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All right, we started off with debilitating, horrific Epstein drops where Jamie Raskin, Congressman, said Trump was mentioned over a million times in the Epstein files. There is additive information that what we all thought, that Jeffrey Epstein, quote, unquote, committed suicide was bullshit. And let's remember who was the President of the United States and who was running DOJ during this alleged suicide attempt. It was none other than Donald J. Trump. And so as these drops are becoming, like, overwhelming and this mass cover up starts to come into focus, Bibi Netanyahu is like, okay, I got to go. I got to go right now. Whether Bibi has compromising information or not on Trump, I don't know. But I don't think it's hyperbolic to suggest that he does, considering Jeffrey Epstein's incredibly close relationship with Israel, the former Prime Minister and Israeli interests. So all at the same time, he's trying to cover up the Epstein files. And that thing is really, was really getting traction, bipartisan. You see a lot of the women, Republican women, backing up. So what does he do? He does what all neocons do. And don't kid yourself for a second. MAGA or neocons. The polling shows it now, the MAGA movement, 100% supports this war. I think it's like 89%. But the thing they're going to have to do now is election medal. And this is Donald Trump's like, pet project forever. I mean, forever. This is what January 6th was all about, election meddling. So they are going full tilt every direction they can with this. Here is the first headline I want to share with you guys. Politico is reporting. This is just yesterday, you guys, that the Trump administration just subpoenaed records related to the 2020 election in Maricopa County, Arizona, the latest in a series of steps taken by Trump and his Justice Department to relitigate an election he lost and bolster the federal government's authority over elections. So Trump telegraphs what he wants to do. He has said he wants to federalize the vote. He has said that he wants to do that. I think he's trying to create some sort of constitutional. And this is just my opinion, and I've said this multiple times on this show, some sort of, like, constitutional conundrum where it's like, oh, my God, oops, I actually won 2020, and so therefore this is my third term. So that amendment is null and void because I was elected three times. So we just need to get rid of that amendment. And here's the thing about the Supreme Court. Don't be fooled by the fact that they gave him a defeat on the tariff. The Supreme Court are corporatists. That was a gift to corporations because corporations were struggling. That wasn't a win for liberals. That wasn't a win for the opposition. That was a win for the people who have funded and trained the right wing of the court to deliver for corporations, starting with Citizens United, all the way to where we are now.
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When you think about it, Trump is going into all of these election sites. We saw him go into Georgia, now it's Arizona. He wants to take the paper ballots. He doesn't want the, you know, he doesn't want to print out. He doesn't want the data. He wants the physical copies. And I agree with you, it is to change the results. But this is a man that will stop at nothing. Although he says he's so popular, everybody loves his big beautiful bill. He is underwater. He will not win. And Mike Johnson has told us straight up, if the Democrats win, Trump will be impeached. So this is a cover your ass on every front, save act, gerrymandering, ice. Now we're going into election offices. This is I'm never leaving power.
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So another angle that he can do this besides trying to, to lie, cook the books, manufacture evidence that he, quote, won 2020 because his ego will never recover from that.
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Never.
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Even if they cook the books and say he won, that grievance will not be repaired. That's how broken this man is. So another thing that autocrats do, and we know this from scholars, is they start wars. And when they start wars, then there is a high likely that there could be a false flag attack on American soil. And scholars, smart people are watching for this because it happens. And the reason for doing that is to get public support behind the war. And Timothy Snyder, who has been a guest and a friend of the podcast Scholar on this issue, has a very important video and substack article regarding this. Please play the clip.
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It's the oldest game in the book. Generate a crisis abroad, declare some kind of state of emergency at home, try to stay in power. We've now got a war abroad. We can expect, unfortunately, some terrible surprises at home. And Trump will. And we got to know this, we got to predict this, we got to be ready for this. Try to say that this means we've got to federalize the elections. I wrote a piece laying it all out on Substack today. Hope you have a look.
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So this is what we have to watch out for. And Trump's FBI is abundantly aware that this is what they need to watch out for. So they've shut down the operations that will watch out for this. Because you have to understand when you speak to scholars about this. We spoke to Professor Ruth Ben Guy. She said the dictators have disdain for their supporters. And we know this because, remember, during January 6th, Trump was in the dining room off the Oval Office and he said to people, I wish my supporters didn't look so trashy. Like the optics of what his supporters look like, because he's a narcissist, he sees them as an extension of himself. And they looked really trashy. You know, they're running around with like Camp Auschwitz shirts and, you know, they're gravy seals. These aren't like the of the best. These are people who, you know, came from the boony docs that have been radicalized by Alex Jones and a bunch of other freaks. Right? Trump knows that. And so more than likely, and I hate to say this, but we have to deliver you guys accuracy. There is going to be some, as Timothy put it, surprise here on domestic soil, and then everybody will be like, oh, we hate the Iranians. Go bomb the shit out of them. And I think, and I have a source, insider source, that has told me that they think it's going to be a cyber attack. And I spoke to you all about this yesterday. And then he's going to claim that the election, state elections are not safe and they need to be federalized. And do we think John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Alito, the Handmaid, do we think these people are even remotely going to put up and say, oh, we need to protect democracy? These people are not for democracy in the Supreme Court.
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Well, they're not for democracy. And they're. They know that if a Democrat were Democrats were to come into power, there would be changes in the Court ethical rules. I hope, I mean, I hope maybe I'm giving the Democrats too much credit. But here's the thing that I always remind myself about. Trump.
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He.
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The Aliens Enemies act was like a night or an 1800s bill. And he started saying, we have an emergency under the Indian Aliens Enemies Act. And so he took the National Guard and ICE into all of these American cities. The reason elections work so well is because they are localized. They can. They're not subject to a big Internet infrastructure that's going all over the country. But here's the deal. He doesn't give a shit about that. He wants to federalize it so he can cheat, so he can get Elon Musk and whoever else to Go in and rig the ballots. And this does not surprise me at all. In fact, I'm bracing for it because this man is so unpopular.
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Yeah. And this is what we know that they call an electoral autocracy. And this is what Russia has. And so Russia has elections. And they're rigged. They're completely rigged. And they have the appearance of being a democracy, but they're not. And this, if he, he is signaling on all fronts that this. For a long time now, he has been signaling that this is what he wants to do. And each week we get a new news story of some sort of election medal. And you remember he sent Tulsi Gabbard to Georgia. Why is she there? And they took all of the ballots. Now we're in Arizona. There has been talks and I think that this will probably end up happening, that Nicholas Maduro, the former leader of Venezuela, who is in DOJ custody, is now saying that there was election meddling in the 2020 elections from Venezuela and that if he gives this information to, to the United States, I guarantee you, hide and watch, Nicholas Maduro is going to get pardoned because like Trump gives a shit about incarcerating some dictator. I mean, we, he, he, he is running a racket, a pardon racket right now. So what's so frustrating about all of this is Steve Bannon was 100% accurate in his flood the zone. Because we start focusing on Epstein, which to me is like the biggest cover up across both parties. Democratic, Republican. It needs to be bipartisan. Shine the spotlight on it. Expose every ounce of it. I mean, and we have all of the oligarchs that are now mining our information. Peter Thiel, think about this. Think about. Jeffrey Epstein was at a dinner pumps with Mark Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg's wife, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. And while he's sitting there, he grabs his cell phone, takes a picture of all of them dining and emails it to himself.
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Right.
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It's a really weird shit to do. Right. But he wanted to be like, all of you motherfuckers are in on this. And so I want to put, as we know he's going to do whatever he can do to cling on to power and to avoid accountability for an, for the Epstein files. There are credible, beyond credible allegations that the President of the United States sexually assaulted a minor. And I want to play to you all this video in closing from pbs. And I want you to watch all of it, because at the core of what's happening right now, our crime Syndicate, government, and all of the right wing Christian evangelicals that would go quadruple Trump without their heart rate even raising a bit. I think it would actually be calming for them. That's how up these Trumpers are, truly. They don't give a shit about families or kids. They're this. This MAGA movement is a pedophilic death cult. Play the clip.
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This department released a batch of previously unreleased documents from the Epstein files that include notes from FBI interviews with a woman who says she was assaulted by President Trump as a minor. In interviews with the FBI, the woman alleged she was assaulted by Mr. Trump in the 1980s and that she was also a victim of Epstein's. The documents were released after multiple news outlets discovered they were missing from the initial mass release of files. For more, we're joined now by our justice correspondent, Ali Rogan. So, Ali, tell us more about what's in these documents.
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Jeff. These documents are known as 302 files. They're summaries of three interviews the FBI conducted with this accuser in which she alleges that Epstein brought her to meet Trump sometime between when she was age 13 and 15. She details in very graphic terms Trump's sexual alleged sexual assault against her and how she fought back. She also says she had two additional interactions with Trump. But before she expanded on that any further, she asked if she could go on to another subject. During the last interview with the accuser, the FBI asked if she would be comfortable sharing more about her contacts with Trump. She said at the time that she didn't know what the point would be when there was a strong possibility nothing could be done about it. And it's unclear, Jeff, if there was any additional follow up after that last interview.
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Why weren't these documents initially released?
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These three summaries are actually part of a set of four. And that that other document was released as part of that initial major tranche we saw in late January. That summary was an interview in which the accuser focused on Epstein and didn't mention Trump. These others also. These others, of course, mention the Trump allegations. Reporters caught this discrepancy because descriptions of all four summaries of the interviews were included in a list that was given to attorneys for Epstein co conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell. In a statement released on social media, the Department of Justice said the interviews had been incorrectly deemed duplicative and were subsequently published. The DoJ also says that the unredacted versions of the documents will be available for members of Congress to review. But reporters have noted that even still, there are additional documents that remain missing. Independent journalist Roger Sullenberger has been following this closely, and he noted that there are at least 37 pages still missing. That includes notes that informed these summaries as well as internal communication that would memorialize how this situation with the accuser was resolved.
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What's the White House saying about all of this?
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White House press secretary Caroline Levitt put out a statement in which she calls the accusations completely baseless, and she says they come from a, quote, sadly disturbed woman who has an extensive criminal history.
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If the accuser is unidentified, how would she know that to be true?
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There are some details in the summaries of these interviews in which the accuser talks about her arrests as a minority. While these allegations remain uncorroborated, there is new reporting, Jeff, tonight from Julie K. Brown of the Miami Herald, who's broken much of the Epstein story, saying that DOJ officials who spoke to this woman found her to be credible and that they wouldn't have interviewed her four times if they didn't.
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Ali Rogan, thanks so much for this reporting.
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D
You bet.
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All right, so it's nice to see real journalism from pbs, which is probably why, you know, MAGA wants to defund it, Right? But Caroline Levitt and Riley Gaines like to go, oh, girl mom power. Power. Girl moms and Caroline Levitt to demean a woman that was allegedly sexually assaulted by Donald Trump in that fashion is she wears a Christian cross and she puts up all this. She and Riley Gaines were girl moms and, you know, they talk in tongues. Before they go into the White House press room, I want to say it once and I want to say it again as crystal clear as I can. The MAGA movement is a pedophilic sex cult wherein no one is safe. No one. So the Riley Gaines and the Caroline Levitts of the world, as you're breeding and having children, which I have done and is a wonderful thing, you are fighting on the side of the people that are going to make your children's lives, life, less safe for all of you girl moms not listening to victims that the FBI listened to for four times. And here's the thing. If this accusation from this girl was in solitude. Okay, let's take a look at this. It is in the middle of thousands of very similar accusations, wherein the guy that you worship, wherein the guy that you use, your version of the white Republican Jesus that also likes to support pedophiles, he's listed in this over 1 million times. And so spare me with the weaponization of your good Christian girls and your good Christian ladies. When you support a pedophilic sex cult and you use your relationship with your religion as a means to weaponize and further manipulate the public because you believe in nothing. You believe in nothing. Just a few months ago, y' all were anti wars in the Middle east, and now it's like, yeah, let's bomb Iran. I mean, it's just unbelievable. These women that ride on the shoulders of so much work that so many women did for them to have the jobs that they have. And to quote JD Vance, did you ever think about saying thank you to the suffragettes and to the feminists? Because I'm telling you what, you're on a side that is going to make your daughters less safe. But let me tell you something, Riley Gaines and Caroline Levitt, you might not fight for your daughter's rights and is despicable as I think you are, and history will record it accordingly. I promise you that I will fight for your daughter's rights to live in a safe place in this country where the Department of Justice takes credible charges of sexual assault seriously, even if that those charges and allegations are hurled at the President of the United States. And that's the difference. That's the difference between us. All right? That's all we have. Like, subscribe, comment, and we'll be back later with more news.