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America in Crisis: Epilogue (opens the original)
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For six episodes, this series turned over one coin at a time — a plane, a fortune, an energy bet, a career, a memecoin, the office itself — and found the same thing every time: two Americas looking at identical facts and seeing opposite countries. The Epilogue asks the question all the others were pointing at. Forget whether any single deal was good or bad. What is it costing us — in dollars, in years, in the trust that lets a hundred million strangers build something together — that we can no l
America in Crisis - Part 6 - What He's Actually Selling (opens the original)
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A plane, a fortune, an energy bet, a career, a memecoin — and finally the office itself. In the last part of America in Crisis, we turn over the clearest coin of all: the president’s crypto fortune, read two opposite ways from the identical facts. Nobody disputes the numbers. A token launched three days before the inauguration, 80% of the supply kept in-house, a fee on every trade. Nearly a million buyers underwater by $3.8 billion while an early third walked off with $4 billion in gains. A $148
America in Crisis - Part 5 (opens the original)
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The energy bet, traced from where it actually started — not a policy judgment but a purchase, made at a Mar-a-Lago dinner and promised from a stage. Part Five follows the money in and the money back out: at least seventy-five million from the oil and gas industry, and roughly eighteen billion in tax breaks returned in one legislative package. Then the audit a builder would run — what a hundred-and-fifty-year petroleum strategy actually buys over its full term, the chaos it exports, and the futur
America in Crisis - Part 4 (opens the original)
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One deal is an anecdote. A pattern is an argument. This episode pulls back from the jet to the full record — Atlantic City casinos, the airline, the university fraud settlement, steaks, vodka, and the long trail of branded ventures that carried the name and failed. The country had the file the entire time. Why did it hand the office to a man whose business history was public for decades? The answer is a manufactured image that overpowered the ledger: a persona of infallible success built for tel
America in Crisis - Part 3 (opens the original)
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A foreign government handed the President of the United States a Boeing 747 valued at $400 million. He called it free. This episode turns the coin over: the billion-dollar retrofit (partly funded by pulling money from the nuclear modernization budget), the plan to transfer the jet to his presidential library foundation when he leaves office, and the telling detail that he refused to fly it home from a NATO summit over security concerns. Both Americas see the same plane and reach opposite conclus
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