Pod Save America
A no-bullshit conversation about politics with hosts Jon Favreau, Dan Pfeiffer, Tommy Vietor & Jon Lovett.
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- “It’s Stephen Miller, it’s Donald Trump. It’s the people who are enabling [ICE.] That’s who has to be called out, and we can’t give them a pass.” —Tejano musician and Texas Congressional Candidate Bobby Pulido
- A Democrat just won a Texas special election for state Senate, flipping a district Donald Trump won by 17 points.
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaDonald Trump’s back to his old hobby: Trying to tip elections in his favor. His efforts are getting downright spooky. “I do think we need to up our guard,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, told What A Day. bit.ly/49VNT1d
- 49% of Trump’s crypto venture, World Liberty Financial, was purchased by an Abu Dhabi royal for $500m, days before he was inaugurated. This level of corruption from a U.S. president is mind-boggling.
- Trump wants to steal $10,000,000,000 from the American tax payer and give it to himself.
- Trump appears thousands of times in the latest batch of Epstein files.
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaTrump is going to extreme lengths to immortalize himself. Read for more: bit.ly/46rFxMq
- Reposted by Pod Save America“When Epstein was alive, like 10 years ago? Nobody cared about him...Democrats are pushing it and the problem is it’s turning out to be the Democrats that were with, and conspired with, Epstein...but, think of it, they were working together to try and help me lose the election” —Trump
- Reposted by Pod Save America“I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. And, in fact, if you look at the DOJ, they announced, you know, they released three million pages. It’s like this is all they’re supposed to be doing. And, frankly, the DOJ, I think should just say, ‘We have other things to do.’” —Trump
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaREPORTER: Kristi Noem just announced body cameras will be used in Minneapolis, what’s your thinking behind this decision? TRUMP: “Well, it wasn’t my decision. I would’ve— you know, I leave it to her.”
- Reposted by Pod Save America“You got to read the story in the Washington Post. They do it: crime is way down in DC. Now what’s the reason for it? The reason for it is we have very big, strong, good looking soldiers standing around. And I think they make the place look better.” —Trump
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaREPORTER: Do you plan on tearing down the Kennedy Center during renovations? TRUMP: “I’m not ripping it out, I’ll be using the steel. So, we’re using the structure. We’re using some of the marble, and some of the marble comes down.”
- In order for people to be comfortable with government programs, like single-payer health care, they have to have a better experience with, and faith, in their government.
- “In the scheme of things, the reason that we have Trump is because people have seen government not work...Like, the worse things got, they finally just wanted someone to break all the rules.” —Marc Dunkelman
- Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard seized all the ballots in Fulton County, Georgia. This is extremely concerning.
- This country deserves so much better than what it's getting under Trump.
- "I think the Republicans are going to have to lose quite a few times before, they either reform themselves or move into a new party." –Joe Scarborough on the divide facing the Republican party.
- The Trump administration is yet to apologize for smearing Alex Pretti, and plenty of MAGA influencers are doubling down on their vile attacks.
- Reposted by Pod Save America“This is not a Democratic or a Republican issue. Never once have I made this partisan. This is a foundational principle of making sure that the endurance of our republic can continue on.” —Mayor Frey
- Reposted by Pod Save America“This is an opportunity to be a patriot. To stand up for the kinds of the liberties and freedoms that we all hold dear. As a nation of immigrants, it should not matter where you are from.” —Mayor Frey
- Reposted by Pod Save America“It’s important that we aren’t silenced. That we aren’t put down. This is not time to bend our heads in despair or out of fear that we may be next, because if we do not speak up, if we do not step out, it will be your city that is next.” —Mayor Frey
- Reposted by Pod Save America“Never in a million years did I think that we would be in this place. Where troops and federal agents by thousands have been deployed on a great American city.” —Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey
- Introducing Pod Save America: OnlyFriends! More news, more takes, no nudes. Become a Friend of the Pod at crooked.com/friends to listen!
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaIf you wanted to see reasons for optimism in Tom Homan’s press conference this morning, there were plenty. But it’s probably wise not to take any of this rhetoric at face value. Read the latest Open Tabs: bit.ly/4q9wZ4a
- “If we were to do separate bills like that...[the DHS reforms] would have to pass first, right? It would have to pass first, this overhaul.” —Sen. @amyklobuchar.com on what it would take for her to vote on a spending bill Watch our full interview here: bit.ly/4rlVGeB
- Reposted by Pod Save America“It’s not an option to not be here, and it’s not an option to not resist, and not speak up and use my voice” —Minneapolis protester at Alex Pretti’s vigil For more: bit.ly/4a3kelo
- “I think [DHS Secretary Kristi Noem] is the most unqualified, ineffective and loathsome of all of the cabinet positions whom we’ve ever seen in any administration. And yet, the president wouldn’t call that out.” — @governorwalz.mn.gov on Trump’s praise of Noem Full interview: bit.ly/46ikSKJ
- @governorwalz.mn.gov on his meeting with Tom Homan: “It was a little more grounded in reality. It was an acknowledgement that the situation is not what they want...it was somewhat of a glimmer of hope that at least it felt like we were dealing on the same reality.” Full interview: bit.ly/46ikSKJ
- Reposted by Pod Save America“I made a lot of people rich. Me, I just keep working. I made a lot of people rich. I made a lot of people rich that I don’t even like.” —Trump
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaTrump on Greg Bovino leaving Minneapolis “I don’t think it’s a pullback. I think it’s a change...You know Bovino’s very good, but he’s a pretty out there kind of a guy and in some cases that’s good. Maybe it wasn’t good here.”
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaCAIN: “Do you still have confidence in DHS Secretary Kristi Noem?” TRUMP: “I do.”
- Reposted by Pod Save America“And I’m not sure about [Alex Pretti’s] parents, but I know [Renee Good’s] parents were big Trump fans. Makes me feel bad anyway, but, I mean, I guess you could say even worse— They were tremendous Trump people, Trump fans.” —Trump
- Reposted by Pod Save America“I think the whole thing is terrible. I don’t like that fact that he was carrying a gun that was fully loaded, and he had two magazines with him — and it’s pretty unusual.” —Trump on the killing of Alex Pretti
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaTrump on Minnesota: “We’re gonna de-escalate a little bit.”
- Minneapolis is not taking Trump’s bait.
- Federal officers in Minneapolis don’t look like police. They look like gangs.
- “Kindness” —A Granny Against ICE’s opinion on what’s missing in the national narrative in Minneapolis.
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaEveryone has something to contribute to the ongoing Minneapolis protest against ICE.
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaREPORTER: How serious is the administration taking allegations that MN local & state officials are coordinating with protesters? LEAVITT: “We’ve definitely seen active organization amongst these left wing groups...& it is something that I know the FBI and the Department of Justice are looking into”
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaREPORTER: Sec. Noem said Alex Pretti committed an act of domestic terrorism. Stephen Miller labeled Pretti a domestic terrorist. Does the president agree with them? LEAVITT: “Look, as I’ve said, I have not heard the president characterize Mr. Pretti in that way.”
- Reposted by Pod Save America“This tragedy occurred as a result of a deliberate and hostile resistance by Democrat leaders in Minnesota.” —White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaWhite House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shares President Trump’s “clear and simple path to restoring law and order in Minnesota”
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaFederal agents have shot and killed another American in Minneapolis. “These people are wildly untrained. They’re unprofessional. They’re the most trigger-happy group of fucking cowboy thug monsters” Warning: some footage may be disturbing to watch
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaREPORTER: This is the second DHS operation shooting that’s happened, five people have died in immigration detention this year, why is immigration enforcement becoming so deadly under your tenure? NOEM: “Immigration enforcement is exactly what the American people asked for.”
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaREPORTER: The White House has labeled the man killed in Minnesota as a domestic terrorist, do you agree? NOEM: “When you perpetuate violence against a government because of ideological reasons, and for reasons to resist and perpetuate violence, that is the definition of domestic terrorism.”
- Reposted by Pod Save America“Our message is really clear and straight forward: we need ICE out of Minnesota. They are not making us more safe, as the tragic, tragic killing this morning, as people saw it viscerally on that video shows us they are making us less safe.” —Sen. Amy Klobuchar
- Reposted by Pod Save America“Thank god. Thank god we have video [of the shooting]. Because according to DHS, these seven heroic guys took an onslaught of a battalion against them, or something. It’s nonsense, people. It is nonsense and it is lies.” —Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz
- Reposted by Pod Save America“This will end when enough Americans say this will end. Do I have any confidence Donald Trump will do the right thing? No, I don’t have a lot of confidence Donald Trump will do the right thing. I do have a lot of confidence that the majority of the American people will do the right thing” —Gov. Walz
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaGov. Tim Walz to Minnesotans: “I’ll continue to plead and ask you for peace and I know the answer is, ‘You ask us for peace, and we give it, and we get shot in the face on the streets coming out of a doughnut shop.’ We cannot give them what they want.”
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaREPORTER: Have you had any conversations with the federal government? And is there any indication they’ll back down? WALZ: “I spoke with the president’s chief of staff, and 1st request was to get her people out of there...and 2nd call is, with no uncertain terms, that we will investigate this”
- "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in criminal activity." –Jack Smith testifying before Congress.
- Reposted by Pod Save America“I was the product of an unplanned teen pregnancy...and a lot of people tried to convince my very young parents that they should just ‘take care of’ that problem. But I am eternally grateful that they allowed me the chance at life.” —Speaker Mike Johnson at the March for Life rally
- Trump's Davos performance is just embarrassing.
- JD Vance is justifying ICE’s arrest of a 5-year-old boy. That’s where we are.
- “Will Cain, you are an embarrassment!" –Jon Favreau
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaTrump on his hand bruising: “I clipped it on the table. So I put a little, what do they call it? Cream on it. But I clipped it. I would say take aspirin if you like your heart, but don’t take aspirin if you don’t want to have a little bruising because if you take the big— I take the big aspirin.”
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaREPORTER: You’ve expressed some concern about the midterm elections— TRUMP: “My only concern is that presidents never win”
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaREPORTER: What are some of the elements of the Greenland concept? TRUMP: “It’s really a negotiation, but it’s infinity—the time limit is infinity. Meaning there is no time limit. It’s forever.”
- "It is bad policy, bad politics all across the board." –Senator Mark Warner on Trump's Greenland policy.
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaYou knew it was going to end like this. For more on Trump’s new “concept of a plan” over Greenland, read the latest Open Tabs: bit.ly/49VyQ6v
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaREPORTER: Is there anything you saw today that would cause you to advise Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act? VANCE: “Right now, we don’t think that we need that. Now, the president could change his mind, of course”
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaREPORTER: Local police are saying their own officers are being racially profiled and asked to show papers. Is that a concern of the administration? VANCE: “I saw one story about this...and look, certainly, is it a concern? Absolutely. The first thing we have to figure out is if it happened or not.”
- Reposted by Pod Save America“I didn’t say, and I don’t think anybody within the Trump administration said, that officers who engaged in wrong doing would enjoy immunity. That’s absurd.” —Vance on the administration suggesting ICE officers have near complete immunity in the wake of the Renee Good killing
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaREPORTER: Are you proud of how the administration is conducting this immigration crackdown? VANCE: “Well, I’m proud of the fact we’re standing behind law enforcement, and I’m proud of the fact that we are enforcing the country’s laws.”
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaVice President JD Vance on immigration operations in Minnesota: “All we need is a little cooperation. I guarantee we’re going to do the best to be professional, to respect people’s rights, to not do anything that we don’t have to do in order to enforce immigration laws”
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaTROY NEHLS (R–TX): “The fault [for January 6] does not lie with Donald Trump. It lies with Yogananda Pittman and the U.S. Capitol leadership team. We know, we know, they had the intelligence—” MICHAEL FANONE: *coughs* “Go fuck yourself.” *cough*
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaJAYAPAL: “What do you think the toll is for future elections? And future presidents who try to steal an election?” SMITH: “I think if we don’t hold people to account when they commit crimes, it sends a message that those crimes are okay. That our society accepts that.”
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaJAYAPAL: “How would you describe the toll on our democracy if we do not hold a president accountable for attempting to steal an election?” SMITH: “My belief is that if we do not hold the most powerful people in our society to the same standards of the rule of law, it can be catastrophic.”
- Reposted by Pod Save America“Our investigation revealed that Donald Trump was the person who cause January 6th, that it was foreseeable to him, and that he sought to exploit the violence.” —Jack Smith when asked about allegations the FBI was involved in the violence on January 6, 2021
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaHANK JOHNSON: The indictments have been dismissed, can they be resurrected after Trump leaves office? SMITH: “They were dismissed without prejudice” JOHNSON: “So they can be refiled? And he can be re-prosecuted after he leaves office, is that correct?” SMITH: “I’m not going to speak to that.”
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaLOFGREN: Who are some of the Republican witnesses who told President Trump that his claims of election fraud were false? SMITH: “They ranged from people on his campaign team who had wanted him to win...state Republican officials who wanted him to win...people he worked with in the White House”
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaLOFGREN: In terms grand jury testimony that’s been released Trump, according to Sen Graham, would believe martians stole the election, what does that say about his state of mind? SMITH: “That statement is consistent in what we found in our investigation...Trump was not looking for honest answers”
- Reposted by Pod Save AmericaRASKIN: “Is there a valid Fist Amendment defense to violating the voting rights of the people and cheating the public out of a fair election?” SMITH: “The First Amendment is something we took seriously in our investigation, but the First Amendment does not protect speech that facilitates a crime.”
