7/15/25: MAGA meltdown over Epstein coincides with Trump tariff collapse

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4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

-- On the Show:

-- Hakeem Jeffries, House Democratic Leader, joins David to discuss the "big beautiful bill," his nearly 9 hour speech on the House floor, MAGA tearing itself apart over the Epstein files, and much more

-- Ghislaine Maxwell says she’s ready to testify before Congress and may expose a client list that terrifies Trump and his allies

-- House Republicans secretly blocked Ghislaine Maxwell’s testimony and efforts to release Epstein records

-- MAGA figures like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens turn on Trump over his handling of the Epstein scandal

-- Trump unravels at a chaotic press conference full of false claims, bizarre tangents, and incoherent threats

-- Trump dodges basic foreign policy questions and blames Biden while appearing confused and incoherent in the Oval Office

-- Trump stole a FIFA trophy from Chelsea FC, forcing the team to lift a replica while he kept the original

-- George Santos tells Tucker Carlson that going to prison could be a death sentence because of his identity

-- Trump adviser Kevin Hassett embarrasses himself when he can’t justify Trump’s proposed 50% tariffs on Brazil

-- On the Bonus Show: Inflation highest in 4 months, Republicans try to remove noncitizens from census, Andrew Cuomo relaunches NYC mayoral bid, and much more...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show.
0:08.0	What a busy day.
0:10.0	Just a reminder if you want to get a preview of what is on the show each day condensed
0:15.6	into three minutes, just the news.
0:17.7	The analysis is on this show.
0:20.4	But if you want just the news, what are the stories
0:23.3	on the show? I'm now doing a daily three minute podcast, which you can get on our substack,
0:29.8	totally free. Substack.davdap.com comes out around 1030, 11 a.m. in the morning, Eastern
0:35.6	time. You can check that out. And one of the things
0:39.1	that is just a massively growing story now involves not only Jeffrey Epstein, not only Donald
0:45.2	Trump, but also Jelaine Maxwell. The news is that Jeffrey Epstein associate Jelaine Maxwell
0:51.8	has the list and appears to be willing to testify, but Republicans do not want
0:58.2	that. And they held a late night vote last night to try to prevent it from happening. So here's
1:02.7	kind of the way it all shakes out. The Epstein scandal almost seemed kind of dead and buried for a little while, but it's now completely
1:14.8	back and ripping MAGA apart. And Jelaine Maxwell says she's ready to testify before Congress,
1:23.6	not in like a closed door deposition type of situation. She wants to go public. And the kicker is that
1:30.9	according to sources, no one from the government has even asked her to talk. She's the person
1:38.0	doing time for Epstein's child sex trafficking operation. And apparently she's been sitting on a story that could blow the whole thing wide open.
1:47.7	We're told, no, there is no list of clients anymore.
1:50.9	But reportedly she has the list and she's willing to come clean about it.
1:54.8	Now, let's connect the entire thing because there's a sort of a why now, why, why in this moment kind of situation?
2:03.2	There is a lot of pressure on the Trump administration right now because Pam Bondi's under
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