Fatal Distractions

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🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Donald Trump is trying desperately to bury the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

In this episode, Matt and Brian explore all the distractions Trump has attempted—implicitly and explicitly—to knock the Epstein files out of the news, why Trump is so desperate and why are his usual tactics failing.

* Should we at this point suspect this is a coverup of damning evidence of Trump’s conduct specifically?

* If the story is just that Epstein conspiracy theories are all bunk, why bother with distractions or incriminating claims (like that Hillary Clinton and James Comey forged the Epstein files)?

* With Trump finally on the hind foot, why are elite institutions like Columbia University going out of their way to surrender to Trump’s threats?

Then, behind the paywall, do the new tariff “agreements” Trump has struck with Japan and the E.U. count as distractions from the Epstein scandal, or are they on their own track? What’s in the deals? How much harm will they do to American importers and consumers? And how meaningful can they be if they’re as illegal as they seem?

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0:00.0	Harvard has reached an internal agreement on a sum of money that they are willing to give up,
0:04.8	but is negotiating around all of the other parameters, including who does the money go to.
0:10.5	So, you know, we'll have to see what happens there.
0:12.2	Columbia is run by idiots.
0:14.3	That's why it's a second-tier Ivy, right?
0:21.4	Hey, everyone, you're listening to a free preview of the politics podcast.
0:25.3	This week, we'll look at all the ways Donald Trump is trying, but failing, to bury his
0:30.5	Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
0:32.3	Why is he so desperate and why are his usual tactics failing?
0:37.0	Then, do Trump's announcement of kind of sort of tariff deals with Japan and Europe count as
0:44.5	attempted Epstein distractions, or are they just bad and stupid, fully independent of the
0:50.0	Epstein scandal?
0:51.5	If you want to hear the whole conversation, you can upgrade your subscription to paid at politics.fm.
1:00.5	Hey, everyone. Welcome to the politics podcast. I'm Brian Boyler. I'm Matthew Gleuzeus.
1:05.0	Okay. So what do we know now that we didn't know the last time we talked about Trump and
1:09.7	Jeffrey Epstein.
1:12.1	Quick rundown.
1:21.3	We know that Attorney General Pam Bondi convened this huge force of FBI agents to comb through the Epstein files looking for mentions of Donald Trump.
1:25.2	We know she then briefed him that he's all over the Epstein files.
1:33.4	We know that's around when the administration kind of turned on a dime and began trying to conceal the Epstein files.
1:46.8	We also know that that's when Tulsi Gabbard, who's somehow the country's top intelligence official, cooked up a dog won't hunt conspiracy theory about Barack Obama leading a coup against Trump and referred Obama and a bunch of other former Obama people to the Justice Department
1:51.6	for investigation. We know that Trump sent deputy attorney general Todd Blanche to quote
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