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Pod Save America

First They Came for John Bolton

Pod Save America

Crooked Media

News, Politics

4.683.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Trump's FBI raids the home of John Bolton—the former first-term Trump advisor turned vocal critic—as the President escalates his use of state power to target and threaten anyone who's criticized him, most recently Chris Christie, Wes Moore, ABC News, and NBC News. Jon, Lovett, and Tommy react to those threats and all of this week's fascist horrors, including the arming of the National Guard in D.C., the administration's pending deployment of troops to Chicago, and ICE's plan to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man they wrongly sent to CECOT, to Uganda unless he pleads guilty to a set of dubious charges brought against him in Tennessee. Then, economic writer James Surowiecki sits down with Lovett to talk about the Trump administration's unprecedented acquisition of Intel stock—and what it signals to other major companies.

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I'm John Lovett. I'm Tommy. E.4.

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All right, buckle up. I regret to inform you. It's not all rainbows and butterflies out there today, guys.

1:43.3

No, not a fun show. We're going to talk about Trump's plan to deploy more troops who are now armed to more cities. The government says they're now planning on deporting Kilmar-Abrego-Garcia to Uganda because he won't plead guilty to charges that multiple judges have found flimsy at best. They also released the transcript of Galane Maxwell's interview with the DOJ, which we'll dig into. Then we'll update you all on a few storylines that still haven't been resolved, even though they're getting less attention. And later, you'll hear Lovett's interview with the Atlantic's James Sirwicky on the Trump administration's move to take a stake in Intel and possibly other companies. Who knows? Who can say? But first,

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Trump and his administration have spent the last several days using the power of the state to target

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people who've criticized the president or just made him angry. By now you probably know that on

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