July 18, 2025

"Trump's Medical Diagnosis, Epstein Files Controversy, and College Sports Executive Order

Show Notes
Transcript

Patrick Gutfield's satirical take on President Trump's "chronic venous insufficiency" diagnosis, the ongoing Epstein files controversy and calls for transparency, Emil Bove's controversial judicial nomination, and Trump's potential executive order on college athlete employment status. Plus coverage of the nine billion dollar cuts to public broadcasting and foreign aid.

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Callaroga Shark media from Washington, DC. Where release the Epstein files.

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This is ballot, that's right, release the Epstein files and

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let's hit this. I'm Patrick Guttfield, and the White House

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announced that President Trump has been diagnosed with chronic venus insufficiency,

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which sounds like something you'd make up to get out

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of gym class. The condition causes mild swelling in his

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lower legs, and they're calling it benign and common for

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people over seventy. You know what else is common for

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people over seventy complaining about young people and falling asleep

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during movies. But apparently we're not diagnosing those yet. It's

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a good way to get people to stop talking about

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the Epstein files, except release the Epstein files. Meanwhile, Trump

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nominated Emil Bow to be a federal Appeals Court judge,

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and let me tell you, this guy's got more baggage

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than a Pardashian on vacation. The Senate Judiciary Committee had

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a vote on his nomination. But here's the thing. The

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Democrats walked out before the vote happened. That's like leaving

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a restaurant before ordering and then complaining about the service.

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The Republican and Democratic leaders can't even agree on whether

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the vote was valid, which is basically Washington's version of

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did that actually count? But wait, there's more. He's accused

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of dropping corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams

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in what critics are calling a quid pro quo deal

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involving immigration matters. He's also accused of encouraging Justice Department

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employees to defy court orders that halted deportations. And in

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other news, the Senate passed a bill overnight to cut

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nine billion dollars from public broadcasting and foreign eight nine

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billion dollars. That's like cutting funding for Big Bird while

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also telling other countries, sorry, you're on your own. Also,

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release the Epstein files. President Trump is considering an executive

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order that would require federal authorities to figure out whether

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college athletes can be considered employees of their schools. Now,

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this is a question that's been bouncing around college sports

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for years, kind of like a football that nobody wants

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to catch because they know they're going to get tackled.

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The draft order calls on the Secretary of Labor and

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the National Labor Relations Board to determine and implement the

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appropriate measures with respect to clarifying the status of collegiate athletes.

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That's government speak for please figure this out so we

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don't have to. The order says the employment status should

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maximize the educational benefits and opportunities schools can provide, which

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sounds nice until you realize we're talking about institutions that

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charge fifty thousand dollars a year for the privilege of

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eating cafeteria food. College sports leaders and Republican lawmakers have

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been trying to block athletes from getting employee rights for

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years now. Their argument many athletic departments couldn't afford the

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added costs, which is interesting considering these same departments somehow

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found the money to pay football coaches seven million dollars

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a year, but sure paying the players is where we

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draw the line. The news cut everyone by surprise this week,

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which in Washington means we leaked it on purpose, but

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we're pretending we didn't. Sources are saying Trump might not

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even go through with this executive order, making it the

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political equivalent of maybe we'll go to that restaurant, maybe

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we won't, and maybe this will distract you from asking

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about the Epstein files. Boy, nobody ever mentions the Epstein files.

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President Trump is facing some serious heat from his own

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supporters over the Jeffrey Epstein files, and his response has

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been to call the whole thing a foax while blaming

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the Biden administration. This is like burning dinner and then

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claiming the smoke detector is biased. In a phone interview

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with Just the News on Real America's Voice, which might

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actually be less known than this podcast, Trump alleged, without

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providing evidence, that Democrats and former officials doctored files relating

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to the disgraced financier. He said, I can imagine what

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they put into files, just like they did with the others. Now,

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when someone says I can imagine, that's usually code for

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I have no proof, but I'm going to say it anyway, Like,

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for example, I can imagine whose name is in the

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Epstein files and why that person doesn't want them released.

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Here's the problem with Trump's theory. Many of the documents

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relating to Epstein, including those that mentioned Trump and several

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prominent Democrats, have been public for years. Saying Democrats doctored

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files that were already public is like claiming someone edited

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a movie that's already in theaters. White House Press Secretary

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Caroline Levitt shut down the idea of appointing a special

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prosecutor in the Epstein case, saying the President would not

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recommend a special prosecutor in the Epstein case. That's how

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he feels that makes sense. I would recommend no state

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troop is work the Garden State Parkway tonight, as I

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do one ten on my way to my shorehouse. Trump

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has now shifted to calling Republican supporters who are questioning

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his administration's handling of this as stupid and foolish. He said,

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some of the naive Republicans fall right into line like

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they always do. That's right. Trump is now calling his

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own supporters naive for believing the same conspiracy theories he's

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been promoting. Portions of today's program were made with the

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help of AI and without the help of the Epstein files.