How Trump's Greed Will Bring Him Down

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🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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James Talarico, running for a Texas U.S. Senate seat, joins Joanna Coles to argue that America has hit a dangerous inflection point—one defined by government overreach, corruption, and the collapse of public trust. From ICE shootings in Minneapolis to Donald Trump’s broken promises, Talarico says extremism and billionaire greed have left even Republican voters feeling conned, while Democrats remain stranded in the political wilderness. A man of faith as well as a lawmaker, he takes on Christian nationalism, explains what Jesus might say to Trump, and makes the case that nonviolent protest—and a new generation of leadership—is the only way out of the crisis now gripping American democracy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think they feel conned. You know, same with a lot of people who voted for Donald Trump in the last election.
0:05.3	They feel like they were voting for a party that promised to bring down costs, that promise to drain the swamp.
0:11.8	And now just a year later, they see that everything has gotten more expensive. Corruption is the worst it's ever been.
0:17.7	And they are not focused on the problems we face as ordinary Americans
0:22.7	every day. Instead, they're focused on building this police state so they can accumulate even more
0:28.0	power and wealth for themselves. Unless we identify how corrupt it is, how big money is at the root of
0:33.8	this, we're really missing the big picture.
0:45.5	I'm Joanna Coles. This is the Daily Beast podcast, and I'm really excited to share the next conversation with you with someone who is really causing enormous excitement in the Democratic
0:51.8	Party. He has been in the Texas Senate for the last four terms.
0:58.3	He's a former public school teacher and he's now got his eye on beating Congresswoman
1:04.6	Jasmine Crockett for the Senate to represent Texas. I think it's fair to say that he actually came to national
1:13.0	prominence on another podcast, on Joe Rogan's podcast, which is really a space that, for the
1:19.3	most part, Democrats have feared to tread. James went there boldly and Joe Rogan at the end of it
1:26.2	said, you should run for president.
1:28.1	You're a good guy.
1:29.1	You should run for president.
1:30.6	Well, he's running for the Senate.
1:33.1	He's in Texas.
1:34.1	We had a far-ranging conversation which involved when he was going to produce grandchildren for his mom to how to deal with the situation in Minneapolis to what would Jesus do if he were confronted by Donald Trump?
1:48.1	So I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. And of course, let us know what you think.
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2:03.1	We're independent media and we get to have interesting conversations like this because of subscribers and readers like you. So I hope you
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