In tonight's Lone Liberal Rumble, Thom talks to Charles Sauer of the Market Institute and Dave McCulloch of Capitol Media Partners about how Trump is creating a kleptocracy, how Trump is right about what we need to do to deal with big Pharma, and Bernie's expose of the Republicans Party's big lie. Later on in the show, Thom talks about how we can create a rational trade system.

Big Picture Panel: Charles Sauer, The Market Institute & Dave McCulloch, Capitol Media Partners. Things got even weirder when Trump started talking about how - as president - he was going to deal with the giant conflict of interest presented by his personal business empire. After refusing once again to release his tax returns - Trump brought some tax lawyer named Sheri Dillon on stage to explain why he's not doing the constitutional thing and divesting himself from the Trump Organization. According to Dillon - his plan is to instead just hand things off to his sons Eric and Donald Jr. for the next four years. Eric and Donald Jr won't be allowed to make any new foreign deals - and will theoretically have to have domestic deals reviewed by an ethics advisor - but Daddy Donald will still be the official "on paper" owner of the Trump Organization. In other words - he still has a giant conflict of interest on his hands. Republicans just spent the past 8 years railing against President Obama and so-called crony capitalism - how can they possibly feel comfortable with this situation?

Big Picture Fact Of The Day….

Big Picture Panel: Bryan Pruitt, RedState & Kai Newkirk, Democracy Spring/99Rise. The war on drugs, according to the Nixon aide who largely put it into place, was an intentional war on African Americans. The biggest crack in that has been states legalizing marijuana, even though it's still illegal at a federal level. Would an Attorney General Jeff Beauregard Sessions crank back up Nixon's war on black people by throwing pot users in federal prisons?