Maggie Haberman: The Epstein Metastasis

Impolitic with John Heilemann

Audacy | Puck

News, Politics

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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John welcomes Maggie Haberman, New York Times White House Correspondent and author of the bestselling “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump & The Breaking of America,” to discuss the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein imbroglio and why Trump has thus far been entirely unsuccessful in his efforts to stanch the bleeding from what may prove to be the most damaging of his many self-inflicted political wounds. Plus: Maggie’s take on Stephen Colbert’s cancellation, Jon Stewart’s defense of his friend and profane broadside against their shared corporate parent, and Bruce Springsteen as the most eloquent and powerful voice of the Trump 2.0 resistance. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:05.3	Aloha and namaste everyone and welcome to Impolitic with John Heilman,
1:08.5	a puck and Odyssey joint, featuring lively,
1:11.2	in-depth conversations with the people who cruise the corridors of power in America, sculpting
1:15.4	and shaping the ebb and flow of our politics and our culture. We are now, you may have noticed,
1:22.0	at the end of the third straight week in which the Jeffrey Epstein Embryellio has been the focus of all attention and the
1:29.4	locus of all heat in Donald Trump's Washington, exasperating, embittering and enraging Trump,
1:36.7	engulfing his administration, inflaming Maga Republicans in Congress, infebling Speaker Mike
1:43.2	Johnson, and emboldening Democrats of every strike from
1:45.8	Capitol Hill to the Capitol Grill, all with no end in sight. To take stock of where Epstein
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