Maximum Don (with Alex Isenstadt & Doug Heye)

Hacks On Tap

David Axelrod & Mike Murphy

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.8 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This week, Murphy is still flying solo—but he's not alone. He's joined by veteran GOP strategist and communications pro Doug Heye, along with Axios senior political reporter Alex Isenstadt, author of the new book Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump's Return to Power. The Hacks dig into Senator Chris Van Hollen’s visit with Kilmar Ábrego García, dissect the evolution from Trump 1.0 to Trump 2.0, and unpack all the political mayhem in between.

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0:00.0	Hey, pull up a chair.
0:10.4	It's Hacks on Tap with David Axelrod and Mike Murphy.
0:20.7	What if you are an enemy of, let's not say any current president?
0:26.1	Let's pretend we get a new president, totally new guy in 2028, and this is a common practice now of just rounding up gang members with no due process and shipping them to El Salvador.
0:37.8	You're a gang member.
0:39.1	No, I'm not.
0:39.7	Prove it.
0:40.5	What?
0:40.9	I got to go to court.
0:42.0	No, no due process.
0:43.7	Okay, hackeroos.
0:44.7	Mike Murphy here.
0:45.6	Welcome to Hacks on Tap.
0:47.0	That voice, those were the dulcet tones of podcasting God, Joe Rogan, and one of the breakthrough new media forces that I think had a
0:58.4	fair amount to do with electing Donald Trump. But to his credit, you're seeing that incarceration
1:05.6	where he ignored the judicial system and ship people to the local friendly dictator may not be such a good idea.
1:12.4	So a little crack on the right flank, I thought that was notable.
1:16.2	And it'll help us figure out our first of many topics today.
1:20.6	Now, both Axelrod and Heilman have somehow, I think it's some timeshare condo scam.
1:26.6	They have both escaped to Europe this week.
1:29.0	So this is our excuse to bring in some pros who know. And so I'm very happy to be joined by
1:35.5	our friends former back in the same days when two plus two was four and the Constitution was
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