Trumpcast
A quasi-daily podcast from Slate chronicling Donald Trump's rise to the presidency and his current administration. Journalists Virginia Heffernan and León Krauze talk to reporters, historians, psychiatrists, and other experts to help explain who this man is and why this is happening, right now, in the United States of America.
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Trumpcast Live: Vicky Ward And Aparna Nancherla
82 min
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Brexit, Media, And The UK In Trump Times
38 min
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When Interpreting Power Means Abuse
33 min
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Trumpcast Sketch: What Mueller Meant To Say
3 min
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The Oracle Mueller Hath Spoken
8 min
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Former Federal Prosecutors Agree On Trump
51 min
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Of FOIAs And Buzzfeed Investigative Fights
50 min
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Brainstorming Ways To Rekindle Democracy
33 min
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The Case Of Candidate Joe Biden
25 min
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When Trump Trolls Give Up The War
39 min
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A Republican’s Journey Away From Trump
40 min
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Trump’s Finances Are Taxing
32 min
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The View Of Putin From Moscow
39 min
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Surviving A Post-Mueller Report World
47 min
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Understanding Conspiracy In Trump Times
29 min
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Trump Dangers After the Mueller Report
38 min
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A Mueller Report Next-Day Debrief
48 min
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The Mueller Report: the Executive Summaries
59 min
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Finding Your Guts When The Spire Falls
8 min
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Special: Has Mexico's President Turned His Back...
18 min
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Climate Change Meets The U.S. Border Crisis
29 min
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The Collusion Effect On Our Norms
43 min
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Behind Closed Doors At Kushner Inc.
47 min
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A Trip To Barr-A-Lago
35 min
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Facing And Erasing White Terrorism
8 min
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The Barr Letter Is Not The Mueller Report
43 min
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Why Did Deutsche Bank Support Trump?
41 min
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The Six Groups Within The 2019 Democratic Party
29 min
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To Understand Trump World, Find The Women
8 min
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Fear As Right-Wing Media’s Plot
37 min
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2019 Ways To Spell Doomsday
49 min
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Demystifying Putin’s Power And Clan
32 min
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Michael Cohen Testifies Before Congress, part 2
257 min
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Michael Cohen's Opening Statement to the House ...
54 min
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All Eyes On Michael Cohen
36 min
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How Our Branches Of Government Hold Up In 2019
52 min
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Where Do Black Conservatives Align With GOP Iss...
39 min
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Paul Manafort And The Heart Of Collusion
41 min
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Trump, Drug Smuggling, And The Opioid Epidemic
10 min
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Trumpcast Live In LA
55 min
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The BuzzFeed Revelations on Trump
40 min
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How Trump’s Inaugural Committee Got Into Troubl...
15 min
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Calling Out Jared Kushner’s Insecure Clearance
37 min
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The Collusion Story Info Spectrum
30 min
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A (Roger) Stone In A Barrel
29 min
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How The FBI Investigates A President
10 min
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The Democratic Approach To Immigration In 2020
45 min
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Make Conservatives Great Again
30 min
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The Compromises That Create Kremlin Double Agents
43 min
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Beacons Through Autocratic Gaslighting
12 min
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The ‘Successful’ Political Candidate Template F...
29 min
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No Sir, Romney Doesn't Like It
32 min
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Wading Through The Democratic Presidential Pool
33 min
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How Can Trump's Administration Actually Help Ce...
32 min
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Explaining Trump To Young Adults
35 min
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A Foxhole In The Cyberwar
54 min
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Trump’s 2013 Deal With Aras Agalarov
14 min
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Trump, The NRA, And More Illegal Activity
28 min
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The Depths Of Disinformation In 2016
45 min
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The Tragic Flaw Of James Comey
36 min
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Those 80s Moments That Politicized Trump
41 min
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It’s All About Mogilevich
11 min
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Whodunit? Solving Trumpian Mysteries With A.G. ...
34 min
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Trump’s Ex-Associates Hit The Courts
38 min
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The Disaster Of Trump’s Disaster Management
28 min
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Trump Retreats Into His Cocoon
36 min
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Thirsting for Indictments
9 min
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Is Your Candidate Racist? Apply the Gillum Test
35 min
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Sessions’ Last Act Deals Blow to Police Reform:...
21 min
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Post-Election Truths of the Caravan
32 min
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The GOP Loves Voter Suppression
36 min
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Still Missing Khashoggi
31 min
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Return of the Repressed
43 min
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Is There A Latino Vote?
34 min
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Catching Up on Manafort
8 min
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She's Running: Trumpcast Presents The Waves
She's Running: Trumpcast Presents The Waves
70 min
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HHS and Transgender Erasure
32 min
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Where The Trump Tweets Began
40 min
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The Midterm Elections Are Gonna Be Lit
30 min
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Live From The 2018 Texas Tribune Festival -- Th...
43 min
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Sheldon Adelson’s Influence
6 min
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Vindication at Last?
32 min
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Benjamin Wittes admires Brett Kavanaugh’s legal...
Lawfare's Benjamin Wittes on Kavanaugh
45 min
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What should the FBI be examining about Judge Ka...
30 min
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Trumpcast Live From The 2018 Texas Tribune Fest...
Live from the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, TX.
84 min
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Ford's Testimony and The Real Brett Kavanaugh
Virginia Heffernan talks to Slate's Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern about Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh's hearing.
27 min
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Ford's Credibility and Kavanaugh's Lies
Virginia Heffernan talks to Michelle Goldberg, columnist at The New York Times, about the latest surrounding Brett Kavanaugh's nomination, Christine Blasey Ford's allegation, and the #MeToo movement as a whole.
27 min
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Raising Red Flags and The Story of Our Time
Virginia Heffernan talks to BuzzFeed's Anthony Cormier about his latest money trail story surrounding Aras Agalarov and some suspicious financial activity that happened after the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting.
34 min
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The New Trump Rallies [Teaser S+]
On the president's weird rallies, and what they mean as Trump's base unravels.
5 min
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The Brett Kavanaugh Hearings in the Shadow of a...
Virginia Heffernan is joined by Slate's Dahlia Lithwick to discuss the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, Senator Kamala Harris' interrogation of the Supreme Court nominee, and the protests surrounding the whole event.
31 min
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A Tower in Toronto and the Story of Kleptocracy
Jacob Weisberg talks to Tom Burgis of the Financial Times about his story "Tower of Secrets: The Russian Money Behind a Donald Trump Skyscraper."
31 min
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A Campaign Finance Crash Course
Jacob Weisberg is joined by Trevor Potter, Former Commissioner & Chairman of the Federal Election Commission (FEC), to talk about how Trump may have violated campaign finance laws.
30 min
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SDNY, The Trump Organization, and Pardons
Virginia Heffernan is joined by Elie Honig, a former federal prosecutor in the SDNY, to talk about Allen Weisselberg and if in fact his immunity means the investigations are getting deeper into the Trump Organization.
34 min
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ICE and the Unfolding Immigration Tragedy
León Krauze jumps into the host chair for the day to chat with The Atlantic's Frank Foer about ICE, the fear in immigrant communities, and what to make of the Paul Manafort fiasco at the end of this week.
34 min
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The Cohen Plea and Manafort Verdict
Virginia Heffernan talks to Mimi Rocah, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, about Cohen's guilty plea and the verdict in the Manafort trial.
21 min
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The Outspoken John Brennan and What He Left Behind
Virginia Heffernan talks to Mattathias Schwartz about Trump revoking John Brennan's security clearance.
27 min
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Omarosa and Reality Show Politics
Virginia Heffernan talks to Lola Ogunnaike, host of "Entertainment Weekly The Show" about Omarosa finally making her way through the Trump love-hate cycle.
33 min
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Slow Burn | S2 Ep. 1: Deal or No Deal
Season 2 of Slow Burn begins with the Clinton presidency hanging by a thread.
38 min
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Learning From James Clapper's Life in Intelligence
Virginia Heffernan talks to James R. Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, about his book Facts and Fear: Hard Truths From A Life In Intelligence.
26 min
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Cyberwar and Security in the Trump Era
Jacob Weisberg talks to Clint Watts, the author of Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News, about the question of cyberwar.
35 min