{"podcast":{"title":"The Court of History","slug":"the-court-of-history-7648009","podcast_index_feed_id":7648009,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/MTH8378930776","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/12c20da4-eb46-11f0-9833-d35b3bc1e46c/image/f037e2f5c376dc4b477fd206193226fd.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"MeidasTouch Network","episode_count":131,"summary":"Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz, renowned political historians, invite you into their conversations with the most cutting edge and authoritative guests at the crossroads of political, history and the constitutional crisis.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T12:23:51.761895+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-court-of-history-7648009"},"episode":{"title":"Trump Pulls TOTALLY PANICKED MOVE as He SEES WRITING ON THE WALL!!!","slug":"trump-pulls-totally-panicked-move-as-he-sees-writing-on-the-wall","published_at":"2026-05-23T15:29:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-court-of-history-7648009/trump-pulls-totally-panicked-move-as-he-sees-writing-on-the-wall","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-court-of-history-7648009","url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/arttrk.com/p/MMN23/prfx.byspotify.com/e/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/MTH6191619095.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/arttrk.com/p/MMN23/prfx.byspotify.com/e/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/MTH6191619095.mp3","summary":"Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund with Brendan Ballou, attorney for former Capitol policemen suing him to dissolve the fund that would hand money to January 6th convicts, how Trump is trying to revive his private militias and create a violent system of intimidation pointing to the 2026 midterms and beyond, and what strategies might be useful against him. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA/join Become a member of the Legal AF Substack: https://michaelpopok.substack.com/20off Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/legalafmtn.bsky.social Follow Michael Popok on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mspopok.bsky.social Subscribe to the Legal AF podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/legal-af-by-meidastouch/id1580828595 Subscribe to the Intersection with Michael Popok podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intersection-with-michael-popok/id1818863274 Subscribe to Unprecedented with Michael Popok and Dina Doll podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unprecedented-by-legal-af/id1867023089 Subscribe to Court of History with Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-court-of-history/id1867022920","meta_description":"Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund with Brendan Ballou, attorney for former Capitol policemen suing him to disso…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1851,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-court-of-history-7648009/episodes/trump-pulls-totally-panicked-move-as-he-sees-writing-on-the-wall/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-court-of-history-7648009/trump-pulls-totally-panicked-move-as-he-sees-writing-on-the-wall.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}