The “Is This the End of the Trump Era?” Edition

This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss what happens when the government is untrustworthy as a strong pattern of DOJ lying under oath emerges, why the NYC mayor-elect and the president were so cordial with each other in the Oval Office, and how MAGA world continues to fracture as Marjorie Taylor Greene announces her resignation and the Fuentes/Carlson controversy continues.

Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:

Ryan Goodman, Siven Watt, Audrey Balliette, Margaret Lin, Michael Pusic, and Jeremy Venook for Just Security: The “Presumption of Regularity” in Trump Administration Litigation

Devon Lum, Mattathias Schwartz, Christoph Koettl, and Ainara Tiefenthäler for The New York Times: Times Analysis Finds Errors in Trump’s Supreme Court Filing That Calls for National Guard in Chicago

Dave Savini and Todd Feurer for CBS News: Judge’s ruling on feds’ use of force in Operation Midway Blitz accuses Border Patrol’s Bovino of “outright lying”

Kyle Cheney, Josh Gerstein, and Hassan Ali Kanu for Politico: Comey, James cases dismissed as judge disqualifies interim US attorney Lindsey Halligan

Dalia Faheid and Omar Jimenez for CNN: Text messages and a moved SUV: How the government’s case against a Chicago woman shot by a Border Patrol agent fell apart

Steve Vladeck for One First (Substack): The One First “Long Read”: The Government’s Disappearing Credibility

Benjamin Wittes for Lawfare: The Situation: Not The Way I Wanted This to End

Jill Lawrence for The Bulwark: We’re Led by an Administration of Liars

The Editorial Board of The Washington Post: The mass deportation campaign is already backfiring

Natalie Andrews and James Fanelli for The Wall Street Journal: Trump and Mamdani Set Aside Differences During White House Meeting

Jem Bartholomew for Columbia Journalism Review: Trump-Mamdani: It’s affordability, stupid.

Nia-Malika Henderson for Bloomberg (Opinion): How Long Can Mamdani Walk This Tightrope?

Lindsey Granger for The Hill: Trump heaps praise on Mamdani during meeting: hope for US politics?  

Jeffrey Blehar for National Review: The Trump–Mamdani Love-In

Lisa Lerer and Reid J. Epstein for The New York Times: Trump Shows His Power, and Greene Reveals His Weakness

Christian Paz for Vox: What Marjorie Taylor Greene’s feud with Trump is really about

Amy B. Wang for The Washington Post: Trump defends Tucker Carlson for interviewing white nationalist Fuentes

Ed Kilgore for New York Magazine (Intelligencer): The Message Trump Sends by Endorsing Tucker Carlson

Peter Wehner for The Atlantic: The Intellectual and Moral Decline of the American Right

Here are this week’s chatters:

Emily: Matthew Daly for the Associated Press: Trump EPA moves to abandon rule that sets tough standards for deadly soot pollution

John: Alissa Wilkinson for The New York Times: ‘Train Dreams’ Review: Life, Understood in Reverse; Train Dreams on Netflix: Official Trailer (YouTube, 2:38)

David: Jamie Thompson for The Atlantic: The Missing Kayaker

Listener chatter from Richard Medlicott in Wellington, New Zealand: Libby Kirkby-McLeod for Radio New Zealand: Noisy little blue penguins nest under Coromandel home, leaving couple at wit’s end

For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Emily, John, and David discuss the new campaign from the Department of Transportation to bring “civility” back to air travel by asking Thanksgiving travelers to dress up to fly.

In the latest Gabfest Reads, John talks with journalist and author Andrew Ross Sorkin about his new book, 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History and How It Shattered a Nation — the story of speculation, debt, and the human drives that fueled the Wall Street crash that changed everything.

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Podcast production by Nina Porzucki

Research by Emily Ditto

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Bonus Episode

Bonus: The Golden Age of Travel Starts With You

The Department of Transportation tries to promote the “return of civility” to air travel with new video.