Speaker 1: So all last week we spoke about the Epstein files,
we spoke about the new emails that were released, we
spoke about the vote that's supposed to take place just
this week. Common theme was that Trump was trying to
convince MAGA leaders to vote against the release. Well, in
an odd twist of faith, Trump yesterday changed his mind
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because this stupidity, it's got to stop now. Last night,
on his way back to the White House from yeh
another golf trip in Florida, Trump posted this on truth
Social Let me show you what it says in it.
It says, as I said on Friday night, aboard Air
Force one to the fake news media House, Republicans should
vote to release the Epstein files because we have nothing
to hide and it's time to move on from this
Democrat hoax perpetuated by radical left lunatics in order to
deflect from the great success of the Republican Party, including
our recent victory on the Democrats shutdown. The Department of
Justice has already turned over tens of thousands of pages
to the public on Epstein. Are looking at various Democrat
operatives Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, Larry Summers, etc. And their
relationship to Epstein and the House Oversight Committee can have
whatever they are legally entitled to. I don't care. All
I do care about is that the Republicans get back
on point, which is the economy affordability, where we are
winning big, our victory on reducing inflation from the highest
level in history to practically nothing, bringing down prices for
the American people, delivering historic tax cuts, gaining trillions of
dollars of investment into America, record the rebuilding of our military,
securing our border, deporting criminal illegal aliens, ending men in
women's sports, stopping transgender for everyone, and so much more.
Nobody cared about Jeffrey Epstein when he was alive, and
if the Democrats had anything, they would have released it
before our landslide election victory. Some members of the Republican
Party are being used, and we can't let that happen.
Let's start talking about the Republican Party's record setting achievements
and not fall into the Epstein trap, which is actually
a curse on the Democrats, not us make America great again. Look,
let me turn around and say this to you, if
you have a chance, read my sub stack of this
morning the vote Trump fears most. I turn around and
I say, I want to be brutally clear about something
that I'm absolutely sick and tired of hearing that there's
nothing we can do. Nothing we can do about a
runaway price, nothing we can do about an administration that
governs like the Constitution is a suggestion pamphlet, nothing we
can do while President Trump, yeah, you know, the same
guy that I watched fly off the handle over being
served in open can of diet coke while he treats
the country like a prop, a prop in the world's
most dangerous improv routine. It's defeatist, it's wrong, and frankly,
it's the kind of thing that I hear people say
when they haven't been paying attention. Because we did this.
We we marched, we yelled, we organized. We build platforms
and community and communities like right here on substack and
on other social media platforms in the streets, anywhere, anywhere
where the truth can gather momentum, even even when the
government tries to suffocate it. Remember that when you're sitting
there and you're listening, or you're reading one of Trump's
truth social posts. Meanwhile, while change his mind on the vote,
he still keeps claiming that this is a hoax. Let
me show you what he says in it. He writes,
it's a Democrat hoax for purposes of deflection, just like
the Russia Russia, Russia scam. They had the sleazy relationships
with Epstein and should be prosecuted. Well, let me be
crystal clear on something that is just not true. It
is not a hoax like the Russia Russia Russia hoax,
which you've heard me say many times, had let's just say,
no credibility at all. But last night on the tarmac,
he actually told reporters that he doesn't want to talk
about the Epstein files because it's fake news. Tell that.
Tell that to the thousand women, the thousand children that
were raped and slid and child sex trafficked. Play the clip.
Speaker 2: He said he concerned the pro you were calling for
to you a smoke screen to block the week of
Moor file is not the case.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't want to talk about it because fake
news like you, you're a terrible reporter, and fake news
like you, they just keep bringing that up to deflect
from the tremendous success of the Trump administration. So a
guy like Massy, his pull numbers, they're showing he's a
six percent approval rating right now, and we call him
Ran Paul Junior because he never votes for the Republican Party.
So they're using Jeffrey Epstein as a deflection from the
tremendous success that we're having as a party.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what this is really about is he knows that
tomorrow when the vote or sometime this week when that
discharge petition goes to the floor and everyone has to
turn around either a voting for a pedophile or you're not.
Trump doesn't like the concept of losing, and believe me
when I tell you it's the one thing that he
cannot cannot handle. I mean, other than of course, whole
milk after his fifties, because lactose intolerance may be the
only honest intolerance that he's ever admitted to. But losing.
Losing repels him, Losing crushes him, Losing is the one
experience that he cannot spin, he cannot bully, he cannot
distract his way out of Now let me say this
that the Epstein survivors, they they created a very powerful
PSA calling for the files to be released. Hopefully all
members of the House will see it. Play the clip.
Speaker 2: I suffered so much pain, so much pain, so much pain.
I suffered so much.
Speaker 4: I was fourteen years old.
Speaker 1: I was sixteen years old, was seventeen, fourteen years old.
This is me, this was me, This is me when
I met Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 3: This is me when I met Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 2: There are about a thousand of us.
Speaker 1: It's time to bring the secrets out of the shadows.
It's time to shine a light into the darkness. I mean,
talk about powerful.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, while they're doing things like this, Trump spent weeks
and weeks railing against this petition, calling it again a hoax,
lashing out claiming that it's a distraction, that the momentum,
the momentum thanks to things like this, it didn't slow,
not one bit. It grew. These survivors releasing a video
like that, with advocates, organized calling campaigns, and ordinary people
like you and me flooding congressional offices, demanding action. That pressure,
That pressure is what's forcing Mike Johnson, what's forcing this
administration's end. Not principle, not courage, just raw political math. Now,
over the weekend, Thomas Massey, he made an interesting point.
He said that the record of this Epstein file vote
will last a whole lot longer than Trump's presidency. So
don't vote to protect pedophiles with the hope that Trump
is going to protect you because he won't play the.
Speaker 5: Clip it happened. I would reminder my Republican colleagues who
are just how to vote. Donald Trump can protect you
in red districts right now by giving you an endorsement,
but in twenty thirty he's not going to be the
president and you will have voted to protect pedophiles. If
you don't vote to release these files and the president
can't protect you, then this, this vote, the record of
this vote will last longer than Donald Trump's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so what he's telling him, don't head your bets
on Trump right, protect yourself. And then again, suddenly, I
don't know, Republicans decide decide whether or not that they're
going to end up voting alongside Donald Trump, or they
won't and their names will go down in history because
Trump only says that meaning release the files when he
knows that transparency is coming with or without him. And again,
what is he trying to do position himself out of
the blast radius? Now, let me say this. That's send
it to Chris Combs. He went on MSNBC this morning,
just this morning with a pretty interesting theory of why
he believes Trump changed his mind and what Bondy might
need to do to save him. Play the clip.
Speaker 5: What's the plan in terms of getting the House passed
resolution in front of the Senate?
Speaker 4: How soon will that happen?
Speaker 5: How soon will these Republicans get a chance to reverse
their votes and try.
Speaker 4: To clean up their act? So this is going to
be an interesting week. My gut hunch is that Attorney
General Bondi, having just been ordered on social media by
the President to open an investigation into a series of
high profile Democrats, will promptly say, oh no, no, there's
an ongoing investigation. We can't disclose any of this, and
the President will back that up. But you are absolutely right.
We should be going to the floor every day and
doing unanimous consent requests that say we should see these files.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: We owe it to the victims, We owe it to transparency.
Trump ran on, I will release the Epstein files on
day one. Has done everything possible, including hauling Lauren Bobert
into the situation room for a closed door muscle session.
This is just a despicable act of betraying the victims
of Epstein. It's long pastime that we get transparency around
this for the American people.
Speaker 1: I said the same thing in my sub stack this
morning before he even went on the vote. Trump fears
most I turn and I say, it's a ready made
excuse to claim that documents can't be released due to
ongoing investigations. My friends, that's not transparency. That's obstruction with
a PR makeover. But let me be clear, none of
it not the pressure of the threats, the last minute flip,
the smokescreen investigations will stop what's happening this week with
the vote. And finally Todd Blanche, Oh yeah, dear Old
Todd told Fox News that he's going to find anyone
and everyone who hasn't been held accountable for their involvement
with with Jeffrey Epstein. Well, I don't know be careful
what you wish for, play the.
Speaker 2: Clip anyway, And so we're going to continue to find
out if there's anybody responsible, anybody that hasn't been held accountable,
and if they're out there, we'll find them. Yeah, I
think most Americans will say the fact it has been
going on for more in a decade and it seems
like nobody, nobody's left to prosecute or bring targes against it,
can't seem to find evidence. Is what's concerning the people.
And more transparency the better.
Speaker 1: So think yeah, only to you fool. Let me be
very clear, don't tell me that there's nothing that we
can't do. We have to keep doing what we're doing.
We're doing it now and tomorrow or this week the
country we're about to learn we're about to watch all
of this unfold in real time. Because be clear, when
Trump loses, even this one, even this one, democracy gains ground.
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