Trump Is All Over The Epstein Files | DOJ Exposes Epstein Victims | Trump Admin Won't Investigate The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Feb 2, 2026 #Colbert #Comedy #Monologue
President Trump is referenced thousands of times and accused of hideous crimes in the latest release of documents from the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, the Department of Justice failed to redact the identities and personal information of many of Epstein's victims, and the DOJ announced that there will be no investigation into any of the prominent men implicated in the files.
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Welcome one and all in here out there [cheering] to the late show. I am your host Steven Colbear. Ladies and gentlemen, [cheering] you know what? First of all, happy Groundhog Day to all those who celebrate [cheering] this morning. Uh down on uh what's it called? The Gobbler's Knob. Down at Gobbler's Knob. The uh the Gobnobblers reported that punksatonyi Phil predicted six more weeks of winter. Come on, read read the room, Phil. We could really use a win right now. I I'd be careful about handing out a lot of bad news if I look like I'd make a nice hat. [cheering] Heads up. Uh, a prediction of Endless Winter was tonight's feelood story, and it's over. [laughter] Because on Friday morning, the Justice Department released its largest batch of Epstein documents, which totals over 3 million pages. 3 million is a lot of pages. It's like when your mom says she's reading another book about Olive Karage. How much can possibly happen in Maine? And it's three million pages of just terrible stuff. I want I want to thank my researchers, Brandon and Catherine, for going through it all today. Okay. [cheering] Do you have a picture? [applause] Do we have a picture of those guys here? Here here's them when they showed up to work this morning and here they are now. Uh I'm sorry. Let's send them a cookie cake. Cookie cake for all those guys. Uh folks out there are still slogging through all the files, but they implicate a who's who of powerful men, including everyone from tech titans to Wall Street power brokers. Yes, turns out punks of Tony Phil might be the only prominent American male who's not in there. [applause] Is what is what I would have said if he wasn't in there, but and this is true, he actually appears in it four times. Oh, come on, Phil. [laughter] Phil, buddy. Well, I I guess that finally explains this footage. [cheering] No. Sad. Sad. There's one prominent guy who is in there prominently because President Donald Trump is mentioned more than 1,000 times. And the New York Times found 5,300 files with references to Trump and more than 38,000 references to Trump, his wife, and Mara Lago. 38,000 references. That seems low, frankly. [cheering] Obviously, this is the biggest story imaginable, but for some reason, it isn't. Case in point, I led with a groundhog who got to me. [laughter] These files include many disturbing allegations, all denied by the White House as being unfounded and false. I want to be clear about that. But among these is that before he was president of the United States, Donald Trump forced an underage girl to perform oral sex and hosted big orgy parties with young girls at one of his golf clubs. Even if even if these particular parts of the files that the Justice Department released and are denied by the White House is not being proven, what is detailed in those three million pages are allegations of some of the crulest, most depraved crimes against women and kids involving some of the most powerful men on planet Earth. And now we've all been forced to have these details in our minds all weekend. And so I think we all deserve to immediately see this tiny dog running into the snow. [cheering] There he is. There he is, fella. [applause] Now, despite his 38,000 references, these files aren't just about Trump. They embarrass a lot of big shots. A lot of head honchos and pooas and mucky mucks. Take Elon Musk. Yeah, please. He's publicly bragged that Mr. Epstein tried to get me to go to his island and I refused. But really, did you? Cuz there's an email exchange where Musk writes, "Do you have any parties planned? I've been working to the edge of sanity this year. And so once my kids head home after Christmas, I really want to hit the party scene in St. Barts or elsewhere and let loose. A peaceful island experience is the opposite of what I'm looking for." an email. An email which was sent at 6:07 a.m. on Christmas morning. Hey, say what you want, but he's a high achiever. That proves it. It's dawn on Christmas morning and he's already on the top of next year's naughty list. There's also an appearance. [cheering] [applause] There's also an appearance in the files by Trump commerce secretary and koala staring at you while he humps the branch. Howard Lutnik on a podcast last year. Lutnik said that back in 2005 he was so revolted by a visit to Epstein's Manhattan apartment that he decided to never be in a room with that disgusting person ever again. But the emails now reveal that Lutnik and his family spent time on Epstein's island in 2012. Well, it's the perfect family getaway. Kids, it's vacation time now. Stay in your room, lock the door, and don't open it for anyone. Now, as bad as they are, as bad as all these are, these these three million pages are full of redactions left and right. And obviously, we don't know what we're all being blocked from seeing by the Justice Department. But the law that Congress passed and that Donald Trump signed says that the DOJ cannot hide any names or photographs of any of these powerful people just to protect their reputations. And the Justice Department even said they did not protect President Trump. Well, guess what? When these files were released, it was clear that they did. Case in point, this photograph with the face blacked out. [laughter] Who could it be? Wow. Wow. Following. Wow. Could you put it back up one more time? Can you just put it back up? [cheering and applause] Following an outcry. Following an outcry, they were forced to unredact the image. Okay, let's see who it is. Phil. [screaming] No. [cheering] Got him. The only things that were supposed to be redacted were the names and the images of all the survivors, but the DOJ evidently sucks. So, one email described an Epstein victim list, which left dozens of names exposed. And worse, the DOJ published dozens of unredacted nude images on his website showing young women or possibly teenagers. [cheering] That is so shockingly awful that again there's nothing I can say. So here's an orangutan driving a golf cart. [cheering and applause] I don't know where you're going, ma'am, but take us with you. [applause and cheering] A group of these women [applause] now a group of these women who had been abused by Epstein and his rich buddies saw these redactions this weekend and released this statement. Survivors are having their names and identifying information exposed while the men who abused us remain hidden and protected. This is outrageous. The Justice Department cannot claim it is finished releasing files until every legally required document is released and every abuser and enabler is fully exposed. [applause] Yeah, good for them. Good for [cheering] them. Well said. [applause] Damn straight. And some of these redactions are completely random. Case in point, in one document, they've redacted both the sender and recipient of an email that says, "I wanted you to know I made your chili for Super Bowl Sunday, and it was a winner. Everyone loved it, and I gave you credit." [laughter] That's got to be a tough announcement of the Super Bowl party. Hey guys, guess who gave me this chili recipe? Jeffrey Epstein. But he made me promise not to reveal the secret ingredient or anything else. These revelations are only the tip of the creepberg because according to representative Roana, the DOJ said it identified over 6 million potentially responsive pages, but is releasing only about 3.5 million after review and redactions. Well, pretty suspect to show only half of what you have. Hey, I I didn't shoplift. What are you talking about? Sure. Sure. I'll show my pockets. Look, it's empty. Oh, you want to see two pockets? There you go. Don't worry about Don't worry about what's in my other p Hey, man. Don't worry. I looked [applause] I I looked. Don't worry about what's in my other pocket. Okay. It's chilly. So with this document dump, we now have even more evidence that there is indeed a cabal of rich men who traffic young women and girls across state and international lines for their pleasure. But Trump's DOJ guy, Todd Blanch, who was also Trump's personal lawyer in the Stormmy Daniels sex case, said the DOJ is not considering bringing any additional charges related to Epstein, saying, quote, "There was nothing in there that allowed us to prosecute anybody." You have millions of pages, millions of pages, and you don't want to investigate any further, possibly bring any of these men to justice. Well, I guess that makes sense. I mean, we all remember that iconic courtroom scene. Did you order the code red? You want answers? No, thank you. We got a great show for you tonight. My guest [music] is John Oliver. When we come back, your chance part of late show history. [music] Bring this up. [music] [music] [music] Yeah. [applause and cheering]
Trump’s All Over the Epstein Files, Attacks Jimmy Kimmel After the Grammys & Don Lemon Gets Arrested Jimmy Kimmel Live Feb 2, 2026 #Kimmel
Today is Groundhog Day, the ironically-titled Department of Justice released about half of the Epstein files, there were many disturbing accounts about a lot of famous people including Bill Gates, Steve Bannon, Richard Branson, and Elon Musk is in there too - more than a thousand times, Donald Trump’s name was mentioned 4,896 times, Trump’s Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick’s name pops up 138 times, there appears to be an email to Ghislaine Maxwell from Melania, Trump had the audacity to play the old “Jeffrey who?” card pretending they weren’t actually friends, Trump went after Jimmy in a late night Truth Social post criticizing Trevor Noah who hosted the Grammys, Trump is suing the IRS for $10 Billion, he also announced that he's closing The Trump Kennedy Center for renovations, Melania the movie made $7 million over the weekend, and journalist Don Lemon was arrested on Thursday night for covering an anti-ICE protest at a church in St. Paul.
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I hope you can show. Thank you for watching and thank you for joining us here in uh Hollywood, California. That's very nice. So, I appreciate it. Now, please stop. Um I have to tell you something. I had to It's Groundhog Day today and I had to explain Groundhog Day to my kids this morning. They didn't know what it was and I told them and they looked at me like I was nuts. I don't think they even believe me. They're like, "Yeah, right, Dad." I mean, it doesn't make sense when you really go through it. But thousands of true believers were up bright and early in Gobbler's Knob, Pennsylvania, where I am sad to report Punksatonyi Phil came out of his hole, saw the Epstein files, went right back in and hung himself. He's dead. For all the Mondays we've done the show, and I think we've done like eight or 900 Monday shows, I don't know that we've ever had more madness to go through. There's so much. I'll start with what we know. On Friday morning, the ironically titled Department of Justice released about half of the Epcene files. They were supposed to release all of them on December 19th of last year. That obviously didn't happen. They claimed they needed time to redact the names of the victims, but whether intentionally or as a result of incompetence or a combination of both, they released thousands of files that did not have the names or photos of many of the victims redacted, but they did do a pretty decent job of redacting the names of the victimizers. There are many disturbing accounts of questionable activity in emails, notes, text messages, etc., and about a lot of famous people including Bill Gates, Steve Bannon, Richard Branson, and of course, Donald Trump. It would seem that some other famous people including Elon Musk and Howard Lutnik, the commerce secretary, uh, may not have been telling the whole truth about their interactions with Jeffrey Epstein. It is clear that Prince Andrew is royally, which is, you know, it's a term you hear a lot, but rarely when it is literally true. And most of all, it is so bananas that the guy who's in charge of releasing all these files and redacting all this evidence is Donald Trump's own personal defense attorney. You know, when Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts of fraud, Todd Blanch was his lawyer. Now Todd Blanch is the gatekeeper to the Epstein files. And the woman who could give us clarity on who did what, Gelain Maxwell, is now doing yoga in a country club detention center because Todd Blanch moved her to one for reasons that he still hasn't explained to anyone. And then there's all this other stuff going on. Busting into the election headquarters in Georgia. Arresting journalists like Don Lemon, who is here with us tonight, suddenly shutting down the Kennedy Center for two years. calling for nationalized elections. Trump suing the government he runs for $10 billion. My head is spinning. I guess that's the point. But my god, remember when Trump was threatening to invade Greenland. That was not even two weeks ago. We're living in dogearss now. And it's only going to get nuttier now that this new batch of Epste files is out. The Distraatic is cranked all the way up. The DOJ released three million pages on Friday, which sounds like a lot until you realize there is another three million pages that they haven't released and do not plan to ever release, even though they are required to release all of it by law. And it's important to remember the Justice Department is a completely independent agency from the White House when anyone other than Donald Trump is president. Trump put Pam Bondi and Todd Blanch in charge of the DOJ, which is kind of like um the IRS hiring your mom and dad to do your tax returns. Okay. And there are so many characters in the mix. Elon Musk, now Elon Musk back in June when he was fighting with Donald Trump, he made a big announcement. He wrote, "Time to drop the really big bomb. Real Donald Trump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT." And we all went nuts. But what he neglected to mention is that he is in there, too. His name comes up more than a thousand times, including in 2012 when he and Epstein were planning a visit to the island. Elon claims he never went to Epstein Island. He says his correspondence is being deliberately misinterpreted by his enemies. For example, when he wrote Jeffrey Epstein, a registered sex offender, by the way, to ask, "What dayight will be the wildest party on your island, he was asking so he could avoid that night. He had a lot of work to do and he didn't want to be distracted by wild parties." You understand? There are a lot of emails. This one is from a sender whose name was blacked out to Epstein on the day after Trump won the election in 2016. The emailer said, "I remember flying back with Donald on his plane the first weekend I went to visit you in Florida was the weekend he met Melania and he kept on coming out of the bedroom saying, "Wow, what a hot piece of ass." Yeah, I don't think they mentioned that in the Melania documentary. The word Trump comes up 4,896 times when you search the Epstein files, which is interesting considering this testimony from FBI Director Cash Patel back in September of last year. You said you don't know the number of times Trump's name appears in the files. So it could at least be a thousand times. Is that right? You can characterize the numbers however you want it. Claiming my time, director, it sounds like if you don't know the number, it could at least be a thousand times, which be it's not. Is it at least 500 times? No. Is it at least 100 times? No. Then what's the number? I don't know the number, but it's not that. Well, he was telling the truth. It isn't 100. It's 4,896. And we still have 3 million files to go. The award for most mentions in the Epstein files by a member of Trump's cabinet so far goes to this jolly dipstick, Howard Lutnik, who is our Secretary of Commerce and one of Trump's most vigorous sucklers of teeth. Lutnik was lived next door to Epstein. he had a relationship with him, but claimed he severed ties in 2005 and called him disgusting. He said Epstein was disgusting, which is hard to understand because this new batch of files shows that Lutnik was making plans to visit Epstein's island on December 23rd, 2012, 7 years later. Maybe he wanted to go to make sure Epstein was still disgusting. I don't know. I know Lutnik's name pops up 138 times. You can search these names on the DOJ website, you know, but before they let you in, you have to confirm that you're 18 years or older. For real. That's not a joke. And if you click no, they ask, um, are you cute? That is a joke. But the first one wasn't. One of the more random things we learned from the files is that in 2013, Microsoft banned Jeffrey Epstein from Xbox Live, which is weird. Epste got a letter saying he's not allowed to be online playing games anymore because he's a registered sex offender. And listen, I don't want to get into any conspiracy theories here, but follow me on this one. So, these files include Jeffrey Epste making some pretty outrageous allegations about Bill Gates, who founded Microsoft, asking Epstein for an STD medication. That was in 2013, the same year he suddenly got kicked off Xbox Live. I guess Jeff found out the hard way. You crash the gates, you get the hook. No call of duty for you. Melania gets a a shout out, too. Or someone named Melania gets a shout out. There's an email to Gelain Maxwell from a woman named Melania. The New York Times said it's unclear if it's the future first lady Melania or another one. If it was that Melania, Maxwell appears to have had a very friendly relationship with her, which somehow also didn't make the movie. I guess you can't put everything. It was either that or the inside look at her hat collection and something had to go. And of course, the president says these new files absolve him of wrongdoing complete. Yes. In the same way the glove absolved OJ of wrongdoing. He even has the audacity to play the old Jeffrey who card. He wrote, "Not only wasn't I friendly with Jeffrey Epstein, but based upon information that has just been released by the Department of Justice, Epstein and a sleazag lying author named Michael Wolf conspired in order to damage me andor my presidency." That's right. Trump wasn't friendly with the man he said this about to New York Magazine in 2002. I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do and many of them are on the younger side. I mean, what more do we need? Trump was able to stay awake long enough this afternoon to take I don't know what I guess I don't know what this was. Maybe a victory lap. I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epson. And in fact, if you look at the DOJ, they announced uh you know, they released three million pages. It's like this is all they're supposed to be doing. And frankly the DOJ I think should just say we have other things to do because that whole thing has started out I mean other than Bill Clinton and you know Bill Gates and lots of people that have there are a lot of questions about it but nothing on me. You know what I'm going to take him at his word on this one. That's a wrap, folks. Donald says he's in the clear. I'm almost surprised he's not bragging about how much he's mentioned in the FC files. Like I'm in there more than any other more than Abraham Lincoln. And then President dementia got back to the issues that matter most to the American people, which it was his review of the Grammy Awards last night. And a joke host Trevor Noah made at his expense. He said that I spent time on Jeffy's Jeffrey Epstein's Island. I didn't I mean, he's a lightweight this guy. He's a terrible I thought I think he's terrible. I thought he did a terrible job at the Grammys. I thought the whole Grammys was terrible. I watched part of it. It's not watchable, but he was a lousy host. I'd say not as bad as Jimmy Kimmel, but pretty close. How did I get in there? I was at home last night minding my own business. Boy, I really got up his ass. I mean, he he also he posted about me last night. And let me tell you something. Donald Trump somehow has time to watch every award show and hates them all. He doesn't like any of them. No one I know watches more award shows than Donald Trump. He's planning to sue Trevor Noah now. He's also suing the government, our government, for $10 billion because a contractor who worked for the IRS leaked his tax returns. You know those tax returns every other president shows voluntarily? Well, they leaked them. They leaked his taxes and found that he only paid $750 in federal taxes in 2016 and 2017. And now, not only is he suing the government that he is currently running for $10 billion, he's also planning to figure out a settlement that he will pay himself. This is the first time a sitting president has sued his own executive branch. And it's also one of the nuttiest lawsuits ever. He's suing the IRS for $10 billion, twothirds of their total annual budget because his taxes were leaked while he was running the IRS. You're suing the IRS. Talk a little bit about what it's like to be on both sides of law. It's very interesting. I have another one where, you know, I've virtually won the Mara Lago breakin sit and I have to work out some kind of a settlement. I'm supposed to work out a settlement with myself. Yeah. I'm going to offer myself a billion and see if I go for it. We'll go from there. He's finally figured out a way to sue himself. It is the ultimate form of financial masturbation. It don't worry. I want you to know all your hard-earned taxpayer money he's suing for is going to a good cause. I think what we'll do is do something for charity. You know, we're thinking about doing something for charity where I'll give money to charity. We could make it a substantial amount. Nobody would care because it's going to go to numerous very good charities. Yeah. Almost at the head of he's always finding new and innovative ways to fleece the American people. Fun fact, when Trump got roasted on Comedy Central, he said his entire salary was going to charity, which he got a lot of positive press for, and then he gave the money to the Donald J. Trump Foundation, which later got shut down by the state of New York for fraud. But that's the art of the deal. That's it. Franklin Wrong also announced with no heads up given to the staff who have been working there for years that he will be closing the Trump Kennedy Center. You know this thing he renamed after himself. He said, "I've determined that the fastest way to bring the Trump Kennedy Center to the highest level of success, beauty, and grandeur is to cease entertainment operations for an approximately two-year period of time with a scheduled grand reopening that will rival and surpass anything that has taken place with respect to such a facility before." This is actually smart. Artists can't keep refusing to perform there if he knocks it down. You know, sometimes when you love something, you have to kill it. If all goes well, the Kennedy Center will reopen two years from now as the Kid Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And I think the center seemed to be in perfectly good enough shape for the first lady's movie premiere on Thursday night. Melania the Movie with a budget of $75 million made $7 million over the weekend. It set a record. It was the biggest opening for a non-m musical vanity project/brazen corporate bribe in 10 years. The first lady kicked things off with um at the premiere with a a lively open to a nationwide live stream. So here is a warm welcome to my guests in New York City. Hello Boston. Hello LA. I'm sure everyone in Nashville is having a lovely time already. My film is about to begin. She does films, she does she writes books, she does it all. She Melania has a score of 7% on Rotten Tomatoes. But on Fox News, uh, it got a strong 100%. Melania should be nominated for I guess it's an Oscar, right? That's for movies. And if she was to go, she would be the best dressed in the classiest dress by a long shot. Mark my words right now. If Melani gets nominated for an Oscar, I will host that show whether they ask me to or not. I will insist on it. You know how this ends, right? This ends with Melania winning the first ever FIFA best actress award. And when they aren't shaking down companies like Amazon, Trump and his friends are busy arresting journalists. On Thursday night, Don Lemon, the former CNN host, he's an independent journalist. and another independent journalist from Minneapolis named Georgia Fort were arrested for reporting on the scene at an anti-ICE protest at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota. After multiple judges refused to sign off on a warrant to arrest them, Trump's DOJ convened a grand jury to charge them with conspiracy to deprive the congregants of the church of their rights and to interfere with religious freedom in a house of worship. And of course, Trump claimed he didn't know anything about it. No, I don't know anything about the Don Lemon thing, but he's a Swiss bag. Everyone's known that he's a wash. Probably from his standpoint, the best thing that could happen to him, he's getting, you know, he had no viewers. He had he was a failure. He was a failed host. And now he's uh he's in the news. I didn't know anything about him. That's right. I called for his arrest and pleasured myself to a video of it happening, but other than that, it's news to me. I didn't know. Anyway, Mr. President, if you're watching tonight, get your bottles of ketchup ready because all the way from the FBI's most wanted list, Don Lemon is here for his first interview for us. And I want to admit, no one should worry, we have Don locked up in the green room backstage, so you're going to be okay. But before we get to Don, we have a tradition to uphold. The first day of the month showed up yesterday unannounced once again. And once again, our nation's news people can hardly believe it. Well, good Monday morning everyone and we're already in February. Wow. It's hard to believe. It's hard to believe that it's the start of February. It's hard to believe it's already February. It's hard to believe it's actually February now because I thought January was never going to end. Happy February. Can you believe it? No. I literally cannot. Can you believe it's already February? Just happy February. I know. Can you believe it? It's wild. I'm so glad we're done with January. Sunday, February 1st. Can you believe it? A new month. We made it uh Clay to February 1st. Can you believe that? It has been a while, hasn't it? We are in the month of February. Can you believe it? I can't believe it. Is that something? I can't believe it. Well, it must be true. It says it right there in the teleprompter. But how how can it be February? It was just January. I don't know, Cheryl. Okay. I don't know. Is that what you want to hear? Oh, well, we got a big show for tonight. Alex Hold is here and we'll be right back with the recently incarcerated Don Lemon.
Trump Caught Spending Tax Dollars On Melania Tickets After Mocked Jack Cocchiarella Feb 2, 2026 Jack Cocchiarella Show
Political commentator Jack Cocchiarella reacts to the White House pushing for the purchase of Melania movie tickets.
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I truly cannot believe we are still being forced to talk about the Melania movie. But we're not talking about the Melania movie. We are talking about the most corrupt administration in history. A group of people that will go to any length not to help the Americans that they were supposedly elected to serve, but to squeeze the blood out of the rock that is our tax dollars and steal every single penny that they can. And that is exactly what the White House is doing. Donald Trump is using his standing, his position as the president of the United States, not just to grift billions of dollars, but to steal millions in the form of buying theaters for the Melania movie. It is an insane story that was broken down and reported by Midas Touch. I want to get into it all, but it is not the only insane Melania story. And I would be remissed if I did not bring up new Epstein information about Melania because that's the real story, not what was told in the Melania movie. This is the new Melania movie first shared by Keith Edwards and broken down right here. Epstein introduced Melania to Trump. New files make shocking claim contradicting Zampoli story. Doing some digging. The latest trunch of files related to Jeffrey Epstein, which was released by the DOJ, includes a document claiming Epstein introduced Melania and Donald Trump. Notably, this claim goes against the established narrative that Paulo Zampoli, a former modeling agent, introduced the current president and first lady of the US back in 1998 at a New York fashion week party. The document which the Federal Bureau of Investigation on the header noted Zimpoli was trying to buy elite models with Epstein. Epstein introduced Melania Trump to Donald Trump. A snapchat of the document accessible in the DOJ library was shared widely online. Jeffrey Epstein is the one who introduced Melania to Donald Trump. A document related to the late convicted child sex offender claims. The document is part of the tranch of files. The Department of Justice released on Friday in accordance with the Transparency Act. Keith Edwards had this document going viral after sharing it on Twitter. However, the official story of the meeting is different. Melania spoke about their meeting in 2016 Harper's bizarre interview. She described the party where Zimpoli is believed to have introduced the two. The Slovenian born former model said he wanted my number, but he was with a date. So, of course, I didn't give it to him. I said, "I am not giving you my number. You give me yours and I will call you." I wanted to see what kind of number he would give me. If it was a business number, what is this? I'm not doing business with you. Trump and Melania met in 1998 and got married in 2005. Neither the president nor the first lady have responded to the latest claims in the Epstein linked document. However, the allegations have sparked reactions among many online. Doing some digging, meet Amanda Unaro. She was married to a guy named Paulo Zoli at age 19. Zoli is the former modeling agent who brought Melania to the United States in the late 90s to meet Trump. Paulo went from working as a modeling agent to now being a part of Trump's current administration. A board member of the Kennedy Center and UN diplomat. Yungaro was on Epstein's plane at 17. She shares a child with Zampoli. She has been sitting in ICE custody since last June until she was deported without her child. Why? Connect the dots, one person wrote on Twitter. So that's real information. That's not just fluff that we're getting out of the Melania movie, a supposed documentary that doesn't share except doesn't share anything except what the state wants, right? What the propagandists want. And there's no better example of the propaganda that the Melania movie got than this insane Fox clip and an even crazier headline from Vanity Fair. It soared past expectations, bringing in more than $7 million at the box office and its opening weekend. Now, that is the most of any non-concert documentary in a decade. Now, Legacy Film reviewers were so certain that it wouldn't do well. Well, they would be wrong. Emily, my mom went to this this weekend in Florida. She said not only was the theater packed, it was, you know, standing room only if you could like try to sneak in the back of the theater. People were cheering through it. They were excited. It was interactive. People interplaying with the film. She said it was just electric. Electric. Additionally, Rolling Stone gave this review in the form of a tweet. Melania is proving the haters and losers wrong as the documentary is on pace to exceed its low box office expectations with a $7 million opening. So, state regime media is saying, "Well, Melania is such a smash hit and it's so fantastic and it's doing a great job and everyone loves it and it's made so much money." because they didn't like the fact that Donald Trump was questioned about why Jeff Bezos gave tens of millions of dollars to Melania after having one dinner at Mara Lago and then of course Donald Trump gave Bezos whatever he wanted. He in fact was meeting at the Blue Origin headquarters with our Secretary of Defense today. So everyone was saying this is corrupt and no no Donald needed to say this movie was a smash hit. But how did it make money? Well, Midas Touch broke it down. Exclusive White House advisor pushed bulk sales for Melania movie. Supporters are encouraged to buy group tickets and private screenings raising questions about ethics and actual attendance. Bulk sales of the new documentary Melania 20 days to History are being promoted through emails from the National Faith Advisory Board, a coalition led by Paula White Kaine, who also served as a senior adviser in the White House faith office. The film had a $7 million opening weekend. The message encourages supporters to purchase group tickets and private theater buyouts, directing them to a custom sales portal, which offers private screenings to groups of more than 30 people. Recipients are encouraged to watch the movie to support our first lady because supporting this film is about standing up for grace over the noise, dignity over distortion, and for the truth. The message then provided a link to purchase a group of tickets or to set up a private screening. The customer service email for the group sales page has an Amazon domain, the same company that paid nearly $75 million to acquire and promote the movie. An FAQ page indicates that buying out a showing of the Melania movie varies, but can typically range from $1,500 to $3,000 with final quotes coming directly from the theater. Private screenings imply that the theater is empty except for the party attending to watch the movie. In order for this to happen, seats are paid for and count towards box office sales, yet could remain empty. The industry doesn't publicly report attendance for bulk group sales. In other words, while the theater buyouts count as box office sales, it is not clear how many of those seats are actually filled with attendees. It is also not clear if this group sales process is being used to inflate box office numbers for the Melania movie. It raises questions. So, a White House adviser, someone who works to celebrate and push, strive, and expand the reach of faith in America, is using their little bully pulpit is using their reach to instruct the flock, God's chosen followers of Christ, to spend $3,000 buying out theaters to increase the box office return of the Melania movie. So, the president of the United States isn't humiliated. Now, I wouldn't be surprised if a little money was going out the door, little bit of change, little money was going out the door to make sure that those those expenses were covered because why wouldn't it be? It is always about the grift. It is always about the grift. And it is a humiliating grift. The fact that Donald Trump and his wife are so insecure about their little movie that they have to have their stooges who work for them instruct their followers like at the behest of God saying this is what is ordained in our text. Go watch the Melania movie. It's what Jesus would have done. Would have loved the Melania movie. Would have sat quietly at the Melania movie as the fascists roame the streets and ripped the the foreigners out of our country. Because that's what Jesus said. He didn't say bring them in and treat them like your own. He said 80 billion more dollars to ICE. I remember that direct direct quote. Even even translates. It's despicable. And it's embarrassing and that is a similar response that Jamie Rascin had when I asked him about the Melania movie. The Melania movie, Donald Trump is making it out to be this huge smash hit. Um, and it seems like part of that reason, uh, according to some reporting from the Midas Touch, is that the White House faith office was pushing staffers to buy at least 30 tickets to the Melania movie. Now, that's not 30 separate screenings so you can get just like every little bit of it. I' I've watched my favorite movie, Swingers or Boogie Nights, at least 30 times, but probably not the Millennium movie. Just your general thoughts in the sea of corruption. This corruption is pretty stupid. I I just I can't I don't even know what to say. I mean that I had not heard about that particular episode, Jacket. It barely rates a comma in the encyclopedia of bribery, uh extortion, ripoffs, billion-dollar scams they're engaged in. But of course, uh you know, if you watch The Sopranos, the way that the mob works is they wake up and they figure out a new scam for every day. That's their business. Like what's a new scam? So that's a scam. I'm sure it's in violation of uh multiple federal laws and regulations that prevent government officials from shaking down and extorting business from their employees and demanding either political or business tribute from them. That won't be hard for us to find. Um but they don't care. I mean they they really look look they have a completely different sense of what government's about and that's what the election is going to be about in 2026. One side says the government has got to be an instrument for the public interest in the common good. Like we've got to figure out health care so everybody's got healthare in the country. We've got to figure out the problem of uh enabling young people to actually be able to purchase a house before they turn 40 years old. You know, um that's what government does. The other views government as an instrument for private self-enrichment, for making as much money as possible for the guy who gets in and his family and for the corporations around him. I mean, those are two fundamentally opposed visions of what government is. And so you give me an example that is almost a a slapstick version of the billion-dollar scams that they're doing, but obviously they're embarrassed about the Melania movie, as they should be. Of course, it's a a biopic that doesn't tell anything about her biography. It starts it's about the 20 days before the second inauguration. It's not about um how did Melania meet Donald Trump? Through Jeffrey Epstein, it seems and new reporting. So I don't think Epste introduced them and maybe Jeffrey Epstein was dating Melania before Donald Trump was and uh maybe a lot of the young women who came up through those various supermodel agencies and recruiting talent agencies uh ended up marrying Donald Trump's friends. Maybe that's got something to do with their uh avid determination to suppress the Epstein file. So there is an interesting movie to be made there. Unfortunately, it's not by a political sickopant biographer, but it's by somebody who's willing to actually go do some real journalism or by the director uh who was himself in the Epstein files. I take it you're not going to see the Melania movie. Uh I'm not going to be tuning in either. We got more important stuff to do. You certainly have more important stuff to do. So, I'll let you get back to it. But I always appreciate your time uh and seeing you, Congressman. Great to see you, Jack. Keep up the great work, man. I'll see you. A neverending grift. It's a neverending grift. That is what it is about for these people and it is at your expense. Donald Trump is shutting down the Kennedy Center, which was once a a bastion for arts, right? A symbol of our country. And uh what was the last thing to play? The Melania movie. Got to have the Got to have the Melania movie. He will use every little bit of this country to his own benefit, wipe his ass with it, and then move on because he doesn't care. and MAGA, you should really wake up to that. They're not gonna, but we're gonna try to make them. And if you want to support that work and calling out the Melania movie and not watching the Melania movie, as always, you can hit that subscribe button, leave a like on this video if you stuck around to the end, drop a blue heart in the comments. I promise this is the last time we're talking about the Melania movie, unless more corrupt happens. Until next time, y'all. I'll see you soon.
I Know the Secret of How to Cripple Trump | The Daily Beast Podcast The Daily Beast and The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway Premiered 19 hours ago The Daily Beast Podcast
The Daily Beast’s Executive Editor Hugh Dougherty speaks with Professor Scott Galloway about his provocative new campaign, “Resist and Unsubscribe,” a call for consumers to hit what he calls the “soft tissue” of the Trump era—Big Tech’s revenue growth. Galloway argues that the only force Trump truly listens to is the market, and that even small acts—canceling Amazon Prime, downgrading ChatGPT, ditching Uber—can send outsized signals to CEOs and shareholders if done collectively. In a wide-ranging, fiery conversation, he explains why he’s selling his Apple stock, confronting corporate leaders he says privately agree with him, and betting that 10 companies controlling 40 percent of the S&P represent an Achilles’ heel for political power. From ICE protests to crypto grift, AI-fueled layoffs to the “manosphere” wobbling on Trump, Galloway lays out a theory of economic activism designed to rattle boardrooms before it rattles Washington—so can unsubscribing from a few tech platforms really shake the most powerful men in America?
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Resist & Unsubscribe: The Market Pressure Strategy If you want to protest, more power to you. If you want to, you know, register people to vote. I salute you. But the easiest way to maybe save some money and have a really big impact and send a message to the markets to Trump, is to resist and unsubscribe. This is a coin operated president. And these individuals have decided that their one and only job is shareholder value. There's a ton of pressure. Nobody wants to go first, but there needs to be collective action from ten, 50, 100 of the fortune 500 to say this is just gone too far. Welcome to the Daily Beast podcast. Thank you. Daugherty, an executive editor of The Daily Beast. I'm filling in for Joanna Coles, and I am delighted to be here, especially because we have an amazing guest, Scott Galloway. He is, of course, host of The Prophecy podcast. He's host, co-host of pivot. He is an expert in business. I know he is moving in a very big way to directly take on Donald Trump. He has come up with a call to resist and unsubscribe, and we are going to talk about what he says are the ways we can all make Trump give up his worst policies. It is so simple. You were surprised nobody thought of it first. It is already spreading shockwaves among the powerful. And Professor Galloway is also going to tell us the secrets of what all those emotional support CEOs who are constantly hanging around Trump are really texting him in private. So let's get right into it. Welcome. Professor Scott Galloway. You are asking people to resist and unsubscribe. And I just want to take the opportunity to just give us a very basic explanation, because there are so many questions that this raises. But what is resist and unsubscribe? Well, thanks for having me here. And first and foremost, if I could give my sons anything, it would be a Scottish accent. That is very. I'm happy to pass it on and is it Glaswegian rice? Here's some glasses. Yes, I am Glaswegian. I'm very proud of that. I'm sitting live and direct in Manhattan and, I am very proud of my home city, so thank you. I appreciate that resistance. Essentially, I got very frustrated about Ice activity in Minneapolis and wanted to do more than just share my outrage with a ring light and on a podcast. So I think I've zeroed in on what is the soft tissue of the Trump administration. And that is the only time the Trump administration walks back his actions is when the markets fall. The S&P hit the bond market. That's when he walked back his plan to annex Greenland. When he walked back some of the tariffs, the soft tissue, the market. Right now we're gonna have the biggest impact is in big tech that represent ten companies represent 40% of the S&P. And they're highly sensitive to subscription growth or lack thereof. So I've built a site resist and unsubscribe. And essentially I have what's called ground zero, which are the ten big tech companies and links to where it's easy to unsubscribe, and then the blast zone. And that is companies directly enabling, ISIS activities where it's AT&T or Hilton or the likes. And the basic notion is the following. If you unsubscribe from ChatGPT, that's $240. It's trading at 40 times revenues. That's a $10,000 here to their market cap. And these companies are highly sensitive to growth rates and projected growth rates. So if you want to protest more power to you. If you want to, you know, register people to vote, I salute you. But the easiest way to maybe save some money and have a really big impact and send a message to the markets, to Trump and to other citizens that they can have an impact is to resist and unsubscribe. And we started with 6000 uniques a day. We're up to 60 or 80,000. And according to AI, we're going to catalyze somewhere between 150 and 200,000 unsubs across Big Tech. I just want to ask where to you, you know, on day 12, I believe, of this, where what was the what was the moment that it came to you? Because I know you were in Davos. Almost a month ago, and that was a big event for Trump. He went there claiming he was going to annex Greenland and he chickened out. Was that one of the things that got you thinking about about how to do this? Now, I can tell you the exact moment, I'm usually able to disassociate myself from what's going on in politics. And there was one moment I've. I don't know how you felt about this view, but I've increasingly found The Breaking Point: ICE, Davos & Action Over Outrage my blood pressure and anxiety going up, especially over the course of the last few months, especially around ice and the moment where I thought, I need to do more than just articulate my outrage on my podcast was when Secretary Nome, after Alex Prouty, was murdered, described him as a as a domestic terrorist and said that he was brandishing a weapon with intent to massacre federal agents. I thought that was the equivalent of showing up and urinating on the grave of a recently buried man who was a nurse for veterans. I just had at some point, depravity has to, need some resistance. That was a moment where I said, okay, I need to do something. Quote unquote, from me and Dan Harris, who talks about has this great, book inside of 110% happier. He says action absorbs anxiety. And I thought, I just want to do something. And so I came up with this idea. I think I've discovered, if you will, the soft tissue of the markets that he appears to respond to. And I thought this an interesting idea. I have a footprint, I have some reach, some awareness. And I thought, I want to put it to use more than just selling more ZipRecruiter or, you know, athletic greens. And so, launched it 11 days ago. And every day we get more and more, more and more site traffic, more and more media covering it. So, so far it's going pretty well. So just practically, how difficult is it to unsubscribe? Because we all we are all signed up to so many things and we all know that they're kind of complicated. But how how easy or difficult is it to take Amazon which is the top of your ground zero list? Well, it's situational and I'm a fairly economically secure person who, you know, living in London. Quite frankly, I don't think it's fair of me to tell people not to buy groceries or not to show up to work. I'm trying to lead by example, and I'm I try to be transparent. I still have an iPhone. I'm not giving it up, but I unsubscribed from Apple TV plus and I don't miss it. I unsubscribe from, Apple Music and I don't miss it. My family. We've gone from six streaming media platforms to one, and if I gone to zero, I would have been I would have been smothered in my sleep by my boys. But it wasn't that hard to go from 6 to 1. And you're going to find Ice. Unsubscribe from Amazon Prime. Some people depend on Amazon Prime for a lot of things, but what you might also find, as I did, is that I was also a member of Amazon One, their health care service, which I was paying $199 for for the last six years, that are on years. When I unsubscribed from AT&T and I switched to Nobo mobile, you know what I found? I had four AT&T contracts, one for my phone and three, two for two for iPads, which are in a landfill somewhere four years ago and one for a BlackBerry I haven't used since 2014. I had spent over the last 14 years, probably 4 or $5000 on AT&T contracts, and they're very good at renewing and charging you. And if you're like me and your your bills are pretty complicated, you don't realize how much money you're spending on this. I, I, canceled my Uber, account, and I found out I was taking 350 Ubers a year and this is a story of privilege because I have money. But I was spending somewhere between 30 and $35,000 a year on Uber. Because what big tech does is they consolidate the market and then they start raising prices faster than inflation. The price of an Uber lux is basically doubled in the last 5 or 6 years. So for some people, I'm not going to judge. I'm not saying everyone should move to a cabin in the woods and not turn on their lights. Is is situational. It's up to you. The decisions you make are yours. What I'm saying is this is a fairly frictionless way to send a real message. And you're gonna find if you go to resist and unsub.com and you click on these links that you are spending money in a lot of places, you didn't realize where you can save some money. Now, is it breaking through? Because I know that you have had people talking to you from the world of tech who who have begun to be aware of this? What are you hearing? I've heard from approximately 20% of the CEOs of these companies, and to be blunt, they're always incredibly charming. I know a lot of them, Scott, really respect what you're doing. I'm not happy with what's going on. We have a fiduciary obligation to our shareholders. It's difficult for any one person. Is It Breaking Through? CEOs React Behind the Scenes I go first, I get it. I had a conversation with Jeffrey Sonnenfeld from Yale who convenes our CEOs, and I think there needs to be I'm empathetic to the fact that it's hard for any one person to go first. But my message back to them is, what's the point of having all this money at all? These guys are in their 50s and 60s. They're billionaires. What's the point of having all this money? You're gonna be dead soon. You want to be seen as someone who said something, or someone who got your share price up. So two, you could be worth 3 billion instead of 2.8. So I'm not sympathetic to it, but they're all exceptionally charming, exceptionally nice. Where I've seen real pickup is in traditional media in the last five days, I think I've been on every major cable news network, and I think I'm going to go on Fox this weekend. And what's interesting, if you look at the history all of a sudden I've become sort of a minor student of protests. The most recent was the camel protest. Camel, Disney and unsubsidized Disney Plus were actually plummeting when they backed down and put camel back on the the air, but media coverage had increased. It's actually the shame of media and the impact it has on the internal culture, and the fear of more economic impact that stops or results in, action. So I've been doing a lot of social, no paid, absolutely no paid to drive traffic. But I've been going on traditional media and I've been using AI like crazy. I'm a very analytics driven person. I look at the site visits times, the conversion rate times, the number of platforms people are on average unsubscribing from. And I do pretty type predictions. And we've gone from a prediction of 30,000 subscribers in February to now. We're predicting somewhere between 150 and 200,000 unsubs. So traditional media and new media such as this show have played a really important role. And it's cumulative. It's starting to gain, traction. And other people are, are are using their platforms to encourage people to resist and unsubscribe. And the thing I'm trying to convince you of is maybe you would just want to unsubscribe from one of your ride hailing programs. Maybe you want to unsubscribe from 20 things. That's your business. It's your life, but it's something you can do with other people and it's fairly frictionless. I would argue it's fairly easy. You were you were talking about the social. It's like the social pressure or inside a company. That brought back Jimmy Kimmel, for example. What do you want to see? I'm just going to use Amazon again. What do you want to see Amazon do differently? What I would like to see are just being realistic. The objective is to send a signal to consumers that the most radical act of activism in a capitalist society is not participation. The greatest political or government action, probably in recent history was in Q1 of 2020, when the government immediately put trillions of dollars of stimulus into the economy, passed new guidelines, new laws almost overnight. And I don't think it was because 10,000 or 20,000 people had died in the previous month from Covid. It's because GDP had crashed 32%. So I think if you can just take GDP down 1 or 2 points, or if Sam Altman or Andy Jassy or Tim Cook says there's unsubscribe, thing is getting a little bit uncomfortable for us and our shareholders, I think they're going to find their backbone and maybe not show up for as many Melania premieres, or decide that maybe we shouldn't be supportive of this as we have been, or maybe we're going to be a little bit more courageous with our views. Whether we're going to say out loud what they've been texting privately to people like me about their views on this, but I don't I think the weight on their better angels showing up is just, fool's errand. I think you have to hit them where they where they feel it. And that's in terms of shareholder value and, a decline in subscriber growth. So what do I want from them? I want them to show some fidelity to the American values that made them so wealthy and build such great companies, and to speak up and say that demonizing immigrants, sending them to black sites, that their equivalent of concentration camps, which is the definition of a concentration camp as a camp outside of the domestic territory where you're not subject to the same legal protection, a mass secret police loyal to one person, not to an institution, that this is just not going to be good for the economy, not good for my company, and not good for America. That's what I want. I want them to. I want them to say out loud what they text me in private. When you talk to them. What? Why have they become this sort of emotional support CEO group? Emotional Support CEOs & Trump's “Coin-Operated” Presidency I mean, Trump goes everywhere and takes with him people like Tim Cook very prominently. Sometimes, sometimes Jamie Dimon is there, sometimes he's not. But why? Why do they all flock to Trump? What is what is it that's in their minds that makes them think that it's a good idea? Because they went around Biden like that. They went visibly around Obama like that. What's Trump got for them? And it's simple. It's one word. It's money. Come to the Melania premiere and there's a chance when I if I increase the tariffs on China, I'll do a carve out for Apple. Oh. You need your Nvidia, your Nvidia, and you want to sell chips into China. Well, maybe I'll let you if you let me prostitute you around and treat you like, in emotional support, giving me credibility. And if you give 2 or $3 million to, my new West Wing renovation or East wing renovation, maybe I'll approve. I'll put pressure on the FTC to approve the acquisition by you versus someone else. This is a coin operated president, and these individuals have decided that their one and only job is shareholder value. And I, I empathize with that. I get it, there's a ton of pressure. Nobody wants to go first, but there needs to be collective action from ten, 50, 100 of the fortune 500 to say this is just gone too far. So but what is it about? It's about one thing. It's about shareholder value. Full stop. I think if I don't think I yeah, I like to think of myself as someone who understands the market's math. I don't think there's any way these companies can live up is the AI. Companies can live up to their obligations around the infrastructure investments they have projected, or that they'll need around inference and data centers. So what are they going to do? They're going to have the president most likely back some sort of I won't call it a bailout, but some sort of investment that, backs debt to build these data centers or these massive, CapEx investments. And I think that's why they all fly to Washington, put on a suit and sit around a table and say shit like, thanks to your leadership. And, they basically see, this guy is very intelligent, is out. He connects the dots. He says, kiss my ass publicly, hundreds of billions of dollars in it for you and your shareholders. You don't kiss my ass publicly. I'm going to come for you. This is the definition of an autocracy, cronyism, or even, let me use a word the right hates more than any of those things. It's total socialism. What on earth is the president doing meeting with Ted Sarandos in the Ellison's talking about the acquisition of of Time Warner? That has nothing to do with the president. It should be who has the biggest check and then who survives regulatory review around concentration of power or a serious national security review. So we have all of a sudden decided that the president can get in the way, can be a social, you know, practice socialism, cronyism. But they are responding to these incentives. They are saying, let's wait this guy out, let's kiss his ass. Let's give $1 million, the East Wing, let's go to the premiere and let's stay out of his crosshairs and make sure the good times keep going for us and our shareholders. I'd say it is pretty straightforward. Can I just I'm just going to go through the list and just give me some give us some idea. So Amazon we know you know what your views on that are. Metta. What do you think Metta can do to change Trump. Well Matt is not I mean you're talking about it. You're talking about a CEO here who's comfortable ignoring data showing that teenage girls are more likely to engage in self-harm because of his content. So, it's not what they can do. It's what we can do. And that is, we can communicate to these companies that if they don't push back on this type of, slow burn into fascism, we're not going to use their platforms. We're not going to subscribe to their services, we're not going to advertise. That is a little bit harder because it's advertising driven, and it's such a robust business that I don't think anyone advertiser has more than 1%. And people, including myself, I've been understandably criticized. I've gotten over, I think, 20 million likes and way more views on that on social media. And my primary means of communicating has been Instagram. When people say, well, that's hypocritical. Yeah, I've met on the list, I'm like, well, I don't like coal fired plants, but I turn on my lights in Florida. The bottom line is meta has a monopoly on communication right now, so I would love an alternative. Meta, Monopoly Power & The Limits of Boycotts I would love a DOJ or an FTC that actually did their damn job and broke up these companies such that we have more alternatives and they couldn't charge the rents they charge, including forcing me, who can't stand these people to use their platforms. So meta is a tough one because they have such monopoly power over the distribution, of, of information right now. You know, I like to think there are other can use signal instead of WhatsApp. There are some substitutes. But I want to be clear, these companies, generally speaking, have monopoly power. And it's not easy. It's not easy to unsubscribe, from some of them. Others it's easier. There's a lot of options, you know, can you use Lyft instead of Uber? Yeah. Can you go to Noble Mobile or Verizon or whoever it is instead of AT&T? Absolutely. Can you unsubscribe from Amazon Prime for a month? Maybe you don't need Amazon Prime Video. Yeah. You're going to find you might find also you might have multiple accounts. Do you can you use the free version? I think that's very relatable to everybody isn't it. The you suddenly find, as you said, you're paying for all the things you didn't know about, as I found when I walked in this morning, I'm saving $170 a month on things I don't even use. One of the things that when you imagine when you go on Fox, or as you put it yourself and use a food fight with somebody from the right, the charge of hypocrisy that you've used. I to come to these, you know, to help analyze this, that, that you're using, Instagram to spread the word about it is not something that you're obviously not really concerned about being accused of hypocrisy here, but maybe does that take the child, take the sting out of it? Yeah, I'm trying to lead by example. I'll give you an example. I own Apple shares. I've owned them since 2009. I have decided I'm going to sell my Apple shares. It's going. And it hurts because I think it's a great company, so I don't want to I don't want to claim to have moral clarity around all of this, but unless you want to move to a cabin and have Am radio, you're going to have to, you know, you're going to you. And I'm not I'm not going to lecture people. I'm not going to tell them. I would never tell people to stop buying groceries. What I would say is the following is that Kroger trades at 0.3 times revenues. So if you wanted to have a $10,000 impact on Kroger stock, hoping that the Kroger CEO would reach out to the president or that the markets would indicate something, you would have to stop or buy $30,000 less in groceries. You'd have to get five American households to not buy groceries for a year. If you unsubscribe from the paid version of ChatGPT, which is $240 a year, and the company was raising money at 40 times revenues, that is a $10,000 hit. So what I'm trying to do is raise awareness that the free version of ChatGPT is pretty damn good. I use it now because I canceled the paid version and you are having the same economic impact and sending the same signal. Then if you convince five American families to not buy groceries for a year. But I'm not going to tell people what to subscribe, unsubscribe, how long to what I'm saying. This is what I am doing, and I think we have a weapon that's been hiding in plain sight. This is what the president listens to, and we can have more of an impact than we think. And it needs to be sustained. It needs to be over probably longer than a month. The the protest everyone points to in history as a Montgomery bus strike. And there was a very cinematic moment where a woman refused to give up her seat. Huge leadership, very important. But actually what moved the needle was Doctor Kane organized carpools for a year, and ultimately the municipal bus service in Montgomery was losing 2 to $3 million a year. And then they said, okay, enough. We're no longer going to have segregated seating on our busses. So this is this isn't going to happen overnight. But I know for a fact that most of these CEOs are cognizant of this movement. Then it's beginning to register and some of their subscription analytics. And then more people are joining in. And this becomes another point of light, including protests including, good media coverage by people such as yourself. That all adds up to one thing backbone and pushback. That's two things. So I don't am I perfect on this? I'm not giving up my iPhone. Let me be clear I didn't want to sell my Apple stock, but I am. I'm still subscribing to one of the streaming media platforms because I have a family, but I'm going to take a lot. I'm going to speak loudly with my spend here. You acknowledge this yourself is you're incredible Hypocrisy, Privilege & Leading by Example economic resources compared to other people. But one of the things that strikes me, that strikes me about this is that these are relatively small amounts of money, and I do not think people would begin to appreciate quite how valuable an individual customer is to these big tech companies. One of the one of the things, it seems that big tech we all think of as ultra powerful, it's been really good, projecting itself as ultra powerful. Do you think this is a kind of moment for it that people begin to realize they've got a lot more power than they realized? What you want is you want your X-Wing fighter or whatever it's called that Luke Skywalker is and is to find the vulnerability in the Death Star, that that the shaft, that where if a photon, the photon torpedo, hits a perfectly, it blows up the whole Death Star, that that shaft or exhaust shaft, if you will, is subscriptions to Big Tech. And as Microsoft missed its cloud growth by one percentage point and it lost 10% of its value, and then other companies trading down in sympathy, the Nasdaq 100 was down 1.5%. Everybody notices that. So if you wanted to if you wanted to have that one kill shot, it's taking the subscriptions to Amazon Prime or ChatGPT or Anthropic. It's taking them down. Just a little bit. Because right now, ChatGPT, OpenAI is raising money at $850 billion. And you can bet at that kind of valuation, the investors are pouring over their subscription growth. And if their subscription growth one month this month goes decreases from 8% month on month to 7% month on month, the investors the CEO, I'll notice that. So this is the string you can pull on that unwinds a pyramid, if you will. What I'm trying to figure out, or what I think I've come up with, is what is the maximum impact relative to the disruption in your life. One of the other things is kind of like this is an analogy to shareholder activism here as well, isn't there? You bite you by selling Apple yourself. A lot of people follow you for I'm not going to say specific advice, but for a sense of how to do better financially, that's obviously not going to go down well with Apple. It's it's not something that should people begin, begin to think about their stock holdings. And therefore, one case I don't I don't want to recommend that I think everyone has an obligation to develop and maintain economic security for them in their families. And from a shareholder standpoint, these companies are just juggernauts. What I'm trying to do is lead by example. And quite frankly, if I can take an economic here. So I'm not recommending that people sell their stock. I just don't I don't want to take that kind of I think it's I don't want to take risks with other people's well-being. I, I'm comfortable saying to them, you probably have too many big tech subscriptions that you can do without, but I don't want to tell people to not going to work or not to buy groceries or to, sell their stocks. I just think that's easy for me to say. So, but I am trying to lead by example. So I've owned Apple since 2009. I'm selling all of my Apple stock. And I'm even Goldman Sachs is my money manager. I'm going to transfer my assets to either Royal Bank of Canada or a regional bank. And by the way, I love David Solomon and I know him. Goldman sent an amazing job for me. I'm disappointed that more financial leaders like David and Jamie Diamond, who I think our leaders have not spoken out more forcefully, doesn't mean I won't go back to Goldman at some point. Doesn't mean I'm not in good relations with them. It doesn't mean they're not fantastic firms. No, I think they're all of that. But I want to send a signal with my my pocketbook that what's going on here is wrong. And that corporate leaders, many of whom every morning wake up and look in the mirror and say, hello, Mr. President, a lot of these people see themselves as future political leaders. The leadership is doing, you know, doing the right thing when it's really hard. And I don't think enough CEOs are doing doing the hard thing right now. Other are there any are there any specifically that you want to to get get to you were obviously you just mentioned David Solomon. Media Momentum, AI Metrics & Growth Projections You mentioned Jamie Dimon who who has got the ability to move Trump, do you think or is it it takes all of them. I think it's the markets. And I do think he listens. I think he takes Jamie Dimon and Jensen Hwang's call right away. I think if, if if the AI platforms and Apple and Jamie Dimon within the week of each other called and said, these actions by Ice are beginning to hit our company, we're beginning to notice it. I think he I think he takes that call and he hears that, because 70%, 77% of the earnings growth has come from these companies. And the markets were up 17%. Basically, on the back of the massive investment in the markets. Reaction to the acceleration of these companies. If the markets go down, the president is going to have way less cloud cover to do the kind of things he's done. Unfortunately, in America, I think the S&P and the Nasdaq are some of the most damaging metrics ever invented because as long as the Nasdaq and SBA go up, unfortunately America thinks that everything's all right, that the president must be doing a good job. And actually, if you look at we've underperformed relative to other markets, especially when you take in the decline in the dollar. But yeah, I think he takes those calls. I think he turns off and on the protests in Minneapolis, which isn't to say they're not powerful. I think he ignores podcasters and what they say on MBS now or even on Fox. I don't think he cares what the courts think. He certainly doesn't care what Congress thinks. They become the Duma. He doesn't even care what Republicans think he does care with the market. And these tech leaders think just to go more broadly on the market and so on. Amazingly, he came to it. He came into office claiming he was going to be the crypto president. And crypto broadly has been a disaster for some people. I don't know, I didn't buy any Melania coins. Perhaps, perhaps wisely. But, this seems to be something of the touch of disaster about it to the crypto industry. And yet, are they going to trump policing anything? Well, he's a crypto president and he was he was a genius in the sense that he flew right into the man sphere. The Democratic Party basically said billionaires are evil, white people are racist, and young men are violent. And all three of those groups said, fine, we're out. Fine, dude, you want to demonize us? Fine. We're out. And you saw a decline in all those parties in terms of their contribution and their votes for blue. Trump's genius was he flew right into the man's sphere. Rocket crypto Joe Rogan podcast, World Wrestling Federation. He just said, I'm going full testosterone. And one of those things we said to the crypto community, I'm all behind you. I'm going to get rid of the the part of the SEC investigating fraud. I'm going to pardon the guy who was convicted of fraud and is in prison right now, a banana, a Binance. And while I'm at it, the Friday before my inauguration and the cover of dark, I'm going to create my own shit coin and pocket. I think it's $1.4 billion to date, because people will be distracted of the inauguration and Democrats were corrupt with small caps. You know, Nancy Pelosi, who's I think leaving Congress where $350 million, she's outperformed Warren Buffett in the Nasdaq. He's like, well, that's small ball. We're going to be corrupt. Let's be corrupt for billions, not for millions. So the the level of, you know, the crypto has been the ultimate vessel for his corruption. And also tactically, it was super smart to go after something that just reeked of testosterone and be very supportive of it. And the Biden administration was seen as not only non supportive but somewhat indecisive around it. I think a lot of people in the crypto community correctly said, log will play by whatever rulebook you give us, but we need a rulebook. We need to understand what's going on. So part of his campaign genius was flying into crypto, and what he found was an empty vessel that he could kind of pull off. What is probably the greatest grift by any elected official in history, 1.4 billion and counting. I think there's we're just watching it go up and up. And to his children as well, of course. You mentioned the mana sphere. Don Jr has inserted himself in that. What Success Looks Like: Forcing Corporate Backbone Eric Trump out there making grift out of that. I just want to ask you, finally, there were some interesting jobs numbers that have come this week. And one of the things you mentioned rightly, but going into the mana sphere was big things, rockets, crypto. And we've discovered that Trump basically didn't add any jobs last year. He maybe added 50,000. And the economy that he had promised doesn't seem to be roaring. At what point does Magnus fear begin to peel off? Oh, it's already happening. You're already seeing kind of the titans of the man sphere, the Theo Vons and the Rogan's and the Andrew Schultz's. They're already sort of saying, well, maybe, maybe we made a mistake here. And the labor market. To be fair, the economy, I think, has been more resilient than people expected, including myself. The American economy just is amazing. It continues to grind on some of the CapEx being financed by the incredible run up in stocks by this company is a staggering. There's going to be $670 billion in CapEx just from three companies, Amazon, Microsoft. And I think it's meta. That's three times the amount of R&D in the pharmaceutical industry this year. That's that's more money spent on AI CapEx this year than was spent on the Apollo and space station programs combined. That creates a lot of underlying economic growth. We're starting to see productivity gains, not a lot, but some productivity gains. The labor picture is a bit mixed because youth unemployment is a 10%. That's not good. It's not bad. What you have I would describe in the labor market as a no hire, no fire economy, where we haven't created any jobs. But what the wobbly ness in the labor market is indicated by one metric, and that is the I forget what it's called. It's basically an index. It looks at if people are looking around for another job, and very few people are looking for another job because they're not confident they can do better, and you've also you have seen some pretty dramatic layoffs, whether it's 60, 16,000 people at, at Amazon and corporate, I think it's 20,000 ups. The kind of early adopters of AI appear to be, reducing their reducing their labor rolls. I had David Simon on my podcast and he, I imagine he's projecting an increase in earnings for top line revenue of 30 to 50% over the next three years. But he described their employment profile is flat for the next three years. Now, there's some I think, overhyping of the impact that AI is having on employment, because it makes it your company seems sexy that you're leveraging AI. What I think happened is post Covid, people held onto their employees and are now deciding they can do more with less. But the employment picture I would describe is a little bit confusing right now, and a little bit tenuous. But it's not the great destruction and human capital that I think the catastrophes were predicting. It's still early in the game, but at the same time, people aren't leaving their job because they're worried they're not getting calls from recruiters. What I would say is more worrisome about the economy is we have ten companies responsible for 40% of the market cap, and if any one of those companies sneezes, the global economy is going to catch pneumonia. That is exactly the power that you've identified. In those tank, those tank companies, it's like an Achilles heel that you can you can grab onto, with this, with the, with this, appeal to people's individual power over them. Professor, professor Galloway I want to give you the chance. Just remind remind our viewers and listeners, where should they go to learn how to do this? Resist and unsub or resist and unsubscribe a bunch of links that make it easy to unsubscribe, to share it on social. And I could just tell you, it feels good to save money, and it feels good to do something with other people. I'll just say, like, tens of thousands of people have been tagging you and giving their own story. And in fact, there's a there are, a you probably know better than me, but there are there appear to be thousands of people on Reddit who are talking about how they did it. So it's it's an incredibly powerful movement that has begun already. 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Epstein's Driver Confessed to 2 Bodies... Trap More Ross Feb 7, 2026
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"Trap more" gang. The 2026 information dump from the Epstein files has really opened a lot of people's eyes to what was really going on amongst the highlevel elites. But not only has it confirmed a lot of suspicions about rich billionaires secretly diddling kids on islands, all types of weird stuff. But what it's also done is it's actually verified allegations from years ago that a lot of people brushed off as phony fantasy, a load of cap. But now with these files, there's little details where they're saying, "Hang on a minute. That [ __ ] that that guy said in 2020, actually, that must have been true. That thing that the guys were saying in 2018, that must have been true." And now another thing that's come out that I've seen is a 2020 4chan thread, okay, where somebody claimed to actually be an employee for Jeffrey Epstein and basically exposed the inner workings of what was going on behind the scenes with Epste, right? This was back in 2020, just after he died. Okay. This anonymous insider, he claimed that he had had interactions with high-profile names like Rihanna. Yeah. Rihanna, Mitt Romney's relatives. Okay. He'd apparently spent time working on the island himself. Well, now things have come out in the new files that are making people believe that this was actually true. So, I'm going to I'm going to break this down for you guys. Okay, this is very very very interesting. Okay, we don't know if this is 100% thousand% true, but it's another instance where new information from the files that have just been released are making everybody look back on these, you know, random things that have been brushed aside and now people are saying, I think this might have been true. So, let me break this down for you. Okay, this is a Reddit post going in r/ Epstein and r/pstein is absolutely booming at the moment. Okay, and you know I'm a Reddit demon. All right, I'm all over it. So, I know I said I was going to stop, but I've actually got a bunch of new updates that I'm going to do for you today. Not all Epstein related, but definitely some Epstein related. This says, "This anonymous 4chan post from 2020 from a worker for Epstein. Seems pretty believable these days." 20 screenshots, and we're going to dig into all of them. We're going to dig into all of them. All right. Delete everything. Okay. So, he said, "I'm going to off myself tomorrow. I'm also sending three packets of copied information to the media. One to CNN, one to MSNBC, and one to Fox News. You all will have to see which one tells the truth about the information they receive and who doesn't. I trust 4chan to do this because of our history of releasing legit info in the face of a mass media cover up. 4chan looking solid these days. It says, "I've been a professional driver and security guard for a circle of very wealthy people for almost 8 years. I started by working the door at a private gentleman's club outside the DC area. From that job, I was introduced to some employment managers for Jeffrey Epstein. Because I had experience as both a cab driver and a bouncer, as well as always overlooking and keeping my mouth shut about the drugs and prostitution my employers at the clubs profited from, they thought I'd be a good fit to work the weekends for Mr. Epstein. At first, I didn't do very much. Definitely nothing important. I would run errands mostly and do anything my manager, who reported directly to Mr. Epstein, wanted me to do. So, say the gardener calls out sick one day, it would be me mowing the lawn in his place. I was sort of a floating general helper. Inevitably, I ran into Mr. Repstein now and then, and he was always very personable, enthusiastic, and I'd heard about his original court case and the rumors and everything. But just meeting this guy made me feel like it was all a lie because he seemed so kind and genuine. I thought he really was just this hot shot money man like a Bruce Wayne or Tony Stark type figure. And I think ultimately that's how he wanted us to all see him. His god complex was, to say the least, very developed. Eventually, I was trusted with bigger jobs. I think I got a good reputation because I cleaned one of Mr. Epstein's bedroom one day. There was, to my dismay, a mixture of, let's say, dookie and man milk on the bed sheets. I dealt with it professionally and I didn't say anything. I knew by then that someone was always watching. There were cameras in almost every single room, save Mr. Epstein's private office and regular bedroom. He had several bedrooms, but one was his favorite, I guess, his main room. I never mentioned it to anyone, but I still got a thank you from my manager for being discreet. One day I was asked to go and pick up a masseuse from a bus station. Excuse me. Sorry, I'm tired of the Epstein files. Um, I didn't ask for her age. I knew better. But she could have been older than six. She couldn't have been older than 16. I got a really bad feeling in my stomach because at this point, denying Mr. Epstein's taste would be borderline irrational. I did my job, though. I took her to his house and a few years hours later, I took her back to the bus stop and she was crying. I didn't talk to her about it. A few weeks later, I did it again. Now, my manager tells me that Mr. Rep would like me to take over all of his various pickups and drop offs. They called it caddy duty bath. But it was more than just girls. I would pick up drugs and other assorted packages, most of which I had no idea the contents contents. But as far as I was concerned, the lesser I knew, the better. I was getting paid very well for the amount of work that I was doing. In a given day, I spent three maybe four hours doing anything that could be considered work. The rest of the time, I either sat in my car browsing 4chan on my phone or inside pretending like I was rich and this was my house. For this, I was being paid 75 grand a year, more than I'd ever even hoped to have had made in my whole life. When I was doing most of the driving, it went up to 115. Every time my job became more illegal, the money would get better. That's his tactic. He knows people will just do about anything for the right price. I just want people to know, I guess, call it a public confession because I'm guilty. I guess I don't care that much because I'm going to be dead. I've done things that I can't forgive myself for, and I think they will have me killed anyway. I'm going to do it on my own terms. I just want people to know, I guess. Uh, I already read that. It says, "Anyway, Mr. Epstein is very shrewd. He pays you a lot, but not enough for the [ __ ] you have to do, and he tries to find the absolute least amount amount he can pay you to keep it going. For me, disgracefully, that was around 150k. I stayed on caddy duty for about 4 months. Then, Mr. Epste took a trip abroad, and he loaned me out to another family, the Romneys." Now, keep in mind, I never met Mitch Romney. I assume he means Mitt Romney. And I don't think I even worked for him. I just worked for the family. I reported to an employment manager as usual, and I was tasked with driving a young man named Cole around wherever he wanted. Cole was probably 22, already had his license, and had been suspended for drunk driving. He lived in a huge house out in the middle of nowhere outside Boulder, Colorado. Man, it was beautiful. If I could have stayed there forever, I would have. I suspect it was a vacation cabin mansion owned by his parents. But I digress. Every weekend, we'd drive into the city. He would get shitfaced drunk, find a woman or working girl, and I'd take us all back home. Cole was a piece of total [ __ ] If you remember scumbag Steve, just imagine if Steve parents were multi-millionaires, if not billionaires, you get the idea. And I said, "So, one Sunday morning after a typical Saturday night, I report for duty 8 a.m. sharp, knowing damn well Cole isn't going to drag his ass out of bed until at least 3 p.m. Here he comes hobbling down the driveway in his socks to my car. He usually texts when he's up, and I come inside and start cleaning up his message. No text today. He comes over to the car as I'm stepping out. He says, "Uh, hey buddy. We got kind of got a problem here, but it's not that big of a deal." Okay, what? Let's see it. We go inside upstairs to his bedroom. His girl from last night is laying face up, her mouth open, is pulled with vomit. She's most definitely dead. As far as I can tell, she overdosed on whatever combination of prescription drugs they were doing. Passed out, puked, then suffocated on her own vomit. I'm absolutely flipping my [ __ ] and I've got my phone out dialing 911. Cole slaps it out my hand and tells me to hold on. He says he can't get in trouble because it will look bad on his family. I said, "Cole, you've already been getting into trouble." He says he knows, just not this kind of trouble. He says, "I'll get a big bonus if I just deal with it myself. Now, I'm way out here in the middle of nowhere, and the implication from day one of my employment in this circle has been that if I mess up, I might suffer harsh consequences. I know what I did here was wrong. I know that, and I'm so sorry." Says, "I asked him what I'm supposed to do." He says, "Just wait." He gets a different phone out of a drawer and starts making calls. After a few minutes, I'm waiting in the hallway. He's casually pacing around the corpse. He gives me GPS coordinates for a little spot of 111 up in the mountains. I'm supposed to wrap her up, take her there, and drop her off. He said there would be guys waiting there to take her. It's a long drive. I don't look forward to it one bit. I wrap her up in his comforter. He stops me. Bro, he says, "Bro, not that blanket. That's like the softest blanket in the world, dude. No way." He gets me a different blanket from the closet. Effing real gentleman, Cole was. He's got an F-150 at the property used for landscaping work. I put her body in the bed with a tarp on top of it. I fill the rest of the back with landscaping supplies, fertilizer, tools. I tried to make it look really natural and boring. I'm [ __ ] bricks. I can't believe I'm actually doing this, but he's promising me that if I get busted, I'll have the best lawyers that money can buy. And I believe him. She's dead already anyway, and it's unlikely that he would even get into any real legal trouble. Just bad press. So, what's the difference? The whole time I'm driving, I'm just sweating through my clothes. I have to stop twice and puke. When I get there, there's a little dirt spot you can pull off into. And sure enough, there's a big black SUV and a Jeep with off-road tires. I'm not about to just assume these are the body people. So, I stop and get out and approach the SUV. The window rolls down and there's a woman who's probably in her 50s and a big guy driving. I don't know what to say, so I'm kind of just like, "Uh, how's it going?" Feeling like a complete effing idiot. She makes a call and describes to me the person on the phone. She then puts it down and says, "We're who you're looking for. Is it under all that stuff in the bed?" I say, "Yeah, do you need help?" She says, "No, take a break." So, I walk into the trees a little bit and smoke a cigarette or two. They've got her out, put her in the jeep within about 5 minutes. The woman tells me to wait 15 minutes before I leave. Then they pulled out and drive away. The jeep drives further into the woods. I wait maybe seven minutes and I leave. I got a text later telling me not to ever leave early again. It was from a blocked number. Wow. So when I get back to the house, Cole is sitting at the kitchen table eating a massive bowl of Froot Loops with a big serving spoon watching Love and Hip Hop. This man is like a child and he hasn't even got dressed yet. He asked me to wash his blanket and sheets. I do it. We got really drunk that night and Cole tells me this happened twice before and it's always fine. He says he's like Scarface and [ __ ] I hate him. The remaining few months go by without incident, and he gets his license back, freeing me at last. Uh, Mr. Epstein doesn't need me at this time, but I do get referred to as a reliable driver to the big wigs at Def Jam Records, who assigned me to work for Rihanna's crew while she promoted Talk That Talk at the time her sixth and newest album. For the record, I'm not sure I believe this. For the record right now. Okay, for the record, I don't right now. I'm not sure I believe this, but like let's let's see what they say in in the comments. It says, "I never met Miss Rihanna in person, just in passing now and then, but I found this job to agree with me a lot better than the others. I drove a van stacked with promotional gear city to city while she tooured. A few times I was sent to pick up Molly and was taught to use test strips for purity. If it wasn't pure, I was supposed to walk away, but it was always pure. There are circles within circles of connections. I believe there's an entire shadow economy strictly for the rich and famous to get their rocks off collectively. One thing I did learn about Rihanna is that she enjoys young females as well. I don't know if I believe that. I don't want to get the lawsuit. All right, this is just a deranged 4chan post. I was sent to pick up two young girls and bring them to her hotel room. Of course, I was met outside the door by someone more important than me. This struck me as odd because as far as I understand, Rihanna is not a billionaire like Epstein. I think she is now. But she was even more insulated and protected than he was. I'm sure that a lot of it has to do with just personal choices regarding security. But I get the picture that in this world, influence and money both equal power. And Rihanna, especially in 2011, 2012, was highly influential. All I had to do was mention her name and girls would get in the car just like that. Rihanna, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Rihanna. Okay, I'm sorry, but I'm going to keep reading. So, the most noteworthy thing that happened while working for Def Jam is when Rihanna had a party to celebrate the end of her tour. Everybody was there, and I mean all of the pop stars were there. Jonas Brothers, Lady Gagar, Justin Bieber, even a few old heads like Elton John and some actors. I noticed John Travolta of Shore, Seth Rogan, Emma Stone, Bradley Cooper to name a few. For this party, I was of course tasked with getting entertainment. They wanted as young as they could get and as many as they could get. I think I've actually read this section before. Ostensibly, they were being hired to be weight staff, valet drivers, but the plan is to switch it up on them when they actually get there. Give them drugs, money, whatever they need to get them to do what they wanted to do, which was essentially be all expenses paid working people or like like on fig um for whoever wanted them. That part thankfully was not my job. I'm just a piece of [ __ ] who tricked them into going. I picked up five young girls from a mall, a couple of teenage boys. I found them walking along the road. Then I got hold of an escort company to fill it out and make it an even dozen. The ones from the escort company were not underage and I was severely chastised for it. My manager basically asked if I ever wanted to work again. I said yes. He said then act like you've got some goddamn sense. I didn't make this mistake again. After the tour ended, I was just on my own for about a month or so. I rented a house near Tulsa and basically isolated the entire time. I was starting to get ideas in my head about going to trade school or something when I was called back to come work for Mr. Epstein again. Says, "At this point, I've developed a bad coke habit of which I've only been sober a few months to this day. I needed something to make me do it. Coke makes you feel numb in a way not much else does. And believe me, I've tried just about everything. There are research chemicals no one has even heard of that get traded around in these circles. And when I came back to work for Mr. Epstein on his island, I was going through an eightball every day or two. I binge drank at night, but I had to keep focused during the day. The coke wired me up and the liquor brought me back down. That's the only way mentally I could really cope with what was happening. I was flown to his now infamous island to be one of the regular staff. Essentially, I lived on this island for free while getting paid to maintain the grounds and keep the buildings up. When Mr. Epstein was there, obviously he would bring his own entertainment, so I didn't even have to do that. I thought, "This sounds like an effing fantastic deal. Island paradise, great wages, not much real work. Count me in." Out of all of my sins, I believe Sloth is the most damaging one I indulge in. I always look for the easy dollar, and that's why I'm prey for people like this. Now, first of all, this island is like a paradise on Earth. It's always a comfortable temperature. The rains are breathtakingly be beautiful. The architecture and decor of the houses are exquisite. Yes, the bath house is really creepy. The fake doors are there to confuse flyby surveillance if anyone was wondering. Um, the other regular staff were hard to get along with. They were all creeps and I mean capital C effing creeps. Made me wonder about myself honestly that I'm put here with them. They all joked about getting Mr. Epstein's leftovers and the talk was constantly about when Mr. Epstein was going to visit the island again. When he would bring important people, world leaders, CEOs, etc. I and most of the staff were kept totally out of sight. We weren't allowed to work in an area unless we knew it was empty. Only his most trusted employees could actually be in the building with him and his high power and his highpowered friends. Sometimes though, it would just be the family and things would be more relaxed. I passed by his office once carrying some garbage when he beckoned me inside. He asked me my name and I told him. He offered me a seat and I took it. You don't get far in this business by saying no. He began to talk to me. He looked really stressed. He asked me how anything he he asked me how anything that feels good could be bad. He had a big painting of Oscar Wild and considered him to be a personal hero. He begun to explain hedenism to me and asked me if I understood. Of course, I said, "Who doesn't like fun lots of people?" He said, "Lots of people." Then he had me go about my duties. I effed up really bad one evening and entered one of the maintenance sheds to return some tools I've been using and saw the sweaty, pale back of a large man hunched over and thrusting. He had a tattoo of Nixon on his back and he was wearing a bull's head mask. He was effing one of the regular staff members mouths. He turns to me and I'm just standing in shock and he says quite angrily, "Do you mind? What the [ __ ] What?" And I slam the door shut. As I'm closing the door, I get a glimpse of my coworker's face and he's crying. I googled Nixon back tattoo and later realized that man was Roger Stone. No, I'm going to cry. I'm going to cry. What? Why? Why? I'm tired, man. I'm tired of this, bro. I'm tired of this. [ __ ] What? What? It's real. This was 2019. This was 2019. Okay. And then this post was from 2020. I later realized that man was Roger Stone, who I'd never even heard of up until that point. I knew I was in deep [ __ ] The next day, and for two weeks after, I got the worst jobs. Trash pickup, cleaning toilets, scrubbing his boats. It effing sucked, but I kept my mouth shut anyway. Blood. As far as I understood, my pay had not been cut whatsoever. Um, so I thought, whatever, I'll do the shitty jobs where I'm by myself because at least, hey, I'm by myself. That was fine by me. This is Every day is something just crazier than the last. It is actually insane. I'm not a good guy, but thank you. If this was the movies, The Punisher or whoever would rip my spine out of my back, and I deserve it. I'm not a good guy. Anyway, things started getting really tense on the island from that point on. People started making little comments to me about being nosy or minding my own business. I was starting to get worried that I'd be branded a troublemaker, which you don't want to be. Things turn very quickly in this business. That's how they've kept a lid on it for so long. Any small mistake and you're out. Most people are let go with NDAs and the understanding that they will be watched the rest of their lives, which ultimately is how I got out as well. After Epstein died, they cut me loose. I guess they figure since he's dead, I guess they figure since he's dead, nothing I'd know would matter anyway. They're probably right. Honestly, it probably won't matter anyway. But the rest of my time on that island was pure terror. I was just waiting to be taken away or worse. Never happened. But I was still really scared. I saw a few of their weird plays they would do around the bath house. Mr. Epstein had a little portable stage he would set up. He would wear the bullhead and saw that I saw stonew wearing and give a big speech about what he called freedom. He would say, "This island is the only free place in the whole world where everyone on it can do whatever they want." [ __ ] Not your employees. Not the children you bring here. Total [ __ ] Everyone would cheer. They'd get up and do a sort of conga line with tiki torches. Really cringy old rich people [ __ ] And go into the bath house. There's a trap door on the floor that has not been reported in any of the investigation photos I've seen. I've seen this which they call the chamber and it's essentially a bondage dungeon. I don't know what happened in there and I never want to know. I stayed as far away from that house as I could. Wait, so I see this going around. This is They're saying there was a trap door that opened straight into the ocean and people were saying that it was used to to dump bodies. is more likely a door into a concrete water tank to use as clean water for the island. This was a trap door inside Epstein's house that led straight to the sea. They were on island surrounded by water, so why would they need a secret trap door to the sea? What posted the picture of Roger Stone with the Nixon thing? Oh my god. Okay, so we stayed away from the bath house. That is ridiculous. That is ridiculous. He said, "I mean large as in wide. He's a brick of a man. Pick related in the supply shed. He was taking up basically the entire doorway." Oh my god. Make it stop. So anyway, eventually I got my reputation for the most part back into the good graces and I was working in the main houses again. One time I was helping in the kitchen. I don't know if the chef was effing with me. I hope so. But he was separating what looked to me like the torso of a very young skinned pig. It had been roasted and he was chopping it into quarters. the ribs to be served that evening and the rest broken down for soups and casserles. I jokingly said that it looked like a little kid. He just gave me this awful deadeyed look and for a second and said, "Watch it." I worked on that island for about a year. In 2013,4 Mr. Epste chose me and two other trusted employees from the island to come with him to a winter retreat in the Swiss Alps. He owned a small billion billionaire small mind you cabin again mansion and there and wanted people to know that he knew he could be trusted because most of the staff would be local hires. Our job on the surface was to help manage all the employees like supervisors basically, but the unspoken task would be keeping everyone either in the dark or quiet. Mr. Epstein had a real fondness for plump young Swiss blondes. Listen, if they're of age, that's that's sounding decent. Uh, and the Swiss, obviously it wouldn't be cuz he's a creep. Um, and the Swiss, as he would explain, have a very progressive idea regarding age of consent. Okay, scratch what I just said. Um, he viewed this as more of a relaxed way to do what he does, more casual. Part of the thrill for these people, I think, is the fact that it is illegal and they could get in big trouble when they go to places that are more friendly with the idea of an older man having it on with five yos. Um, it's to take a break, so to speak. I don't This is disgusting. The Alps themselves. Wow. I mean, wow. I've been all over the United States and nothing in this country compares to Europe in terms of sheer beauty. Sometimes in the early morning when I'd come out of my cabin and stretch looking at the trees, smelling the crisp, clean air for just a minute, I'd forget what I have done and what I'm doing. When it came back to me, I'd have to fight back the tears. I want the mountains to be there, the mountains there to be the last thing I think about before I die. So, I've not been there three days when while me and two from the island are doing bumps of coke off a butter knife in the lower garage, a boy, maybe 14, skinny, blonde, pale, and nude, comes through the doorway right towards us. He's speaking French, but I think I got the gist of what he was saying. He was asking for help. He looked hysterical, and immediately my two friends were out of there, and I shouldn't have been far behind. I told him, "Calm down. Calm down. It's okay. I'm going to help you." I just wanted him to feel better. This all took maybe 30 seconds before one of the nannies came in. He looked at her, confused, and I get the picture. He was trying to decide if she could be trusted. She couldn't. She shushed him and put her jacket over him and took his hand. She was speaking French as well, and it sounded like a mother consoling a frightened child. She led him back into the house. I did not see him again. I never mentioned it to anyone, and nobody ever mentioned it to me. During my last couple of weeks there, I witnessed firsthand the murder of an independent journalist. Oh, no. Oh no. Hey wait wait wait wait wait wait. Cancel the video. Delete the video. Delete everything. Delete everything. I don't think he was actually a journalist. I think maybe he had a blog or a YouTube channel. [ __ ] [ __ ] Damn it. Chat we cooked. But I'd never heard of him and I don't know his name. I don't think he was anyone with any real connections. Listen man. Right. aim at. He was one of the local hires, a dishwasher, but he was seen with a cell phone out, possibly recording. Me and the other two from the island were asked to go check it out. So, we go get a guy. So, we go get the guy, ask him to empty out his pocket. Sure enough, he's got a phone. We told him to unlock it. He wouldn't. One of the other guys made a call, came back and slugged him directly in the nose. I think it broke it because there was blood just pouring out, and the guy started screaming. I don't think he'd ever been hit before, but me and the other guy held him down. F it. I'll say their names. We tell him it was Daniel Robinson from South Florida and Marcus Harper from Nevada. Marcus and I were holding him down and Daniel punched him again and told him to unlock his phone. He complied this time and sure enough there were pictures and videos from inside the house. We knew he hadn't sent anything out because only wired connections work there. I guess they had signal jammers or something. Or maybe because it was just so remote. I don't know. Anyway, Daniel makes another call and tells us to take him back outside into the woods. I think we're just going to threaten him and make him sign an NDA. But Daniel took off his belt and strangled him to death. What? The first hat we had, bro. We had to put his body up in an out building cuz the ground was frozen. We put him through a wood chipper and then burned everything to ash. There were bits of charred bone left over. We swept it into a trash bag and threw it out with the regular garbage. Stop. This above everything else I feel the most guilty for. This is the second half of the story actually. Um my god. After that, if I wasn't in before, I was definitely in now. Me, Marcus, and Daniel, the three effing stooges from hell. Daniel had been in the military. I think he had a few screws loose because he always had a temper. He became the go-to guy for the really dirty stuff. I started working for Mr. Epstein directly after this. He would confide in me sometimes when he was very high about how nothing really makes him feel good enough. He told me once that he hasn't felt happy in years. I wish I had the stones to tell him that this life he's living is only bringing him down. For a brief moment, I felt empathy for this man. I think that too was part of his game though. I don't think he has ever had a single genuine feeling in his life outside of sexual gratitude. He never mentioned the journalist to me. It was like it never happened. But we both knew that was the reason I was now working directly for him. Listen, I think I've said all I care to right now. I'm going to go and get a bottle of something before all the stores closed. If this thread is still here in a few hours, I'll answer questions and tell some more stories. Ex Florida psycho. Hey OP, is this your few screws loose ex army friend? Just a yes or a no and I'll keep working. Oh my god. Oh my god. I don't think he was challenged mentally challenged at all. He was whips smart. I just don't think he had any emotional intelligence. Maybe. I think he was hollow on the inside for the most part. They called them plays and theater, but from my eyes, yeah, I would say the speeches and stuff I saw looked a lot like rituals. The bull's head mask was scary. I mean, it was a rubber mask for sure, but whoever spoke would wear it all night. And they would come up out the chamber. Uh the masked person would roam the island all night and it was generally understood that you are to avoid them at all costs. When they wear the mask, they're like animals. They just wander around from one carnal satisfaction to the next. Food, sex, sometimes violence, whatever. And they can just do whatever they want. If they came to you and told you to suck their D or whatever, you would have to do it. It never happened to me thankfully. But I made sure on those nights to stay out of sight. And that's the end of the most depraved thread I think I have ever witnessed in my entire life. What? What? And so now for the comments. Okay, it says, "If you search Cole in the Epstein emails, there was a short back and forth with Caffrey Ruminer Rummenia where Jeffrey Epstein asked, "Does Cole's replacement need confirmation? Just thought it would be worth a mention." Um, they're saying, "Here's a post about Cole. Has anyone verified that if this Cole had a previous DUI arrest and a suspended license around that time, assuming it was not expuned? I don't know if you can find after that, rich people can pay to make them go away. I mean, if the information is publicly available, then whoever wrote this up could look up for their story as well. It would need to be something he couldn't have known at the time. Oh god. The Cole Romney from the Jeffrey Epstein 4chan thread. Don't don't we need to revisit this. That's what they're saying. We need I look totally did all that. I know plenty of mini Romney that are just as rich and way dian would let a girl od and not really care. We don't know if this for sure. People in the comments are saying it was real. Evil one, hell is real. And how do you know? Look at the released emails they put out. It shows the Epstein Jeff Def Jam connection as well as the Rihanna connection. No way this dude now three people in his story six years ago who even knew that Epstein was connected to Jeff Jam. Even if the story is fake, I still feel like it's pretty accurate representation of what the Epstein world was like. So maybe it doesn't really matter. I guess it shouldn't have said matter. My god. He said Cole was 22. No brav. Oh no. The story time with a dead man section. Oh my god. Has someone else done a video on this? Are they still alive? Are they still alive? Okay. Okay. Someone else has covered this that long ago. Four times four channel on the internet. Wow. I'm going to save that to watch later. Um, crazy crazy. Look, I I could look into this another time. They're saying it's a real person. I won't sum up the article. You can read it yourself. Um, it said Cole was 22 around the time. The story takes place around 2011, so he'll be 31 in the article. It seems right. Although the Dune in the article is the polar opposite of the guy described in the thread. I don't think a man child with seemingly no job who lays around his pajamas all day staying up all night doing drugs with hookers would be an Air Force member attending medical school and have a wife and kids also be running a business with his wife. But according to the article, this all happened around 2017, several years after the incident in the story. So maybe he turned his life around later on. Brav, what's this going to be? Okay, this is just the email. It just says, "Does Cole's replacement need confirmation?" That you know that's Hey, listen. is that that doesn't really prove anything. Okay. Um they're saying Mitt Romney has made a Goldman Sachs lawyer, White House council for Obama. Mitt Mitt Romney maintained a long-term close financial and professional ties with Goldman Sachs which provided high level investment services management. So Goldman Sachs is a big company. Um it's likely a reference to James M. Cole who served as a deputy attorney general until 2015. Screenshot of this thread is in the Epstein files. Sure is. Sure. This is actually in the files. So, you can't say it's not my fault. I didn't come up with this. Okay. OP left out the craziest part. The last post on 4chan this person made was 8 hours before Galain got arrested. That is insane. That is insane. The investigators found it interesting. What did they say? Is this just the Is this the same thing? It's just more threads. Eventually, I got trust with Bigger. This the same thing. So, this is in subject to protective order. It is actually in the files. It's legitimately in the files. I love how one person said, "It's too silly to believe. If only they knew. The names of the journalists could surely be verified um if they went missing." Says, "It's literally how they got away with it. They behave nice in public and it's so insane in private that to tell about it makes the whistleblower look insane." Wow. They also flagged a video sharing the post is deleted now. 4chan story X working for Epstein. No way. Oh man. Well, look, the files have already clo they've already closed out the files, but this video could have been in the files. That's crazy. That's actually crazy. From a memory, someone turned to text that was posted to 4chan in a YouTube video. It was then removed. My god. So, just more screenshots of the video from YouTube in the files. That's crazy. So, this is a comment basically summing up uh all of the things that apparently have been confirmed as true that match up with the story from the actual properties. Epstein properties and physical features from the story. Okay, it's not necessarily matched up. Um, but this is basically just summarizing all of the things. Epstein had several bedrooms, a favorite bedroom, all this. We already know this stuff, right? Um, it says the full store thing is true, although it was reported September 2019. I can't find the Oscar Wild painting. I feel like he went to the effort to read about the doors. He would have also mentioned the painting of a woman that was in his office instead of Oscar Wild. 2025, it was revealed that Oscar Wild was on his prison's reading list. The pictures of inside the temple or bath house are on Wikipedia. Huh. Huh. Interesting. Intriguing. Intriguing. Some very interesting pics. You Wikipedia got the goods. I'm not going to lie. Wikipedia got the goods. Wow. Looking for Oscar Wild painting. Little St. James. Little St. James is the smaller of the two islands in the southeast of St. Thomas. Man, I need to get rich enough so that I can have an island and we're just going to have nothing but good vibes. Nothing but good vibes and good times and all adults. Just good adult fun on my island. Okay, we're going to set things right. Look at the floor. It looks as if there might have been a trap door. The staff were desperately repaving it perhaps after Epstein's death and they just ran out of money and abandoned the property. Google isn't finding me anything on this. I found an email from Jeffrey to Valerie Post dated September the 13th, 2010 where Jeffree said, "Buying respectability is like the Oscar Wild quote that says, "Sincerity is the most important characteristic, and once you fake that, you'll be fine." Wow. There's 11 images in this. You can clearly see the fake doors. There's a platform and stage. I think this is the bath house. No visible trap door, but it could have easily had flooring or furniture put over it. So, this is on a Daily Mail article. There's just a few more images. I think these are quite similar to images we've already seen. Um, this kind of looking like a bit of a stage. That does actually make sense to me. It's actually so dark. So dark. He purchased the island in 1998. This guy was rich for so long. It doesn't make any sense. Doesn't make any sense. Mattresses that have appeared to left been left a rotten shrink wrap that has turned a shade of yellow. Wow. Dark. It's dark. It's dark. People emails about masks. No, I don't want that silver mask. I'm getting out of my doggy mask. This will be so cute. This doggy coming and going from the house. Uh, yes, I agree. I sent an email to Elizabeth. He's in charge of sending the gift, asking her for a signature. I'll let you know it never arrived. I think what you saw was the mask we all got at the ball. Just a plain white mask. Bunch of emails about mask. Screenshot of YouTube comments asking about the bull mask. Wow. Surprisingly believable. sends evidence to the worst press agencies that are probably in with Epstein. They're saying that he's uh when you're rich and powerful. Um reminds me of that one movie, The Conspiracy. Wouldn't surprise me if they had human hunting parties on the island and that temple's probably used for dark rituals. Full movie is on YouTube. The cover is a guy in a red bull mask wearing a suit. The YouTube comments making it into the Epstein files is absolutely wild. Oh my god. Oh my god. saying, "I wonder if this is the same Daniel Robinson and Marcus Harper." Oh my good golly god. There we go. Tampa man sentenced to 50 years for child exploitation offenses. Child swword exploitation offenses. Donald Daniel Robinson, age 30, Tampa. He plead guilty in 2016. I would have thought these guys were older, but maybe not. I mean, according to court records, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement begun investigation after receiving numerous tips from the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children network concerning internet user at his residents who distributed files containing cheese pizza through various social networking websites. The agents raided his home. They found evidence on his phone that he posed as a female online to coers children to create very bad things. He got a lengthy he got 50 years. That's Daniel. And then this is the other mana man sentenced to life for sword assaulting and pregnantating a a young Marcus Harper also aed 30 was facing this is 2019 two counts of aggravated essay with a young two counts of essay of a young life life in prison for each account brev both posted before this story though the story is about before the arrest I assume Man, people are saying, "Is he laughing based on publicly available details at the time?" My initial response to my head was, "Cool, story, bro. Yeah, as believable as you try to make it, I get suspicious every time the account throws a spattering of celebrities you wouldn't have expect that have zero history of essay in there for shock value." Like, if you copy and paste the cast of a Marvel movie or Billboard top 10 and don't have the evidence to back it up, I'm not going to believe you. It's the same reason I tried to ignore the tip line of the files and focus on the emails. This becoming a cultural phenomenon. It opens up too much room for trolls or nutcases to lop and have fun. Too many Redditors have never even stepped foot in 4chan. You just see these posts and lap it up with not knowing how much stuff is led. Lar meaning live action roleplay. Um, yeah. Always wonder what that unlucky YouTuber might have been. Makes it wonder how many people's disappearance can be linked to Epstein's network. If any of this is true, I don't even want to imagine. Did he mention how the YouTuber got there? Must have missed it. didn't make sense to me. He was hired as a dishwasher. He got caught recording too many times. He was outed as working on undercover when he wouldn't surrender the content. Both goons have such generic names, it's hard to confirm their identity. I keep getting timed out on the DOJ, but there are emails about bringing along a wood chipper. Huh. Here's a full narration on YouTube. We we I just did that. But here's an interesting comment that kind of uh makes people skeptical. It says, "The one detail mentioned that makes me skeptical of the authenticity where the author stated was when Epstein was high, he opened up to him and had a deep philosophical conversation. I've heard Epstein didn't drink or do drugs. Multiple sources says that man was against partaking in any mindaltering substances. He'd stock his parties with every drug under the sun, but he would remain sober. People like him do not like feeling out of control. And I also think he knew he had to always be alert, clear-headed so he didn't get caught up." They say maybe he got high when he was alone and not partying with others. One of the names he's mentioning, Daniel Richardson, the murder, shows up on a wire statement in the files, but it's mentioned as something else. Somebody completely different. Gosh, that's nuts. It's crazy. Do you see this from six years back? People are saying it's a lop back then. Real or lop? Supposed former driver and assistant to Epstein come forwards and tells all. If this is a lop, it's pretty damn good. N out of 10, it's usually a lop. I like this. Not necessarily because it's true, but it gets what I believe is the spirit of the truth. I'm imagining Epstein at the se seat of decadence and excess, staging bohemian grove style rituals, con consecrating his own power, living without consequence, and yet totally empty inside. It encapsulates everything rotten and evil inherent in wealth acquisition for its own sake, and shows us what the next generations must do differently if they want a more peaceful and loving society. On X makes me immediately think he's just a good storyteller. Oh god, here we go. There was a screenshot of Rihanna's name with alleged mis calls as epste did a video on it. Oh my god, we've gone full circle. We have gone full c. We've broken through the meta. It's crazy. Image five. Cole murder location. Street view cuts out before that point even though the satellite that's crazy. I find the story plausible but highly highly unlikely. It should be fairly easy to corroborate the facts that we're not in the public record now. But yeah, very creative and detailed. Unlikely. Um, I searched the word bull and got tons of results. Yeah, no [ __ ] Um, how could he remember those exact coordinates? He probably zoomed in on the place on maps he remembered and wrote down the coordinates. Said it's easy to do these days. It's crazy. I only don't buy it on the fact that if you really did this work, you would be surely be able to prove it somehow, either with some picture or something, message, screenshots, addresses, more specific names, some private info that certainly would come out later, but it doesn't provide any source of proof or even try. The thing I'm tired of this nonsense. The thing that um the thing that I think is interesting about this is I'm pretty sure that when the guy posted on 4chan claiming that he worked in the prison and and that he was there when they you know faked Epstein's death and snuck him out of the prison. I'm pretty sure they they tracked that guy down. They they subpoenaed whatever they did. They subpoenaed 4chan. They subpoenaed someone else. Um they got his bank account records. They got his location. They got his real name. Why haven't they done that with this? Why haven't they done that with this? Um, this reads like fanfiction. Yes, this 4chan post is included in the files, but it doesn't necessarily mean it's true. The part where he talked about getting high with Epstein was the final straw. Never has anybody else suggested that Epstein had a proclivity for drugs. I feel like maybe that is it. All right, the rest is ridiculous, but within the realm of possibility. It's hard to conceptualize a lot of this stuff cuz the goalposts are constantly shifting and more and more information gets revealed. Bigger picture comes into focus. First, he was a PDF Rword. Then it was revealed who was trafficking these girls. um to other men and women. There's talk of force surrogacy, potentially a black market for babies. It's just getting out of control. It gets really outlandish. All right. If the form was true, it's plausible that he or his co-conspirators would plant outlandish. Is this the uh is this the FBI telling me to shut up? I think this is the FBI telling me to be quiet. Um anyway, all right, we get the gist. I think I don't doubt that the chef was cooking up something sinister. I found this when searching the keyword baby. Uh, do I even want to see this? Yeah, this has been going going around a bit. This is um lol. I don't know if cream cheese and baby are still on the same level. It's okay. There's still enough time today. I'm trying to schedule priming for 4 5:30 fuel explosion. 9:45 p.m. will bring a new engine startup video. There are millions of babies. Very good vegetable cream cheese. Very little good vegetable cream cheese. Cre baby. I don't even want to know. I don't even want to know. People saying they don't buy it. Mitt Romney doesn't show up in the files at all other than his articles. Practically a choir boy except for putting his dog on top of his car and he's from Utah, not Colorado. Big difference. Uh, one's a hyperconservative LDS state. The other's a very liberal, non-religious state. Cole Romney is Mit's second cousin, twice removed. They don't even appear to hang out. Cole's never been arrested for drink driving. He's a fourth year medical student with two kids in 2020. Looks like he's straight out of the books of Mormon. Plus, he was a former Air Force officer. Nothing about this seems true. I believe this was confirmed to be fake. It's an awful lot. Um, it's been floating about for years. The two guys he named dropped when telling the story about finding the Swiss guy with a phone. He name dropped these guys before Daniel Robinson went missing well before I don't know how much information about that guy was available. Around the time this was created back in 2019 or 2020. I believe this was debunked as fake. Someone did a podcast about it and the person who wrote this confessed. I I I would love for somebody to just post a link to to something to be like, "Yeah, this is absolute proof this isn't true." But I'm not sure I'm believing it. The same Roger Stone isn't that big. All right. Anyone from Switzerland can tell us if the disappearing of a dishwasher was ever reported to the authorities. I I think we've seen enough people saying it looks like a well-ritten story. Take it with a huge chunk of salt cuz it's from 4chan. That was a fun read. Okay, I'm scared. I am scared. Okay, let me know what you think down in the comments. I am really tired of this stuff, but also like I can't put it down. And look, I appreciate I was going to stop talking about this, but I'm seeing all the people in the comments saying that this is one of the most important stories of this generation, and they're appreciating the perspective that I'm bringing. They're appreciating me keeping this story alive, um, and digging deeper into things. So, I'm just going to keep going, okay? I'll do a few more videos on this, maybe tomorrow, uh, maybe today. I've got two other videos I want to do on completely different topics, okay? So, stay tuned for those. 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Pam Bondi EXPLODES in Congress Over Epstein Cover-Up The Lincoln Project Feb 11, 2026
Pam Bondi’s performance in Congress told us everything we need to know about this DOJ’s priorities. Instead of standing with the victims of Jeffrey Epstein, she deflected, stonewalled, and protected the powerful. Millions of documents remain redacted, unanswered questions keep piling up, and accountability is nowhere in sight. Rick Wilson breaks down what this hearing revealed about corruption, loyalty to Trump over the law, and why the fight for justice is far from over.
Transcript
Hey folks, I just want to pop on for a minute, because I want to talk about what we saw today in Congress with Pam Bondi.
I have low expectations for the humanity and morality and compassion for anybody involved in the Trump administration, as one should. These are soulless, horrible, terrible human beings. They're the worst of the worst. They are examples of the lowest of humanity.
But I have to say two things about Pam Bondi today. When she refused to even turn and acknowledge the presence of the victims in the room, when she over and over and over and over again, instead of acknowledging the damage, the rapes, the sexual abuse, the human trafficking that was conducted by Jeffrey Epstein and his wealthy friends, she tried to flip it over every time and blame the immigrants for something else, tried to make this into a conversation today about what immigrants were doing in the country, rather than what Jeffrey Epstein did, and what the people around Jeffrey Epstein have gotten away with, it tells you really something vital about Pam Bondi. I'm going to go through the three things I think it tells you most about Pam Bondi.
One, her client, as you are all well aware, is not America. It's not the Department of Justice. It's not our laws, or the Constitution. It is Donald Trump. She believes that the sort of clownish performance she put on today matters only because Trump likes it. And it does. It's the only reason that matters.
Now, look, the Democrats tried their best to ask the questions the way they wanted to ask them. And guys, I got a couple of pointers here for later, but this is a low person. Pam Bondi's a low person.
I've known Pam for 25 years. Not well. We're not friends. But I've been around Florida politics. Pam's never been a smart person, but she's always been a vicious little creature in pursuit of sucking up to the next level, to enrich herself politically or personally.
But what you saw today, her absolute contempt for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein, this should tell you something about her character, going through the whole showy BS today. "Boy, what about this immigrant, and what about that immigrant?"
Okay, prosecute him, hold him accountable, arrest him, convict him. Great. Nobody's against it. But you can see the level to which this obsesses the Trump administration. And you can see the level to which Pam Bondi was willing to reduce herself to a gibbering idiot. Because the Trump administration knows that they're still bleeding from this Epstein matter. And they're going to keep bleeding from it. They know they're involved in a cover up. They've been busted cleanly on a cover up. Cleanly busted on a cover up.
Pam Bondi is the head of that cover up. She has been in charge of these redactions. You'll notice that was one of the moments she got very squirrely today on the redactions. Super squirrely. Like you could tell if Pam Bondi had a lump of coal between her knees, a diamond would have popped out.
She is aware of the suffering of these victims and simply doesn't care. That's the key point here, guys, to understand something. They don't care. There is no moral center there. There is no subset of her behavior, or her soul, or her life, where she says, "You know, these victims really deserve our compassion and our attention. They deserve justice." They do not, in her mind, deserve justice. In her mind, they're just an embarrassment to Donald Trump, and therefore have to be ignored, shunted, shunned, pushed aside.
When you saw Dan Goldman asking if any of them had been contacted by the DOJ, and none of them had, if they tried to reach out to the DOJ, and all of them had, if they were still willing to talk to the DOJ, and all of them were. And Pam Bondi, her response was to throw up another 8 by 10 picture of some rando.
Pam Bondi is is a low person. She is a person who lives in a world her obedience to Donald Trump leads to her absolute inhumanity toward these victims, and her absolute despicable, repulsive, juvenile behavior toward Congress.
I'm going to get to point two about Pam Bondi's character in a second, because that is something that she's going to have a very different world to face. She recognizes quite clearly that the world is going to change. This committee is not going to be all Jim Jordan and the Republican crew throwing her softball questions, bailing her out, letting her answer in her long winded oppo research driven BS answers, because the Republican majority is on a razor's edge right now. As I record this, there is a real possibility the majority could be gone within 24 hours due to Congressman Neil Dunn, if the rumor is true, resigning. And if that happens, the majority is going to get real interesting real quickly.
Pam Bondi was there today writing checks that she can't cash in the future, when there is a Democratic majority in that body.
You can see the outlines of her strategy today starting to protect herself in the future by trying to say, "Oh, well, it's all your fault. You guys didn't bring this up before with Merrick Garland!" Okay, sure. She's opened herself up, I believe, not only to contempt, but I think she's perjured herself repeatedly today.
It's something about Pam Bondi's character. She is a hustler, okay? Pam Bondi is a hustler. She's always been trying to climb the ladder politically. She recognizes opportunity, and she recognizes risk. Today, a lot of this performance, the showier, louder, uglier parts, were about opportunity. To be in Trump's good graces. Keep Trump happy. Make Trump think that you're the fierce warrior for him, and you're going to defend him to the dying day, in the Fuhrer bunker. You're going the last one standing. They're going to be there with the gas can over him when the Fuhrer bunker falls to the Russians.
I think she also smelled some risk today. Now look, Democrats, when you do take power, don't go in there with yes or no questions of Miss Bondi. You now know what she does. You now know what she is.
If the power shift happens sooner than November, I beg of you, drag her ass and Kash Patel's ass, and Todd Blanche's ass, in front of a committee every possible moment you get. Have lots of hearings. Have tons of hearings. Keep the hearings rolling 24/7. Because I'll tell you what else I saw about Pam Bondi today. And I know this about Pam Bondi, because I know the people that advise her. She requires a lot of prep. That thing today, and and every one of her recent experiences and appearances, have been highly prepared, have been highly scripted. They went through the oppo, they've got the oppo goons working on this, to find the three immigrants who committed a crime in Dan Goldman's district, or whatever.
Okay, great. It is time to drag her hard in these committees. Not only because it's fun to drag Pam Bondi, and it's necessary to drag Pam Bondi, and it's frankly necessary to impeach Pam Bondi, because she is a malicious actor. She's engaging in widespread abuse of power in the DOJ by persecuting and prosecuting and attempting to go after Trump's political opponents that he has identified for her. They are engaged in a corrupt bargain with Ghislaine Maxwell, by moving her to a cushy club fed, in order to try to suborn her perjury, to exonerate Donald Trump. She is violating the law by engaging in this cover up at scale.
Guys, think about the immediate future with this, especially if control of the House slips out of Mike Johnson's hands now, or even the summer. Do not let your foot off the gas. Do not ever take your foot off the gas. Bondi is not smart. Remember this. She's crafty. She's kind of clever. She's a little smart mouth. But if she's not prepared, and if you roll her through her prepared answers and her props, she will fall apart.
Now, her exposure on this obviously is not going to be an easy lift, but it is going to be a vital lift. If you paralyze the Department of Justice, and the system they are building to persecute Donald Trump's political enemies, and to engage in the lawlessness that they've engaged in with, for instance, Fulton County in Georgia, and the lawlessness they're engaging as a backstop to ICE and DHS, you've found a lynchpin there. You found a valence in the structure, where you can hammer and hammer and hammer. And she deserves it. She's a horrible human being. She's a bad person.
And I promise you, she's going to go back to her very, very beautiful apartment in Navy Yard, or wherever she lives in DC, and she will not lose a minute of sleep over this. She will not stare at the ceiling and go, "Oh my god. Oh my god. I should have said something to those women. They were raped when they were little girls. They were trafficked when they were little girls. They were sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein and wealthy, wealthy, powerful men when they were little, little girls. Because folks, we know from the documents that have been released so far that there were victims as young as 9 years old.
And this is the third big point about Pam Bondi. She has always had a keen nose for rich people. She's shoved her nose right up the asses of very rich men for a very long time. Cuz she wants power, and she wants proximity to that money. She wants proximity to the kind of people that hung around Jeffrey Epstein. And right now she's making sure they owe her.
The fact that they exposed the victims was deliberate and Pam Bondi knew it. The fact that Pam Bondi exposed the names and identities, including things like phone numbers of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein in these documents, they spent a thousand man hours, a million dollars of extra overtime pulling Trump's name out. But even though the law specified that the victim's names must be redacted, she did it deliberately. They did it to intimidate the victims of Jeffrey Epstein. Pam Bondi did this to deliberately intimidate the victims of a serial pedophile and sex trafficker. She did it so the victims would shut up.
This is one of the most morally reprehensible and despicable things I've ever seen out of the Trump universe. And I am a close student of their utter immorality and evil. But Pam Bondi is protecting the names of very wealthy men. It's not just Les Wexner. Pam Bondi has no interest in prosecuting very wealthy men who were around Jeffrey Epstein. She has no interest in justice for the victims of these very wealthy men who are around Jeffrey Epstein. Because all roads lead back to Donald Trump. The roads lead back to people that she cares about. The roads lead back to a power structure of men in New York, and Washington, and Los Angeles, and London, that she would like to have on her side in the future.
You know, she worked for a guy before she came to the DOJ, named Brian Ballard. You may not have heard of Brian Ballard. He's the most powerful lobbyist in America. He is the biggest lobbyist in the world. Brian is a very, very, very wealthy guy, and a very powerful guy. He is a dark shadow flickering behind the scenes of many of these little plays you see in Trump world. Why did they decide we could put lead in daycare centers or whatever? That's Brian Ballard almost certainly. He is a lobbyist for the highest bidder, and Pam Bondi was one of his star players.
For all that, my Republican friends go, "Oh, Qatar, Iran, the evil Muslims." Yeah, she was the lobbyist for Brian D. Ballard. $150,000 a month. So she cares very much about the wealthy men who could be harmed by revelation, by prosecution.
If this justice department even had one scrap, one tiny fraction, one scintilla of justice about it, they would be running investigations against the powerful powerful men that we know of so far. If they had one scintilla of justice, they would not redact the names. They would not redact the information. They would not blank out the pictures, and the identities of these wealthy men. They would not seek to protect them as she does at every point, at every turn.
These victims of Jeffrey Epstein are enormously brave women. They are the family members of the surviving victims, like Virginia Giuffre's family, who I've had the privilege to talk to and interview. These people had to go out there today and stand behind the most powerful law enforcement officer in the country, and listen to her lie, and listen to her ignore them, and listen to her treat them with utter contempt, and hatred.
I want you to think about who Pam Bondi is. Pam Bondi is a person who gives Donald Trump whatever he wants at any given moment, and cares no shits about anybody else. She cares nothing, nothing for these victims.
Oh, the DOJ will sit down with the debate. It is a lie. They have not. They have refused to do so. They care more about Ghislaine Maxwell than they care about the victims, the girls who are now women, but who were girls and children that Jeffrey Epstein raped, and that Jeffrey Epstein pimped out to other powerful men.
The lies these people have told, and told, and told, and told, and told. The lies they have told so many times. "Oh, there's no conspiracy. He didn't traffic to anybody but himself." What are you talking about? "We're done. We released the one volume of Epstein files to the Influencers. That's it. We're done." "I've got the whole thing on my desk. Nothing there. No."
And yet everything we see, even though we have less than 50% of the documents so far from the Epstein related information, leads us to conclude this is wider, and deeper, and more systemic, and more horrifying than we want to admit to ourselves, and that's what they're hoping. They're hoping you don't want to look too closely. They're hoping you don't want to stare too long into the abyss. They're hoping you don't want to say, "Yeah, let's read another couple hundred emails back and forth between these guys joking about, "I've got a young one for you. She's hot. I'm going to give Musk this girl and that." There is no accountability right now for any person who was a friend of Jeffrey Epstein in America.
Across the world, people who knew Epstein, who communicated with Epstein, who were friends with Epstein, they're losing their jobs, whether they're in government, or the private sector.
The Finlanders, in their investigation, have removed the immunity of the person that was involved. People are being held accountable. In the UK, it's probably going to bring down the government because of Peter Mandelson.
This lack of accountability is something Pam Bondi was out there today very proudly boasting about, slapping Congress in the face with a big "Fuck You!" Because she wouldn't commit to investigating any of the powerful men around Jeffrey Epstein. She wouldn't commit to justice for the victims. She wouldn't commit to following the law that was passed and signed by her own president, to reveal what the FBI and the DOJ know.
They still have 3 million documents that they're busily scrubbing out of the system. We will never know how many they have removed illegally from the system. And I promise you, I know who these people are. I know what they will do. If you don't think that Donald Trump says, "Take those files and shred them that are about me," you are mistaken. He will. And they'll say, "No, sir. We can't do that." And then it'll happen anyway.
You know, one of the things Pam Bondi kept saying today was, "Well, nobody investigated during the Barr, Comey, or Garland eras." Yeah, actually, there was an investigation still running during the Biden administration in the Southern District of New York. Who killed that investigation? Oh, it was Pam Bondi at Donald Trump's order.
Guys, Pam Bondi is a horrible human being. She is unethical, she is immoral, she is cruel, she is callous. And by the way, she's a lawyer. You guys should all know this.
By the way, just so you know, in Florida, when she was the attorney general, she had a cleanup crew running behind her at all times. She's a terrible lawyer. She's not a good lawyer. And you would not put Pam Bondi in a courtroom. I promise you that.
Pam Bondi, when the moment comes, must be impeached and removed from office. And although Republicans are going to say, "Oh, no. We're not going to do that," to the president. "She's his choice." Pam Bondi must be impeached and removed from office.
You saw today a contempt for the law, a contempt for the victims, and a contempt for justice. And that's Pam Bondi. And that is a person who should be disbarred, frankly. But that is a person who told you very clearly today what they're doing here. They're protecting the wealthy people around Jeffrey Epstein, including Donald Trump. They're trying to make the victims shut up, and they're trying to tell Congress to Fuck off.
You know, Pam, I can't wait for the day, and it will come, when you don't have a Republican majority; when Jim Jordan isn't there to ignore the other people on the Committee and to cover for you. There will come that day. And the questions you will be asked then will put you in a position where you're going to perjure yourself. Cuz you're not that bright, Pam. You'll perjure yourself. You'll lie and think, "Oh, I can lie my way through it. Fox News won't cover it that way, so I'll be okay." But you won't, cuz this country will get back to the law. This country will get back to justice. And your miscarriage of it will be the thing that brings you down.
BREAKING: GOP Rep. Posts DISTURBING Message After DOJ's Epstein BACKLASH Really American Feb 13, 2026
Really American Host Kenny Hesse breaks down Republican Representative Thomas Massie posting a harrowing message about his safety in response to the Backlash he's received from Trump's DOJ and Pam Bondi over his Epstein Files Transparency Act petition and the administration's blatant cover up.
Transcript
Holy crap, folks. I I cannot believe I have to start this video with a trigger warning or put the hotline that is up on screen right now up there. But um Thomas Massie, the Republican representative uh who along with Roana filed the Epstein discharge petition um and you know has been a vocal outspoken critic of what Pam Bondi is doing, how this administration has released the files, just posted this on Twitter saying, "I am not swword. Uh I eat healthy food. The brakes on my car and truck are in good shape. I practice good trigger discipline and never point a blank at anyone, including myself. There are no deep pools of water on my farm. And I'm a pretty good swimmer. That is a nuts statement for a sitting member of the house to have to put out. But I mean, at this point, it it makes sense. uh especially given, you know, all of the stuff that we saw Pam Bondi do in the hearing as well as the way we saw people react as well as the fact that Thomas Massie was was the representative who exposed the fact that Pam Bondi had prepared insult flashcards, what people called a burn book, like from Mean Girls, uh of of insults for the representatives that were questioning her. We'll get into more of how he's c been calling out Bondi's cover up, especially with regards to the representatives only being able to see uh portions of the unredacted files at like four computers that that they've been spying on the representatives who went and looked at the files. But here are some of the more tense exchanges between uh Thomas Massie and Pam Bondi from the other day. Within 40 minutes, Wexner's name was added back within 40 minutes of me catching you redhanded. Red hand. There was one redaction where he's listed as a co-conspir. And we invited you in. We This guy has Trump derangement syndrome. Literally, we caught you guys redacting a co-conspirator's name. I mean, there's a lot more than that they they redacted, but it's like for them to say, "Oh, what? We It was just one name. We put it up. up when you said so when you caught us on our four computers we allowed you to use with redactions on top of redactions and Pam Bondi's performance here was so bad that at one point she's being asked about you know like are you bringing any more indictments are you investigating anyone and she jumps back to some pretty bizarre talking points how many of Epstein's co-conspirators have you indicted how many perpetrators are you even investigating first you showed it you I I find it how many have Excuse me. I'm going to answer the question. Answer my question. No, I'm going to answer the question the way I want to answer the question. Your theatrics are question the way I asked it. And again, on top of that utterly shameful performance, theatrics from Pam Bondi, she apparently came in there ready with insults against people. Uh, and another reason that she might have it out for Tom Massie or or you know, Trump's administration might is cuz he posted this uh the other day saying, "A funny thing about Bondi's insults to members of Congress who had serious questions. Staff literally gave her flashc cards with individualized insults, but she couldn't memorize them. So you can see her shuffle through them to find the flashcards insult that matches the member of Congress. And we invited you in. We This guy has Trump arrangement syndrome. He needs to get You're a failed politician. You need to watch the chairman. Please restore his time and remind the witness of the rules here. There is no credible information. Massie, of course, after that despicable exchange, as you heard a little bit, then plays the incredibly incriminating uh moment of Cash Patel saying that there is no client or no evidence traffic these young women too besides himself, himself. There is no credible information, none. If there were, I would bring the case yesterday that he traffked to other individuals and the information we have again is limited. So they I mean this is absolutely insane. Again, don't don't agree with with most of these people on the Republican side of these issues except for with you know getting transparency and justice for the victims of Epstein and everyone who was involved with him. We even had former Congresswoman Marjgerie Taylor Green responding to his tweet saying there these are not the type of public statements that any of us should have to make. But I'll back this up as his friend. Thomas is one of the happiest people I know. He loves his kids and grandkids. He loves his wife. He loves his life. And he loves our country and Kentucky. And even even Thomas Massie responded to Marjgery's tweet saying, "Amen to all of this. Life is good here on the farm during my downtime and I feel rewarded by the fight for justice when I am in DC and so many people and I I think this is telling. It's not funny but I think this is telling because of the the the app that this is on right that is filled with a bunch of conservative bots for the most part. People saying it's sad how rotten this world has been exposed to be. Appreciate the fight you heroes are doing. Expose them all. Sending support from down under. Okay, look at that. From Australia. We have a lot of people watching from Australia. Uh, I've been making this statement for well over a year since the FBI hung up on me in 2024 when I called begging for help naming names nobody cares. History will remember Massie and it will be written on a golden page. Be a little much, but here we go. Honestly, I couldn't agree more. Don't like either of your politics for the most part, but I admire your integrity and principles. Still a bit much for Marjorie, but respect and this gif of a little boy till tipping his hat. And y'all, it gets even crazier. This man even went so far, this man being Thomas Massie, to call out Laura Ingram of Fox News and I guess some conservative mouthpiece, Greg Price. I apologize. I don't know exactly who he is. Uh saying, oh boy, saying a lot here. I'll link to all these tweets down below, but I'll give you the TLDDR here. Can you, the people, vote your way out of this, quote, "Honestly, not if you get your news from these folks. The swamp has tricks for deceiving the public, and most even work on congressmen. Here's an example of how Laura and Greg played along as happy tools of the swamp." He posts these seeming attacks against him from Fox News host Laura Ingram. And she's essentially trying to get a gotcha on him here because he voted no on a procedural rule waving 24-hour notice spending bills. Uh this is in in response to the SAVE Act, which basically destroys access to voting rights in this country. um with Massie saying he opposed the waiver to block rushed appropriations uh not the save act substance. So again completely disagree with this guy on a matter of most policy because this is going to disenfranchise so many people in this country. He later voted for the Save Act bill that has subsequently passed the house. But uh he said this is what I voted against. It's not a bill. It's a modification of House rules. And Laura responds, "Nice try. Does he think we don't know basic civics?" "Yeah, I [ __ ] do, Laura, cuz you're on Fox News." Actually, sorry, I take that back. Maybe you know basic civics, but you choose to lie to your audience about it, which is honestly even worse. If he had killed the rule, the Save Act would be dead, as it should be. Again, Massie votes with Rascin and the Dems against election integrity, which for all intents and purposes just means denying women and minorities the right to vote and making it harder for them because they don't vote red. Honestly, the the the Save Act [ __ ] is is a whole video in itself. So, if you understand or appreciate it, thank you. If you'd like to know more about it, let me know in the comments. I'll make a video adding, "Why did not a single Republican agree with him?" And again, look at this. I mean, it's just [ __ ] misleading [ __ ] This guy, I gotta look up who he is. You really can't make this up. Greg Price is a conservative communications professional and former senior digital strategist at X Strategies, a political consulting firm known for his work in digital media and rapid response. He has appeared on various media outlets to discuss political communication media bias. Holy [ __ ] This guy, this guy's going to tell me about media bias on Fox News. Jesus Christ. Anyway, he says Thomas Massie was just the only Republican who voted against advancing the Save America Act to the House floor. Again, people added context. He voted against a rule to bring Save America Act, the most inaptly named thing since the big beautiful bill, to the floor because it suspended House rules allowing spending bills to reach the floor without 24-hour notice for review, potentially enabling rushed unchecked expenditures he views as fiscally irresponsible. And look, it's exactly that kind of misinformation, that kind of fostering of such an ill-informed public that has not only resulted in all the terrible things that we've seen exposed by the the Epstein Files Transparency Act that Thomas Massie led with Roana, but also the very real and clear threats that Thomas Massie perceives against his own life. So much so that he as a sitting Republican representative of Congress has to say out loud that he won't off himself, that if anything weird happens to him, it should be investigated. What a sorry [ __ ] state American politics is in and and has
IHIP News: Rep. DROPS BOMB on Trump After Seeing UNREDACTED Files! "The Famous Names are HORRIFIC" I've Had It Feb 13, 2026
We are joined by Congressman Ro Khanna to discuss the unredacted Epstein files and the horrifying reality they expose.
Transcript
All right, welcome to IHIP News. We are in New York with Congressman Ro K Connor who has been in the epicenter of the biggest coverup in American history. I think possibly global history and of course I'm talking about the Epstein files. You have partnered with a strange bedfellow, a Republican, bipartisanship support to release the full files. First of all, it's good to see you in person. I usually see you just on a Zoom screen and I appreciate uh your voice. It's been so disturbing and disgusting. I mean, look, I've met these survivors uh for months. They've come into Congressman Thomas Massie in my offices. They have broken down in tears. People talk about being raped at 13, 14, and then being told to recruit others or they're going to continue to be raped. One person said it's like a box. You can push it away, but it comes back up. So for me and Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Green, this became very personal and to see the level of people who are involved uh and the most famous people and powerful people in finance, in business, in Hollywood, thinking there's nothing wrong going to a convicted pedophile's island and watching at parties where pe girls are being paraded naked or knowing that young girls are being raped. I mean, it is just horrifying to me. Genuinely horrifying. And that's why I call this the Epstein class because if you look at the survivors, so many of them come from working-class backgrounds. One of the things I found so disturbing is many of them didn't have a father. So, they were being prayed on in that kind of calculated way. And the people who were abusing and raping them were rich and powerful and new politicians and told them don't call the police. So it is just this abuse of power that people for their own gratification treated these folks as disposable for years. What percentage of the Epstein files have you seen? I have seen uh more than probably most, but it's still two 2% or so because they have 3 million of these files that they they're allowing us to to see. uh and the unredacted versions of just those three million. They're three million that they've totally scrubbed the FBI, but they give us one hour to to do it in a cubicle about the size of the studio with four computers. So, they've they've kept a lot of it hidden. Uh and I have more insight because I' I've got a great team and I' and the survivors will text me. You know, one person without revealing her confidence said, "Look, I was raped when I was 17 in uh in France." And uh there was I was raped in a building by someone who had the uh bu lived in the same building as Jeff Jeffrey Epstein. And this person's in the files and he's left the United States and he left France because he doesn't want to be under any jurisdiction. And she's like, "Why aren't we investigating this person? Why aren't we prosecuting this person?" And I can't tell you how many cases there are like that. They're not all famous people. They're just rich and powerful men who raped these girls. And they there's no investigation. There's no prosecution. And one of them texted me after Pam Bondi and she said, "I've lost hope." Right? I mean, all the pundits are looking at this, "Oh, who insulted who? Who came out ahead?" and the survivors are just saying what is going on in this country that we can't get investigations and prosecution. Uh Pam Bondi I thought her ridiculous immature smug performance was most I mean it most of all was a direct insult to these victims and such a flagrant um expression that your voice doesn't matter. But what I have to think about is these women came forward a long time ago during the Obama administration. Yes. And if we take it all the way back, we have Democratic DOJ's uh and then Trump's DOJ where Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide. And then I said that in quotes if for those of you that are listening and then we have Merrick Garland's DOJ where that wasn't even investigated at all. And now it's back here. And because of you and your bipartisanship, we are pushing forward. And it's just unbelievable to me. I heard Jamie Raskin say that he thinks Trump's name is in the files over 1 million times. He did and and Jaime is not one to exaggerate. I mean, he's very precise and uh he looked at some of the searches and and and came to that conclusion. I mean, Trump's all all over it. As are, by the way, people in his own cabinet and administration. I mean, the fact that Lutnik is still in the cabinet should just be horrifying regardless of your politics. He is our representative, our face of business to the world. and he takes his family to Epstein's island after he knows that Epstein is a convicted pedophile and he lies about it and then he has alleged business dealings with it. And Donald Trump who from his own documents calls up the police in 2006 saying I need I know that Epstein is doing some horrible things with young girls. He has Howard Lutnik in his cabinet even though Lutnik was uh doing business with this guy after Trump called. The fact that we're not willing to say Republicans and Democrats that Lutnik doesn't need to go sends a message that we're just okay with this that that if you have wealth, if you have power, there's no accountability. And look at other countries. I mean, the British monarchy is in trouble. The British government may fall. Norway, the princess, is not going to become queen because of the l lack of public support. In Sweden and Austria, they're investigating anyone who had any correspondence with Epstein. Yet in our country, there isn't this sense of accountability. And you know, it seems that there's a through line between January 6 and the Epstein files. And what it is is that they go after uh low-level offenders in January 6. They never went after who funded it. Exactly. All of those people that got ended up becoming convicted and then got a pardon, these are people that got radicalized online. Somebody paid their way out to DC. They committed these crimes. Right now, we know since then that Trump has spent $3 million of his own money to fund January 6. But DOJ set on this set on the rich people that funded it, much like they're doing with the Epstein files. And what's been so jarring for me with the Epstein files are the timestamps. Right after somebody is a convicted pedophile, Howard Lutnik, we're bringing our children and here are their genders and ages. That's some weird That really is. I mean, that's just unbelievable that you don't have as a parent, we're not going there. And the fact that Howard Letic New York Post tried to provide cover before this came out and every time I open up my phone, a new person from Trump's orbit has entered the chat. Yeah. Dr. Oz has entered the Epstein chat. I saw that. It's almost as if they all got together and said, "Look, we have to go back and get these files or we're all going down." I mean, it's what what leads you to believe the collusion and the cover up and the coordination with all of these men to suppress it. And then you have Pam Bondi who is genderwashing the whole thing. Um the the the sweetheart deal and the prison moving of Gilane Maxwell. Could you imagine if that happened under Democratic DOJ? Yeah. I mean, it's so much for Law and Order. I mean, they're basically taking someone who is a convicted pedophile who facilitated the abuse and rape of these young girls, and she has the audacity to testify saying, "I know who the other men are. I can name them, but I'm not going to name them unless you give me clemency and let me out of prison." I mean, she's basically uh is saying to the entire country, I know all of this, but get me out of prison. And she's trying to cut a deal with Trump. And then Trump is uh basically saying, "I don't want Bill Clinton to testify because I know if he testifies, I'm going to have to testify." And Maxwell is there saying, "I'm going to tell you that Trump and Clinton didn't do anything wrong." It is a it is a club. And that's what's that's why they fought so hard to to make this to cover this up. And it's not just me saying it or even Massie saying it. I mean, Nancy Mace came up to me and we've had heated disagreements. You said, "Ro, this is a cover up. It's a cover up." And look, they scrubbed in March. Donald Trump ordered the FBI to scrub those files. They scrubed them, right? Thomas Massie and my bill passes in November that says you need to give all the files that are there. Here's what they do. They send the scrubbed FBI files to the DOJ. The DOJ then does additional redactions. And now they're asking members to come in and see the files that the DOJ redacted, but not the original scrubbed FBI files. So members are going there and they're saying, "Well, there's still everything is still blacked out because they have not done the unredactions of the FBI files." And what's in the FBI files? That's the most important stuff. Yeah, we got the emails that show that people went to the island and uh were involved, but the survivors have named the names, and those are in the FBI files. How do I know? because I've talked to the survivors and the survivors lawyers. I was so angry about it that I went on the House floor uh after Massie and I found six people who were covered uh and shouldn't have been and I just named their names because there has to be some sense of accountability in this country. Yeah. And then what is really interesting to me is how connected Jeffrey Epstein was with very nefarious adversaries andor allies of the United States. um communications with Russia, communications with Israel, and I always had wondered how did he get all of this money? How how is how was he a billionaire? Right. And as you start to see this whole scheme unfold because of you and um Congressman Massiey's bill, you start to deduce that, oh, was he blackmailing people? All of these wealthy people are have access to rape little girls. um these conversations with Peter Thiel and Palunteer and now all of these government contracts to Palunteer. They're surveilling you and your co-workers. Peter Thiel wants a surveillance state. The emails between Jeffrey Epste and Peter Thiel about these two deciding that democracy is incompatible and they're cheering on Brexit. That stuff, aside from all the child sex stuff, is a bombshell for national security and it just it doesn't seem to get traction. Well, you're absolutely right. I mean, look, he is uh meeting with Gordon Brown's uh trade representative, Peter Mandelson, who's giving him tips that Britain is going to be buying the eur euro and uh and Epstein is trading on it. He is collecting prime ministers as if they're you know part of his friend network and he's talking about facilitating introductions uh to for the Indian prime minister in the United States. He's talking about what he's going to do with uh the Israeli prime minister to the point that Benjamin Netanyahu felt compelled to address the issue. He had met with Ehoud Barack so many times. Uh and he's meeting with the rich and powerful across the the world. Uh and so this is a club and it's a club that has no regard for the law that is extractive in its wealth generation that has shafted sort of the working class not just in this country but in other parts of of of the world and really has given rise to an angry populism. And so the the historians are going to study those files not just for the rape and for what what happened and the survivors. are going to study it from a lens of how callow, immature, reckless, venal the elite, the governing elite of our society in America and around the world were at this time. I mean, it's a it's a shameful look at at the elite. And what do you make of Donald Trump's the claims in there? There is some sworn testimony, not tipline. Sworn testimony of sexual violence against the president witnessed signed under oath. What do you make of that? He needs to be investigated and answer questions. I mean, the there's an FBI sheet where he's listed as one of the top uh suspects for alleged wrongful behavior and alleged crimes. Uh and the reality is that uh he's he's literally the first person who should be deposed and asked questions. I mean, and here we have, you know, comr chasing everyone else. And that's not saying, look, I think the Clinton should come. I think the others should come, but how do you not have Donald Trump as the first person that you're asking questions under oath and that there was there should be an investigation and there should be an investigation for for everyone? And Massie and I have said this from day one. It's not partisan for us. It's not about Trump. It's not about Clinton. It's about the people who were involved and holding them accountable. And uh he shouldn't be above the law and escape the accountability. He always does, doesn't he? He always does, though. This is different. And he knows this is different. You know why this is different? I was on uh Sean Ryan's podcast. He's one of the uh the big podcasters on the on the MAGA side. He was all in for Trump. And he said, "Ro, I would never vote for him again because he's protecting pedophiles. I just am I'm done with him." and uh you know he's got someone in a factory town in Michigan saying m you know Donald Trump stop protecting pedophiles. This has broken through and it's broken through particularly I think with a lot of young men who see the world as good and bad and they thought okay they're the good guys. They're on the side of law enforcement and these are bad guys and Donald Trump was going to somehow expose this corruption and now he's part of the corruption. I I think this has cut more deeply in his MAGA base and losing trust than almost anything. And he he knows that. That's why he keeps saying let's move on. Let's move on. The irony is every time he says move on, it just becomes a bigger and bigger issue. What about your Republican colleagues? I um remember you and I are old enough to remember when there was a sense of decorum in the house and uh civility and I feel like there is a mass magga psychosis like if you look at the speaker of the house whom I refer to as Moses Mike Johnson because he has conversations with God. Um the he's so I haven't been so blessed. Me either. He's so these men are so submissive. They campaign and they uh do all of this tough talk that there are these big alpha males and Donald Trump is this, you know, beacon of masculinity. Yeti wears a full face of makeup, right? Decorates his oval office to the point of a complete travesty. Listens Blair's opera music. I mean, just kind of acts like this old queen. And then you have all of these alpha males, your colleagues that pretend to be alpha males that are so submissive to this man. Yeah. These MAGA people, a lot of them deeply religious. Do you think it's breaking through to any of your colleagues or are they too scared of him? Are they too scared to buck him or do they just have maga psychosis? Like get us into the psychology of these Republicans that have this power and don't use it. They don't practice what they preach. I think it was the Republican women who broke Trump when when when history writes the turning point because it was a Nancy Mace and Marjorie Taylor Green and Lauren Boowbert that stood with Thomas Massie and me and at some point it'll come out what all threats they had to undergo. I mean, being hauled into the situation room, being threatened, not just with their careers, but security. And they stood up and people didn't think we had a shot in hell to to get this passed. And we passed it in the House and we passed it in the Senate. And Donald Trump caved. And since that moment where people said, "Wow, Trump, you can stand up to Trump and you can win." There have been so many of these Republican discharge petitions now on different issues. It's sort of like the floodgates have opened up that yeah, you can question Donald Trump. You can stand up to Trump. It's still not enough. Uh but people see that he's losing his grip on his own base for those all this masculinity. I mean, what is more masculine than protecting a young girl from a pedophile? So, they see the protection of pedophiles as the least masculine thing. And uh and and and this has started to break through. So I I believe that you have a crack in the MAGA coalition. Though I was disappointed yesterday with Pam Bondi because they all circled the wagons, but Pam Bondi allegedly was threatening Republicans that the DOJ is going to go after you if you don't fall in line. And they did this to Mark Kelly, right? They're they've done this to to Eric Swallwell. They're they're perfectly capable of opening up investigations to make someone's life uh very difficult. Uh and this is what you look they they have certain they haven't done that to me. One of the reasons that no one goes went after the Epstein files just in re real talk is there are a lot of powerful people there and there are a lot of powerful people who are donors on both sides and you make a lot of enemies. I mean Massie has all these billionaires coming after him for multiple reasons. I have billionaires upset at me and they don't they won't say it's because of the Epstein files but the reality is the way to make it up in politics is you you it's addition. You keep your head down. you're affable. You make friends. You try to win everyone over. You don't go take fights with the most powerful people. You don't make enemies. Uh and both Massie and I had a sort of a maverick streak saying, "No, we we don't care." And that's I think and we did win in this case in terms of the legislation. I think it's giving more people the confidence to stand up. What do you think is the ultimate push of all of this? I mean, they're breaking the law right now, correct? by not releasing the full files. So, what power do you all have to continue to force the drip of all of this information? We the survivors could go to court. You know, Massie and I lost in court in put calling for a special master judge. I believe that uh he may the judge may actually think that was a good idea given these redactions. We didn't lose on the merits. He just said we didn't have standing, but the survivors do. and he welcomed us to bring a lawsuit. So the courts are an option. In my view, once we take back Congress, we should have a special committee on the Epstein hearings and we should hold in front of Congress every single person who has emails saying, "I went or want to go to Epstein's Island." I mean, if if if someone goes to an island with a known convicted pedophile where, you know, young girls are being raped, I'm not saying they're guilty, but you would at least think they'd be investigated, asked, "What did you see? What do you know? what was happening there. None of that happened. So, Congress should be having those investigations and the next administration needs to say we will actually investigate and prosecute this. I have no confidence in Pam Bondi or Donald Trump actually doing that and we our law mass and my law doesn't allow for the uh unclassification of information because that would have been unconstitutional. But a president should appoint someone who is trusted really trusted to look at the uh intelligence the classified information about Epstein. They're public pictures of him at the CIA to look so it's not conspiratorial and explain to the American public how did he make his money, what was he doing, what were his actual uh ties to intelligence agencies here or around the world and not speculate about it, but actually do that. What about what do you know about his brother Mark Epste? He seems to be pushing this narrative that he it wasn't a suicide and he's ordering a new autopsy. Does that fall into anything that you all are doing or do you keep a breast of that? So when I started all of this, I would have told you he killed himself for sure and now I have some doubt. I mean I don't I can't say that it's not the truth but there are too many things that they have covered up that I don't know for for for sure and that is why I think we have to look at not just the unclassified information but also the classified information and only the president can do it. Congress can't declassify. So you need uh and this president obviously isn't going to do it. So they that is something for for the future but it for right now Congress could haul these people in tomorrow. I mean, Speaker Johnson, if he was just even for the politics, he should be appointing a special committee, put Massie and me in charge of it, or even do Garcia and Comr at oversight and start hauling people in and asking them what they knew, what they they what they did they do, and let's investigate these people if justice isn't going to investigate them. And the speaker just seems 100% out to lunch. Every interview I see with him, if it's a controversial question, he says, "Oh, I haven't heard of this." And I'm like, you're you monitor your son's porn. You said that on his words. He takes the time to monitor his son's porn use and his son monitors his porn use. And he expects us to believe that he's not briefed on the things that are happening in the country when he is the speaker of the house. And to have that kind of power and not wield it, to be speaker is just about the most submissive thing I have ever seen. Do you see any people in the Republican party, you said there's some fissures with the women, do you see any fissures with the men in the Republican party? Because there's a theory, proven theory, that when strong men, and that's what Trump is, a dictator, when they become frail and you can see the physical manifestations of their aging, right? You know, he has the cankles, he has to wear the makeup on his hands, he has the looks like he has had a stroke, the droopy face, that that's when fissures within the support really start taking off. And I feel like from now to midterms would be the most important time for this to happen because I do not trust him to not do everything in his power to uh suppress, cheat. Oh, absolutely. Have I harass people, do all I he will do. It's all on the table. Yeah. Look, I I I think you're absolutely right. I didn't think of it in terms of the physical aging, but this is how like other countries that have authoritarian rulers, they just wait until the ruler ages, right? and and to some extent you are seeing fissures. You have Don Bacon who I respect. He's was a general. He's been served the country 30 years. He's departed from Trump on tariffs on uh NATO. I mean he he's very concerned that Trump's insulting Canada and insulting NATO allies. Uh you have uh Brian Fitzpatrick uh from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where I grew up. He just voted against the the tariffs. So, you're starting to see Turner, Representative Turner from Ohio, uh said, "Look, in this country, uh we don't just have capital punishment for people who may be coming and bringing drugs into America." Like, you don't just shoot them and kill them, even if they're bringing drugs. So, I think they're they're waking up, but they're not enough of them. Uh but the cracks the the cracks are there. And uh my view is we have a real chance for a a significant win in the midterms. And that's how we have to approach it. We've got to win by decisive margins because they're going to kick people off the rolls. They're going to have ICE intimidate. They're going to uh try to intimidate the the county elections where they can. And the scariest thing is uh Mike Johnson gets to determine in a close race whether to seat someone. And that is the uh place where we have a constitutional crisis. And remember, this is someone Mike Johnson who was the lawyer for Donald Trump in 2020 in filing those cases saying that the election was uh not legitimate. So, uh this is going to come to a head when there are close races and who to seat and we can't take that chance. We've got to win by 20 to 25 seats and we've got to win by a plus five margin. That's that's the reality of what we're facing. What do you make of uh DOJ um using surveillance on your colleagues? you there they there there was a Getty photographer that took an image of Pam Bondi's burn book, right? and she had your um congresswoman your colleague her name eludes me but her search history in the ski looking at the epste if they're surveilling what exactly you all are looking at and when I think about that and then I think about what's actually in the Epstein files which is Peter Teal Palunteer surveillance colluding with Jeffrey Epstein and also these ICE agents that are taking pictures of people and putting them in some database it really seems like Even Congress people are falling prey to this surveillance state. Yes. That is the desired outcome of these crazy billionaires. And I just, this is just me. I don't think that Trump I think he's evil. I think he's a racist. But I think fundamentally he's a I don't think I agree with you. I think he has the intellectual rigor to be super diabolical long-term planning. In short term, he can, but his whole brain works short term. Totally agree. That's our saving grace from authoritarianism is just his incompetence at times. Not that we can be complacent, but I totally agree with that that diagnosis. I look how he tried to overturn the election. It was so incompetent who he was calling it justice and how he was frantic about it. It was evil. It was uh unamerican, but it was also fundamentally incompetent. Uh and but but people around him like uh Russell Voy and Steven Miller, they're not incompetent. They No, they're diabolical. Long term. Long term. Yeah. What about Peter Tilliel? He lives in your district. Well, I I I gave a whole speech uh about it nine months ago calling out why he's so dangerous. Some of these people in Silicon Valley, if you talk to them, they say, "Well, we would have been conquerors in a different age. We are Uber Mench. We are No, I'm not kidding. you know, they all they all read Iron Rand's novel and like the the Fountain Head or Atlas Shrugged and then they stopped reading after that and they view themselves as these civilizational builders and they view people like me for those who have read Ein Rand as like a Peter Keading fellow like one of these bureaucrats these people who get in the way these politicians who are are stopping us from building greatness and Peter Teal literally says that democracy uh and innovation are are not compatible. They rather, if you ask them, have the wealth accumulated within the hands of a few because they think they know how to invest in AI and invest in Mars and keep America soaring. And all the rest of the folks, well, uh they're just uh the the little people who who are in the way. And it is such an arrogance uh of uh world view that I don't think people fully understand. Uh and especially with AI where they're talking about eliminating jobs. I mean Musk is saying let's just eliminate jobs. This is what we have to stand up uh to. Uh are we going to have an AI revolution for all of us or for these billionaires? Are we going to have a country uh for all of us uh or these powerful few? And uh that to me is the the biggest issue. Look in the guilded age Rockefeller had was the wealthiest person compared to GDP. Musk just surpassed that with 700 uh 700 billion. So as a percent of GDP, we now have people who are at the wealthiest relative to everyone else. And there's an unholy alliance between wealth and power. You know what pisses me off about uh Peter Teal. Yeah. Is he wants to be a politician, but he doesn't want to put his name on the ballot and go win the proper way and get the support of people. and he has um absorbed all of the benefits of democracy of living in California which all of these people bash all the time. It made him and he's an immigrant that has come here and then he's colluding with Jeffrey Epstein and all of these other rich pedophiles and he wants to cheat to gain power. And at the core of this Epstein thing and all of these oligarchs is they're not going to put their name on a ballot. Peter Till is not put and run against Roana because you'd kick his ass. They just want to threaten me, you know? I mean, imagine the this thing all these billionaires who who said, "Oh, let's recruit someone." I get these texts. We're thinking of recruiting someone to run against you. We're I'm thinking of funding your opponent. None of them say, "I want to run against you." But imagine this. it. Look, should one person have that much power that they think that because they disagree with someone in Congress who represents 700,000 that they can just take them out? But that's what they think. They And why? Because uh they can put hundreds of millions of dollars into these super PACs. And we need to as Democrats define that as such a weak puss boy move. You have to pay your way to try to get power. You can't do it through work. You want to find some political prostitute via JD Vance who is Peter Peter Till's prostitute. It's creation his whole creation. And it's just it's such a puss boy move that the this party that's all about masculinity and being men, right? I never I didn't even think of it that way. You know, it's like the weakest thing you can do. You have to find some boy like JD Vance who's changed his name three times, changed his religion, can't stand up for his immigrant parents, can't stand up for his mixed race children. You know, he's totally on board with the racial profiling of ICE. And I guess it never occurs to him that he lives with people that have a different complexion than he does, but he's bought and paid for. And it's just such a weak move. these oligarchs. When every time I hear Elon Musk speak, I realize we have been sold a bill of goods in America. We have been pro propagandized that if you're rich, you're smart. That That's exactly right. It's such a lie. I have heard Peter Thiel speak and it's so weird that his side hustle is speaking about the antichrist you know like he does these right and then when you hear I mean I met him I knew him in we had a common professor at University of Chicago and I met him in 2014 I haven't met him since or 2012 and uh you know he's at the time he just seemed like okay he's he's this libertarian guy but you now come to realize these these folks think they're better than the than us they think they're better than And you come to realize they're not that smart. And they they're not and they're not. Nor do they have any RZ at all, which is why they can't run for office, right? Yeah. Although Vance got there, but I guess he got he got picked. He he was derivative RZ. Derivative RZ. Yeah. And I think that was a deal, was it? Like, hey, we'll fund you if you put our boy in place. Because I don't think Trump really likes Vance. I've heard that he plays Rubio and Vance against each other. Authoritarian experts call this divide and rule. It's a very common playbook. Yeah. Um, but I want to thank you. We're going to have part two with Roana coming up later where we are going to talk about the midterms, dims, ICE, billionaire tax, all of that. So, we'll be back in just a minute.