Inside Trump's psyche as Epstein rips MAGA apart
The News Agents - USA
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🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Last night both houses of Congress overwhelmingly voted to force the justice department to release the Epstein files. We could see the contents made public within days. But the vote itself, long resisted by Trump, has left the President looking weaker and more friendless amongst the MAGA base than he’s ever been. Is he starting to look like a lame duck President? And are Republicans imagining a MAGA world that comes after Trump? Or will they quickly revert to fealty?
Later, the college professor in exile from America after being targeted by death threats for his academic work on Antifa.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA podcast is brought to you by HSBC, UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.6 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.1 | Democrats who were friends with Epstein, I beg you, President Trump, please stop making this political. |
| 0:18.9 | It is not about you, President Trump. You are our president. |
| 0:23.3 | Please start acting like it. Show some class. Show some real leadership. Show that you actually |
| 0:29.2 | care about the people other than yourself. I voted for you, but your behavior on this issue |
| 0:34.5 | has been a national embarrassment. |
| 0:44.8 | That is one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims outside Congress just before it voted to pass the legislation requiring the release of the Epstein papers. |
| 0:49.3 | And Donald Trump is in a stew. |
| 0:51.5 | The vote to release the Epstein files passed overwhelmingly in both houses of Congress last night. |
| 0:59.1 | Donald Trump was out of sync with his own base. |
| 1:03.0 | Is he starting to look like a lame duck president? |
| 1:06.9 | Welcome to the Newsagents USA. |
| 1:10.2 | The Newsagents USA with Emily Maitliss and John Sopal. |
| 1:15.0 | It's John. |
| 1:15.7 | It's Emily. |
| 1:16.5 | And I was bizarrely in the middle of a talk to survivors, actually last night, to rate victim survivors when that vote passed at 7.45 in the evening, our time. And the numbers were |
| 1:33.1 | absolutely astonishing. It was 427 votes. Yes, to release the Epstein files in the House. One person, Clay Higgins, a big sort of loyalist fan of Trump's, |
| 1:48.3 | voted against. And after that kind of bombshell number, it then sailed into the Senate, |
| 1:56.1 | the upper house for the next vote, and it passed with such speed. I think it left people reeling actually because |
| 2:02.3 | no one was expecting it to go so quickly or to be unanimous. So it's gone through the House, |
| 2:08.5 | it's gone through the Senate. In other words, Congress has now overwhelmingly approved the call |
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