Clay Travis (7:09)
A pending investigation. Meanwhile, the House has demanded Epstein financial records from JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche bank and the US Virgin Islands. That's just in the last 24 hours. Now, a few things here I can't tell you. I don't know, obviously, and none of you know. No one outside of a very small circle knows what is in this release that Donald Trump, I am very confident, is going to sign the final step, if you will, before the release. And then there's 30 days. So we're going to wait a bit. We're going to wait a bit for this information. I don't know exactly how many days, but they have up to 30 days to release. Maybe it'll come much faster than that. We'll see how the bureaucracy handles this. But I sit here and I say to myself, because, you know, and the House has already released 65,000 documents related to Epstein. You know very well that I have been pounding a certain drum on this issue of follow the money, follow the money. It is completely unthinkable, unthinkable to me, or rather it should be unthinkable, maybe a better way of putting it that we do not have a full accounting of how Epstein pulled together a fortune that was approaching a billion dollars. This guy did not create some new product. He did not found some company. He was not some, you know, hedge fund guy running $30 billion of other people's money. There are ways you can make a billion dollars. Tax advice is not one of them. It's just not one of them. And so this then brings up, how did he make this money? Why is it that there were some people in Epstein's orbit who were unbelievably. And I mean that in the real sense of can't believe it. Unbelievably generous to him. Why? The money, I think, is the single best chance we have to get these answers. According to the subpoenas that were just put out by the house, JPMorgan Chase began an internal investigation into accounts previously held by Epstein, flagging some 4,700 transactions as suspicious. Epstein held accounts and bench with the banked with Deutsche bank from 2013 until 2018. So they're going back in here into the money trail and I sit here wondering how it is. And as, by the way, I want to be clear that sometimes I will ask questions here that are rhetorical because something isn't adding up. How is it possible that we don't have a full and, and clear understanding of where all of Epstein's money came from? We've had a little bit here, a little bit there, but this should be obvious. And I might add, if it's somewhere already, if they have the, the flowchart of funds, if it's in the release, why haven't we already been given it? Why is it taking all of this pressure and all of this time? Why is it taking us to this place to be in a situation to finally get those answers? So there's more that is, that is coming out here now. I think you can pretty much set your watch to this one. No matter what happens here with the files, in terms of nothing on this is all about getting Trump for the Democrats. And there's something very grotesque about Democrats suddenly caring. They didn't care about this during the Biden administration, suddenly caring so much about the Epstein files, Epstein's victims, all of this, it's hard not to view it as posturing, because it is posturing meant to create the moral high ground from which they can throw mud at Donald Trump, or at least the appearance of such a thing. No matter what happens with these files, I can assure you they will not say, you know, you know, Trump is cleared. Trump didn't do any. Didn't do anything. And so that also brings us to why I think Trump wasn't so immediately in favor of the release. Because no matter how much transparency he offers, or rather he gives and For a lot of you, I understand this is a follow through on a campaign promise. So you want it irrespective of anything else. And that's very valid. And clearly Trump has decided that that's what's going to happen. This should have been done. I think a lot of people recognize now sooner a lot of you were calling in and demanding it, to which I just kept saying, yeah, I want more transparency. I don't have the files right. It's not in my power to release them. All we can do is air as we did, our sense that there's, there's more here and that there's more to be uncovered. And I think that that has certainly happened. I think that has certainly been a very real motivation here. Right? Telling people, having the Trump base come forward and say, we don't have the answers we want, we're not accepting anything else. It's time for this all to come clean. Now, Speaker Johnson, he is pointing out here, this is cut one. He's saying that the President has nothing to do with it. Democrats are going to weaponize it. Just be prepared for this. They're going to attack Trump even if his name doesn't appear one more time in the files. Play Clip 1. This is a political exercise for Democrats, and it pains me to say it. I wish that was not the truth, but it is. It's undeniable. This is as deceitful and dishonest as their pointless stunt was to shut the government down. Democrats are using the Epstein tragedy, the unspeakable evils that this guy committed with his trafficking ring and all of the abuses that they, that they made these young women go through, they're using that as a political weapon to try to distract from their failures as a party and to try their best to try to tie President Trump somehow into this wretched scandal. The President had nothing to do with it. He's been very clear and he has nothing to hide, and that's why he's endorsed the vote today. I think that's where we are. I think the President is about to show all of his naysayers, detractors, haters. They're haters. They're not detractors and they're deranged. In many cases, they hate him in a way that is, that is irrational and that is extreme to the point of being unhealthy. Trump derangement syndrome. But they're not going to ever say that it's enough. You can never convince the people who have been trying to dirty Trump up with Epstein that There's not more to be found that would prove that Trump is really the bad guy. So just be prepared for that. And in fact, Chuck Schumer is out there saying already that this is. And this is cut three. One of the worst, most damaging moments of the Trump presidency. This will go down as one of.