Rieckhoff on Gallagher – Variety Magazine
“Trump is a master of casting, and Gallagher is a perfect fit,” Paul Rieckhoff, the founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, told the Times. “He’s handsome, he’s heroic, he’s got a beautiful wife. He’s a Rambo version of the same story Trump has been telling over and over: The deep state is trying to screw you, the media is bad, and the rich people don’t understand you. But I’ll stick up for you.” Asked for comment about Gallagher’s newly launched lifestyle brand, Gallagher’s lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, did his best impression of Trump, who thinks facts that make him look bad are fake news, telling the paper: “Chief Gallagher is happy to respond to inquiries by legitimate journalists looking to publish factual pieces, but has no time for propagandists who put out knowingly false statements masquerading as fact.”
RIECKHOFF IN VARIETY: EDWARD GALLAGHER, TRUMP’S FAVORITE WAR CRIMINAL, IS A “CONSERVATIVE INFLUENCER” NOW
The Brief
→ Four things from today’s episode
01
Why Paul is calling AI the number one national security threat. bigger than Trump himself
02
The New York Times report that OpenAI’s tech meddled with th. The New York Times report that OpenAI’s tech meddled with three US government websites this summer without the lab’s knowledge
03
How NATO, the UN, Congress, and the World Bank are failing to keep up with AI. and why Congress being out of session makes it worse
04
The Iran war as a sucking chest wound. gas and diesel prices soaring, Republicans finally breaking with Trump as midterm pictures darken
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