Grant Stern

J.D. Scholten is fighting to save Iowa’s farms from tariffs and their healthcare from the GOP

Scott interviews J.D. Scholten, a first-time Democratic candidate for Congress in northwest Iowa’s 4th District which includes Sioux City, stretching from Interstate 35 to Interstate 29 in the farm belt, which includes his family farm. He is fighting to unseat long-time incumbent GOP legislator Steve King who’s best known outside the district for his white nationalist views. Tariffs are just taxes Republicans raised …

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National security expert says Trump just carried out one of Nixon’s impeachable offenses

Grant Stern interviews national security lawyer Bradley P. Moss, whose Washington, D.C. practice includes representing news organizations seeking the release of federal public records, whistleblowers and navigating the government’s security clearance process. Moss says that Trump’s announcement yesterday of a very selective declassification of the DOJ, FBI investigatory records of the Russia probe directly echoes the kind of abuse of …

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A pardon won’t let Manafort escape Mueller’s plea deal, says former federal prosecutor

Scott interviews former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti, who explained both that Mueller has means at his disposal to ensure Manafort’s testimony is “locked in” to be used against Trump even if he is pardoned and what will happen to the $46 million that Trump’s former campaign manager forfeited to the government if he’s later pardoned. Mariotti graduated from Yale Law …

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Subscribe now to hear why Roger Stone and Donald Trump are freaking out over Manafort’s plea deal

Subscribe now to get notified when our new episodes. Mother Jones’ David Corn is right, Roger Stone and Paul Manafort do have a business relationship that has lasted over thirty years. But you won’t find stories like this exclusive interview with Roger Stone by our producers anywhere else. Stone admitted to us that he was discussing the campaign with Donald Trump long …

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Paul Manafort just flipped. Trump and Putin must be furious.

Scott explains the finer points of Paul Manafort’s plea agreement to flip on Trump and cooperate with Special Counsel Mueller, something which doesn’t surprise the Dworkin Report team since we started sounding the alarm about Russian influence before the votes were cast. Forget the White House’s denials, we already know that Paul Manafort’s illegal conduct reaches into Trump’s inner circle …

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The Democratic Coalition just filed a judicial ethics complaint against Judge Kavanaugh

Scott Dworkin explains why he and the Democratic Coalition just filed a judicial ethics complaint with the Clerk of the DC Circuit Court for Chief Judge Merrick Garland to review based upon the same allegations which led them to submit a criminal complaint to the US Department of Justice against Judge Brett Kavanaugh with the legal counsel of Massachusetts lawyer J. Whitfield Larrabee. Here …

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This is why we just filed a criminal complaint against Brett Kavanaugh

Scott Dworkin explains why he and the Democratic Coalition filed a criminal complaint to the US Department of Justice against Judge Brett Kavanaugh with the legal counsel of Massachusetts lawyer J. Whitfield Larrabee. Scott and Jon Cooper, who is the Chairman of the Democratic Coalition, both joined the complaint individually. A parallel judicial ethics complaint will be filed with the Clerk of the …

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Former federal prosecutor just said no set rule prevents indictment of Trump in office with DOJ permission

Scott asks Mimi Rocah how federal prosecutions of mob bosses and crime families really work, and she should know as the former Chief of organized crime prosecutions for the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York. Can Special Counsel Mueller issue an indictment of Trump without impeachment? What do Rudy Giuliani’s protestations of a deadline mean? She …

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A new documentary just revealed the money trail from Trump to Putin and the Russian mob

Scott interviews two of the documentary filmmakers behind Active Measures, director/writer Jack Bryan and his co-writer Marley Clements who told him about the making of the movie, the threats that began early last year, their interview with Sen. John McCain and their conclusions after spending 18 months investigating the links between Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian mob boss …

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