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As President Trump continues implementing his ambitious agenda, follow along with the MSNOW newsletter, Project 47. You'll get weekly updates sent straight to your inbox with expert analysis on the administration's latest actions and how they're affecting the American people. The American people are basically telling the president that they are not okay with any of this. Sign up for the Project 47 newsletter at ms.now slash project47. Before I get to my interview with Governor Gavin Newsom, and I'm going to share a lot of that with you this evening, I have a question. Because last night, Donald Trump broke the record for the longest State of the Union address ever with his hour and 45-minute long speech.
What issues did Trump raise in his State of the Union address?
He spoke longer than any other president ever, including himself, and he has given some long speeches. But my question to you is, do you remember any of it? And I don't just mean, do you remember that Trump ranted and raved and attacked Democrats? I mean, do you remember anything substantive, any policy proposals or any specifics at all whatsoever? I mean, the State of the Union is likely the biggest audience a president gets any given year, all year. It is a huge opportunity to reach huge swaths of the American public that are not at all tuned into politics typically. But even though Trump spoke the longest of any president ever, he also may have actually said the least. I mean, take a look at the front page of The New York Times this morning.
Can you see, if you look closely at your screen, their write-up of Trump's speech? No? Let me help you. Let me pull it up for you. It's all the way down here in the lower left-hand corner. And it doesn't actually say anything about the substance of Trump's speech. It just directs you to The New York Times website if you want to know more. That is how unimportant the substance of Trump's speech last night actually was. The president addressed the country for an hour and 45 minutes, and it didn't even really make the front page of the nation's paper of record. And that coverage wasn't the only thing missing from this year's speech, hardly. I mean, the absence of former Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene was also quite notable, given that in previous years she was kind of hard to miss.
You may remember how hard she tried to shout down President Biden, interrupting his speeches multiple times during his presidency. And last year, she wore a bright red MAGA cap that read, Trump was right about everything. My, how things can change in a year. Well, those antics were conspicuously absent this year after Greene broke up with Trump and abruptly quit Congress over the Epstein files. And that was a big topic that kind of overshadowed Trump's speech last night, not just because there were a number of Epstein survivors in the audience who Trump did not acknowledge, but also because Trump's speech came just hours after we learned that the DOJ's release of the Epstein files is missing some very important and potentially explosive materials.
As MSNOW reports, quote, the Justice Department has withheld notes and memos reflecting FBI interviews from its release of the Epstein files, including interviews with a woman who accused President Donald Trump of sexually abusing her when she was a minor. The thing is, MSNOW has found that the FBI conducted at least four interviews with that woman, but only one record from just the first of those four interviews was actually released to the public. But by piecing together publicly available documents and getting confirmation from a source who has access to the unredacted files, MSNOW was able to report that in one or more of those subsequent interviews, which were later recounted by the FBI, the victim alleged that Trump forced her to perform oral sex on him 35 years ago when she was 13 or 14 years old and also hit her.
Of course, the White House has claimed that President Trump has been totally exonerated on anything related to Epstein, as they do. So why didn't the Justice Department release those interviews?
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–0:43
2
What issues did Trump raise in his State of the Union address?
0:43–3:52
3
How does Trump's speech reflect on his administration's priorities?
3:52–10:04
4
What notable absences were there during Trump's address?
10:04–12:46
5
What are the implications of the missing Epstein files?
12:46–22:21
6
What strategies are Democrats using to counter Trump’s influence?
22:21–22:57
7
How has Trump’s rhetoric affected American democracy?
22:57–43:41
Speakers
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