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Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

Anne Applebaum & Michael Tomasky

Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

iHeartPodcasts

Politics, News

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum stops by to talk about Trump’s attempts to convince the American people that up is down.The New Republic’s Michael Tomasky about what Democrats should be doing to continue highlighting Trump’s ties to Epstein.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.6

Hi, I'm Molly JongFast, and this is Fast Politics, where we discussed the top political

0:10.4

headlines with some of today's best minds.

0:13.3

And a Reuters Ipsos poll found that 68% of Americans do not believe to Donald Trump's

0:18.8

State of the Union claim that the U.S. economy is booming.

0:22.8

We have such a great show for you today. The Atlantic's and Applebaum stops by to talk about

0:28.1

Trump's attempts to tell the American people, up is down and down is up. Then we'll talk to the

0:33.8

new republics, Mike Tamasky, about what Democrats should be doing to continue to

0:39.1

highlight Trump's ties to Epstein. But first, the news.

0:43.3

Somali, I would say Mike Johnson's majority is hanging by a thread, but a thread might be

0:49.4

a little bit of an exaggeration right now. So we have Tony Gonzalez, who is facing a world of

0:55.6

fuckery with his accusations. His district office staffer set herself on fire after he harassed

1:02.7

her and had an affair with her. Texted her truly. Things that I did not know adults text.

1:08.3

Well, maybe I knew adults text to each other, but it really was unbecoming.

1:11.6

Anyway, so now we have learned that in a room full of GOP donors at a party retreat,

1:17.7

that Florida rep Neil Dunn has a terminal diagnosis,

1:21.0

but is going to try to stay in office and make it to his terms at the end of his term.

1:25.8

Yeah.

1:26.2

Which means he would need to make it until.

1:29.1

And if he doesn't, Republicans have a one-seat majority right now.

1:32.9

So there's a world in which they lose the house before even the election.

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