1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on. Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,519 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:18,719 my daily show prep with all of the links, become 6 00:00:18,719 --> 00:00:22,359 a patron, go to thepeteclendershow dot com. Make sure you 7 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:24,960 hit the subscribe button. Get every episode for free, write 8 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,320 to your smartphone or tablet, and again, thank you so 9 00:00:27,399 --> 00:00:29,800 much for your support. I shall now discuss the thing 10 00:00:29,839 --> 00:00:35,520 that I've been told not to discuss, the Epstein Files. 11 00:00:39,439 --> 00:00:40,560 Don't meet. Don't do it. 12 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:41,799 Speaker 2: You're gonna get fired. 13 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:45,560 Speaker 1: They don't want you to say it. Now. Nobody is 14 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:50,880 telling me. I mentioned this yesterday. I have very little 15 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:54,159 patience and by little I mean zero for people that 16 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:58,000 throw false choices at me, saying you can't talk about 17 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,679 this unless you talk because you can't talk about this 18 00:01:00,719 --> 00:01:02,799 other thing. You know, It's like you either talk about 19 00:01:02,799 --> 00:01:05,079 this one topic or you talk about this other topic. No, 20 00:01:05,239 --> 00:01:08,640 I disagree. I will talk about all the topics that 21 00:01:08,719 --> 00:01:11,760 I want to talk about. And I've talked about the 22 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:14,959 Epstein Files. I've talked about it for years. Actually, so 23 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,359 there isn't anybody telling me don't talk about it? Just 24 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:21,359 because I choose on a particular day not to talk 25 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:24,400 about the Epstein files. Does it mean that somebody has 26 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:27,040 gotten to me they're telling you not to talk about 27 00:01:27,079 --> 00:01:31,879 the Epstein files. Multiple things can be true at the 28 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:36,959 same time, Right, Beware of anybody that tells you it's 29 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,000 either this or it's that, because that is like ninety 30 00:01:41,079 --> 00:01:44,799 nine percent of the time not the case. There's a 31 00:01:44,799 --> 00:01:46,359 little bit of truth in this, and a little bit 32 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:48,239 of truth over here, and a little bit over there 33 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:50,319 and all that. And then you also, I always tell 34 00:01:50,359 --> 00:01:59,079 people to assess incentives. What are people's incentives, Not necessarily 35 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:03,439 their move but they're incentives things that make it easier 36 00:02:03,439 --> 00:02:06,840 for them to do one thing over another. Where are 37 00:02:06,879 --> 00:02:11,680 there incentives aligning? And so there's a couple things against 38 00:02:11,719 --> 00:02:14,759 this backdrop you always need to keep in mind. Number One, 39 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,240 Democrats have not given a flying fig Newton about Jeffrey 40 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:21,800 Epstein and the files until like a minute ago. Okay, 41 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:25,120 they haven't cared, but they care now because they see 42 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:27,759 it as a way to hurt Trump and create another 43 00:02:27,879 --> 00:02:31,680 you know, Russia collusion hoax type of a smoke screen, Right, 44 00:02:31,759 --> 00:02:34,599 so they like that and even better if there's something 45 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:38,400 in there that incriminates Trump, even better, right, So that's 46 00:02:38,439 --> 00:02:39,439 why they care about this. 47 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 2: Now. 48 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 1: Number two, there is a wing of magaaland over on 49 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:49,120 the quote right or what has been referred to as 50 00:02:49,159 --> 00:02:56,520 the woke right, that is also interested in wrestling control 51 00:02:56,680 --> 00:03:02,560 of MAGA away from Donald Trump and anointing themselves as 52 00:03:02,599 --> 00:03:04,759 the leader of the Maga movement. Because one thing to 53 00:03:04,759 --> 00:03:09,479 always keep in mind that wherever power rests, then you 54 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:15,400 will have psychopaths try to take control of that power base. 55 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:18,919 They don't believe the things that you believe. As you 56 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,879 are part of a particular political movement or a philosophy 57 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:27,240 or whatever, any kind of institution of power, they see it. 58 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:31,639 They recognize the power there and they will adopt your language, 59 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:35,319 but they don't actually believe it. They don't care about 60 00:03:35,319 --> 00:03:39,400 the philosophy or the ideology. They care about the power. Okay, 61 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:43,879 So keep that in mind as well. And that faction 62 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:48,680 inside of this woke right faction driven by a lot 63 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:52,719 of these woke right influencers that are being propped up 64 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:59,919 by bot farms to increase their reach and to reinforce 65 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:06,960 this there, you know, anti Semitism, anti Israeli stuff, anti 66 00:04:07,039 --> 00:04:09,639 Jewish stuff. And that's also part of this Epstein stuff 67 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:12,599 as well, because there's all the rumors about the masade 68 00:04:12,639 --> 00:04:14,639 and Epstein is a Jew and all of this. So 69 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:18,720 they're like that that whole anti Semitic wing that gets 70 00:04:18,759 --> 00:04:23,319 boosted by these overseas bot farms, and that's been that's 71 00:04:23,319 --> 00:04:25,439 been documented, by the way, so I'm not just like 72 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:29,120 making this up. Okay, that's been documented that they they 73 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:33,560 boost the reach they interact. They're like, yes, that's right, 74 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:37,360 it's the Jews or whatever like they are. They're promoting 75 00:04:37,399 --> 00:04:42,160 these accounts, and they promote real people, real people's accounts. 76 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:44,480 You say something like, oh, I totally agree with Candice 77 00:04:44,519 --> 00:04:47,600 Owen's on this anti Semitic ranch. She went on Hitler 78 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:50,319 wasn't all bad. That's that kind of stuff. And then 79 00:04:50,399 --> 00:04:54,079 you see your tweet get boosted all of a sudden, 80 00:04:54,079 --> 00:04:56,519 you got like three thousand likes, and you're like, oh 81 00:04:56,519 --> 00:04:59,519 my gosh, this must be a popular opinion, when in 82 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:04,399 fact it's not. It's just being artificially boosted for some 83 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:09,600 other reason. Right, So you got to keep that in mind. 84 00:05:09,639 --> 00:05:13,360 You've got that wing inside. It's not even the right. 85 00:05:13,399 --> 00:05:15,319 This is like you get into the horseshoe theory of 86 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:17,839 politics where the you know, the woke right the woke left. 87 00:05:17,879 --> 00:05:20,000 It's like they're the same. They they believe in the 88 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:24,480 same tactics and such. They they all they're just seeking power. 89 00:05:24,519 --> 00:05:27,399 They know, they want to cancel people, you know, they 90 00:05:27,439 --> 00:05:30,720 want to tear down the institutions of the West and 91 00:05:30,759 --> 00:05:34,439 replace it with you know, some sort of uh, you know, 92 00:05:34,519 --> 00:05:39,040 religious national religious or Christian nationalist kind of a government. 93 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:43,480 And they say this, Okay, James Lindsay has done brilliant 94 00:05:43,519 --> 00:05:49,360 work exposing these people over there. Anyway, so you've got that. 95 00:05:49,519 --> 00:05:54,920 And the Democrats see this, they see this riff inside magaworld, 96 00:05:55,439 --> 00:05:59,199 and so they're trying to hammer the wedge down to 97 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:04,360 try to break up Trump's base of support. And so 98 00:06:04,399 --> 00:06:08,839 they're giddy at all of this stuff with the Epstein files. 99 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:13,279 That doesn't mean just because the Democrats want the files 100 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:19,360 released doesn't mean that we should reject the idea. Right, Oh, 101 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:22,040 if the Democrats are for it, I must be against it. Well, 102 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:25,639 not necessarily. Just because the Democrats have happened to stumble 103 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:29,959 into a correct position doesn't mean I have to abandon 104 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,759 that correct position. I'm not a Democrat. That's what they do. 105 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,360 I mean, really like, that's what they have done on 106 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:40,480 these issues where they feel like, oh, well Trump said it, 107 00:06:40,519 --> 00:06:42,439 so I have to be against it. It's like, yeah, 108 00:06:42,439 --> 00:06:45,240 but that was your policy up until like a year ago. 109 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:48,000 Now you're against it all of a sudden because Trump 110 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:54,959 is for it. So absurd. Think for yourself. Okay, I've 111 00:06:54,959 --> 00:06:58,240 said this before. Last week I think it was when 112 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:02,439 I did I did an hour maybe two on the 113 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:08,319 Epstein files, the update on Epstein. I don't know what 114 00:07:08,399 --> 00:07:10,240 to believe. And anybody who tells you that they know 115 00:07:10,319 --> 00:07:13,439 what Epstein was about, where he made his money, and 116 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:15,680 the nature of the operation that they were running. Anybody 117 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:19,279 who claims knowledge of this, unless you're like Gallaine Maxwell, 118 00:07:22,199 --> 00:07:25,959 you're lying. You can have theories. I've got some theories, 119 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:28,959 like right now, I think the most plausible theory is 120 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,759 the one I heard put forth by a guy named 121 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:36,279 Mike Bens And he's got a podcast he does called 122 00:07:36,319 --> 00:07:39,160 The Gray Zone. He's a former State Department guy, anti 123 00:07:39,199 --> 00:07:46,560 corruption guy, journalist now and his theory is that Epstein 124 00:07:46,639 --> 00:07:53,879 was a financier for off book operations that governments and 125 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,959 intel agencies did not want their fingerprints on. And so 126 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:03,680 you use these cutouts, You use these bagmen basically, and 127 00:08:03,759 --> 00:08:05,720 they can go around, they can collect a bunch of money, 128 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:09,839 and they can then funnel that money to the effort 129 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:13,600 you know, overthrowing a government, arming some rebels, whatever. You 130 00:08:13,639 --> 00:08:16,120 can move that money then and your government is not 131 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:19,839 involved in it. So this way, any ally that says, hey, 132 00:08:19,839 --> 00:08:21,439 why'd you do this? Like I didn't do it. I 133 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:24,000 don't know who this guy is, right. That's not to 134 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:28,560 say like he could have been an asset. I don't 135 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:30,759 know if that's true or not. He could have been 136 00:08:30,759 --> 00:08:34,080 an asset of an intelligence agency. I tend to think 137 00:08:34,159 --> 00:08:37,799 not at this point, but I'm able to be persuaded 138 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:41,360 you show me some evidence that he was. Sure. But 139 00:08:41,399 --> 00:08:44,440 if that's the case, right, if he is a financier 140 00:08:44,759 --> 00:08:48,080 at the very least, then it makes sense that these 141 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:51,159 governments that were willing to utilize this guy to get 142 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:55,559 money to various off book projects and operations, then it 143 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:59,679 makes sense why the government now and the government under Biden, 144 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:02,960 they don't want they don't want these files to be disclosed. 145 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:07,519 They don't want people to see the fingerprints. Right, So, 146 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:12,559 to some extent, that makes a bit of sense. That's 147 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:16,480 not an excuse for keeping them all hidden, though, and 148 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:20,840 there are records that are hidden like that. We do 149 00:09:20,919 --> 00:09:23,000 not have access to all of the files. And I'm 150 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,039 not talking like they should not be releasing files with 151 00:09:25,159 --> 00:09:29,080 victims' names or any of the child pornography or whatever 152 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:31,919 that exists on the videos. We don't need to see 153 00:09:31,919 --> 00:09:35,080 any of that, but we do need to see some 154 00:09:35,159 --> 00:09:38,799 of the people that were utilizing the various services he 155 00:09:38,919 --> 00:09:41,039 was offering. 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All right, So as I have in my 177 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:53,279 hands here, three yeah, three. I don't know updates if 178 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:58,639 you will on the Epstein's saga Number one A how 179 00:10:58,799 --> 00:11:04,120 subcommittee yesterday voted to subpoena the Department of Justice for 180 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:08,679 its files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. 181 00:11:09,399 --> 00:11:13,279 This is according to the Associated Press, which reports after 182 00:11:13,519 --> 00:11:19,440 Democrats successfully goaded GOP lawmakers to defy President Donald Trump 183 00:11:19,519 --> 00:11:26,000 and Republican leadership to support the action. Because it can't 184 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,480 be that the Republicans want the files too, No, that's 185 00:11:29,519 --> 00:11:33,639 not possible, ap right, Associated Press. They know the motivation 186 00:11:33,759 --> 00:11:36,519 of the Republicans, and it was that they got goaded 187 00:11:36,519 --> 00:11:40,480 into it by the Democrats. Score one for the Democrats 188 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:45,840 victory good for them, says the cheerleaders for the Democrats 189 00:11:45,919 --> 00:11:49,559 over at the ap piece by Stephen Groves and Matt Brown. 190 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,320 The House Committee on Oversight also issued a subpoena for 191 00:11:53,519 --> 00:11:56,639 Gillaane Maxwell, a convicted sex offender and girlfriend of the 192 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:01,600 late Epstein, to testify before committee officials in August. Related 193 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:05,440 there are reports that she believes if she cooperates in 194 00:12:05,519 --> 00:12:08,840 some manner, she may get herself a pardon. Good luck 195 00:12:08,879 --> 00:12:11,120 with that. I'm not sure that Trump is going to 196 00:12:11,159 --> 00:12:15,080 want to pardon a convicted sex offender part of the 197 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:20,759 human trafficking sex trafficking operation of Epstein, particularly when there's 198 00:12:20,799 --> 00:12:22,879 all this swirl about whether his name is in the 199 00:12:22,879 --> 00:12:26,600 files or not, which by the way, I expect that 200 00:12:26,759 --> 00:12:31,799 his name is somewhere in Epstein's address book, his contacts book. 201 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:34,679 I have no doubt about that, because we have long 202 00:12:34,799 --> 00:12:37,039 known that the two knew each other, moved in the 203 00:12:37,039 --> 00:12:40,679 same circles, attended same parties. Epstein went to mar A Lago, 204 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:43,919 they went at each other in an auction for some 205 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:46,399 property down in Florida, and that apparently led to the 206 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:50,320 falling out. Like we already know this, and yes, I 207 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:54,080 covered this last week when the Wall Street Journal published 208 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:58,360 its report about the birthday wishes that Donald Trump allegedly 209 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:02,759 wrote to Epstein. That was just newly discovered. All of 210 00:13:02,799 --> 00:13:09,639 this just newly discovered. So maybe Maxwell testifies, maybe she 211 00:13:09,919 --> 00:13:13,720 talks to the to the DOJ or something about whatever. 212 00:13:14,039 --> 00:13:16,600 Maybe she's trying to get a pardoned or commutation of 213 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:20,200 her sentence or something. I don't know. Maybe she will, 214 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:25,039 maybe she won't. Here's the thing. Criminals will lie just 215 00:13:25,039 --> 00:13:28,519 like Commi's okay, So you just got to be you 216 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:30,360 just got to keep that in mind. I'm not saying 217 00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:33,559 don't believe anything she says. I'm just saying, probably don't 218 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:36,200 believe everything she says just because she says it. You'd 219 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:40,279 have to confirm this stuff. Okay. So Democrats on this subcommittee, 220 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:44,720 which is part of the House Oversight Committee, made a 221 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:48,240 motion for the subpoena. Yesterday afternoon. Three Republicans on the 222 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:52,600 panel voted with the Democrats for the subpoena, sending it 223 00:13:52,639 --> 00:13:55,879 through on an eight to two vote. Democrats cheered the 224 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:59,080 action as proof that they're push for disclosures in the 225 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:03,399 Epstein investigation was growing stronger. The committee agreed to redact 226 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:08,600 information on victims as it should, Yet Democrats successfully blocked 227 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:12,399 a push by Republicans to only subpoena information that was 228 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:17,080 deemed to be credible. So Democrats don't care if it's credible. 229 00:14:17,799 --> 00:14:21,159 They want, they want all the speculation. Now, why is 230 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:27,480 this important, because there is a piece at Newsweek here 231 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:32,080 it is. On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that 232 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:36,080 Pambondi and another top DOJ official informed the president in 233 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:41,240 May that his name appeared in the Epstein files, along 234 00:14:41,279 --> 00:14:44,279 with the names of other high profile figures, as part 235 00:14:44,279 --> 00:14:50,200 of what the sources characterized as quote unverified hearsay. That's 236 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:55,120 what Democrats want. They want the unverified hearsay because they 237 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:57,799 don't care about the truth. They don't care about the 238 00:14:57,879 --> 00:15:02,159 Epstein files. They don't care who burns. If you like, 239 00:15:02,519 --> 00:15:05,720 some guy is in Epstein's rolodex because they did some 240 00:15:05,759 --> 00:15:07,759 sort of a deal somewhere along the line that was 241 00:15:07,759 --> 00:15:10,840 completely legitimate. The guy had you know, this business person 242 00:15:10,879 --> 00:15:13,279 had nothing to do with any of the trafficking, had 243 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,600 no idea. They just did some deal together. So his 244 00:15:16,679 --> 00:15:20,279 name is in a book someplace, and the Democrats don't 245 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:22,879 care if that guy burns, he will forever, Like if 246 00:15:22,919 --> 00:15:26,600 that guy has to be sacrificed for Democrat electoral purposes. 247 00:15:26,679 --> 00:15:29,399 They are totally fine with that. That's why they want 248 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:32,759 the end unverified hearsay out there. They don't care if 249 00:15:33,679 --> 00:15:38,480 the information that they subpoena is credible or not. If 250 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:40,759 it says Donald Trump on it or any other Republican, 251 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:46,799 that's good enough for them. This is again from the 252 00:15:47,159 --> 00:15:50,720 AP goes on to say, Democrats have delighted in pressing 253 00:15:50,799 --> 00:15:54,639 Republicans to support the release of the files. Yeah, because 254 00:15:54,639 --> 00:15:57,279 this is their only issue right now. 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Call or 278 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:14,440 text eight two eight, three six seven seventy sixty eight 279 00:17:14,799 --> 00:17:16,880 or check out all there is to offer at Cabins 280 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:20,440 offashville dot com and make memories that'll last a lifetime. 281 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:20,880 Speaker 2: Right. 282 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:24,039 Speaker 1: So, Democrat leaders are hoping to make the Epstein issue 283 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:27,640 more about just Epstein. 284 00:17:28,079 --> 00:17:28,279 Speaker 2: Right. 285 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:31,880 Speaker 1: They want to It's about more than that, Okay, right? 286 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:34,079 They they want to make this about Trump. They want 287 00:17:34,079 --> 00:17:36,799 to make it that he's involved in the sex trafficking, 288 00:17:37,279 --> 00:17:39,799 that he was, you know, friends with Epstein, he knew 289 00:17:39,839 --> 00:17:43,319 all about it. Now he's covering it all up and 290 00:17:43,319 --> 00:17:45,519 and you know, divide the MAGA movement. 291 00:17:45,599 --> 00:17:45,759 Speaker 2: Right. 292 00:17:45,799 --> 00:17:49,759 Speaker 1: So that's the ap story, and that's the the update 293 00:17:49,799 --> 00:17:54,920 from the subcommittee vote to subpoena DOJ files. Then there 294 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,519 is the follow up story that the Wall Street Journal did. 295 00:17:57,559 --> 00:18:00,240 I mentioned a bit of it a moment ago. The 296 00:18:00,279 --> 00:18:02,839 White House has responded to a new Wall Street Journal 297 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:06,079 report that Attorney General Pam Bondi told President Trump back 298 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:09,480 in May that his name was mentioned in documents related 299 00:18:09,559 --> 00:18:13,279 to the investigation into the disgraced financier and sex offender 300 00:18:13,359 --> 00:18:18,039 Jeffrey Epstein. The journal's report cited senior administration officials who 301 00:18:18,039 --> 00:18:23,279 said Trump's name appeared quote multiple times in the Epstein files. Right, 302 00:18:23,319 --> 00:18:28,279 but in what context? So, like, this is the problem 303 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:32,240 I have with these anonymously sourced stories. Fine, Okay, you 304 00:18:32,279 --> 00:18:34,200 got an anonymous source to say, you know, I can 305 00:18:34,279 --> 00:18:37,920 confirm we told him that his name's in the files. Okay, 306 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:41,079 but like in what context? Like for what I can't 307 00:18:41,079 --> 00:18:45,079 say anymore? Well, then I think you are simply planting 308 00:18:45,119 --> 00:18:48,759 this information to harm the president. Why else would you 309 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:51,359 just tell me that if you know his name is there, 310 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:55,160 you've seen the files, right, If otherwise, what are you 311 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:58,920 just saying that you know BONDI said this and that's it? Well, 312 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:02,599 then in what context was his name in the files? 313 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 2: Was it? Like? 314 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:06,559 Speaker 1: I hate Donald Trump because he outbid me on that 315 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:09,119 auction for the property that I wanted but he got. 316 00:19:11,079 --> 00:19:12,839 We know, and this is the thing too, We know 317 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:16,359 that these two guys knew each other. We knew this. 318 00:19:16,519 --> 00:19:19,240 We've known this since he came down the escalator. We've 319 00:19:19,319 --> 00:19:24,079 known it for thirty years, because we have video, we 320 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:26,559 have pictures, we have all this stuff, which, by the way, 321 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:31,720 in this Newsweek story they talk about how CNN reported 322 00:19:31,759 --> 00:19:36,599 on breaking news newly surfaced photos show Epstein attending Trump's 323 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:44,279 nineteen ninety three wedding to Marla Maples No, as well 324 00:19:44,279 --> 00:19:46,519 as images of the two men standing next to each 325 00:19:46,559 --> 00:19:51,160 other at the Harley Davidson Cafe opening that same year. Really, 326 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:54,079 the Harley Davidson Cafe had a grand opening and they 327 00:19:54,119 --> 00:20:03,000 invited local luminaries and business people and rich folks to hobnob. Well, 328 00:20:03,039 --> 00:20:07,000 that's a shock like this, they lived nearby. They lived 329 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:10,799 near each other. Donald Trump wrote a book about sleeping 330 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:14,400 with his friend's wives. Like this is not like the 331 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:17,440 guy was a serial philanderer. We knew this. It's already 332 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:20,079 baked into the cake. The fact that he and Epstein 333 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:23,720 would know each other, we've already known and it's not surprising. 334 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,799 The question is was he participating in the illegal activity? 335 00:20:28,279 --> 00:20:31,599 And until you can show me something that proves that, 336 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:35,200 then then I am suspicious of all of these leaked 337 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:41,160 reports that don't provide any information or any evidence of 338 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:47,400 his involvement in the illegal activities because Epstein was running 339 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:49,119 some sort of hedge fund. This is the other thing too. 340 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:52,279 There's another possibility here, which is that Epstein was just 341 00:20:52,319 --> 00:20:56,000 a con man. That's possible too. I mean, yes, he was, 342 00:20:56,319 --> 00:20:59,920 you know, sex trafficking and doing that stuff. But this, 343 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:04,319 this is not a new story in the rich elite world. 344 00:21:04,559 --> 00:21:08,440 This happens all the time where con men, Cohn women 345 00:21:08,519 --> 00:21:12,319 go in there and they take advantage of really rich 346 00:21:12,799 --> 00:21:15,799 but kind of stupid people, right, They do this all 347 00:21:15,839 --> 00:21:20,920 the time. They sell them on some story, some origin story, 348 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,200 I'm actually the Prince of Nepal or something like it. 349 00:21:24,279 --> 00:21:26,640 Wasn't there What was the big one Sydney the guy 350 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,480 who claimed he was Sidney Poitier's son? Did I say 351 00:21:29,519 --> 00:21:34,559 that name? Potier? And the guy was bilking millions of 352 00:21:34,599 --> 00:21:39,720 dollars from like these uber rich liberals I think in 353 00:21:39,759 --> 00:21:44,359 New York City or something. Then, of course CNN has 354 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:49,000 another video uncovered by CNN showing Trump and Epstein laughing 355 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:52,759 and chatting together at the nineteen ninety nine Victorious Secrets 356 00:21:52,839 --> 00:21:59,720 fashion show. Okay, like, do you have do you have 357 00:21:59,799 --> 00:22:04,720 this of Donald Trump paying Epstein for the sex at 358 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:10,839 the at the Island? No, do you have any communication? 359 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:12,079 Do you have any do you have any proof of 360 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:13,880 any of this stuff yet? Well, that's because it's all 361 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:17,519 being suppressed, Pete. We shall see, we shall see. And 362 00:22:17,559 --> 00:22:21,440 that's what Democrats keep sniffing around for. It's a there's 363 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,480 there's a double benefit here, is that number one, you 364 00:22:23,559 --> 00:22:25,480 hurt Trump at number two as you divide his base 365 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:29,000 because a chunk of the base has been demanding the 366 00:22:29,039 --> 00:22:32,599 Epstein files be released me included, by the way, Like 367 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:35,599 I'm saying they should have released and gone after and 368 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:40,720 charged the Johns like you, how do you imprison Gallaine 369 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:46,839 Maxwell on this you know, sex trafficking operation and there 370 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:50,400 be no clients. Do I think there's a client list. 371 00:22:51,079 --> 00:22:53,319 I don't know. It would not surprise me if there 372 00:22:53,559 --> 00:22:58,240 was not, it wouldn't. I think Jeffrey Epstein probably would 373 00:22:58,279 --> 00:23:00,519 not have kept a list where somebody would be able 374 00:23:00,519 --> 00:23:03,599 to get the list, you know, so that it's possible, 375 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,079 but they would know. He would have known who the 376 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:09,920 people were. Maybe he used that to blackmail them individually, 377 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:10,680 that's possible. 378 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:11,119 Speaker 2: I don't know. 379 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:14,559 Speaker 1: I want to know. I think we should know because 380 00:23:14,559 --> 00:23:16,839 I feel like the people who did participate in the 381 00:23:16,839 --> 00:23:20,279 illegal activity, the pedophile ring, they should be held accountable. 382 00:23:20,279 --> 00:23:21,880 And I don't care what political party they are, I 383 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:24,319 don't care who they are. They need to be brought 384 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:25,920 up on charges. But the way to do that is 385 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:31,359 to actually do an investigation. And then there is Then 386 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:35,480 there's the money, which to me has always been sort 387 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:38,559 of this blind spot for some reason, How did Epstein 388 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:42,880 get all of his money? Follow the money? But somehow 389 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:44,720 and other people aren't interested in following the money. But 390 00:23:44,759 --> 00:23:48,960 now we have somebody who is interested coincidentally timed just 391 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:50,880 for right now when Trump is in office, and it's 392 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:54,599 Senator Ron Wyden from Oregon Democrat did an interview with 393 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:57,720 The New York Times. He said that his investigators on 394 00:23:57,799 --> 00:24:01,200 his staff in the Senate had discovered that four big 395 00:24:01,279 --> 00:24:07,799 banks had flagged one point five billion dollars in potentially 396 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:14,119 suspicious money transfers involving Epstein. They flagged these transfers and 397 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:20,880 told the Treasury Department one point five billion dollars in 398 00:24:21,039 --> 00:24:26,200 wire transfers or money transfers, which kind of lends some 399 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:29,440 evidence to the idea that he was a financier of 400 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:36,160 these off book operations. The revelation, which emerged via Widen's 401 00:24:36,319 --> 00:24:40,200 work as ranking Democrat on the Finance Committee ratified. This 402 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:42,480 is according to The New Republic, which is a left 403 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,720 wing rag written by Greg Sargent, who was a leftist, 404 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:49,920 awful person. But this is the only place I found 405 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,039 the write up on it, because The New York Times 406 00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:56,319 is a paywall. But this is, you know, regarding widespread 407 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:58,559 suspicions that there is still much we don't know about 408 00:24:58,559 --> 00:25:01,079 Epstein's relations with some of the most powerful and wealthy 409 00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:04,079 elites in the world in the lead up to his 410 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:09,240 twenty nineteen arrest on sex trafficking charges. Now Widen is 411 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:12,799 ratcheting things up once again. Widen's office just sent a 412 00:25:12,839 --> 00:25:17,400 new letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi suggesting seven lines 413 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,960 of inquiry that the Justice Department could follow right now 414 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:24,440 to dig more deeply into his web of financial relations 415 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:29,480 with global elites. And this is where things might get 416 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:34,759 tricky if he was a financier of off book intelligence 417 00:25:34,759 --> 00:25:38,279 and government operations. Right you start pulling at these threads 418 00:25:39,519 --> 00:25:42,440 and you don't know where they may lead, and then 419 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:48,119 you end up with some international crisis because some ally 420 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:50,240 finds out that you were running some op that they 421 00:25:50,279 --> 00:25:53,359 told you not to run. 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Welcome to the Dan. 442 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,960 Speaker 2: How are you hi, Pete, Thanks for taking my call. Sure, 443 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,640 I'm curious if you think it's possible that Donald Trump 444 00:27:08,839 --> 00:27:13,240 knows exactly what's in the whole dossier, if you will, 445 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:19,200 about Epstein, and is simply allowing the Democrats to just 446 00:27:19,279 --> 00:27:21,960 keep demanding it, just keep demanding it. Finally it's okay, 447 00:27:22,039 --> 00:27:26,000 well we'll release it, and here comes an absolute explosion 448 00:27:26,039 --> 00:27:28,160 of Democrats up to their ears in it. 449 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:30,720 Speaker 1: That's possible, right, Like. 450 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,039 Speaker 2: I don't know if he's that savvy. I'd like to 451 00:27:33,079 --> 00:27:37,200 think he is, right, great play well. 452 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:39,319 Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's the thing about Trump is like, I 453 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:42,559 don't know, is he playing the you know, forty seven 454 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:46,200 dimensional chess going on right now? Or is this uh? 455 00:27:46,519 --> 00:27:50,279 Is this just him, you know, reacting viscerally and emotionally 456 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:52,440 like no, shut it down, there's not going to see 457 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:54,039 here whatever, and wants it all to go away for 458 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:56,519 the reasons that everybody you know tends to think, which 459 00:27:56,519 --> 00:27:58,079 is that his name is in the file and it's 460 00:27:58,079 --> 00:28:00,880 going to hurt him. But your theory could also be 461 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:04,119 true that he got a briefing, he knows what's in it, 462 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,559 and he's like, let them keep running with this, this story, 463 00:28:07,599 --> 00:28:10,400 and then they will eventually it'll come out and there 464 00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:12,720 will be a lot of Democrats that get burned when 465 00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:14,200 it does. That's possible too. 466 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:17,960 Speaker 2: It would be perfectly in his style to let them 467 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:19,599 hang themselves from their own fitards. 468 00:28:20,599 --> 00:28:23,559 Speaker 1: That's the second time this week that the word petard 469 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:27,200 has been used. Yes, so I think we're on course 470 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:29,480 for a record. Yeah, Dan, thanks for the call, man, 471 00:28:29,599 --> 00:28:30,240 I appreciate it. 472 00:28:30,319 --> 00:28:30,839 Speaker 2: Sure bye. 473 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:32,960 Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, it's a look. I got a text 474 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:36,839 on the WBT text line driven by Liberty Buick GMC. 475 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:39,960 What are the chances that the Epstein files are full 476 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,799 of Democrats and the DJ is waiting until the midterms 477 00:28:43,039 --> 00:28:49,519 to wipe out the field. Yeah, the chances are, I'd say, 478 00:28:49,599 --> 00:28:52,480 even see, that's the thing with this, with this kind 479 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:55,839 of stuff, like you don't know what's in there. These 480 00:28:55,839 --> 00:28:59,920 Democrats may not know what's in there, and you keep 481 00:29:00,359 --> 00:29:02,440 for this stuff, and it just stands to reason that 482 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:07,240 this is a bipartisan scandal. In fact, like you remember 483 00:29:07,279 --> 00:29:09,319 when we found out that there was all of this 484 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,839 money being paid out for all of like the sexual 485 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:17,079 harassment claims that were lodged against members of Congress, Those 486 00:29:17,119 --> 00:29:19,519 like tens of millions of dollars have been handed out 487 00:29:19,519 --> 00:29:24,000 through this fund or whatever taxpayer funds to settle these accusations, 488 00:29:24,079 --> 00:29:28,680 these claims and make the people go away. And what happened, right, 489 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:31,519 We were like, hey, well who were the claims made against? 490 00:29:32,359 --> 00:29:34,400 And all of a sudden you saw a bipartisan unity 491 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,359 and they were like, we're not releasing the names and stuff. 492 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:40,960 And to some extent, like I understand why. And Trump 493 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:43,359 has been a victim of this, and most famous people 494 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:48,200 and powerful people have been involved in these kinds of 495 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:51,200 things where it's just easier to just pay them to 496 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:57,200 go away. When you become really rich, people see the power, 497 00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,000 they see the wealth, and they're like, I'm going to 498 00:29:59,079 --> 00:30:02,000 make some accusations and I'm going to get paid. You know, 499 00:30:02,119 --> 00:30:06,440 professional athletes deal with this, actors deal with this, politicians too, right, 500 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:12,119 So it makes sense why people would just pay and 501 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:14,200 make somebody, you know, go away. I just want to 502 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,519 get rid of this problem. It's not true. What they're 503 00:30:16,559 --> 00:30:19,759 accusing me of is not true. But it's not worth 504 00:30:19,759 --> 00:30:23,559 it to get dragged into this fight where I'm going 505 00:30:23,599 --> 00:30:27,839 to suffer reputational damage even though it's not true. So 506 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,519 you know, I can understand that. And so here's the 507 00:30:31,519 --> 00:30:33,000 thing too, Like you're going to have people that are 508 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,119 in the files that have done nothing wrong and they're 509 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,920 going to get dragged into it, and they're going to 510 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,039 now carry this scarlet letter around with them that they 511 00:30:42,039 --> 00:30:44,519 were identified in the Epstein files even though they did 512 00:30:44,559 --> 00:30:46,880 nothing wrong. They were unaware of whatever it was that 513 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:49,240 he was doing. They had some dealing with him on 514 00:30:49,319 --> 00:30:54,799 something else unrelated. Right, the context matters, and far be 515 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,039 it for me to suggest that I don't trust the 516 00:30:57,119 --> 00:30:59,839 media to tell me the full context of the stories. 517 00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:02,240 But I don't trust them, Okay, I don't trust them, 518 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,839 So you know they're just gonna give me a list 519 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,319 of everybody that's in all of the files, and everybody's 520 00:31:07,319 --> 00:31:13,400 gonna go ooh, they're pedophiles, and they're not. And then 521 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:17,720 you're going to open yourself up to lawsuits for slander, 522 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:22,000 for libel, all of that. Back to this piece at 523 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:24,640 New Republic. Again, it's a lefty rag. So take this 524 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:26,240 from where it's coming from. But this is the place 525 00:31:26,279 --> 00:31:29,359 where I saw the information about Senator Ron Wyden's letter 526 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:34,880 to the DOJ, where he's outlining like, this is what 527 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:39,880 we have found with financial transactions. There were like almost 528 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:45,680 five thousand wire transfers involving Epstein's accounts, and they say 529 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:49,000 this merits further investigation. You got one and a half 530 00:31:49,039 --> 00:31:54,920 billion dollars moving through these accounts Treasury Department records that 531 00:31:55,000 --> 00:32:00,640 were looked at by Widends investigators. This was examined his 532 00:32:00,839 --> 00:32:05,759 financial transactions for several years. They looked at them. In 533 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:10,240 February of twenty twenty four, when Democrats controlled the Senate, 534 00:32:10,599 --> 00:32:15,279 his staff viewed in camera, which means privately thousands of 535 00:32:15,279 --> 00:32:19,880 pages of Treasury files documenting the transactions. That review brought 536 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,599 to Widen's attention the one point five billion dollars in 537 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:28,079 suspicious transactions flagged to Treasury by big banks, which they 538 00:32:28,119 --> 00:32:32,440 have to report, like these suspicious activity reports, the Star's reports, right, 539 00:32:32,559 --> 00:32:36,640 so they file these reports. Now Democrats do not care 540 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,839 if Hunter Biden is doing these shady transactions that get 541 00:32:39,839 --> 00:32:42,160 Stars flags on them. They don't care about those, But 542 00:32:42,319 --> 00:32:46,640 now they care follow the money. As is always the case, 543 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:50,920 It's unclear whether DOJ has or has not examined the 544 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,480 Treasury files. It's possible it's already done so, but Widen's 545 00:32:54,559 --> 00:32:58,599 office says, at a minimum, DOJ should say whether it 546 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:02,000 has done this and if it has, what did their 547 00:33:02,039 --> 00:33:06,720 review find. But the DOJ has not replied to his questions, 548 00:33:07,119 --> 00:33:10,480 he says. Wyden's letter to the DOJ also lays out 549 00:33:10,519 --> 00:33:14,200 other lines of inquiry that the DOJ could pursue, urging 550 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:18,119 examination of a number of specific payments made to Epstein 551 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:23,440 by several wealthy financiers that his investigators discovered. The letter 552 00:33:23,599 --> 00:33:29,319 also suggests subpoenaing banks that filed the SARS reports in 553 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:33,440 case they failed to report on Epstein related transactions that 554 00:33:33,799 --> 00:33:37,240 remain unknown. So, okay, you know you got a bank 555 00:33:37,279 --> 00:33:40,960 and it filed like say ten stars reports, Well maybe 556 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,960 they should have filed one hundred, but they only filed ten. 557 00:33:44,839 --> 00:33:49,480 Widen also says the DOJ needs to examine hundreds of 558 00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:53,839 millions of dollars in wire transfers discovered by his investigators 559 00:33:53,839 --> 00:33:57,960 that passed through several Russian banks that are now sanctioned. 560 00:33:58,519 --> 00:34:00,319 I don't know if they were sanctioned at the time 561 00:34:00,319 --> 00:34:07,079 of the transactions, but they're sanctioned now. So Russia, Russia, Russia, guys, 562 00:34:07,079 --> 00:34:10,159 we can get the band back together, okay. Widen's office 563 00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:14,800 also offers another revelation in the Times interview. A Treasury 564 00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:19,159 spokesperson dismissed Widen's demand for release of these documents, insisting 565 00:34:19,159 --> 00:34:21,960 that Joe Biden, when Joe Biden was president, Widen never 566 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:25,599 asked for the info, But Widens often said that office 567 00:34:25,599 --> 00:34:28,119 says that's not true. We reviewed him in February twenty 568 00:34:28,159 --> 00:34:31,519 twenty four, and when he asked for the info from 569 00:34:31,519 --> 00:34:36,559 the Biden Treasury department, he got access to it, and 570 00:34:36,639 --> 00:34:40,000 he says Widen staff viewed these Treasury documents in private. 571 00:34:40,039 --> 00:34:42,679 Widen actively then moved to get the Senate to subpoena 572 00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:47,639 their release, but because the Finance Committee rules required bipartisan support, 573 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,760 he was unable to get GOP senators on the committee 574 00:34:51,039 --> 00:34:55,119 to back him, and so he was unable to get 575 00:34:55,119 --> 00:34:59,440 them released. And again keep in mind they're hoping to 576 00:34:59,519 --> 00:35:03,480 drive a wedge in the magabase. All right, that'll do 577 00:35:03,519 --> 00:35:06,079 it for this episode. 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