Plans A, B, C: Trump's summer playbook for the National Guard, ICE, and the ballot
Trump is running three plays at once: National Guard deployments into blue cities, ICE raids as political theater, and a frontal attack on the ballot box itself. Paul Rieckhoff calls them Plan A, Plan B, and Plan C — and lays out why this summer is shaping up to be a powder keg, from the World Cup to Iran to a resurrected slush fund for January 6th insurrectionists. If you're in the angry middle and wondering where the brakes are on this thing, this Friday briefing is for you.
It has been a wild, weird, harrowing week — Iran, ICE in Minneapolis, a UFC fight at the White House, the Knicks in the playoffs, and a…
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→ Four things from today’s episodePlan A, Plan B, Plan C. Paul's framework for how Trump is preparing to weaponize the National Guard, ICE, and the election itself
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