Tom Nichols
speaker
2,378 appearances
19 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 19 May
Tom Nichols’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Pete wanted to go, but I'm talking to people.
This administration is all over the map.
Now, maybe they think, and, you know, let's...
try and impose some order on all this cast.
Maybe they think that they are sending messages and kind of playing chess and manipulating the public information space.
If that's what they think, they aren't doing it well.
And they're certainly not doing it well with the president
you know, kind of rambling on in one corner and Pete Hegseth, you know, acting like a teenage debate coach on the other.
But I think it's always the same story that when you see one of these people get up to the podium, they're performing for Donald Trump.
They're not actually transmitting information or trying to play the information game against the enemy.
That unfortunately is just not what they're about.
Well, you know, it's remarkable because, you know,
Just a minute ago, Jasper brought up the issue of the school strike.
And Reuters, myself and a colleague of mine, broke the story about the US military investigation that showed that US troops were likely responsible for that strike.
And the Pentagon still hasn't commented on whether that's true.
And the Secretary of Defense came out
at a press conference that I attended, I wasn't able to ask a question because the media he called on weren't Reuters.
But at that press conference, he said, we don't give quarter, no quarter to our enemies, which created a lot of concern among human rights officials about whether those were orders to the US military to not give quarter to enemies, which would be illegal under national law.
So there are real concerns about what the U.S.
is saying at these events, these press conferences, the credibility of U.S.
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