEO of Publius PR and author of The White Privilege Album: Bringing Racial Harmony to Very Fine People…on Both Sides, joins Ed to discuss his book. AJ tells about his writing process and career, and how he is always working on the next thing, “like Pac Man.” He also talks about how he uses irreverent humor and satire to bring of salient and critical political points.
John Schlafly, co-author of the weekly Schlafly Report, discusses with Ed the tenuous situation with Russia. Trump wants to bring the Russia-Ukraine war to a speedy resolution, but Biden’s authorization for Ukraine to use U.S.-made missiles is putting a wrench in those works.
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