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Talking Feds

Justice Blanched

Talking Feds

Harry Litman

News, Politics, Government

4.84.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

It was the week when the Epstein scandal showed up in earnest and looked as if it would be staying for a while. Susan Glasser, Adam Klasfeld, and Bill Kristol join Harry to break down what is powering it and assess Trump’s various efforts to shake himself free, including dispatching the Deputy AG to Florida to interview Epstein’s co-conspirator, Ghislane Maxwell. But the week also brought key advances in Trump’s totalitarian agenda, with successful shakedowns of prominent civic institutions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to Talking Feds, a roundtable that brings together prominent former federal officials and special guests for dynamic discussion of the most important political and legal topics of the day. I'm Harry Littman. Donald Trump and his administration are learning, in real time, the brutal choreography of the old school Washington scandal.

1:30.3

Each effort to distract or deflect only deepens the intrigue and the whole affair metastasizes

1:37.3

taking on a lurid momentum of its own.

1:41.3

The Teflon coating looks gone.

1:43.3

If it ever repelled, the allegations swirling around

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Trump's long-standing and still murky association with Jeffrey Epstein, likely the most infamous

1:54.0

pedophile in U.S. history. Trump has tried indifference, anger, misdirection, hectoring, and the ultimate, laying it at the feet of Barack Obama.

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