people were not just conservative, black people always have been conservative minded, but more black people voted conservatively. and lyndon johnson, then you go down that road, and now we are where we are. that was byron donalds suggesting there were positive aspects to jim crow. he joins me tonight. plus, president biden is in normandy on the 80th anniversary of d.-day, delivering a stark warning about the state of democracy. and the grandson of a key member of the black panther party, david hilliard, is pushing back against a video of hilliard saying allegedly that he supports trump, saying it is misleading. and that grandson joins me later. but we begin tonight with the 80th anniversary of d-day, the day some 156,000 allied soldiers arrived on the beaches of normandy, charging head on into nazi gun fire, land mines, and barbed wire. pushing the occupying nazi era germans out of normandy and then out of the rest of france. the invasion marked a definitive turning p
away from its natural order. unquote. huffington post uncovered the latest example of that rotten playbook in action. down in florida in 2022, during the tail end of the covid pandemic, and underqualified trump nominated judge issued a ruling against mask mandates. he used a weird never used legal theory that you could word search like key phrases and apply the old timey meanings to provide legitimacy to the ruling. and guess where this judge got this legal theory? at a koch funded all expenses paid luxury trip where the primary mission was persuading federal judges to adopt this arcane theory. guess who the judge clerked for? you guessed it, clarence thomas. they reported according to their tally, justice thomas has received the most gifts of any judge dating back to the antonin scalia era by a mile with 193 gifts totaling more than $4 million.
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