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Episode 458 - Water Wars: Why Trump Wants Canada & Flint Still Suffers (w/ Jordan Chariton)

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4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Status Coup founder and author of We The Poisoned: Exposing the Flint Water Crisis Cover-Up and the Poisoning of 100,000 Americans Jordan Chariton returns to Bad Faith to unpack Trump's obsession with making Canada the 51st state and its connection with Jordan's long-term reporting on the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. It's a resource issue: The water wars are here.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

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We're dying. People have died from this damn water and all you guys can sit up there and just pretend like it's no big deal. No big deal. Our kids are having tooth decay as you guys sit up there in your prissy ass whatever. Spending money that you guys don't even know how to spend because you don't even know what you guys are doing. Y'all look like a joke. Y'all look like a joke and you should be, you should

0:25.6

be shamed of yourself. This is what you're showing our kids, our future. This is what you're

0:31.7

showing them that you guys can just talk however you want to talk, say what you want to say,

0:36.3

and everybody's just supposed to believe your...

0:37.7

It get paid for doing nothing. Nothing by telling us.

0:42.0

I lost my job to provide...

0:44.6

Nobody's getting a house. Nobody's done shit at my house but kill us. I'm It's always such a pleasure to have Jordan Sheridan back on the show. One of the most important

1:29.8

independent, intrepid journalists of the moment of our generation, who has doggedly pursued

1:37.2

very important stories long after and before the mainstream media decided they were

1:43.0

significant enough to be of notice.

1:45.8

I really appreciate him coming back to the show to talk about his new book,

1:51.8

We The Poisoned, Exposing the Flint Water Crisis Cover Up and the Poisoning of 100,000 Americans.

1:57.8

Welcome back to the show, Jordan.

1:59.7

Hey, thank you for having me.

2:02.6

You also, of course,

2:08.9

are the founder of status coup, one of the most important, as I mentioned, news outlets that does original reporting in a space that really is filled, and I'm not helping, but filled with more

2:14.3

commentary than there is reporting. So can we start just by giving us a sense of what it's been like to do

2:20.6

gumshoe reporting at this moment.

2:22.8

We're in the middle of a truly overwhelming news cycle with Israel breaking the ceasefire.

2:29.7

I mean, it has been doing so throughout, but with these strikes that happened over the course of last night,

2:35.3

with Trump rounding up people for deportation without any due process, including an American citizen

2:41.6

who got swept up on this on the basis that he was Latino and walking around.

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