Did Trump Betray His Voters? Feat: Pod Save America & Ro Khanna

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh

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🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 120 minutes

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YERRR – this week’s episode is politics turned all the way up. First, the guys from Pod Save America pulled up to chop it up on the chaos in D.C. Then Congressman Ro Khanna slid through to break down what’s actually getting done in Washington with his new Senate Bill about releasing the Epstein files, and his idea for the future of the Democratic Party. All that and more on this week’s episode of FLAGRANT. INDULGE. 00:00 It's all our fault + Just being right 3:35 Andrew's not in one of your cults 7:48 No regrets + We changed politics 10:53 Pod Save America joins us + Building a coalition 13:52 Epstein is bigger than we think 18:08 Trump's base won't let this go 20:31 Holding your Party accountable 24:49 Leadership = OLD, Trump flip-flops + Winning news cycle 28:40 Dems have to offer a better alternative 30:57 Rise of Mamdani + Can it be implemented? 33:51 New York Mayor race ain't over 38:40 Criticizing Israel isn't antisemitism + Awful optics 45:20 Grifting on both sides + Allowing for "redemption" 51:47 Getting back to Obama politics + Harder Messaging 54:23 Who do you want to run? An outsider? 58:57 Fun Obama story 1:00:23 Poirier send off or 1 more fight? 1:03:15 Ro Khanna joins us + Whose side are you on? 1:07:29 What is the amendment? Who exactly could block this? 1:11:08 Releasing files sets precedent + Reforming is HARD 1:14:22 Needing SuperPACs = problem in our system 1:20:54 Kamala could never win + Call out the old guard 1:25:34 Dismissing Epstein files as conspiracy 1:30:27 No fair Democrat primaries + Gaza's importance 1:34:24 Lacking self-reflection + Politeness over accountability 1:40:15 Party's priorities + Hope in the outsider 1:48:14 Dems targeting Mamdani rather than Big Beautiful Bill 1:55:00 Courage to rebel + Views on Gavin Newsom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, everybody? Apparently we ruined America.
0:03.3	You know, we were trying to hold the person in power, President Trump accountable for not fulfilling some of his promises.
0:10.8	And that was foolish, man.
0:12.9	Ah, you're an idiot.
0:13.7	That was a foolish thing to do.
0:15.5	Once you vote for somebody, no matter what they do, even if it's the exact opposite of what they say they're going to do,
0:21.4	you just ride that into the wheels fall off.
0:23.5	Yes, double down.
0:24.5	Exactly.
0:25.0	Always double down.
0:25.6	Like if you vote for a guy that you know is dead, you pretend he's not dead for you.
0:28.9	Exactly.
0:29.3	That's what makes you virtuous.
0:30.5	Absolutely.
0:31.2	That's what makes you care about your country.
0:32.8	Pick a side, man.
0:33.8	You pick a side and you die for that side you know so that's you know that was a big
0:38.1	fuck up of ours that was a big fuck up man he just kind of wanted to know about epstein you know
0:42.9	victimizing a thousand girls and who else he did it with we just kind of wanted to know and
0:47.3	trump was like you're not gonna know and we're like i don't like that yeah but that's our fault
0:51.1	yeah that's being a bad american but we were were being bad Americans right there. Yes, T-Dady.
0:55.1	Thank you so much.
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