Michael Popak (4:59)
See the face. Right? And that brings us. Now, as long as we're talking about rapists and pedophiles, that brings us to the Epstein Transparency act and the failure of this government to this moment to abide by and comply with it. Of course, the doormat of the MAGA Congress isn't doing a thing about it. So now you're looking to see, well, who could brain a suit like this? Now, we had hoped, but it's hard that one of the victims or survivors would be a plaintiff and come forward and sue over the violations of the Epstein Transparency Act. But let's be frank, they've been through enough. They've already showed a tremendous amount of dignity in the face of tremendous humiliation being led by the Trump administration. Its Attorneys general, FBI and the like. What should be happening now is that a not conflicted Department of Justice and FBI should be going through the 3 million pages of files and opening up criminal investigations to go after the 1200 or more predators, whatever the number is of these women and girls, plain and simple. That's what Europe is doing. That's what other countries are doing around the world that aren't led by Donald Trump. And so they already that's what the Department of Justice and FBI should be doing under the auspices of an independent special counsel. That's not conflicted, doesn't have an ethical conflict appointed by the Attorney General. That's what should be happening. We should be talking about a special counsel, a team of people going through the files. That not a phony audit by the inspector general without interviews. Not, not a attorney general in Todd Blanche saying, well, there's nothing to see here. We've produced everything. Not a complete silence and hearing crickets about any criminal investigations. Even Melania Trump's dramatic call for congressional hearings and testimony by the witnesses and victims got it wrong. Putting the onus on the victims to be victimized again and have to testify in open about what happened to them. They're not having any of the men who are being brought before the oversight Committee being testify in the open. Howard Lutnick COMMERCE Secretary behind closed doors, you got, you got the former Attorney general, Pam Bondage, not even testifying at all. Oh, sure, make the women have to come forward and do their own investigation of their own crimes that happened to them. That's required. If there was a murder vic, a murder, you'd have the murder victim or his family come forward and have to testify in Congress. No, you'd have the Department of Justice and FBI do their job. Look, magnesium, it's something most of us lack. 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Because in order for a plaintiff to be the appropriate plaintiff to bring a case in a live case or controversy, they have to have an injury. They have to have standing. So in paragraph 8 of the complaint and later on, Katie says that the failure to follow the law has harmed the plaintiff. Katie Fang, a journalist, lawyer and legal analyst who has extensively reported on Jeffrey Epstein and his network. Fang's inability to report with substance on all of the documents she should be able to access has hurt her ability to do her job and made it harder to fulfill her mission as a journalist and legal analyst. When you get to paragraph 28, she focuses on the inappropriate redactions. For instance, she says that the identities in a draft indictment of people who allegedly conspired with Epstein to persuade, induce and entice individuals who had not yet attained the age of 18 to engage in prostitution. Who are those people and why aren't they being prosecuted? The identity of the person who wrote to Epstein in 2014 then thank you for a fun night. Your littlest girl was a little naughty. The identity of the person who wrote to Epstein in 2017 that I met blank today she is like Lolita from Nabokoff Femme Miniature. So now I should send you her type of candidates only about how about an Epstein in 2018? Email who is the person that wrote I found at least three Very good. Young, poor. But. But we. But was so tired. Meet this one. Not the beauty queen, but we both likes her a lot. Who's that? Who wrote that? And why were these names redacted? Why were photographs of images on Jeffrey Epstein's desk with Donald Trump redacted? Why were purported notes of interviews in paragraph 39 with victims and witnesses alleged that Trump had forced her to perform oral sex when she was in her early teens? She further alleged that Epstein introduced her to Trump. Who was that? Why was that not properly pursued? I like this approach by Katie Fang. Somebody had to come off the sideline and file and her. Her lawyers at Public Public Integrity Project have sued for a declaratory judgment violation of the Administrative Procedures act and Ultravare Act. Now, it'll be a tough road to hoe for her to prove standing here, but I think she's on the right side of the angels with the case and it was the right thing to do at the right time because the Trump administration believed by firing Pam Bondi and turning the page with Todd Blanche that they would not have to be held accountable for the Epstein Transparency Act. And you got groups like Democracy Forward with Freedom of Information act requests that are still pending before federal judges. Katie Fang's now new lawsuit and the rest. Donald Trump thought by now the media would be exhausted and the news cycle would move on from his cover up of a child sex trafficking ring. But you can see by the Nora o' Donnell interview that that's not happening. Doesn't matter that the oversight committee, they're trying to get out of the business of issuing subpoenas for anything by creating roundtables instead of investigations to try to cut the legs out from under the Democrats issuing subpoenas to try to stop people from being dragged in to have to testify about the Epstein scandal. That's not going to work because the people have already made their decision about whether Donald Trump is covering up the Epstein scandal and whether his Department of Justice and FBI are complicit in it. But we'll continue to follow this Katie Fang new lawsuit. I'm glad to see the media on the other side of the V on the plaintiff side. I think you'll be fascinated by my interview with her on legal AF YouTube channel. So until my next report, this is Michael Popak.
