{"podcast":{"title":"America’s Mistakes Podcast","slug":"america-s-mistakes-podcast-7117242","podcast_index_feed_id":7117242,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/americasmistakes/feed.xml","website_url":"https://americasmistakes.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/19546709/AMLogo1400X1400.png","author":"Lewis Ress","episode_count":24,"summary":"No one is perfect. We all make mistakes. Sometimes we can correct them. Sometimes it’s better to be smart enough to avoid them in the first place. Why not try to anticipate the problem and avoid it? Join lawyer and author Lewis M. Ress as he dissects and offers solutions to America’s Mistakes.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-09T10:18:05.615403+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/america-s-mistakes-podcast-7117242"},"episode":{"title":"Epstein Files, Presidential Cover‑Ups, and the Road to Dictatorship","slug":"epstein-files-presidential-cover-ups-and-the-road-to-dictatorship","published_at":"2026-02-10T16:56:12+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/america-s-mistakes-podcast-7117242/epstein-files-presidential-cover-ups-and-the-road-to-dictatorship","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/america-s-mistakes-podcast-7117242","url":"https://americasmistakes.podbean.com/e/epstein-files-presidential-cover%e2%80%91ups-and-the-road-to-dictatorship/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/cp4ykgwnhfz2ib2c/EP21Final-c3s4ai-Optimized.mp3","summary":"Peter Hesse and Lewis Ress examine the withheld Epstein files, alleged protections for Donald Trump by his allies, and the role of figures like Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche in shielding powerful people. The episode connects those revelations to wider diversions—border actions, foreign money and gifts, election interference, and threats to democratic norms—and ends with a call for civic awareness and action.","meta_description":"Peter Hesse and Lewis Ress examine the withheld Epstein files, alleged protections for Donald Trump by his allies, and the role of figures like Pam Bondi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2782,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/america-s-mistakes-podcast-7117242/episodes/epstein-files-presidential-cover-ups-and-the-road-to-dictatorship/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/america-s-mistakes-podcast-7117242/epstein-files-presidential-cover-ups-and-the-road-to-dictatorship.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}