Michael Tracey: America First, or Ukraine First?

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This week, the U.S. government passed a foreign “aid” package of $95 billion for America’s wars, including $60 billion for Ukraine. The legislation was designed by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson who has enjoyed mainstream media praise in the days following the bill’s passage, with The New York Times remarking his funding of Ukraine as a “transformational arc,” and CNN comparing him to Winston Churchill.

Left out the coverage of this bill, however, has been the former President who paved the way for its passage: Donald Trump. This week’s guest of Journalists for Sale, Michael Tracey, has been tracking closely Trump’s significant role in this bill’s development and success, as well as the media meltdown from both liberal media and the “MAGA Media Complex” in omitting Trump’s capacity in delivering these funds to Ukraine.

For liberals, admitting Trump’s key role would undermine the corporate media narrative they disseminated for years that Trump is an agent of the Kremlin who only won in 2016 because of a sophisticated Russian coup. For the MAGA movement, it would mean admitting that Trump is not an enemy of the Deep State nor a principled non-interventionist, but actually completely in line with the establishment wings of both parties—a fatal blow to a business model which relies on propping up Trump as a substantive alternative to warmongering Democrats.

Tracey’s objective reporting of the politics of this bill has not made him popular with partisans, but it has shed light on the reality of the “uniparty”—namely, that Trump is a leader within it.