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The Daily Herold - July 8, 2025: Epstein Fallout, Tariff Leverage, and Election Trust on Trial
Manage episode 493352678 series 3427094
In this episode of The Daily Herold, Jon Herold grapples with the uproar over the DOJ’s Epstein memo, which declared there was no incriminating client list or credible blackmail evidence. Jon plays fresh clips of Trump dismissing further Epstein questions as a distraction and Pam Bondi giving an unconvincing explanation for missing video footage and ambiguous records. He reflects on how influencers, not Trump himself, fueled expectations about “the list,” and why the lack of resolution feels like a deliberate demoralization tactic. Shifting gears, Jon covers Trump’s flurry of tariff letters to 14 countries, new White House policies freezing federal hiring, and calls for the Fed’s Jerome Powell to resign over interest rate mismanagement.
Other highlights include ICE raids that triggered panic in Los Angeles, an Obama-appointed judge blocking Congress’s Planned Parenthood defunding, and the State Department quietly removing a Syrian rebel group from the terror list. Jon wraps up by stressing that without real election reform, none of the policy victories will matter, urging listeners to stay focused on fixing the voting system before the midterms rather than getting lost in narrative psyops.
1884 episodes
Manage episode 493352678 series 3427094
In this episode of The Daily Herold, Jon Herold grapples with the uproar over the DOJ’s Epstein memo, which declared there was no incriminating client list or credible blackmail evidence. Jon plays fresh clips of Trump dismissing further Epstein questions as a distraction and Pam Bondi giving an unconvincing explanation for missing video footage and ambiguous records. He reflects on how influencers, not Trump himself, fueled expectations about “the list,” and why the lack of resolution feels like a deliberate demoralization tactic. Shifting gears, Jon covers Trump’s flurry of tariff letters to 14 countries, new White House policies freezing federal hiring, and calls for the Fed’s Jerome Powell to resign over interest rate mismanagement.
Other highlights include ICE raids that triggered panic in Los Angeles, an Obama-appointed judge blocking Congress’s Planned Parenthood defunding, and the State Department quietly removing a Syrian rebel group from the terror list. Jon wraps up by stressing that without real election reform, none of the policy victories will matter, urging listeners to stay focused on fixing the voting system before the midterms rather than getting lost in narrative psyops.
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