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Hot Mics with Billy Bush · July 7 · 56 min

World Cup Fever+ Platner's New Accuser + Trump Family Cashes In

Billy's nursing a rough morning after Team USA got blown out by Belgium — andquestioning whether it was worth it for Trump to personally call FIFA's president to get acontroversial red card overturned so the US could play at full strength. Spoiler: they still gotdemolished. And, is the Graham Platner campaign finished? As a new accuser comes forward with a serious allegation against the Maine Senate candidate, Billy digs into whythe political fallout — Elizabeth Warren, Planned Parenthood, and his own allies pullingsupport — looks less like a moral reckoning and more like a campaign reading its ownpolling. Plus, new numbers on how much the Trump family has made off crypto whileinvestors take the losses, a Kazakhstan tungsten mining deal involving Don Jr. and Eric,questions about where the money's really coming from behind America's "Freedom 250"celebration, Zohran Mamdani's rent control math problem, and whether Amy Coney Barrettdeserves the "turncoat" label for a mail-in voting ruling that split from the otherconservatives on the bench. Hashtags:#worldcup #worldcup2026#fifa #crypto #trumpcrypto #podcast#zohranmamdani See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Billy's nursing a rough morning after Team USA got blown out by Belgium — andquestioning whether it was worth it for Trump to personally call FIFA's president to get acontroversial red card overturned so the US could play at full strength. Spoiler: they still gotdemolished. And, is the Graham Platner campaign finished? As a new accuser comes forward with a serious allegation against the Maine Senate candidate, Billy digs into whythe political fallout — Elizabeth Warren, Planned Parenthood, and his own allies pullingsupport — looks less like a moral reckoning and more like a campaign reading its ownpolling. Plus, new numbers on how much the Trump family has made off crypto whileinvestors take the losses, a Kazakhstan tungsten mining deal involving Don Jr. and Eric,questions about where the money's really coming from behind America's "Freedom 250"celebration, Zohran Mamdani's rent control math problem, and whether Amy Coney Barrettdeserves the "turncoat" label for a mail-in voting ruling that split from the otherconservatives on the bench.

Hashtags:#worldcup #worldcup2026#fifa #crypto #trumpcrypto #podcast#zohranmamdani

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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