Complements to the Jeff

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🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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The Trump administration suddenly wants you to stop asking questions about Jeffrey Epstein. Case closed. Nothing to see here. That client list we promised to release? It doesn’t exist.

In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss:

* What is the Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theory, and why has it persisted so long?

* Why are Epstein’s old, wide-ranging associations distinct from all the other rich guys who hobnob with politicians and powerbrokers?

* How should Democrats react to Trump administration efforts to sweep this under the rug, after dangling it so conspicuously.

Then, behind the paywall, Zohran Mamdani and the shortcomings of institutional diversity efforts: the perspective of two white, Jewish, latinos who’ve grappled with a few box-checking exercises themselves. What’s wrong with the assumption that Mamdani must have been trying to game the affirmative-action system? Zooming out, are institutions that request demographic data (universities, employers) doing so for the right reasons? Is there a better way to recruit, or to take account of applicants who’ve had a rough go in a country with plenty of racial discrimination, than asking them to approximate their ethnic identities?

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0:00.0	I think a lot of, like, frankly, like, broadly, like, relatively privileged Cuban Americans
0:06.0	have sort of, like, free-ridden on, like, diversity programs that were intended to benefit.
0:12.7	Like, Mexican-American and Puerto Rican.
0:15.3	Like, the first time I saw Marco Rubio speak, I was like, this is an Italian guy.
0:29.7	Hey, everyone, you're listening to a free preview of the politics podcast. This week,
0:36.2	nothing to see here, folks. Jeffrey Epstein didn't have any clients, certainly not, the current president. And he definitely just killed himself.
0:40.0	There was nothing suspicious about it at all. So we'll talk about this and other conspiracy theories.
0:46.9	And whether the realignment of cooks into the GOP is irreversible, whether it's good,
0:53.8	whether it's something that we think should be
0:55.6	changed. Then what can Zoran Mamdani's college application teach us about the complexities of
1:02.8	identity and how should it inform policy going forward? You get insight on this complicated
1:08.9	question from two white Jewish Latinos.
1:13.0	So if you want to hear the whole conversation, you can upgrade your subscription to paid at politics.fm.
1:22.1	Hey, everyone. Welcome to the politics podcast. I'm Brian Boiler.
1:25.2	I'm Matthew Glacius.
1:26.9	How was your Fourth of July?
1:28.7	It was great. Yesterday, you complained to me about some children. No, no, no. I love all the
1:36.2	children. And I love the town of Brooklyn, Maine, Fourth of July parade. It was a lovely patriotic
1:43.4	celebration. There were two old ladies
1:45.9	carrying a United States of America, no kings since 1776 banner as they marched. So, you know,
1:53.5	I appreciated the message. Did Jared Golden march in the parade? He was not in the town of Brooklyn
1:59.1	parade. I think he might have been in a Lewiston parade.
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