Trump’s Made for TV Occupation of D.C.

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🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Flanked by half his cabinet and citing crimes against a DOGE staffer, Donald Trump announces that he’s deploying 800 National Guard troops to Washington and federalizing the city’s police department. Jon and Lovett react to Trump's desperate show of force, then break down his new plan to negotiate a Russia-Ukraine peace deal and JD Vance’s latest attempt to spin the Epstein files crisis as “full transparency.” Then, Lovett talks to The New Yorker’s David Kirkpatrick about his big new investigation into how much the Trump family is profiting off of the presidency.

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1:52.6	Tommy is on vacation.
1:53.8	Special assignment.
1:57.0	He's checking out the Epstein stuff.
1:59.2	He's going to find the answers.
2:00.2	Yeah, that's right.
2:04.3	Digging through court files in Miami.
2:08.2	Down there with a magnifying glass and a black light.
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2:12.0	That's not good.
2:16.4	On today's show, we're going to talk about Trump's upcoming summit with Putin in Alaska.
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