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Indeed, we do many things to talk about this morning, including a new Wall Street Journal bombshell. Trump is officially in the Epstein files and was informed of such, so we will break all of that down. Also have a little bit of pulling to dig through on all of those matters as well. Some interesting new note Boys fallout too. We are learning God to save them that they were actually given a list of interview questions before their big
Net Nyahuo interview. They're sort of still spiraling there, so interesting to dig into that. As a media story, I think a significant one. Actually some very dire news coming out of Israel. We now have a whistleblower coming forward from that so called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation talking about the unbelievable and horrifying force being used against Palestinians in the context of them trying to obtain AID. We also have another significant media story here involving Candace Owens, who is
now being sued by the first family of France. Candace did a long piece alleging that Brigitte Macron, the first Lady of France, is actually a man, was born a man, etc. And so they are suing her over those and other claims. We also have significant economic news. Home prices are continuing
to go up, home sales continuing to go down. In fact, a significant number of deals that were originally struck in the housing market fell apart last month, record high member of those deals falling apart, So still really dire there. This comes also as Trump has announced a new quote unquote trade deal with Japan's We'll dig into all of that and we're going to have a guest onto breakdown if there is any there there.
With this big Russia Gate.
Document drop obviously being used as an attempt to distract from Epstein, it's not working very well, but we did want to sift through and see if there's anything we should.
Know Obamagate as an original Obama Gator myself. Yeah, it's been difficult, you know, we're having to go back and reread all the files, etc.
But yes, we will allow Isaac.
Isaac has done a fantastic job here from Tangle. He's actually read through everything, covered the stuff for years, and so we're going to outsource some of our knowledge over there. Thank you Eiaac for having us to go. I just shot into this all right, let's go before we get to that. Thank you everybody who has been signing up for our premium membership Breakingpoints dot Com if you would like.
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and send a link to one of your friends. It's the best possible thing that you could do for us to help spread the word. So with that, let's go ahead and start here with the Epstein story. This is again a very remarkable, very interesting leak coming to the Wall Street Journal. Let's put it up there on the screen. Quote, the Justice Department told Donald Trump in May that his
name is among many in the Epstein files. There's a lot here, and I'm going to go through both the exact details of the story, but also the timeline, because the timeline matters a lot.
Quote.
When the Justice Apartment reviewed the Attorney General Pam Bondi called a truckload of documents, they discovered that Donald Trump's name appeared multiple times. In May, her and her deputy informed the President at a meeting in White House that the name his name was in the Epstein files. Quote, many other high profile figures were also named. Trump was told being mentioned in the records is not a sign
of wrongdoing. That's obviously correct. And then something that we've talked about here for quite a long time, they said. The official said it was part of a routine briefing covered a number of topics, and that Trump's appearance in the document was not even the focus.
They told the.
President at this meeting that the files contained what officials felt was quote unverified hearsay about many people, including Trump, who had socialized with Epstein in the past, some of the officials said. One of the officials familiar, said that
they contain hundreds of other names. They also said that Trump told They also told Trump the senior Justice Department officials didn't plan to release any more documents related to the investigation of the convicted sex offender because the material contained child pornography and victim's personal information. Trump said at the meeting he would defer to the Justice Department. Now
I want to sit on that for a second. So first and foremost is this Number One is that obviously they told Trump his name was in the Epstein files. But the thing is is that within the context, it makes it even more bizarre about Trump's decision not to release it, and really why this is a pr crisis of his own making. Now at the point if he had released it, where his name in hundreds of other names.
There would be quite literally hundreds of stories to be able to go into this right and we could all diagnose and we could take a look at all of
these different connections. By doing the cover up and also claiming that you were going to release everything, you now make it so that the singular focus is on you, the president, for the person here, and actually make it more likely in my mind, in many people's minds who are analysts here are like, I don't know, man, maybe there is some ben a hell of a lot more
which is causing all these journalists. You know, the Epstein birthday book, all of these old clips were going to place some here in a little bit just to show people, like some of the past scrutiny on Epstein and Trump's own relationship, this is all because of your own actions. Second is Crystal, Remember this meeting was in May. We did not get the Epstein memo until almost a month later,
ahead of the visit of the Israeli Prime Minister. So it seems that they made the decision some one month earlier, basically around the time cash Ptel and others were going around on podcasts kind of laying the groundwork for this but what happened in that one month period They said they weren't going to release anything, and then a month later they come out and.
Kind of say it. So the timing of it is very suspect.
Remember also in that interim month, they still were claiming that they were doing and investigation. So it basically makes the government look like a whole bunch of liars. It obviously makes Trump himself look dramatically more implicated in a cover up, probably makes him now at this point more intransigent to not release the files, which makes him look
even more guilty. And so it's just a spiraling thing where again the simplest answer is one which would probably be to his own benefit and to everybody else.
Just release everything that what's in there. That's all you got to do. Man, that's what you said you were going to do.
It depends what But that's my point.
I mean, and now they're making it sketchy.
But you're yeah, but maybe it's get like you're assuming that what's in there is just oh, he was at his wedding and they sent him a birthday card or whatever.
We don't know that.
I mean, I wat Trump is acting would indicate that there may be some much worse things. That is Okham's razor at this point, just based on the way that he's acting. But I mean, this story is it is probably the least surprising story that we've seen thus far, because and by the way, Elon apparently totally vindicated at this point. When Elon first said that Trump is in the Epstein files, what do we say? We said, of course Trump is in the Epstein files. They were very
close friends for a lot of years. There is zero doubt that Trump is in the Epstein files. Question mark of what that means and what the implications are and what you know all of that, but there's was never any doubt. We know he flew on Epstein's plane at least seven times, so it should be no surprise to anyone that he is quote unquote in the Epstein files. Whatever you know, that really means. The question is what you know? What are the specifics here? And why are
you acting so incredibly bizarrely? That's really what it comes down to. And you're right, that has opened up a can of worms of people going back, because there was a lot of memory holding. There was a lot of deni on the right about just how close they were, and how much, how long the association lasted, and all of those sorts of things, and so now you know,
let's go ahead and play. This was Jeffrey Epstein when he was being deposed, got asked specifically about his relationship with Donald Trump and about whether or not they had ever been together in the presence of underage girls. Let's go ahead and take a listen to how he's fun that.
Have you ever had a personal relationship with Donald Trump?
What do you mean by personal relationships?
Have you socialized with him?
Yes, sir, Yes, yes, sir.
Have you ever socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of.
Females under the age of eighteen?
Though I'd like to answer that question at least today, I'm going to have to assert by fifth, sixth, and fourteenth, and then the radser.
If they're to be the Midas, touch networking, all kinds of stuff.
Well, listen to that. As you said, it's been out there. I don't deny it either.
I mean my assumption, perhaps naively, was Yeah, Look, he's one of the most scrutinized public figures in the world at this point. Yeah, they went to each other's weddings, et cetera. I'm not saying I believe Trump in its face, but I was like, I think we kind of know. Yeah, they were obviously friends, they had all these you know, sketchy personal connections in certain ways. But at this point, considering both his rhetoric and the rhetoric of his administration,
I was like, yeah, they'll probably release it. I mean, again, I could be totally wrong, and perhaps they are, but at this point, his behavior is such that is really vindicating a lot of what you're saying. And that's why I actually think at this point, you really do have no choice but to release it, in my opinion, and also just because of the way that the political wins continue to shift, both in Washington. Remember they literally had to shut down the House of Representatives to stop vote.
And even with that, I mean, I got to give some of the Republicans some credit here, because you know, just yesterday was the House Oversight Committee, multiple Republicans broke with the administration. They voted eight to two to subpoena Glene Maxwell, who have some testimony before them. There are actually people who are there who are like, no, I'm
not We're not stopping this is going to happen. The reason they had to shut down the House was because there were enough Republicans who were willing to join the Democrats as say no, screw it, yeah we're going forward.
Well let's let's pause on Glaine for a second, because I know Ryan and Emily covered this, But the administration is talking to her. I mean, it's very very very possible, and she's obviously working to try to get a deal, try to get a pardon. Yes, And I think that's very possibly the direction that we go in where she effectively in exchange for quote unquote exonerating Trump, is let out of her, has her person sentence commuted it, or get some sort of a deal.
So you know, that's possible as well.
And she has an appeal up to the Supreme Court right now that right now the government is taking the position no, you know, she needs to stay in prison. And that previous sweetheart deal that was struck with Epstein that said none of your co conspirators could be charged either, that doesn't apply here for this various various technical reasons. So I think that is possible as well. I mean that's the thing is like what regards whatever's in the files,
the way they have played. This is so incredibly stupid. It's like the worst possible way you could do, because these people are obviously not above line. We're about to show you Trump coming out and being like, well, of course this. You didn't tell me that I was in
the Epstein files. So they could have released some subset, you know, this ploy that they're doing now with the trial, Oh, let's release the grand jury testimony, which the courts are already you know, saying no, we're not going to do that because there's no you know, we're basically not allowed to.
They could have done that ploy previously to make it look like they're trying for transparency, but gosh darn at the court system is just standing their way or something, or just run out the clock, as you and I,
you know, it's fully expected them to do. And instead you have made it look like you are so guilty and maybe you are, and drawn so much attention and scrutiny that now everybody is going back through every picture, every video, every deposition, everything that has ever connected you to Jeffrey Epstein and to that world and looking at it through a totally different lens.
At this point, right, And that's actually another thing, which I think is important to align with the Gallaine stuff. So Gallaine is actually meeting with the Justice Department today. But the problem is, at this point you've poisoned the well right for any substance, I mean, at.
The end of this is part of what does to me again point to a cover up.
Gallaine Maxwell's attorneys and the government say, we never asked her if she ever had any third what you.
Never asked her in ninety twenty twenty.
You never asked her, and now you're asking her at a time when she's directly asking for a pardon from Donald Trump.
What She's stupid.
She can't look at the news and say, hey, I need to know what I said if they had released the files and then come to Gallane. Also, by the way, at this point, I mean, Ghlaine Maxwell, just on the merits of what she's been convicted of, it's heinous. She should never be allowed to parton or any of this. I'm talking about just her crimes with relation to Jeffrey Epstein.
And so let's just leave it at that and say, all right, Gallaine, maybe we can talk sentence reduction and all of this, but you have to be able to give US prosecutable you know, verifiable evidence. I think it's called like a rule thirty five or something like that, where a judge can take into consideration your cooperation with the government but has to uh, it has to like lead to actually something, Whereas now they've poisoned the well
through their cover up actions. And now if she does come out and say, oh Trump and she's never an intelligence asset or none of this, We're like, yeah, come on, man, I mean, this is just as sketchy as a non prosecution degree.
Right, you really couldn't believe anything she says at this point, because who are you leaving? I mean, you know, she is not going to implicate Trump, regardless of however much they're there.
Blaen's because she wants to deal with it. Glene has had a year.
She even gave interviews from her jail cell, right, Like, It's not like she couldn't say something if she didn't want to. She's keeping it all in And look, she was at the Clinton wedding. She knew Donald Trump. She meant elon her father literally a Mosad asset, you know, I mean, I could go on forever in terms of this woman's background.
It's nuts. All right, I mean Lourene Powell jobs like she's got all kinds.
Of stuff on all kinds of people, regardless of, by the way, whether they're implicated in sex trafficking or not, just their mere association. We saw with Elon Loreen Pole job it's a problem. No, it's a problem. And here we have with Donald Trump again like it's just instinct to just, you know, basically just come out and lie about a lot of the information. Here he was asked repeatedly, did you, but Pam Bondi, ever tell you your name was in the Epstein files?
And he said, no, let's take a listen on a DJ and what subject.
There were a few of the files, turning Donald pamponi.
Very very quick briefing.
Did she tell you what did she tell you about what you specifically? Did she tell you that all that your name appeared in?
No, No, she's she's given us just a very quick briefing. And in terms of the credibility of the different things that they've seen. And I would say that you know, these files were made up by Komi, they were made up by Obama, they were made up by the Biden from you know, uh, we and we went three years of that with the Russia Russia Russia hoax.
So you know, he's literally said, no, she did not tell me that I was in the Epstein files. Another person who a lot of people have been looking to here is Mark Epstein, the brother, and he directly talked about some of the contradictions from the president's claim saying he'd never been in his office, and he said, no, that's just absolutely not true.
Let's take a listen to that.
And the White House their response to us Mark, they were categorical.
They said, quote, the President was never in Epstein's office.
Is that true?
That the blatant that's just another blatant lie because he was there. The people that work for Jeffrey in his office you can find and they can testify that they saw Trump and Jeffrey's office on numerous occasions, you know, So for him to say he wasn't there, all I could say is that's just just another lie.
So you can say he said that's just another lie.
I mean, look, Mark Epstein, I understand he's got his own personal agenda and everybody should keep that in mind. But a lot of the stuff that Marcus said has actually turned out to be true. Remember it's Mark also who has really driven the train of my brother did not commit suicide. By the way, if everybody want so, they should go and watch the interview that Ryan and Emily did yesterday with a former inmate at the MCC.
I mean, this guy, the case that he lays out about the cameras and the way that everything he works there, it's just again, it's just not credible. I mean I knew that, and I'd heard from other people, but to hear from such an intelligent and articulate person who was also literally an inmate in this facility, a deep association knowledge of a lot of these cameras and himself is a technology expert. You know, you could take it for you could take it with whatever grain and salt.
I guess that you want.
I don't think he has a particular agenda that he's pushing. He's just like listen, I was there.
This is how it all worked.
And I'm telling you the government story doesn't make any sense whatsoever at all that fits with the original OIG investigation. And now all this fake footage that's been put out by Pam Bondi so and the very least you know with Mark Epstein. A lot of what he has said has turned out at the very least to be correct. Now, don't forget, you know, he's also trying to whitewash some of his brother's crimes and his record.
So let's put that out there.
But broadly, I mean what the Trump administration and again, in all their actions, and this will get to the kind of the Russia Gate, Obama Gate stuff and even the MLK files is it's pretty clear they're desperate to release or to try and distract, at the very least
a lot of their base from what's happening. And yet the Director of National Intelligence, Tulca Gabbard, she delivered this long presentation yesterday about Obamagate and referring Obama to criminal prosecution, etc. As we said, we'll get to that at the ladder end of the show because we have a guest on who's going to break it all down for us. But she's asked here directly about Jeffrey Epstein and intelligence connections.
Let's take a listen.
I haven't seen any evidence or information that reflects that. If anything comes before me that changes that in any way, support the President's statement loud and clear that any credible evidence comes forward, he wants the American people to see it.
I haven't they always I haven't seen it. If anything comes forward, I'll let you know, or we'll look into it, or it's.
Like come on again.
I mean, it's just so preposterous, and it just shows us that either they don't want to know, or they do know and.
Then alying to us. I'm not really sure which one is worse.
I guess theoretically, plausible deniability a tale as old as time.
Right, you're in Washington, but you know you put all this stuff together.
Also with the Wall Street I should know, by the way, multiple other outlets reported it, and the White House is not even really denying the conversation took place.
Let's make that clear as well. They're like, yeah, we know.
And their defense is, oh, you know, they knew each other at a certain time, they had a falling out and that's the extent. Okay, fine. I mean, even according to the Journal, they're like, hey man, it's not like you're implicated in any wrongdoing here. Your name is in here along with hundreds of other people.
It's like, okay, fine. Then released it.
But clearly Trump is either afraid as that even those breadcrumbs as to what it will all lead to, that's very possible. The intelligence angle, by the way, I still think it's a very very very plausible one beyond his own personal motivations. And if you just put the totality of the way that all of the original statements from the Trump administration now aligned with where we are today, it just tells you nothing but cover up. I mean, Pam BONDI thousands of hours of footage, all of these files,
hundreds of FBI agents, et cetera. Remember there was a statement from Dick Durbin, who the senator from Illinois, I think he's on the Judiciary Committee in the Senate, and he put out a statement saying, hey, we were told by FBI agents to flag when Donald Trump's name was
in the files. But now it kind of makes sense, right, because this is part of probably why they were coming to Trump just be like, hey, just don't you know, you know your name is in here, But that is all just it's such a massive conflict of interest and for people, you know, the streisand effect of this story now is unbelievable.
It's one of the top stories in the country. I'm not joking.
If you look at Google traffic, and if especially if you look at people who are quote a political or you know, kind of online, a lot of them probably voted for Trump and may not necessarily consider themselves maga. They're really starting to break for you know, if you want evidence, the QAnon shaman has now broken with Donald Trump.
It said, this beats his shit.
Just saying it all right, Listen, you could say whether or not, you know, I mean, he's stormed the capital, you know, on behalf of Donald Trump. I think it's a constituency of some sort for these types of people.
He was a hero, you know, if you'll recall.
So I'm just saying, yeah, all these types of people, this is a very important story is not going away.
Well, and I think it's it's really the first time I can think of where all of Trump's go to tactics are just really not working. Yeah, you know, he's normally so good at being able to change the conversation and get us chasing after something else than having to deal with someone.
And obviously he's trying.
I mean I've seen the lists of like all the attempted distractions, the cane sugar and the coke and the Rosi o'donald should be denaturalized and loser citizenship and you know, the now we've got the Obama Gates stuff, the MLK files and whatever, and it's like, Nope, people are still focused on this. And it's so obvious too what he's trying to do. That not to say that the right
isn't interested in the Russia Gates stuff and whatever. We're going to cover it in the show, but it is not throwing people off of this particular case, especially as the story just continues to drip drip drip.
Drip continues to develop.
And then the other thing is, and you and I were talking about this a little bit before we started the show, like, I don't think Rupert Murdoch is the type of media figure who's just gonna be terrified and and you know, run away from the case because of the threat of a lawsuit. You know, Trump is already okay, he's already played that card. He said he threatened them before they publish their birthday card scoop. He threatened them, said this is absolutely fake. I will sue you, I
will ruin you, et cetera. They went forward with it anyway, and so he's already played that card with them. And then that's the other thing that's significant about this coming out in the Wall Street Journal after that initial scoop is it's sort of, you know, a message to him too of like, Okay, well we're gonna keep out like you're not slowing us down. Yeah, let's play, let's go.
I'm not afraid we're moving in this direction. And Murdoch, obviously, you know, has all media empire, including Fox News, including Wall Street Journal, including the New York Post, all of which are incredibly important and influential. And I think he also is someone who does not see Trump as being bigger than him.
Murdock always hated Trump or in a secret way like they despise him. It's it is an alliance of convenience at the very best. Trump both fears and respects of Rupert Murdoch and vice versa.
Right.
But the thing is people need to understand about Murdock is and I was reading from Dylan Byers. He works at POG He's one of the best, like true inside the room media journalists, and he pointed this out. If you look at the previous settlements ABC settles with Donald Trump, why they were gonna win. There's no question that they were going to win the George Stephanopolis case. Why do
they settle because ABC is owned by Disney. Bob Iger is like, look, sixteen million, and I get to keep my theme park permits which print hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Easy trade, right, even because they don't care about journalism. They care about business. CBS owned by Paramount, which needs to merge with Skydance, which needs the FTC and the FCC to approve their merger. Yeah, sixteen million is nothing for a multi billion dollar deal. Sherry Redstone
has been trying to offload this shit for years. She's like, I will pay anything to get rid of this. Oh and by the way, she's super pro Israel, so at the same time she's like, I don't care whatever, let's make a deal. Murdoch, people forget this. He sold the bulk of the Fox empire, the Fox Networks and all the other stuff years ago, and he sold it to Disney. He doesn't need the regulators nearly as much. He still owns Fox, still owns News Corp.
That's basically it. A lot of his personal empire has been offload.
He's sitting on a shitload of cash as well as as foreign media empire. He doesn't need the same regulatory approval. Now, Listen, the FCC can make life miserable for anybody. So I'm not saying it's theoretically possible. But also what Dylan said, if you note inside the lawsuit that Trump filed, it specifically doesn't go after Fox News, It actually doesn't touch Fox News very carefully. It was crafted to make sure it only goes after Murdoch, the two journalists, and others.
Another thing is is that Trump may actually have filed the lawsuit in such a way that it will require immediately dismissal. Because Florida law basically requires that you have to wait like five days or something after a story to be published to actually publish to file suit. They did it obviously before the five days was up. They may have actually crafted the lawsuit in a way where it will require dismissal and then both sides can claim victory. So it may be possible that they knew it was
a fake lawsuit from the very beginning. It was all posturing. And also what I mean, let's think about the implication here. Trump would literally have to sit as President of the United States for a deposition.
For hours about Jeffrey his relationship.
With deposition you really want to go through with that? And then Murdoch zero, it's not happening.
You're not happening.
Yeah, exactly. Like the risk for Trump is exponential, the risk for Murdoch is not that high. He's sitting on forty or fifty billion dollars and he's ninety four years old.
And by the way, he loves to fight.
As you can look at all of his past wreck I really recommend people go and look at some of the past legal broiling. This guy has gotten himself into here in the UK and in Australia. This is what animates them, you know. And so I put that all together. I'm not saying Murdoch may not settle. He may do it just to basically bribe Trump. Maybe Trump will say no more Trump administration officials on Fox News.
I don't think so.
They need each other. It's a symbiotic relationship. So anyway, I'm betting on Rupert.
On this one.
I really well, Like I said, I think the fact that they published this scoop so soon after the original one, it really does send a message of like, we don't care.
Go ahead, we don't buy.
That you and your fake threats that this is any sort of a real risk for us, and we're proceeding. There are a couple other details that are worth pulling out in this Wall Street Journal piece that were interesting as well. First of all, they had some details about Dan Bongino and Pam Bondi.
Fighting, so let me read this section.
They say that Bongino has told colleagues his association with the administration's decision to keep the files private has eroded his credibility among the basive support that fueled his rise as a successful podcaster and media personality on the right. So he's concerned that this is all damaging his brand as a podcaster, which is important thing for high level FBI official to be worried about. Bongino did not respond to request for comments. They also have these details of
this fight. So on July ninth, they say, after ABC News reach out to the White House about Bondi's briefing to the President, Bongino and Bondi clashed in a meeting in which Bondi alleged Bongino was secretly providing information to the media to damage her reputation. Bongino in term exploded about Bondi his face read and called her a liar.
A senior administration official said, they also have some details in here about FBI Director Cash Battel, who apparently is privately going around and spreading the information, gossiping about the fact that Trump's name is in the file. So this is becoming common knowledge, you know, in DC, and so no surprise that Elon.
You know, I think almost certainly the source of where Elon came from.
And it makes sense because FBI director was the one who gave the order to the agents to all Remember they said hundreds of agents and said, hey, guys, flag anything there that's in Donald Trump.
So yeah, I mean, look, I mean, nobody can deny this.
The actions of the administration are so unbelievably sketchy now at this point that you know, I don't even know how they dig themselves out of it again other than a full release.
But even at that.
Point, there's just going to be so much scrutiny, so much requirement for transparency to say, what the hell are you guys hiding? You have nobody to blame but yourselves. Let's go to the second part here, because this is equally important, kind of gets to the whole cover up situation.
Can't say you weren't warned here on this show. Let's put it up there on the screen.
The judge lo and Behold has denied Donald Trump's request to release the Epstein transcripts in Florida. This is the grand jury transcripts that are relating to the Epstein case.
You'll remember previously that they had said, quote that the court said its hands were tied because she could not release the files from the grand jury convene because transcripts are quote typically kept secret except in very narrow circumstances, and that the Department was not requesting the transcript for use in a judicial proceeding, which actually would have opened
the pathway to disclose the jury records. So, I mean, this is where a lot of the ways that these you know, a lot of the way in which they even like said that they were going to request the transcripts, it was obvious basically from the beginning that it was almost certainly likely to fail just moving through the court system. It just gets to this whole fakery about what the Epstein files are like. It's in the irs in the Treasury data and inside of the FBI, which you have
executive purview. You don't need no judge to release any of that. You can release all of it yourself. If you want to look at the MLK files, right, you can release all of this data three to two s etc.
For the public interest.
There's direct you know, executive uh, there's executive purview for all of this.
You have that ability today.
You don't be putting this on some judge, and especially here the grand jury documents. Part of the reason why I said even that would be dramatically insufficient is that those grand jury documents and transcripts are specifically about the narrowly tailored charges against Epstein, which only involve him and the sex traffic allegations against him. It doesn't get to
any of the broader implication. Senator Ron Wyden, who, by the way, you gotta give credit to the guy's been working on this story for multiple years now at this point, so you know, long before it was convenient. He literally said, I personally looked at Treasury documents which show one point five billion dollars suspicious activity reports that were filed after Epstein's death.
One point five.
Billion dollars in wire transfers from the richest and most powerful people in the world, also connected to sex trafficking rings all across the world, including Eastern Europe. That fits with the New York Financial Services document. The government has it in its ability to release that document, those documents today if they want to.
Where is it?
You know, this is what I'm getting at in terms of the they're trying to fool the public with stunts like this, and genuinely is very important for people who are interested in this to be able to parse and say and say like, oh, Trump tried, no he didn't. Okay, this was guaranteed to fail basically from day one. And you know, it's a stunt. There's no other way to put it. It's a stunt.
And you know what, if they had pulled this stunt first, yeah, then fine, then yeah, not fine.
But I think people would have bought it more.
I think you're right, would have been like, oh, we're.
Trying and the courts of standing in our way in these liberal Marxist judges blah blah blah.
And by the way, there's still a question of whether the Grandeuri transcripts from Manhattan will be released but that judges also already said basically like, my hands are tied unless they provide additional submissions and rationale for why we would do that. So listen, this is very very very unlikely to happen, and even if it did happen, what it would provide would not be the quote unquote Epstein files. But you know, the Ron Widen thing is actually really important.
And this is the thing that Julie K. Brown, who has been focused on this case down in Miami for years and years at this point, this is what she always says. I heard her interview with rosstauthat over at the New York Times. She said, I've always insisted that the government has tried too hard to rely on the victims to build the case instead of following the money.
She's like, if you really.
Want to know what was truly going on here, follow the money. And that's why the Ron Widen piece is so important.
I've said it here too, and that's why it's just it's so preposterous. The money. It is the center of the Epstein store because that's where the arms.
Trafficking stuff comes in, his connections with Maxwell, all of his fake wealth, the you know, the Leslie Westerner stuff.
And it's because of the money. It's because of what I believe.
What I believe is work with these intelligence assets is what leads to the sweetheart deal of the non prosecution. It's not that the government was running the quote blackmail ring or whatever. It's not the government was, you know, running his sex trafficking operation. It's that when he got in trouble for that, they're like, all right, guys, we're gonna help this go away. There are documented instances of
this going back, you know, for decades. Multiple times CIA officers and others have been let off for sex crimes because they don't want to release sources and methods. The actual financial documents and others I believe would show a vast array of sketchy financial transactions which have basically no other explanation other than intelligence.
Yeah where did where did all the money come from?
Well?
Yeah, exactly, And who did it go on to go to? And for what purposes? Why was it all offshore?
You know?
Why did all these banks just look the other way? This is this is the story.
And yeah, you're right, I'm glad that Julie K. Brown continue used to beat that drum as well, because that is the beating heart of why you're allowed to get away with everything. And also I think that's what would
implicate way more. And this is where look, I mean, no offense is Donald Trump, but he's not actually even all that wealthy compared to the people who were actually, wait now, I was gonna say it now, but at that time, that's when he's filing for bankruptcy and all of that dealing in the nineteen eighties with the Atlantic City and all that, he didn't actually have the chops to be dealing at the highest levels of global finance.
The people who did, they have a lot to lose if those files.
And I think it was Mark Epstein, Jeffrey's brother, who said that Trump always wanted to fly on Jeffrey's plane. They wanted to say again, yeah, So you know, I think probably the seven times on his plane is probably an understatement because remember they were basically neighbors in Palm Beach, lived like a mile away from Manchester, and then you know, obviously they were they were in Manhattan together as well,
So a lot to pull back there. Trump says, though soccer, this is all coin great for him, and his approval rating has never been higher, and take a listen to that.
We've achieved incredible things in a very short period of time. And then polling released just last week, it was announced that the approval for Congressional Democrats under Hakim Jefferies has reached the lowest ever recorded nineteen percent. And Republicans are doing well, and I have the best numbers I've ever had. You know, it's amazing. I watched people on television, well, what about Donald Trump's polling numbers? Hat that the best
numbers I've ever had. And with this made up hoax that they're talking about, my numbers have gone up four and five points. It's they want to do anything to get us off the subject of making America great again, and.
We're not going to put up with it.
And remember, don't let them forget it's so important. Obama cheated on the election. Look, the camera just went off, Obama, the red lighte just went off. Can you believe these people are bad?
They are so Obviously, approval rating is not going up, although it is important to have parts these things, because the polls that have come out so far do show that with his base, his numbers have stayed the same or gone up I mean all within the margin of error. But he certainly hasn't fallen off with like Trump supporting MAGA based self identifying Republican voters. His numbers haven't fallen off at all. If anything, they have actually gone up.
But Harry Enton broke down the numbers of how his approval rating is actually doing at this point overall.
Let's take a listit to that.
Look.
He started off back in January plus six points on the net approf rating, minus three in March, minus seven May, and now he's at a term too low at minus eleven points. His net approval rating has dropped nearly twenty points in the aggregate since the beginning of his presidency.
Is he's underwater on all the major issues of the day?
Trump's net approval rating on all the major issues minus five points. In immigration is best issue, he's underwater. How about the economy that was what he was elected for? Minus fourteen points, how about four and posse minus fourteen points, how about trade and those terrorforce minus fifteen points, and of course the Epstein case the lowest of the bunch
minus thirty seven points. I do have one piece of good news for Donald Trump, and that there is one other presidency that has a lower net approval rating at this point than this one. The bad news is that it was Donald Trump's other presidency. His first presidency net approval rating six months and the worst was in twenty seventeen donald Trump was sixteen points underwater. The second worst, however,
is this Donald Trump presidency eleven points underwater. The average president at this point since nineteen hundred and fifty three has a plus twenty seven net approval rating.
So there you go.
That's the reality of where he actually is. I mean, with regard to the base numbers. I was talking you a little bit about this before, but look, I'm sorry.
The liberals were right. It is a cult.
And I see this as sort of whether it's an intentional or unintentional, it's basically a test for his base, like will you stay with me even as these sort of like core central mythology of Maga and trump Ism, even as that is completely blown apart, and it does. It reminds me of the you know, grabber by the
P word moment. It reminds me of these like doomsday cults that you know, the day that the world is supposed to end comes and goes and you would think that faced with this evidence that like you've been lyed to and this is all ridiculous and low and behold, you're in a cult that people go with sort of snap out of it and go about their lives.
And some of them do.
But many of times what happens is they actually, because they've dedicated so much of their life and their being, their identity this, they.
Double down on it.
And there's some rationalization of, oh, well, actually, God has given us another chance to recruit more members to are call. There's some rationalization that's spun. Why didn't happen this time? But now you have to believe even harder, and when you look at the numbers just among his base, that process is unfolding right now as we speak.
I don't disagree. I mean, I just don't think it's all that unique, I guess. I mean, it's one of those where let's think about Russiagate, right, I mean, I mean, we're going to talk about Russigate later, put the actual thing and all that aside.
I mean, even at the after.
The release of the MULA report, the vast majority of the Democratic base still believe that Russia stole the election and directly influenced the vote count in twenty sixteen.
Bullshit, but they still believed it.
If you look at the cult around a lot of political figures, Obama is probably a good example.
I mean, you have somebody who literally ran on well.
I mean, I think his approval rating with the Democratic Party never suffered a significant blow up until the day that he left office, and in fact, his affinity at this point is still one of the highest within the party right. And so I mean that kind of is unfortunately a deep part of the American system. But this is why I do think that the base argument is an irrelevant one, because the base doesn't matter. Bases always stick together, they always are cultish in their support of
political parties. If Obama had the Democratic base in his pocket, or the Democrats had their base in their pocket, then they would have won the election. They did not win the election. Why because there are independents. There are other people who still vote, especially in these lower or in these higher turnout elections like presidential elections. And that ultimately is how Donald Trump came to the Oval office. I mean, the MAGA base is not going to win you the
state of Pennsylvania. The MAGA base is not going to win you Georgia. It's not gonna win you, Michigan, it's not gonna win you, Wisconsin. It's not gonna win you North Carolina, Nevada. I could go on Arizona. Right, it's the swing two to three percent. Go look at the margins in PA. It's not like it was a blowout. It was like one percent that he won the state.
Those are the people that matter. I think this is an important moment for them, and that's part of why I get frustrated with the conbo because, yeah, political bases are buying large cults. Now Trump, I'm not going to deny. Okay, the guy is unique for sure, Like within the context of all he has.
I think I think Obama is probably the closest analog. But I still think.
Trump is unique, and you're in my lifetime, He's the closest analog. I'm trying to think about it. Reagan actually came pretty close in terms of his cult.
With the because I was young when Reagan and you weren't even alive, So it's hard for me to like have a real sensitive Well, I've read her.
People should read the Nixon Land books that kind of go into the rhyme of Reagan. That's it's important. I mean, he was the most beloved figure in the Republican Party before Donald J.
Trump.
Yeah, And I mean I sort of feel like though his mythology was almost more after the fact, though.
In some part, I mean, he's still very popular and they left. I'm trying to actually, Okay, let's put it this way.
FDR.
FDR is probably the most analogous example. Or JFK is another one where you know, even after he died in the nineteen eighties, he'd walk into a Boston coffee shop or something, there'd be a picture of JFK up there with the Saint Metal or.
Something like that. That's that's a cult, Okay. I mean he was a market too, is fair? Yeah, JK amongst Catholic.
I'm just saying that type of stuff is I wouldn't say normal, but you know, it rhymes throughout American history. But that's not enough to win elections. To win elections, you still have to appeal to a broad enough, you know base. This is probably a good segue to our Nelk Boys segment, because that is a watershed cultural moment for the future of the country and for a lot of these people who did vote for Donald Trump, putting NELK the guys out of it.
I'm talking about young people.
Remember young men specifically broke hard for Trump in the twenty twenty four election.
Now will they come out to vote again?
Nobody knows, all right, I think so, especially people, especially age that gain some you know, grasp in society. They start to and I think this NLK boy's moment is a very important one for I think both in the Israel conversation, but really politically and media wise as well.
So it's been let's transition here. Now the NELK boys continue to talk both about the details of their interview with Bibing Yahoo, but more importantly the incredible amount of remorse that they show that they have never done before.
Remember, these guys have had on Trump. They had Trump on in twenty twenty.
I remember when their episode got taken down after he was talking about, you know, the stolen election or whatever they had on canvas. They've had, They've had on all the most controversial people. They've never apologized. And yet this time the level of freak out from their own audience and within their own cohort is such that they are doing public Maya culpas. Here we have Kyle from the Milk Boys basically not only expressing remorse, but saying he would have changed everything about the way.
That he did his interview with Beebie. Let's take a listen.
I wish we could go back in time and fucking grill him a thousand times harder. And we just went in there fucking unequipped to fucking interview him. We have a lot of Muslim friends. We fucking we've been to fucking Dagistan. We all know what's in our hearts. We don't hate anybody. We're not taking sides in this shit. We love everybody. I'm sleeping great because I know how I actually feel on the inside. So and I know a lot of you guys are fucking and this is not an apology.
This is just.
We fucking walked in.
There and we weren't fucking ready for it, man, and we were just we walked in there uneducated, and I can admit that.
But life goes on.
There's nothing you could do.
It's an apology.
He's sleeping great. You can tell barely even thinking about.
That, you're thinking, I mean, in some ways I'm saying, you know, I'm like, look, you got a bunch of prank frat d jen morons who were walking in there.
And they didn't know what they're doing, but they haven't enough.
Okay, these are thirty year old men.
Yeah, okay.
This is the other thing, is the like infantilizing even like that. No, maybe we're right, I know that's how that's their name or whatever, but like you're a grown ass man, yes, and people warned you. You knew going in that's fair, and you didn't do like a day of research, Like you didn't do five minutes of research into Oh here's what he's gonna say and here's actually what all the organizations say about whether or not they're
starving Palestinians. Oh look, here's a picture of a dead baby who's been starved today, and it's clearly amazing.
You couldn't be bothered to do that.
And the part where it's oh, i've been to dagistans like I mean, and then he's well, we don't take anybody's side still just in the you know.
We'll just let people speak their truth.
You just it's I think it's important because this is the logical conclusion of the idea that you just platform anyone. And this is not like against platforming people, but that you just have anyone on and just let them spin some bullshit and let them use your platform for their own ends. And the heartening part about it is that their audience was not having it like that is actually heartening, but it's still displays that this approach is completely morally bankrupt.
And I don't care that you're gonna have quote unquote the other side on. Like you had the biggest monster on the planet on your podcast and asked him about Burger King and McDonald.
No, that was the only time that they pushed back.
Crysal was on Burger King exactly. I mean, it's just like unbelievable.
And you know what, You're right at the end of the day, Kyle Signe. You guys are thirty years old, you have built businesses, you're multi millionaires.
You're right.
I shouldn't get I shouldn't excuse their idiot because they were also self aware enough where if you remember, because you watched the whole thing in the beginning, though.
We're so not glorified to do this, bro, you know, like we shouldn't even be doing this.
I can't believe it, right, and you're like, well, if you have the self awareness to be saying something like that, they're like, maybe you shouldn't be saying it. And in fact, the details are coming out of this make them look so bad. Here they are admitting that they got a script from the Israeli government when they walked into the room.
Let's take a listen.
So we walked in and there was just like twenty people in suits there. Yeah, the setup was already there, the like both flags. We couldn't touch anything or move anything, and.
They don't give you any restrictions like don't ask this. I'll be honest.
They gave us a paper with questions to ask, but they also said you like they kind of you know, they gave us a script to ask, but we didn't really follow it. We tried our very best to ask some questions, but I think I liked the questions.
Yeah, so we tried our pet but we had this script. Now, look, I will defend them in a certain respect. I have interviewed Trump on multiple occasions where the White House will hand me it's ridiculous, literally looks like it's from Microsoft paint, and it'll be like Trump accomplishments.
And it's like a single space document of all of this stuff. You're just like, oh, thank you.
And you just you know, put it off or whatever to the side. But you know, I was prepared. I had a list of questions that actually wanted to ask. And it's like, brother, I don't think.
You asked the questions that you wanted to ask.
And that's the problem.
It's not like it's not like he was like, yeah, they gave us a script in the trash.
We had no He's like, well, we we didn't like yeah.
And it also gets to the preconditions, right, so when you walk in there, so for example, they're like, oh, we weren't allowed to touch anything.
Everything was set up. There's twenty guys in the room.
It basically sounds like what happened is that the Israeli and White House set this The Israeli government and the White House set this interview up. Yeah, they were like, sure, no problem. They didn't give any conditions. They didn't ask for the ability to ask.
For whatever they want.
Apparently, you know, the whole set is there. By the way, why they're twenty people in the room. That's fucking crazy. I would never agree to an interview like that, it's insane to have all these people in there. They didn't exert any of like the interviewer's prerogative in my opinion. Yeah, and then you put all that together now with what we're about to show you, which is that they were basically used as useful idiots here by the White House.
This was revealed when Hassan started talking with the Nelk boys about the exact circumstances.
And here's what they had to say.
All right, so you guys interviewed the.
Incarnate Benjamin in Yahoo and now everybody's yelling at you guys.
Okay, So, first and foremost, who the fuck set that up?
Some communications team at the White House hit us up, connected us with communications team, and presented us the opportunity to do it, but with the full time podcast Hater to Love It right or wrong. If we ever get the opportunity to have a controversial guest on, we're never going to turn it down because, in my opinion, what we want to do with a full time podcast on is we're not afraid to have controversial people on. We're gonna ask some questions. Sure, we're probably not the best
at asking questions. We're not the best journalists never claimed to be, so we might not be the best at pressing them. But in my opinion, it's it's up to the viewer to form their own educated opinion. Just because we have someone on, we're sitting beside someone, people are gonna be like, oh my god, noaks with them, Like I love this person.
My question is do you feel like there is a culpability that you have because like, look, Donald Trump is a contentious figure, and obviously he's responsible for a metric ton of pain and violence as well, but so was every other American president.
That's one thing.
But Benjamin Nyaho is like unique in the sense that he's also a foreign leader because he's getting something out of this, right, he's getting something out of this where he gets to, I guess, like try and humanize himself.
That's the thing.
That's honest. We'll have anyone on, like next episode, we're going to have someone on with the complete opposite ideology. We're talking to a few different people and we want to choose the right person to kind of represent, you know, the opposite side.
Okay, but is it just like a podcast, you know what I mean?
Like he's literally the prime Minister that is a war criminal by the International Criminal Court.
He's like literally branded as a war criminal.
I think I think if you watch it though too, I think yes, I mean, I think being signing could have pressed them a little bit harder. But we did ask him, what is your response to when people say you're starving children in Gaza? Do you think October seventh could have been prevented? Are you trying to implement regime change in Iran? We definitely did ask him some questions that I think people wanted to go out.
Okay, what did he What did he say? I mean, of course he said.
He's for starving children in Gaza. He said that they bring the food in and Hamas steals it and then sells it.
That's a lie.
No human rights organization that works on the ground, from the UN to the World Food Program has ever agreed to the Israeli position that this is all Hamas stealing eight or whatever.
And that that really is what gets to it is like, you know, just tossing things out without being prepared on the facts of it is actually worse because it means that you just get their response and and you know he gets It's not I actually think put it quite well. Trump again, It's one thing, but baby, in the prosecution of a war, it really is another. When the stakes are so high for millions of people, and people are dying.
As a direct result.
Every single minute of every hour of every day that this continues, the death toll goes exponential.
That's another level, right, And I just come. I said this in our original thing.
I was like, look, he doesn't sit with his own goddamn journalists in his country for a reason, because they would ask him.
He only he only agrees to interview with the.
Fucking Milk boys and Brett bay Or who are all going to glaze him about Iran. They don't even ask him anything sump to But you know, to the Fox point sit down with Trey Yings, my brother, go go sit down with Trey in your own damn country and see how that goes for you. It's not gonna go well, like for anybody even who has a quote, you know, neutral stance or whatever, who's prepared with information.
And that's the part that just gets me so hard with this now thing.
They said something, they say something else interesting there, which I think is very illustrative of their mindset. They're like, we'll have on any controversial figure, like they see him as in the same lane as like candae O Weathers or like you know, Nick Fuentes or whatever, like they see him in that same bucket. And I was watching arm Brown, who has a YouTube channels comedian, his take on this, and he was like, in their brains there were two types of people, people who get clicks and
people who don't get clicks. And in their view was like, Oh, this is someone who it's like the ultimate example of content brain sure, and it's like, you know, I think I think either Adam Friedlin or Hassan Piker said this to them too. They're like, not everything is content, Like not everything is just about generating clicks and getting eyeballs and stoking some sort of controversy. So you're the center
of attention, like some things actually matter. This man is doing a genocide right now, in real time, with the support of our government, and you are not equipped at all. You acknowledge you are not equipped at all to actually know what's going on and be able to ask him intelligent questions or even more importantly, ask intelligent follow ups when he lies to your face, as he did multiple times.
And so I think That's what this comes down to, is like this incredibly a moral view of the world where it's just about like, who's going to get eyeballs to my channel. This will be hot, hot topic, this will get me attention, this will get eyeballs to my channel. Therefore I'm going to do it. I'll sit down with any controversial figure. That's what they say, as if this is just you know, some podcast or somebody like, you know, trying to sell some merch or sell a book or whatever.
And not to say those things aren't consequential as well, but this is so different. This is on such a different scale, and so I hope that it's a cautionary tale because this did not go well for them. I mean, their own audience, their subcount has gone down somewhat, their own audience completely revolted against them. I haven't seen anyone come out and say I haven't even seen the Israeli Like they're humiliating, like, oh.
This was great, and you guys they compared him to Adolf Hitler afterwards, in what world did that go well for you?
Great?
Like in their post in their post interview Spin, they're like, yeah, you're somebody wrote in and was like, yeah, you just interviewed modern day Adolf Hitler, and he's like, yeah, you kind of got a point there.
So it's just no one is defending this.
Let this be a cautionary tale of like, if you're going to play in these waters.
Number one, you could bring someone in you could have as a condition for the interview.
I need to have whoever it is that you trust that you think is insightful on this to ask them real questions. You know, I'm going to have this person in the room to I'll do it, but we're going to have this person.
In the room too, or just don't do it.
That would have been infinitely superior to this absolute mess for yourselves and for the world.
I think it was a good turning point, though in the culture of I think it could be too. Let's put this final one up here. This is from Mike Sternovich. I actually thought it was very insightful. And what he says is the NLK boys, who were widely popular with Zoomers, far more than any political or MAGA influencer, had on Netsagna, who in their audience is furious nets on Ya, who is deeply hated.
We are talking ninety ten hated more so than even I realized.
He actually followed it up with if you spend time on Twitter, you would think it's like sixty forty and he's like, no, guys, it's ninety ten. And in fact, if you look at the like dislike ratio on the video, I mean, look to be fair, East can be brigaded.
And all that, it's like somewhat you know, uh indicated.
I dug deefens that comment section. I did not see a single positive comment.
Here's not one thirty three thousand likes upvotes, one hundred and sixty eight thousand down. I mean that's insane, you know. Now again you can be brigaded from outside and all of that book.
That's it speaks.
It speaks to the point where there's not a single defense. In fact, every single person in their cohort either is ignoring it or condemning it, right, And that is really like, very very indicative to me. I also think it's a bat signal broadly to everybody on this issue, where like
you said, it's not just content. It's really not even I hesitate to say ditch neutrality, but it's about confrontation, and it's really about holding facts like like holding people accountable for facts and really, if you're going to agree to it, to actually get into the nitty gritty and not allow some alighting lies.
And that really was like the biggest problem with them.
Yeah, And this is what pisses me off to is because you and I have done many con confrontational interviews. Neither of us likes doing it. Doing it's not fun. You have to prepare a lot, it's uncomfortable. You know, there are some people out there who like enjoy the are the like debate broads, and they interest me.
I use peers and all these peo by hate.
Yeah, I mean I think.
Glenn loves to get it and make it like there are people who are wired that way. Most people are not wired that way. I'm not wired that way. But when you have someone who's sitting in front of you, who aspires to power, has some position of prominence, it isn't a responsibility that you have to be prepared and
to be uncomfortable if that's what the interview requires. And so this idea that it's somehow like noble and good to do none of that and just let people spout off whatever they want it actually pisses me off because it's a cowards and a lazy way out.
Yeah, it's not fun to have to do those things.
I get it, but that is actually if you want to play in these fonds, if you want to swim in these waters.
That is actually what is required. And you don't have to be an asshole about it.
It doesn't have to be personal, but you need to come equipped with facts and replies and think about, Okay, here's what they're going to say, and here's how I'm going to follow up. You have to game all of that out in advance and be willing to sit in that discomfort and just do it anyway.
So I agree, and that's why the Nelk guys would be better off not doing it, and they would have been off passing. And by the way, the fact that the Israelis would only agree to Nelk and not to anybody else.
I mean, he tells you something, right, Yeah, it really does.
Like, honestly, I'm being serious, this will sound crazy to say, even like a pro Zionist political person might have actually done a better job because they are going to be equipped with some or they're going to know what to tee him up on and they're going to actually get him on the record for various things instead of generic stuff like what's up with all these people starve it in Gaza or.
What did he say?
He's like, why does everybody hate you? That's a stupid fucking question.
He didn't even ask, like why are people starving? He said, yeah, why if people.
Say yeah, that's right, yeah, exactly.
And then Bibe could just go, oh, well, they're lying and we were love the Palestinians and we're trying to get them made and Hamas is stealing it. It's just like