6/27/24 Eli Clifton on the Nuclear Industry, AIPAC and Donald Trump’s Biggest Donors

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Eli Clifton returns to the show to talk about some of the recent reporting he’s done at Responsible Statecraft. They start with a couple of reports Clifton highlights about the status of nuclear weapons around the world today and how much of our money is being spent to produce and maintain them. They then move on to money in politics, discussing AIPAC’s funding of Jamal Bownman’s primary defeat and the concerning group set to become Donald Trump’s biggest donors.

Discussed on the show:

• “World spending on nukes explodes to more than $90 billion” (Responsible Statecraft)
• Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
• “Bowman crushed by GOP-fueled AIPAC cash” (Responsible Statecraft)
• “TikTok investor Jeff Yass wants to shape US foreign policy too” (Responsible Statecraft)

Eli Clifton is a senior advisor at the Quincy Institute and Investigative-Journalist-at-Large at Responsible Statecraft. Follow him on Twitter @EliClifton.

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