Donald Trump's trade guy, Peter Navarro, proposed that America should spend roughly $2 trillion to bring manufacturing back to the United States from China.

Doing this would both strengthen American national and domestic security, and create an explosion in what could be very good-paying jobs for American workers.

While this would seem to be absolutely consistent with the positions Donald Trump campaigned on, it turns out his administration is actually opposed to it. Which has everybody scratching their heads.

Why would Trump tell Americans, over and over again for five years, that he wants to bring jobs home, and then reject a reasonable effort to do just that?

Read more here.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "Trump Can't Immediately End DACA, Supreme Court Rules" by Adam Liptak and Michael D. Shear.

Article: "Report on the Subject of Manufactures" by Alexander Hamilton.

Article: "Permanent normal trade relations: U.S. and China" by Wikipedia

Article: "North American Free Trade Agreement" (NAFTA) by Wikipedia

Article: "White House divisions sow confusion about strategy on stimulus next steps" by Jeff Stein.

Article: "U.S. military comes to grips with over-reliance on Chinese imports" by Phil Stewart, Mike Stone.

Book: The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir by John Bolton.

Article: "Bolton book says Trump sought Xi's 2020 help, roiling race anew" by Jordan Fabian and Nick Wadhams.

Article: "Bolton's New Book Alleges Trump Routinely Put Political Ambitions Above U.S. National Interests" by Tessa Berenson and John Walcott.

Article: "Trump used Huawei as a ploy in his reelection strategy, according to John Bolton's explosive new book" by Isobel Asher Hamilton.

Quote: "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press." - Donald J. Trump.

Article: "T-Mobile down: Carrier says calling and texting outage was caused by 'IP traffic storm'" by Eli Blumenthal.

Article: "Trump Vs Huawei Just Suddenly Changed-Here's Why" by Zak Doffman.

Article: "Political positions of Donald Trump" by Wikipedia.

Article: "A Sitting President's Amenability To Indictment And Criminal Prosecution" by U.S. Department of Justice (OLC).

Article: "Re: Amenability of the President, Vice President and Other Civil Officers to Federal Criminal Prosecution while in office." by U.S. Department of Justice (OLC), 1973.

Article: "Killing of Rayshard Brooks", June 12, 2020 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Atlanta officer charged in death of Rayshard Brooks turns himself in to jail" by Minyvonne Burke and James Morrison.

Movie: "The Silence of the Lambs".

Article: "Navy Seal pardoned of war crimes by Trump described by colleagues as 'freaking evil'" by Richard Luscombe.

Article: "Trump pardons Army officers, restores Navy SEAL's rank in war crimes cases" by Idrees Ali.

Article: "Frank Serpico" by Wikipedia.

Movie: "Serpico".

Article: "Atlanta police call in sick to protest murder charge against officer who shot Rayshard Brooks" by Katie Shepherd.

Article: "Perv USA gymnastics doctor sentenced to 60 years in prison" by AP.

Article: "Now that he knows it exists, Trump claims he made Juneteenth 'very famous'" by Philip Bump.

Article: "Christopher Dorner shootings and manhunt" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Video Shows Cop Body-Slamming High School Girl in S.C. Classroom" by Tim Stelloh and Tracy Connor.

Article: "We found 85,000 cops who've been investigated for misconduct. Now you can read their records." by John Kelly, and Mark Nichols.

Article: "Gun-toting Trump supporters attack George Floyd protesters in rural Ohio town" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Unite the Right rally" (Charlottesville) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Changes to Georgia elections proposed to avoid repeat in November" by Mark Niesse, Ben Brasch.

Hour Two: Why is the Fed Buying Corporate Bonds...And, Is It Legal?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Understanding Marxism / Understanding Socialism

Article: "The Fed says it is going to start buying individual corporate bonds" by Jeff Cox.

Article: "The Fed will move away from ETFs to direct corporate bond purchases, Powell says" by Jeff Cox.

Article: "Quantitative easing" (QE) by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Ehrlichman" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the anti-war left and black people. We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting people to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, break up their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." - John Ehrlichman.

Article: "Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory" (MMPI) by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "I've written in the past about working for an extreme narcissist who was similar to Trump in his sociopathic selfishness but vastly, vastly smarter.
Narcissists build a fragile outer shell. A persona that even they know isn't real. It is their life's work to defend it.
1/" by The Hoarse Whisperer.

Article: "Fox News Lawyer Suggests No Reasonable Viewer Would Think Tucker Carlson Is News" by Colin Kalmbacher.

Article: "The wealthy are rarely caught by the IRS for not paying their taxes" by Hillary Hoffower.

Article: "Trump campaign runs ads with marking once used by Nazis to designate political prisoners" by Isaac Stanley-Becker.

Article: "Trump Facebook Ad Openly Using a Nazi Symbol For "Political Prisoner"" by Michael Francis.

Article: "Is There Satanic Symbolism in the GOP's Logo?" by Caroline E. Winter.

Article: "Now that he knows it exists, Trump claims he made Juneteenth 'very famous'" by Philip Bump .

Article: "FEMA seized 5MILLION face masks ordered for veterans and sent them to the federal stockpile, VA official says" by Lauren Edmonds.

Article: "Maryland GOP governor is hiding his state's testing kits in an undisclosed location so Trump can't seize them" by Brad Reed.

Article: "Hospitals say feds are seizing masks and other coronavirus supplies without a word" by Noam N. Levey.

Article: "Officials in at least 6 states are accusing the federal government of quietly diverting their orders for coronavirus medical equipment" by Mia Jankowicz.

Article: "Miami-Dade County misses out on 1 million N95 masks when feds scoop up shipment" by Douglas Hanks.

Article: "Pritzker arranging secret flights from China to bring millions of masks and gloves to Illinois" by Frank Main.

Article: "PPP failed to get money where it was most needed" by Dion Rabouin.

Article: "GOP fronts 'pro-Trump' doctors to prescribe rapid reopening" by Michael Biesecker, Jason Dearen.

Article: "What we know about the four ex-police officers charged in George Floyd's death" by Harmeet Kaur and Nicole Chavez.

Video: Kris Kristofferson - Jesus Was a Capricorn.

Article: "Caste system in India" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Killing of Rayshard Brooks", June 12, 2020 by Wikipedia.

Article: "2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Article: "Smedley Butler" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Assassination of John F. Kennedy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Eugene V. Debs" by Wikipedia.

Article: "David M. Shoup" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: Who Are the Imposters?
- Steve Benen, MSNBC Rachel Maddow Show Producer / Author, The Imposters: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics

Article: "Barry Goldwater" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mission Accomplished speech" by Wikipedia.

Image: "Thom and Louise Meet Pope John Paul II".

Book: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot, Russell Kirk.

Article: "Newt Gingrich" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Massachusetts health care reform" (Romneycare) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" (Obamacare) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Death panel" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What Do the Koch Brothers Want?" (1980 Libertarian Party platform) by Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Article: "Tea Party movement" by Wikipedia.

Article: "American Legislative Exchange Council" (ALEC) by SourceWatch.

Article: "Fairness Doctrine" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ottoman Empire" by Wikipedia.

Article: "British Empire" by Wikipedia.

Article: "American imperialism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Thucydides Trap" by Graham Tillett Allison, Jr.

Reforming & De-Militarizing the Police
- Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)

Article: "Duckworth Bill To Strengthen Police Accountability Through Independent Investigation And Prosecution Of Criminal Law Enforcement Lethal Uses Of Force Included In Democratic Police Reform Proposal" by Tammy Duckworth.

Article: "Tammy Duckworth: Trump's Use Of Military Against Protesters Is 'Disgusting'" by Jennifer Bendery.

Article: "1033 program" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Centennial Olympic Park bombing" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Boston Marathon bombing" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Peaceful Protesters Gassed So Trump Can Do a Sacrilegious Bible Photo Op" by Ed Kilgore.

Article: "Send In the Troops" by Tom Cotton.

Law: Posse Comitatus Act (1878).

Article: "Trump faces more defections by Republicans as Colin Powell also bolts" by Yueqi Yang.

Article: "John Lewis (civil rights leader)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Former Commanders Fault Trump's Use of Troops Against Protesters" by Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Helene Cooper, Eric Schmitt and Jennifer Steinhauer.

Article: "Trump is diverting another $7.2 billion in military funds to build his border wall" by Katelyn Burns.

Article: "Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists" (AUMF, 2001) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump's purge of inspectors general is a crisis. Alarm bells should be going off everywhere." by Andrew Bakaj, John Tye and Mark Zaid.

Article: "It's being reported that ICE Detention Centers (For Profit Prison Camps) are spraying detainees with disinfectant Chemicals that the manufacturer warns is dangerous." by NoRoadUntravelled.

Article: "The Civil Rights Act of 2020" by Charles M. Blow.

Article: "Tranches, How They Work, Risks, and Role in the Financial Crisis" by Kimberly Amadeo.

Article: "Financial crisis of 2007-08" by Wikipedia.

Video: Get your knee off my neck - Rev Al Sharpton.

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