S04E17 – Trump’s New Plane and a Biden Spending Spree?

In this episode of Finding Common Battle Grounds, we start with a discussion of the new luxury plane the Qatari government has promised to Donald Trump. It takes a while, but eventually we all agree that if Donald Trump gets to keep a $400 million luxury plane after he is no longer president, that is clearly bribery and corruption. Josh insists that, even though that is true, it’s not like this isn’t “business as usual” in politics. We then turn to a NYPost article claiming Biden went on a spending spree right before leaving office. The article doesn’t provide sufficient information to verify the claims (in classic tabloid fashion). But what we could find suggests that their estimates are off by at least a factor of 10. This leads us back into a discussion of the national debt and other topics we cover regularly. Josh then raised the recent event of a woman in Minnesota who used a racial slur in reference to a 5-year-old kid and used that to argue that both the left and the right are now rallying behind anyone on their side, including criminals. Ryan clarified that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not a criminal and not a member of MS-13, and Trayvon Martin was not a criminal either. But the bigger point is a good one.