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“Ideological Deportation”: AAUP v. Rubio Trial Challenges Trump Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Students
by Amy Goodman
DemocracyNow
July 09, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/9/aaup#transcript

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69784731/american-association-of-university-professors-v-rubio/
American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (1:25-cv-10685)
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Assigned To: William G. Young

The first trial in a case challenging the Trump administration’s policy of detaining and deporting international students and professors who participate in pro-Palestinian activism is underway in Boston. The American Association of University Professors and the Middle East Studies Association brought the lawsuit. Government lawyers tried to get it dismissed, but U.S. District Judge William Young, an 84-year-old Ronald Reagan nominee, ordered a trial, saying it was the “best way to get at truth.”

“Students and faculty all over the country are quite literally terrified about the possibility that their advocacy and expression will lead to detention,” says Jameel Jaffer, director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and one of the lawyers challenging the Trump administration. “They are terrified that ICE agents will show up at their door any day and take them away.”

Transcript

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AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman.

We look now at the first case to go to trial that challenges the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining and deporting international students and professors who participate in pro-Palestinian activism. The trial began this week, after the case was filed in March by the American Association of University Professors, the AAUP, including its chapters at Harvard, New York University and Rutgers, and the Middle East Studies Association, MESA. The Trump administration tried to get the case dismissed, but those efforts were rejected by U.S. District Judge William Young, an 84-year-old Ronald Reagan appointee, who ordered a trial, saying it was the, quote, “best way to get at the truth.”

In a minute, we’ll get an update on the first two days of the trial, where the first of some 20 witnesses testified. But first we go to Zachary Samalin, associate professor of English at NYU, vice president of the NYU AAUP chapter, speaking at a rally Monday outside the Boston courthouse.

ZACHARY SAMALIN: We joined the lawsuit because we refuse to let Trump, Rubio or anybody else use citizenship to divide and conquer us. And above all, we joined to fight back against the criminalization of all protests, but especially of protest against the destruction and ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

AMY GOODMAN: Another speaker at Monday’s rally was Caroline Light, a senior lecturer in gender and sexuality studies at Harvard University, a member of Harvard’s AAUP, another one of the plaintiffs in the case.

CAROLINE LIGHT: This lawsuit is deeply personal to me and to my mom. We are descended from people who fled pogroms in the Jewish Pale of Settlement to come to the United States seeking refuge, and especially so that they could practice their freedom of religion, that the old country denied us. Right?

A key tenet of Judaism that I was raised with is something called tikkun olam. It literally means repairing the world. It is the responsibility of every Jewish person to do their best to try to denounce oppression wherever we see it, to speak out against unfairness and harm and violence against others.

Last Hanukkah, my eldest child gifted me this keffiyeh that I’m wearing today. And it’s a little warm, honestly, but I wear it in solidarity with my brave friends and colleagues and students who have spoken out against the relentless violence in Gaza. It feels like such a small thing to do. And yet, in the context of this chilling of freedom of expression and criminalization of pro-Palestinian solidarity, this mere act of wearing a keffiyeh is often characterized as subversion and as antisemitism, just wearing it.

So, this administration claims that ideological deportations are necessary, are part of their effort to fight antisemitism and to keep Jewish people from harm. Well, I’ll tell you what harms Jewish people. And I can speak as a historian on this topic. It’s the relentless assault on freedom of expression. It’s the language of us versus them. And it’s the criminalization of our valued community members, our colleagues and our students.

Make no mistake: We all suffer when some of us are silenced. In a university setting especially, it makes honest inquiry absolutely impossible. We can’t do our jobs as educators, as researchers, when these circumstances prevail. And so, today, we are fighting back. And as I said, this is personal for me and for my mom. And to the spurious claim that ideological deportation protects Jewish people, I’ll say it today, and I’ll say it until I have no voice left: Not in my name.

AMY GOODMAN: That’s Caroline Light, senior lecturer in gender and sexuality studies at Harvard University, a member of Harvard AAUP, one of the plaintiffs in this case, the American Association of University Professors v. Rubio.

For more, we’re joined in Boston, before day three of the trial, by Jameel Jaffer, director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, part of the team of lawyers representing professors in their lawsuit against the Trump administration’s repression of students and faculty involved in pro-Palestine activism. He was previously the ACLU’s deputy legal director.

Jameel Jaffer, welcome back to Democracy Now! Explain why this case went to trial. We see so many injunctions issued by judges across the country, but this one is being heard by a federal judge, not before a jury, but before the judge.

JAMEEL JAFFER: Right, yeah. Well, we moved for preliminary relief in the case. So we, you know, filed a motion very soon after we filed the complaint, asking the court to grant immediate relief. And the court said that it wouldn’t grant immediate relief, but it would give us a trial on an expedited schedule. We are before a judge who has a practice of collapsing requests for preliminary relief with trials on the merit, so this is not entirely unprecedented or surprising. And it does give us an opportunity to create a complete factual record, and we are very grateful for that. And, you know, as you noted, the trial started yesterday — or, Monday. Today is day three. We expect it to go through the end of next
week.

AMY GOODMAN: So, why did the AAUP sue Rubio, Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, the case known —

JAMEEL JAFFER: Yeah.

AMY GOODMAN: — as AAUP v. Rubio?

JAMEEL JAFFER: Yeah, so, I know you’ve talked about the student cases many, many times. You know, there are a dozen students, at least, who have been arrested, detained and threatened with deportation on the basis of their pro-Palestinian advocacy. There are hundreds of others whose visas have been revoked under the same — under the same policy. Some of those students have filed suit. Some of them were held in detention, and judges have now released them from detention. Those cases are ongoing, because the Trump administration continues to assert the authority to deport people on the basis of their pro-Palestinian expression and association.

But our view and, more importantly, the American Association of University Professors’ view and the Middle East Studies Association’s view, was that these arrests and detentions and threatened deportations are causing harm not only to, most obviously, the students who are being detained and threatened with deportation, but to the larger academic community, as well, because students and faculty all over the country are quite literally terrified about the possibility that their advocacy and expression will lead to detention. They are terrified that ICE agents will show up at their door any day and take them away because they wrote an op-ed critical of Israel or because they attended a public protest. And the result is that there is this climate of fear and repression on college campuses across the country. And this case is an effort to get at that larger climate of fear and repression caused by this ideological deportation policy. I think it’s, you know, complementary to the cases that have been filed by the students themselves.

AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about some of the witnesses, like the Brown anthropologist Nadje Al-Ali and Megan Hyska, who is a Northwestern University philosophy professor, how they’ve changed what they do? They’re no longer writing the pieces they’re supposed to be publishing, because of the climate in this country today —

JAMEEL JAFFER: Yeah.

AMY GOODMAN: — and the direct physical threats.

JAMEEL JAFFER: Yeah, I mean, this is — this is a more general pattern, but we have had three witnesses testify over the last two days. You mentioned two of them: Nadje Al-Ali at Brown University, Megan Hyska at Northwestern University. And yesterday we had Bernhard Nickel, who is — was, until very recently, the chair of the Philosophy Department at Harvard University. The three of them testified to the chill that has taken hold at university campuses across the country. And they describe their own decisions to forego certain kinds of expression or scholarship or public presentation because of the fear of arrest and detention and deportation. All three of them are foreign citizens. That has been the bulk of the testimony presented to the court over the last two days.

Today, for the first time, we will hear from a government official. We’re going to hear from Peter Hatch, who is a senior official in the Department of Homeland Security, who was intimately involved in the decisions to identify students to be targeted under this — under this policy.

AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about the lawsuit being filed jointly with the Middle East Studies Association, programs of regional areas that are coming under attack by the Trump administration — in late March, Columbia announcing it will place its Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies Department under review to secure some $400 million in federal funding that had been frozen? It’s your university, Jameel, where you run the Knight Institute.

JAMEEL JAFFER: Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, the chill that we’ve described in the case, I think, is felt across the country, across universities, across departments. Now, that said, I think it falls most heavily on professors and students at universities that have already been targeted in other ways by the Trump administration. Columbia is one of those. Harvard is another. You know, and even if you look at the students who have been arrested and detained under this policy, a number of them come from Columbia University — Mohsen Mahdawi, Yunseo Chung, Mahmoud Khalil. These are all Columbia students. And I think that it’s fair to say that students at those universities are especially terrified about the possibility that ICE will target them.

So, you know, the goal of this lawsuit is to get broad relief, not limited to any particular student, but rather relief with respect to the policy itself. And the policy, as we describe it, is the arrest and detention and deportation of students based on their pro-Palestinian advocacy and expression. And we point to the statements that senior government officials, including President Trump and Secretary Rubio, have made in press conferences, on social media, in threatening students and faculty with deportation for their First Amendment-protected activity. We point to cables that have been issued by the State Department implementing the president’s orders to target pro-Palestinian students. And we point also to the testimony of government witnesses. So far, we have depositions, but starting today, we’ll have testimony, as well, from government officials who were intimately involved in the decision to target particular students.

AMY GOODMAN: And we’ll continue to follow this case as it goes on for two weeks. But I also wanted to ask you, Jameel Jaffer, about the Knight First Amendment Institute, your organization, appearing to have won your appeal to have a lawsuit you filed on behalf of the Central American news outlet El Faro against the notorious spyware company NSO Group remanded to the court for reconsideration after it was thrown out for jurisdictional reasons. Can you explain? We interviewed one of the El Faro reporters, the whole group of them forced to leave El Salvador, afraid for their lives.

JAMEEL JAFFER: Yeah, yeah. I mean, I have to say that these reporters are so inspiring, these reporters who work with El Faro, a Salvadoran news organization that has been sort of crucial in reporting on democratic movements and the threat of authoritarianism, or the actuality of authoritarianism, in Central America. And, you know, they were targeted a couple years ago with spyware, probably or almost certainly operated by the Salvadoran government, but provided by NSO Group, the notorious spyware manufacturer. And we filed suit on their behalf in California. The case was dismissed by the district court on the grounds that the case didn’t belong in California. The plaintiffs were in El Salvador; the defendant was in Israel. But we argued that because the attacks themselves had relied on the subversion of Apple’s infrastructure in California, the case belonged in California. And we went to the appeals court to challenge the district court’s dismissal of the case. My colleague, Carrie DeCell, argued it before the appeals court a few months ago. And yesterday, as you know, the appeals court vacated the district court’s dismissal, reinstated the case, which is great news. It means that we will now be, we hope, able to litigate the merits in the district court in California.

AMY GOODMAN: Well, I want to thank you, Jameel Jaffer, for being with us, joining us from right near the Boston courthouse where the AAUP v. Rubio is being heard before a federal judge, director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. And for those who want to go to our website at democracynow.org, you can see our interview with the El Faro journalist Roman Gressier.

Next up, to Philadelphia, where the largest sanitation strike in a generation has just ended in the last few hours. Stay with us.

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"This Is The Final Straw": Elon Musk Has Logged On, Seen The Epstein Memo, And Entered Full Chaos Mode
by Alana Valko
buzzfeed
Mon, July 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM MDT
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alanavalko/elo ... memo-memes

Elon Musk is back online (though, let's be real, he doesn't really ever log off), stirring the pot with Donald Trump.


Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images

If you recall, a month ago, amidst a feud and falling out with Donald Trump, Musk took to his platform X, formerly Twitter, to drop a bomb, accusing Trump in a now-deleted tweet of being "in the Epstein files," and saying that was "the real reason they have not been made public." He later deleted the tweet, saying he "went too far."

Elon Musk @elonmusk
Time to drop the really big bomb:
@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public.
Have a nice day, DJT!
2:10 PM Jun 5, 2025

Well, now, in a report first shared by Axios, the US Department of Justice and the FBI have released a review concluding that there is no secret "client list" of individuals with whom Jeffrey Epstein conspired with or blackmailed to exploit young women. The review also reaffirmed that Epstein died by suicide. Both findings contradict widely circulated claims and conspiracy theories promoted by some Trump associates.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1407001/dl?inline
U.S. Department of Justice
Federal Bureau of Investigation
__________________________________________________________________________
As part of our commitment to transparency, the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have conducted an exhaustive review of investigative holdings relating to Jeffrey Epstein. To ensure that the review was thorough, the FBI conducted digital searches of its databases, hard drives, and network drives as well as physical searches of squad areas, locked cabinets, desks, closets, and other areas where responsive material may have been stored. These searches uncovered a significant amount of material, including more than 300 gigabytes of data and physical evidence.

The files relating to Epstein include a large volume of images of Epstein, images and videos of victims who are either minors or appear to be minors, and over ten thousand downloaded videos and images of illegal child sex abuse material and other pornography. Teams of agents, analysts, attorneys, and privacy and civil liberties experts combed through the digital and documentary evidence with the aim of providing as much information as possible to the public while simultaneously protecting victims. Much of the material is subject to court-ordered sealing. Only a fraction of this material would have been aired publicly had Epstein gone to trial, as the seal served only to protect victims and did not expose any additional third-parties to allegations of illegal wrongdoing. Through this review, we found no basis to revisit the disclosure of those materials and will not permit the release of child pornography.

This systematic review revealed no incriminating “client list.” There was also no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions. We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.

Consistent with prior disclosures, this review confirmed that Epstein harmed over one thousand victims. Each suffered unique trauma. Sensitive information relating to these victims is intertwined throughout the materials. This includes specific details such as victim names and likenesses, physical descriptions, places of birth, associates, and employment history.

One of our highest priorities is combatting child exploitation and bringing justice to victims. Perpetuating unfounded theories about Epstein serves neither of those ends.

To that end, while we have labored to provide the public with maximum information regarding Epstein and ensured examination of any evidence in the government’s possession, it is the determination of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation that no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted.

After a thorough investigation, FBI investigators concluded that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City on August 10, 2019. This conclusion is consistent with previous findings, including the August 19, 2019 autopsy findings of the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the November 2019 position of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York in connection with the investigation of federal correctional officers responsible for guarding Epstein, and the June 2023 conclusions of DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General.

The conclusion that Epstein died by suicide is further supported by video footage from the common area of the Special Housing Unit (SHU) where Epstein was housed at the time of his death. As DOJ’s Inspector General explained in 2023, anyone entering or attempting to enter the tier where Epstein’s cell was located from the SHU common area would have been captured by this footage. The FBI’s independent review of this footage confirmed that from the time Epstein was locked in his cell at around 10:40 pm on August 9, 2019, until around 6:30 am the next morning, nobody entered any of the tiers in the SHU.

During this review, the FBI enhanced the relevant footage by increasing its contrast, balancing the color, and improving its sharpness for greater clarity and viewability. The full raw and enhanced videos are available at the following links: https://www.justice.gov/video-file1;
https://www.justice.gov/video-file2.

US Department of Justice / FBI / Axios / Via axios.com

In light of the news, Elon Musk re-ignited the public feud to share his thoughts. In a tweet sharing the report, he replied, "So … umm … then what is Ghislaine Maxwell in prison for? Stuff like this does not improve people’s faith in government."

Disclose.tv@disclosetv
JUST IN - U.S. DOJ and FBi joint Epstein memo: "There was no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions."

Elon Musk @elonmusk
So ... umm ... then what is Ghislaine Maxwell in prison for?
Stuff like this does not improve people's faith in government.
11:56 PM Jul 6, 2025

Then, he posted this meme:

ElonMusk@elonmusk
WE WILL RELEASE THE EPSTEIN LIST
WE JUST NEED MORE TIME
THE EPSTEIN LIST IS ON MY DESK
THERE IS NO EPSTEIN LIST
12:12 AM Jul 7, 2025

The meme seems to reference a claim made by US Attorney General Pam Bondi in February. In a Fox News interview, she said the list was "sitting on her desk," and that she was reviewing it at Trump's direction, alongside other files like those related to JFK and MLK. That quote is now making the rounds again as it contradicts the DOJ's current stance.

MeidasTouch@MeidasTouch
Pam Bondi in February: The Epstein client list is sitting on my desk right now to review.
Pam Bondi today: There is no Epstein client list and no "further disclosure" of Epstein-related material "would be appropriate or warranted."
7:46 PM · Jul 6, 2025

Musk didn't stop there, continuing his rant. "This is the final straw," he wrote.

Autism Capital@AutismCapital
Replying to @elonmusk
What happened to "the client list is on my desk?"
What happened to "the Epstein files part 2?"
What happened to those magical binders.
What a farce.

Elon Musk@elonmusk

This is the final straw
12:117 AM Jul 7, 2025

In another tweet-meme, he posted a "Jeffrey Epstein Pedophile Arrest Counter" set to zero with the caption, "What's the time? Oh look, it's no-one-has-been-arrested-o'clock again …"

Elon Musk@elonmusk
What's the time? Oh look, it's non-one-has-been-arrested-o'clock again ...
1:02 AM Jul 7, 2025

And lastly, he then retweeted a tweet that read: "If the entire government is protecting pedophiles, it has officially become the government against the people. I hope you all understand that."

Elon Musk reposted
Sarah Fields@SarahisCensored
If the entire government is protecting pedophiles, it has officially become the government against the people.

I hope you all understand that.

So...yeah. Musk is back online, beefing, stirring the pot with memes and accusations, while the DOJ says there's nothing more to see here. Whether any of it leads anywhere? TBD. In the meantime, Musk said he is launching a third political party called the "America Party," while Trump, never one to stay quiet, called Musk a "TRAIN WRECK" in a tirade on Sunday.

Elon Musk reposted
$TSLA Hodler@TSLAshareholder
elon's response to trump

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump
I am saddened to watch Elon Musk go completely "off the rails," essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks. He even wants to start a Third Political Party, despite the fact that they have never succeeded in the United States - The System seems not designed for them. The one thing Third Parties are good for is the creation of Complete and Total DISRUPTION & CHAOS, and we have enough of that with the Radical Left Democrats, who have lost their confidence and their minds! Republicans, on the other hand, are a smooth running "machine," that just passed the biggest Bill of its kind in the History of our Country. It is a Great Bill but, unfortunately for Elon, it eliminates the ridiculous Electric Vehicle (EV) Mandate, which would have forced everyone to buy an Electric Car in a short period of time. I have been strongly opposed to that from the very beginning. People are now allowed to buy whatever they want - Gasoline Powered, Hybrids (which are doing very well), or New Technologies as they come about - No more EV Mandate. I have campaigned on this for two years and, quite honestly, when Elon gave me his total and unquestioned Endorsement, I asked him whether or not he knew that I was going to terminate the EV Mandate - It was in every speech I made, and in every conversation I had. He said he had no problems with that - I was very surprised! Additionally, Elon asked that one of his close friends run NASA and, while I though his friend was very good, I was surprised to learn that he was a blue blooded Democrat, who had never contributed to a Republican before. Elon probably was, also. I also thought it inappropriate that a very close friend of Elon, who was in the Space Business, run NASA, when NASA is such a big part of Elon's corporate life. My Number One charge is to protect the American Public!

Le sigh, I wish I could tell you this is all just one sick joke. But no, this is real life, starring the world’s richest man and our country's highest official. What a timeline to watch unfold.

As of posting, the Trump administration has not yet responded to Musk's tweets. We will update you if they do.

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INTEL Roundtable w/ Johnson & McGovern : Weekly Wrap 11-July-25
by Judge Napolitano, Larry Johnson & Ray McGovern
Judging Freedom
Streamed 1 day ago



Transcript

Hi everyone, Judge Andrew Napolitano here for Judging Freedom. Today is Friday, July 11th, 2025. It's the end of the week, the end of the day. It's our favorite time, our intelligence community roundtable with Larry Johnson and Ray McGovern. Ray has been traveling in Europe and is kind enough to break away from his lecture schedule to join us. Guys, it's always a pleasure. Thank you for the double duty. Thank you for the information you provide me during the week and thank you for letting me pick your brains.

Now, Larry, to you first. Why do you think Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has visited the White House and Capitol Hill three times in the past six months during the presidency of Donald Trump?

[Larry Johnson] Well, this time is to lock down more aid, because they were they were devastated by what Iran did to them over the course of those 12 days. That's number one. Number two, try to see, to take the temperature of Trump face-to-face, and see if he can get him convinced to make another go at Iran. I don't think they're finished at all. Trump, for his part, you know, maybe one explanation for why he's going so hard after the judges in Israel who are hearing the case involving Netanyahu's corruption, is that if you can get Netanyahu off, so to speak, and then get Netanyahu convinced to move forward with the ceasefire. because Trump is, you know, he's a keen man. He wants that Nobel Prize, so he's going to do anything he can. And so, maybe to that extent, if there's some additional negotiation -- but listening to Netanyahu at the end of the trip, I think Netanyahu, he got everything he wanted out of Trump.

[Judge Andrew Napolitano] Uh Rey, I think Larry's correct. Netanyahu was as tenacious as ever. And I think as manipulative as ever. What is your take as to how to justify three meetings? Actually, it's more than three meetings. It's three trips, but this trip alone had three meetings with Trump, only two of which were partially on television.

[Ray McGovern, former CIA Intel Analyst] I think Judge it has to do with internal politics in Tel Aviv or West Jerusalem. Netanyahu needs every chance to show that Trump is backing him 100%. And these trips help that to the degree that Trump sort of ratifies that. And this is, let's face it, this is Netanyahu's strongest hand. He has the backing of the president of the United States. And I think that was mostly why he came.

The serving of the, or giving him the copy of the Nobel Prize, well, my god, one war criminal giving a Nobel Prize nomination to another one. I mean, that was a little bit too much to take. But, we have to laugh these things off, otherwise we die crying.

[Judge Napolitano] Right. Larry, is there any analysis you can share about the timing of Netanyahu's trip and the decision of the Justice Department -- Both occurred on the same day -- to do a 180 on the Epstein files? The Justice Department, the attorney general, said they were on her desk while Netanyahu is here. Maybe I'm reading more in this than there is. I don't know. That's why I want your thoughts. She and Kash Patel and Dan Bongino announced there's no there's no enemies, there's no client list, we never had one. There's nothing to reveal.

[Larry Johnson] Yeah. You mean you don't believe in coincidence? Jeez. God almighty. You know, look, the client list does exist. It's been admitted to by others. Ryan Dawson has compiled it, not by just sitting down and coming up with names out of his own mind, but he actually read through all the court transcripts, all the witness statements, all the charging documents, and he was able to come up with a list of 78 people that include folks like Jamie Diamond, Robert Craft.

[Judge Andrew Napolitano] Now, you published that list on your website, did you not?

[Larry Johnson] Yeah, sonar 21.

Now, note: there are billionaires on that list! If Ryan was putting their names out and said, "Hey, they're on the Epstein list," you know, he'd be sued if it was false. So, that's why he hasn't been sued by one of them. That tells you a lot right there.

I also learned this week from my business partner, who has brought a tax case against the Clinton Foundation, that he received from one of the Scandinavian countries a flight manifest from Mr. Epstein. And on that plane, Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, and James Comey. They flew from the island up into one of the Scandinavian countries. Now, what were they doing? I don't know. Maybe attending a chess tournament. Who knows? But the point is, this administration, they're not protecting Donald Trump because, I tell you, if Trump was on that list, do you think the Biden crew would have let that, you know kept and protected that? Oh absolutely not. They would have destroyed him with it.

-- Maxwell trial: Flight logs show Trump flew on ‘Lolita Express’ with Eric, Tiffany and Clinton adviser. Trump was a frequent flyer onboard Epstein’s private jet in 1993 and 1994, by Bevan Hurley, UK Independent, Tuesday 28 December 2021 11:19 EST

But two things are going on. (1) protecting this as a Israeli intelligent asset. And (2) if there are friends of Donald Trump on that list, he may not have even paid attention to it before, but once he saw his friends on that list, he said, "I'm not going to let him be ratted out." But I think it had more to do with him as a MOSSAD asset, with some CIA involvement, very likely.

[Judge Napolitano] Ray, was Epstein a MOSSAD asset? And would the MOSSAD use sexual blackmail to control public policy of a country?

[Ray McGovern] Yes. And certainly yes. They've done it in the past. Mordechai Vanunu was captured in sort of a honeypot operation, the fellow who revealed with photos what the Israelis were doing with respect to working on an atomic bomb.  

Mordechai Vanunu (Hebrew: מרדכי ואנונו‎; born 14 October 1954), also known as John Crossman, is an Israeli former nuclear technician and peace activist who, citing his opposition to weapons of mass destruction, revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986. He was subsequently lured from England to Italy by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, where he was drugged and abducted. He was secretly transported to Israel and ultimately convicted in a trial that was held behind closed doors.

-- Mordechai Vanunu, by Wikipedia

So yeah, it's part of the trade craft.

I would have to say that not only Israelis do this sort of thing, but this is done by virtually all intelligence services.

[Judge Napolitano] Do you know the extent, from your friends in intelligence, Epstein's activities with MOSSAD? Was he an agent? Was he an asset? Was he paid? Did they have damaging information on him to the point where he was forced to work for them?

[Ray McGovern] Well, obviously someone paid him big bucks. Now, I don't know who exactly that was, but if you put in perspective all the people that profited from his operations, the Israelis in the first instance, and now those fellows that had this great time on that island in the second one. They never thought that they would be blackmailable. That's really stupid. Why else would they be given these favors? But, you know, somebody paid, and somebody got him killed. I mean, it's pretty clear, huh? It's pretty clear. Somebody got him killed in that prison. So, will this come out? Uh, well, hopefully it will. Maybe Kash Patel is going to pursue this like a bulldog, but maybe not. We'll just have to see.

[Judge Napolitano] It doesn't seem like it. Dr. Michael Baden, who's the world's foremost pathologist, and a friend of mine from testifying before me and used by the government, over and over again, has testified, under oath, that there's no way under the laws of physics that Epstein could have broken his own neck in the manner in which it was broken.

Larry, will Israel ever be at peace with its neighbors until they're all reduced to the status of Libya or Syria?

[Larry Johnson] No, it's impossible because the entire premise of Zionism, which emerged in the late 19th century; it wasn't a religious --

[Judge Napolitano] Oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute, Larry. Ted Cruz told Tucker Carlson that the references to Israel in the Old Testament were to the country governed by Benjamin Netanyahu today. I had to get that in there. I know you know this. Go ahead.

[Larry Johnson] Yeah, he forgot to understand that that first promise was to Abraham and to all nations. And gee, if that promises to Abraham, that means the Arabs, the Muslims, as well, are blessed under that.

[Judge Napolitano] Correct. Correct. Islam is an Abrahamic religion. Go ahead.

[Larry Johnson] But he just doesn't know his Bible very well. But that's what's the absurdity of all of this, that this political movement that came out of basically Europe, and with Theodor Herzl as the big advocate, he wasn't a religious Jew, they premised this entire thing that "God gave this land to us, but we don't believe in God!" So I'm going, yeah, how does that work? That's like being a secular Christian, you know?

[Judge Napolitano] So there's never going to be peace there. And they're never going to be self-sufficient. They are counting on Donald Trump, and subsequent Donald Trumps, to continue to provide them with aid at the expense of the American government. Did you know that Netanyahu flew home with two jets that Trump gave him from the Air Force? I didn't know the president could just give away Air Force jets, Ray McGovern, did you?

[Ray McGovern] Well, did he have a foot on each one? Was he a astride the two jets? You know, Netanyahu is pretty pretty agile? No, I think it's ridiculous, and it really is a matter of time, I think. The latest polls show that a lot of Americans don't like genocide. A lot of Americans are seeing the photos coming from Gaza. A lot of Americans, much fewer than 80% that Netanyahu bragged about having. He said "80% of the Americans will support us no matter what. That is absurd." End quote. Well, it was absurd then, when he said it 25 years ago, and it's even more absurd now. He's below 50%, in my view, if you take a nationwide poll of those who know what's going on in the world. So that's the change. That's a salutory change. It's just that it's coming so damn slow that hundreds of thousands of more Palestinians are likely to be killed in the interim.

[Judge Napolitano] Larry, and I forgot to run this, so we're going to back up to Epstein for a minute. And I know you're of the belief, and rightly so, that Trump's name is on it, or the Biden DOJ would have revealed it.

A video still from the NBC archive showing Donald Trump talking with Jeffrey Epstein at a party in Mar-A-Lago from 1992. NBC

-- Donald Trump parties in 1992 with now-accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, pats woman’s rear end, by Dan Mangan, CNBC, Published Wed, Jul 17 2019 3:07 PM EDT Updated Wed, Jul 17 2019 4:01 PM EDT

But when Pam Bondi, the attorney general, was asked by a reporter at a cabinet meeting, "What became of the client list?," before she could answer, the president said this.

[Donald Trump] Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy's been talked about for years. That is unbelievable. Do you want to waste the time on it? Do you feel like answering?

[Pam Bondi] I don't mind answering.

[Donald Trump] I mean, I can't believe you're asking a question on Epstein.

[Pam Bondi] In February, I did an interview on Fox and it's been getting a lot of attention because I said I was asked a question about the client list. And my response was, "It's sitting on my desk to be reviewed." Also, to the tens of thousands of video, never going to be released, never going to see the light of day. To him being an agent, I have no knowledge about that. We can get back to you on that. And that's it on Epstein."

[Judge Napolitano] Well, for Marco Rubio, it's like he's watching a tennis match between the two of them. I couldn't help but noting that. Let's move on.

Larry, how do you explain, just speaking about tennis match or pingpong, how do you explain aid to Ukraine? It's on again, off again, on again, increased again. That's what we've seen in the past two weeks with Trump.  

[Larry Johnson] This kind of erratic behavior, I think there's something mentally wrong with Trump. In fact, without revealing my source, somebody who has had frequent meetings with Trump over the last 18 months said that in these last meetings, he's noticed a noticeable change related to age. And when you listen to Trump talk, he talks in this monotone, like he's Rainman, with with some sort of autistic disease. But to play these kinds of games with the weapons, and with war in Ukraine, Russia's just laughing at him because they recognize they're not going to get a serious deal. So they know the game: Praise him, tell him he's wonderful, say, "Hey, man, we think you too should get the Nobel Peace Prize." But the Russians are going to keep doing what the Russians are doing. They're going to defeat the Ukrainians. But did you see the other day that there were four Iskander missiles that hit Kiev? Trump is sending 10 Patriot missiles. You have to fire two of those Patriot missiles to try to take out one Iskander, which they can't do. But the point is that in that one minute, with four rockets coming in, you would have used up 80% of what Donald Trump is sending. So I mean, this is ridiculous. It's just absurd theater.

[Judge Napolitano] Ray, before you jump in on this, and of course I want you to watch this. Chris, cut number 11.

July 7, 2025

[Reporter] Are you planning to send more weapons to Ukraine?

[Donald Trump] Uh, we're going to send some more weapons. We have to. They have to be able to defend themselves. Because they're getting hit very hard now. They're getting hit very hard. And we're going to have to send more weapons. Your defensive weapons primarily....

July 8, 2025

[Reporter] Mr. President, are you going to send more weapons to Ukraine, as you said last night? Last week the Pentagon paused some shipments of weapons to Ukraine. Did you approve of that pause?

[Donald Trump] We want to put defensive weapons, because Putin is not treating human beings right. He's killing too many people. So, we're sending some defensive weapons to Ukraine. And I've approved that.

[Reporter] So, who ordered a pause last week?

[Donald Trump] I don't know. Why don't you tell me?

July 9, 2025

Sir, yesterday you said that you were not sure who ordered the munitions halted to Ukraine. Have you since been able to figure that out?

[Donald Trump] Well, I haven't thought about it, because we're looking at Ukraine right now, and munitions. But no, I have not gone into it.

[Reporter] What does it say that such a big decision could be made inside your government without you knowing?  

[Donald Trump] Uh, I would know if a decision was made. I will know. I'll be the first to know. In fact, most likely I'd give the order. But I haven't done that yet.

[Judge Napolitano] What does the Kremlin think, Ray McGovern, when they see the American president speaking like that? I mean, this is beyond what Larry's colleague has described.

[Ray McGovern] Well, Judge, I'm sure that the Kremlin has its own equivalent of what we used to have in the CIA: "At a distance psychological profiles." And I'm sure they've come up with a result similar to what Larry mentioned before. The man is erratic. The man may be sick. But he's the guy that they can deal with, the only guy they can deal with for the next three years. And they've said, "Oh, yeah. When Trump says, 'Oh, I am not happy with Russia, I'm not happy' -- well, the reaction from Putin's spokesperson is, "Yeah well, you know, a person in the United States is erratic and not always consistent, but we're operating on a tougher plane, on an overseer plane. We want to develop relations.

Now what's the proof I would adduce? Well, just yesterday Rubio meeting with Lavrov in Koala Lumpur. They met for an hour, and what was the readout? It said, Here's what Rubio says. "You know, the Russians have a new and different kind of suggestion on Ukraine, and I'm going to bring that back to the president. It's something like a step-by-step approach, like a road map," says Rubio. Okay. And the whole thing was described by the Russians as "a mutually respectful dialogue on a growing range of issues of mutual interest."  

So all I can say here is that the Russians are aware that this guy may be a little bit deranged. He's the only fellow they can work with. The Russians have the upper hand in Ukraine. They don't need to rush. They need to see what Trump is willing to do in terms of getting Ukraine behind him so he can move on to bigger and better things. My God, in the Middle East and in respect to China. So all I'm saying here is it's become increasingly clear that even though Trump says every other day, "I'm really not happy with those Russians," the Russians just dust it off and say, "Look, we think the guy is serious. We're going to test that out. But in any case, we're winning, and we'll just have to see how much of a deal we can cut so that we don't have to take over the whole country.

[Judge Napolitano] Larry, are the neocons in his administration finally triumphant?

[Larry Johnson] Yeah, I'd say so. They're getting everything that they want at this point. It's unfortunate that Trump, likes to think of himself as being Reagan-esque. Reagan with all of his faults and flaws, he actually did a good job of selecting good people in positions. Whether you got Casper Weinberger as Secretary of Defense, or George Schultz, the Secretary of State. I mean, I'm not saying you agree with their policies, but at least they were intelligent, and thoughtful.

[Judge Napolitano] Schultz was a giant.

[Larry Johnson] But, you know, Trump's got a clown show going on. You know, he made his money, part of his money, on television pretending he knew how to hire and fire people. And yet, look at what he's done. The lack of quality between the likes of Hegseth and Marco Rubio. They're not even in the same league. But he is, I'm afraid, continuing to follow their line. If he had a clear vision about being Mr. Peace, he would have cut off all the weapons flows. He would have cut off the intelligence cooperation, and would have would have brought an end to this war. There! As well as in Palestine. But instead, he enables the genocide in Palestine, and he allows this war to continue.

[Judge Napolitano] Ray, if Rubio said that Lavrov gave him a new version of things, Rubio was naive. The Russians have had the same five or six conditions, beginning with no NATO, and ending with no military, from the beginning. What what could Lavrov possibly have said that Rubio thinks is newsworthy, or different, and worthy of transmitting to the president, unless Rubio, who's not been part of the negotiations, because Witkoff has, is first now exposed to this?

[Ray McGovern] Well, Judge, we'll have to see, won't we? Rubio's got a new set of suggestions from the Russians. He thinks it's interesting enough to mention to the press that he's going to take them back to the president. And he says, you know, it's really kind of funny. It's a step-by-step kind of road map. Well, hello. That may make you naive. That's the way you do these negotiations. Now, I'm not saying that the Russian terms have changed. They haven't, and they won't. Because the Russians are winning. What I am saying is that if the neocons were completely in control, there would be no talks with the Russians. There would be no Trump reaching out to say, "Oh, I'd like to meet her and talk to Putin again." There would be no hope on the Russian side that they could make a deal. The deal is there in the offing. It's going to be heavily favored in Russia's favor, of course, and it's going to take another month before the Ukrainian army collapses. But the deal is there for the making. And I have to make sure that people realize that at least I differentiate between the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The Dr. Jekyll on Ukraine -- Trump I'm talking about, of course -- and the Mr. Hyde that enables genocide, for God's sake, and worse, in joining a war aggression against Iran.

So, you know, I'll take the Dr. Jekyll, and I think that's the attitude that Putin has. "He's the only guy we have; we're talking to him; Rubio talks to Lavrov and Rubio says, "Well, wait a second. Here's some good suggestions. I'm gonna take that to the President."

So, let's not prejudge this. Let's see what Rubio comes up with, or what the president says: "Well, that's not a bad idea. I hadn't thought of that. Step-by-step. That's interesting." Before we prejudge the thing and say that the president is really not that realistic, or he's dumb, or he's hemmed in completely by the neocons.

[Judge Napolitano] But Larry, the neocons will never accept anything less than Russian military evacuation from eastern Ukraine. That is not only unrealistic, it's impossible.

[Larry Johnson] Yeah, it's not going to happen. Look, Lavrov had an interview last week with Magyar Nemzet, a Hungarian news outlet, and he gave the strongest, clearest outline of what Russia's position is. And the only thing that's changed from what Vladimir Putin presented on June 14th, 2024 is that now the west has got to recognize that Crimea, Sevastapol, Donetsk, Luhansc, Zaporizhia and Kherson are in fact -- this is what he said: He said, "There must be international legal recognition of the new territorial realities following the accession of Crimea, Sevastapol, Donetsk, Luhansc, People's Republics, as well as Zaporizhia and Kherson regions into the Russian Federation. And on the agenda are the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, lifting of anti-Russian sanctions, withdrawal of lawsuits against Russia, and return of illegally frozen assets in the West."

You know, that's what Rubio heard.

[Ray McGovern] Well, wait a second. Wait a second, Larry. Larry, what's the date of what Lavrov said that you quoted? What's the date?

[Larry Johnson] It was last week.

[Ray McGovern] Okay, well, I'm talking about yesterday. I'm talking about yesterday. They talked yesterday.

[Larry Johnson] Ray. Ray. No, no, no. Absolutely not.

[Ray McGovern] [Laughing]

Larry Johnson] I spoke with Lavrov. Judge and I both spoke with Lavrov. He doesn't go out and say this and then come out and say something different from that. Are you kidding?

[Ray McGovern] Well, of course he does! In private, he tells, he tells Rubio exactly what Rubio said. Yeah.

[Larry Johnson] Oh, no, no. Look, no. Let's entertain the possibility that Rubio's lying.

[Ray McGovern] Well, why would he lie about this?

[Larry Johnson] "Why would he lie about it?" He wants to, he'll put the spin on it, Ray.

[Ray McGovern] Larry, when you talk to Lavrov, what exactly did he tell you?

[Larry Johnson] He said exactly what's in this message.

[Ray McGovern] Okay.

[Judge Napolitano] He told us the same six conditions that President Putin said in 2022, which Larry just articulated.

[Ray McGovern] Yeah, I'm not talking about when you and Larry were together in Moscow. What I'm talking about was when Larry was there alone, and he reported that Lavrov said something to him three times, and there's no justification for that, because the video was on all that time and Lavrov said no such thing. So if we're talking about what Lavrov says, he said what he said, we --

[Larry Johnson] You're wrong. You're wrong on this, Ray.

[Ray McGovern] Okay, then show me the proof. Show me the video.

[Larry Johnson] I just showed you the proof right here with the three paragraphs that Lavrov said to the Hungarians, and he repeated it at BRICS. You've been traveling. You haven't had a chance to read this or watch it.

[Ray McGovern] That's their going-in position, Larry. What he said to Rubio yesterday is what Rubio is reporting back. That's different. You know, you can't go with the old thing. Of course, they're going to go with the maximum position. What I'm saying here is that Lavrov said something different to Rubio yesterday, and the readout from the Russian side said this is a very respectful --

[Judge Napolitano] Let me jump in. I'm watching two of my closest friends, comrades, colleagues, who have advised me over the years, and each of whom appears twice a week or more on this show and disagree with each other. The audience loves it.

[Larry Johnson] We respectfully disagree.

[Judge Napolitano] Yes, yes. As JFK said, we will disagree agreeably. So on that, we will finish, Gentlemen. Have a great weekend. We'll see you both on Monday. Thank you for your time. Thanks for the double duty. Thanks for still loving each other while you're throwing the punches. Have a great weekend.

[Ray McGovern] You too, Judge. All the best to both of you guys.

[Larry Johnson] Thank you. Monday is a very busy day for us. At 8 in the morning, Alistair Crook. At 10 in the morning, Ray McGovern. At 10:45 in the morning, Professor Jeffrey Sachs. At 11:30 in the morning, Larry Johnson. At 1:00 in the afternoon, Colonel Douglas McGregor. At 2 in the afternoon, Scott Ritter. Hang on to your seat belts. Have a great weekend, everybody. Judge Napolitano for Judging Freedom.

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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

What’s going on with my “boys” and, in some cases, “gals?” They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB! We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happening. We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and “selfish people” are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein. For years, it’s Epstein, over and over again. Why are we giving publicity to Files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration, who conned the World with the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, 51 “Intelligence” Agents, “THE LAPTOP FROM HELL,” and more? They created the Epstein Files, just like they created the FAKE Hillary Clinton/Christopher Steele Dossier that they used on me, and now my so-called “friends” are playing right into their hands. Why didn’t these Radical Left Lunatics release the Epstein Files? If there was ANYTHING in there that could have hurt the MAGA Movement, why didn’t they use it? They haven’t even given up on the John F. Kennedy or Martin Luther King, Jr. Files. No matter how much success we have had, securing the Border, deporting Criminals, fixing the Economy, Energy Dominance, a Safer World where Iran will not have Nuclear Weapons, it’s never enough for some people. We are about to achieve more in 6 months than any other Administration has achieved in over 100 years, and we have so much more to do. We are saving our Country and, MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, which will continue to be our complete PRIORITY. The Left is imploding! Kash Patel, and the FBI, must be focused on investigating Voter Fraud, Political Corruption, ActBlue, The Rigged and Stolen Election of 2020, and arresting Thugs and Criminals, instead of spending month after month looking at nothing but the same old, Radical Left inspired Documents on Jeffrey Epstein. LET PAM BONDI DO HER JOB — SHE’S GREAT! The 2020 Election was Rigged and Stolen, and they tried to do the same thing in 2024 — That’s what she is looking into as AG, and much more. One year ago our Country was DEAD, now it’s the “HOTTEST” Country anywhere in the World. Let’s keep it that way, and not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Jul 12, 2025, 3:21 PM

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SICKLY Trump ROTS IN PUBLIC as KARMA STRIKES
by Ben Meiselas
MeidasTouch
Jul 13, 2025 The MeidasTouch Podcast

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump getting the karma he deserves as his rotten behavior gets exposed and he physically rots in public as MAGA gives him the middle finger and burns his hats.



Transcript

... It is rotten at the White
House with the biggest cover up yet. You
all saw Donald Trump's deranged post
yesterday regarding the Epstein list,
which he says didn't exist, but then he
said ACTUALLY, Obama, Clinton, James
Comey, and Democrats created the Epstein
list and created the files, and it's a
hoax, and it's fake. So therefore, he's
not releasing it. Move on. There's
nothing to see. And he's very happy with
the way Attorney General Pam Bondi and
his FBI director Kash Patel have
completely covered up the Epstein list,
and the Epstein files.

Oh, his people
are pissed. By the way, Epstein files,
Epstein list, are the most searched item
on Google right now. You have the Trump
supporters, his most loyal supporters.
They're all burning their MAGA hats.
Some are torching their MAGA hats. Some
are burning their MAGA hats and giving
the burnt MAGA hats the middle finger.
This is happening in mass right now.
Rasmusen, one of Donald Trump's top
pollsters, have said they've never seen
anything like this before. They said
anybody important in the MAGA movement
right now is absolutely livid and
pissed. Then you have Elon Musk who
previously said Trump was on the Epstein
list and that's why Donald Trump was
covering this all up. Well, he's
sticking in the dagger and he is turning
it. He goes, "Seriously? Trump said
Epstein half a dozen times while telling
everyone to stop talking about Epstein.
Just release the files as promised."

MAGA is up in flames tonight. And just
think about how stupid he made his
influencers. Look, all those right-wing
MAGA influencers who back in February
went to the White House, they held up
those binders that said, "The Epstein
files, phase one, and Pam Bondi, Donald
Trump's attorney general, did a media
tour." And she's like, "The Epstein
files are on my desk. We are getting
ready to release them." And you know,
I've been like, "There's no way they're
releasing the Epstein files. Trump's
going to be all over them. He's all over
the files that have been released
already. I mean, about 10% of all of the
Epstein files are already out there
based on the civil and criminal cases
where judges have allowed some of the
documents to get out there. Trump's in
the deposition, Trump's on the call log,
Trump's on the flight log, right? Trump
is um all over the stuff. Epstein used
Mara Lago to recruit the girls that he
sex trafficked. Virginia Du Fray who
recently died by suicide. She was 17
years old homeless got a job at Mara
Lago. Gilane Maxwell who trafficked for
Epstein would go to Mara Lago find the
girls find Juy brought her to Epstein.
Epstein trafficked her. That's what's
going on. All right. So, how is Donald
Trump responding to the fact that his
entire term right now is going down in
flames? Well, he's got to run to state
regime media Fox. But the only host on
state regime media who even wanted to be
near him, do you know who it was? Lara
Trump. No one else wanted anything to do
with him last night. So Lara Trump does
the interview with him. And she asks
hardball questions. I'm just joking. She
asks, "Some say you're the bodyguard of
Western civilization. How would you
respond here? Play this clip."
Especially this last couple of weeks has
been pretty amazing.
Some people have called you the
bodyguard of Western civilization.
Yeah.
How do you feel about that title?
Well, I understand what they mean. It
was going bad. We were going bad. This
is their plan. This is their way of
trying to deal with uh the the biggest
scandal Trump's been hit with yet. Um
Lara Trump then asks her father-in-law,
"How do you have the ability to make
such a good cabinet here? Watch this.
Your cabinet is comprised of so many
incredible people and people that even a
year ago so many would never have
imagined like RFK Jr. who a year ago was
running for president as a Democrat. Um
why do you think you have this ability
and and I feel like it has really been
to your benefit? Look at this incredible
cabinet you've put together. They're all
people who are working to make America
great again.
They've been incredible. Actually, the
cabinet's been incredible. And by the
way, one of the funny things in this
interview is Lara Trump looks like she's
like a giant compared to Donald Trump
where he's sitting. Let's take a look at
that photo. Anyway, then Lara Trump
says, "How do you want to be remembered?
This is their way of trying to get their
viewers to be distracted." But even the
Fox cult, they're not being brainwashed
by this anymore. They're going, "Release
the Epstein files." Here's here's what
she says here. Play this clip.
Just to wrap up here, you're talking
about people not remembering. I don't
think anyone will ever forget President
Donald J. Trump. But when history looks
back on this time in our country, when
history looks back on you, how would you
like to be remembered?
A good person, but a person that saved
our country. I really believed our
country was going down for the fall. By
the way, yesterday JD Vance vacationing
in California. JD Vance has basically
spent the entire summer vacationing in
California. He was previously in San
Diego. Now he is in Anaheim at
Disneyland for a vacation. So while the
Trump regime attacks California, sends
ICE to try to destroy Los Angeles and
Santa Barbara County and Riverside
County and Tulary County um and Ventura
County and Fresno County. JD Vance just,
you know,
I'm in Disneyland with my family. To
which Governor Nuome writes, JD Vance on
Tom Sawyer Island and looking for the
next alligator Alcatraz. Too many happy
families for him in one place. Governor
Nuomo says, "Hope you enjoy your family
time, JD Vance, the families you're
tearing apart certainly won't." And then
uh Governor Nuome was thanked by
Governor Greg Abbott of Texas because
California provided K-9 teams to Texas
to help locate bodies. And uh Greg
Abbott goes, "Thanks to California
Governor for sending K-9 teams to Texas.
The quick response from many states was
crucial in our rescue and recovery.
Governor Nuomo goes, "California is
proud to help Texas in this moment of
crisis. Tragedy tests us. How we come
together to help communities recover
defines us." Right? So, while Nuome is
sounding presidential and talking like
that, remember what Donald Trump said at
the press conference he held on Friday?
I'm not even going to show you the clip
where he goes, "It's evil for you to ask
why the response was so slow. It's evil
for you to ask why uh the federal
government shut down um its call center
and fired all of the people on July 5th
who would answer the emergency calls.
Remember what Trump said? It would be
evil for you to ask why it was that it
took 72 hours for Christy Gnome to
activate the urban search and rescue
teams. It would be evil for you to ask.
The losers are the only persons who try
to blame people. That's that's actually
what Governor Abbott and MAGA Republican
Congress member Chip Roy said. And yep,
we're learning that on July 7th, 85% of
calls to FEMA went unanswered because
they fired all of the workers basically.
Oh yeah, and by the way, um from the
National Weather Service, uh six
critical vacancies there as well,
including the lead meteorologist
coordinator got pushed out by Doge. But
what else would you expect from this um
regime? But here's what Donald Trump
said about uh the water was so high you
could like surf it. What the hell is he
talking about here? Play this clip.
There's one story that uh one person
said it had to be 60 ft at one moment.
This is like a giant giant wave in the
Pacific Ocean
that the best surfers in the world would
be afraid to surf. You you could surf
it. That's that that's the way you're
dealing with families right here. What
in the world are you talking about?

Okay. show you some other uh data points
here as well. Um, as I've said before,
the tourism boycott taking place right
now against the United States, I told
you, is going to have a crippling effect
on the American economy. It's already
devastating many states like Nevada, as
Jake Bro goes, it only took Trump 7
months, but he has destroyed the Las
Vegas economy. International tourism is
dead because everyone in the world now
hates America because of Trump's tariffs
and tax increases. Middle-class
Americans can no longer afford a Vegas
vacation anymore. Also, Canadians and
people from across the world would go to
Vegas. Everything here is rapidly
getting worse with layoffs. The city is
about to crater hard over the next year.
Nevada unemployment is the highest in
the country right now at 5.5% of labor
force out of work. basically a massive
recession in Nevada right now. We
predicted it. I mean, tourism from
Canada alone is down around 40%. And a
lot of Canadians right now would be
going to Vegas and other places. By the
way, that's going to affect a lot of
other places as well.

Speaking of
Canada, um Melanie Jolie, um their the
former foreign minister, she's now their
economic uh minister, um an industrial
economic minister. Here's Melanie Jolie
um at an important meeting uh yesterday
or two days ago um with her counterpart
in the European Union and she goes,
"We're turning to Europe as America is
getting weaker." Here, play this clip.
What I wanted to emphasize today, as
minister in charge of industries and
the economy, we are not alone
in this world. We need to be closer to
our allies, and that is why today is so
important. It's been only 15 days since
the prime minister signed an agreement
with the EU to make sure that not only
of course that we have a free trade
agreement, but that we are very closely
aligned on defense and on all our
industrial
policies. And that's why Stefan and I
today are together, because we're in
solution mode, and we're trying to make
sure that ultimately, while the US is
becoming weaker, we will become stronger,
and we will diversify and turn
ourselves towards Europe.

All right, while we're here together,
I'll give you some more data points. We
had Michael Wolff, Donald Trump's
biographer and someone who was going to
be doing Jeff potentially doing Jeffrey
Epstein's biographer. We had him on the
Midas Touch Network yesterday. Here's
what Michael Wolff had to say. Here,
let's play this clip.

[Michael Wolff] Once when I was in Mar-a-Lago, I went to have a sit down
with him. And his aids just
asked me, you know, a rough outline of
what I wanted to talk about. And I
had a lot of subjects, but I also
said Epstein. And they said, you know, if you ask about
that, he'll just stop the interview, and
you won't get anything. So this person
said, I recommend you can ask about
anything, but I really recommend you not
ask that if you hope for this
interview to go on.

[Ben Meiselas] Now, here's Michael Wolff in another
interview talking about the photos that
he saw of Trump and Epstein with naked
girls on their laps. Here, play this
clip.

[Michael Wolff] And I've said before that
Epstein used to bring out this set
of pictures. There was about a dozen
snapshots. And among them,
there are at least three, that I remember,
two of topless girls
sitting in Trump's lap around
Epstein's swimming pool, and then one
with a stain on the front of Trump's
pants with three or four girls um
laughing and pointing at it. So I have
seen those pictures.

[Reporter] So what's your best guess as to where they are?

Well, my
best guess is that Epstein kept them in the safe. The
safe was emptied out by the FBI.

[Reporter] Where
are those pictures?

[Ben Meiselas] And finally, I want you all to remember
this clip right here. This is from 2020,
when Donald Trump was interviewed by
Axios on HBO, and he was asked, "Why did
you wish Ghislaine Maxwell -- they were very
close friends together; I mean Ghislaine and
Jeffrey lived like two
blocks away from Trump's Mar-a-Lago. That's why Trump said Epstein's a great
guy on the younger side. They hung out
together. Trump -- they were involved
in all of this together. It's pretty
clear from from all of the stuff that
was released they did the stuff
together. So Trump was asked, "Why did
you wish Ghislaine Maxwell well? Why did
you say you hope she's doing well in her
sex trafficking trial? She's a sex
trafficker. So why would you say nice
things about her?" Here's how Trump
responded to that in 2020. Let's play.

[Reporter] Mr. President, the other day a reporter
asked you about Ghislaine Maxwell. You said, quote,

"I just wish her well, frankly.
I've met her numerous times over the
years, especially since I lived in Palm
Beach, but I wish her well, whatever it
is."]

[Reporter] Mr. President, Ghislaine Maxwell has
been arrested on allegations of child
sex trafficking. Why would you wish such
a person --

[Donald Trump] I don't know that, but I do know that --

[Reporter] She has. She's been arrested for that.

[Donald Trump] Her friend, or boyfriend
Epstein,
was either killed, or committed suicide
in jail. She's now in jail.
Yeah. I wish you well. I'd wish you
well. I'd wish a lot of people well.
Good luck. Let them prove somebody was
guilty. I mean, you do know that.

[Reporter] Oh, so you're saying you hope she
doesn't die in jail? Is that what you
mean by wish her well?

[Donald Trump] Her boyfriend
died in jail, and people are still trying
to figure out how did it happen. Was it
suicide? Was he killed? And I do wish
her well. I'm not looking for anything
bad for her. I'm not looking bad for
anybody. And they took that and made such
a big deal. But all
it is is her boyfriend died. He died in
jail. Was he killed? Was it suicide? I
do. I wish her well.

I should also note
as well right now that Congress
member Rohit Khanna posted the following. Why
are the Epstein files still hidden? Who
are the rich and powerful being
protected? On Tuesday, I'm introducing
an amendment to force a vote demanding
the full Epstein files be released to
the public. The speaker must call a vote
and put every Congress member on record.

Senator Brian Chat says this is very
likely exactly what it looks like.
It is.

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Trump CHAOS in LA INSTANTLY Shutdown by Federal Judge
by Michael Popok
Legal AF
Jul 12, 2025 The Intersection with Michael Popok

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vasquez-perdomo-v-noem-class-action-immigration-sweeps.pdf
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

Pedro VASQUEZ PERDOMO; Carlos Alexander OSORTO; and Isaac VILLEGAS MOLINA; Jorge HERNANDEZ VIRAMONTES; Jason Brian GAVIDIA; LOS ANGELES WORKER CENTER NETWORK; UNITED FARM WORKERS; COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS; IMMIGRANT DEFENDERS LAW CENTER,

Plaintiffs,

v.

Kristi NOEM, in her official capacity as Secretary, Department of Homeland Security; Todd M. LYONS, in his official capacity as Acting Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Rodney S. SCOTT, in his official capacity as Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol; Michael W. BANKS, in his official capacity as Chief of U.S. Border Patrol; Kash PATEL, in his official capacity as Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation; Pam BONDI, in her official capacity as U.S. Attorney General; Ernesto SANTACRUZ JR., in his official capacity as Acting Field Office Director for Los Angeles, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Eddy WANG, Special Agent in Charge for Los Angeles, Homeland Security Investigations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Gregory K. BOVINO, in his official capacity as Chief Patrol Agent for El Centro Sector of the U.S. Border Patrol; Jeffrey D. STALNAKER, in his official capacity as Acting Chief Patrol Agent, San Diego Sector of the U.S. Border Patrol; Akil DAVIS, in his official capacity as Assistant Director in Charge, Los Angeles Office, Federal Bureau of Investigation; Bilal A. ESSAYLI, in his official capacity as U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California,

Defendants.

Case No.: 2:25-cv-05605-MEMF-SP

Hon. Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong

FIRST AMENDED PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS AND COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF

CLASS ACTION

Hour by Hour the American public is expressing its utter revulsion at Trump's immoral, inhumane and illegal immigration and deportation raids and arrests, as they see for themselves the death and destruction that Trump is responsible for with their own eyes. And now a Federal Judge in LA has found that Trump's ICE and Dept of Homeland Security are engaged in systematic violations of people's 4th Amendment Rights against illegal search and seizure, and 5th Amendment right to counsel, and has temporarily put a stop to mass detention and arrest raids based ethnic or "immigration status" profiling. Popok ties all the latest events from Trump's death-causing raids, his recent public statements, and how at least one American Citizen has decided to sue the Administration for wrongfully arresting him on his latest hot take.



Transcript

I believe in the American people. I
believe that they know what is right and
wrong. I believe in their decency. And
what we're watching now is that now that
they're seeing for themselves in video
clips and in reporting like here on
Legal AF, what Donald Trump's depraved,
disgusting, inhumane deportation and
removal policies look like on the ground
with people dying
during raids, chasing other human
beings, sometimes on horseback, chasing
after them like this is something out of
our Civil War period or prior to that
and chasing human beings through schools
and parks and factories and plants and
churches and schools.
The will of the people is against Donald
Trump when it comes to deportation and
removal. Donald Trump doesn't want you
to believe that. Donald Trump doesn't
want you to believe that he's against
the will of the people. There's a new
temporary restraining order, of course,
that's coming out of California with
Judge Frimpang.
Judge Frimong just said that at least in
LA, which is ground zero for Donald
Trump apparently, to attack other
Americans who we know recently, he said
he hates us.
She said, "You are not to continue to
racially profile people, stop and detain
them in violation of the Fourth
Amendment against illegal search and
seizure. The Fifth Amendment, deny them
the ability to have proper counsel
because you don't like what they look
like, because they've got brown skin,
because they have an accent, because you
picked them up in the Home Depot parking
lot with roving bands of masked
marauders and ICE officials being
supported by the National Guard. It
stops now with her order. Trish McLaclin
for the Department of Homeland Security
said, "A district judge is undermining
the will of the American people." Wrong,
Trish McLaclin, whoever you are,
nameless, faceless person who sent in an
email. The American people's will is
being expressed every day on the streets
and more importantly for right now, the
polling. And if you cared as an
administration about the will of the
people, then you would know that 68% of
the will of the people don't want to see
other human beings falling under the
crush of a baton or a horse or die
during a raid
because they believe in the immigrant
dream of America. They believe that
immigration makes us stronger. They
believe that these human beings, let me
remind you, they're not dirt. They're
not trash. They're not pedophiles.
They're not MS-13. I mean, they're not
criminals. They're not murderers.
They're human beings. The stats show 50%
of them haven't even committed any
crimes. You're not going after violent
criminals to get the MS-13 off the
streets and pedophiles along with it.
You're just you're just pushing buttons,
hot buttons, to make people feel
uncomfortable. It's not based on the
facts and you know it. And every time
you say something in the Trump
administration outside the courtroom,
you never can back it up inside the
courtroom. You don't have the evidence
because it doesn't exist. I'm Michael
Popach. You're on Legal AF. I'm fired
up. I'm on holiday, but it's a working
holiday. Has to be in this
administration. Let's pull together the
way we always have. The more we talk
about it, the reason we talk about it is
not so we can roll our eyes, slap our
forehead, and get fatigued. It's so that
we can call attention to it and turn the
tide of public opinion against this
administration. They are revolted. You
are revolted by Donald Trump's actions
and we need to continue to talk about it
and express it. We can't ignore it. We
We have to shine a light on it and we're
doing it right here on Legal AF. While
you're here, hit that free subscribe
button. You want to be here at the
corner of law, politics, and the defense
of our democracy. Let's talk about the
52page decision just out by Judge uh
Friang appointed by Joe Biden. Thank God
for her in Los Angeles. Now, here's what
she has to say in her order. She said,
"Mo, 52 pages, but I'll give you the
highlights. Most of the questions before
this court are fairly simple and
non-controversial." This is a case
brought by the American Civil Liberties
Union and other groups. May the federal
government conduct immigration
enforcement, even large-scale, in Los
Angeles? Yes, it may. Do all
individuals, regardless of immigration
status, share in the rights guaranteed
by the fourth and fifth fifth
amendments? Yes, they do. Is it illegal
to conduct roving patrols which identify
people based upon race alone,
aggressively question them, and then
detain them without a warrant, without
their consent, without reasonable
suspicion that they are without status?
Yes, it is. Is it unlawful to prevent
people from having access to lawyers who
can help them in immigration court? Yes,
it is. Those are the fundamental
results.

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

I am on my way back from Texas, and watched in disbelief as THUGS were violently throwing rocks and bricks at ICE Officers while they were moving down a roadway in their car and/or official vehicle. Tremendous damage was done to these brand new vehicles. I know for a fact that these Officers are having a hard time with allowing this to happen in that it shows such total disrespect for LAW AND ORDER. Therefore, I am directing Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, and Border Czar, Tom Homan, to instruct all ICE, Homeland Security, or any other Law Enforcement Officer who is on the receiving end of thrown rocks, bricks, or any other form of assault, to stop their car, and arrest these SLIMEBALLS, using whatever means is necessary to do so. I am giving Total Authorization for ICE to protect itself, just like they protect the Public. I never want to see a car carrying a Law Enforcement Officer attacked again! AUTHORIZATION IMMEDIATELY GRANTED FOR ARREST AND INCARCERATION. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Jul 11, 2025, 5:32 PM

Let me read to you from the end
of the order after she goes through the
mountain of evidence about these roving
bands of ICE that Donald Trump just
today said, "Oh, these these lunatics
that are that are resisting ICE, I'm I'm
giving ICE permission to what? To
violate the Fourth Amendment and the
Fifth Amendment to conduct police
brutality." This is the This guy has no
moral authority to do any of this. This
is the guy that let everybody out of the
jails, including the worst violent
offenders who beat law enforcement on
Jan 6th, and gave them immunity,
including some that later committed
other crimes, including one that had a
plot to kill FBI agents after Jan 6th.
What moral authority does Donald Trump
have to speak on this at all? None.

Here's what Judge Fing Pong has ruled.
Now, just to be clear, no, we no more
nationwide injunctions. This relates to
LA where she has jurisdiction and the
parties in front of her. So, she's very
careful on how she's granted this
temporary restraining order. Um,
defendants Christy Gnome, Todd Lions,
and a nurse Ernesto Santa Cruz shall
provide access, look how specific this
order is, to room B18 of the federal
building at 300 North Los Angeles
Street. I've been to that courthouse,
for legal visitation by current and
prospective attorneys. And then she
details how that's going to happen.
She'll provide individuals with
confidential telephone calls.
Um she also finds that on the stop and
arrest application, there's actually two
temporary restraining orders that have
been granted, not just one. That's
that's about the fifth amendment and and
the right to have uh due process and to
have right to counsel, stop and arrest.
This is what she ruled there. This is
all on page um
this is the last few pages of her order.
As required by the fourth amendment of
the US Constitution, defendant shall be
enjoined from conducting detentive
stops. That's detaining someone in this
district unless the agent or officer has
reasonable suspicion that the person to
be stopped is within the United States
in violation of US immigration law.
Defendants may not rely solely on the
factors below alone or in combination to
form the reasonable suspicion for a
detentive stop. Apparent race or
ethnicity, speaking Spanish or speaking
English with an accent, presence at a
particular location like a Home Depot,
an agricultural site, a laborer pickup
site, a towyard, the type of work one
does. And then there then she said an
order to show cause which she is uh
setting for uh a return to her courtroom
by the defendants
uh by Trump and the defendants uh in
front of this judge about why that
preliminary injunction should not also
be issued the next stop up on the train
signed by Judge Frimong, United States
District Judge on July 11th. Now, this
is what she says in her order.
Um, to be clear there, let me just read
to you from the order. Give me one
second
again. Two temporary restraining orders,
one on the fifth amendment and one on
the fourth amendment.
Um, I mean, before I get there, uh, this
is so bad that even Republican lawmakers
in
uh, California are imploring the Trump
administration to to do their stop and
frisk, right? We just had somebody die.
Just had somebody die during one of
these raids. I think it's the one at the
pot farm. Okay. Now, there's another
lawsuit because this we're showing on
this hottake the different ways and
different angles of attack in resistance
and defiance against the Trump
administration. A a single plaintiff guy
named Job or Job Garcia has filed a
lawsuit claiming he's an American
citizen and he was this is the parallel.
This is the hand and glove with the
lawsuit I just described that led to the
temporary restraining order. He claims
he's an American citizen who was stopped
and frisked in violation of the Fourth
Amendment without cause and therefore
he's entitled to millions of dollars in
damages. I agree with him. There is
actually a clip as I started this
hottake. I say it's important for the
American people to see how these
policies, not just on paper, how they're
being executed by Donald Trump and his
boot jack thugs of ICE. Now, listen,
proper execution of law enforcement in
this country, I'm not going to get in
the way of that. But this where they're
trying to they're trying to uh meet a
3,000 a day quotota set by Steven Miller
who's comfy in his perch inside the
White House as the deputy uh chief of
staff. You know, where they don't care.
You know, we already know morale is in
the crapper at ICE. That's why Donald
Trump has to give him like a $10,000
bonus to stay because they don't want to
do this job. They don't want it to be a
numbers game. They they're calling it
internally mission impossible.
And Donald Trump's like, "Oh, the men
and women, the proud men and women, you
know, they're getting they're meeting
resistance. They're having rocks thrown
at them. They're having garbage cans
thrown at them. You know, we need to we
need to give them the highest abilities
to do what? To commit police brutality.
Get a grip, man. You're the president of
the United States. If you want to run
for premere of North Korea, go right
ahead. So, let me run you the clip of
Mr. Garcia and his encounter with ICE.
Remember again when you're watching this
clip, he is an American citizen. Let's
roll the clip.

Yo, are you [ __ ] serious, bro?
Guys,
get him down. Get him down,
sir. Get the [ __ ] down. Get the [ __ ]
down.
[ __ ] good. Get your [ __ ] hand up.
Give me your [ __ ] hand.
You want it? You got it, sir. You
[ __ ] got it.
You want to go to jail? Fine.
You got it.
He wanted it. You got it.
All right. Boom.
Boom. Joe.
Get up, sir. Get up.

Okay. I'll keep an eye on Judge
Frimpong's temporary restraining order,
her order to show cause for a
preliminary injunction.

And in Donald
Trump's next step up to the Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals. We've got some
developments in the Ninth Circuit Court
of Appeals. I'll be doing another hot
take on it. The Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals is considering whether they got
it wrong about the use of the National
Guard by Donald Trump, the
federalization of the National Guard.
Remember, he lost to Gavin Newsome lost
that 3-0. But now there's judges on the
Ninth Circuit that want to hear the case
again en banc, meaning all 18 or 19
judges of the of the Ninth Circuit. So,
we'll see what happens there. That
may not be over yet. But we'll cover it
all right here.

You want to know at the
corner of law, politics, and the defense
of the democracy here on Legal AF. Hit
the free subscribe button. Set the
reminder so every time we post a video,
a podcast, I got a dozen contributors
that I curate here on Legal AF, you know
about it. So until my next hot taketake,
I'm Michael Popok.

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Trump Sanctions Arrests of ‘SLIMEBALL’ ICE Protesters By ‘Any Means Necessary’
by Catherine Bouris
Updated Jul. 12 2025 3:23AM EDT
Published Jul. 11 2025 11:20PM EDT
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-san ... necessary/

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

I am on my way back from Texas, and watched in disbelief as THUGS were violently throwing rocks and bricks at ICE Officers while they were moving down a roadway in their car and/or official vehicle. Tremendous damage was done to these brand new vehicles. I know for a fact that these Officers are having a hard time with allowing this to happen in that it shows such total disrespect for LAW AND ORDER. Therefore, I am directing Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, and Border Czar, Tom Homan, to instruct all ICE, Homeland Security, or any other Law Enforcement Officer who is on the receiving end of thrown rocks, bricks, or any other form of assault, to stop their car, and arrest these SLIMEBALLS, using whatever means is necessary to do so. I am giving Total Authorization for ICE to protect itself, just like they protect the Public. I never want to see a car carrying a Law Enforcement Officer attacked again! AUTHORIZATION IMMEDIATELY GRANTED FOR ARREST AND INCARCERATION. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Jul 11, 2025, 5:32 PM

Win McNamee/Getty Images)

President Donald Trump denounced “THUGS” and “SLIMEBALLS” who have been protesting ICE in a Friday night Truth Social post, authorizing further arrests of protesters ”using any means necessary.”

On his way back from Texas, where he saw for himself the devastation caused by last week’s floods, Trump took to his social media platform to complain about protesters who are attempting to prevent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from carrying out raids, largely in California.

The president wrote, “I am on my way back from Texas, and watched in disbelief as THUGS were violently throwing rocks and bricks at ICE Officers while they were moving down a roadway in their car and/or official vehicle. Tremendous damage was done to these brand-new vehicles. I know for a fact that these Officers are having a hard time with allowing this to happen in that it shows such total disrespect for LAW AND ORDER.”

He continued, ”Therefore, I am directing Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, and Border Czar, Tom Homan, to instruct all ICE, Homeland Security, or any other Law Enforcement Officer who is on the receiving end of thrown rocks, bricks, or any other form of assault, to stop their car, and arrest these SLIMEBALLS, using whatever means is necessary to do so.”

”I am giving Total Authorization for ICE to protect itself, just like they protect the Public. I never want to see a car carrying a Law Enforcement Officer attacked again! AUTHORIZATION IMMEDIATELY GRANTED FOR ARREST AND INCARCERATION. Thank you for your attention to this matter!,” he finished.

ICE agents carrying out sweeps at two cannabis farms in California on Thursday arrested around 200 workers suspected of being undocumented immigrants, leading to a confrontation between authorities and protesters.

As protesters threw rocks at ICE vehicles, agents used non-lethal ammunition on the crowd. In response to the protests, U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli tweeted, ”Federal agents are executing a search warrant at this marijuana farm. Agents have already arrested multiple individuals for impeding this operation and will continue to make arrests. Don’t interfere. You will be arrested and charged with a federal offense.”

Shortly before Trump’s Truth Social post, Fox News host Laura Ingraham responded to footage of protesters throwing rocks by declaring, “They gotta pull these guys over, throw these guys down on the ground and arrest them.”

Gregory Bovino, a U.S. Border Patrol Sector Chief for El Centro, later appeared on the program, assuring Ingraham that authorities had already made “dozens of arrests,” mostly for assault or impeding federal officers, and that they would continue to do so.

”In the end, something bad is going to happen, and that’s not what we want in law enforcement—we operate legally, ethically and morally—but we are going to arrest people who assault border patrol agents,” Bovino said.

White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told the Daily Beast, “For weeks, we’ve seen violent leftists assault heroic ICE agents. They’ve thrown rocks at their vehicles, tried to violently obstruct enforcement operations, and yesterday someone even shot at them. ICE agents are facing a 700 percent increase in assaults because of smears and lies from Democrats. This violence must end.”

One participant in last month’s protests against ICE in Los Angeles who was charged with assaulting a federal officer told The Guardian that he was brutally attacked by law enforcement.

Lifting his shirt to show the reporter his bruises, Jose Manual Mojica said, “We are not the violent ones. They escalated it. They are chasing down innocent people.”

”There was a different way to handle the situation than to beat me.”

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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship. She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!

Jul 12, 2025, 7:42 AM

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Alan Dershowitz Claims He Knows Who Is On The Epstein Client List
by Cenk Uygur, Elliot Morgan and Sharon Reed
The Young Turks
Jul 11, 2025

A video of Alan Dershowitz has resurfaced of him claiming to knows all about a list of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged clients. Cenk Uygur, Elliot Morgan and Sharon Reed discuss on The Young Turks.



Transcript

I know for a fact documents are being
suppressed and they're being suppressed
to protect individuals. I know the names
of the individuals. I know why they're
being suppressed. I know who's
suppressing them, but I'm bound by
confidentiality
uh from a judge and cases and I can't
disclose what I know. But I pan to God,
I know I know the names of people whose
files are being suppressed in order to
protect them. And that's wrong. Here we
are. The Epstein file saga continues.
This time with former Epstein defense
lawyer Alan Dershowitz. Uh on Sean
Spicer's show there back in March.
Dershowitz emphatically claimed that he
knew all of the clients on the so-called
Epstein list. Uh the clip resurfaced
yesterday but left and right-wing
backlash to the Trump administration's
denials that Epstein was blackmailing
other clients. Dershowitz's insistence
that there were other clients and
co-conspirators was backed up by Cigrid
McCauley, the lawyer representing
several Epstein victims in their civil
cases. Listen, I think what's really
just astonishing about this recent um
disclosure from the government is that
they know they are sitting on a treasure
trove of information and they're not
turning it over. And I've worked on
these cases for over 10 years now.
There's a plethora of information that
the public has not been able to see
relating to Epstein and his
co-conspirators. And as we know, he had
a a group of people around him who
helped protect him and helped that
scheme to continue running. None of
those people have been prosecuted. All
right, folks. And it's getting even
sketchier, if you will. We're learning
more um that the 11 hours of prison
footage that the Trump administration
released from the night Epstein died may
have been altered. Uh let's talk more
about it. with metadata embedded in the
video analyzed by wired and independent
video forensics experts shows that
rather than being a direct export from
the prison surveillance system, the
footage was modified, likely using the
professional editing tool Adobe Premiere
Pro. The file appears to have been
assembled from at least two source
clips, saved multiple times, exported,
and then uploaded to the DOJ's website
where it was presented as quote raw
footage. Experts caution that it's
unclear what exactly was changed and
that the metadata does not prove
deceptive manipulation. video may have
simply been processed for public release
using available software with no
modifications beyond stitching together
two clips, but again it adds to the
mystery here. With no clear explanation
from the Justice Department, we simply
can't say for sure what exactly went
down that night. Uh Hanny Fared, a
professor at UC Berkeley whose research
focuses on digital forensics and
misinformation, says this about the
footage. If a lawyer brought me this
file and asked if it was suitable for
court, I'd say no. Go back to the
source. Do it right. Do a direct export
from the original system. No monkey
business. DOJ, FBI both refusing to
answer questions about this. So Cenk,
look, we we've already established that
that MAGA loyalists are not going to let
this this go. Um, what more though does
this these revelations today tell us?
So, we kid around about Captain
Underpants because uh there's a story of
how he got a massage in the uh from in
the you know uh at Epstein's place and
but he says he kept his shorts on.
Uh so we had a good laugh over that and
he says no no it's okay my wife was
there and I was like um okay but u
because we're the fairest show in
America. Um, you know, as I watched that
uh interview with Sean Spicer, I
thought, I mean, he's making he's
getting me to to, you know, question if
he's really did do anything wrong. And
why? Because he's saying the same thing
Steve Bannon is saying. And two guy, I
can't stand Alan Doritz or Steve Bannon.
But they're both saying, why don't you
release the whole files because we're we
didn't do anything wrong. Now people are
accusing us. Dura was being accused for
a long time and Bannon just got accused
by Elon Musk. So they're like, "No,
that's it. Just release the goddamn
files because now we're all getting
smeared and uh and Steve Bannon's even
calling for a special prosecutor." So,
okay. So, did Dur I have no idea. I was
How would I know? The government's
keeping it a secret, right? So, um but I
agree with him in this case. Yeah.
Release the files, then we'll know. Uh
so, now to the tape.
I mean, first of all, they released the
tape and it's a freaking joke. So, I've,
as I've said many times, uh, on the day
that Epstein died, Anna and I were on
the air, it was breaking news and I
said, "If the camera in the hallway
isn't working, they killed him." Okay.
If the camera in the hallway is working,
then it was suicide. And I believed him,
right? And then we found out later, "Oh,
golly gee, the camera in the hallway
wasn't working. We cannot see his prison
cell." I was like, "Yeah, all right. Uh,
color me shocked. Right. So now they
say, "Okay, that's all right. We got to
we we got the tape. We I'm like, really?
You did? So the camera was working?" No,
no, we got a tape of the common area.
What does that pro? That doesn't prove
anything. Oh, by the way, there's a
minute missing.
And then Bondi's like, "No, every
prison tape has a minute missing." Does
it? Okay. So then Wired magazine with a
great reporting today where they're
like, "Yeah, it was edited." There's two
clear different parts of it edited
together. We don't know what was if
anything was manipulated further, but we
do know like there was different issues
with the tape. They had different
resolution this that and another thing.
And this is really important. They the
government put out two tapes. One that
was like, hey, you can see it more
clearly here. And the one they called
the raw footage and Wired magazine
proved it was not raw footage. It was
edited. So the tape was junk and to
begin with. It's not showing you the
hallway. It's showing you a random place
in the prison or almost random. Then it
we know that there was a piece of it
missing and now we know it was edited.
So gee, I wonder if the government is
trying to cover it up. I can't quite
tell when the government says hundreds,
maybe even thousands of underage girls
were raped, but no one raped them. We
can't find a single client and we're not
going to prosecute anyone. Okay. Uh,
that's the wildest conspiracy theory I
have ever heard. And the fact that it's
coming from the government doesn't make
it any better. Elliot, what do you
think?
To be honest with you, Jenk, I
appreciate Dershowitz doing what I think
you need to do uh, when it comes to a
conspiracy theory, which is leave some
kind of question mark, something open
for people to wonder about. Him saying,
"Hey, I know about all this, but I can't
talk about it because of confidentiality
seems like a really smart move." What's
not a smart move is to go, hey, look
over there and hey, don't even ask us
any more questions about this and don't
worry about the tape and don't worry
about the list. I think that's going to
continue to be a bigger and bigger
backlash for him.
Yeah. And Elliot, just real quick on
that before I toss back to Sharon, it
you know, Benny Johnson has a story
about Dershowitz and and Epstein. We'll
get to that in a sec. And it could be
that Dershowitz thinks, "Yeah, I know who
did it. And I know that since it's
people that are never ever going to
release the list cuz they're in the
government, I can say anything I want
about the list cuz I know it's never
going to come out. So that's also
possible. But we don't know. Sure.
The whole thing just keeps getting, as
we said, sketchier and sketchier. One of
Trump's buddies now is making excuses
about it. Bill O'Reilly is divulging a
conversation he allegedly had with
Donald Trump back in March. He said, and
I agree, there are a lot of names
associated with Epstein had nothing to do
with Epstein's conduct. They they maybe
had lunch with him or maybe had some
correspondence for one thing or another.
If that name gets out, those people are
destroyed because there's not going to
be any context. Media doesn't care uh
about context. So, you you can't do
that. You can't destroy human beings by
putting out the files, whatever they may
be.
Okay. Okay, so Bill Riley there making
it seem like, you know, the barista from
Starbucks is also on the list who
Epstein perhaps visited daily. I mean,
this is a guy who loved to party. Are we
buying this excuse that you don't want
to mudd this politics? We don't want to
muddy up everyday people who just, you
know, had coffee or lunch with this guy.
Yeah. I mean, it's just patently absurd.
Okay. So, all right. You're saying,
well, if you just throw out a list, you
vomit out a list, some of the people
might not have done it. And you know,
you're okay. Yeah, that's a fair point.
So, why don't you put out a list of the
people who did do it. You have them on
tapes.
It's not like you don't know who did it.
So, okay, why don't you be super
careful? Start with a list of five or
10. Remember, there's hundreds, right?
We're not asking you to be
wild-eyed,
right? So, it's just nothing but
excuses. Total and utter BS.

So look
guys, the theory most likely,
you know, to me, is there's one force on
earth that can get both the Democrats
and the Republicans to cover up a story
of this magnitude, and that's an
intelligence agency, CIA, or one of our
allies, Mossad, MI6 -- those are the other
two that have been mentioned. And we're
either working with them, or we're
covering up for them, or it's just us
and not them, right? That makes sense.
And here's why another reason why it
makes sense. If you're going to start
prosecuting people, one person, five
people, whatever it might be, and the
CIA did do it, or MOSSAD did do it, then
you have to say to people, yes, our
government is so evil that not only did
we cover up the child rape, we
orchestrated the child rape in order to
be able to have blackmail material on
powerful people.
And nobody wants to admit that their
government is that evil. And that's the
realm we're in now. And that's why this
thing is a powder keg, because I
don't think the American people on the
right, or the left, are going to say, "Ah,
you know what? We're good with it." So
maybe every once in a while a
government, a government we don't know,
rapes our kids, and then orchestrates
a situation where rich and powerful men
rape our kids and then get away with it.
I don't think that anyone is going to
stand for that at all. And the thing
that I promised, Benny Johnson had a
segment with Marjorie Taylor Green
where he claims, it's not me, but he
says that he had an interview with
Dershowitz earlier where Dershowitz said that
he would take Epstein to meet members of the
parliament in Israel.
Things that make you go, hm. And so
maybe Dershowitz knows, okay? It's not that.
And that's why I'm saying, release the
files. It's actually maybe the CIA, or
just powerful people, and it's not MOSSAD
etc. There's no way
for us to know. And there's no way the American
government is going to throw Israel
under the bus. They're going to cover up
for Israel from now till the cows come
home. "So I can say anything I want." Oh
yeah, I'm definitely not on the list. Oh
yeah, sure. Release it. Yeah. Oh yeah, I
kept my shorts on. Sure. Right. But the
very fact that he said, "I know that it
exists. There definitely were clients
and they are covering it up." Well,
thank you, Alan. So, I don't know what
you meant by it, but now we all know,
as if we didn't already know, we
know 100%, that of course there were
clients. Of course the girls didn't rape
themselves. Of course, it's on tape. And
of course, the government is covering it
up.

I mean, I just want to take a moment
and shout out this administration for
finally draining the swamp because,
Oh, no, wait, no, sorry. Rather than
draining the swamp, they're just saying,
"Oh, sorry. We can't release this
list because we're the swamp, and
there's a swamp back there, and we got to
protect the swamp." And I feel like
that's just one more level where they're
not fulfilling the promises that they
ran on.
Yeah. Yeah.

I'm going to add one last
thing to that because look, when you ask
Democrats, at least the left that
I know, right, hey, is it weird
that both Biden and Trump didn't release
a list? I think the overwhelming
majority go, yeah, that's super weird,
right? Hey, isn't it weird that Trump
didn't release the list in his first
term, and he was great friends with
Epstein? What you would have heard back
is, and I know because I did hear it
back, it's just, no, no, no, no, no.
Trust the plan. Eight dimensional chess.
When he gets in office the second time,
boom, he's going to release the list, and
now we're going to show the deep state,
and the Clintons, and the Democrats, and
Bill Gates, all those. All right.
Now, when you ask MAGA, well, what do
you think happened? They're like, yeah,
no, they both didn't release it.
We're all screwed. We got lied to.
And so now, the country is united. The
government, whether it's Republican or
Democrat, will not prosecute any of
these powerful people who raped those
underage girls. And now there's a very
legitimate chance it's because the
government was involved in that. And
that is a pretty devastating thing to
find out about your government. That's
why this story is not going away. It's
only going to get bigger and bigger and
bigger.

Well, that's what I was going to ask
both of you. Is there any diversion that
can be um created to kind of force
people to look away, go in another
direction? And we've got the assistant
FBI director who's in some kind of
verbal uh argument late breaking with
Pam Bondi over this and people
threatening to quit. And it just seems
to be growing. Whoever's on the list,
it's probably huge. Um but it's even
bigger because people keep speaking to
it, not letting it go, and our
imaginations are are running wild.
Yeah. I really don't know. I think that
when you look at what's happening right
now and the amount of people that are
potentially on the list, my first
thought when this all started happening
was, "Oh, this must be the distraction,
like this must be something because this
administration is throwing everything at
the wall to try to say like, hey, look
over there." And at first I thought this
was just another one of those things,
but them just flat out saying no and
stop asking questions about it seems to
me so counterintuitive for what they
normally do. Like normally they're way
smarter than this in at least that way.
And so now I'm going oh is this like how
big does this story get and how big will
it get? And uh it seems by the hour to
be getting bigger. So we'll see. I don't
know. I think it's like uh it's TBD.
Yeah. I think this is the iceberg. Um,
and so like you know it's just funny you
asked that Sharon cuz during the break
uh um we were discussing here on the set
like the same exact question and and
John Iola was saying like
Greenland is he going to try to invade
Greenland to distract and we were
talking about hey is he going to you
know go oh yeah you know we didn't
finish off all the uranium and the
Israelis right let's bomb Iran again but
bombing Iran would only be
counterproductive it' make his base even
angrier right so I don't think that
that'll help Like I don't think
anybody's going to get distracted by
Greenland at this point. So no, I don't
think so. I don't know what happens.
Why can't it be leaked? Leak it, you
know.
Yeah. I feel like also the one factor
here is that this involves Trump
personally and it makes him look bad.
And I think that might be a shocker, a
driving motivator.
Yeah, of course. That's a huge factor in
this. And so I don't I can't see how
they would distract, but I but on the
other hand, are we going to talk about
this for the next three and a half years
until Trump leaves office? I don't know.
And Trump does so many maniacal things,
right?
But this is I think this is the mother
lode. Uh I think they hit the epicenter
here in terms of we're all done with
government lies on this. So I I don't
know what they're I don't know what the
government's going to do. I also don't
know what mainstream media is going to
do. Are they just going to be like,
"Okay, yeah, we're moving on. All of you
guys are conspiracy theorists." Or are
they going to, you know, stay on the
story? And that's CBD as well. Every
time you ring the bell below, an angel
gets his wings. Totally not true. But it
does keep you updated on our live shows.

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Metadata Shows the FBI’s ‘Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified
Dhruv Mehrotra
Wired
Jul 11, 2025 12:23 PM
https://www.wired.com/story/metadata-sh ... -modified/


Metadata Shows the FBI’s ‘Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified. There is no evidence the footage was deceptively manipulated, but ambiguities around how the video was processed may further fuel conspiracy theories about Epstein’s death. Photo-Illustration: Wired Staff; Spencer Platt/Getty Images

The United States Department of Justice this week released nearly 11 hours of what it described as “full raw” surveillance footage from a camera positioned near Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell the night before he was found dead. The release was intended to address conspiracy theories about Epstein’s apparent suicide in federal custody. But instead of putting those suspicions to rest, it may fuel them further.

Metadata embedded in the video and analyzed by WIRED and independent video forensics experts shows that rather than being a direct export from the prison’s surveillance system, the footage was modified, likely using the professional editing tool Adobe Premiere Pro. The file appears to have been assembled from at least two source clips, saved multiple times, exported, and then uploaded to the DOJ’s website, where it was presented as “raw” footage.

Experts caution that it’s unclear what exactly was changed, and that the metadata does not prove deceptive manipulation. The video may have simply been processed for public release using available software, with no modifications beyond stitching together two clips. But the absence of a clear explanation for the processing of the file using professional editing software complicates the Justice Department’s narrative. In a case already clouded by suspicion, the ambiguity surrounding how the file was processed is likely to provide fresh fodder for conspiracy theories.

Any aspect of the official story that isn’t fully explained will be co-opted by conspiracy theorists, says Mike Rothschild, an author who writes about conspiracy theories and extremists. “So whatever your flavor of Epstein conspiracy is, the video will help bolster it.”

For months leading up to the joint memo the DOJ and FBI published Monday, attorney general Pam Bondi had promised the release of records related to Epstein, raising expectations that new, potentially incriminating details might surface about the disgraced financier’s death and his ties to powerful individuals. However, rather than revealing new information, the memo largely confirmed conclusions reached years earlier: that Epstein was found in a Manhattan prison cell on August 10, 2019, and died by suicide while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

To support its conclusion, the FBI reviewed surveillance footage overlooking the common area of the Special Housing Unit (SHU) at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC), where Epstein was held. The FBI enhanced the footage by adjusting contrast, color, and sharpness, and released both the enhanced and what it described as the “raw” version. Both versions of the video appear to have been processed using Premiere and include much of the same metadata. According to the FBI, anyone entering the area containing Epstein’s cell during the relevant time frame would have been visible on that camera.

Working with two independent video forensics experts, WIRED examined the 21-gigabyte files released by the DOJ. Using a metadata tool, reporters analyzed both Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF) and Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) data to identify signs of postprocessing.

The “raw” file shows clear signs of having been processed using an Adobe product, most likely Premiere, based on metadata that specifically references file extensions used by the video editing software. According to experts, Adobe software, including Premiere and Photoshop, leaves traces in exported files, often embedding metadata that logs which assets were used and what actions were taken during editing. In this case, the metadata indicates the file was saved at least four times over a 23-minute span on May 23, 2025, by a Windows user account called “MJCOLE~1.” The metadata does not show whether the footage was modified before each time it was saved.

The embedded data suggest the video is not a continuous, unaltered export from a surveillance system, but a composite assembled from at least two separate MP4 files. The metadata includes references to Premiere project files and two specific source clips—2025-05-22 21-12-48.mp4 and 2025-05-22 16-35-21.mp4. These entries appear under a metadata section labeled “Ingredients,” part of Adobe’s internal schema for tracking source material used in edited exports. The metadata does not make clear where in the video the two clips were spliced together.

Hany Farid, a professor at UC Berkeley whose research focuses on digital forensics and misinformation, reviewed the metadata at WIRED’s request. Farid is a recognized expert in the analysis of digital images and the detection of manipulated media, including deepfakes. He has testified in numerous court cases involving digital evidence.

Farid says the metadata raises immediate concerns about chain of custody—the documented handling of digital evidence from collection to presentation in a courtroom. Just like physical evidence, he explains, digital evidence must be handled in a way that preserves its integrity; metadata, while not always precise, can provide important clues about whether that integrity has been compromised.

“If a lawyer brought me this file and asked if it was suitable for court, I’d say no. Go back to the source. Do it right,” Farid says. “Do a direct export from the original system—no monkey business.”

Farid points to another anomaly: The video’s aspect ratio shifts noticeably at several points. “Why am I suddenly seeing a different aspect ratio?” he asks.

Farid cautions that while the metadata clearly shows the video was modified, the changes could be benign—for example, converting footage from a proprietary surveillance format to a standard MP4.

While there may be uncontroversial explanations for the metadata artifacts, such as stitching together multiple days of footage during compilation, or the routine export of surveillance footage to an mp4 format, the FBI did not respond to specific questions about the file’s processing, instead referring WIRED to the DOJ. The DOJ in turn referred inquiries back to the FBI and the Bureau of Prisons. The BOP did not respond to a request for comment.

According to a 2023 report from the DOJ Office of the Inspector General (OIG), MCC, the detention facility where Epstein was found hanged, had around 150 analog surveillance cameras—but starting on July 29, 2019, a technical error prevented roughly half of them from recording, including most inside the SHU.

The system was scheduled for repairs on August 9, the night before Epstein was found dead. But the technician assigned to fix it couldn’t access the necessary equipment because the corrections officer required to escort him was nearing the end of their shift.

As a result, only two cameras were operational near the SHU at the time MCC staff found Epstein hanging in his cell: one covering the common area and stairwells near the entrance to the adjacent 10 South Unit, and another monitoring a ninth-floor elevator bay. Neither captured Epstein’s cell door.

According to the DOJ’s memo, the footage confirms that from the time Epstein was locked in his cell at approximately 8 pm on August 9, 2019, and between around 10:40 pm and 6:30 am the next morning, no one entered the tier where his cell was located. However, the recording includes a notable gap: Approximately one minute of footage is missing, from 11:58:58 pm to 12:00:00 am. The video resumes immediately afterward.

The OIG’s report found no evidence of a conspiracy to kill Epstein. Instead, it documented years of chronic staffing failures and system breakdowns at MCC. The facility was temporarily closed in 2021 after the DOJ essentially deemed conditions unfit for incarceration.

At a press conference on Tuesday, Bondi attributed the missing minute to a flaw in the surveillance system’s daily cycle, claiming that one minute is missing from every night’s recording.

Given the years of high-profile conspiracy theories surrounding Epstein, any perceived inconsistency in the official narrative is likely to draw intense scrutiny. Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones called the DOJ memo “sickening.” “Next the DOJ will say, ‘Actually, Jeffrey Epstein never even existed,’” he wrote in a post on X.

“In the world of conspiracy theories, evidence that disproves something happened becomes proof that something happened,” says Rothschild. He explains that the case of Epstein's death is a good example of this phenomenon. “Every piece of evidence that points to him taking his own life—the negligence of the prison staff, the disrepair of the cameras, the coroner's report—is turned into evidence that he was killed by powerful figures who weren't competent enough to cover up the crime correctly.”

The apparent gaps in the video, Rothschild says, will naturally inflame these suspicions.

One media forensics expert, who reviewed the metadata and agreed with WIRED’s analysis but requested anonymity due to privacy concerns and a desire to avoid having their name publicly associated with anything related to the Epstein case, put it bluntly: “It looks suspicious—but not as suspicious as the DOJ refusing to answer basic questions about it.

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BOMBSHELL: Shocking update on Epstein prison video
Brian Tyler Cohen
Jul 11, 2025 Brian Tyler Cohen
Breaking #news - Epstein prison video “likely modified”

-- Metadata Shows the FBI’s ‘Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified, by Dhruv Mehrotra, Wired, Jul 11, 2025

Transcript

[Bryan Tyler Cohen] Some bombshell news here. As the Trump administration keeps wishing the Epstein story away, Wired has just come out with a devastating expose suggesting that the DOJ's so-called raw surveillance footage from Epstein's prison cell may have actually been modified using professional editing software. According to Wired, metadata embedded in the video and analyzed by Wired and independent video forensics experts showed that rather than being a direct export from the prison surveillance system, the footage was modified, likely using the professional editing software Adobe Premiere Pro. The file appears to have been assembled from at least two source clips, saved multiple times, exported, and then uploaded on the DOJ's website where it was presented as raw footage. So, when Pam Bondi's DOJ told us that it was full raw surveillance footage proving Epstein killed himself, that certainly doesn't seem to be able to support its own weight. This isn't raw footage. It has been manipulated, edited, and reconstructed. And that's not even counting the missing minute that jumps from 11:58 p.m. to 12:00 a.m., which has conspiracy theorists rightfully asking what the hell happened during that last minute. But here's what makes this whole thing infinitely worse. Trump, Bondi, Patel, and Bongino are now facing a massive backlash from their own MAGABase for completely screwing all of this up.

[Steve Bannon] Do you believe that DOJ and FBI right now with the guys who were all close to Pam Bondi, Dan Bongino, Kash Patel, do you think they have any credibility left to pursue this?

[MAGA supporter] No. And I'll tell you exactly why, Steve. Because in 2016, we trusted the plan with Trump, but now Trump has become the deep state, the exact thing we voted him in for.

[Steve Bannon] Why? Why? Why? Why do you say, why do you say he, why do you say he's become the deep state?

[MAGA supporter] What is more deep state than covering up for pedophiles? Why would you go to that island? Why? Tell me. Why would you go to that island?

[MAGA supporter 2] It's insulting our intelligence. Like obviously the intelligence community is trying to cover it up. Obviously the Trump administration is trying to cover up. Something changed because they ran on this idea of exposing it all. All these guys had great ideas. He was ready to tear it all down. He was ready to tear down the entire FBI office.

[MAGA supporter 3] Shut down the Hoover building day one. Them, they still standing.

[MAGA supporter 2] Then he goes on Joe Rogan and he's like, "Listen, do you think if I had it, I wouldn't share it with you?"

[MAGA supporter 3] I do.

[MAGA supporter 2] Yeah, I do. I do believe that 100%. Especially when you're staring at me like this, telling me that.

[MAGA supporter 4] How cockeyed is that? Can we get a photo of him really quick?

[MAGA supporter 2] Once you protect pedophiles, you are the most cockeyed person in the entire world. I never called him "Cockeyed Kash" before this. I watched all 3,000 hours of footage.

[MAGA supporter 3] Yo, and maybe I'm, maybe I'm, maybe I'm wrong on this, but if okay, you keep talking about this Epstein, they keep talking about this Epstein list. "I got the list on my desk right now." They're saying nothing happened. So, one of two things in my mind is possible now: (1) you're covering it up. Or (2) nothing really happened, and you exploited the rape of thousands of children to get your man elected. So, which one do you want here?

[MAGA supporter 5] The timing of it, come on. Just seems, Come on. It seems like How do we get the attention off of Epstein for 500, please, Alex?

[Alex Jones] I hope this story breaking today isn't just a cover story or diversion from the giant fiasco with the FBI and DOJ doing a 180 on Epstein.

[Lindell TV Reporter] So, that's it. No client list? Epstein killed himself? No further investigations? Case closed?

[MAGA supporter 6] "Hey, we're going to do an investigation. Now, we can't tell you about the investigation, because it's under investigation. So, we can't actually talk about the investigation of the people that are being investigated, but they're under investigation.

[Alex Jones] We don't rise and fall with Trump. We need him. You know, it's a historic thing that's happening. But that said, I'm not breaking my integrity, or my morals, or what I stand for, for nobody.

[Bryan Tyler Cohen] And frankly, these people are right to feel used and lied to. Pam Bondi told Fox News in February that Epstein's client list was quote "sitting on my desk right now to review." She invited right-wing influencers to the White House and handed them binders marked the Epstein files phase 1, and promised a truckload of evidence that would blow this case wide open. She said there were quote "tens of thousands of videos that would expose the truth." And what did we get? Nothing. Literally nothing. This week, the DOJ released a memo saying there is no client list, and also that Epstein died by suicide, and also that they're not releasing any more documents. If you dare ask about it, by the way, well, this is the freakout that will follow.

[Donald Trump] Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy's been talked about for years. You're asking -- we have Texas, we have this, we have all of the things. And are people still talking about this guy, this creep? That is unbelievable. Do you want to waste the time, and do you feel like answering?

[Pam Bondi] I don't mind answering.

[Donald Trump] I mean, I can't believe you're asking a question on Epstein at a time like this, where we're having some of the greatest success, and also tragedy with what happened in Texas. It just seems like a desecration.

[Bryan Tyler Cohen] Yeah, "How dare anybody ask about the thing that half of Trump's cabinet predicated their entire brands on? Why are you still harping on stuff from the past? Now, where were we?" Oh, right. "The Biden crime family."

Jeffrey Epstein Client List, by Ryan Dawson: Page One
https://www.youtube.com/@RyanDawson109
https://sonar21.com/the-epstein-client-%20...%20o-publish/
The Epstein Client List — Why is Trump Breaking His Promise to Publish?, by Larry C. Johnson, 9 July 2025

And look, I obviously have no insight into the truth about a client list. Uh, but these disillusioned MAGAFans are not wrong to be pissed off based on what they've been told for months and years. Whether you believe in Epstein conspiracy theories or not, the Trump administration clearly lied about what they had and what they could deliver. Kash Patel spent years on his podcast questioning the official Epstein narrative. Dan Bongino built his brand pushing conspiracy theories about Epstein's death. But the moment they got into the federal government, the moment they had the opportunity to actually substantiate the very claims that they spent so long making, they completely flipped.

[Maria Bartiromo] You said Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide. People don't believe it.

[Kash Patel] Well, I mean, listen. They have a right to their opinion, but as someone who has worked as a public defender, as a prosecutor, who's been in that prison system, who's been in the Metropolitan Detention Center, who's been in segregated housing, you know a suicide when you see one. And that's what that was.

[Dan Bongino] He killed himself. You again, you want me to get I've seen the whole file.

[Bryan Tyler Cohen] What's worse, we now know that there's been internal fighting about this disaster. According to Axios today, Bongino and Bondi had a heated clash at the White House over their handling of the Epstein case. Bonjino was reportedly so angry he took off the day from work today with some reporting suggesting that he's considering resigning over the Epstein fallout. Sources say that he was increasingly displeased with Bondi's handling of the Epstein case because she had publicly overpromised and underdelivered.

So, here's the bottom line. The administration promised transparency, and delivered deception. They promised the truth, and delivered edited videos. They promised to drain the swamp, and instead they have become part of it. Whether you think Epstein was murdered or killed himself, whether you believe that his client list exists or not, the fact remains that Donald Trump's team lied about what evidence they had and what they could release. They built up expectations that they knew they couldn't meet, and now they are facing the consequences from their own base. Bondi's excuse that she was talking about the file instead of a client list is pathetic. Bongino and Patel's sudden conversion from conspiracy theorists to establishment defenders is laughable. And Trump's frustrated response of, "Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein," shows that he knows this is a political loser for him. The edited video is just the latest proof point that we can't trust a word coming out of this administration. That when they claim that something is raw footage, it's been manipulated. When they promise transparency, they deliver cover-ups. When they pledge to fight for the truth, they've become the very swamp creatures that they claim to oppose. The MAGA base is finally seeing what the rest of us have seen all along. That Trump and his team will say anything to win power and that they'll betray anyone, including their own supporters, once they actually have it.

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