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Because the insanity, the luncy, the daily chaos, we need
to make it stop now. Yesterday the House Oversight Committee,
they released part of the Epstein file that they received
via subpoena from the Epstein Estate, not from the President
or the Attorney General. From the Epstein estate. The documents
released were from the infamous birthday book with notes from
friends and business associates. Now, I want to show you
the infamous letter with the drawing that seriously critically doesn't
look like a woman. It looks more like a girl.
Right now, I also want to show you the letter
from a gentleman, a mar Lago member named Joel pashcal
mentioning a fully depreciated woman. Let me show you what
it says in it. In fact, let's let's concentrate on
the check that seems to be the thing that everybody's
talking about. You got twenty two thousand, five hundred dollars. Now,
by the way, this has nothing to do with Trump.
This was a stupid stunt by this guy pashcal with
Jeffrey Epstein. It's to Jeffrey Epstein for twenty two thousand,
five hundred dollars. And what it says there in the
memo is the depreciation of a woman signed by DJ Trump. Now,
the notion is that Trump knew about it. He does
not know about it. He probably didn't know about it.
It was somebody else's the whole thing. But about the
depreciation of a woman, I want you to think about
how just disturbing that is that anybody would even think
that that's funny. Now, as we know, Trump sued the
Wall Street Journal for their initial reporting on this birthday letter.
This is what Caroline Leavitt had to say after it
was ultimately released. The latest piece published by the Wall
Street Journal proves this entire birthday card story is false.
As I've said all along, it is very clear President
Trump did not draw this picture and he did not
sign it. President Trump's legal team will continue to aggressively
pursue litigation. Furthermore, the reporter Joe Palizzolo who wrote this
hatchet job, reached out for comment at the exact same
minute he published his story, giving us no time to respond.
This is fake news to perpetuate the Democratic Epstein hoax. Now,
let me go on to turn around to say the following.
First and foremost, there is no lawsuit that's there. Moreover,
does Trump really want to be deposed on this? Is
it his signature? I don't know. Maybe the answer is yes.
Certainly it looks like it looks like the signature I've
seen Donald Wright when he doesn't write his full name,
but only his first name. More importantly, why does he
even care? I'm going to get into that in a
little bit presentative James Comer. He goes on air and
claims that the Democrats are cherry picking documents. Really in it.
He turns around and he writes, it's appalling. Democrats on
the Oversight Committee are cherry picking documents and politicizing information
received from the Epstein estate today. Overside Committee Republicans are
focused on running a thorough investigation to bring transparency and
accountability for survivors of Epstein's heinous crimes and the American people.
President Trump is not accused of any wrongdoing, and Democrats
are ignoring the new information the committee received today. The
Committee will pursue additional Epstein bank records based on the
new information we receive today, Democrats have to decide if
their priority is justice for the victims or politics. Now,
let me be very clear, there is so much wrong
that's in that I can't even get into it because
it is so stupid. It's beyond ridiculous. But you know
who countered that Representative Rocanna who explained that the lawyers
are still actually going through all of the files play
the clip.
Speaker 2: Well, candidly, the lawyers are still going through it, and
they first looked for the birthday book. Obviously they found
the letter that the Wall Street Journal reported on. I
think the vice president Vice President Vance should be asked
to retract what he said defaming the Wall Street Journal reporter.
He said it was fake. And now we have the letter.
And I also hope that the lawsuit will be with
draw on against that journalist ten billion dollar lawsuit now
that there is the letter.
Speaker 1: So yeah, look, let me be very clear, that letter
was found in a bound book that was in the
possession of the estate. The argument, what are they going
to make that it was slipped in, that it was somehow,
you know, put in post Trump's presidency. Again, it's such
a ridiculous argument on a document that doesn't even really say.
This whole book doesn't really say anything. It just shows
a It shows a proclivity by this group of elites,
but it doesn't actually as actually, I hate to say it,
as the previous member of Congress turned around and said,
there is no wrongdoing here by putting out a stupid
birthday letter. I mean, marga reps. They're out there trying
to spin that this isn't even Trump's signature and that
it's all forged. Now, look, I want to show you
what Representative Tim Burchett said, But first before I do that,
I want to show you a post explaining how crazy
this theory is. In it, it turns around and it says,
wait a minute. Burchett's argument is somebody used an auto
pen to set Trump up in two thousand and three
when he was still a i'm a crat, before he
ever considered running for president as a Republican. Just in case,
it's no wonder they call him the dumbest man in Congress.
It's true. It's the stupidest tart and the fact that
this guy is a member of Congress. Let me show
you what he said. Play the clip.
Speaker 3: I mean, anybody can do a signature that we've seen.
The auto pen has been used quite a bit with
the Biden administration. So I've never known Trump to be
much of a of an artist either, so I kind
of draw that into question. There's a history of him.
The thing is, it's it's been there for four years
and now it's just come out. I just don't do
you think really someone might have just forged this somehow
and somehow it's so easy to do. I just I
just don't buy any of it right now, because it's
we have an administrative prior administration that's had a history
of dishonesty, and they bring something like this out now
to why wouldn't they bring it out during the campaign.
Speaker 4: And of course these documents were from the Epstein State,
not from the Biden administration, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're from the Epstein estate. Honestly, if you're going
to try to put a spin on this, how about
just turn around and say it was a stupid card
that means absolutely nothing where is shown me where the
wrongdoing is in here with this card. In fact, there
is so much more disturbing stuff which I write about
in my sub stack today. There's so much more like
from this guy Johnny Boy KOFKA, where he talks about
how Jeffrey Epstein was brought into this world in the
most vile, heinous, and disgusting way. If this was a
Comedy Central roast, it would be the most vile Comedy
Central roast ever in history. Meanwhile, of course Eric Trump,
he had to weigh in on his father's cartoon play
that clip.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, you know it's something also beyond all this stuff.
The news story today is that the stupid drawing you
know that your dad allegedly gave to Epstein. And you
and I actually were sitting around joking about this a
while back when it first came out. We're like, this
is the most absurd stuff in the world. But Mike
Johnson is like walking back. He last week he said, oh,
you know, he was an FBI asset in the whole
prosecution this. Then he tried to walk it back. So
this is like the dumbest thing in the world.
Speaker 4: I can tell you my father does not sketch out
cartoon drawings. I mean, it's saying not to mention. Epstein's
lawyer said he asked specifically about Donald Trump, and Donald
Trump never once came up, and there was no correlation.
And as ironic, given that my father was the very
guy that threw him out of the club because he
thought he was a scumbag, my father's intuition was actually
incredibly right.
Speaker 1: But yeah, first of all, there's other reasons why he
got thrown under the club, and you know that too.
But as I write, and I really want to bring
up this point, if you're going to argue that it's
not real when it was in the book with everybody else's,
you're saying that the whole book is ay or is
it just Donald Trump's as I wrote into it, you know,
you got to put this into perspective of the book.
And one of the opening letters is from a guy
named Johnny Boykofka, one of Epstein's circle of grotesques, who
thought that it would be hilarious to start his letter
off by describing in truly pornographic detail the sex act
between Epstein's parents that created him. Not a metaphor not
vile wordplay, but an actual graphic accounting, as if writing
a blue movie script about conception was somehow birthday card material.
This isn't roasting, it's reveling in vulgarity, launching Epstein's depravity,
as if the abuse was I don't know, part of
the punchline. I mean, Kopka's bile sets the tone for
a scrap book that reads less like a celebration and
more like a confessional booth where predators winked at each
other in code. Now, if that's what the Democrats are
trying to put out there, fine, I get it. Yeah,
Others like Alan Dershowitz that turns out and puts stuff
in there. The only one that actually had the brains
within which just to write, Hey, happy birthday, right Bill Clinton?
Imagine that one? Now? Mind you? Representative Jasmine Crockett, she
went on CNN talking about how the White House denied
even the drawings existence. Play that clip.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's hundreds of names, as you know, on
the drawing itself. The White House has denied that the
drawing existed. They denied that it was Trump's signature. Tonight
they are denying it, saying that releasing it is proof
that it's not his signature. I mean, we showed obviously
examples that mirror it. What do you make of the
White House's defense here?
Speaker 7: The fact that the president is a liar, He's consistent.
I mean, that's all I really got for you.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, let me be clear about something. Here's
the problem, and again I know Trump better than all
these people combined. It actually looks like his signature. I've
seen it, especially as I said before, the ones when
he signs only his first name. The part that's puzzling
to me is why deny it at all? Given that, again,
his page in the book is tame. It's actually tame
compared to the vile and the graphic entries from others
like the one I just read to you from Kafka. Meanwhile, again,
while all this is going on, right, Crockett also goes
on and she reiterates the point that we've all been
saying that this letter does not directly implicate Trump, but
the continuing of the denial, denying its existence just makes
him look guilty. Play the clip.
Speaker 6: Do you agree that even if that is his signature,
having his signature on the letter doesn't constitute any wrongdoing
or a leaf.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 7: I think the biggest issue is the fact that he
cannot be honest about it right, Like the while I
because it doesn't implicate, right, but the fact that you're
lying makes it look like, what else are you lying about?
Those are the questions that we have if you'll lie
about your.
Speaker 1: Look, she's not wrong. I don't understand it myself. Now. Lastly,
I also want to end on a clip from Todd
Balanche's interview of Gallaine Maxwell, where she says that the
letter doesn't exist. Well, I wonder now if that constitutes perjury.
Play the clip.
Speaker 6: We talked to minutes ago about this birthday book that
they're impress about.
Speaker 1: I understand you don't remember.
Speaker 6: Anything with President Trump or a lot about the book anyway.
Do you remember asking President Trump to submit a letter
for that?
Speaker 1: I do not really really think about even the way
that they asked the question. Look, I want to finish
it by saying, as I finished to my substack this
birthday book. It's a grotesque artifact. It also proves what
we already knew. Epstein's crimes were not secrets. They were celebrated, mocked,
and shared in plain sight by men who thought themselves untouchable.
Now the roast is over, survivors deserve the reckoning, and
until Pambondi, based upon the Trump statements, unlocks her desk,
releases the entire unredacted file well, I just say that
we Americans, we just remain complicit in the punchline. It's
nothing funny here and as always, thanks for listening. Hey everyone,
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