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  • Can J.D. Vance stop a MAGA civil war?

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    This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch are joined by Reason reporter Eric Boehm to discuss Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest and the GOP coalescing around Vice President J.D. Vance as President Donald Trump’s successor. They analyze Sen. Rand Paul’s (R–Ky.) opposition to endorsing Vance as the party’s next standard-bearer, and whether this signals he will challenge Vance for the nomination in 2028. Katherine also shares what it was like attending the conference, plus her debate over marijuana legalization as the Trump administration moves to reclassify marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III.

    The editors then turn to the bipartisan backlash over the latest Jeffrey Epstein file release, in which more than 500 pages were completely redacted, prompting Reps. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D–Calif.) to threaten charges of “inherent contempt” against Attorney General Pam Bondi. The panel also discusses the Trump administration’s seizure of additional Venezuelan oil tankers, plus the announcement of new military strikes in Syria. They dig into Minnesota’s widening welfare fraud scandal, and whether conservative media is using it to scapegoat Somali immigrants. A listener asks whether Christmas expands our “socialist bubble” of family and community and what that says about capitalism, socialism, and human nature.

     

    0:00—Debating marijuana at Turning Point USA

    4:10—J.D. Vance is the MAGA heir apparent

    14:47—Massie and Khanna react to Epstein file release

    25:14—U.S. foreign policy in Venezuela and Syria

    38:09—Listener question on socialism and Christmas

    47:59—Minnesota welfare fraud scandal

    1:01:28—Weekly cultural recommendations

     

    Mentioned in This Podcast

    “Cannavictory,” by Liz Wolfe

    “Trump Orders the ‘Expeditious’ Reclassification of Marijuana,” by Jacob Sullum

    “Heritage Foundation Undergoes Mass Staff Exodus as Cracks Open on the New Right,” by Stephanie Slade

    “Epstein Wanted To Turn His Island Into a Resort for Paying Customers,” by Matthew Petti

    “Oil Tanker Seized,” by Liz Wolfe

    “If the Syrian War Is Over, Why Are Americans Still Getting Killed in Syria?” by Matthew Petti

    “Trump’s Somali Insults Are a Disgrace,” by Steven Greenhut

    “The Real Villain in Minnesota’s $1.5 Billion Fraud Scandal Isn’t Somalis—It’s the Feds,” by Jack Nicastro

    “Medicare Whac-A-Mole,” by Peter Suderman

    “What We Get Wrong About the American Revolution,” by Nick Gillespie

    “Avatar: Fire and Ash Is Part Spectacle, Part Retread,” by Peter Suderman

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  • Eric Trump: Unlike Dems, We’ll Have a Primary Process to Choose the Next Leader of the MAGA Movement

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    Eric Trump spoke to Tom Bevan and Phil Wegmann on the RCP podcast on Wednesday about the future of the MAGA movement, New York and Zohran Mamdani, and his new book on the weaponization of government against his family: “Under Siege: My Family’s Fight To Save Our Nation”

    “I became the most subpoenaed person in American history for doing absolutely nothing wrong,” Eric Trump said. “They did everything they could to destroy our family. That’s why I called it Under Siege.”

    “They took him off the ballot in Colorado. They took him off Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. They indicted him 91 times. They kept us locked in a courtroom every single day. They de-banked our entire organization — Capital One, Bank of America, JP Morgan.”

    “This was the worst of government. It’s a great ending to the story that we won in a spectacular fashion. I couldn’t be more proud of that, but I had to write the story of the viciousness of politics.”

    “If my father wanted vengeance, he could have thrown Hillary Clinton in jail for deleting 33,000 emails, right, and a whole host of other things,” Eric Trump also said. “Did we ever raid Biden’s home? Did we raid Hunter’s? Did we put gag orders on him? Did we subpoena him 112 times? The difference between me and Hunter is that I’m actually a clean human being. I don’t have a laptop from hell. Did we ever make up a dirty dossier against Biden? No. So it’s not vengeance. If Comey lied, he’ll have his day in court.”

    “I would’ve told you eight years ago there wasn’t an heir apparent” to the MAGA movement, he said. “Unlike the Democrats, we’re actually going to have a process… JD Vance has a leg up being vice president: right age, temperament, he would have my vote, I love the guy. But we’re going to go through a process, and the people who are actually chosen by Republicans will be the person who stands on the ballot against the Democrats.”

    “If there’s one thing we can all agree on, my father will probably play a large role in that process,” he joked. “And frankly, as kind of the founder of the new Republican Party, he probably deserves to be a big part of that.”

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