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UNDER ARREST! Netanyahu TRAPPED in CYPRUS After Turkey’s SHOCK MOVE Against Israel!
Openminded Reporter
Nov 10, 2025

#NetanyahuArrested
#IsraelCrisis
#CyprusBreakingNews

Benjamin Netanyahu’s nightmare may have just begun — multiple reports now suggest the wanted Israeli Prime Minister is trapped in Cyprus after a dramatic move by Turkish intelligence and special forces that has stunned Tel Aviv, Ankara, and Washington alike. As investigations into Zionist land purchases and secret real estate networks explode, Netanyahu’s quiet visit to Cyprus has backfired — leaving him stranded, panicked, and surrounded by nations no longer willing to protect him.

In this report, we uncover what Israel’s media refuses to tell you — the truth behind Netanyahu’s secret trip, the arrest warrant issued by Turkey, and the deeper plot connecting Cyprus real estate, Zionist expansion, and the collapse of Netanyahu’s global immunity. From the Greater Israel project to Turkey’s Mediterranean resurgence, this story exposes how the Israeli leader’s empire of manipulation is falling apart in real-time.

For years, Netanyahu’s government has quietly infiltrated Cyprus under the guise of “security cooperation,” buying off strategic coastal lands and building influence through Zionist billionaires — but Turkey’s recent actions may have just flipped the table completely. This isn’t just about one island; it’s about the unraveling of Israel’s regional control, and a reminder that war crimes always come home to roost.

Stay tuned as I break down:

– Why Netanyahu fled Israel under international pressure;
– How Turkey’s special forces cornered him in Cyprus;
– The hidden Israeli plan to colonize Cyprus through property investments;
– Why the ICC’s arrest warrant and European travel bans have left him isolated;
– And how this could reshape Mediterranean geopolitics forever

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We are in big fucking trouble with Trump et al.

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Schiff DEMOLISHES Kash Patel Fake Terror Plot — FBI Entrapment Exposed
By Bryan Tyler Cohen
Justice Monitor
Nov 2, 2025

Schiff DEMOLISHES Patel's Fake Terror Plot — Michigan Lawyer EXPOSES FBI Entrapment

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BREAKING: Democrats who CAVED get surprise bad news
Brian Tyler Cohen
Nov 10, 2025

Interview with Indivisible's Ezra Levin - Primary challenge program against Dems who caved.

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Trump Midnight Pardons Leak EXPLODES as Epstein Scandal RESURFACES | Rick Wilson
By Rick Wilson
Nov 10, 2025

Rick Wilson is a renowned political strategist, author, commentator, and co-founder of The Lincoln Project. Known for his sharp wit, fearless analysis, and strong opposition to Donald Trump, Wilson has become one of the most influential voices in American politics today. For decades, he worked as a Republican strategist, but his outspoken criticism of Trump and Trumpism made him a leading figure in the anti-Trump Republican movement.

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‘Existential threat to democracy’: Reagan-appointed judge resigns and condemns Trump
“What Nixon did episodically and covertly, knowing it was illegal or improper, Trump now does routinely and overtly,” Judge Mark L. Wolf wrote.
By Steve Benen
Msnbc
Nov. 10, 2025, 9:34 AM MST
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-sho ... rcna243033

Over the course of the year, some of the most pointed and memorable commentary on Donald Trump’s presidency has come not from politicians or pundits, but from judges responding to cases involving the Republican White House.

Judge Mark L. Wolf’s new opinion piece in The Atlantic advances the broader issue in extraordinary ways. The headline reads, “Why I Am Resigning,” and it begins with the Reagan-appointed jurist explaining why he walked away from the judiciary last week, “relinquishing that lifetime appointment and giving up the opportunity for public service that I have loved.” Wolf explained:

My reason is simple: I no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom. President Donald Trump is using the law for partisan purposes, targeting his adversaries while sparing his friends and donors from investigation, prosecution, and possible punishment. This is contrary to everything that I have stood for in my more than 50 years in the Department of Justice and on the bench. The White House’s assault on the rule of law is so deeply disturbing to me that I feel compelled to speak out. Silence, for me, is now intolerable.

Wolf, who worked in the Justice Department during the Ford administration before Reagan tapped him for the federal bench, went on to note that others who’ve held positions of authority “have been opposing this government’s efforts to undermine the principled, impartial administration of justice and distort the free and fair functioning of American democracy. They have urged me to work with them. As much as I have treasured being a judge, I can now think of nothing more important than joining them, and doing everything in my power to combat today’s existential threat to democracy and the rule of law.”

The jurist, who will soon turn 79, added, “What Nixon did episodically and covertly, knowing it was illegal or improper, Trump now does routinely and overtly.”

A New York Times report on the piece noted that Wolf wrote “one of the most explicit expressions of concern for the rule of law to come from a member of the federal judiciary amid Mr. Trump’s efforts to vastly expand the scope of presidential power.”

I think that’s correct, though it arguably understates the case: Condemnations like these are historically rare in the American tradition. Plenty of jurists have resigned, but it’s spectacularly uncommon for longtime federal judges to resign because they feel the need to condemn a sitting president and warn the American people about the seriousness of the threat he poses to our system of government.

Wolf told the Times that he resigned not only to speak more freely about his own views, but also on behalf of colleagues who are still on the bench. “I hope to be a spokesperson for embattled judges who, consistent with the code of conduct, feel they cannot speak candidly to the American people,” he said.

I won’t pretend to know how many will take note of the retired judge’s concerns, but his willingness to resign and speak out in unsubtle terms reflects the concerns of a respected jurist who confronts a “break glass in case of emergency” moment.


Steve Benen

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Israeli Spy Stayed for Weeks at a Time With Jeffrey Epstein in Manhattan. Leaked emails show Epstein working on a wire transfer to Ehud Barak's top aide, Yoni Koren, who regularly stayed at his apartment.
Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain
Nov 11, 2025
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israeli- ... ehud-barak

With the looming end of the U.S. government shutdown amid a deal in the Senate, the House will soon be swearing in Adelita Grijalva to her rightful seat from Arizona, after a historic delay at the hands of Speaker Mike Johnson, taking direction from President Donald Trump, all aimed at blocking her from becoming the final signature needed to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files.

In mid-October, the House Oversight Committee released an interview with former U.S. prosecutor Alex Acosta, who told the panel that—contrary to widespread public reporting—he had never told Steve Bannon that Epstein “belonged to intelligence.” Acosta denied ever discussing Epstein with Bannon, and claimed to have “no knowledge as to whether he was or was not a member of the intelligence community.”

Yet, along with Acosta’s interview, the House panel also released a new cache of documents from Epstein’s estate containing direct evidence of Epstein’s links to Israeli intelligence: Epstein’s personal calendars reveal that a senior Israeli intelligence officer, with personal ties to former CIA Director Leon Panetta, lived at Epstein’s Manhattan apartment for multiple stretches between 2013 and 2016. When cross-referenced with emails leaked from the inbox of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, a portrait emerges of Epstein at the nexus of high-ranking intelligence officials in both the U.S. and Israel.

This is the fourth piece in Drop Site’s ongoing series on Jeffrey Epstein’s role in brokering intelligence deals for Israel.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-ehud-barak-leaked-emails-mongolia-security-deal
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey- ... pose-assad
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey- ... ked-emails

In the first, we exposed Epstein’s role in brokering a security agreement between Israel and Mongolia. In the second, we identified Epstein’s effort to set up a backchannel between Israel and Russia during the Syria civil war. In the third, we showed Epstein’s role as a key facilitator of a security agreement between Israel and the West African nation of Côte d’Ivoire.

Meanwhile, we’re left wondering why the rest of the media, which has demonstrated no lack of excitement when it comes to the saga of Jeffrey Epstein, has all of a sudden lost its reporting capacity, in the face of reams of publicly available newsworthy documents. A question for editors reading this newsletter: What are you doing?

From a place of competition, we’re glad the media are sitting on their collective hands and we’re proud to have broken this series of stories, which give us a glimpse of a world that is often hidden from public view. But it’s also a topic that would benefit from the collective attention of our national media. Here’s hoping some will join in.

Either way, we’ll continue the work, and are grateful for the support of readers who make it possible. If you haven’t yet upgraded your subscription, please consider doing so.

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Jeffrey Epstein Former Roommate Was An ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE OFFICER
The Young Turks
Nov 11, 2025

Senior Israeli intelligence officer Yoni Koren lived at Jeffrey Epstein’s apartment for multiple stretches before 2016, igniting questions about Epstein's ties to Israel. Ana Kasparian discusses on The Young Turks.



Transcript

An Israeli military intelligence officer, happened to stay at Jeffrey Epstein's
Manhattan apartment on at least three separate occasions.
And that's according to a new report from drop site News.
Now, Epstein may have even wired money to him once again, raising
questions about Epstein's alleged ties to Israeli intelligence networks.
Alleged alleged now drop site compiled some of the evidence for this story
from former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's hacked emails.
So we have that super interesting.
In addition to Epstein's personal schedules,
which were in fact released by the House Oversight Committee just last month.
Now, the intelligence officer that we're referring to here that was
reported by the drop site news story, is a man by the name of Yoni Koren,
unicorn, Israeli military intelligence officer who stayed
at Epstein's Manhattan apartment on at least three separate occasions.
And here's what we know about him.
He started his career in the research division of the IDF's Military
Intelligence Directorate, which is called Aman, and he eventually rose through
the ranks to become a senior officer.
Now, in 1985, Coren worked on a covert campaign with Mossad to help
Syrian intelligence kidnap PLO operatives traveling from Cyprus to Lebanon.
And he also worked very closely with Israel's former prime minister,
Ehud Barak.
He did so for years while serving as his chief of staff.
I'm sorry.
While serving as the chief of staff for the IDF,
managing his schedules and his operations.
Now Barak's friendship with Epstein has been well documented.
You know, we actually have images of him entering Epstein's apartment,
so we've known about that already.
But he did.
So that's well documented. He met with Epstein dozens of times.
He flew on Epstein's jet and once visited the infamous Epstein Island.
We're talking about Ehud Barak here.
Now, one of the times Coren stayed at Epstein's place was while he was working
as a senior aide to Ehud Barak.
Now, after Barak left the IDF, Coren headed his staff as interior
minister, then foreign minister, and then after that, defense minister.
And the details here are super interesting.
After Barak's retirement,
Coren was a covert fixer in Washington
who enjoyed special access to senior national security figures.
I'm sure he did, including Leon Panetta and his senior advisor, Jeremy Bash.
As soon as Barak left the Israeli government, Coren became a key go between
for Barack and the American and Israeli intelligence communities.
So let's get to the email records and what they show,
because apparently they show that Barack was using Corrine as an intermediary
to exchange information with Aman.
Corrine was also active in Epstein and Barak's efforts to source cybersecurity
startups from the technology research units of Aman, demonstrating how enmeshed
in Israeli spy networks he remained.
So now let's get to some details about his stays at Epstein's Manhattan apartment.
By the way, are you guys seeing the intertwined nature of Mossad and the CIA
and the fact that they had a relationship with Epstein in the first place?
So, that child trafficking that took place wasn't part of a blackmail operation.
Are we stupid? I'm sorry.
I don't believe anyone who tries to pour cold water on the fact that Epstein
was running a blackmail operation.
It's so obvious.
I mean, how else do you explain the unwavering commitment to Israel,
regardless of who's in charge in that country, regardless
of the political makeup of the Knesset,
regardless of what type of atrocities Israel is carrying out,
regardless of how much money it costs the American taxpayers and how
much it destroys the economic health of this country to keep up with this charade.
No, there are American politicians and elites in the US, powerful,
influential people who might be pedophiles
and do Israel's bidding because they don't want that information to come out.
Like it's just so obvious. It's so obvious.
But anyway, let's talk about Corrine stays at Epstein's apartment,
so Corrin was also active.
Oh. So sorry. So let's talk about the first day.
The first day at Epstein's Manhattan apartment was back in February of 2013.
So this is when he was working as Ehud Barak's senior aide.
Now, the following year, according to Epstein's personal calendars
released by the house,
Corin stayed at Epstein's spare apartment again for the first two weeks
of October 2014, the calendar released by the House committee reads.
Reminder Yoni in apartment September 30th through October 13th.
And then, in the weeks preceding his stay at Epstein's apartment, Corin maintained
contact with spies in Amman despite his supposed status as a private citizen.
And then there was his third stay that we know of.
There might be more, but in terms of the reporting we're seeing
from drop site news, they were able to identify three separate occasions.
Let's talk about the third one.
His third stay at Epstein's apartment was for ten days in September.
That's a long time.
It's a long time hanging out with a freaking child sex
trafficker and pedophile.
But that's what this guy was up to.
Epstein's assistant, Leslie, wrote an email to Corrine, essentially
informing him that she had reserved an apartment for him for ten days.
And then Corrine responded, that's what you're looking at here with.
Thanks a lot. Send my regards.
And thanks to Jeffrey, obviously is referring to Jeffrey Epstein there.
Now, during all three of his stays in Epstein's Manhattan apartment,
Corrine appeared to be conducting official or unofficial business
on behalf of Ehud Barak.
So let's talk a little bit about Ehud Barak, because in February of 2015,
a few months before Corinne's third visit to Epstein's His Manhattan apartment.
Leaked emails show that Ehud Barak was actually sending Epstein bank details
for funds that were to be wired to Corinne's Citibank account.
We have the evidence right here. Let's take a quick look at that.
There it is. That's the email.
Obviously, the account numbers and all that have been redacted.
But it's from Ehud Barak to Jeffrey Epstein.
Hi, Jeff.
That's the info. Then you have the account number.
Drop site could not determine the purpose of the wire transfer,
or confirm whether or not the funds were successfully sent to Corinne.
All we know right now is that a former prime minister of Israel got into
contact with Jeffrey Epstein to provide
bank account details of an Israeli spy.
So Epstein can wire money to this individual.
Visual. Okay, but the bank transfer information.
Bank transfer information was followed by an unusually cryptic communication
between Barack and Corrine regarding handoff of a physical bank card.
The two had a pretty good reason to communicate in coded language,
because documents leaked by Edward Snowden just over a year prior revealed that
the two men were major counterintelligence targets for the United States,
and the NSA had been snooping on their messages.
Do they know?
I mean, did did our intelligence community know
that they were spying on on an Israeli?
Like, you don't do that.
They get to do whatever they want, including here on US soil
with a disgusting, disgraced child sex trafficker and pedophile.
So this is Drop Sight's fourth installment in its series about Jeffrey Epstein
and his ties to Israel.
So far, they've exposed quite a bit, including Epstein's role
in brokering a security agreement between Israel and Mongolia.
They've also identified Epstein's effort to set up a back channel between Israel
and Russia during the Syrian civil war.
And they also showed Epstein's role as a key facilitator
of a security agreement between Israel and the West African nation.
And a West African nation that I'm not going to try to pronounce,
because I'm going to mispronounce it.
And their reporting throws a wrench in the government's official line
that Epstein had no foreign or domestic intelligence ties.
Obviously, like, who would believe our government on this issue in particular?
I wouldn't I wouldn't at all.
They're either being blackmailed or bribed and they're not telling us the truth.
Our media Launders Israel's reputation.
Our media lies to the American people about what Israel is actually up to.
Why would we believe for a second that our government,
which has been in bed with the Israelis,
would ever tell us the truth about a guy who was very likely running a blackmail
operation and his ties to the Israelis.
Because guess what? That wouldn't be a good look, right?
It wouldn't be a good look for Israel, and certainly it wouldn't be a good look
for the United States, either,
since we're obviously involved in this,
if, literal miners were being trafficked
with the main purpose of,
getting blackmail on powerful people, whether it's in this country
or any other country,
you're literally exploiting children,
minors, to be raped so foreign governments
can have dirt on powerful people.
Okay.
Meanwhile, Mike Johnson said the Republicans are doing everything
they can to prevent the Epstein files from being exposed.
So he didn't say that he's doing that.
But Mike Johnson's behavior has made it clear that he and the Republicans
are doing everything they can to prevent, like, real transparency
about the Epstein files.
He's refused to swear in Democratic Congresswoman elect Adelina Grijalva,
who would serve as the final member needed to force a vote
on the release of the Epstein files.
And in Marjorie Taylor Green's recent conversation with Megyn Kelly,
she wondered whether the Epstein issue was the real reason Mike Johnson refused
to convene the House during the shutdown, the government shutdown.
Take a look at that.
Everyone for how many years now? How many?
All of us have been calling to release Epstein files.
And, Thomas Massie entered a resolution to release.
Yeah.
And I'm a co-sponsor. I'm.
I want to release the Epstein files, and, it's been blocked over and over.
Unfortunately, I tell you what, I've.
I've started to question. Is this why we're not in session?
Really? Yeah.
I think it's fair to have that suspicion.
I know that I've certainly had that suspicion.
And today, Mike Johnson again, House speaker,
called the House back into session.
So we'll see if he immediately swears in Grijalva as promised, or if he continues
to block a vote on the Epstein files.
I bet on the latter, but who knows? He might prove me wrong.
I hope he does.
Israel's involvement with Epstein is disgusting, and the fact that our
government is trying to cover this all up is even more disgusting.
Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets its wings.
Totally not true, but it does keep you updated on our live shows.

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“Food is A Fundamental Human Right”: U.S. Hunger Expert Decries Trump Withholding Food Assistance
by Amy Goodman
DemocracyNow
November 12, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/12 ... transcript



"The Painful Truth about Hunger in America”

The government shutdown has brought attention to food insecurity in the United States, as it disrupted the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP, which helps about 42 million people across the country. Delayed and partial payments have occurred despite the availability of contingency funds to keep the program going during the shutdown, because the Trump administration initially chose not to use those funds. “42 million Americans, 16 million of them children, are really struggling to be able to afford nutritious food for their health,” says Mariana Chilton, child hunger expert. “It’s deeply concerning.”

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.

AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman.

We turn to how the shutdown’s brought attention to food insecurity and hunger in the United States. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court extended a short-term stay that allows the Trump administration to withhold full food assistance benefits under SNAP, the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, until Thursday at midnight in anticipation of the end of the shutdown.

SNAP helps nearly 42 million people to eat and also to feed their children each month. Delayed and partial payments have occurred despite the availability of contingency funds to keep the program funded during shutdown because the Trump administration chose not to use those funds and resisted a court order to do so.

The USDA, U.S. Department of Agriculture, the agency that runs the program, told states to deliver just 65% of benefits and claw back any payments beyond that. Some states have chosen to fully fund benefits in their states. The Supreme Court said withholding some funding is permissible while legal battles continue in lower courts. SNAP benefits break down to a maximum of about $10 a day per person.

At St. Mary’s Food Bank in Phoenix, patients waited in line for 45 minutes to receive assistance. Many expressed frustration with President Trump. This is 11-year-old Sincere Miller, who’s waiting with his grandmother.

SINCERE MILLER: Trump, why are you starving the kids? I’m – I’m hungry, and we have to get boxes from the food bank.

AMY GOODMAN: For more on SNAP and hunger, we’re joined by Mariana Chilton, Professor of Practice in the Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health and Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, nationally recognized leader on child hunger in America, author of The Painful Truth About Hunger in America. She joins us from Sunderland, Massachusetts.

We only have a few minutes, Professor Chilton. If you can explain what is happening now, and what the Supreme Court decided and what exactly the Trump administration is doing in saying if states make up for what the federal government is not giving to hungry people, they now have to claw that money and support back from poor people.

MARIANA CHILTON: That’s an outrageous claim. What’s been happening over the past weeks has been unconscionable, and in the past week, there have been four different judge assessments about what should be done with SNAP. All of this chaos and confusion was completely avoidable and is against the law. SNAP benefits are an entitlement, and the funds are there, especially in the case of a government shutdown. So, all of this was avoidable.

The Trump administration continues to break the law. The fact that there’s a stay until Thursday night while Congress decides whether they want to come back to work or not is – the fact that they’re waiting, I can understand, they’re trying to reduce the amount of confusion. 19 states, including Washington D.C., have released full SNAP benefits to their constituents.

Others have released some partial funds. It’s hard to know quite what’s happening. What is very clear that is happening is that 42 million Americans, 16 million of them children, are really struggling to be able to afford nutritious food for their health and wellbeing and for good school performance.

So, it’s deeply concerning. And what it shows is how precarious the American people truly are. Only 50% of people in the United States have savings enough to get them through hard times. That’s why we’re seeing government workers who are not getting paid waiting in lines at the food bank. It’s unconscionable and just so wrong on so many different levels.

AMY GOODMAN: Professor Chilton, are food stamps – is SNAP the new name for food stamps?

MARIANA CHILTON: Yes, SNAP is the new name for food stamps. It means Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Lots of people continue to refer to it as food stamps because it is a beloved program. It used to be a bipartisan darling. That’s why it’s so surprising that the Republicans have been so absent in this entire dialog and have been actively causing harm. It’s very surprising. SNAP benefits, or food stamps, as many people still call them, was a way to bring together rural communities, farming communities with urban groups, people who really need access to that food.

So, it’s quite surprising that the Republicans have been causing so much harm along with the Trump administration. Again, this is something that used to have a lot bipartisan support. Unfortunately, this withdrawal of SNAP benefits and this cruel way of threatening states and even threatening grocery stores if they help SNAP recipients is part of a long history in the United States of denying people food in order to cause chaos and also force people into submission.

This is what the United States government did to Native Americans less than 100 years ago and on beyond that. They used to starve Native Americans into submission in order to steal their land and to force them into compliance with the American government. Finally, I just wanted to say that the right to food is extremely important in this sense. And at the Climate Summit in Belém, they have insisted that ending poverty and ending hunger is central to ensuring that we address the climate crisis. Food is a fundamental human right.

Many states can actually put the right to food in their constitutions. Why should we wait on the federal government, who is not abiding by the rule of law? They’re completely absent, morally corrupt. And we need to really – what’s amazing is the solidarity expressed with people who are poor. I am just so energized and filled with awe at the community groups that have come together to feed their families, that farmers, Black, white, Latino, and Native have been helping their communities, and many of those farmers and farmworkers are also participating in SNAP.

So, I have lots of hope for the American people coming up with new and creative ideas, including Mayor Mamdani, who wants to have publicly funded grocery stores in the city of New York. There are wonderful new ideas emerging, and I’m just in awe of the American people coming together.

AMY GOODMAN: I want to turn to President Trump being interviewed on Monday night by Laura Ingraham on Fox.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, SNAP has gone from, like, $7 billion to many times $7 billion. And the people keep talking about SNAP, but SNAP is supposed to be veered down and out. You really, really have – that’s what the purpose of it – people, they get it, they walk in, and they get it automatically now. So, the number is many times what it should be. It’s disgraceful.

LAURA INGRAHAM: Can we – can we change that?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: You wouldn’t have been able – I’ll tell you what. This country would have been busted, 100% busted, within five months into a new administration if I didn’t win.

LAURA INGRAHAM: Can we – can we reform SNAP and these benefits so they’re used for the people who really need them?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Yeah, I think we can reform it. Sure. It’s meant for people – and you know what it does is it really puts the country at jeopardy. People that need it have to get it. I’m all for it. But people that are able-bodied, can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it’s easier, that’s not the purpose of it.

AMY GOODMAN: So, if you can explain, are they now trying to – using this opportunity to go after people who receive food stamps?

MARIANA CHILTON: Oh, they already have been doing that. I think the Big Beautiful Bill that was passed in the summertime is already an indication of what they’re trying to do. One thing I would like to remind Trump and his administration is that the vast majority of people who are participating in SNAP are actually, as Trump would say, down and out. That’s when I talked about the precariousness of the American people, that 50% of the people in the United States don’t have enough savings to get them through hard times, again, while his own workers are waiting in food pantry lines, he doesn’t think that people are down and out, need actual food?

So, we need to correct him. As well, people who are able-bodied who are receiving SNAP benefits are actually already working, which I want to insist that the reason that they’re on SNAP is because their wages are far too low to support them being able to pay their rent, pay for healthcare, and pay for food. That’s why so many people tell me about trading off – they’re not eating in order to take their medicines, or they don’t take their medicine because they need to eat. This is why we have a major public health crisis.

We are at the verge of a major public health crisis with the healthcare premiums increasing. And it’s deeply concerning. This is why we need to have universal healthcare and also maybe consider if we’re going to get rid of SNAP, let’s turn it into universal basic income so people are not tied solely to being able to buy groceries, that they can spend their money as they please. There are two major voices that are absent in this entire dialog, and that would be the food industry.

Walmart is the primary redeemer of SNAP benefits. They redeem one-quarter of SNAP benefits, and the vast majority of their workers participate in SNAP. Walmart has been completely silent in this. As well, we need to think about Amazon and also the healthcare companies that are increasing the premiums. We need to bring corporations and the government back into line and find ways we can promote health and wellbeing and solve this public health crisis.

AMY GOODMAN: And finally, we just passed Veterans Day. Can you talk about veterans receiving food stamps, people who are disabled receiving food stamps?

MARIANA CHILTON: Yes. Yes, very much so. 1.4 million veterans participate in the SNAP program. The vast majority of those veterans are people with disabilities, and those disabilities were created in the combat that they were doing for the United States, mental health challenges. 40% of people who have disabilities in this country report food insecurity, and SNAP is a lifeline for them because their disability benefits are not enough to help support their health and wellbeing.

Not only veterans, but also active-duty military. Many active-duty military families also participate in SNAP. So, we need to be able to support veterans, people who are active-duty military, families with children, seniors and people with disabilities.

AMY GOODMAN: Mariana Chilton, we thank you so much for being with us, Professor of Practice in the Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health and Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, author of the book The Painful Truth About Hunger in America.

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Epstein Brother EXPOSES Trump Underage SCANDAL With SHOCK IMAGE!
Jack Cocchiarella Show
Nov 12, 2025

Political commentator Jack Cocchiarella reacts to the latest Epstein Trump scandal.



Transcript

If you thought the Jeffrey Epstein leaks
were done for the day, you would be dead
wrong. And Donald Trump would be very
upset, which he is because Jeffrey
Epstein's brother just shared
information that is blowing up this
scandal more than we even could have
imagined with one devastating image in
some very unsettling anecdotes. We are
going to get into it all. But before we
do, if I could quickly ask you to leave
a like on this video and if you haven't
already and you enjoy our channel to hit
that subscribe button because it's goes
a long way in supporting our work. Now,
before we get into what Epstein's
brother shared today with all of these
emails coming out which are just so
damning for Donald Trump, I want to
start with the other devastating news he
got today. Adelita Graalva being sworn
in the 218th signature on the discharge
petition to release the Epstein files in
the speech she gave today which is
blowing up Trump's term.

[Adelita Grijalva] And while we celebrate this moment
today, our American promise is under
serious threat.
Basic freedoms are under attack. Health
care premiums are skyrocketing. Babies
are being ripped away from their parents
by masked agents. We can and must do
better.
What is most concerning is not what this
administration has done, but what the
majority in this body has failed to do.
Hold Trump accountable as a co-equal
branch of government that we are.
It has been 50 days since the people of
Arizona's seventh congressional district
elected me to represent them. 50 days
that over 800,000 Arizonans have been
left without access to the basic
services that every constituent
deserves.
This is an abuse of power.
One individual should not be able to
unilaterally obstruct the swearing in of
a duly-elected member of Congress for
political reasons.
Our democracy only works when everyone
has a voice.
This includes the millions of people
across the country who have experienced
violence and exploitation,
including Liz Stein and Jessica
Michaels, both survivors of Jess Jeffrey
Epstein's abuse. They are here in the
gallery with us this evening.
Thank you for being here.
Just this morning, House Democrats
released more emails showing that Trump
knew more about Epstein's abuses than he
he previously acknowledged. It's past
time for Congress to restore its role as
a check and balance on this
administration and fight for we, the
American people.

Donald Trump can no longer run. He can
no longer hide. And the Epstein emails
that came out this morning might be the
most damning indictment yet in this
scandal. It is a smoking gun that shows
not only did Donald Trump know about
what was happening with Epstein and his
victims. He was clearly accessory to it
enough to spend time with those victims
and to have said nothing. And Epstein
and Galain Maxwell knew that Donald
Trump had said nothing. They were almost
surprised that he did and they knew they
could hold it against him whatever he
did with those victims if he ever tried
to. That is what was made very very
clear. And I think what we've understood
throughout this entire scandal as more
and more information has come out, more
testimony that might not be in the
documents. But I think that what's not
in the documents is a little bit more
damning. And that is why what Jeffrey
Epstein's brother said today in an image
that he had previously sent to Epstein
about Donald Trump and his relationship
with young women is so disturbing
especially with the information we have
gotten today. That was all broken down
on MSNBC. And I want to take a look.
Person we were just talking about
Jeffrey Epstein's brother um Mark Epste.
We just put up um the meme that Mark
Epstein sent to Jeffrey Epstein a
picture. Let me put it up one more time.
Um, this is Donald Trump's face and it
says, "Would you trust this man with
your daughter?" Um, there it is. Um, you
just spoke with the man who sent that
meme to his brother. What did he say
today?
Right. I'll actually be honest. I
completely missed the segment because I
was on the phone with him and just got
up from off the street here. And I think
we should be very clear here. Mark Epste
is somebody who has said that he has
known for decades now that his brother
had a deep close friendship with Jeffrey
with Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
And he said the way that he put it to
me, when are people going to admit to
themselves this guy, President Trump is
so full of every time he opens his
mouth. He says he wanted to deny an
essay.
Maybe does. He wanted to deny that he
had a relationship or a friendship with
Donald Trump. As Mark tells me, back in
1999, he was on the plane when they were
having intimate conversation about women
on a flight from Palm Beach, Florida
back up here to New York. He goes, I he
talked to his brother, somebody who he
still cares deeply about even after his
passing. And he says, at what point is
there going to be a reckoning that
Donald Trump just makes up stuff? And
the number two part is that he's been
very clear. This is outside the scope of
what we were talking about today, but he
wants a full investigation into the
death of his brother, saying he doesn't
believe anybody at this point anymore.
He said he did sit down, he just told
me, with the House Oversight Committee
here this summer. I said, "Did they call
and ask you to come in and speak?" He
goes, "No, I requested to." And he said
he went into detail with staff trying to
get them to compel them to go even
further beyond just the relationship
between Donald Trump and other men that
were a part of this cabal and to really
get at the fact of why did people want
Jeffrey Epstein gone. This also goes to
a conversation I had with Mark over the
summer when he told me that Steve Bannon
had 15 hours of footage uh of him
interviewing Jeffrey Epstein. We have
not seen that footage. And I think it's
also worth noting that Michael Wolf has
said that he has up to 100 hours of
audio recordings with Jeffrey Epstein.
We have not heard those audio recordings
from either of the men. And that is what
hits at the heart that Mark Epstein is
so frustrated by that the public
including him as the brother do not have
a full understanding of what the
Department of Justice have has or
frankly what either of these two other
men have.
Do you trust this guy with your
daughter? That's not your your 25 year
old daughter. That's not your 30, 40
year old daughter. That's Donald Trump
looking at a child and saying, "I'll be
dating her in 10 years." Daughter. That
is a a beauty pageant, a teenager.
Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein seem to
spend a lot of time around those. It's
that type of daughter. That's what that
image reflects.
And they were joking about it. It was so
glaringly obvious Donald Trump's
disgusting nature around young girls
that it was laughable that it went
without saying. That is what is being
shown. And Jeffrey Epstein's brother, of
course, was the one who alleged that it
was it was Epstein who left Mara Lago.
It was Epstein who realized that Donald
Trump was a criminal, that he was a
phony, that he didn't want to be with
him. He didn't want to be his buddy.
Imagine that. Imagine being so just
detestable that Jeffrey Epstein doesn't
want to hang out with you. That is what
Epstein's brother has said of Trump. So,
he's joking about how much he, much like
Epstein, loves young girls
at the same time as he's sharing more
information today about the closeness,
the relationship with Donald Trump and
his brother. And Donald Trump's silence
really speaks volumes. You know, there's
that clip there's that clip of Trump
talking about Bill Clinton back in 2015
when he was on the campaign trail,
saying that there's going to be some
problems with him as it relates to
Epstein. Now, it's interesting that
Donald Trump, who had largely stayed
quiet and was able to because of our
failed mainstream media, not receive any
push back about his relationship with
Epstein. interesting that he brought up
Clinton to me because why would he want
to introduce that? Why would he want to
introduce that conversation? Well,
again, who was Donald Trump running
against in 2015? It was Hillary Clinton.
So, I think Trump was kind of, you know,
muddying the waters to be able to say,
well, you know, Bill, Bill was just as
much involved, so why do you want to
talk to me about it? Shouldn't you have
to ask Hillary? Because people see that
clip and they wonder, why would Trump
even want to bring it up? because I
think he knew it could become an issue
of the campaign. Right? That's what that
2015 email was about
between Wolf and between Epstein.
It was about how they could potentially
hold Epstein's relationship with Donald
Trump, the crimes that they committed
against him if he became president or if
he spoke out against Epstein. Right?
That's what Michael Wolf was advising
was advising of Donald Trump.
So, it's interesting that he did that.
He's been thinking about this for a
while and it's all gotten a lot clearer.
And I think what is most important to do
right now, of course, is not to stop
pressing on this. We should be talking
about Epstein all the time, but we
should maybe even be looking outside of
the documents that we have.
Looking for testimony from Epstein's
brother, trying to find those tapes, get
him handed over. I think that's what we
need to be doing because we know what's
in the file and we know how damaging it
is to Trump and we know it still may
take a few more weeks.
So, let's bring in the other
testimonies. That's what I want to see.
Just just follow the money.
It is so damning. It is so glaringly
obvious that these connections are so
widespread.
Cash Patel telling us that it was only
Epstein. He was the only person
involved. Nobody else, no other
trafficking is the biggest admission yet
that this is a broader operation that
Trump was certainly involved in. And we
need to just keep pushing on that. We
have to keep pushing. Talk about all of
this. AOC certainly did, not just with
Epstein, with the shutdown as well,
right here.
What is your uh what do you think it
shows you about what uh we know about
Trump's relationship with Epstein? Well,
you know, I think uh we've been seeing
Republicans have been trying to deflect
and imply that I mean, even House
Speaker Mike Johnson had insinuated a
couple months ago that Trump was on some
kind of secret mission. Um I think what
these emails demonstrate is precisely
why rep uh House Republicans have been
trying to block the release of the
Epstein files for months now. I think it
illustrates in a very damning way and I
think it also implicates House Speaker
Mike Johnson uh as well.
This is no time to let up and this is a
time for Democrats to really tap in to
independent media. Now I always say this
if you are independent media that kind
of just follows along with what the the
corporate wing of the party wants. You
kind of just do the regular talking
points. You stay on message and there's
nothing wrong with uplifting the
successes of our party. I think it's
great being a part of the fight, but if
you are an apologist for Chuck Schumer,
if you are not pushing for more
progressive candidates, if you're not
pushing back on those who take money
from the crypto lobby, the oil lobby,
the Israel lobby, you're just kind of
corporate media because you're still
corporate owned. But this is a great
time for Democrats to engage with the
independent media that wants to be
talking about this that'll push in the
way that the mainstream press won't. And
I advise every Democrat to do that.
Someone like Robert Garcia chairing up
oversight right now. My god. Talk about
someone who has used independent media
to the fullest and supported us
mightest like two times a day at this
point. He's been on this show all the
time. That is the type of leader that we
need. Robert Garcia, hats off to you
today, especially being able to secure
these documents. We are going to keep
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Trump THREATENS Federal JUDGE, Police are HORRIFIED
Mason Talks
Nov 11, 2025

During a tense Supreme Court hearing, Donald Trump’s legal team faced tough questions from justices he himself appointed, challenging his use of emergency powers to impose massive tariffs. The case highlights the limits of presidential authority, the major questions doctrine, and what it means for any president thinking they can act above the law. Business leaders, legal analysts, and lawmakers are all watching closely as this decision could reshape executive power for years to come.



Transcript

with former United States District Judge
Mark Wolf. Thank you for being here.
Thank you, Nicole. I appreciate the
opportunity to speak with you and uh to
some of the American people.
What have the last 36 hours been like
since your piece in the Atlantic
dropped?
It it's been a whirlwind. uh for the
last 45 years as a federal prosecutor,
as the last uh 40 of those uh as a
federal judge, uh I've been limited to
what I can say uh to what I properly say
in the courtroom. I've been overwhelmed
by the reaction to my piece in the
Atlantic, including the invitation uh to
speak with you. uh and uh it's been very
encouraging in a way because as you saw
in my piece I expressed some skepticism
about what I'm striving to do in this
new chapter uh will be successful
although I think it's important to try
and to work with many others uh to try
to protect our rule of law and democracy
in the United States. The response I've
received gives me greater hope than I
had 36 hours ago.
One of the things that I I worked in the
government and one of the things that I
understand from covering the Trump story
for nine years, well, one is that my
brain will probably be studied for
having to cover the Trump story for nine
years. But the other is that for every
person like you, for whom entering
the public debates around policy and
politics was once unthought of, there
are hundreds and probably in your case
thousands others. Can you just tell me
what the judiciary as a body, as an
institution,
experiences when there are threats and
menacing tweets and posts coming at them
to say nothing of the actual intimation
of violence, pizzas sent in the name of
Judge Esther Solace's murdered son,
Daniel. I mean the the climate is is
almost impossible to adequately cover,
but what has it been like these last
nine months for judges?
Um
the experience of being threatened uh is
deeply disturbing.
those of us who become federal judges uh
to varying degrees and maybe me because
I came from being a federal prosecutor
to a higher degree uh understand that it
comes with the territory and while it's
very disturbing to us it's particularly
disturbing to members of our family who
uh didn't uh sign up for this uh I've
been threatened in the past by people
who were crazy and uh also by others who
uh uh were in I believe were in
positions of official responsibility.
uh and it's I don't think that the
threats affect how any judge performs
his or her uh work but it does make it
more difficult, more anxious and uh
particularly imposes uh harms or
anxieties on people close to us.
What is your message to the American
people about the importance of the
judiciary when you see the Congress? Um,
and and let's leave aside their policy
preferences, but their abdication of the
functions of of Congress, whether it's
uh making declarations of war or making
decisions about tariffs, what what
burden does that place on the judiciary?
it I think it imposes an even higher uh
responsibility on the judiciary to
properly for perform its functions. As
you know, Nicole uh our constitution is
based on Lord Actton's axiom uh power
corrupts and absolute power corrupts
absolutely and therefore we have a
system that divides power and creates
checks and balances. Uh under the
constitution under the declaration of
independence a constitution all power is
in the people of the United States. um
some of that power is delegated to
elected officials and it's the role of
the courts to hold those officials to
the limits of their uh power. It's also
a shared responsibility with the
Congress and while I'm not a political
uh I think that there's fair criticism
that Congress has not uh served as
intended as an effective check or
balance for the executive but has been
abdicating uh some of its
responsibilities
and that makes the proper functioning of
the courts even more important now than
it always is.
Many setbacks for Donald Trump in court
from ICE agent conduct and enforcement
to the ongoing food benefits clash in
the shutdown. And we're joined by Emily
Basilon, the New York Times magazine
legal writer.
Happy Friday, Emily. How are you?
Hey, I'm pretty good, Ari. Uh, nice to
be here.
Great to have you. It was a big week on
the elections that's obviously driven a
lot of news. We like to have you,
especially on Fridays. And then I heard
you would only talk law, not the
election. So here we are. We built this
whole segment for you. Uh what do you
see in the courts this week at a time
where there do seem to be headwinds
against the administration?
Yeah, we've seen at this point more than
a hundred judges rule against the Trump
administration's policies of mandatory
detention for um people who ICE picks up
and just increasing, I think, dismay
from judges about the tactics that ICE
is using on the street. We've now seen
this, you know, in Portland, in
Washington, in Chicago, where the
administration comes in and they make
assertions in court, and then witnesses
come and talk about what's actually
happening. And those two things are
really different from each other, and
the judges can see it. And this judge,
um, who we saw this week ruling on
Chicago said that the government was
lying. in particular that the ICE
official who's supposed to be in charge
said that he got hit with a rock before
he threw uh canisters of tear gas and
that just wasn't true from the video.
So, this idea of the judges really
scrutinizing the facts on the ground and
testing the administration's claims,
it's so important. I mean, Arya, as you
know, courts are for finding facts.
That's what judges do and you can really
see them um upholding that standard and
it does not go well so far for the Trump
administration when they do that.
Right. And this this DOJ is strained in
more than one way. It's defending uh
what sometimes look like longshot or
losing cases. Uh and that's always been
the DOJ's job as long as they don't
violate their oaths uh when they have a
government to defend in court. um while
they're on offense with very flimsy
cases against Trump's opponents and then
you have the question of their overall
credibility uh there is a difference in
many cases especially national security
that judges give and yet you've just
reminded everyone why um they're blowing
that up and if that continues you get to
the Supreme Court uh and even apart from
who appointed whom you may have more
skepticism on the rationale um the ICE
agents are obviously busy here's a
headline that the detainee population is
now at a record high and it's up 70%
since January since Mr. Trump took
office. They note the previous high was
in his first term in 19 when they held
56,000 detainees. Uh I mentioned that
because this is something that came up
when I interviewed Steven Miller and
others before they came back into
office. Uh they view this partly as a
messaging effort that you have to do
more so that it's harder to be here or
get in here or stay here. But at the end
of the day, those numbers are also
striking because you are not going to
change the national labor force uh when
the number is 50 or 70,000.
That's right. I mean, there's always
this kind of push and pull with
immigration, right? And as long as there
are jobs here and people can work those
jobs, whether they have documents or
not, people are going to want to come.
Now, it is true that there are far fewer
people crossing the border, but what the
Trump administration is trying to do is
to get people to leave and there's just
a limited amount that even tens of
thousands of people in detention is
going to accomplish when people are
still working. And of course, there is a
kind of broader solution to all of this
that Congress has not um yet agreed on.
But if you have more people who have
permits to work here legally, then they
can work those jobs legally. And that is
one way of just sort of straightening
out these dynamics. But instead, we have
this current situation where we have no
comprehensive immigration reform and
then we have these really quite brutal
tactics.
We're finally seeing parts of the legal
system start to push back. Not enough,
nowhere near enough, but the resistance
is growing. Judges are beginning to
fight back against MAGA's overreach and
their attempts to rewrite law in their
image. Even the Supreme Court
surprisingly refused to reopen the far
right's push to relegalize
discrimination against gay marriage. And
sure, Trump himself might not have
personally filed that case, but let's be
real, his movement created the
environment for it. Remember when he
said abortion rights would be safe under
him. We all saw what happened in Ro v.
Raid, a large faction of MAGA wants to
erase decades of progress for women,
minorities, and LGBTQ plus Americans.
That decision from the Supreme Court was
a wakeup call, a reminder that these
rights are not guaranteed under
Trumpism. We're also seeing judges slam
down Trump's orders to ICE and the
National Guard. What he's asking them to
do isn't just immoral, it's flatout
illegal. It violates precedent, process,
and basic decency. Some judges have even
quit in protest, refusing to serve under
what they see as a corrupt system. It's
complicated because you want good judges
to stay, right? If they leave, the
positions go to MAGA loyalist, but at
the same time, I get why they walk away.
You don't want to legitimize Trump's
power. It's the same dilemma facing
anyone inside the FBI, DOJ, or any
institution Trump is trying to
politicize. Do you stay and fight from
within, or quit and refuse to lend him
legitimacy? There's no easy answer
there. Still, resistance exists. People
with real influence are standing up. Not
enough of them, but enough to matter.
And it's not just in the courts. There
are protests, organizing efforts, and a
huge wave of ordinary citizens pushing
back. You don't want to fall into false
hope. But you also don't want to despair
to win. The truth is, even in dark
moments like this, the fight hasn't
stopped. The push back is real.

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I Know Why Epstein Refused to Expose Trump: Michael Wolff
Inside Trump's Head
The Daily Beast
Premiered 21 hours ago Inside Trump's Head

Michael Wolff joins Joanna Coles to shed light on his email correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein and its impact on President Donald Trump. Drawing on leaked emails, private conversations, and years of reporting, Wolff exposes how the resurfacing of the Epstein files is reopening dangerous cracks inside Trump’s circle. Coles pushes him on what’s fact, what’s myth, and what Epstein really knew. As Trump fights to control his comeback narrative, Wolff posits one haunting truth: Epstein’s shadow may be the one story he can’t spin away.



Transcript

I'm the person who sees this. This elemental story. Donald Trump and I have gone through this
with Epstein deep into the background. Donald Trump is the best friend
of a human right, you know, evil. I mean, he is the best friend of
of a deeply, deeply diabolical person.
Well, I'm going to say I've known you for a long time. As we've often mentioned, we've known each other 25 years.
And I was shocked by some of these emails. And I want to read one in particular that I was like, wow.
And this is based on, you sending Jeffrey Epstein an email in December 15th, 2015,
on the eve of a primary debate. Republican primary debate.
And it's CNN is holding the debate, and you sent an email to him saying, I hear CNN is planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you,
either on air or in scrum afterwards. He writes back, if we were
able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it would be? And then you say, I think you should let him hang himself.
If he says he hasn't been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency.
You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you.
Or if it really looks like he could win, you could save him. Generating a debt.
Of course it is possible. When asked, he'll say Jeffrey is a great guy and he's gotten a raw deal. And he's a victim
of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime. Let's remember the the entire context here.
Okay. But what I, what I want to say is in this particular email, it sounds like you're advising a conflict, a convicted pedophile, about what
to do, and you're colluding with him against a potential. Well, I you know, I don't you know, you know, what emails sound like.
Would one have rewritten them in hindsight? Yeah. Of of course.
You know, emails always are. That's that's, That's embarrassing.
But remember what's going on here. I am in this.
I am where no one else is. I am in proximity to a story which actually most people
don't see at this point. So in these emails, what strikes me is that you're
frequently giving advice to Jeffrey Epstein about how to handle the media, how to use the media.
Were you his media adviser? No, he had, I mean, and given the fact of how badly he has managed
the media over the course of his long, difficulties,
I would not want credit for that in any way, but, but you know, this was always a major thing, and this was actually,
you know, part of the reason, part of my entree here that I knew about
the media that gave me the kind of cachet that got me a place at the table,
which has gotten me the Epstein story. If anyone wanted to pay attention. Right.
So I'm 2050. I'm the person who sees this, this elemental story, Donald Trump
and and I've gone through this with Epstein deep into the background.
Donald Trump is the best friend of,
you know, evil. I mean, he is the best friend of of a deeply, deeply
diabolical person, a person who is involved in. Well, we now know what he's what he's involved in.
A thousand women trafficking of thousands. You know, and and. Read back and so. What I, what I understand at this
point is that Donald Trump may become the president of the United States, and this is still in 2015.
And if he proposition but nevertheless, the a possible president of the United States has been involved for well,
more than ten years, has been joined at the hip with this person has been involved in every they both of these men in every aspect
of each other's lives, sharing girlfriends in their financial lives.
Now, this is true to me, and this is a moment which I think we ought to we ought to we ought to pause, because I think we're
very close to the smoking gun. This is what is not only in, in implied in my emails,
but in other emails that Epstein has, has sent and. By the smoking gun. What? What do you mean?
Well, I the the relationship and remember Donald Trump has denied this this this relationship.
Oh Epstein you know, past him and he's. Calling it a Democratic hoax. Again. He just well. Yeah, I'm a witch.
Which of a Democrat. Which of course, of course he will. He's called it again and again. Everything is everything is a hoax.
Everything in his life he doesn't like is a hoax. But the smoking gun is obviously.
Has Donald Trump been involved with Jeffrey Epstein and underage girls?
Did Donald Trump know about Jeffrey Epstein's,
that the underage girls in and out of Epstein's house? Now, I have spoken
here and in many other place about the photographs that I have seen.
And Epstein at one of these emails confirms or says Trump knew about the girls and he damn well did.
I have seen the pictures of the girls of of, you know, again, a dozen snapshots, three of which I vividly remember,
two with topless girls sitting on Donald Trump's lap. Okay, there's another one I wanted to read to you here, which was,
came out in October of 2016. So just before he was being elected,
there's an opportunity to come forward this week and talk about Trump in such a way that could garner you great sympathy and help finish him.
Interested? You know, one of the things that I was focused on
is trying to get Epstein to come forward. Why don't you go public with these pictures?
Why don't you go public? Let me help you go public in telling your story with a about Donald Trump.
I mean, I saw then, as I have continued to see and see every day now,
that Donald Trump was unfit to be the president of the United States. So blue sky and,
social media is full of journalists just saying this is completely unacceptable. This is not how you speak to a source.
This is not what journalism is. Well, I mean, these are not people who have written the kind of books that I
have written. And, and, you know, and I often make the distinction
between journalists who do what they do daily reporters working, working for organizations, working within a very prescribed set of, of rules.
And what I do, I mean, I'm a writer who manages to make relationships
that let me tell a story in the ways that The New York Times or other
very reputable journalistic organizations are unable to tell. I mean, I was, you know, I am the one.
I am the journalists who got into the Trump White House in those first months for seven months, actually, I, I sat there and,
and was able to write a book that's my book, Fire and Fury, which was,
you know, I think made a substantial contribution to understanding what was going on and the utter uniqueness.
And out of control ness of the first Trump White House. You know, I did the same my my biography of of Rupert Murdoch.
Somehow I of I was the only journalist not in his employ
who has ever spent in enormous, an enormous amount of time with him
basically basically a year and And what. Year? And the emails.
But but no, I just want to I want to I want to I want to make the point that if you saw the emails that I shared with,
with with Rupert Murdoch, I would I would be embarrassed about them. But I was able to write the book that no one has been able to write in the book.
Also that that he profoundly hated. All right. So I was going to ask you about that because you
you go in and certainly Rupert Murdoch is the perfect example. You go in, you spend an inordinate amount of time with them,
and they believe that you are on their side.
Do you basically go in and sort of suck up to them and, and Well, let me let me ask, let me ask the question in a friendlier way.
Am I acting? Am I play acting, right? Are you am I playing a role?
And the answer is yes. I mean, that's what that's what a journalist, a writer in that situation does.
If you want to stay, if you want to be invited back the next day and the next day and the next day. Yes.
So the the point is not what you say, but what you write.
The story you tell and, you know, and that's always the thing that I'm,
that I'm, I'm constantly focused on. Tell me, tell me what you would not tell other people.
I mean, you know. In order to do that, you know, you got to, I think
I think as, as my mother would say, you get more with a little honey,
right? Some of the honey feels a lot when it's a convicted pedophile. We have.
But that's but that's the the the the point is to get the story of the convicted pedophile.
I could have easily not gotten the story and could have said, you're a fucking pedophile and I can't see you anymore.
But were in order to get the story and, and let's this is a story that I have told as often
as I can in as many places that I can. The story of Donald Trump's relationship with this pedophile,
a story that virtually and certainly many of the journalists that are, I'm sure are now criticizing me have chosen not to pick up.
I have had a very, very hard time telling this story. So you use the phrase twice in the email we started off with about let
let him hang himself, which turns out to have a particular resonance.
Well, I the the the hanging here was referred to not Epstein.
But it was. Trump. Trump. Trump was pretending he was someone other than who he actually is, which is, you know, I think
by wide agreement, one one might say certainly the sleaze ball of our time.
But also, I think, you know, we could argue a criminal in his sleazy boldness.
All right. So let's talk a bit a bit more about your methodology in terms of when you came home from spending,
you know, a day with Jeffrey Epstein or an evening at Jeffrey Epstein's house. What did you do?
Did you write notes? Did you speak in to us? Of course. I. Know. So you you can't, you know. And unless.
I know that, you know, when you were there. Yes. And also, most of these conversations with Jeffrey Epstein are on tape.
So, you know, as we've discussed before, I've just discussed many, many places. There are hours and hours, upwards of 100 hours
of Jeffrey Epstein talking about many things, but many hours of him talking about Donald Trump and his relationship to Donald Trump.
So what else is in the tapes? What else do we need to know? What other emails are going to come out with explosive revelations?
Well, I think that there's this. I again, to go back to this and this is this is where the focus should be.
Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein had this deep relationship. They knew everything about about each other.
And then they then they fell out with enormous acrimony. But for more than a decade, that's what they were doing.
And their obsession was women, girls, models.
You know, again, you know, I, you know, I can't make that that point clear enough.
It was models, models, models, supermodels, runway models, fashion
models, catalog models, girls who just wanted to be models.
You know, the Trump model agency, Well, they all had the modeling agency, right?
Jeffrey headed model, Jeffrey Epstein had a modeling agency. Trump had a model. Yes, everyone.
I didn't have a modeling agency. So you've talked about going after Trump. But how is Donald Trump, who was elected president?
Not once, but twice, worse than a convicted pedophile
who, it turns out, had trafficked a thousand girls? I mean, he was sending cars to pick up girls from.
Okay, but that's Joanna. That's clear the answer, because he's the president of the United States, because he is the model of
of what a leader should be of of of what success looks like.
And, and so it is important. Important. It's vital. It's it's
it's required at some level that we understand the truth of who this man is, this charade.
We all live in a charade. And you are also lying to Jeffrey Epstein by trying to seduce him into.
Well, joining you is Joanna. There are lies and there are lies. I am not a pedophile. I am a writer.
So, you know, and I guess I guess what you might be saying is, does the, does the means justify. The.
Ends and, and I would point out that the that the
that the means in this instance are,
are, I'm, I'm kind of said of white lies.
They harm no one and they, they produce the ends. I got this story.
I am the only one. And I have been going and and we took together actually before the
before the election, we released a we put daily with the Daily Beast.
We released a set of a set of tapes that are much more explicit than, than, than these emails that directly connect Donald Trump
to Jeffrey Epstein in, in a way that is, you know, that I think is completely revealing
of Donald Trump's character and make makes the point he is,
he was, is and continues to be unfit to be the president of the United States, to say the very least.
So we've, we've been inundated, as have you, with, questions from journalists
trying to get to the bottom of this story and to understand your methodology. We've put them together and there's some questions here from a guy
called Eric Wemple at the New York Times. I'm going to read out his questions. Just wanted to ask you if you could add any context to the emails
that were released. Some seem to conclude that you are essentially outlining a strategy for blackmailing Donald Trump.
This was when he was a candidate for president. Do you have any response to that? You know?
Well, there's a curious thing. And the that's that's a reference to and I say in one of those, those those emails, you can get.
Well, it's where you say you could save him generating a debt. You know. And the interesting thing was, I mean, this was obviously
what Epstein wanted to hear. But the point was how afraid Epstein was of Donald Trump.
I mean, that that really was a kind of going forward thing
that that that Epstein was fearful about what would happen to him
if Donald Trump became the president of the United States. Okay. So Eric has another question.
It seems as though these emails and news, did you ever disclose them in any of your pieces or podcasts or.
Hint. Well, as I've said, I haven't talked about almost nothing for the past year
except my relationship to Jeffrey Epstein and have disclosed things that I thought
were much more incriminating than these emails.
Are there any other emails with Epstein that you could share? No. Wow. There are well.
More important, more importantly, there are 100 hours of tape, and,
and then Eric Wemple, the next question he will ask is, is have. I you mentioned that you tried
to interest news outlets in the story of the Epstein Tapes? How many did you pitch and how many said, no.
Do you have any correspondence from those interactions? I certainly do, and everybody has been pitch.
There is almost no outlet streamers, networks, cable stations
and book publishers who has not been pitched on this story. I was going to ask. Everyone saying no.
So you spent 4 or 5 years on and off with Epstein at the center of Epstein, sort of table
with all the people that came to and from his house. The book never appeared. He wanted you to write a book about him after, you.
Know, but but several other books did appear, which is, you know, he became a very.
Did you mean several other books by you or. Yes, by by by me. So he became a, a,
a very significant source for me in and out of, in my for my four books about Donald Trump.
I understand Donald Trump as well as I do. Partly because of because of Jeffrey Epstein.
I mean, there were many other people in many other sources in these books. But but Epstein's I have always found probably the two people
who have been most insightful about Donald Trump are Jeffrey Epstein
and Steve Bannon, who actually, curiously, then became friends. So it's one of the reasons that the networks and streaming services
or whatever have turned you down on this is because Jeffrey Epstein is thought to be an unreliable narrator. You know.
I don't think so. I think the reason is that they are scared. They're scared of being sued by the Trump administration.
They're they're uncomfortable with how to talk about this, this, this story.
They don't want to see Jeffrey Epstein in a
in any more than that, then that, then that single lens through
which we view him in these tapes, these tapes are go all over the place. They, they really show a show a life in full.
I mean, a really strange life and and clearly a diabolical life.
But he is he he is something else in these tapes beyond just just the
the the man who victimized many, many, many, many girls. But I, I actually don't think that's them.
I think they are afraid. Afraid of of, of what Donald Trump will do.
And remember, Donald Trump has repeatedly and every instance
turned to these, to the media outlets. And if he doesn't like what they do, he sues them.
I know getting the story is important. Are there any lines that you wouldn't cross?
You seem to downplay the importance of getting the story and, which I would not do.
Getting the story is is the all important thing. But yeah, but of course, what I'm, I'm you know, I'm not I'm not going to be
here. Do I have to answer this? You know the answer to this. Of course. Of course there are.
I mean, you remind me a little bit of an undercover cop. Well, I suppose in a way that, in a way that I am.
And then the television show, the other, the the undercover cop, always has to prove himself by shooting someone who is.
I wouldn't do that. Well, let's. And let's. Leave. Yes, let's let's remember what I did.
I sat at a table and listened to Jeffrey Epstein and many of the other people
who he invited to his table, and I often said what he wanted to hear.
His table sounded a really intriguing place to be. There were all sorts of people from world leaders we've talked to on the podcast
about how you ran into the head of the Nobel Prize committee there. You said you saw Bill gates there.
Woody Allen there, Larry Summers there. Is there a way in which you were trying to seduce
Jeffrey Epstein into confiding in you, and you were also seduced by Jeffrey?
Well, no, this is this is I'm you know, I'm not the first journalist in this position. And many journalists have have have talked about this
and how to navigate such a situation and the times they have failed to entirely navigate this situation.
And, yeah. And I, I suppose that I,
you know, that there were moments in which you have to stomach
what you would what you know, you should not be stomach king, but you do because.
When you say that, what do you actually mean? You know, I and and again, that's why you stomach.
Because you're not, you're not, you're not seeing anything. You're not participating in anything.
You're just hearing things. So I mean, that was I mean, my relationship with, with with Jeffrey Epstein did not go.
I mean, I actually I have never in all of the hours that I've spent with him, I have never, never saw saw
any interaction with women, with girls. Did you ever see the massage room?
I never saw the massage room. I do want to want to say. And and I think it's.
I think it's, it's important that the kind of journalism
I do or the kind of writing that, that I do is different from journalists who work at newspapers or broadcast outlets.
I am trying to and I but I offer an entirely different view.
The cost of that is, you know, you got a
you got to be nice to these people. What I find is it's interesting is it's access journalism, which normally
results in something favorable to the person who's given you access. What I always found interesting about your columns at New York
magazine was that people were clamoring to talk to you, even when you'd written previously negative pieces about them.
You know, well, even that sometimes they they not. I am willing to,
what I was going to say. I'm willing to blow up people, but that's not really how, how how I think I'm I have always been just, you know, what the story is.
You got the story. You're lucky enough to get the story. You've worked hard enough to get the story.
Tell the fucking story. And,
and, you know, usually that results in the people you're telling the story about really hating you.
But you know, what the hell? So what more do you think the Oversight Committee is going to release?
I, you know, I guess they're they're just releasing whatever they can get. And there's it appears to be dueling.
Dueling releases from the Republicans, from the Democrats.
But I think that this is all signs of an investigation that is closing in on its subject.
And, you know, and it's sometimes I'm not sure that they realize that the subject here
is not so much Jeffrey Epstein, but Donald Trump. Okay. So I want to ask you a question about Ghislaine Maxwell, who we have talked
about a lot on the podcast, especially since she's been moved from jail in Tallahassee, Florida, after a two day interview with Todd Blanch.
Number two, the Justice Department, to a prison camp in Texas where we know she has her own puppy.
She has a puppy. She has a fitness instructor. And then there is, an email from
Jeffrey Epstein on Saturday, April the 2nd, doesn't have the year her actually saying,
I want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is Trump.
There is then a name redacted, which has since been filled in because she's dead by the Republicans who say it was Virginia Giuffre.
Virginia Giuffre spent hours at my house with him. He has never once been mentioned police chief, etc.
I'm 75% there. And then Ghislaine Maxwell sends him back an email later
that day saying, I have been thinking about what.
Let me before we go to that email, per se, I think it's going to be interesting.
I don't think I mean, Donald Trump has clearly been getting ready to pardon
Ghislaine or commuted her sentence or get her out of jail in some way. I think that's going to be very hard for him to do now, which
probably has other complications for him, because if he breaks his deal with Ghislaine, Ghislaine gets to talk.
But if he reneges on his deal, and her method of talking as remember with
the birthday letter is a method of leaks and,
which could be as the birthday letter was pretty devastating to Donald Trump. Because her family, who we think are behind the leak of the birthday,
letter, determined to get her out of jail and feel that she is the only person
in this entire Epstein saga to have gone to jail. That other men that we assume partook of the things that Jeffrey was offering
have some of them have lost their jobs, but none of them have gone to jail?
No, but but they have a lot of them have suffered terrifically, have been held to account in some ways,
the one who has not been held to account in any way is the president of the United States. Right.
We're losing your job isn't the same as being sentenced. Well, it is, it is. It is not. But not losing, losing your job and facing disgrace is also a lot different
than being the most powerful man in the world. And,
and and being unstoppable in that apparently in the power you hold.
An again once just struck by the remarkable
difference in their journeys that these were two men that used to travel around Atlantic City together,
one ended up dead in a Manhattan. So still, uncertainty around whether he killed himself
or whether or not something else happened to him and the other ended up being the leader of the free world.
Yes. And I admire that line, because it is my line which I have used again and again and again and again and the this, this line and
and people for years now have been people. I mean, journalists, the media, organized media organizations
have been willing to overlook this story until, you know, smoking gun time.
I think we may be closing in. On it now. The Republicans decided to unredacted the name and put in Virginia Giuffre
because they say there's no mention of Donald Trump in her book, Nobody's Girl. And she never mentioned Donald Trump as one of the people she saw there,
although she did mention other people. Alan Dershowitz, Bill Clinton, and actually al Gore.
She's a complicated witness. You know, she had to apologize to Dershowitz. Al Gore turns out never to have been in any proximity to,
to Jeffrey Epstein. So she's my, I you know, I don't know.
I mean, she's dead, so let's not, let's not pile on, but, I, you know, I think I think there would be no reason for
for Epstein to write this email were it not to be true.
This email was theoretically a private email, and he's writing it to glean who would know. So
I in. 2011, I think it's 2011. I think it's speaks for itself.
So did you have any sense that this enormous stash of emails was coming? No, not in the least.
I woke up to this like everybody else. So I mean, some of the names in here you've talked about Woody Allen,
Bill gates, but some of the names I was surprised to read, Deepak Chopra.
I have discussed Deepak Chopra before as being there. Yes. Not with I don't think you have with me.
It's an oversight then, because I have been there with Deepak Chopra.
Okay. And what was he doing? You know, eating an omelet like everybody else?
Eating an omelet. And I actually remember. No, but I,
What was Deepak Chopra? I mean, I suspect he was there trying to get money out of out of, Epstein, but I don't know.
Kathy Ramla, who was Obama's white House counsel?
Tom barrack. No. And Tom barrack is pivotal here in this
the the connection because it was and I talk about this in in my effort
in fire and fury as them being the three Musketeers, Trump Barrack Epstein,
and and they were together the closest of friends. And when Tom barrack went into the white House or actually
he did not go into the white House in the first administration. And that was partly because of Epstein's advice don't take an official job.
But barrack remained one of the key advisers. Still is one of Trump's key advisers. Right?
He's an ambassador now. Yeah. But, you know, on the phone with Trump constantly.
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