7/9/25: Trump cuts off Epstein question, ready to take over US cities

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🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

-- On the Show:

-- Marc Elias, voting rights attorney and founder of Democracy Docket, joins David to discuss how Trump is using the courts to abuse his power

-- Trump launches criminal investigations into James Comey and John Brennan in a clear act of political retribution over the Russia probe

-- Trump press secretary Karoline Leavitt gleefully endorses the weaponization of the DOJ against Trump’s longtime enemies

-- Trump casually suggests taking over Washington DC and New York City, signaling a chilling authoritarian shift toward federal control of cities

-- Trump shows severe cognitive lapses on live TV during a cabinet meeting, raising concerns about his mental fitness

-- Trump lashes out and shuts down Jeffrey Epstein questions, reigniting suspicions about his ties and transparency

-- MAGA influencers like Megyn Kelly and Alex Jones turn on Trump over his failure to release Epstein-related files

-- On the Bonus Show: Investors buying more US homes, Grok AI posts antisemitic comments, American birth rate falling, and much more...

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0:00.0	Welcome, everybody.
0:08.3	Have you seen the latest authoritarian free fall of this administration?
0:14.2	It doesn't make me happy to come here and have to report to you that our worst fears are coming true, that we have yet
0:24.1	another step towards total authoritarianism.
0:28.7	We've seen the deployment of military to cities and states even when the governor and the
0:35.2	mayor don't want it.
0:36.8	We've seen attacks on media. We've seen the
0:39.9	flouting of due process. We've seen this growing list of stuff that we would normally expect
0:47.0	when reading a history book about 20th century authoritarian dictators. But it's Trump. It's the United States in 2025 and it's terrifying.
0:57.8	And if you thought Trump couldn't get any more authoritarian, well, we now have confirmation that
1:03.4	the Trump FBI under the directorship of Cash Patel and the Trump DOJ under Attorney General Pam Bondi have launched criminal
1:14.5	investigations into former CIA director John Brennan and former FBI director James Comey.
1:23.3	These are the same Brennan and Comey that Trump has spent years accusing of being part of the
1:29.9	deep state conspiracy against him.
1:32.5	And this is not satire.
1:35.0	They, of course, have not been charged with anything at this point.
1:37.5	It's just an investigation.
1:39.0	But this is exclusively and absolutely political.
1:43.9	That's what this is about. and it is not lost on me that
1:47.4	Trump is now doing what he accused Biden of doing to him without evidence. We're going to get
1:53.3	back to that in a moment. These new investigations reportedly relate to the 2016 Russia probe.
2:04.6	There's scant information about exactly what's going on. But all of this supposedly is about that Russia probe where multiple American intelligence
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