On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, J. Peder Zane and James Varney speak with Tablet writer and RCI contributor Lee Smith about conservative media in the Trump era with a special focus on X.
On the news round-up, Zane and Varney discuss how a ProPublica investigation reporting on the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration efforts, which includes a remake of the courts, is targeting a once protected class for deportation: unaccompanied minors who crossed the border. They also looks at a new report from the White House that assails the leadership of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History for “explicitly adopt[ing] an ideological framework that no longer treats the American story as a shared national inheritance to be taught or celebrated, but as a political instrument to divide, dispirit, and discourage our citizens.”

Articles Discussed in This Podcast:

• Lee Smith: Is the EU’s Spat with Elon Musk Really About Free Speech?
• Lee Smith: The Man Setting Fire to the GOP
• ProPublica: Trump Surges Deportation of Minors 
• White House: Saving America’s Story
• New York Times: Inside Trump’s Ideological Fight With the Smithsonian