Michael Gold
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875 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 6 Jul
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I think we will see more Republicans than the four who have already signed on to this effort vote to release these documents.
You're right to say that lawmakers, especially Republicans on Capitol Hill, are often worried about invoking the wrath of the president, especially as we head into midterm elections and as we head into primary season.
But I think there's a different and important political calculation here.
On the one hand, there's voting with the president and voting against the president.
But on the other hand, Republicans don't want to be seen as recording a vote that would shield Jeffrey Epstein from further transparency.
The story of Jeffrey Epstein is one that prompts a lot of questions about the kind of things that President Trump has put at the heart of his campaign, about whether there is a powerful group of elites whose interests are perceived as being more important than the interests of the people.
Trump ran on a campaign of ending the deep state, of draining the swamp.
But now he's in charge, and he's the one who appears to be shielding these files and keeping them out of view of the American people.
I think it's an example of a time when President Trump has tapped into these cultural forces, but now that he's in the highest office of the land, they are turning in a direction that he didn't expect.
I think for Democrats...
They are connecting this issue to affordability.
You know, they've been saying for a while that President Trump and Republicans are protecting the interests of elites, of billionaires, and that they're not looking out for the regular people.
And they see the Epstein issue as part of that, as another case of President Trump protecting billionaires rather than providing transparency that people really want.
But the other thing here is that this issue is one of the first times that Democrats have successfully been able to split Republicans and to divide some of them from President Trump.
And so even though they just had these big wins in New Jersey and Virginia and New York that many attributed to a message of affordability, this is a case where they can't resist an opportunity to poke at the Republican Party, make them look weak, and put them on the defense.
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