Political Gabfest: Will The Carroll Verdict Hurt Trump?

This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss
E. Jean Carroll’s $83.3 million win against Donald J. Trump; the
events of 1920-1948 that shaped the current relationship of Israel
and Palestine; and the tech-bro billionaires of
techno-authoritarianism with Adrienne LaFrance of The
Atlantic.    Here are some notes and references from this
week’s show: Eric Lach for The New Yorker: Nine Regular People
Tell Donald Trump to Shut Up and Pay Up Monica Hesse for The
Washington Post: Is it really sexism that Trump is showing? Or
is it something worse? Maggie Haberman and Shane Goldmacher for The
New York Times: Trump’s PACs Spent Roughly $50 Million on
Legal Expenses in 2023 Erik Larson for Fortune and
Bloomberg: Most of Trump’s cash stockpile is at risk from
possible $450m dual verdicts in E. Jean Carroll and New York
business fraud cases CBS News: Face The Nation and Emily
Tillett: Nikki Haley on Trump accusers: Women who accuse
anyone “should be heard” and “dealt with” Gabriella Abdul-Hakim for
ABC News: Tim Scott insists voters don’t care about Trump’s
defamation loss, plays down ‘provocative’ Haley attacks Dietrich
Knauth for Insurance Journal: Sandy Hook Denier Alex Jones
Eyes Settlement With Families, Bankruptcy Exit Emily Bazelon for
The New York Times: The Road to 1948 and Was Peace
Ever Possible? Adrienne LaFrance for The Atlantic: The Rise of
Techno-Authoritarianism Ezra Klein for The New York Times: The
Chief Ideologist of the Silicon Valley Elite Has Some Strange Ideas
Steven Levy for Wired: What the Techno-Billionaire Missed
About Techno-Optimism Jonathan Taplin for Vanity Fair: How
Musk, Thiel, Zuckerberg, and Andreessen—Four Billionaire
Techno-Oligarchs—Are Creating an Alternate, Autocratic Reality Lisa
Desjardins and Jonah Anderson for PBS Newshour: Lawmakers
grill Big Tech executives, accusing them of failing to protect
children The Dictator’s Learning Curve: Inside the Global Battle
for Democracy by William J. Dobson   Here are this week’s
chatters:  Emily: The Fight to Save the Town: Reimagining
Discarded America by Michelle Wilde Anderson
John: PenTips; Toluse Olorunnipa and Liz Goodwin for The
Washington Post: Biden vows to ‘shut down’ an overwhelmed
border if Senate deal passes and Jacob Bogage and Jeff
Stein: House votes to expand child tax credit, beef up
corporate tax breaks David: Visual Arts, St. Albans School;
John Buzbee for The Advocate: LSU students bare it all as nude
art models: ‘It’s a very brave thing to be able to do.’; and Kim
McGill for The Union: The naked truth: Art models at El Camino
inspire students to portray humanity in all its forms Listener
chatter from Jay Lloyd in Louisville, Kentucky: Eric Berger
for Ars Technica: What happens when an astronaut in orbit says
he’s not coming back?   For this week’s Slate Plus bonus
segment, David, John, and Emily discuss the Love Story of
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce and the message for MAGA
madness: You Need To Calm Down. See Mariana Alfaro for The
Washington Post: Why Trump’s MAGA Republican movement dislikes
Taylor Swift and Ross Douthat for The New York
Times: Taylor Swift, Donald Trump and the Right’s Abnormality
Problem.   In the latest Gabfest Reads, John talks with
Brad Stulberg about his book, Master of Change: How to Excel
When Everything Is Changing – Including You.   Email your
chatters, questions, and comments to gabfest@slate.com.
(Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates
otherwise.)   Podcast production by Cheyna Roth  Research
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