Award-winning journo, Trish Wood digs deep with guests and thinks critically about the world, true crime, wrongful convictions, epic media fails, addiction, the gender wars and sometimes basketball. Trish’s acclaimed interview style, empathetic but tough and agenda-free, explodes convention and exposes raw truth.
The Trish Wood is Critical podcast is a breath of fresh air in the current media landscape. As a listener, I am truly excited for not only myself but also my fellow Canadians who have started a worldwide revolution against lockdowns and mandates. It's inspiring to see how this podcast has given a voice to the quiet Canadians and allowed them to question mainstream narratives and policies that are damaging our society. The content of Episode #90 (1/1/22) was particularly outstanding, with its quality introductory monologue, guest selection, interview content, editing, and overall impact. Trish Wood's experience in the media industry shines through in every episode, making it a truly remarkable listening experience.
One of the best aspects of this podcast is the opportunity it provides to hear from excellent and thoughtful experts who engage in serious questioning of mainstream narratives and policies. Trish Wood's choice of guests is impeccable, bringing together diverse perspectives that challenge the status quo. The interviews are insightful and informative, providing information that is often hard to find elsewhere. Moreover, Trish's commentary adds another layer of depth to the discussions, making them even more engaging and thought-provoking.
However, it must be noted that while this podcast brings important voices and perspectives to light, there may be some polarization in its messaging. As someone who appreciates critical thinking and bipartisan discussions, I believe it is crucial for any media platform to provide multiple viewpoints and promote constructive dialogue. While Trish Wood does challenge popular opinion in a bipartisan way, there may be room for further diversification of perspectives on certain topics.
In conclusion, The Trish Wood is Critical podcast is an essential listen for anyone seeking honest conversations and critical analysis of current events. This podcast stands out for its exceptional interviewing skills, thought-provoking content, and commitment to challenging mainstream narratives. It serves as a beacon of light during these uncertain times by providing valuable insights that will undoubtedly contribute to the historical record. Trish Wood's dedication to truth and her ability to engage with diverse perspectives make this podcast a valuable resource for those seeking in-depth discussions on important issues.
No guest this week, but a deep dig on the Big Lies shaping our world. New COVID vaccine docs prove a cover-up, and did Biden's dementia allow for Israel's end-game in Gaza to take root? How no respect for elder wisdom is hurting society. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Canada's children are not doing well. Ken Drysdale of the National Citizens' Coalition delivers dire results from their latest hearings. And Universal Ostrich Farms continues to attract protestors, media and controversy. The owner, Karen Esperson, appears from the farm to update the story. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
COVID-19 brought out the cruelty in bureaucrats, and now a 400-bird ostrich flock is in jeopardy from that same mindset. On a farm in BC, they are awaiting a kill order while their desperate owners fight for the lives of these birds that they love. An extraordinary interview with a farmer fighting for her flock. And why is our new prime minister like an ink blot test? We have the answer. And the Epstein story takes a dive. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
As Mark Carney and Donald Trump settle into their bromance, the truth about a dirty political campaign is seeping out. Carney voters who hate Trump were duped while the country was whipped into a mass hysteria event for nothing — except an assured Liberal victory. The social fabric is in tatters, and the Elbows Up crowd are exposed as gullible, low information patsies. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
From the campaign trail, three indies who've seen it all and are winding down after disrupting legacy media's stranglehold on the democratic process. Alternatively frightening and hilarious, compelling stories you won't hear on your TV. Video version with photos is available on Substack. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Are Western countries headed for civil wars? David Bates from King's College in London thinks they are inevitable. And hysterical legacy media meltdown at the election debate, with secret audio from Alex Zoltan. CBC fibs again, and scrums are cancelled. Also, big news for biological women out of Scotland. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Trish and Julius unpack their fears of a Liberal election win, Canada as a failed state, and how to navigate it all. More from Mark Carney's book, which seems to celebrate citizen control by government. Plus, a soothing movie recommendation for the weekend. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Trish unpacks her week in Ottawa with Tamara and Chris as they awaited the verdict in their mischief+ trial. What happened was a travesty and underscores massive division in this country on the most critical of issues. Plus — the economy is seriously tanking. On the upside, a media organization blows the whistle on Liberal influence buying. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Former Conservative government minister and now leader of the People's Party of Canada — Maxime Bernier joins Trish to pick over the state of the country, the madness of "Elbows Up” and splitting the vote. Plus, Trish on the psychiatric plague infecting rich boomer women, and more Mark Carney deep dives. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Trish deep dives into some disturbing information that reveals why Mark Carney poses an economic threat to the country — and why the Liberals wanted that danger. Also, Russia expert Professor Glenn Diesen from Norway on the perils of Canada hooking-up with Europe after our new prime minister's mad dash across the pond. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
We have a brand new, unelected Prime Minister in Canada today. Perhaps the most globalist-affiliated and climate-catastrophe-adjacent leader in the world. Trish and Viva Frei aren't happy about it and have lots of reasons why. Plus, why Gene Hackman's death matters. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Trudeau rallies his troops by inciting fear of our American neighbours. Oldest trick in the propaganda playbook — but here we are. Also, Trish with Scott Horton on how the Zelensky/Trump drama will play out against a backdrop of 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' and European virtue signalling. What you need to know, now. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
The Epstein Files are a bust. The Liberal debate is too, and of course everything is the fault of Donald J. Trump. Meanwhile, investigative journo Donna Laframboise brings us some sunlight in the form of new Freedom Convoy trucker stories from her brilliant new book. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Tamara Lich joins Trish on the third anniversary of the invocation of the Emergencies Act to talk about patriotism, our flag, and how the country remains divided. Trish explores Trump's Ukraine stance, and also dangerous deep state money for journalistic organizations. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
USAID as been exposed as yet another managerial state grift fuelled by wokeness and theft. We have some shocking new details. And Trish interviews former British Prime Minister Liz Truss, who's been on a bit of a speaking tour against her country's own blob, and Mark Carney, who once ran the Bank of England — "badly" she says. And Truss tells Trish about her historic visit with the dying Queen. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Julius Ruechel joins Trish to unpack the past few days of political preening and pomposity by Canada's pols. Back at square one after inciting a mass hysteria event? Never let a good crisis go to waste. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Can a crumbling democracy like Canada be saved by a rehabilitated CBC? The once-beloved corporation has been destroying itself with tainted news coverage, arrogant public statements, and apparent loyalty to its paymasters in the Liberal government. Should it even survive without a news culture revamp? Trish brings the evidence and receipts, including a prescient interview with former CBC reporter, Marianne Klowak, who blew the whistle during an appearance on this podcast in July of 2022. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Donald Trump's pen is smokin' as he leads at lightening speed. But it in the midst of MAGA joy, Trump's team of tech oligarchs announces a terrifying AI-driven mRNA vaccine program that has many supporters shaking their heads. And the brilliant Jake Klein talks Trump and also the woke right who just can't figure out free speech. And Trish on the value to the nation of Melania's great hat. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Around the world, the powerful are pulling working journalists out of events, sometimes violently. From Edmonton to Washington DC — where two senior journos at a State Departmentceasefire briefing were removed by force for asking tough questions. At Mark Carney's event, security wouldn't even let certain invited reporters in. Free speech remains under attack. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Trish and Julius explore the meaning of being Canadian: why some of us want to draw closer to America and the forces fuelling a previously unthinkable debate. Plus the scary details of the LA fires are being revealed through a home insurance debacle. The industry knew this disaster was coming. Why didn't the government? Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Trudeau going, but not fast enough. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Trish reports on the MAGA meltdown over immigration and the bizarre information being released on the New Orleans, New Year's Eve truck attack. Gord Magill breaks down the danger on Canadian highways caused by some visa foolishness of our own. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
What do Prime Minister Trudeau and President Biden have in common? Plus, a highly respected former Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Richard Schabas, grants a rare interview on the disaster that was C-19 policy. He was shunned by the CBC after years of being considered an expert guest. He slams health officials for tormenting the public wth a terrible response. And Trish with a Christmas tip. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Trish reports in from the road and wintery Medicine Hat, Alberta where she has been busy with the trucker convoy documentary project. And she brings a laugh with Matt Taibbi's hilarious new piece on our Prime Minister's embarrassing face-plant. A mini-episode to stay in-touch while in production. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
A lawsuit was launched against a high profile gender surgeon this week, and it may portend the beginning of the end for these brutal operations. No one knows more about the destructive outcomes than podcaster, Exulansic, who studies TikTok films of surgeries gone awry. And we give J.K. Rowling the last word. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
We celebrate Jay Bhattacharya's appointment to head the NIH by playing a few minutes of our first interview in 2020. And Scott Horton is back to talk about his blockbuster new book called Provoked - exposing the dangerous folly of US foreign policy. And we discover one of Trish's old investigations has made some big waves. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Joe Biden did the unthinkable and gave Ukraine the hardware and permission to use missiles that would strike deep into Russia. And they've been fired. These reckless decisions heighten the tension and put America on the list of co-belligerents, becoming a target if nukes should fly. Trump wants to end it, so why is Biden making things worse? A special Ukraine/Russia edition. This episode was recorded before the Freedom Convoy's Pat King was found guilty this afternoon. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
One of America's most astute political authors joins Trish to talk about his book, Listen, Liberal, which predicted the downfall of the Democrats; a party he still votes for. And a new study out of Oxford proves correct all of us who were against lockdowns, masking and vaccine mandates. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Jeffrey Tucker is back with Trish to examine the psyche of the American voter and the man they just overwhelmingly made president. And a scoop about COVID internment camps. Plus, keeping Pompeo out of the cabinet, and Trump's salute to our truckers. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Trump smashes Harris in ways that will change DC and both parties for decades. And legacy media has a lot of explaining to do. After being smeared as Hitler and garbage — finally, working people triumph. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Not long now. In a few days, with Ukraine and the Middle East on fire Americans will vote for one of two parties that have not yet committed to peace. Legendary Colonel Douglas Macgreggor joins Trish and warns that he is not hopeful that America won't be dragged into a war with Iran, but believes Trump is less likely to make things worse. The forever-war swamp is working hard against the citizens on its agenda to keep the bombs exploding indefinitely. And on the campaign trail - garbage in garbage out. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Election Special: There is no doubt that the Democrats cheat. Evidence exploded in 2016 with the rigging of the primary against Bernie Sanders in favor of Hillary Clinton. What followed were strange events in 2020 and a well-coordinated propaganda campaign aimed at shutting up a skeptical electorate and the GOP. A lawyer who sued the DNC explained to Trish in a 2020 interview how he believes the Dems likely cheated then, too. Jared Beck had serious suspicions. Plus more horrors in Gaza, and some new thoughts about success on Everest. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
The people who wrecked the country and our faith in public health seem to be making a clean getaway. But a recent headline in the National Post demands an inquiry to explore what went wrong. Kevin Bardosh, of Collateral Global, is pushing for one, and outlines why it is necessary - even without penalties. Trish on Kamala's spin with Fox News's Bret Baier, and Trudeau's paranoid fantasies about the Freedom Convoy, Tucker Carlson and Jordan Peterson. Yes, really. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
It is shockingly common for medicine and science to get it wrong, and Dr. Marty Makary's book, Blind Spots, investigates how it happens. From iatrogenic childhood peanut allergies, to wrongly impugned hormone treatment for women, Dr. Makary describes in painful detail the groupthink and bad science that drive mistakes. Trish on an unfolding mountaineering mystery and the painful truth about speaking truth. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
The Biden government makes a bigger disaster out of Helene Hurricane, and journalist Ray McGinnis and Trish deep dive his brand new book on the lies that fueled the end of the Freedom Convoy and the inquiry that got the story wrong. Plus a special anniversary and Trish takes a stand. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Here's a link for people who want to check out Ray's book, Unjustified, on Kobo instead of Amazon: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/unjustified-3 Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Our deep dive into a world in peril continues with Scott Horton of http://anti-war.com/ who breaks down how we got here — on a day Beirut is burning and Israel is at the UN vowing to expand the war. Zelensky is filling his pockets while he tours DC with no end to that conflict in site even as Putin rattles his nuclear sabre. And Trish on depraved P. Diddy, hiding in plain site. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Deep diving the precarious state of the world with the Middle East on fire and Ukraine about to lob missiles deep into Russian territory. Now there are credible concerns about a nuclear escalation. Hear a highly respected Russian studies expert with his prescient warning from four years ago, and John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs — two important foreign policy experts bring dire warnings. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Trish talks to two former Democrats who've switched sides over the party's abandonment of the working class and leanings toward authoritarianism. Essayist Ann Bauer and New York Public Defender David Affler compare notes on the debate and ticking the box that says “Trump." Trish on the Tuesday night debate gang-up and a few words on the Coutts sentencing and a judge's bewildering logic. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Jeffrey Tucker, the OG of COVID dissidents, is back in the house! He and Trish unpack the latest New Normal heresies, absurdities and horrors, with depth and humour. Plus, Trish examines the underlying tragedy of the Georgia school shootings. Also, a scandal in the world of big money podcasters. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Nico Perrino joins Trish to honour two great men who risked it all to save free speech by defending the indefensible. What we need to learn from the notorious Skokie, Illinois case the argued for Nazis to be able to parade and speak in a Jewish neighbourhood. It was a game changer and a story we must never forget. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Our old friend and genius writer Julius Ruechel is back after a two year hiatus for a deep dive into his new project, and a historical discussion about the C-19 years, tyranny, and the crumbling of democracies in service of state and institutional power. And Robert Kennedy Jr.'s remarkable speech announcing he is throwing his support behind Donald Trump. One for the ages, and we are running the full hour. The RFK speech starts at 1:52:15 in this episode. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
The data the British government doesn't want you to see. Simon Elmer brings the full story on why and how immigration is destabilizing the UK and how far Keir Starmer will go to stop that discussion. Purchase his writing here https://www.ukcolumn.org/writer/simon-elmer Also, Trish reports from Ottawa on the Lich/Barber trial and she has a few words about the latest on the sad death of Matthew Perry. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
On the eve of his second trial for word crimes, playwright CJ Hopkins is back to discuss censorship, the immigration riots in the UK. Plus Trish reports on the British police's scorched earth approach to stopping speech they don't like. Check out Trish on Substack and stay critical. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Trish is back from the cottage with a lot to say about the total collapse of American news media. Was Trump really shot? Kamala is surging and no one seems to care about the President's dementia anymore. And a deep dive into the Jasper fires with our favourite back woods guy — Marty-Up-North — and some lyrical thoughts about our connection to nature. Fear not the bears. #TruthOverTribe Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Guest Host Julie Ponesse talks with Professor of Law Bruce Pardy about why more rights won't create more freedom. They also explore why we need to stop telling others how to live, and how to break out of our culture of silence. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Drew Holden is the thinking man's - and woman's - media archaeologist, keeping the press accountable for what they said when, where their bias lies, and how they respond when stories change. He's the man holding screenshots of every news story that smells "off." Guest host Ann Bauer talks to Drew about Covid lockdowns, the death of Iranian General Soleimani, Biden's deteriorating mental state, and Trump mania 2.0. Follow Drew @drewholden360 and subscribe to his substack: https://drewholden.substack.com/ Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
It finally happened. The overheated, inciting rhetoric of legacy media and the Democrat party nearly got Donald Trump killed. Trish weighs in with a special report from vacation, and lays the blame squarely on the desperate messaging plan launched by Joe Biden's party machine to convince the public that Trump is the next coming of Hitler. It was only a matter of time. Trish reports what she believes happened and what to look for as this breaking story unfolds. CLICK HERE: WATCH THE VIDEO AND COMMENT ON THE BREAKING STORY ON TRISH"S SUBSTACK! Stay critical. #TruthOverTribe Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
The most important trial you're not hearing about — Trish checks in on the Coutts II, who are now mounting their defence against the serious charges that underpinned the Emergencies Act. Roxanne Halverson, Gord Magill and Stevland Ambrose with the latest on this bombshell case. Also, Trish with two breaking stories that will change the way you view Gaza. Legal fundraiser for the men - https://www.givesendgo.com/trudeauspoliticalprisoners Roxanne's Substack - https://roxannehalverson.substack.com/ https://x.com/RoxanneHalvers3 Gord's Substack - https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/ https://x.com/GordMagill Stevland's Twitter - https://x.com/stevlandambrose Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
The walls are of Joe Biden's presidency are collapsing. His Big Lie is exposed more every day as calls increase for cognitive testing.Our guest Catherine Austin Fitts is back to discuss Bobby Kennedy's views on Gaza, navigating the crazy while building wealth and the story of the cellist and the nightingale. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Trish discovers some odd entries in Joe Biden's White House medical files that point to a possible cover-up — especially given his tragic and horrifying performance in last night's debate. Plus Scott Atlas speaks out about being smeared, in light of revelations that prove even more solidly he was right about COVID-19 all along. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop
Overnight, news broke that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was on a flight to freedom on the basis of a plea deal that would end six grim years in Belmarsh Prison. With a stop on a remote American territory to ratify the deal for time served, he's off again to reunite with his wife and children in Australia. Kit Klarenberg is British journalist, living in Serbia who is close to the Wikileaks organization. He joins me to talk about how western legacy media betrayed a man they once revered and what this means for the future of muckraking — something we need now more than ever. At the beginning of the interview I suggest, wrongly I think now, that the deal might imperial journalism more generally, but experts are saying it won't. “Bruce Afran, a U.S. constitutional lawyer, told Consortium News that a plea deal does not create a legal precedent. Therefore, Assange's deal would not jeopardize journalists in the future of being prosecuted for accepting and publishing classified information from a source because of Assange's agreeing to such a charge.” Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.com Shop: https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/shop