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The Tara Palmeri Show

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 Gotta Win." Tara also hosted two acclaimed podcasts on Jeffrey Epstein called "Broken: Jeffrey Epstein" and "Power: The Maxwells." Subscribe to her weekly newsletter The Red Letter on Substack  Support her independent journalism on GoFundMe Visit her channel on YouTube Follow Tara on Social Media: Instagram X TikTok Got guest ideas or news tips? TaraPalmeriInfo@gmail.com
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Episodes

Trump’s DOJ Already Redacting His Name from Epstein Files

What happens to the Epstein files now that Trump’s DOJ has full control? On this riveting episode of the Tara Palmeri Show, Tara joins forces with Cameron Stevenson (The Epsteiner Substack) for a no-holds-barred breakdown of Congress finally voting to release the Jeffrey Epstein court documents, what the next 30 days actually look like under Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, why a special counsel is never happening, how bipartisan subpoenas and the Epstein estate releases could expose DOJ redactions, an...

Nov 23, 202530 min

Will Pam Bondi Cover Up Trump’s Epstein Ties?

What secrets will actually survive the Epstein Files release next month? On this unflinching episode of the Tara Palmeri Show, Tara sits down with ABC News legend Terry Moran for a no-holds-barred breakdown of Trump’s “Obscene Files Transparency Act” – the bill that promises everything and already contains every loophole needed to protect the powerful. They dissect the redaction teams already scrubbing Trump’s name, the national-security excuses ready to be deployed, the terrified career officia...

Nov 21, 202553 min

Trump’s Secret Loophole to Remove Epstein Names

Will the full Epstein files finally expose the biggest cover-up in modern history? On this explosive episode of the Tara Palmeri Show, Tara joins Abby Phillip on CNN to unpack the breaking news that President Trump has signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law, why Pam Bondi’s vague answers are raising alarm bells, whether the DOJ will actually release unredacted documents in the next 30 days, and how both parties have spent decades protecting powerful people linked to Jeffrey Epstein. ...

Nov 20, 202537 min

The Real Reason Epstein Survivors Are Afraid to Speak Out

What happens when Congress forces Trump’s DOJ to release every Epstein file in 30 days? On this urgent episode of the Tara Palmeri Show, Tara breaks down the historic near-unanimous vote to unseal the remaining Epstein documents, the growing panic inside Trump’s DOJ as they race to redact names (starting with Trump himself), and the chilling new warnings from survivors that Epstein survivors are still being followed and threatened. Featuring Tara’s appearance alongside Alex Wagner on Nicolle Wal...

Nov 20, 202540 min

Tapes, photos, testimony: Inside the Epstein Files

Who is the DOJ frantically protecting with those black-bar redactions right now? On this urgent episode of the Tara Palmeri Show, investigative journalist Tara Palmeri joins CNN’s Erin Burnett hours after the historic 427-1 House vote to demand full Epstein file transparency, warning that the celebration could be short-lived as the DOJ—already caught redacting Trump’s name from FOIA releases since summer—prepares to slow-walk or black-bar the 300+GB trove. Tara exposes how hundreds of officials ...

Nov 19, 20258 min

Trump vs. the Epstein Files: Will His Name Survive the Redactions?

What unbreakable bonds between power brokers and predators are finally forcing a reckoning in Washington? On this explosive episode of the Tara Palmeri Show, investigative journalist Tara Palmeri joins MSNBC's Chris Hayes to unpack the stunning congressional push for Epstein file transparency, from Trump's campaign-trail waffling on declassification to the bipartisan 430-1 House vote landing on his desk amid survivor vigils and mounting Republican defections. The discussion dives into the DOJ's ...

Nov 19, 202510 min

Will Trump Censor the Epstein Files?

Why does President Trump's team keep redacting the Epstein files before they even reach his desk? On this riveting episode of The Tara Palmeri Show, Tara joins Katy Tur on MSNBC to unpack the escalating push for full disclosure of Jeffrey Epstein's documents amid Trump's Oval Office outburst at ABC's Mary Bruce over a straightforward question on releasing them. The discussion exposes Trump's deflection tactics, reminiscent of his past IRS audit excuses, and the influence of Pam Bondi, whose shif...

Nov 18, 20258 min

Why Trump Is TERRIFIED of the Full Epstein Release

Why is Donald Trump suddenly saying he’s “all in” on releasing the Epstein files when he could have done it months ago? On this explosive crossover episode of the Tara Palmeri Show, Tara joins CNN’s Jim Acosta to break down the latest bombshell developments in the Jeffrey Epstein saga: Trump’s suspicious flip-flop on the files, the near-unanimous pressure building in Congress, the DOJ’s history of redactions and cover-ups, and why powerful people on both sides of the aisle are still terrified of...

Nov 18, 202528 min

Trump Surrenders: Epstein Files Bill Moves Forward With GOP Support

What forced Donald Trump to wave the white flag on the Epstein files just days after attacking Republicans who dared defy him? On this explosive episode of the Tara Palmeri Show, fresh from her appearance on CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront, Tara Palmeri breaks down the stunning collapse of Trump’s opposition to the Epstein files release bill as House Republicans—including nearly every former holdout—line up for what now looks like a landslide vote. Drawing on years of reporting, Tara reveals FBI con...

Nov 18, 202510 min

Trump Caves Under Pressure: Epstein Files Now on the Table

<p><br></p>Why did President Trump suddenly reverse course and green-light the release of the Epstein files after fighting it all summer? On this explosive episode of The Tara Palmeri Show, Tara breaks down Trump’s stunning capitulation to bipartisan pressure, the mounting Republican defections (from MTG to Murkowski), the shady web tying Lisa Murkowski to Ghislaine Maxwell, and why Pam Bondi and Kash Patel at DOJ make full unredacted disclosure unlikely. She also exposes Micha...

Nov 18, 202528 min

Megyn Kelly: Listen to the Children Epstein Preyed Upon

How has Megyn Kelly's embrace of the MAGA world reshaped her stance on Jeffrey Epstein's crimes? On this explosive episode of the Tara Palmeri Show, Tara dismantles Megyn Kelly's shocking defense of Epstein as merely preferring the "barely legal" over pedophilia, contrasting it with Kelly's past accusations against Trump and her legal background that should recognize the absence of consent in these cases. Joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julie K. Brown, co-creator of the Broken: Seeki...

Nov 15, 202520 min

Trump Panics as Epstein Files Accelerate

What unbreakable bonds between power brokers and predators are finally forcing a reckoning in Washington? In this gripping episode of the Tara Palmeri Show, a special collaboration with the Don Lemon Show, veteran journalist Tara Palmeri delivers unflinching analysis on the escalating fallout from newly released Jeffrey Epstein documents, exposing the bipartisan revulsion toward crimes against the innocent and the elite networks that shielded them for decades. Palmeri dissects the raw panic grip...

Nov 14, 202510 min

Trump’s Epstein Silence Signals Total Panic

What Epstein evidence remains locked away in FBI vaults? On this revealing episode of the Tara Palmeri Show, Tara Palmeri breaks down President Trump’s unusual silence on Epstein questions during recent White House events, signaling a story spiraling beyond control as aides admit internal blackout on the topic. She contrasts White House claims of Epstein’s Mar-a-Lago ban with emails showing deep friendship, then explains the vast gap between newly leaked correspondence and the Justice Department...

Nov 14, 20258 min

Epstein Files: Trump Loses Grip on Congress

What long-buried Epstein-Maxwell ties to Trump could unravel everything we thought we knew about their shared past? On this explosive episode of the Tara Palmeri Show, Tara Palmeri joins Brianna Keilar on CNN News Central to dissect fresh whistleblower claims of Ghislaine Maxwell's push for a sentence commutation under a potential Trump administration, exploring the decades-long friendship forged through her father Robert Maxwell and parties on Trump's yacht. Newly released emails spotlight Epst...

Nov 14, 20258 min

Inside Trump’s Effort to Stop the Epstein Files Vote

What shocking Epstein email detail exposes Trump’s closest vulnerabilities? On this explosive episode of the Tara Palmeri Show, newly surfaced emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate reveal his decade-long friendship with Donald Trump, including explicit advice to foreign leaders like Sergei Lavrov on manipulating the president ahead of the Helsinki summit, alongside casual 2017 exchanges with Larry Summers and Thanksgiving plans near Mar-a-Lago. Tara joins Anderson Cooper 360 with Miami Herald inv...

Nov 13, 202514 min

Trump Caught Red Handed Over Epstein Emails

What Epstein smoking gun triggered White House meltdown calls to sexual assault survivor Nancy Mace? On this crossover episode of the Tara Palmeri Show with Don Lemon, Tara Palmeri unpacks survivor texts hailing fresh emails as accountability proof while Trump defenders deflect using deceased Virginia Giuffre to obscure victim ties, spotlighting furious presidential pressure on Lauren Boebert and Nancy Mace to strip discharge petition signatures amid Thomas Massie’s 218-vote push. The discussion...

Nov 13, 202512 min

20,000 Epstein Emails: Trump Can’t Escape

What damning Epstein email just made Trump’s deniability impossible? On this explosive episode of the Tara Palmeri Show, I join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline: White House to dissect the 2011 Epstein-Maxwell exchange labeling Trump “the dog that hasn’t barked,” his deposition dodge on underage girls, and survivor accounts tying him to Epstein’s world despite frantic White House pleas to allies like Lauren Boebert and Nancy Mace to block the discharge petition. With John Heilemann, we expose the cas...

Nov 13, 202513 min

BOMBSHELL email reveals Trump spent hours with the Epstein victim

What Epstein email just blew the lid off decades of elite cover-ups? On this explosive episode of the Tara Palmeri Show, Tara joins Piers Morgan Uncensored to dissect the latest leaked Epstein emails and the drip-drip revelations exposing powerful men still dodging accountability. Drawing from her extensive reporting with Virginia Giuffre, Tara unpacks Giuffre’s guarded praise for Trump, the dozens of unnamed trafficked-to figures absent from her book, and why redacted DOJ files hide leaders in ...

Nov 13, 202514 min

The Epstein Files Will Be Released

What fresh Epstein email just proved Trump’s inner circle knew about the girls and still stayed silent? On this explosive episode of The Tara Palmeri Show, Tara joins forces with V Spehar of Under the Desk News to dissect the House Democrats’ latest document dump—emails between Michael Wolff, Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell that show Wolff giving PR advice to a pedophile while sitting on explosive tapes, plus cryptic notes about Trump “not barking,” backdated Mar-a-Lago mortgages, and tim...

Nov 12, 202519 min

Why Trump Is Panicking Over the Epstein Files

What happens when leaked Epstein emails expose desperate calls from a president scrambling to hold his party together? On this breaking episode of the Tara Palmeri Show, Tara Palmeri joins MSNBC's Katy Tur to dissect the White House crisis over newly leaked Epstein emails, as Republican defections grow and Trump personally lobbies lawmakers like Lauren Boebert and Nancy Mace to kill a discharge petition. The segment exposes a frantic administration flooding the zone with distractions while the p...

Nov 12, 20256 min

Inside the MAGA Civil War: How White Nationalism Took Hold

What sparked the MAGA civil war when Tucker Carlson platformed Nick Fuentes? Tara Palmeri sits down with Richard Hanania, a former white nationalist turned MAGA skeptic and author at richardhanania.substack.com, to dissect the GOP's internal fracture over white nationalism's rise. From Trump's 2015 elevator speech to dinner with Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago, Hanania traces how anti-immigration dog whistles invited extremists preaching America for "heritage" whites only, reshaping influencers like Charl...

Nov 12, 202552 min

Will Trump Release Ghislaine Maxwell? The Family Connection No One’s Talking About

What hidden family ties between Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell stretch back to her media mogul father and his yacht named in her honor? On this eye-opening episode of the Tara Palmeri Show Tara Palmeri breaks explosive whistleblower news: Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted accomplice, is preparing a commutation bid for Trump’s review—just after he pardoned 80 allies tied to 2020 election subversion. Palmeri maps their decades-long connection, from Maxwell’s elite upbringing rivaling the...

Nov 10, 202551 min

Trump, Epstein & the Money Trail That Protected Them Both

What hidden financial pipeline linked Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein's empire of blackmail and global influence? On this illuminating episode of the Tara Palmeri Show, join host Tara Palmeri for a riveting deep dive with investigative journalist Zev Shalev, the powerhouse behind Narativ, as they trace the money trail that shielded Epstein for decades. From the dropped money laundering probe that federal prosecutors abandoned despite $1.1 billion in suspicious JP Morgan transactions, to Epstein'...

Nov 09, 20251 hr 4 min

Inside Epstein: What Top Journalists Know — and What They Can’t Report

What secrets about Jeffrey Epstein's network of power and money are top journalists still holding back? On this fascinating collaboration of the Tara Palmeri Show and NPR's Question Everything, Tara Palmeri joins host Brian Reed for a rare, wine-fueled roundtable with investigative reporter Vicky Ward—who profiled Epstein in 2003 and faced his threats firsthand—New York Times finance editor David Enrich, fresh off exposing J.P. Morgan's role in financing Epstein's crimes even after his 2008 conv...

Nov 06, 20251 hr 3 min

Election Aftershock: What Last Night’s Wave Means + a MAGA civil war?

What seismic shifts from last night's election results are already rewriting the rules of American politics? Join Tara Palmeri LIVE at 4 PM ET for an unfiltered dive into the aftershocks of the 2024 vote, unpacking the unexpected waves that swept through key battlegrounds and what they signal for the balance of power in Washington. As the dust settles, we turn to the brewing tensions within the MAGA coalition—where isolationist voices clash with pro-Israel stalwarts over everything from foreign ...

Nov 05, 202538 min

Zohran Mamdani’s NYC Mayoral election night party Reporting LIVE for the @associatedpress

What drove a 34-year-old democratic socialist to shatter the establishment and claim NYC's mayoral throne in a historic upset? On this electrifying episode of the Tara Palmeri Show live from Zohran Mamdani's electric election night watch party at the Paramount Theater for the Associated Press, Tara Palmeri captures the raw energy as results roll in and victory is declared, breaking down the grassroots surge that powered Mamdani past Andrew Cuomo by double digits amid record 2 million voter turno...

Nov 05, 202520 min

Election Day from the Zohran Mamdani HQ in NYC: What to Watch, What’s Next — with NY Mag’s Ross Barkan

What surprises are unfolding in the 2025 special elections that could reshape Congress right now? On this riveting episode of The Tara Palmeri Show, Tara Palmeri joins for an Election Day live broadcast straight from the heart of New York City, where the must-watch races, potential upsets, and immediate ripple effects on national politics are being broken down. Guest and New York Magazine columnist Ross Barkan brings sharp analysis on key battlegrounds, voter turnout trends, and how these result...

Nov 04, 202559 min

Election Day Energy: Gen Z Turns on Trump & Young Democrats Find a New Star in Zohran Mamdani | with Harry Sisson

What happens when Trump's latest AI-generated video sparks calls for a lawsuit that could upend his media empire? On this episode of the Tara Palmeri Show, Gen Z political influencer Harry Sisson joins me to break down the backlash against Trump's bizarre AI slop video—think deepfake disasters and viral fury—and why it's fueling serious talk of legal action against the former president for election interference. We dive into the fractured state of the Democratic Party post-2024, from leadership ...

Nov 04, 202537 min

S-word is back: Zohran Mamdani and the Generation That Stopped Apologizing for Socialism

How will Zohran Mamdani’s vision of an affordable New York reshape the city’s future under Trump’s shadow? On this intriguing episode of the Tara Palmeri Show, Tara Palmeri sits down with author and thinker Anand Giridharadas on the eve of the NYC mayoral election to unpack Zohran Mamdani’s socialist surge, his “afford to dream” agenda, and the coming clash with Trump over funding, immigration, and city priorities. From free buses and city-run groceries to rent freezes and reimagining New York a...

Nov 03, 202554 min

Trump’s New Watchlist Targets “Anti-American” and “Anti-Christian” Citizens

What indicators in NSPM-7 could land you on a domestic watch list built from 9/11 counterterrorism tools now aimed at Americans expressing anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, or hostility to traditional family values? On this revelatory episode of the Tara Palmeri Show, investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein joins Tara Palmeri to break down National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, a directive posted openly on whitehouse.gov that expands post-9/11 surveillance powers inward. Signed days aft...

Nov 02, 202544 min
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