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David Frum: Trump and Epstein Were Best Friends

12/19/2025 • 52 min

Of all the images of Trump, the only times he seemed to be authentically smiling in the presence of another person was when he was with Jeffrey Epstein. The two of them had the same interests, and other people in the 80s and 90s assumed they were best friends. Over in MAGA land, a proxy war has broken out among rightwing influencers—like Ben Shapiro, Tucker, and… Play episode

Patrick Gaspard: A White House Screamathon
Catherine Rampell and Michael Steinberger: Trump Wants to Cook the Books
Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican P…
Bill Kristol: A Weekend of Tragedy
Alyssa Farah: Trump's Big L in Indiana
David French: MAGA Is Bleeding Numbers
Neera Tanden: America's 'Daddy' Is in a Rut
Mark Hertling: Trump (Still) Hates Europe
Bill Kristol: This Is Not Democratic Government
Tommy Vietor: The 'Peace' President
Sam Stein: We Got Ourselves a Mad King
Jonathan Lemire: A Bubble-Wrapped Trump
Olivia Nuzzi Breaks Her Silence
Project 2025 Is Coming Back To Bite Trump
Bill Kristol: A Kleptocratic, Autocratic Cabal
George Packer: Trump Was a Symptom
Andrew Weissmann: Just Release the Damn Epstein Files
Michael Weiss: Trump's Ukraine Cluster**ck
Bill Kristol: The Cracks in Trump's Power Are Showing
Adam Kinzinger: Trump Has Never Seemed this Scared
Susan Glasser: Our Grotesque, Corrupted Oligarchy
Kamala Harris: This Is Our Country
Jonathan Karl: The White House Chaos Is Worse This Time
Bill Kristol: Fight on All Fronts
David Frum: This Is Shame-Faced Trump
Alex Wagner: Team Trump Can't Get Its Epstein Story Straight
Mikie Sherrill and Michael Fanone: Full-Time Criming and Corruption
Chris Hayes: Trump Has Become 'The Establishment'
Will Saletan: Sorry, but the Democrats Won the Shutdown
Jessica Tarlov: Republicans Are in the Barrel
Jonathan V. Last and Carol Leonnig: The Danger of a Weakened Bully
Dave Weigel: Now That's a Landslide
Andy Beshear and Terry Moran: The Power of Normal People
Bill Kristol: Fake News on '60 Minutes'
Catherine Rampell: Who Are the Socialists Now?
Heidi Heitkamp: How Trump’s Trade Chaos Hurts Farmers
Abby Phillip: Governing by Troll
Sam Stein and Francis Fukuyama: A Coming Deportation Blitz?
Bill Kristol: Diaper Tantrum
Ryan Holiday: Life Is Too Short to Be a Bootlicker
Ben Wittes and Anna Bower: Trump's Reparations Demand
Jon Favreau: Foundational Freedoms
Michael Weiss and Karine Jean-Pierre: Low Energy Trump
Bill Kristol: Trump Hates America
Peter Hamby: The Mini Dictator Wants What He Wants
Anne Applebaum: The Loss of 'Democratic Faith'
Heather Cox Richardson: An Attack on Our System of Government
JB Pritzker and Franklin Foer: Like Living in an Authoritarian Regime
Bill Kristol and Ty Cobb: Recapturing America

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