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B.Com/I heart another day. And again, the Epstein files get worse for Donald Trump. New documents include an FBI file referencing a rape allegation involving Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. It is not a verdict, but it is an official federal record that contradicts years of Trump's denials. And we now have documentation showing that Donald Trump did fly on Epstein's jet at least eight times after he said he now never did. We're also going to break down a leaked MAGA succession plan that looks at what happens to the Republican Party after Donald Trump. And then we will look at Christmas Eve Eve for Donald Trump. Spiraling untruth, social threatening media critics and floating the idea of pulling broadcast licenses. Plus, the White House Christmas card raises even more health concerns. And we'll also have a rare Fox News moment for you where a liberal host breaks through on Epstein. And we'll explain why Fox News is struggling to keep the audience together. And finally, measles exploding again. Yes, yet again. In 2025, Newly released Justice Department files related to Jeffrey Epstein. This is tough stuff. Stuff include an allegation involving President Donald Trump that we can't ignore. Now, I want to be clear about what this is and what this is not. And I don't know that everybody is necessarily doing a good job about explaining what these documents do and don't mean. The Department of Justice has released thousands of additional Epstein related documents. Many of these are heavily redacted. Now, in the middle of this, there's an FBI case file from October of 2020 which references an allegation of rape involving Donald Trump. The document does not identify the accuser. It does not conclude wrongdoing. It is not an adjudication of guilt. But the language is extraordinarily explicit and disturbing. Now, I'm going to tell you why I'm telling you about this document and not another one that many of you have written to me about. In a moment. According to this document, an unnamed individual alleges that Donald Trump raped her and that this occurred alongside Jeffrey Epstein. The phrase he raped me is in the file referring to Donald Trump. And the statement continues with a description of being taken into a fancy hotel or building. Some of the text here is as Blank talked about his time, meaning meeting Donald Trump. Blank immediately Blank demeanor went to Stone Cold. As Blank stated, he raped me. Blank said, what? As Blank replied, donald J. Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein. Blank noted, some girl with a funny name took me into a fancy hotel or building. That's how it happened. There is more to the document. We're publishing a link to it. You can check it out. Now, this is not a court ruling. This is not an adjudicated finding or a court verdict. This is an allegation recorded in an FBI file now made public by the doj. The same file references a separate account from a limo driver who described a very concerning phone call involving Trump in 1995. According to that document, Donald Trump repeatedly mentioned Jeffrey during the call and made references to abusing some girls. The driver's name and other details have been redacted. Now, in addition to the rape allegation, these new documents raise concerns and questions about Trump's relationship with Epstein. Because we have that internal DOJ email we looked at yesterday which states actually Trump traveled on Epstein's plane a whole bunch of times more than had been previously reported. So there is a lot here. And the allegations are Growing. Now, I'm going to tell you a little bit more about this document in the context of one that I'm not talking about. Some of you sent me a document that is in the files, which is an allegation from 2020, a tip received by the FBI that Donald Trump in 1984, in 1984 was on board a yacht in Mona Lake Michigan. Mona Lake is this tiny little offshoot of Lake Michigan. Trump was on Epstein's yacht and that a baby was killed and disposed of while Trump was on board. I am not bringing that to you as a credible allegation. Why? It doesn't really make any sense. If you look at that document, first and foremost, it claims that this took place in 1984, a time during which I believe Trump and Epstein didn't even know each other. The person who submitted that tip in 2020, 36 years later, mind you, claims that they previously had just shortly before reported it to police and had a conversation with a detective, but they don't remember exactly where the detective works or the detective's name. That doesn't really make sense. The idea that Epstein had a yacht in Mona Lake that would have been of a size that would have been suitable to Epstein, but wouldn't have needed such depth of water that it could have transited from Mona Lake to Lake Michigan, like none of that one makes sense to me. So I'm not reporting on that today, even though about a dozen of you wrote to me. This document actually mirrors prior claims that had been made about Epstein and Trump together committing sexual assault. Those claims were later recounted, recanted rather. But it is in the ballpark of the sorts of allegations that we've seen before. So needless to say, what I'm telling you is this is an allegation, it's in the files. It is not proof of anything. Now, of course, Trump has denied wrongdoing. He, he dismisses it all as a hoax and it says that it's really only Democrats who have anything to worry about here. The bottom line is I'm, as far as I'm concerned, is the following. No one tip proves guilt. But what we are increasingly seeing is that allegations involving Donald Trump exist in federal files and those are allegations that were never disclosed to the public until right now. That's the significance. And at minimum, it directly contradicts years of claims that Trump's name appears nowhere in any serious Epstein related allegations. It those these claims do exist in black and white. It's in DOJ records, it's in FBI records. And the American public is now seeing information that was previously hidden. And of course, we're entitled to ask questions and to say that more information is necessary here. Questions about the specific allegations, questions about transparency, questions about the COVID up of these documents and about why the materials are only coming out right now. So is this document proof that Trump raped someone? It is not. Is this document yet another data point of that type of allegation that we've seen before? Yes. Is the document a reminder that we were lied to about what was and was not in the Epstein files? Yes. Is the document another confirmation that once you consider Trump was told by Pam Bondi, you're in the files? Certainly the nature of that involvement in the files must have been part of that conversation. And therefore Trump certainly knew what would come out if the full files were released. What we now need to go to is the reality that many of us already knew that we cannot believe anything Trump says about Epstein because he has now been provably caught lying. Let's discuss that Next. Back in 2024, when Donald Trump put up a truth social post about never having been on Jeffrey Epstein's plane, Trump didn't hedge or use squishy language. He didn't qualify. He didn't say, to the best of my knowledge, I've never been on Epstein's plane. Or as far as I can remember sitting here today, I've never been on Epstein's plan. What Trump said previously about this is, quote, this is what the Democrats do to their Republican opponent who is leading them by a lot in the polls. This is AI and it is very dangerous for our country. Also, I was never on Epstein's plane or at his stupid island. Strong laws ought to be developed against AI. It will be a big and very dangerous problem in the future. Trump said, clearly, I have never been on Epstein's plane. That statement is now definitively false. In the newly released Justice Department records related to Jeffrey Epstein, There is the 2020 email we looked at yesterday. It is from a prosecutor stating flight logs show Trump has been on Epstein's plane at least eight times, including flights with Ghislaine Maxwell. We learned about this because of the letter from the Epstein files which we looked at yesterday. It is up on the screen. And the email written on January 7, 2020, says, for your situational awareness, wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported or that we were aware, including during the period we would expect to charge. In a Maxwell case in particular, he is listed as a passenger at least on at least eight flights between 93 and 96, including at least four flights on which Maxwell was also present. He is listed as having traveled with, among others at various times, Marla Maples, his daughter Tiffany, and his son Eric. On one flight in 93, he and Epstein are the only two listed passengers. On another, the only three passengers are Epstein, Trump and then 20 year old name redacted. On two other flights, two of the passengers respectively were women who could be possible witnesses in a Maxwell case. So this matters for a very simple reason. Trump didn't deny wrongdoing on the flights. He denied ever being on the plane. And the denial was not ambiguous. It was a categorical I have never been on Epstein's plane. He didn't say the number of flights I took is exaggerated. He didn't say the photos are misleading. He didn't say the stories are distorted. He said very simply, never been on Epstein's plane. We now have official documents indicating he was on it at least eight times. So Trump has been caught lying about the nature of his interactions with Jeffrey Epstein. Now, to be very clear, and I believe that this is important to restate, none of this is an allegation that Trump committed a crime. The email from the prosecutor doesn't accuse Trump of illegal conduct. The DoJ said in an attempt to sort of clean this up for Trump, that some of the claims in the Epstein files are unverified or unfounded. And I think when it comes to some of these tips that the FBI received, that is absolutely important to acknowledge. And as I told you earlier in the show, there was a document in there that is of a tip the FBI received in 2020 that I don't think has any credibility. And I told you that at the top of the show. But this is an official document here, and the DOJ says Trump was on the plane at least eight times. So the point is, when Trump was confronted with documented associations with Epstein, he responded and said, I was never on the plane. And that claim has now completely collapsed. Once you lie about something this specific, something verifiable, you have forfeited the benefit of the doubt on everything adjacent to it. If Trump lied about being on the plane, why would anyone trust his version of events and as to why he was on the plane? If he lied about contact with Epstein, why would anyone trust his timeline about contact with Epstein? And if he lied while accusing others of manufacturing evidence, why would we accept any future denial at all? This is the real danger here. Trump is laying the groundwork for a world where any inconvenient evidence can be dismissed as fake. Any contradiction can be blamed on technology, conspiracies, political enemies, AI. It is an escape hatch that he has put together. And once you have that escape hatch, the facts don't matter anymore. The records don't matter, documents don't matter. The only thing that matters is loyalty. So this is not about assuming crimes. It's we are recognizing a pattern. Trump looked at the public metaphorically on Truth Social, and he said something provably untrue. Either he has flown on Epstein's plane or he hasn't. He did, but claimed not to. So at this point, I don't believe we have any responsibility to treat his further Epstein denials as credible. We are not required to suspend judgment. We are not required to pretend it was just a misunderstanding, especially if Trump was on Epstein's plane with family members. I forgot that I've flown with him multiple times, including with my own family. The records now prove him wrong. So from here on out, anything Trump says about Epstein evidence requires us to be extraordinarily skeptical, and we have moved beyond trust. But verify we are at. He has lied and we have caught him lying. Now, I want to again, and the reason I'm saying this is because I see some of my friends on the left going too far. None of this proves that Trump committed any specific crime. He may have, but we at this point cannot genuinely say that. And I continue to express concern that there are those who are going beyond what the evidence suggests. Right now, Trump's been caught lying about his relationship with Epstein. Could he have been downplaying the relationship because he did commit a crime? Yes, that is a possibility. Could he have been downplaying the relationship because he simply believes it would look bad for the scope of that relationship, even absent any Trump crimes to be publicized? Yes, that could be the explanation. Could Trump be so deep in cognitive decline that he doesn't remember that he flew with Epstein? It's possible, right? I mean, if we believe that he is declining, we have to consider the possibility that he doesn't remember. But he has been caught saying something that is provably untrue. And whether it's because of a memory issue or. Or because he's trying to participate in a proactive cover up, he cannot be trusted with regard to his relationship to Epstein and the value of the evidence. Now, after the break, we are going to look at what some of the fallout is of a lot of this stuff. And also we have this leaked succession plan for MAGA that really reeks of the actual TV show succession. So all of that is coming up. It's Christmas Eve. We do have a Christmas message from the President. We've got a Christmas card from the President. We'll have time for all of it. Glad you're with me today. Every time you Google your name, you will probably find dozens of sites that expose your personal information. This can include phone number, home address, family details. It's just sitting there waiting to be scraped or abused. Incogni is a privacy service. They go after these sites on your behalf. 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It is even more dynastic and creepy and cult like than you would expect. According to this report, MAGA powerbrokers mapped out a very long term succession plan to try to keep Trumpism in control of the Republican Party for decades. We are Talking more than 30 years of total reign. And here's how it was supposed to work. First phase is in 2028, JD Vance runs for president. Who was supposed to be his Vice president? Charlie Kirk. The now deceased Charlie Kirk after eight years of a Vance presidency. The plan was for Charlie Kirk to become president himself with Donald Trump Jr. As his vice president. That is coming directly from Turning Point USA board member Mike Miller, longtime Trump ally, and described the plan in an interview. In his words, it was supposed to be JD And Charlie for eight years after Trump and then Charlie and then after that, probably Donald Trump Jr. This was not about voters deciding anything organically or about Republican insiders or Republican voters, better said deciding on the direction of the party. This was an internal grooming pipeline, a handpicked MAGA sort of royal line of sorts, more akin to the British royal family than American democracy. And the reporting makes it really clear that this is not a new plan. Shortly after Charlie Kirk was introduced to the Trump family, Trump Jr. Praised Kirk and said, he's brilliant and this is someone who could be president. J.D. vance has since confirmed that Charlie Kirk played a major role in introducing him to Donald Trump and helping him rise politically and ultimately in J.D. vance becoming Vice President of the United States. And Vance even gives credit to Charlie Kirk not just with winning the 2024 election, but staffing the entire government. So that is not campaigning for anything that is ideological capture. Now obviously Charlie Kirk is dead, so the plan as written can't be carried out anymore. But the takeaway is that the thinking was there, the mindset is there and they are not just going to abandon all of this because Charlie Kirk is no longer alive. Trumpism is not supposed to end with Trump. We now know that. We've figured it out. It was designed to outlive Trump for a long time to be sort of inherited like you would your, your, your parents estate and be passed down through series of loyalists and family members and ideological enforcers. And if you look at history, this is how a political movement turns into an authoritarian political dynasty. It's not because they win debates and people really love their policy. It's because insiders are deciding who gets power next. The real takeaway here is the fact that there was a plan like, okay, Charlie Kirk was in it. Charlie Kirk was killed. He can't be part of the plan. Anymore. The fact that there was a multi decade plan is the takeaway. Since Charlie Kirk was killed, the lineup would have to be different. But they are thinking of some version of this and the speculation about Don Jr. At some point in the future has been floated around before. If anything, my expectation is that the death of Charlie Kirk probably accelerates the scramble. Without him there's this vacuum at the top. The influencer to power pipeline now needs to be tweaked and that is not going to lead to a more moderate Republican party if this line of succession were to succeed. Now what hasn't changed is that JD Vance is very obviously positioned as the next standard bearer and I'm of two minds on this. On the one hand I acknowledge and I am aware that never does the natural nominee three years out become the nominee. It just doesn't happen. It's always somebody else. It's someone who comes up and is noticed later. The difference is that this time they're actually planning ahead in a more proactive and specific way. So maybe that is going to be the next generation and they're just going to have to figure out who fills the Charlie Kirk slot. Is it a different right wing influencer? Is it a media personality? Is it some other Trump family member that steps forward sooner? What we know here is that Trump world isn't thinking about this in terms of winning the hearts and minds of voters and the will of the people. They were thinking about it as how can we decide who gets to have the power now think about the timeline. Vance 2028 Vance 2032 Charlie Kirk 2036 Charlie Kirk 2040 Be Don Jr. 2044 Don Jr. 2048. That would mean that from 2016 onwards in some form with a four year break there for Joe Biden or from 2024 on in consecutive fashion, they have an idea of continuing this for 30 years. Think about other dynasties that operate this way. They the Kim family in North Korea. They didn't start with forever rule on day one, the Castro's in Cuba. There are other examples. The early phase is about consolidating power around a dominant figure and conferring enough power to the dominant figure that they then can decide who succeeds them. And then the final phase is normalization. You just got to get people used to the idea that this is how leadership works now. And that's what's so striking about it. It is really not about winning the next election by convincing people that your ideas are better. It's can we lock in a lineage here and look at the ages. I mean, Don Jr. Would be 71 by the time he finishes this hypothetical second term in this imaginary plan. That is not a youthful movement breaking norms anymore. That is a strategy of long term entrenchment designed to outlast Trump himself by a lot and to keep the family name in power. So when people say Trump will be gone eventually, this is the answer that Trump World has in mind. It is terrifying, it is disgusting, it is authoritarian. But you know what? We have power here. We have influence. And it is up to us to make damn sure that it does not happen. On Christmas Eve Eve, Donald Trump spent the night on Truth Social, doing what he does best, spiraling publicly in authoritarian fashion and revealing how he believes power should work. That the answer is he thinks he should have all the power. A beautiful message of unity and healing on Christmas, right? First, Donald Trump goes after Stephen Colbert, calls him a pathetic train wreck, says he's got no talent, says he's a dead man walking and that CBS needs to put him to sleep. That is not Trump being crude or insulting. This is how it all works, where Trump says, quote, stephen Colbert is a pathetic trainwreck with no talent or anything else necessary for show business success. Now, after being terminated by CBS but left out to dry, he has actually gotten worse along with his nonexistent ratings. Stephen is running on hatred and fumes. A dead man walking. CBS should put him to sleep. Now. It is the humanitarian thing to do. Now you might say, oh, it's Trump being crude, it's Trump being insulting. He's using his elimination language and he's talking about a media critic as if he's an animal that needs to be euthanized. And Trump has a history of this language towards enemies. If it's a journalist, if it's a protester, if it's an immigrant from a country that Trump considers a shithole. And it's the same pattern. You dehumanize and then justify the punishment later. After all, they're not really human like us. And if you look at the 20th century, this is how authoritarians and dictators talk. They don't like to argue or debate. They delegitimize, they dehumanize. They frame their critics as diseased and subhuman and dangerous. And, and of course, it would be legitimate to silence somebody like that. Then comes Trump's next post, and this is even more serious. And it is another brutal attack on a free press. Trump says, quote, if network newscasts and their late night shows are almost 100% negative to President Donald J. Trump, MAGA and the Republican Party. Shouldn't their very valuable broadcast licenses be terminated? I say yes. The party of low regulation says based on the opinions espoused by private media companies, the government might shut them down. Trump is saying if news broadcasts are negative about him, then their broadcast licenses should be terminated. And he says yes, that is a direct threat to the free press. We really have gone very dark into a very deep, into a dark hole is what I'm trying to say. Broadcast licenses are not loyalty badges that you get to keep if you remain loyal to the Dear Leader. They are not contingent on praising the President. The government doesn't or shouldn't get to revoke media licenses because they have critical coverage of someone in power. This is explicitly unconstitutional. And what Donald Trump is suggesting here, not in a back room. He's doing it publicly, he's doing it loudly and he's saying yes, they should have their licenses revoked. What Trump is suggesting is state punishment of media outlets for unfavorable coverage. It is not. We disagree on policy. This is plain dictatorial authoritarianism. And Trump, I believe, knows this. He is not confused about how the First Amendment works. He is testing these ideas in public, normalizing these ideas and seeing what might his followers accept. I believe they would accept any of it. Finally, after suggesting violence towards a TV host and floating the idea of revoking broadcast licenses from critical media, Trump posts one final message in this series of posts. Merry Christmas. Trump believes criticism should be punished. He believes media should serve power, not challenge it. He believes enemies should be silenced and not debated. And then in the middle of that, it's Merry Christmas. Not exactly Jesus like is it? This is Trump showing you how he thinks his second term should work. He has all the power, he gets to make all the decisions and it should terrify every single one of us. The David Pakman show is an audience supported program and the best, most direct way to support the show is by becoming a member. @join pacman.com you'll get the daily bonus show, the daily commercial free show and plenty of other great membership perks. Get the full experience of by signing up@join pacman.com the health cover up of Donald Trump has now hit the White House Christmas card. Let me explain what is going on. The health cover up of Donald Trump was made particularly evident based on what the White House has released and I will explain. We have been following for months now the obvious lack of transparency about the health of Trump President Donald Trump. We recently spoke to Sarah Matthews, former deputy press secretary for Trump during his first term, who confirmed that, yes, obviously there is some kind of health cover up going on. We don't know the full extent of Trump's health issues, but one visible aspect of this has been his hands. Now, for months now, we've seen Trump with visibly bruised hands. At first, the bruises were just not covered. Then the bruises were covered with makeup that didn't match his skin tone. And then after that was ridiculed, Trump switched to using bandages. And none of the explanations made sense. Eventually, very late in the game, the White House Press secretary, Caroline Levitt, said, oh, Trump's hands are bruised from shaking hands. And that was very difficult to believe. First of all, Trump doesn't shake hands with his left hand, so it doesn't make sense his left hand would be bruised from that. And maybe more importantly, if the President of the United States is so fragile that basic handshakes cause bruising, it raises even more questions about the state of his health, like, maybe he should stop shaking hands. If that's the case, maybe he's not quite the alpha figure that his supporters insist he is. If shaking hands bruises them so badly. So that brings us to the White House Christmas card. The White House released the official Christmas card featuring Donald and Melania Trump. And there's one thing that immediately stands out. Trump's right hand shows no bruising at all. It shows no bandages, but it almost looks too perfect. And indeed, if you zoom in and look closely, the top of Trump's hand is completely flat and a single uniform color that is not normal for any hand. I mean, look, I put my hand up and you can see that between the light and just, you know, my knuckles were just leaning against my other hand and hair on the back of my hand, there's texture there. It's not all one color. We know that Trump's hands are not only bruised, but they are also irregular. He's almost 80 years old. Like most people his age, he's got veins and variations in skin tone and patches of discoloration, what are sometimes known as liver spots, which I don't think is the right medical term. I forget exactly what it is. My dermatologist calls them. Oh, what does he say? Wisdom. Wisdom. Spots. All of that has been completely and very obviously airbrushed away. It's not done subtly. It is a bad job of photo and video manipulation. But that makes the point even clearer. They're aware of this issue. They know we need to cover it up, because otherwise it's going to become an even bigger issue. And of course, in this case, the, the COVID up is becoming the bigger issue and maybe the larger problem for Trump and the larger problem for the country is that as we approach 2026, with Trump about to turn 80 years old in about six months, we still don't really know the status of his health. We really don't have an explanation that we feel confident in about the MRIs or the hand bruising or anything. And now we are shown images that pretty clearly seem like they've been edited in terms of showing us Trump's underlying physical state. And this only reinforces that there is very much something here that they don't want you to see. Now, I want to go back to something we talked about last week, just briefly. We hear all of these discussions about, oh, Trump 2028. Could there be some novel interpretation of what it means to serve two terms or, you know, this kind of crazy Bannon stuff, even though Trump has said, no, no, no, they say, I can't do it, missing from the conversation, and we need to re inject it anytime they talk about it. When you see one of these, you know, we are the first to endorse Trump for 2028. Our response, I believe, shouldn't even take the legal part seriously because I believe that it's settled and they would fail on it. It should be, guys, Trump's down to working 12 to 5, slurring and out of energy, constantly photoshopping his hands so they don't look as decrepit as they are. This guy couldn't make it through a third term. It's forget about the legal part, which is completely settled. This guy is going to be lucky to have the energy to remain president through the end of this term, never mind the third term. So a very merry Christmas, I guess, with some very obvious photoshopping of Donald Trump's hand and still no real answers as to what it is that is going on here. A neon orange Donald Trump hosted the Kennedy Center Honors Dinner. The President of the United States in a tuxedo, playing awards show host at a black tie arts gala. Not normal, not presidential. When we have so many people struggling in this country. And this is Trump turning the presidency into a live action reality show. And that's really the through line here. We're going to look at a clip of this. Trump has kind of become the star of his own version of the Truman Show. I don't know at this point how many in our audience know what the Truman show film is. It's an excellent movie. Jim Carrey is in it. And the idea is that life, unbeknownst to Jim Carrey's character, is actually a script suit, semi scripted reality show. So it would be like if, when you go to work and when you're on the subway and when you're at your doctor's office, you believe this is your real life. Everybody else knows that they are keeping you in a fake world. They are actors. That your doctor might not really be a doctor, it's just an actor. It's unbeknownst to you. And in a sense, that's what's going on here with Donald Trump. Everything exists to center Donald Trump. He took control of the Kennedy center board. The board he installed, then floats the idea of, oh, what about renaming the Kennedy center after Donald Trump, something they can't even legally do. And then, shockingly, they've asked Trump to host the event. This, the difference is the Jim Carrey character in the Truman show didn't set up this fake world. Trump has set it up for himself. And if Trump hadn't stacked the board, none of this would be going on, right? The adoration, the hosting, none of it. So here is Trump opening the 48th Trump Kennedy Center Honors. And everything about this is so out of touch, it's so pathetic, it's so ridiculous. But this is where Trump has seated himself in the context of this second term.