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Mary Trump legal battles against her uncle might seem like a fun little political soap opera. It\\u2019s way more than that, Mary\\u2019s lawyer Ted Boutrous explains on the latest episode of The New Abnormal. The attempt to stop her tell-all book before publication\\u2014\\u201cI think it\'s really an effort to intimidate people from speaking, to intimidate the press. But also it\'s a political tool. It\'s a fundraising tool. It seems to excite people who support president Trump,\\u201d he tells Molly Jong-Fast and Rick Wilson. Then! The Beast\\u2019s Kate Briquelet\\u2014who has broken some of the biggest stories about Jeffrey Epstein\\u2019s cabal\\u2014joins the dynamic duo to talk about the arrest of Epstein \\u2018madam\\u2019 Ghislaine Maxwell. \\u201cThere are power players in New York,\\u201d she explains \\u201cwho are very nervous that Ghislaine is going to spill the secrets.\\u201d Plus! Does Trump know how to listen to a podcast? Could Kanye\\u2019s \\u2018run for president\\u2019 could really, really backfire? How is Ye like Vermin Supreme? And what the hell is \\u201cthe McKinsey of grift?\\u201d

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