Taking Down Trump

About Taking Down Trump

TAKING DOWN TRUMP is a book, a Substack, and now - a podcast. Every week, Tristan Snell gives you an indispensable go-to pod on Trump's trials and other top stories impacting law and democracy - with a weekly news roundup, a deeper dive on a topic you need to know about, and special guests. Tristan Snell led the NY AG's successful prosecution of Trump University, recovering $25 million for Trump's victims in the first major legal loss he ever suffered. As a lawyer, a legal commentator on MSNBC and CNN, and the author of the best-selling book TAKING DOWN TRUMP: 12 Rules for Prosecuting Donald Trump By Someone Who Did It Successfully. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

Audiocrafty/Bluewave

Category

government · news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 May 2024

Latest episode

9 Jul 2025

Latest episodes

95 of 97 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   9 Jul 2025TRANSCRIPT

   It’s War on the Middle Class (with Rep. Maxwell Frost)

   Let’s be clear: this isn’t just another episode about Trump. This is about a decades-long, right-wing crusade to gut the middle class and hand the country over to billionaires—and the latest “MAGA bill” is their victory lap. On this episode of The Tristan Snell Show, Tristan doesn’t mince words about what’s really at stake and why the fight is so much bigger than one man or one election. Tristan kicks things off with a breakdown of how we got here—how the far right’s playbook goes all the way back to the New Deal, and how they’ve been playing the long game to rig the system against working families. He calls out the real villains: the ultra-wealthy and their political puppets who want to destroy Medicaid, sabotage the ACA, and make sure you pay more for less—while they get richer. Then, special guest Rep. Maxwell Frost joins the show. Frost doesn’t hold back about what Democrats have to do next: • Stop just being “anti-Trump.” That’s not enough. It’s time for bold, clear solutions that actually fix what’s broken. • Go big or go home. Half-measures and “band-aids” won’t cut it. The party needs to fight for Medicare for All, real economic reform, and policies that actually help people feel the difference. • Speak to real pain. Voters aren’t just worried about democracy—they’re worried about rent, groceries, and healthcare. Democrats need to show up with answers, not just slogans. • Play the long game. The right spent 60 years building this moment. Now it’s our turn to build a pro-democracy coalition that can win for decades. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

2. 

   14 May 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Trump’s Constitutional Crisis: Habeas Corpus Threat & Qatar’s $400M Gift

   Tristan Snell analyzes Stephen Miller's habeas corpus proposal and Trump's Qatar aircraft gift, revealing constitutional violations and a shift towards mob rule.

3. 

   8 May 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Beyond the Whiteboard w/ Katie Porter

   Congresswoman Katie Porter analyzes Donald Trump's economic policies and suggests strategies for Democrats to connect with voters on kitchen-table issues in an interview with Tristan Snell.

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It’s War on the Middle Class (with Rep. Maxwell Frost)

Published 9 Jul 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] They didn't want new regulations. They didn't want the SEC regulating securities. They didn't want Social Security to get enacted in the first place back in the 30s as part of the new deal. They didn't want any of that. They didn't want the tax increases that helped pay for all of that, that actually resulted in the wealthiest Americans paying their fair share at a point that the country was in a horrible depression that was especially just completely melted the middle class and basically created an entire cadre of a very large portion of America that was completely out of work and destitute. The coalition, the recognition there, a consensus there that was very large that something needed to be done about all of that because you had a quarter of the nation unemployed because you had people starving to death in America during the depression. […]

Who has been a guest on Taking Down Trump

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Katie Porter
• Chris Murphy
• Tristan Justice
• David Pakman
• James Surowiecki

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.4 / 5

356 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

12 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 63 / 100

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Quality

88

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

97

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