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Speaker 1: with this huge news out of Florida. Yes, folks, I
Speaker 1: always like to say Florida is the epicenter of all
Speaker 1: things fucked up. I am not wrong. It is some
Speaker 1: outrageous allegations that have been raised against the Palm Beach
Speaker 1: County Clerk of the Courts. His name is Michael Allen Caruso.
Speaker 1: He has now been arrested today, August eighteenth, twenty twenty six,
Speaker 1: on multiple felony counts five to be specific, Sydney. Let's
Speaker 1: pull up his arrest warrant. Folks, you were looking at
Speaker 1: the warrant for the arrest of Michael Allen Caruso. Not
Speaker 1: a drag queen, not a Democrat. He is a diehard Republican.
Speaker 1: He has been arrested for five major felonies, Folks. You
Speaker 1: can see them listed one through five on that arrest warrant.
Speaker 1: Count one kidnapping that is a life felony in Florida.
Speaker 1: Count two d or lascivious molestation. This is all involving
Speaker 1: a child under the age of twelve people. That is
Speaker 1: also a life felony. Count three leude or lascivious exhibition.
Speaker 1: That's a secondary felony based upon the age of the victim.
Speaker 1: Count four luring or enticing a child also a felony
Speaker 1: third degree felony and the count five child abuse causing
Speaker 1: mental injury that is also a third degree felony. Now,
Speaker 1: this guy, Michael Alan Caruso, he is no stranger to
Speaker 1: politics in Florida. He previously served. He's sixty seven years old.
Speaker 1: By the way. He previously served as a state representative
Speaker 1: back in twenty eighteen and established and cemented a reputation
Speaker 1: as being one of Ron DeSantis' strongest allies while in
Speaker 1: the Florida State legislature as the Palm Beach County Clerk
Speaker 1: of the Circuit Court and comptroller. He's currently earning two
Speaker 1: hundred and twelve thousand, three hundred and eighty five dollars
Speaker 1: a year as the clerk. This was a reward given
Speaker 1: to him by Governor Ron DeSantis and Florida for rewarding
Speaker 1: him for his loyalty. Caruso was currently in the process
Speaker 1: of running for re election as an unopposed Republican. He
Speaker 1: was gonna be up against a Democrat named Yavette Drucker,
Speaker 1: former Boca Ratone deputy mayor in the upcoming general on
Speaker 1: November third, twenty twenty six. Timing is interesting, right because
Speaker 1: today is Florida primaries by the way today August eighteenth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, major races, including the gubernatorial race for
Speaker 1: my good friend David Jolly is vying to be the
Speaker 1: Democratic nominee. Michael Allen Caruso is the father of seven,
Speaker 1: currently married to a woman by the name of Tracy Caruso,
Speaker 1: the editor for conservative media outlet Florida Jolt Again. Not
Speaker 1: a Democrat, folks and not a drag queen. And Tracy
Speaker 1: Caruso president of Delray Beach Executive Suites, an office space
Speaker 1: company she co owns with Michael Caruso. Both Tracy Caruso
Speaker 1: and Michael Caruso have been repeat appointees by Ron DeSantis
Speaker 1: to different positions They have again served time and time
Speaker 1: again courtesy of Ron DeSantis when he was a representative.
Speaker 1: In April of twenty twenty five, Caruso voted for legislation
Speaker 1: to allow the death penalty in cases of human trafficking
Speaker 1: of children under twelve for sexual exploitation. Not that I
Speaker 1: have a problem with stiff punishment. Let me be clear
Speaker 1: here that measure became law last July, two years earlier.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty three, Caruso voted for a law authorizing
Speaker 1: the execution of child rapists if two thirds of a
Speaker 1: jury deem it to be appropriate. He served as the
Speaker 1: chair of the House Economic Infrastructure Committee and the vice
Speaker 1: chair of the Higher Education Budget Said Committee when he
Speaker 1: was serving in the Florida Legislature. Now the allegations against
Speaker 1: him are particularly disturbing. I'm going to warn everybody I
Speaker 1: am not I'm going to intentionally avoid at all possible
Speaker 1: ways any ways of identifying who the alleged victim is
Speaker 1: in this case. I will say though, that it has
Speaker 1: been reported widely that the victim in this case is
Speaker 1: his grandsn This man's grandson is who this is? Okay,
Speaker 1: but I am going to try to avoid as much
Speaker 1: as possible any more identifiers than I can. Victim less
Speaker 1: than twelve years of age is where we get the
Speaker 1: specific charges. As in the specific kinds of felonies, it
Speaker 1: is also charges it are based upon the condoct that
Speaker 1: was perpetrated by Michael Caruso against this young child. Against
Speaker 1: this child, it includes allegations of sexual abuse, lude and
Speaker 1: lastivious lascivious molestation of this child on a family cruise
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving Day twenty twenty four, occasions where the allegations
Speaker 1: are according to the arrest affidavit that has been released
Speaker 1: by Ron DeSantis's office when he issued an executive order
Speaker 1: today removing Caruso from his job as the Clerk of
Speaker 1: the Circuit Court and comptroller. Allegations include Caruso intentionally separating
Speaker 1: the child from the rest of the family in order
Speaker 1: to perpetrate and commit this abuse. Now, this is what
Speaker 1: I want to focus on. Caruso was confronted by a
Speaker 1: family member in December of twenty twenty five regarding the
Speaker 1: the disclosures that were made by the victim. The victim
Speaker 1: disclosed to family members what had happened to him. Caruso
Speaker 1: admitted that he showered with all of his own children,
Speaker 1: but denied showering with the victim. Caruso then said and
Speaker 1: acknowledged that his own daughter had previously accused him of
Speaker 1: sexually inappropriate behavior, including sexual battery. Now, Beverly Caruso, his
Speaker 1: ex wife, his first wife, and the mother of their
Speaker 1: seven children, had previously alleged that he had sexually assaulted
Speaker 1: a child, one of their children in their divorce case
Speaker 1: that was filed in Palmage County back in twenty twelve.
Speaker 1: Caruso had denied those allegations and nothing came of that. Apparently,
Speaker 1: the Delray Beach Police investigated allegations of physical abuse as well,
Speaker 1: and the police did nothing with those allegations in the end. Furthermore,
Speaker 1: in that divorce filed in twenty twelve, Caruso Beverly Crusoe
Speaker 1: alleged that Michael Caruso had severe emotional problems which consist
Speaker 1: of anger, rage, and a history of physical and emotional
Speaker 1: abuse of one or more of the children. I mean,
Speaker 1: rise Ron DeSantis appointing this guide to all of these
Speaker 1: great cushy jobs and all of these things, with all
Speaker 1: of these allegations about Caruso. Now here's where I call
Speaker 1: this consciousness of guilt. People listen to the following. While
Speaker 1: being confronted by a family member about these allegations, Caruso stated, quote,
Speaker 1: if you tell anyone, I will get arrested. I will
Speaker 1: just go away. You tell anyone, I'm going to jail.
Speaker 1: He offered to leave Orange County, Florida, and said that
Speaker 1: this person didn't have to tell anyone. Does that sound
Speaker 1: like the statements made by somebody who was innocent of
Speaker 1: the allegations and the charges here? He offered to leave
Speaker 1: Orange County to never come back if somebody promised not
Speaker 1: to actually disclose it to law enforcement and to authorities.
Speaker 1: Then the family members confronted his current wife, Tracy Caruso.
Speaker 1: She says her husband could be arrested and that the
Speaker 1: matter was, in her words, quote, a life in jail
Speaker 1: kind of thing end quote. I guess she was read
Speaker 1: up on the felony statutes in Florida. And then when
Speaker 1: he was again later confronted during a controlled call, meaning
Speaker 1: law enforcement was secretly recording the call with the family member,
Speaker 1: Caruso said these allegations were impossible because sexual deviation can
Speaker 1: only be directed towards one sex rather than two, and
Speaker 1: because he's attracted to women, there's no way that he
Speaker 1: could be a sexual offender. He then said, if you
Speaker 1: report this to the authorities, there won't be any of
Speaker 1: me left. I can tell you that. Again. Does that
Speaker 1: sound like somebody who is innocent of the charges? Now,
Speaker 1: of course, he has denied any of the charges that
Speaker 1: have been raised against him. But this is important, folks,
Speaker 1: for the following reason right one, The Republican Party needs
Speaker 1: to actually mind the shit that's happening in its own backyard. Okay,
Speaker 1: the Republican Party wants to weaponize, wants to accuse Democrats,
Speaker 1: wants to accuse others of being either too woke or
Speaker 1: having you know, some type of criminal. And listen, let
Speaker 1: me be very clear, okay and blunt. Do Democrats commit crimes?
Speaker 1: Of course? Have other Democrats been accused of stuff like this? Yes,
Speaker 1: But in my mind, if you are Ron DeSantis and
Speaker 1: these allegations go back as far as two thousand and
Speaker 1: one of physical abuse and other allegations involving children and
Speaker 1: involving this man, this guy has no business serving in
Speaker 1: the Florida legislature, let alone keep on being rewarded for
Speaker 1: his loyalty with these types of positions. And yet, lo
Speaker 1: and behold, here we go. This is where we find
Speaker 1: ourselves in Florida, courtesy of Republicans that are controlling the House,
Speaker 1: the Senate, and the gubernatorial mansion. Right, that's what happens
Speaker 1: when we go there, That's what we find out. There's
Speaker 1: been restraining orders filed. I mean, folks, it's definitely a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff here. Now, you want to know something
Speaker 1: kind of interesting too. Apparently Caruso was the lone Republican
Speaker 1: vote in support of an incredibly draconian immigration law that
Speaker 1: DeSantis wanted to pass in Florida, despite all the other
Speaker 1: Republicans in Florida being against it. This guy Caruso stood
Speaker 1: tall next to his ally and buddy, Ron DeSantis and
Speaker 1: ended up being the loan vote in support of Ron DeSantis.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's the whole you scratch my back, I
Speaker 1: scratch yours on steroids here. So he's now been arrested.
Speaker 1: And if you look at the second page of his
Speaker 1: arrest affidavit, Sidney, who can bring it up to see
Speaker 1: the charges at the top again one through five, and
Speaker 1: then at the bottom it says very clearly zero bail,
Speaker 1: no bond on all counts. That means that Caruso has
Speaker 1: no opportunity to post a bond to be able to
Speaker 1: get out of jail. And I fin agree somebody like
Speaker 1: that has no business being out of jail. But of course,
Speaker 1: while all of this is going on with a person
Speaker 1: who serves in a public official capacity in Palm Beach,
Speaker 1: what else is happening with Republicans in Florida? Check out
Speaker 1: this headline. International underwear model who stormed the Capitol is
Speaker 1: now running for Congress. Thank you to mother Jones a
Speaker 1: fantastic publication. Here a guy named John Strand. He was
Speaker 1: a January sixth insurrectionist who went to jury. Trow was
Speaker 1: found guilty by a jury of his peers and got
Speaker 1: sentenced to thirty two months in federal prins. Well guess what.
Speaker 1: He got pardoned in January of twenty twenty five, along
Speaker 1: with another fifteen hundred freaking people convicted of the January
Speaker 1: Sist insurrection. So now he is running. He's running for
Speaker 1: Congress in Florida. But let's talk about who else is
Speaker 1: running in this race. It's not just this January sixth
Speaker 1: insurrectionist guy who happens to be a former international underwear model.
Speaker 1: I really wouldn't want to see that. Ten candidates are
Speaker 1: running to fill Byron Donald's remember him, the congressman who's
Speaker 1: running to be the Republican nominee for governor in Florida. Well,
Speaker 1: ten people are running in primary in that seat. It's
Speaker 1: this John Strand guy. There's another guy named Chris Collins,
Speaker 1: You guys remember him. He was a congressman from the
Speaker 1: state of New York. Stay where you are. Don't come
Speaker 1: to Florida. People won't, I mean, unless you're good Chris
Speaker 1: Collins resigned from Congress in twenty nineteen, pleading guilty to
Speaker 1: insider trading and lying to the FBI. He was serving
Speaker 1: a twenty month prison sentence himself when Trump pardoned him
Speaker 1: at the end of Trump term one point zero. Sounds
Speaker 1: like they really back the Blue and they really are
Speaker 1: the Party of Law and order. Hunt Who else is
Speaker 1: running in this for this seat Byron Donalds's old seat?
Speaker 1: Do you guys remember a guy by the name of
Speaker 1: Madison Cawthorn, Congressman, Republican congressman from North Carolina who lost
Speaker 1: his twenty twenty two primary after all of these allegations
Speaker 1: of sexual harassment through Remember he was carrying a gun
Speaker 1: through Tsa twice and then he said that he saw
Speaker 1: his house Collies doing a key bump of coke right
Speaker 1: in front of him. That Madison Cawthorn in the wheelchair.
Speaker 1: That guy, he's also running for that seat. There's another
Speaker 1: woman who lost in Illinois, moved to Florida named Catalina Loff.
Speaker 1: She's now running in Florida's nineteenth. And then Jesus goes
Speaker 1: on and on. But people, I'm bringing this to you
Speaker 1: because I want you to know this is the quality
Speaker 1: of the Republicans that are in the state of Florida.
Speaker 1: And everybody always wants to count Florida out. Everybody wants
Speaker 1: to say Florida is too read. You can't do it.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, this is the quality of
Speaker 1: the people that are running in Florida. And what does
Speaker 1: the Trump DOJ do? Well? The Trump DOJ, then does
Speaker 1: this Department of Justice monitoring polls in Miami Dade County? Today?
Speaker 1: United States Department of Justice sent four Civil Rights Division
Speaker 1: attorneys to monitor polling sites in Miami Dade County as
Speaker 1: part of its efforts to ensure quote compliance with federal
Speaker 1: voting rights laws. How about you actually don't put people
Speaker 1: like alleged child rapists in positions like that. How about
Speaker 1: we don't do that. How about we don't let crazy
Speaker 1: town people here from Cawthorne to the Strand to this
Speaker 1: other guy. How about we not let them run for office.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, Republicans do what publicn't do. But I
Speaker 1: just think it's crazy that they want to sit there
Speaker 1: and they want to accuse Democrats of being like the bad, evil,
Speaker 1: criminal people when all of the shit is happening in
Speaker 1: these people's own backyard. They need to clean up their
Speaker 1: own mess before they think about trying to sit there
Speaker 1: and cast dispersions on other people. I mean, there are
Speaker 1: glass houses, are there not. So we have newly redrawn
Speaker 1: congressional maps in Florida that are a part of these
Speaker 1: primaries today, as is occurring in some other jurisdictions. And
Speaker 1: so that's part of the reason why the DOJ has
Speaker 1: said that they wanted to send lawyers down to Florida
Speaker 1: to monitor and make sure that nothing no hanky panky
Speaker 1: is going on there. They didn't specify which Miami Day
Speaker 1: polling locations the Civil Rights Division lawyers were going to
Speaker 1: go to, And so far the DOJ has claimed, because
Speaker 1: nobody ever knows if they're telling the truth anymore, that
Speaker 1: more than seventy five pole monitors have been sent to
Speaker 1: more than five states to more than two hunderd polling
Speaker 1: locations during this year's primary election season. Let me know,
Speaker 1: please in the comment section, have you seen any of
Speaker 1: these election monitors at your polling sites where you are?
Speaker 1: I would be curious to know, because I don't even
Speaker 1: know what they're doing there is kosher, let's be honest.
Speaker 1: So anyway, that's the latest out of Florida not good.
Speaker 1: And you know what, no jokes, I'm hoping. I'm hoping
Speaker 1: this child is okay because one of the counts here
Speaker 1: was mental injury caused to the child. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is some bad stuff. Okay, We're gonna quickly move on
Speaker 1: to our next coverage. ABC suing the FCC in a
Speaker 1: really aggressive lawsuit, folks. ABC has been is suing to
Speaker 1: block these threats, what they call existential threats to their
Speaker 1: TV licenses. Siddy, Let's pull up the first page of
Speaker 1: the lawsuit. People. This lawsuit was filed to day. It
Speaker 1: is a forty six page lawsuit brought in the federal
Speaker 1: district courts in the District of Columbia. And you know, Sidney,
Speaker 1: while I'm talking, maybe we can pull up the cover page,
Speaker 1: the very first page. Ah, look at that, folks. You
Speaker 1: haven't metter. But Sidney is the best of the very
Speaker 1: best here. She is incredible. So I want you guys
Speaker 1: to focus on what I'm about to explain to you
Speaker 1: right now. The plaintiffs here, you see them listed right,
Speaker 1: You see ABC. You see Walt Disney because Walt Disney,
Speaker 1: right is a part of and owns ABC. But then
Speaker 1: do you see all the ones that are below what
Speaker 1: you see there are eight stations. People there are from California, Texas,
Speaker 1: New York, Illinois, and Pennsylvania and North Carolina. Those are
Speaker 1: specific ABC stations located across the country. These eight local
Speaker 1: stations carry ABC's programming across the United States, and these
Speaker 1: are major markets for ABC. Now, the reason why they're
Speaker 1: suing is the FCC has demanded that there be early
Speaker 1: renewal of the licenses by those stations. They're not even due.
Speaker 1: These licenses are not due for renewal until twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1: But as kis, Sir Brendan Carr, the FCC chair, I
Speaker 1: call him the Trump lackey, right, he has been threatening
Speaker 1: ABC Disney to pull these licenses. And this goes all
Speaker 1: the way back to the Jimmy Kimmel drama that happened
Speaker 1: when Trump got his feelings hurt and all these other
Speaker 1: conservatives got their feelings hurt when Jimmy Kimmel expressed his opinion,
Speaker 1: his First Amendment protected free speech opinion about the death
Speaker 1: of Charlie Kirk. You remember, and what happens, Well, they
Speaker 1: fucked up. They pulled Jimmy Kimmel, right, remember ABC pulled
Speaker 1: Jimmy kiml and what happened we all were an uproar,
Speaker 1: and so they had to reverse their decision and they
Speaker 1: had to bring Jimmy Kimmel back. Now, page two, Sidney,
Speaker 1: do you think we can pull up page two of
Speaker 1: this lawsuit? Okay, well, maybe Paige the top part of
Speaker 1: that if we have it. If not, it's all good.
Speaker 1: I want to tell people here they are suing several defendants.
Speaker 1: The first one is the FCC, makes sense. The second
Speaker 1: one is Brendan Carr. And then here's what's interesting. They're
Speaker 1: suing the commissioners of the FCC. Makes sense, right, because
Speaker 1: the commissioners of the FCC are a part of the FCC.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you they all Republicans except for one.
Speaker 1: I want to say her name, people. I want you
Speaker 1: to remember her name because she's the only Democratic Democratic
Speaker 1: appointee on this commission and she is amazing. Her name
Speaker 1: is Anna Gomez. Sidney. Let's pull up her Twitter post
Speaker 1: and show it to our viewers right now. Anna Gomez,
Speaker 1: commissioner of the FCC posting this on Twitter today. Remember
Speaker 1: she's been sued, she's a defendant in this lawsuit. But
Speaker 1: look what she wrote. I am glad Disney has shown
Speaker 1: courage and stepped up. It is time this administration understands
Speaker 1: that the Constitution does not bend to political convenience, and
Speaker 1: that the First Amendment protects news and commentary even when
Speaker 1: those in power wish it didn't. This is how it works.
Speaker 1: She understands that she's being sued in her official capacity
Speaker 1: as a commissioner of the FCC, but she is rooting
Speaker 1: on this lawsuit because she knows that it stands for
Speaker 1: the protection of the First Amendment. And that is exactly
Speaker 1: what the one count that has been brought by ABC
Speaker 1: and Disney and these ABC stations says, one count for
Speaker 1: the violation of the First Amendment, for retaliation by the
Speaker 1: FCC and CAR and those commissioners for protected expression of speech.
Speaker 1: She's happy. Anagomas is happy. So people remember Anagoma's and
Speaker 1: say thank you. Thank you to Anagomas for always stepping
Speaker 1: up and speaking out against what happens. I want to
Speaker 1: just bring some attention to the language of the beginning
Speaker 1: of this lawsuit, because this is really key. It says
Speaker 1: government censorship is deeply an American, that fundamental principle predates
Speaker 1: the Republic with our founders recognizing that the freedom of
Speaker 1: the press is one of the greatest bulwarks of liberty,
Speaker 1: and it is no less true today. As the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court unanimously reaffirmed only two years ago, the government may
Speaker 1: not use the power of the state to punish or
Speaker 1: suppress disfavored expression. This case concerns the Administration's sustained effort
Speaker 1: to do just that. The administration has waged a retaliatory
Speaker 1: campaign against ABC for a single reason it disapproves of
Speaker 1: what ABC broadcasts. Now, look, guess what they put because
Speaker 1: everything that Convicted fellon Donald Trump does comes back to
Speaker 1: bite them in the ass. A truth Social post from
Speaker 1: December twenty fourth, twenty twenty five from Trump said that
Speaker 1: things like late night shows like Jimmy Kimmel, for example,
Speaker 1: in newscasts, if they're one hundred percent negative and their
Speaker 1: negative against MAGA and the Republican Party, shouldn't their very
Speaker 1: valuable broadcast lincesses be terminated? I say yes. So. Of course,
Speaker 1: when your dear cult leader, convicted Fella Trump makes that
Speaker 1: statement on truth Social, all the lackeys are hurrying and
Speaker 1: tripping over themselves and sharp elbowing each other to get
Speaker 1: the fuck out of the way so they could be
Speaker 1: the first one to kiss his ass, right, And so
Speaker 1: Brenda car says, sir, I am here, Sir, I am here,
Speaker 1: I'm here. And what did Brendan Carr say about what
Speaker 1: was being said about the whole Charlie Kirk thing by
Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel. Take a listen. This is going to refresh
Speaker 1: your recollection.
Speaker 2: And they have a license granted by us at the FCC,
Speaker 2: and that comes with it an obligation to operate in
Speaker 2: the public interest. And we can get into some ways
Speaker 2: that we've been trying to reinvigorate the public interest and
Speaker 2: some changes that we've seen. But Frankly, when you see
Speaker 2: stuff like this, I mean, look, we can do this
Speaker 2: the easy way or.
Speaker 3: The hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct,
Speaker 3: to take action Frankly on Kimmel or you know, there's
Speaker 3: gonna be additional work for the FCC ahead.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, how about the FCC actually do its job
Speaker 1: instead of threatening, Instead of threatening ABC Disney to pull
Speaker 1: these licenses. Why they say that there is quote diversity,
Speaker 1: equity and inclusion problems at Disney and that FCC has
Speaker 1: been running in long running investigation into these DEI practices
Speaker 1: and that that's the reason why they need to look
Speaker 1: at these licenses early. And the lawsuit is telling the court,
Speaker 1: I want you to do a speedy hearing and a
Speaker 1: temporary injunction to stop the FCC from threatening us and
Speaker 1: from demanding that we do our license renewals early and
Speaker 1: because look, when you do that, that could impact us
Speaker 1: from being able to broadcast. And that's why Disney calls
Speaker 1: this a quote existential threat to Disney and ABC. This
Speaker 1: is on the TV programming part that you guys get
Speaker 1: on the regular TV side, right, and it makes sense.
Speaker 1: You cannot you cannot threaten, you cannot retaliate because it
Speaker 1: violates the First Amendment. Just because you're a little bitch
Speaker 1: and you don't like what you hear, get some thicker
Speaker 1: skin assholes, because that's not who we are. We're going
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Speaker 1: Are we back? I think we're back. I was so
Speaker 1: busy reading all of your comments that I didn't even
Speaker 1: pay attention that we came back. I love the comments.
Speaker 1: This is why I do this. I love being live.
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Speaker 1: So I promise you some new news on the Epstein
Speaker 1: front and you I'm so glad you stayed with me
Speaker 1: because some of it is breaking. Okay, let's pull up
Speaker 1: this order Sydney. Okay, this is fresh out of the
Speaker 1: Southern District of Florida. People here some breaking news. Now,
Speaker 1: what you're looking at here is something called a report
Speaker 1: and recommendation from a magistiate judge. Now you've heard me
Speaker 1: explain it Katie Fang News. You've got federal courts that
Speaker 1: have the district court judges, and then you have these
Speaker 1: judges called magistrate judges who are assigned to those district
Speaker 1: court judges and these mag judges, as we call them
Speaker 1: in short hand, these mag judges take over some of
Speaker 1: the work that the federal judges would do or could do.
Speaker 1: But you know they're very busy handling stuff, right. And
Speaker 1: so this report and recommendation you're looking at here was
Speaker 1: just entered today in a federal court in Florida. And
Speaker 1: this lawsuit was brought by several Jane Does. They are
Speaker 1: victims of Epstein, Maxwell and others, and they sued the
Speaker 1: United States government because the FBI failed them. The allegations
Speaker 1: in this lawsuit is that the phone calls and the
Speaker 1: reports were made I'm talking decades ago people by somebody
Speaker 1: like Maria Farmer, one of the original reportees of this
Speaker 1: abuse and of the crimes. Maria talked to the FBI.
Speaker 1: The FBI told her we will look into this, and
Speaker 1: then they did nothing. And then there was a woman
Speaker 1: who is a playboy playmate and maybe you've seen these
Speaker 1: headlines and you didn't understand what was going on. Her
Speaker 1: name is Odra Christiansen. She alleges that she too was
Speaker 1: a victim of Jeffrey Epstein. She talked to a man
Speaker 1: named Hugh Hefner. Do you remember Hugh Hefner, the guy
Speaker 1: who was the Playboy magnet. I guess is what we
Speaker 1: could call. So apparently Playboy playmate Odra Christiansen was living
Speaker 1: in the Playboy mansion. She was sexually abused by Epstein
Speaker 1: and trafficked to other men by Epstein. She was so
Speaker 1: upset by what happened she told that to Hugh Hefner.
Speaker 1: Hefner said, Audra reported to the FBI. She said, please,
Speaker 1: Hugh Hefner, will you call the FBI in my behalf,
Speaker 1: because I think that you have connections and clout and
Speaker 1: that people would take it seriously if you were to
Speaker 1: do so. Here we go, folks, Hugh Haffner, and look,
Speaker 1: I see your comments. I'm not saying Hefner gets his
Speaker 1: angel's wings at all. Let me be clear, but I
Speaker 1: want you to listen to this carefully because this deals
Speaker 1: with the FBI. Ready, Hugh Hefner called the FBI multiple
Speaker 1: times to report Jeffrey Epstein to the FBI, and the
Speaker 1: FBI ignored it. Okay now, for more than fifteen years,
Speaker 1: according to this lawsuit, the FBI failed to investigate tips
Speaker 1: filed by Maria Farr Audra Christensen and others. Now, after
Speaker 1: Epstein dies mysteriously in twenty nineteen, as we know, Christiansen
Speaker 1: again reached out to the FBI to report that she
Speaker 1: had been raped by Epstein and by a Hong Kong
Speaker 1: billionaire by the name of Stanley Hoe. She also claimed
Speaker 1: to the FBI that she had been trafficked for ten years.
Speaker 1: Do you think the FBI did anything about it back
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty No. As we sit here today as well,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, do you think we think the FBI
Speaker 1: has done shit. Nope. Now you want to get a
Speaker 1: little bit angrier about them not doing anything. Listen to this.
Speaker 1: The FBI, in defending this lawsuit that has been brought
Speaker 1: by these victims of Jeffrey Epstein, Maxwell and others, says,
Speaker 1: too late, so sad, too bad. The FBI claims they're
Speaker 1: not lying because these women should have called again to
Speaker 1: the FBI. The FBI said, you know what, victims, you
Speaker 1: should have been on notice that if you didn't hear
Speaker 1: from us at the FBI, that you should have been
Speaker 1: letting us know again. And guess what, you dropped the
Speaker 1: timing ball. So your claims are now time barred from
Speaker 1: being able to move forward right now. Federal prosecutors defending
Speaker 1: this lawsuit, and by the way, kudos to Julie Brown,
Speaker 1: one of my personal heroes. But listen to this. Federal
Speaker 1: prosecutors defending this lawsuit said that the victims must have
Speaker 1: known about the Epstein crimes for years, given the extensive
Speaker 1: media coverage, but because they failed to file their claim
Speaker 1: against the FBI within a reasonable time span, their lawsuit
Speaker 1: should be dismissed. Close your ears. Those that are easily offended,
Speaker 1: are you fucking kidding me? Timely complaints are filed with
Speaker 1: the FBI. We've seen some of those three O two's,
Speaker 1: haven't we in the Epstein files that have been publicly
Speaker 1: disclosed footnote not all of the handwritten FBI interview notes
Speaker 1: that are a part of my lawsuit right now, right
Speaker 1: in the pulluminary injunction. But the FBI, I'm not surprised,
Speaker 1: right if you guys think about it, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: kind of on brand for the Trump DOJ to take
Speaker 1: the position that the victims should be doing more, that
Speaker 1: the victims should be doing more. It's kind of similar
Speaker 1: to this idea, like you know when they're like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, these quote illegal aliens. Well, they should have
Speaker 1: come here legally. What about all the people that are
Speaker 1: here that do the legal process and then they get
Speaker 1: their asylum or their temporary protective status or they don't
Speaker 1: even you know, get to participate in the end the process,
Speaker 1: and then they're deemed to be illegal and then they
Speaker 1: get their asses right rounded up, deported, and maybe they
Speaker 1: even die. I mean, it's the same idea, right, It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: the victims, you should be doing more because we're not
Speaker 1: going to do our own damn job, and or we're
Speaker 1: just gonna sit there and make it more difficult for
Speaker 1: you to be able to do stuff. It's outrageous, people,
Speaker 1: It truly is so thou now that you have the background,
Speaker 1: are you ready that order that I showing you. What's
Speaker 1: so great about this order is it is denied the
Speaker 1: FBI's motion to dismiss. The FBI found a motion to
Speaker 1: dismiss this lawsuit brought by these Epstein survivors. These victims,
Speaker 1: now listen. It's a reported recommendation, which means that the
Speaker 1: FBI can quote like do like a mini appeal to
Speaker 1: the presiding district court judge. But this is a well
Speaker 1: reasoned opinion that it's been done by the magistrate judge.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you something. This this is important
Speaker 1: because if there's accountability to be had, we have to
Speaker 1: find it every which way we can, and we have
Speaker 1: to pry that accountability out of the cold dead hands
Speaker 1: of this Trump dj and this Trump administration. And this
Speaker 1: is yet another way of doing it. Now, some more
Speaker 1: good news on the Epstein files transparency front. Check this out.
Speaker 1: Just last week, a federal judge in New York, her
Speaker 1: name is Loretta. What's her last name, dun dun dum.
Speaker 1: I just had it right here, Loretta Presca, US District
Speaker 1: Court judge Loretta Presca ruled that the late Virginia Giuffrey's
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen civil lawsuit against Glenn Maxwell can be unsealed.
Speaker 1: She this federal judge has ordered the public release of
Speaker 1: the files from Virginia's defamation lawsuit against Glenn Maxwell. Now,
Speaker 1: remember I mentioned Julie Brown a couple of minutes ago. Well,
Speaker 1: let's mention her again, and let's give her a amazing
Speaker 1: round of applause for her tenacious reporting and for her
Speaker 1: and the Miami Herald local journalism doing good fighting for
Speaker 1: the unsealing of this civil lawsuit to refresh your recollection
Speaker 1: or perhaps to let you know what happened. Glenn Maxwell
Speaker 1: defamed Virginia Douffrey when Glenn Maxwell publicly stated that Virginia
Speaker 1: Duffrey was a liar when she said that she had
Speaker 1: been sexually abused and trafficked by Epstein and others. And
Speaker 1: let me be clear, Virginia brought this defamation lawsuit all
Speaker 1: the way back in twenty fifteen people, that's eleven years
Speaker 1: ago because Galeainne Maxwell publicly said Virginia is a liar
Speaker 1: who had made up allegations of being sexually abused by Epstein,
Speaker 1: Maxwell and other powerful men like Alan Dershowitz and the
Speaker 1: former Prince Andrew. So, Virginia sued Glenn Maxwell for defamation
Speaker 1: and as a part of that lawsuit, can you imagine
Speaker 1: how specific and detailed the discovery was that went back
Speaker 1: and forth from side to side. That lawsuit settled in
Speaker 1: early of twenty seventeen. The former presiding judge on that
Speaker 1: civil defamation lawsuit, who this guy's now dead, His name
Speaker 1: is Robert Sweet. He issued a blanket order that sealed
Speaker 1: the entire documents because he said they were too sensitive
Speaker 1: and private. He says, there's a protective order. We're not
Speaker 1: going to let things like hearings, judicial decisions, depositions, and
Speaker 1: other evidence be released. But now, But now, this other judge,
Speaker 1: Loretta Presca, says because of the Epstein Files Transparency Act
Speaker 1: having been passed into law in November of twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: this judge says that Epstein Files Transparency Act trumps and
Speaker 1: I will use that pun all the way to the
Speaker 1: successful end of my own lawsuit. The Epstein Files Transparency
Speaker 1: Act trumps any of these prior protective orders or any
Speaker 1: of these blanket sealing orders that came from this other
Speaker 1: judge who's now dead over this defamation lawsuit. So all
Speaker 1: of this information can be released to the public. But wait,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the details. What I always say here
Speaker 1: at Katie Fang News, the devil is always in those details.
Speaker 1: Check this out now, Judge Presca up until now has
Speaker 1: been doing a victim by victim evaluation of what should
Speaker 1: be released and what should not be reased, like whose
Speaker 1: name stays redacted? Whose name doesn't stay redacted? So that
Speaker 1: kind of sound familiar to you, You know what I
Speaker 1: am struggling with in my own case that now Blanche
Speaker 1: has allowed people and my lawsuit to self identify as
Speaker 1: victims or to allow them to use lawyers to it
Speaker 1: to identify themselves as victims. And that is why Blanche
Speaker 1: is redacting everybody's names from being able to be revealed.
Speaker 1: Now here's the thing. We're not talking about thousands of
Speaker 1: documents that are currently held in some random location in
Speaker 1: this lawsuit that was brought, this defamation lawsuit. We are
Speaker 1: talking documents that are a part of the Epstein files
Speaker 1: as defined by the ones that are held by the DOJ.
Speaker 1: So guess what's gonna happen. Now we now get this
Speaker 1: order from Judge Presca saying unseal and release, and that
Speaker 1: is going to collide with who Todd Blanche at the DOJ. So,
Speaker 1: according to Julie Brown, the documents are in the possession
Speaker 1: of the DOJ, the DOJ will have to redact and
Speaker 1: then release. But we're talking almost a ninety one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand pages of documents. We're talking a lot of documents
Speaker 1: here and they speak directly to the allegations. And remember
Speaker 1: we talk about this a lot here. Defamation is a
Speaker 1: very interesting legal claim to make because when you sue
Speaker 1: somebody for defamation. You put at issue what is claimed
Speaker 1: by one side to be a lie and the other
Speaker 1: side to be the truth. And that is why you
Speaker 1: put at issue the story. And so you can imagine
Speaker 1: the nature of the discovery in this lawsuit. The depositions,
Speaker 1: the interrogatories, the production of documents, the communications. I mean,
Speaker 1: there is some serious overlap here. Especially remember my lawsuit
Speaker 1: seeks the production of the entirety of the Epstein Files
Speaker 1: as held by the DOJ, and that would necessarily include
Speaker 1: these documents that have now been ordered to be unsealed
Speaker 1: by Judge Prescat. So I foresee a battle on the
Speaker 1: imminent event horizon with Todd Blanche and the DOJ. But
Speaker 1: you have the power of another federal judge stating that
Speaker 1: the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the purpose of it is
Speaker 1: to make this type of public disclosure, and that is
Speaker 1: exactly the crux of my lawsuit. It helps my lawsuit, folks.
Speaker 1: So I am grateful for this order. I'm grateful for
Speaker 1: the continued reporting, and I want to just say again
Speaker 1: thank you to Julie Brown and the Miami Herald for
Speaker 1: pushing for suing to get to get these records unsealed.
Speaker 1: It is a basic tenet of journalism that the public
Speaker 1: deserves to know the information in this type of lawsuit,
Speaker 1: of course, with protections for victims that are afforded those protections.
Speaker 1: But as Judge Emmett Sullivan said on Thursday at the
Speaker 1: at the hearing that we went to that status hearing
Speaker 1: in DC, the public and the victims have the right
Speaker 1: to know what the hell is going on in my
Speaker 1: case and now in this other case that had been
Speaker 1: brought by the late Virginia Giuffrey. Okay, folks, that's it.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't give me great satisfaction to have to call
Speaker 1: out legacy and mainstream media for its failures, but the
Speaker 1: lack of a single question to Todd blanche on Sunday
Speaker 1: during Meet the Press gave me such heartburn because that
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