Trump Targets Obama, Deflects From Epstein

What A Day

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🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

While pressure mounts on the White House to release documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, President Donald Trump is doing his damndest to turn the public’s attention to his latest conspiracy (which is really just a remix of an old one). The president is alleging, despite zero evidence, that former President Barack Obama and members of his administration lied about Russian efforts to swing the 2016 election for Trump and made up intelligence to support those claims. This time, though, Trump’s wild allegations are being fueled by his own Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. She’s been releasing documents she says contradict the intelligence community’s well-established conclusions about Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, claiming they’re proof of a ‘coup’ to undermine Trump during his first term in office. Atlantic Staff Writer David Frum, host of the new podcast ‘The David Frum Show,’ joins us to talk about the return of ‘Russia, Russia, Russia,’ and what Trump’s willingness to go after his political opponents– including a former president – says about where his second term is headed. And in headlines: The Justice Department reportedly informed Trump his name appears in the so-called Epstein files, a federal judge ruled a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador should be freed from custody at the Tennessee jail where he’s currently being held, and President Trump announced a new tariff deal with Japan.

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, July 24th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day. Another place where
0:06.9	Vice President J.D. Vance can never go on vacation. The vice president went to Nantucket for a break
0:12.2	and instead found a whole bunch of angry protesters. Buddy, if you thought you could go to a
0:17.7	wailing museum in peace right now, you were clearly incorrect.
0:21.6	You were on a winning presidential ticket. You did not win the right to be liked.
0:30.5	On today's show, a federal judge rules that Kilmar, Abrago Garcia, can be released from
0:34.9	a Tennessee jail. And the Environmental Protection Agency wants to argue that greenhouse gases are completely fine.
0:41.1	But let's start with former President Barack Obama.
0:44.2	Remember Obama?
0:45.4	Two-term president left office in 2017?
0:48.0	Ring a bell?
0:49.1	Well, according to President Donald Trump, who is definitely not trying to distract from the ballooning Epstein
0:54.4	debacle engulfing his administration, Obama is at the center of a massive conspiracy centered
0:59.6	on Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election. If you're thinking, that was nine years
1:05.7	ago, I thought this whole thing was settled. Why are we talking about this again? Look, I get it. But here's the
1:12.4	TLDR on the latest version of Trump's Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. He's alleging President Obama and
1:18.6	members of his administration lied about Russian efforts to swing the 2016 election for Trump.
1:23.6	And they made up intelligence to back up their claims. Now, Russia's meddling in the 2016 election is well established, as was its preferred outcome,
1:31.4	that Trump beat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
1:34.0	It was all laid out in a 2020 bipartisan report from the Senate Intelligence Committee,
1:38.2	which at the time included now Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
1:41.5	He signed off on the report.
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