About this episode

The episode discusses Trump's disappointing speech, Todd Blanche's meeting with Epstein survivors, and a significant vote by House Democrats on military aid to Israel.

Today's Headlines: Trump's Big Boy speech was overhyped, overproduced, and deeply disappointing — with NBC and ABC refusing to air it. In true Donald fashion, he threatened to shut down both networks and the content itself were his greatest hits of repeatedly disproven 2020 election claims delivered at an off-pace that makes more sense now that we know his teleprompter operator was placed on leave for making $100,000 on Kalshi bets predicting the content of Trump's speeches — a guy who has operated Trump's teleprompter since 2016, personally takes his last-minute edits, and was questioned about how the January 6th speech came together. The actual upshot of the speech is that the administration plans to release thousands of declassified 2020 election documents and send letters to states they suspect of malfeasance, giving themselves cover to deploy election monitors and potentially troops in November. Meanwhile, Todd Blanche reluctantly met with Epstein survivors after Republican Senator Thom Tillis threatened to withhold his confirmation vote unless he did — survivor Liz Stein called it a box-checking exercise that had "absolutely nothing to do with them," Tillis immediately…

Topics covered

• Trump's speech
• Epstein survivors
• military aid
• 2020 election claims
• political maneuvering

Keywords

• Trump speech
• Epstein survivors
• military aid
• 2020 election
• politics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NBC, ABC, Kalshi

Places: California

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