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The Don Lemon Show

LEMON DROP | Two Brothers Talking: Don Lemon and Ahmed Baba on the Trump/Epstein CHAOS

The Don Lemon Show

18Hundred LLC.

Society & Culture, News

3.8 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Don sits down with journalist and political commentator Ahmed Baba to unpack all the chaos surrounding Donald Trump and the Epstein files. As new revelations continue to surface and Trump’s attempts to distract grow more frantic, what does this mean for the public’s right to know and for the future of accountability? Don and Ahmed break it all down with insight, receipts, and zero spin. This episode is brought to you by ZBiotics. Go to https://zbiotics.com/LEMONDROPS and use LEMONDROPS at checkout for 15% off any first time orders of ZBiotics probiotics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

We've grown up surrounded by beauty ideals that promised confidence, but often delivered shame.

0:05.5

In a special episode of a millennial mind, I sat down with Nicola Adams to explore how

0:10.4

appearance-based compliments and body talk shape our self-worth without us realizing it.

0:15.9

In partnership with the Dove Self-Esteen project, we unpack the tools to change the conversation

0:20.6

for ourselves and for future generations.

0:23.4

Listen now and download the free Body Confidence Journal at Dove.com forward slash Y2K. Welcome to the two brothers talking this week.

0:46.6

Yep.

0:48.6

Congratulations on your honeymoon.

0:50.7

It's been almost a month since we spoken.

0:54.0

I know. I was out there just taking in this Italian son. As you could see, I probably, you know, I got, I got tanned up over here, got a little tan going. He needed a hat on, but that's okay. Yeah, yeah. I missed the hat memo. I got to get the, I got to get the on the Lemon Nation merch. But yeah, I was relaxing. And while I was gone, not much happened. A couple things, a few things. We've gone for a couple weeks. But I'm back in action. And needless to say, we got a lot to catch up on. Well, not much happened. I mean, you're being sarcastic about it. But did you have any idea before you left how big of a story that this Epstein thing

1:28.7

would become? Because this was a right-wing sort of MAGA conspiracy theory, Donald Trump

1:33.7

also helping to fuel it, and then all of a sudden it's come to bite them in the butt. Did you

1:38.3

have any idea that it was going to explode like this? I think the first indication was Musk's tweet, right? On June 6, he said,

1:46.8

Trump is in the Fstein file in the middle of their beef, which we talked about. And I thought

1:51.7

something was going to brew and then you start seeing some indications that there's movement on it.

1:56.5

But I did not know that by the end of July we would know.

2:06.2

And that it would be the Wall Street Journal itself saying that Donald's name is listed in there.

2:08.2

So I think the early indications were there.

2:12.0

And now with Musk's tweet, we have to wonder, was Musk in the briefing?

2:13.0

Who told Musk?

2:18.2

Like, Musk clearly had some knowledge because the Wall Street Journal is reporting in May.

2:19.6

That was when Trump was told.

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