Join us for another great episode of What the Franklin, with Chip Franklin and Nikki Medoro to discuss the reasons why Trump might decide to skip the first debate against President Biden, and the looming presidential immunity decision from the Supreme Court.

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Our hosts make their bold predictions for the upcoming debate and Chip stresses the importance of this moment. It reminds him, “in some ways, of the Lincoln-Douglas debates when they were running for the U. S. Senate back in 1858,” he said. “The threat of civil war was in the air. It was a pivotal time in American history.”

We’ll break down the insanity of Trump’s xenophobic immigration rhetoric, and the MAGA refusal to take any real action on immigration policy.

You won’t want to miss our take on the recent “cheap fake” videos, or the real reason why we think Trump’s supporters are creating them.

Our hosts talk about next week’s much-anticipated Supreme Court ruling on Presidential immunity, and what impact that will likely have on the debate and the rest of the election.

You’ll hear Chip break down the hypocrisy of Trump’s racist death-penalty-for-drug-users statements. “This is a guy that has tailored his whole messaging towards people with white skin,” he said. “People with money who want to be protected from people like you.”

Nikki excellently skewers the alternative reality that MAGA lives in. “It's hard when we live in a society in which you could present facts and then people debate them,” she said. “Donald Trump filed 60 plus lawsuits over the last election and lost them. And then his supporters made up alternative facts to justify why he lost. That makes it so their truth - that the election was stolen - becomes fact, an alternative fact, but a fact for them.”

We’ll talk recent polling, Donald’s July 11 sentencing hearing, and Elon Musk deleting tweets to protect Ted Cruz. We’ll even discuss Justin Timberlake’s recent arrest, and so much more, on this awesome episode.