Bringing it up . But like maybe you trust me enough to stick with me through it. Tonight is one of those nights. I fully concede this is going to start off seeming very, very much out of nowhere. But i swear, it is on the days news and if you bear with me for just a second, i will make it make sense. Okay. One of those nights. Here we go. Ready . Meet this guy. The most highly paid nazi agent in the United States in the leadup to world war ii. His job here was to spread propaganda for the nazis in the United States. This guy was charged and convicted of being a nazi agent in the u. S. And he was a relatively well known figure so it was relatively big news when he was charged and convicted. Made the front page of the new york times, for example. But the bigger scandal about him was that he got a whole bunch of members of congress to participate in this Propaganda Thing that hitler was paying him to do. Members of congress were involved with him, lots of them. Then he was indicted a seco
With him realized that what they had done with him working with o convicted nazi agent, they realized what they had done wita him was probably going to come out at that trial and that would be a bad look, so they decided to take action. One particularly powerful senator who was implicated in p this thing went to the attorneyi general and basically threatened the Attorney General that he would tie the doj up in knots, he would go after the Attorney General himself unless the Attorney General fired the prosecutor who was leading this case. And the senator had kind of a hook for doing this. The prosecutor he wanted fired had just been criticized by the court because when he was n prosecuting that nazi agent, th court said he spoke with basically too much passion, witk too much emotion about that defendant in front of the jury. So the prosecutor had been criticized in court. That was the hook they used for going after him. And you know, thats not exactly a Capital Offense as a prosecutor.
Here we go, ready . Meet this guy. The most highly paid nazi agent in the United States in the leadup to world war ii. His job here was to spread propaganda for the nazis in the United States. This guy was charged and convicted of being a nazi agent in the u. S. , and he was a relatively well known figure, so it was relatively big news when he was charged and convicted. It made the front page of the new york times, for example. But the bigger scandal about him was that he got a whole bunch of members of congress to participate in this Propaganda Thing that hitler was paying him to do. Members of congress were involved with him. Lots of them. Then he was indicted a second time, the same guy. And the first time it was for being a nazi agent. The second time it was not just for him personally being a nazi agent, it was a much bigger indictment. For him being part of a large, Seditious Conspiracy against the United States. And that is when members of congress who had been working with him