Ross Douthat

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293 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 2 Dec

Ross Douthat’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Ezra Klein Show · Interesting Times: She Exposed Epstein and Shares MAGA’s Anger · 2 Dec 2025 podcast

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So then and again, I don't want to make you speculate too much. matched

But then to you watching Trump essentially say it's time to bury this story, it's time to get my own supporters to move on from it and so on. matched

that looks like to you just a desire similar to the desire of prosecutors not to have to deal with potential fallout from other names coming out? matched

Is that your reading? matched

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And and my perception was always that other people in his coalition were much more enthusiastic about this story, that it was never this was never one of Trump's obsessions. matched

This was something his supporters were obsessed with. matched

So it didn't surprise me that. matched

In the end, they didn't want to do some version of even what you're describing and say, you know, we're going to go back and find a bunch of other records to release. matched

That doesn't surprise me. matched

I am surprised, though, by the vehemence of Trump's reaction to the negative reaction. matched

That is something of a mystery. matched

Okay. matched

I've been trying to cover the unanswered questions. matched

Do you have any other specific questions that you would like answered? matched

But in the end, for that to be worth doing, Epstein himself is dead. matched

So the assumption, your assumption in making this argument, and I I. matched

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