<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[American Freakshow: Freak Of The Week]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every Friday, for your entertainment and edification, Nina Burleigh profiles a MAGA freak whose actions over the previous week warrant special attention.]]></description><link>https://www.americanfreakshow.news/s/freak-of-the-week</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0C4k!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62afd142-6283-4d15-9b96-58c5a2fd5c20_720x720.png</url><title>American Freakshow: Freak Of The Week</title><link>https://www.americanfreakshow.news/s/freak-of-the-week</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:07:03 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.americanfreakshow.news/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Nina Burleigh]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[americanpoliticalfreakshow@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[americanpoliticalfreakshow@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Nina Burleigh]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Nina Burleigh]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[americanpoliticalfreakshow@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[americanpoliticalfreakshow@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Nina Burleigh]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Substack Live: With Virginia Heffernan On Freak of the Week Peter Thiel]]></title><description><![CDATA[Live at 1 p.m. EST Today]]></description><link>https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/substack-live-with-virginia-heffernan</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/substack-live-with-virginia-heffernan</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nina Burleigh]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:27:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/816e9e24-2c6f-400e-b246-e90de98d1746_1280x720.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ll be live in discussion with author, journalist, and cultural critic Virginia Heffernan to discuss our Freak of the Week: that towering figure of tech-bro autocracy and weirdness, Peter Thiel. Here&#8216;s Heffernan&#8217;s Substack, <a href="https://virginiaheffernan.substack.com/about">Magic + Loss</a> (Politics and Tech for English Majors), and her Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/books/review/the-contrarian-peter-thiel-max-chafkin.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare">review</a> of Max Chafkin&#8217;s Thiel biography.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.americanfreakshow.news/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.americanfreakshow.news/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>And here&#8217;s a screenshot of Thiel talking about AI recently, and in his younger days with Paypal co-future billionaire Elon Musk.</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b4fa1209-dc59-4e6e-b2ec-156054685b48_1380x992.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b5267948-ec0e-449e-ae83-f1a12aff191e_281x179.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b416db81-108e-43d6-9510-98508aba210d_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><p><strong>Tune in at </strong><em><strong>1 PM EST</strong></em><strong> </strong><em><strong>today</strong></em><strong> and make sure you&#8217;re subscribed to my newsletter, <a href="https://www.americanfreakshow.news/">American Freakshow</a>.</strong></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/substack-live-with-virginia-heffernan?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/substack-live-with-virginia-heffernan?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[FREAK OF THE WEEK: Pam Bondi - Live with Lisa Graves]]></title><description><![CDATA[A recording from Nina Burleigh's live video]]></description><link>https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/freak-of-the-week-pam-bondi-live</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/freak-of-the-week-pam-bondi-live</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nina Burleigh]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 15:23:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/163631016/dd16b0de216de246119b5d39cd4b1bab.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this morning&#8217;s livestream, <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Lisa Graves&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:7171731,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1b27e796-538e-474a-aab4-28df4428e80d_1551x1551.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;38a26920-9df1-4a43-a2e4-a6204fa5c085&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> and I discussed our Freak Of the Week, Attorney General Pam Bondi, whose activities include saying state judges are &#8220;not above the law&#8221;, claiming Trump taking a $400 million gift jet from Qatari royals is perfectly legal. AND this morning Pro Publica reports she timely sold between $1 million and $5 million dollars worth of Trump Media stock the day before Trump announced tariffs.</p><p>And while you&#8217;re here, make sure you&#8217;re subscribed to Lisa&#8217;s newsletter, <a href="https://www.graveinjustice.news/">Grave Injustice</a>, as well as my weekly newsletter, <a href="https://www.americanfreakshow.news/">American Freakshow</a>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/freak-of-the-week-pam-bondi-live?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/freak-of-the-week-pam-bondi-live?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.americanfreakshow.news/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.americanfreakshow.news/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Substack LIVE: Freak of the Week Pam Bondi with Lisa Graves]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tune in today at 10 a.m. EST]]></description><link>https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/substack-live-freak-of-the-week-pam</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/substack-live-freak-of-the-week-pam</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nina Burleigh]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 13:35:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BKRA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49df09a2-e2af-4230-8bb7-6bb81fc712e6_714x1058.heic" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today at 10 am EST, <a href="https://open.substack.com/live-stream/29090?">at this link</a>,  Lisa Graves joins me to talk about the state of our nation of laws, including the doings of our top law enforcement official. Lisa is founder and executive director of True North, a national investigative watchdog group, former Senate Judiciary staff, and  author of an upcoming book on Chief Justice John Roberts, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Books-Lisa-Graves/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3ALisa%2BGraves">Without Precedent</a>.  Lisa will explain how the two decades of Roberts put the nation on the path to autocracy. </p><p>And we will discuss Attorney General Pam Bondi, whose activities include saying state judges are &#8220;not above the law&#8221;, claiming Trump taking a $400 million gift jet from Qatari royals is perfectly legal. AND this morning Pro Publica <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/pam-bondi-trump-media-stock-tariffs">reports</a> she timely sold between $1 million and $5 million dollars worth of Trump Media stock the day before Trump announced tariffs. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BKRA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49df09a2-e2af-4230-8bb7-6bb81fc712e6_714x1058.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BKRA!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49df09a2-e2af-4230-8bb7-6bb81fc712e6_714x1058.heic 424w, 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Now he is empowered again to help erase Spanish speaking migrants from the streets and fields of America without due process.</p><p>He clearly takes smirking delight in the choreographed spectacle of extrajudicial deportations of men never accused of crimes to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Miller seems to have been born immune to the suffering of the less fortunate &#8211; or the less &#8220;American.&#8221; His own family, descendants of Jewish immigrants who fled European persecution and arrived here not speaking English, have disowned him. If he hadn&#8217;t crossed paths with Trump, Miller would probably be just a corporate law firm drone whose colleagues thought of him as the office crank and avoided him.</p><p>His combination of lifelong nativism, powerful position in an authoritarian regime, and his uncanny ability to intuit Trump&#8217;s worst urges and facilitate them into cruel policy makes him perhaps the FREAKIEST and most malignant member of the second administration&#8217;s chamber of horrors&#8230;</p><p>You can watch the video<strong> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ7-K6GLvW0">HERE</a></strong>, and make sure you&#8217;re subscribed to my newsletter, <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/81f6dfcf-45a6-4385-a481-5915ef49a8cf?j=eyJ1IjoiaTRuNyJ9.jzcvh5ZUZvLlITUslymaxYQ2KTUhdQRdaB8NevYxtwc">American Freakshow</a>, to help you keep your eyes on the facts and remember where we started and how we got here.</p><p class="button-wrapper" 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Press Secretary Pushing Trump's Lies]]></description><link>https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/freak-of-the-week-karoline-leavitt</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/freak-of-the-week-karoline-leavitt</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nina Burleigh]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 21:57:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!olSs!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe98c5508-2179-4a34-8364-1712c49c29e2_1280x720.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLCR813VDR8" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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She possesses the Trump administration's top job qualifications: an uncanny ability to instantly adapt messaging to the Boss&#8217;s protean falsehoods and latest whims and, equally important, total immunity to shame.</p><p>She has touted the Supreme Court's temporary hold on the deportation of an innocent man to a terrifying jungle dungeon without due process as a &#8220;smackdown to a low-level left-wing rogue district court judge." </p><p>Leavitt is the ideal Trump mouthpiece. A techno-fascist AI robot factory could not have created a more perfect spokeswoman for a regime that spews alternate facts and performs reality show government while stripping Americans of their safety net, cratering America&#8217;s relations with allies, and offshoring &#8220;undesirables&#8221; &#8211; activity with ominous similarities to Nazi Germany&#8217;s outsourced camps.</p><p>You can watch the video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLCR813VDR8">HERE</a>, and make sure you&#8217;re subscribed to my newsletter, <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/81f6dfcf-45a6-4385-a481-5915ef49a8cf?j=eyJ1IjoiaTRuNyJ9.jzcvh5ZUZvLlITUslymaxYQ2KTUhdQRdaB8NevYxtwc">American Freakshow</a>, to help you keep your eyes on the facts and remember where we started and how we got here.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.americanfreakshow.news/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" 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isPermaLink="false">https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/freak-of-the-week-rfk-jr</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nina Burleigh]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 20:53:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DJKI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd78d183-2446-4796-8324-02b40a50d60c_1280x720.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5QW4fhhWHg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DJKI!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd78d183-2446-4796-8324-02b40a50d60c_1280x720.jpeg 424w, 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A vaccine denier, a wellness-woo-spewing conspiracy theorist, a former heroin addict who has said the drug helped him get better grades and anti-science to the core, he is the unlikeliest and most unfit director of the Health and Human Services Administration in modern history. </p><p>He has already turned out the lights on potential medical research into things like pancreatic cancer research and pandemic preparedness and is overseeing the "what me worry" federal response to the worst measles outbreak on American soil in decades. As bird flu burns through domesticated animals and menaces humanity, he's fired the veterinarians who were studying. </p><p>Oh, and he is a self-confessed sex pest, a job qualification for many of the males working around Don.</p><p>You can also watch the video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5QW4fhhWHg">HERE</a>, and make sure you&#8217;re subscribed to my newsletter, <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/81f6dfcf-45a6-4385-a481-5915ef49a8cf?j=eyJ1IjoiaTRuNyJ9.jzcvh5ZUZvLlITUslymaxYQ2KTUhdQRdaB8NevYxtwc">American Freakshow</a>, to help you keep your eyes on the facts and remember where we started and how we got here.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.americanfreakshow.news/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.americanfreakshow.news/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe 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Meanwhile, his DOGE is attacking Social Security, sacking thousands of low-paid workers who keep the system working. Eight weekend round trips from DC to Palm Beach likely cost Americans more than 112 MILLION DOLLARS already.</p><p>You can also watch the video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBKOgtMFXxw">HERE</a>, and make sure you&#8217;re subscribed to my newsletter, <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/81f6dfcf-45a6-4385-a481-5915ef49a8cf?j=eyJ1IjoiaTRuNyJ9.jzcvh5ZUZvLlITUslymaxYQ2KTUhdQRdaB8NevYxtwc">American Freakshow</a>, to help you keep your eyes on the facts and remember where we started and how we got here.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.americanfreakshow.news/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.americanfreakshow.news/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" 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He is a longtime white nationalist radicalizer whose tweets would have gotten almost anyone in America, and certainly anyone in public service, fired &#8211; until recently. Now, he is able to spew his views into the biggest and most powerful radicalization pipeline in the world, from the bully pulpit of the U.S. State Department, in a taxpayer-funded job, chipping away at the foundation of America as a heterogenous, multi-racial democracy. His appointment is an audacious troll, which is on brand for the MAGA revenge team.</p><p>You can also watch the video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmFihR7ATuM&amp;t=1s">HERE</a>, and make sure you&#8217;re subscribed to my newsletter, <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/81f6dfcf-45a6-4385-a481-5915ef49a8cf?j=eyJ1IjoiaTRuNyJ9.jzcvh5ZUZvLlITUslymaxYQ2KTUhdQRdaB8NevYxtwc">American Freakshow</a>, to help you keep your eyes on the facts and remember where we started and how we got here.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.americanfreakshow.news/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.americanfreakshow.news/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" 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A Big Lie promoter who represented January 6 insurrectionists as a private attorney, he's now in charge of weaponizing the U.S. attorney's office in Washington against Trump's enemies.</p><p>You can also watch the video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C3aZuWj76Y">HERE</a>, and make sure you&#8217;re subscribed to my newsletter, <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/81f6dfcf-45a6-4385-a481-5915ef49a8cf?j=eyJ1IjoiaTRuNyJ9.jzcvh5ZUZvLlITUslymaxYQ2KTUhdQRdaB8NevYxtwc">American Freakshow</a>, to help you keep your eyes on the facts and remember where we started and how we got here.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.americanfreakshow.news/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.americanfreakshow.news/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/freak-of-the-week-ed-martin?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/freak-of-the-week-ed-martin?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freak of the Week: Andrew Tate]]></title><description><![CDATA[He is accused of multiple horrific crimes... and he just landed in the United States at the invitation of the Trump admin.]]></description><link>https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/freak-of-the-week-andrew-tate</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/freak-of-the-week-andrew-tate</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nina Burleigh]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2025 22:22:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/158134871/655454052728861862f7754c466f4537.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our Freak of the Week is a man who compensates for his insecurities entertaining incels and young boys online with propaganda about violence towards women, fancy cars, and cigars. He faces charges of rape and human trafficking in Romania and the UK and has bragged about breaking a woman's jaw in a bar fight. And yet, the Trump administration, on the hunt for criminal immigrants, has just welcomed him into the United States, where even the MAGA Florida Governor Ron DeSantis expressed outrage.</p><p>You can also watch the video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MA-KzipHug">HERE</a>, and make sure you&#8217;re subscribed to my newsletter, <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/81f6dfcf-45a6-4385-a481-5915ef49a8cf?j=eyJ1IjoiaTRuNyJ9.jzcvh5ZUZvLlITUslymaxYQ2KTUhdQRdaB8NevYxtwc">American Freakshow</a>, to help you keep your eyes on the facts and remember where we started and how we got here.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.americanfreakshow.news/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.americanfreakshow.news/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" 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He is such a MAGA tool that he's written a children's book portraying Trump as a king whose kingdom has been stolen from him. He has published a long political enemies list and he has promised vengeance, and since craven Republican Senators just confirmed him to the top law enforcement position in the nation, he has the power to mix politics with criminal law. He is the most simultaneously dangerous and wacky confirmed member of Trump 2.0 dog's breakfast of a cabinet. Oh, and he sells cheesy merch, just like his boss.</p><p>You can also watch the video <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/459c1469-3c61-4d9d-8984-087ed001c36c?j=eyJ1IjoiaTRuNyJ9.jzcvh5ZUZvLlITUslymaxYQ2KTUhdQRdaB8NevYxtwc">HERE</a>, and make sure you&#8217;re subscribed to my newsletter, <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/81f6dfcf-45a6-4385-a481-5915ef49a8cf?j=eyJ1IjoiaTRuNyJ9.jzcvh5ZUZvLlITUslymaxYQ2KTUhdQRdaB8NevYxtwc">American Freakshow</a>, to help you keep your eyes on the facts and remember where we started and how we got here.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.americanfreakshow.news/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.americanfreakshow.news/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/freak-of-the-week-kash-patel?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/freak-of-the-week-kash-patel?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freak of the Week: Russell Vought]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Transparent Seaworm]]></description><link>https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/freak-of-the-week-russell-vought</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/freak-of-the-week-russell-vought</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nina Burleigh]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:01:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/157158570/5c47564e824ef45d8042d1cde765e22a.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our Freak of the Week is a long-time Washington Godsquad insider who pretends to be an outsider. He has managed to fly under the radar while seething with rage at modern American multi-culture. Like all the fake Christians who have populated the nation's Capital, he doesn't seem too attached to the Christian principles of charity, mercy, and loving thy neighbor. He is a tool of the plutocrats and oligarchs, co-authored Project 2025, and organized and kept secret the plan to assault the government from the inside.</p><p>You can also watch the video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvGdOE3-f-Q">HERE</a>, and make sure you&#8217;re subscribed to my newsletter, <a href="https://www.americanfreakshow.news/">American Freakshow</a>, to help you keep eyes on the facts and remember where we started and how we got here.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.americanfreakshow.news/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.americanfreakshow.news/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" 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