Billionaires' Bet on Trump Pays Off

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🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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America's corporate titans seem pretty happy about Donald Trump's election—even pitching in to his inaugural bash—and it's no big mystery why: he's promising yet again to slash their taxes. Meanwhile, in his TIME Person of the Year interview, Trump admits that he may not be able lower grocery prices after all. Oh, well! Jon and Dan dive into all the latest, including FBI Director Christopher Wray's resignation, Biden’s historic pardons, Nancy Mace's latest theatrics, and why Democrats are suddenly cozying up to Elon Musk.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pod Save America. I'm John Favro.
0:22.2	I'm Dan Pfeiffer.
0:23.0	On today's show, everyone seems to be doing the Trump dance.
0:27.0	As FBI director Christopher Ray goes down without a fight, Democrats start flattering Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg sponsors the inauguration.
0:35.0	Trump, meanwhile, admits he might not be able to bring down prices after all during his
0:38.9	big time man of the year interview, an honor he celebrated at the New York Stock Exchange
0:44.2	on Thursday by telling Wall Street, he'd cut their taxes.
0:47.9	Welcome to your populist realignment, Dan.
0:53.4	But first, we have some actual good news.
0:57.5	No, stop.
0:58.6	It's real.
0:59.3	I'm not a joke.
1:00.6	It's December 2024, right?
1:02.6	It is.
1:03.5	Okay, all right.
1:04.1	Cool.
1:04.6	It's been a while.
1:05.7	The White House announced on Thursday that President Biden made history by granting
1:09.7	clemency to nearly 1,500 people and pardoning 39 others, the President Biden made history by granting clemency to nearly 1,500 people
1:12.3	and pardoning 39 others, the largest single-day clemency action in modern history.
1:19.8	The 1,500 number is people who had largely been living out lengthy sentences in home confinement
1:25.7	because of the pandemic and already had been reintegrated in
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