The Court of History

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Jeffrey Toobin, legal analyst for CNN and New York Times contributor, on his New York Times Magazine article on the corruption of Trump’s pardon system, the hidden players and the payoffs. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCu...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Jeffrey Toobin, legal analyst for CNN and New York Times contributor, on how Trump has created a pardon for himself through his IRS exemption in his slush fund, triggering an explosion at last from the Republican Senate. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube....

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund with Brendan Ballou, attorney for former Capitol policemen suing him to dissolve the fund that would hand money to January 6th convicts, how Trump is trying to revive his private militias and create a violent system of intimidation pointing to the 2026 midterms and beyond, and what strategies might be useful against him....

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Katherine Stewart, investigative journalist and author of Money, Lies and God, about Trump’s manipulation and dependence on his Christian Nationalist base, the organization behind the religious right, and the pedophile scandal of Paul Pressler, Mike Johnson’s mentor, that is being suppressed. https://www.amazon.com/Money-Lies-God-Movement-Democracy/dp/...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Katherine Stewart, invetigative journalist and author of Money, Lies and God, about Trump’s evangelical revival on the Mall in Washington, the scheming preachers behind him, how they made him into a god for the MAGA masses, and the wholesale corruption. https://www.amazon.com/Money-Lies-God-Movement-Democracy/dp/163557854X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0 https://...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Stephen Vladeck of the Georgetown Law Center, forecasts the coming Supreme Court decisions on write-in ballots, birthright citizenship, Lisa Cook, and firing of executive branch officials--and the future of the unitary executive and court reform. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube commu...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Stephen Vladeck of the Georgetown Law Center, on John Roberts’ claim the conservative majority on the Supreme Court are not “political actors,” the racial basis of its gerrymandering decision to gut the Voting Rights Act, the “stupidity” of the “independent court” narrative, and the abuse of the emergency docket. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@Leg...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz interview Jonathan Winer, former State Department official, on the secret Presidential Emergency Action Documents, Trump’s intention to manipulate the midterm elections, his devilish designs, and how to foil them. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJ...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss Sidney’s Guardian column on why “Republicans would rather self-destruct than save themselves from Trump,” the pact with the Devil they made, the inner history of Trump’s first term, the history of party leaders saving presidents, and why Republicans are now hapless and hopeless. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a me...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz interview Angelo Carusone, president of Media Matters, on the dangerous currents in right-wing media, how Trump personally manipulates the traditional press corps, and how right-wing media will affect the 2028 Republican presidential campaign. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz interview Angelo Carusone, president of Media Matters, about how Media Matters defeated the Trump administration lawsuit to shut it down, Elon Musk’s effort to destroy the group, the failed appeasement by major media of Trump that has corrupted their integrity and reporting. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Lega...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss Trump’s retirbution case against James Comey over seashell design, King Charles’ speech to the Congress neatly refuting Trump, and Trump’s lost speech to the White House Corresondents’ dinner that would have slammed the press corps. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss Sidney’s Guardian column on Trump ’s war on Pope Leo, and the alliance between evangelical Christian Nationalists and conservative Catholics, how Trump’s war on the People has created a great schism. Books: The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln https://a.co/d/1dLTVjG All the Powers of Earth: https://a.co/d/imrGwQx Subscribe: https://www.you...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz interview Gareth Gore, investigative journalist and author of Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy Inside the Catholic Church, on his meeting with Pope Leo, the information he gave him on the dark scandals of the Opus Dei cult, and the larger context of Trump’s attack on the Pope. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMT...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz interview Gareth Gore, investigative journalist and author of Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy Inside the Catholic Church, on fascist origins, scandals, grip over the American right wing, including its relationship with JD Vance, and Pope Leo’s struggle against it. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confir...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz interview Anne Applebaum, staff writer for The Atlantic and author of Autocracy, Inc., about the downfall of Viktor Orban in Hungary, how the American right was implicated with his authoritarian regime, including Trump, JD Vance and Marco Rubio, what Orban’s defeat foretells for Trump and Maga, the deep corruption exposed, and how Ukraine emerges as stronger. Sub...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Alastair Campbell, former strategist and press secretary for PM Tony Blair, and co-host of The Rest Is Politics podcast, on how King Charles should manage the fake US king Donald Trump, and the true story of Trump’s tragic immigrant Scottish mother. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube co...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Alastair Campbell, former strategist and press secretary for PM Tony Blair, and co-host of The Rest Is Politics podcast, about King Charles’ awkward visit to the US, how he has to handle Trump’s ego, and Trump’s rupture of the US-UK “special relationship.” Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF You...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss Sidney’s column in The Guardian on Trump’s escalating rhetoric into “incitement to genocide” as he flounders in his Iran War. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA/join Become a member of the Legal AF Substack: https://michae...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz unravel Clarence Thomas’ weird speech on the Declaration of Independence and trace it back to its sources in the John Birch Society and a host of bizarre extremists. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA/join Become a member of the L...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz talk with Nina Burleigh, investigative reporter, to disclose why Melania gave her weird press statement that she had no relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the tawdry story of her modeling agent Paolo Zampolli and his common law wife Amanda Ungaro, who he had jailed and deported in a custody battle using his Trump influence, and what Ungaro told Nina Burleigh is t...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz talk with Nina Burleigh, investigative reporter, on Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s servility to Trump, Blanche’s father as a Pentecostal preacher, Blanche’s interview with Ghislaine Maxwell, his suppression of the Epstein Files, and Blanche as the unbending executor of Trump’s vendettas. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Be...

Trump’s Grand Larceny. Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz interview Anthony Scaramucci, Trump’s former communications director and now an investment adviser, on Trump’s stealing from the Middle East, what the rulers of the Gulf states tell the Mooch about Trump’s madness, and why Trump wants to burn everything down. The Mooch also talks about his encounters with Jeffrey Epstein and figured out Eps...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz interview Anthony Scaramucci, Trump’s former communications director and now an investment adviser, on Trump’s insanity, Melania’s Epstein Files plot, how Trump is destroying JD Vance on purpose, and Trump’s war against the Pope. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.co...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz  continue the conversation with the acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns about his PBS series on the American Revolution, on George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin--and Abraham Lincoln--and how every generation reinterprets the American Revolution down to today. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member...