Political Gabfest: Donald Trump is still lying about crowd size.
SlateThis week, Emily Bazelon and David Plotz are joined by Marin Cogan of Vox to discuss how the media is reporting on election disinformation and misinformation and Donald Trump’s lies; Vice President Kamala Harris defining Candidate Kamala Harris; and more guns, less violent crime. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Will Sommer and Elahe Izadi for The Washington Post: Why newsrooms haven’t published leaked Trump campaign documents and Aaron Blake: Trump’s laundry list of increasingly bizarre claims Brian Beutler for Off Message: Trump Email Hack Is A Moment Of Reckoning For Him—Or The News Media Kim Willsher and Jon Henley for The Guardian: Emmanuel Macron’s campaign hacked on eve of French election Bill Kristol for The Bulwark: Let Brian Wilson Be Your Guide Jon Favreau and David Axelrod for Crooked’s Pod Save America podcast: The “Let Trump Be Trump” Strategy Elaina Plott Calabro for The Atlantic: The Kamala Harris Problem Astead W. Herndon for The New York Times’s The Run-Up podcast: An Interview With Kamala Harris on What’s at Stake in 2024 Megan Messerly for Politico: Why Harris, some Democrats and a Nevada union endorsed Trump’s no taxes on tips policy Marin Cogan for Vox: What happens when everyone decides they need a gun? Ad Council on YouTube: Kids Find Everything: End Family Fire Russell Contreras for Axios: New data show homicides down in Biden’s last year vs. Trump’s Vaishnavee Sharma for WUSA9: Violent crime down by 35% in DC, police say Here are this week’s chatters: Emily: Xochitl Gonzalez for The Atlantic: To Save The World, My Mother Abandoned Me and Phil Klay for The New York Times Magazine: Artists and Activists Both Have a Role. Marin: Switzerland Events; Geneva Events Calendar; and Berner Zibelemärit David: Will Sullivan for Smithsonian Magazine: The World’s Largest Iceberg Is Stuck in a Spinning Ocean Vortex and NASA: Iceberg A23a in the Southern Ocean, Antarctica Listener chatter from Simon Jones in Paris, France: Evan Ratliff’s Shell Game podcast For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, David, Emily, and Marin talk about pets and babies.