The Mark Thompson Show

A major flip and recanted testimony in the Mar-a Lago Case (secret document case). This flip could mean more to come and spells bad news for Trump. Tomorrow, former President Trump is expected to surrender in the state of Georgia, where he will be booked on charges related to interfering in the 2020 election. His lawyers reported they made a deal for $200,000 bond in lieu of being locked up. At le...

One Senator from a red state says it’s time for Donald Trump to leave the GOP race for the 2024 President nomination. Senator Bill Cassidy, of Louisiana, thinks Trump will lose to Joe Biden given the current polls. We’ll ask our resident Trump expert, Pulitzer Prize winning author David Cay Johnston, what he thinks. A pair of brothers, originally from the South Bay, will share their experiences in...

Well, that was a hell of a weekend! Just as tropical storm, Hilary was bringing down a deluge and causing mudslides and flooding, an earthquake hit. It was a 5.1., centered near Ojai at about 2:45 Sunday afternoon. It’s like Mother Nature was saying you may be joining the Hurricane club, but don’t forget this is Earthquake Country! Message received! Former President Donald Trump’s donors have paid...

Friday is an awesome day on the Mark Thompson Show. We will open discussing the stories of the day including decisions by former President Trump to back down and back out of a press conference where he said he would present a report full of evidence that would exonerate him in the election interference case. He’s also not planning to attend the GOP debate. Critics say lawyers finally got a muzzle...

We have heard that poll workers received death threats during the 2020 election so it may come as no surprise that it appears Trumpers are at it again. This time, the federal judge overseeing the Trump election interference case in Washington DC is getting threatened by Trump supporters. According to the Huffington Post, here is the voicemail a Texas woman left for U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutka...

Georgia DA Fani Willis brings fire with a blistering Georgia indictment accusing Donald Trump of being the head of a “criminal enterprise” to overturn the 2020 election. He has company. Willis named 18 defendants in addition to Trump. There are 41 charges in total and 30 unindicted co-conspirators. Mark will unpack it and then Jim Avila, former ABC White House Correspondent, and David Cay Johnston...

Indictments are reportedly coming soon for Trump and friends in the state of Georgia. Georgia prosecutors investigating the 2020 election case are said to have text messages and emails linking members of Trump’s legal team to a voting system breach in 2021. The fires in Maui now rank among the deadliest in U.S. history as the death toll nears 100. Monday brings Courtney to the show with an unbelie...

A Pro Publica report details even more lavish gifts from wealthy benefactors taken by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Among them helicopter rides and VIP sports tickets. Even so, we aren’t likely to see any ethics changes to rules governing supreme court justices. We have a great Law & Disorder segment planned followed by Friday Fabulous Florida. John Daly will be along for that. Bring...

We will bring you the latest on the fires burning in Hawaii. The flames are still raging around parts of the island. Maui officials are telling tourists that it’s time to go home. Former federal prosecutor, David Katz will join us to give his legal perspective on whether Former President Trump will be able to avoid a gag order in the federal cases against him and what's next for the Georgia electi...

A huge cannabis brand is expanding into the world of beer, buying up multiple beer brands. The legit nature of cannabis businesses has been established but U.S. legalization lags behind. Also, a major investigation and major cover-up. John Rothmann on the Trump future. Best-selling author of Strip Tees, A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles, Kate Flannery, exposes American Apparel for what it was. Sh...

LA workers are on strike and San Jose may be next. Unions repping city workers in LA claim there is no move to fill city vacancies that have forced exisitng workers into huge amounts of overtime. They want more money too. Trump is rebuffed in the courts on the E Jean Carroll countersuit. Trump's legal entanglements continue as his attorneys are back in court arguing he should be able to say what h...

Ethical financial questions swirl around Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas again. This time he took a nearly $300,000 loan out from a friend to buy a gigantic rolling mansion. The lender says the loan was satisfied, but that doesn’t mean it was paid back in full and suddenly, both the borrower and lender have very tight lips on the matter. A fascinating picture from the Civil War era fosters c...

The arrest is done, the hearing is over. Trump promised verbally and in writing to not contact any witnesses in the election interference case that he now faces. Is that good enough? Will he comply and when criminal cases and political campaigns collide, America may be left in tatters. A riveting discussion with award winning journalists Jim Avila and Michael Shure about what all this means. It's...

Today, former President Trump will head to a court room in Washington DC to face allegations of conspiring against America in the election interference case. We’ll bring you the very latest. Plus, former federal prosecutor, David Katz will be in today and he’ll look at the case against Trump from a legal perspective. It’s analysis you don’t want to miss. Have you heard about the Christmas call bet...

Former President Trump is charged with conspiracy to overturn an election. It's a coup attempt called out in the indictment. Special Prosecutor Jack Smith says Trump and six co-conspirators orchestrated a plot to overturn the election results so he could stay in power. Former Vice President Mike Pence says "Anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be President." Mark welcomes Joh...

When Fox News gave misinformation, likely knowingly, about Covid - thousands of people believed them and died. The question now is whether Fox should be held liable in those deaths. Former ABC White House correspondent Jim Avila will explain. He has a new article in Barrett News Media. Here is the link if you’d like to read it before the discussion. https://barrettnewsmedia.com/2023/08/01/fox-news...

The former President now under indictment is getting his legal bills paid for by PAC money. The Trump PAC spent $40 million on legal bills in the first half of 2023! Now, the legal cases mounting against Trump are becoming part of his campaign. Speaking of those mounting legal cases, when will the election fraud case out of Georgia bear fruit? A Georgia prosecutor is reportedly looking for a grand...

More charges against former President Trump in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case! Special counsel Jack Smith is adding one defendant and additional charges to the prior indictment against Trump and his #1 helper Walt Nauta. Carlos De Oliveira, a maintenance worker who helped Nauta move boxes full of classified documents under subpoena around Mar-a-Lago last May, was added. Also joining the...

You can't look at social media or go anywhere this week without hearing about the Taylor Swift concert. She'll be at Levi's Stadium tonight and tomorrow. What lengths people are willing to go to get tickets might surprise you! Plus two North Bay moms fight back against Taylor Swift scammers! Congress is abuzz with talk of aliens. Who is the alien/UFO whistleblower talking about evidence of non-hum...

In an, as yet, unreported brewing scandal, revelations about U.S. drones (used for everything from agriculture to infrastructure) have a route through China that may leave the USA as the unwitting participants in a massive intelligence dump. Everything from bridges to major travel arteries and transportation/shipping patterns are more than just "exposed"...Logistics expert, Jon Rosenthal, gives us...

Mark is live from Washington, D.C today! The state of Alabama ignores a ruling by the Supreme Court that it must include another black majority district when drawing Congressional District maps. Alabama doubles down with another controversial map that does not comply. An ally of former President Donald Trump who investigated claims of voter fraud in 2020 is now handing over a mountain of documents...

Conservatives are freaking out over the new Barbie movie. The say it's too woke and too feminist. One even set three Barbies on fire! Why so angry? We'll talk about it. Mark is in D.C. but before he left, he spoke with progressive radio host Thom Hartmann. The interview airs today! Courtney is off, but we'll dig into some criminal cases and take a look at how the other half lives with a That's Ric...

The trans bashing continues with GOP presidential candidate Ron Desantis at it again - this time pointing Florida state investors toward Bud Light's parent company for allegedly not upholding it's deal with shareholders. Some US Marine's, likely about 2,400, are headed to the Middle East because of two attempted shipping tanker seizures involving Iran in the Gulf of Oman. Also on the way: F-35 and...

Word is another Trump indictment is right around the corner. Yesterday, we told you about actor Erik Passoja. His face was scanned for a video game and was used in surprising ways. Today, he joins to tell us more. Alexander Bolton with The Hill drops in to talk about the state of the GOP and the seizing of power by the right wing of that party. Former Federal Prosecutor David Katz weighs in on Tru...