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pronunciation of all of the Iranian names. Again today, thank
you very much. I appreciate I you know, I do
it for you like I. It's like I blend. I
could probably blend in in the Iranian population with these pronunciations.
So much time I have spent working on the pronunciations. Okay,
we have a statement that was issued yesterday by the
First Lady Milania Trump, and I'm not sure, okay, is
this is this the distraction or because okay, you'll understand it, man,
if you haven't heard this. Milania Trump came out, she
gave like a five minute speech. She walked out and
didn't take any questions afterwards. She came out. She read
a statement. I'm going to give you some of the
highlights here, but she made her statement regarding Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 2: The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need
to end today. The individual's lying about me a devoid
of ethical standards, humility, and respect. I do not object
to dear ignorance, but rather iro jagged their means spirited
attempts to defame my reputation.
Speaker 1: All right. She then goes on to say that she
was never friends with Epstein. She said Donald Trump and
she and she were invited to the same parties as
Epstein from time to time, since they have overlapping social
circles in both New York City and Palm Beach. So
if they were ever at an event and he was there,
then obviously they would both be at this event because
they both got imitations and they both lived in both
of these cities.
Speaker 2: To be clear, I never had a relationship with Epstein
or his accomplice Maxwell. My email reply to Maxwell cannot
be categorist as anything more than casual correspondence. My polite
reply to her email as an amount to anything more
than a.
Speaker 1: Tribal note trivial notes.
Speaker 2: I am not Epstein's victim. Epstein did not introduce me
to Donald Trump. I met my husband by chance at
the New York City party in nineteen ninety eight. This
initial accounter with my husband is documented in a detail
in my book Millennia.
Speaker 1: All right, so what is this email she's talking about.
Among the documents released by the Justice Department was a
brief email from two thousand and two with the sender
and the recipient blacked out. The email begins dear G.
The letter G with an exclamation point, and then it
ends love, Millennia, and it complements the recipient on a
magazine article about Jaye. It says, I know you are
very busy flying all over the world. How is Palm Beach?
I cannot wait to go down. Give me a call
when you are back in New York. That email was
sent the same month that a New York magazine article
was published about Epstein in which Trump called him a
quote terrific guy. Among other documents released was an image
from Epstein's home showing a series of photographs that were
lined up in frames along a credenza and some in drawers.
In one image, inside a drawer. Among other photos was
a photograph of Trump alongside Epstein, Millenia and Gallaine Maxwell.
You've probably seen this photo. So this is what she
is responding responding to regarding the email which people have
been apparently trying to say proves that she was like
a victim of Epstein's or she was like part of
the operation or something, or in you know that she
was introduced to Trump by Jeffrey app She said the
first time she ever crossed paths with Epstein was in
the year two thousand, at an event that Donald Trump
and she attended together. She said, at that time, I
had never met Epstein and had no knowledge of his
criminal undertakings.
Speaker 2: Numerous fake images and statements about Epstein and me have
been calculating on social media for years now. Be cautious
about what you believe. These images and stories are completely false.
I'm not a witness or a name witness in connection
with any of Epstein's crimes. My name has never appeared
in core documents, the positions, victim statements, or FBI in
interviews surrounding the Epstein matter. I have never had any
knowledge of epstein abuse of his victims. I was never
involved in any capacity. I was not a participant, was
never on Epstein's plane, and never visited his private island.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I have been informed, that reliably informed that
the war in Iran it was meant to be a
distraction from the Epstein files. So is this a distraction
then from the Iran war? To distract us from the
Epstein files? Because this seems like it's going to draw
some more attention onto the Epstein files issue. No, guys,
I'm losing track of what the distraction is, you know,
and what they're trying to distract me from. She went
on to say, I have never been legally accused or
convicted of a crime in connection with Epstein's sex trafficking,
abuse of minors, and other repulsive behavior.
Speaker 2: The false smears about me from mean spirited and politically
motivated individuals and entities looking to cause damage to my
good name to gain financially and climb politically must stop.
My attorneys and I have fought these unfound and baseless
lies with success and will continue to maintain my sound
reputation without hesitation. To date, several individuals and companies have
been legally obligated to publicly apologize and retract their lies
about me, such as Daily Beast, James Carville and Harper
call Uk.
Speaker 1: All right, so from the story at the Associated Press,
it was not clear what prompted the First Lady to
revive the issue, She notes, either again just I'm distracted again.
She noted that several individuals and organizations have had to
apologize for their lies about her, and of the example
she cited, the most recent was in October. In that case,
book publisher HarperCollins UK apologized to the First Lady and
retracted passages from a book suggesting that Epstein played a
role in introducing her and Donald Trump when they actually
just met at a party in nineteen ninety eight in
New York City. She then went on to conclude that
now is the time for Congress to act. Epstein was
not alone. Several prominent male executives resigned from their powerful
positions after this matter became widely politicized. Of course, this
doesn't amount to guilt, but we still must work openly
and transparently to uncover the truth. I call on Congress
to provide the women who have been victimized by Epstein
with a public hearing specifically centered around the survivors. Give
these victims their opportunity to testify under oath in front
of Congress with the power of sworn testimony. Each and
every woman should have her day to tell her story
in public if she wishes, and then her testimony should
be permanently entered into the Congressional record. Then and only
then will we have the truth. Yes, let's get some
of these people under oath, because while there are a
lot of victims, there are also some people in the
mix that are taking advantage of the money that has
been opened up. So yes, let's get everybody under oath
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the Associated Press. After Milanie's speech, two of Epstein's accusers,
Maria and Annie Farmer, said in a statement quote what
we want is accountability, transparency, and justice. Former Congresswoman Marjorie
Taylor Green, one time fierce Trump's supporter who resigned from
Congress after a public falling out with the president, posted
on Twitter, I am grateful to the first Lady for
her brave statement today about Epstein and his victims. Democrats
meanwhile jumped on Mlanie. Wow, they jumped on her comments.
Democrats jumped. I mean they didn't pounce. Pouncing and seizing.
That's what Republicans do, right, That's how the media always
describes the reactions of Republicans. They're always pouncing or seizing,
sometimes both. But Democrats apparently have this ability to jump
on some comments too, So that's okay. So they were like, yes,
we agree. Congressional hearing Marjorie Taylor Green speaking of her
she was She was named in a truth social post
by Trump, along with the residents of podcast to Stand.
I'm gonna get to that in a minute. Let me
get to some text messages. Uh seven o four number,
says Pete. I've been saying this for years. Why should
it take congressional action? Any girl could talk to the
Feds and take the stand. We could really get this
moving if they wanted to. Why is it so complicated?
Look there, I have I've got questions. I've watched some
interviews with a guy named Michael Tracy. I don't know
how much, you know, I get. I get a certain
vibe off of this guy that makes me not really
want to believe all of the things that he's saying,
But he raises I think some valid questions about some,
not all, but some of the people that have come
forward as quote victims, some of whom in their depositions
and interviews that they gave years and years ago, like
they never claimed any kind of abuse. They claimed they
went there and did massages for Epstein, but there were
no other men that were ever named. Some went on
to recruit other girls from their school in order to
you know, make some money doing the massages and stuff.
So once the lawyers got involved and they started suing
and there was this big fund that was created millions
and millions of dollars from the Epstein estate, all of
a sudden you start getting a lot of people that
are coming out claiming that they were victims, and so
there is obviously an incentive here, right, And so yeah,
I mean I don't know, like where are the the
you know, people that are accusing men of being the offenders, Like,
where are those Where are those accusations. Let me see here,
I've got okay, good, I think I'm caught up there, Carvel, Carvill,
James Carvill, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Nick Fouentes, all examples
of why you should never wear a tinfoil hat that
is too tight. Good advice, John from Jersey, Some good advice,
all right. So Donald J. Trump truth socialed a scathing,
darn near essay on how terrible a bunch of people are,
and he right out of the gate, he says, I
know why. Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly, Candace Owens, and Ali
Jones have all been fighting me for years, especially by
the fact that they think it is wonderful for Iran,
the number one state sponsor of terror, to have a
nuclear weapon, because they have one thing in common low
IQ's they're stupid people. They know it, their families know it,
and everyone else knows it too. Look at their past,
look at their record. They don't have what it takes,
and they never did. They've all been thrown off television,
lost their shows, and aren't even invited on TV because
nobody cares about them. They're nut jobs, troublemakers and will
say anything necessary for some free and cheap publicity. Now
they think they get some clicks because they have third
rate podcasts, but nobody's talking about them, and their views
are the opposite of MAGA. Or I wouldn't have won
the presidential election in a landslide. Now I would point
out that he did win the election with the help
of these people who told their audiences that they supported
him campaign for him. In Megan Kelly's case, he says,
Maga agrees with me and just gave CNN a one
hundred percent approval rating of Trump, not hand flailing fools
like Tucker Carlson who couldn't even finish college. He was
a broken man when he got fired from Fox, and
he's never been the same. Perhaps he should see a
good psychiatrist. Or Megan Kelly who nastily asked me the
now famous only Rosie O'Donnell question. Or crazy Candace Owens,
who accuses the highly respected First Lady of France of
being a man when she is not and will hopefully
win lots of money in the ongoing lawsuit. Actually, to me,
the First Lady of France is a far more beautiful
woman than Candace. In fact, it's not even close or
bankrupt Alex Jones, who says some of the dumbest things
and lost his entire fortune as he should have for
his horrendous attack on the families of the Sandy Hook
shooting victims, ridiculously claiming it was all a hoax. These
so called pundits are losers and they always will be.
New CNN, the failing New York Times, and all of
the other radical left news organizations are hailing them and
giving them positive press for the first time in their lives.
They're not MAGA. They're losers just trying to latch onto MAGA.
As president, I could get them on my side anytime
I want to, But when they call, I don't return
their calls because I'm too busy on world and country affairs.
And after a few times they go nasty, just like
Marjorie Trader Brown. But I no longer care about that stuff.
I only care about doing right for our country. MAGA
is about winning and strength and not allowing Iran to
have nuclear weapons. MAGA is about making America great again,
and these people have no idea how to do that,
but I do. Because the United States is now the
hottest country anywhere in the world. Right, So yeah, some
people got nuked this week. It just wasn't the Iranians.
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from the president rattling off all of these names, Tucker Carlson,
Megan Kelly, Candice Owen's, Alex Jones, Marjorie Taylor Green, I
threw in CNN, the New York Times, They're all in there.
I'm sure there are a lot of people that are
mad that they did not get a mention in any
of this. But so is this the distraction from the
Melania Epstein distraction from the war, which was a distraction
from the Epstein files, which was a distraction from the economy, Right,
was that I think I have that right? Just so distracted? Yeah,
I did not. I did not expect Trump to to
go after all of these people. And by the way,
these hosts have been going after Donald Trump on Israel
and the Iran war. They've been beating that drum and
hammering Donald Trump, and Tucker Carlson called him evil and
all of this. It's you know, so like, yeah, if
you're going to dish it out, you're going to take it.
You knew what you were doing by poking the bear,
And like in Megan Kelly's case, he had previous experience
with his very thing. So yeah, I'm of the opinion,
you know, like the meme says, let them fight. Go
for it, guys, you' all have at it. In a
related story from Discover magazine, headline, a rare split of
the world's largest known chimpanzee group turned former allies into enemies.
A group of chimpanzees once groomed each other, traveled together
and shared the same territory. After splitting into two groups,
some are now hunting and killing their former allies. In
a study published in Science, researchers analyzing nearly thirty years
of observation of the Ingogo chimpanzees in the Kabale National
Park in Uganda, they document a permanent split in a
once unified group. By twenty eighteen, the community had been
divided or had divided into two separate groups, and the
two groups would no longer mix together, and that was
followed by years of coordinated lethal attacks, a pattern some
researchers say resembles a form of chimpanzee civil war. Did
you have that one on your Bengo card for twenty
twenty six No? I did not. For most of the study,
the Ingogo chimpanzees functioned as a single, cohesive community. Individuals
moved between flexible subgroups. They maintained social ties across the population,
a pattern typical for chimpanzees, but that began to change
around twenty fifteen with the housing market collapse I believe
prompted that No, I'm kidding it began to change around
twenty fifteen two clusters within the group, known as the
Western subgroup and the Central subgroup. I have no idea
how they came up with these subgroup names, but these
two different subgroups they started spending more time apart and
interacting less with each other. The shift followed a period
of instability, including changes in the male dominance, hierarchy, and
the deaths of several adult males that may have helped
hold the larger group together. So over time the separation deepened,
and by twenty eighteen, the split was complete. The chimps
no longer mixed, and then each group had its own territory.
And as the division solidified, aggression escalated, multiple attacks targeting
adult males as well as infants. What does this all mean?
Well break it down with Brett Winnable in a segment
we like to call pregaming with Brett Winterable up next.
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Pre Gaming with Brett winterbal Brett Winterable. Hello, sir, it
is so good to be with you. Brett can be
heard three to six right here on WBT weekdays. So
before you entered el studio, Yes, I was talking about
this study published in Science magazine. Have you heard about
the chimpanzee civil war? Okay?
Speaker 3: I love this because I'm a huge fan of monkeys
and things like.
Speaker 1: Well, this may make you said. These are the Google
chimpanzees in the Kabale National Park in Uganda. They've been
monitoring these chimps in this colony or whatever for years
and years and years, and around twenty fifteen, two clusters,
the central and the western clusters, start splitting apart. And
they think it was because some of the male dominant
leadership died off, and by twenty eighteen they were fully separated,
and then they started doing targeted attacks. They started killing
each other, going after adult males and male infants.
Speaker 3: So adult males and male infants, okay.
Speaker 1: So male apes or chimpanzees. Permanent splits like this rarely
happen in chimp communities. Evidence suggests they may occur only
once every five hundred years. WHOA. The findings point to
a key driver shifting social relationships because they stopped interacting
with each other. As alliances changed and key individuals disappeared,
bonds that once held the group together fell apart. Over time,
Familiar individuals became members of opposing groups. Once the split
took hold, cooperation gave way to coordinated aggression.
Speaker 3: That's fantastic, fantastic analysis.
Speaker 1: Is there an example here, Well, sure, there's a couple
of ideas that we can or a lesson. I should
say that we can that we can draw from this research.
Speaker 3: I mean, I've only got like, thinking about this, I've
only got two words.
Speaker 1: No kings. That's not the that's not it. That's the
answer to everything. No kings, no king. Well, you know what,
maybe they didn't have kings in this colony, and maybe
if they had a king, the king could have held
them all together. I always thought that you might be
one of those guys. The study challenges the idea that
human conflict is driven primarily by cultural differences like ethnicity
or belief systems. Instead, it points to changing relationships being
enough to divide groups and fuel violence because like these chimps,
they don't have a language, they don't have ethnicity and ideology,
none of that.
Speaker 3: Sure, but but you if you're doing that kind of thing,
it's this is raw power. You're just looking for raw power.
There's no reasoning with them or anything like that. So
you want to be you want to be the top
of the pile.
Speaker 1: And so if you separate out, yes, you segregate yourselves. Yes,
then you start looking at the other group as a threat,
as the other, as the other.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: If division can emerge from changing relationships, then efforts to
maintain connections may play a role in preventing it. Yeah,
which kind of makes sense. It does.
Speaker 3: We're all kind of connected through that kind of DNA
kind of stuff, you know, I.
Speaker 1: Mean all the different things. Wow, this is why sports
is so important, huge, and things like the artemists too. Yeah.
People who don't pay attention to, like anything current events.
Oh gosh, but they makes me sad. They're aware of
what's going on and they're excited about it, you know.
So it's like a unifying thing, and we need more
of those types of unifying things because it seems like
a lot of people keep trying to tear apart off
the country. So that's why I always try to say, like,
let's look at ourselves as Americans sure as the American community, right, yeah,
like people big on communities, community careful with these no kings.
You're just two no kings.
Speaker 3: You're just im away from that.
Speaker 1: The breaking news out of the UN You'll never guess
who has just been nominated to the United Nations Committee
for Program and Coordination, which they shape policy on women's rights,
human rights, disarmament, and terrorism prevention. You know who just
got nominated?
Speaker 3: Is it Khalil?
Speaker 1: Who's that? Is that a? Is that a comedian? They
got no.
Speaker 3: Khalil, the guy from Columbia University where there's.
Speaker 1: Oh Makamud Khalil. Yeah, no, they're getting ready to deport
him again. I just saw like the immigration board was like, yeah, no,
you're still getting deported. So there, everybody's very upsetting that
I don't know who this is the United Nations. I'm
looking for a country, John carrett O, a country that
would you would think would be a good appointment to
do women's rights, human rights, disarmament, and terrorism prevention. Uh, Greta,
it's a country Norway, Iran. That is impossible, It's true.
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