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The Tara Palmeri Show
by Tara Palmeri
Welcome to The Tara Palmeri Show! Tara Palmeri is one of the most feared and fearless political journalists. As a deeply-sourced reporter, she brings her audience inside the machinations of the highest level of power. Her quick wit and unvarnished reporting goes beyond the headlines, offering a deeper understanding of the intrigues of the permanent political class. This show is not about platitudes. Rather it's about what’s really happening at the highest levels of power and the inside conversation. Tara has covered national politics and foreign affairs for fifteen years. She was formerly a White House Correspondent for ABC News, where she covered the first Trump administration. She was the Chief National Correspondent for POLITICO during the Biden administration. She has been a political analyst for CNBC, CBS and CNN. She’s also worked for the Washington Examiner, the New York Post, POLITICO Europe and Puck, and she hosted The Ringer's election podcast "Somebody's Gott
Episodes
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If Trump Sends Troops to the Polls, Who Stops Him?
In this episode of The Tara Palmieri Show, author Chris Whipple joins the discussion to analyze whether anyone can stop Donald Trump's worst instincts ahead of the midterms. The conversation addresses Trump's reported desires to deploy the National Guard and armed personnel to polling places,...
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Why Trump fires the Women First w/ Chris Whipple
In this live discussion, Tara Palmeri sits down with renowned White House historian and best-selling author Chris Whipple to break down the latest shifts, personnel shakeups, and political fallout following the midterms. We take an inside look at the West Wing dynamics, the history of…
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Megyn Kelly Attacked Me for Cornell 7 Reporting. She forgot her own past.
For the interview that set Megyn Kelly off, go here: https://open.substack.com/pub/tarapalmeri/p/mattress-girl-on-cornell-no-one-on?r=1ili3&utm_medium=ios After Megyn Kelly attacks Tara Palmeri for interviewing Emma Sulkowicz, the former Columbia University student known as "Mattress Girl," Tara...
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“We’re About to Get Killed”: Inside the GOP Midterms Panic w/ Marc Caputo
Read more of my exclusive reporting here https://www.tarapalmeri.com/p/were-about-to-get-absolutely-killed?r=1ili3&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer&triedRedirect=true With just three weeks until the midterm elections, Axios national political reporter Marc Caputo joins…
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Why “Mattress Girl” Emma Sulkowitz Is Warning Us About Cornell Seven
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Michael Tracey Won’t Apologize to the Cornell Jane Doe w/ Piers Morgan
I break down my intense debate on Piers Morgan with online provocateur Michael Tracey after he published and subsequently deleted the alleged identity of the Jane Doe in the Cornell Seven case. Why does he consistently target sexual assault survivors and attempt to undermine high-profile claims?...
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“It’s Going to Be a Tsunami” — GOP Braces for Midterm Wipeout w/ Marc Caputo
Are Republicans headed for a midterm wipeout—or will their biggest problem be voters who simply stay home? Axios reporter Marc Caputo joins Tara Palmeri to break down the GOP’s worsening election outlook and the fear of a “red undertow”—Republican voters losing enthusiasm and sitting out the...
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Why Sean Spicer Banned Me From the White House
When Sean Spicer wouldn’t grant me a White House pass, I had to report from outside the gates. It turned out to be some of the most productive reporting of my career. I’m sharing what happened during my time at Politico, how I found sources without a credential, and why I think the White House...
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The Woman Behind Pete Hegseth’s Paranoid Pentagon
Pete Hegseth needs $67 billion to keep his war in Iran funded — and it's Republicans, not Democrats, standing in his way. Tara breaks down the Pentagon purge and why senators like Tillis and Ernst say he's "lost my confidence." Plus: Jasper Craven, author of God Forgives, Brothers Don't, joins to...
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Nancy Mace Says I “Rape Shamed” Her Over Trump—and That Was Just the Beginning
Tara Palmeri is one of the most feared and fearless reporters covering power and politics. She has 15 years of experience covering national politics and foreign affairs. She was formerly a White House Correspondent for ABC News where she covered the first Trump administration. She was the chief...
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Leon Black REFUSES Epstein Subpoena: Inside Epstein’s World of Powerful Men
Tara Palmeri is one of the most feared and fearless reporters covering power and politics. She has 15 years of experience covering national politics and foreign affairs. She was formerly a White House Correspondent for ABC News where she covered the first Trump administration. She was the chief...
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Nancy Mace: Trump Threw Me Away Over Epstein
Get 15% off OneSkin with the code TARA at https://www.oneskin.co/TARA #oneskinpod Tara Palmeri is one of the most feared and fearless reporters covering power and politics. She has 15 years of experience covering national politics and foreign affairs. She was formerly a White House Correspondent...
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James Carville Sounds Off: Dems in Revolt, Midterm Predictions & Kushner’s Hakeem Jeffries Meeting
Democratic strategist James Carville joins me to break down the November midterms—and why a growing rift inside the Democratic Party could threaten its chances of taking back power. Carville dissects the map, the DSA revolt, and where Democrats go from here. Plus: why he’s piping hot over Jared...
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MASS EXODUS: Trump’s A-Team Is Gone — Except Natalie Harp
Tara Palmeri is one of the most feared and fearless reporters covering power and politics. She has 15 years of experience covering national politics and foreign affairs. She was formerly a White House Correspondent for ABC News where she covered the first Trump administration. She was the chief...
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Why The Government Has Released Less Than 2% of The Epstein Files
Tara Palmeri discusses what we still don't know about Jeffrey Epstein, why survivors say they have been ignored by the Department of Justice, and the mystery surrounding the vast amount of Epstein evidence that remains unseen. Palmeri discusses the missing Epstein videotapes, the FBI's handling…
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Why Stacey Abrams Still Won’t Concede the 2018 Georgia Election
Tara Palmeri is one of the most feared and fearless reporters covering power and politics. She has 15 years of experience covering national politics and foreign affairs. She was formerly a White House Correspondent for ABC News where she covered the first Trump administration. She was the chief...
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EXCLUSIVE: The Epstein Email About Trump the DOJ Won’t Let You See
To follow the paper trail on this investigation, go to: https://www.tarapalmeri.com/p/exclusi... Please consider becoming a member of this channel or a paid subscriber to The Red Letter to support this fearless, independent investigative journalist. Tara Palmeri is one of the most feared and...
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Ex-DNC Official Warns Democrats are losing the Party to Abdul El-Sayed
Is Abdul El-Sayed the future of the democratic party? Ex-DNC official Alex Hoffman doesn't think so. We're breaking down the recent races plunging the party into a civil war. Tara Palmeri is one of the most feared and fearless reporters covering power and politics. She has 15 years of experience...
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Vance or Rubio? The Brutal Battle for Trump’s Legacy w/ Julia Ioffe
Thanks to Ground News for sponsoring the show! Only by using my link, you can get 40% off the unlimited access Vantage plan. Go to https://www.groundnews.com/tara today! Is 2028 a race JD Vance and Marco Rubio can never win? Donald Trump doesn't build successors — he builds loyalists. And the...
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What JD Vance Really Thinks About Trump, Iran & Israel
Thanks to Ground News for sponsoring the show! Only by using my link, you can get 40% off the unlimited access Vantage plan. Go to groundnews.com/tara today! Tara Palmeri is one of the most feared and fearless reporters covering power and politics. She has 15 years of experience covering national...
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BREAKING: Did the DNC Just Hand Kamala 2028?
The DNC has voted to make South Carolina the first primary state for 2028, reshuffling the early voting calendar and likely bumping Iowa out of the window entirely. Tara breaks down what it means for Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, Pete Buttigieg — and floats a wildcard 2028 name on the Republican...
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The Math Behind Every Successful Revolution
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Julia Angwin joins Tara Palmeri to discuss her new book, On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in the Age of Fear. Drawing on stories from whistleblowers, journalists, activists, and ordinary citizens around the world, Angwin explains why…
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From Putin to Trump: 5 Times FIFA Bent the Knee
FIFA calls itself the guardian of the world's game — but pull back the curtain, Tara Palmeri argues, and it looks less like a sports body and more like a global power broker where politics and money matter more than soccer. In this documentary-style breakdown, Tara is joined by Pulitzer...
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What Harvey Weinstein’s Threat Taught Me About Power
Tara Palmeri opens the show with a deeply personal story about being threatened by Harvey Weinstein early in her journalism career—and explains how that experience shaped her reporting on powerful men. Then, joined by Stuart Stevens, she breaks down the fallout from Graham Platner's withdrawal…
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Why the Epstein Scandal is Trump’s Watergate
Tara Palmeri joins MSNBC to discuss President Trump's growing political challenges, from the escalating conflict with Iran and criticism from his own supporters to renewed scrutiny over the Epstein investigation, legal setbacks, and questions about government transparency. The conversation also...
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Will Graham Platner Drop Out? The Pattern I Couldn’t Ignore
As new allegations against Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner send shockwaves through the race, party leaders—including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Chuck Schumer—pull their endorsements and call for him to step aside. Tara Palmeri breaks down the latest developments,...
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Will Trump STOP 60 MILLION women from voting?
Stacey Abrams—a two-time former Georgia gubernatorial candidate, joins Tara Palmeri for a conversation about the future of the Democratic Party, the 2028 election, and what voters should demand from the next generation of leaders. Abrams argues that the focus shouldn't be on personalities—but on...
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Stacey Abrams SLAMS Supreme Court: "Failure for Democracy"
Tara Palmeri is one of the most feared and fearless reporters covering power and politics. She has 15 years of experience covering national politics and foreign affairs. She was formerly a White House Correspondent for ABC News where she covered the first Trump administration. She was the chief...
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Is Congress Really Ending Aid to Israel?
Tara Palmeri is one of the most feared and fearless reporters covering power and politics. She has 15 years of experience covering national politics and foreign affairs. She was formerly a White House Correspondent for ABC News where she covered the first Trump administration. She was the chief...
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What is Leon Black hiding about Epstein?
Tara Palmeri is one of the most feared and fearless reporters covering power and politics. She has 15 years of experience covering national politics and foreign affairs. She was formerly a White House Correspondent for ABC News where she covered the first Trump administration. She was the chief...
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Why Pro-Life Congresswoman Cammack Didn’t Want This Interview Aired
Tara Palmeri is one of the most feared and fearless reporters covering power and politics. She has 15 years of experience covering national politics and foreign affairs. She was formerly a White House Correspondent for ABC News where she covered the first Trump administration. She was the chief...
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What Happens When a Pro-Life Congresswoman Needs an Abortion?
Tara Palmeri sits down with Republican Congresswoman Kat Cammack of Florida for a wide-ranging and unusually candid conversation. A former Capitol Hill chief of staff before she was elected, Cammack draws on both sides of the power dynamic to describe a culture she calls "college 2.0" — late...
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Trump’s $16 Million "Reflecting Pool" Payday Explained
Tara Palmeri is one of the most feared and fearless reporters covering power and politics. She has 15 years of experience covering national politics and foreign affairs. She was formerly a White House Correspondent for ABC News where she covered the first Trump administration. She was the chief...
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Will JD Vance Take the Fall for Trump’s Iran Deal?
Tara Palmeri is one of the most feared and fearless reporters covering power and politics. She has 15 years of experience covering national politics and foreign affairs. She was formerly a White House Correspondent for ABC News where she covered the first Trump administration. She was the chief...
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The 5 Things JD Vance Got Wrong About Trump & Epstein
Tara Palmeri does something cable news won't: she fact-checks JD Vance's appearance on "The View" line by line, as the vice president recasts himself as the lone transparency champion of the Epstein scandal. Tara walks through the claims one by one — that Trump "reported Epstein to the police"…
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Is Hollywood Self-Censoring to Please Trump?
Tara Palmeri sits down with producer Chris Fenton — dubbed "Hollywood's MAGA whisperer" — to unpack how an entire industry is learning to speak Donald Trump's language. With LA hemorrhaging jobs (50,000 lost in recent years) and production fleeing to the UK, Canada, and 80-plus countries offering...
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White House MELTDOWN Over Epstein Files w/ Legal AF's Michael Popok
Tara Palmeri is joined by attorney Michael Popok of Legal AF to break down the explosive new reporting from Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan — an excerpt from their book "Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump" that pulls back the curtain on the White House's "summer of...
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What Epstein’s Assistant of 18 Years Lesley Groff Didn’t Tell Congress
Tara Palmeri joins Ari Melber on MSNBC to break down the House Oversight Committee's interview with Lesley Groff — Jeffrey Epstein's longtime assistant of 18 years, who booked girls, arranged their hotels, paid them over $1,000 for so-called "massages," and told them the "protocol" of being…
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Can Democrats Defend Graham Platner?
Tara Palmeri is one of the most feared and fearless reporters covering power and politics. She has 15 years of experience covering national politics and foreign affairs. She was formerly a White House Correspondent for ABC News where she covered the first Trump administration. She was the chief...
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Democrats Want to Be the Anti-Corruption Party Again. Will It Work This Time?
Democrats say corruption will be a central issue in the midterms.Congressman Jason Crow joins me to discuss his new End Corruption Caucus and the party’s plan to target Trump’s ethics controversies.The bigger question: Why should voters believe Democrats this time? Will the party confront...
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Acting AG Todd Blanche THROWS Trump Under the Bus in Explosive Hearing
The Trump administration's controversial $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund is officially dead—and Tara Palmeri was live as Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche faced intense questioning on Capitol Hill. After weeks of GOP backlash, Blanche confirmed the Justice Department is abandoning the...
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Jill Biden Says She Thought He Had a Stroke. Former Aide Speaks Out w/ Michael LaRosa
Tara Palmeri sits down with Michael LaRosa, former spokesperson for First Lady Jill Biden and Biden campaign insider, for a no-holds-barred conversation about the Jill Biden memoir disaster, the Democratic Party's credibility crisis, and why no one around the Bidens will tell them the truth.…
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Congressman Reveals the Moment Bondi Went Silent on Trump & Epstein
Tara Palmeri gets the first account of what happened behind closed doors during Pam Bondi's transcribed interview before the House Oversight Committee from Congressman James Walkinshaw (D-VA), who was in the room. Walkinshaw reveals that Bondi repeatedly threw acting Attorney General Todd Blanche...
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Why the DOJ is Targeting Trump Accuser E. Jean Carroll w/ Michael Popok
E. Jean Carroll accused Donald Trump of r**e, beat him in court, and won tens of millions in damages. Now Trump’s DOJ is reportedly investigating Carroll over testimony tied to Reid Hoffman-backed legal funding. I’m going LIVE with Legal AF’s Michael Popok to break down the timing, politics, and...
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Inside Grindr's Secret Power Network in Trump's Washington
Tara Palmeri investigates how Grindr — the gay hookup app born in West Hollywood — has quietly become an unexpected political force in Trump's Washington. During White House Correspondents' Dinner weekend, the hottest invite in town wasn't hosted by a media company — it was hosted by Grindr. And...
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The Epstein Honeytrap: The Women Who Pulled Prince Andrew In
Tara Palmeri sits down with royal biographer Andrew Lownie to expose what may be the most dangerous dimension of the Epstein scandal: the intelligence operation behind it. Lownie, author of "The Rise and Fall of the House of York," reveals an FBI document describing how Russian and Chinese...
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The Men Sarah Kellen Linked to Epstein’s Trafficking Ring
After my exclusive reporting revealed that former Epstein lieutenant Sarah Kellen identified several powerful men to congressional investigators, I’m digging into the longstanding ties these figures had to Jeffrey Epstein — and the elite political, financial, and social networks surrounding him...
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Inside Trump's Secret Plan to Fund His “Loyalty Squad”
Tara Palmeri sits down with Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigative reporter Russ Buettner to break down what may be the most brazen act of presidential self-dealing in American history: Trump's $1.776 billion IRS "settlement." Buettner explains how two Trump subordinates — acting AG...
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Royal Bombshell: Sarah Ferguson’s Alleged Relationship With Diddy Began Through Ghislaine Maxwell
Royal biographer Andrew Lownie joins me to discuss explosive new allegations that Ghislaine Maxwell introduced Sarah Ferguson to Diddy — and the hidden overlap between the Epstein world and elite royal circles. How deeply did Maxwell penetrate the Royal Family’s orbit? And how did those...
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EXCLUSIVE: How Michael Wolff Is Trying to Cash In on His Epstein Tapes
Tara Palmeri sits down with reporter Ellie Leonard to expose how journalist Michael Wolff spent two decades as Jeffrey Epstein's fixer — and is now trying to cash in on the 100 hours of tapes he recorded with him. Ellie went through 1,830 emails between Wolff and Epstein and found a paper trail...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to The Tara Palmeri Show!
Tara Palmeri is one of the most feared and fearless political journalists. As a deeply-sourced reporter, she brings her audience inside the machinations of the highest level of power. Her quick wit and unvarnished reporting goes beyond the headlines, offering a deeper understanding of the intrigues of the permanent political class. This show is not about platitudes. Rather it's about what’s really happening at the highest levels of power and the inside conversation.
Tara has covered national politics and foreign affairs for fifteen years. She was formerly a White House Correspondent for ABC News, where she covered the first Trump administration. She was the Chief National Correspondent for POLITICO during the Biden administration. She has been a political analyst for CNBC, CBS and CNN. She’s also worked for the Washington Examiner, the New York Post, POLITICO Europe and Puck, and she hosted The Ringer's election podcast "Somebody's Gott
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