Trumpworld in Damage Control

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🗓️ 13 July 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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With Trumpworld in damage control over the fallout from its handling of the Epstein files, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) discusses the rift that's forming in MAGA and why it might be the first scandal that Trump's base won't ignore; new reporting reveals what America’s diplomats really think of Secretary of State Marco Rubio; how political leaders home and abroad have learned that fealty and flattery are the key to accessing Trump, and what it means for American democracy

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0:00.0	Good morning. It's Sunday, July the 13th. We begin this morning with the rift that's driving a wedge through Maga World.
0:14.2	Today, Donald Trump and his allies are in damage control mode as the president faces a revolt among his base following his administration's release of the
0:22.0	Epstein files, the documents related to the criminal case of Jeffrey Epstein. Many of his supporters
0:27.2	feel that what's been released is not satisfactory or transparent enough, particularly since it
0:32.4	does not include a long-rumored client list. The fallout's been huge, so huge that it forced the president
0:38.5	to send out this essay-length post on Truth Social last night to try to quell the masses and
0:44.3	take the heat off his embattled Attorney General, Pam Bondi. Trump wrote, quote,
0:49.0	what's going on with my boys and in some cases gals? They're all going after Attorney
0:53.3	General Pam Bondi, who's doing a
0:55.0	fantastic job. We're on one team, MAGA, and I don't like what's happening. We have a perfect
1:00.8	administration. The talk of the world and selfish people are trying to hurt it all over a guy
1:06.7	who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein. Trump then goes on to write 334 more words trying to depict
1:14.0	the Epstein files as the work of, in his world, radical left lunatics. FBI director Cash Patel
1:21.4	also waited on social media yesterday, reinforcing his support for Trump and try to dismiss the
1:26.1	growing uproar from the base.
1:32.6	Quote, the conspiracy theories just aren't true. Never have been. It's an honor to serve the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and I'll continue to do so for as long as he calls
1:36.6	on me. But of course, many of the people who've become embroiled in the scandal are people
1:40.8	who have pandered and in some cases profited off of speculating about Epstein
1:45.6	files for many years. Trump, in particular, leaned into many baseless conspiracy theories like
1:51.4	QAnon to fuel his political rise, but at least some of his supporters actually do believe in these
1:57.2	conspiracies no matter how unbelievable they may seem to the rest of us.
2:05.4	And after a decade of feeding those fantasies and promising to expose the deep state,
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