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don't have any faves. When I speak out about one of these topics, it's because I feel that way, truly. And my moral compass demands that I move in that direction. Now, I don't believe that everybody has the same moral compass, right? And nor should we. But I think at the end of the day, we should all agree that something like this, what Epstein was up to, is the darkest, most vile shit that you can get up to. And if we can't all rally around putting these kinds of people in jail or holding them responsible, then we are truly the failing New York Times, among many others, was forced to apologize for their bad and faulty election reporting, even to the point of losing many subscribers due to their highly inaccurate fake coverage, Trump added, arguing, now the same losers are at it again. Only this time so many of their friends, mostly innocent, will be badly hurt and reputationally tarnished. Not one single word about the survivors. Not one. He never frames it like that, never talks about what they went through, never even acts like there are any people who were victimized. It's all about him, all about the optics, all about what people are saying. What an absolute asshole. But sadly, that's the way it is in the world of corrupt Democrat politics. Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas, President Donald J. Trump. And what's so funny about this is Leon Black, Republican. Les Wexner, Republican. Steve Mnuchin, Republican, plenty of Republicans to go around. And Jeffrey Epstein's best guys, the guys that were the most impactful in enabling him and making sure he did what he did, they were Republicans. And by that I mean Leon Black and Les Wexner, the two most crucial pieces in Epstein's financial empire. So if you're going to call out the Democrats, and there's plenty to call out, like I did in the beginning, then you have to call out everybody. And that's the problem with this case overall, a lot of selective justice. But I think that moving forward, people are going to understand that that's not going to cut it. And I think that the common people, you know, us, whether they're Republican or Democrat, they want justice here and they want answers. And I think everybody but the most dyed in the wool MAGA folks understands that there's a cover up going on right now and that the COVID up is probably the most extensive and worst in the history of the country. And I don't say that lightly. We've been involved in some in this country, our government, the CIA, but what they're doing here is beyond the pale. And how boldly they're getting out here and just basically telling us shut the up, we're going to do what we want is bananas to me. And I guess it leaves me and everybody else with one single question. What are we going to do about it? All of the information that goes with this episode can be found in the description box. What's up everyone? And welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. As if the great Christmas Day crash out by Donald Trump wasn't bad enough, this dude had to fire off another Truth Social post the next day demanding that the Justice Department out any Democrats that are in the Epstein files. And look, I'm all for it. Everybody gets outed. But when you're targeting people politically and openly like this, you're destroying any sort of case that you think you're making before the case is even made. You want to talk about tainting a jury pool. And we already know that the courts in general have had enough of Trump's nonsense. So what exactly does he think is going to happen here? Does he actually think that any court in this land would look at any case brought by the DoJ against a political opponent of Donald Trump's and let that case move forward? I think that the James Comey decision gives us a bit of a glimpse into how the federal courts are reacting to Donald Trump and the targeting of his political opponents. So if Trump was serious about justice here, which he's not, he wouldn't be talking like this in public. And I think it's rather obvious at this point that Trump's willing to do whatever it takes to get the spotlight off of him when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein and have that spotlight put anywhere else. So the first thing we're gonna do is take a look at what Trump had to say in his Truth social post. And then, well, I have a few things to say myself. But first things first, let's get to the message that Trump shared. Now 1 million more pages on Epstein are found. Trump said in a December 26 social media post, the DOJ is being forced to spend all of its time on this Democrat inspired hoax. When do they say no more? Like, are you being for real with that stupid. When do they say no more? I'll tell you when they say no more. When all the files are released, Mr. President, the Dems are the ones who worked with Epstein, not the Republicans. Release all their names, embarrass them. Well, if they were working with Jeffrey Epstein and they had any kind of relationship with him like you did, Mr. President, they should be outed, too. I think that partisans on both sides of the aisle don't understand yet that we people that are interested in this case do not care who ends up getting in trouble. If they were doing something illegal or if they were palling around with Epstein, they're still in the same old bunker mentality, right? Oh, not our guy, not our President, not our favorite politician. But for those of us who have been following this long enough, we know that there should be no favored politicians. There should be no, oh, this is a great guy or great gal or whatever. Because the truth is, in my opinion, anyway, none of these people are great and none of them care about us. And I think that Donald Trump and his administration is underestimating how mad people are about this. And it's not just Democrats, by the way. I'm not a Democrat. I'm certainly not Somebody that was running around thinking that Joe Biden did a great job. He didn't. And in fact, I called him Junior Soprano because you could tell that bro was losing his mental facilities. And when I'm making these criticisms, it's not personal. I don't hate Donald Trump. I don't hate Joe Biden. But I could just call things how I see them, right? And I can just be as honest with you folks as I possibly can as far as I see things. And that's how we'll continue to do things around here, no matter who gets offended. All right, so now that we got the statement down and we know what Donald Trump had to say, here's my response. If he's not flipping, he's flopping. And the flop sweat is visible from space. Donald Trump manages to contradict himself with the discipline of a man training for an Olympic event in denial. One day it's a hoax, the next day it's everyone else's fault. And the day after that, it's Christmas and he's rage posting like the wi fi personally insulted him. Now, you'd think that someone in the family would slide in with a gentle intervention and a plate of cookies, maybe a quiet moment by the tree, a reminder that grandchildren exist and and the Internet is optional. Instead, the man treats holidays like open mic night at a dive bar. And the result is not confidence, but chaos. The kind that smells like burnt toast and terrible decisions. And watching it unfold feels less like politics and more like a reality show that nobody ordered. The Christmas Day crash out was a master class and had to not read a room. While normal people were opening gifts and pretending to like sweaters, he was swinging at shadows. The optics weren't just bad, they were radioactive, glowing in the dark and humming softly. It's the sort of thing that makes A's wince. And lawyers develop stress induced hobbies. Somewhere a publicist probably screamed into a pillow shaped like a non disclosure agreement. The timing alone makes a PR intern cry into their eggnog. And yet here we are, pretending this is all part of a grand strategy. And if it is, the strategy appears to be doubled down until gravity files a complaint. And the wild part is how easily the truth gets trampled under the stampede of excuses. Outlandish claims are lob like confetti, colorful and designed to distract, while facts get treated like optional DLC content available only if you pay extra attention. When the story doesn't fit, the story gets a makeover. If the makeover fails, the mirror gets blamed. It's a performance that demands applause while actively insulting the audience. And still the microphone stays on, feeding back that shrill noise nobody asked for. And I've never seen someone step in it quite like this. And I've watched people wear white to spaghetti dinners. This wasn't just a bad move. It's a full body face plant into a kiddie pool of denial. Calling it the worst cover up in history feels generous, like complimenting a house fire on its lighting. The effort lacks coordination, consistency, and any sense of shame. Every attempt to explain makes the mess wider, not cleaner. It's like mopping with gasoline and insisting the floor is improving. At some point you stop asking why and start asking how nobody pulled the plug. The answer, apparently, is that nobody wanted to. And when I say cover up, I'm not chasing trends or clout. I've been saying it since 2019, back when saying it earned you eye rolls and a seat at the kids table. This isn't a costume I put on for Halloween. It's a belief that stuck because the evidence kept showing up late and uninvited. I didn't arrive at it because it was fashionable. I arrived at it because the facts kept tapping me on the shoulder like an annoying but accurate friend. And time hasn't softened that conclusion. It sharpened it. Every new contradiction is another brick in the wall of disbelief. Faith didn't lead me here. Receipts did. And the uncomfortable truth is that this mess doesn't belong to one administration. This is bipartisan neglect dressed up as institutional amnesia. Clinton's first term came and went, and the alarms rang quietly enough to be ignored. Bush passed the baton, Obama inherited the silence, and nobody felt compelled to break it. Attorney generals rotated like seasonal decor, but somehow accountability never made the cut. President smiled for cameras while the problems stayed off screen. The through line is indifference, not ideology. When everyone benefits from not looking, nobody looks. And what is absolutely insane is how obvious it felt. Even then, patterns were visible to anyone willing to connect the dots without a permission slip. The puzzle wasn't missing pieces. It was missing courage. Fast forward to now, and the disbelief is less about the crimes and more about the denial. 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Does he forget that during Epstein's most active years, he himself was a Democrat? That inconvenient footnote keeps tripping over the narrative like a Lego in the dark. It's hard to sell a purity test when your own resume fails it. Memory sure does get selective when it's wearing campaign makeup. Facts become props, rearrange between scenes. The crowd is supposed to clap on cue and ignore the continuity errors. Look, there's a difference between hustling with stories and expecting everyone to play along. The first is salesmanship. The second is entitlement. Trump's post drips with projection, a psychological IMAX experience nobody bought tickets for. If anybody ran in the same social lanes for years, it was him. Now, that doesn't prove guilt, but it absolutely nukes the high ground. You can't throw stones from a glass yacht and act surprised when it cracks. Context matters, even if your ass is allergic to it. Then, of course, there's the line about over a million files being released and the demand to move on. It's the rhetorical equivalent of dumping a jigsaw puzzle on the table and claiming the picture is done. Quantity is not completeness and volume is not truth. These redactions aren't transparency. They're Makeup saying enough is enough doesn't make questions evaporate. It just announces that answering them is inconvenient. And since he seems confused about the ask, let's translate it into a dialect he understands. Release everything, not the curated playlist. Stop calling it a hoax while simultaneously acknowledging the smoke. Pick a lane that isn't the shoulder of denial. If it's nothing, sunlight helps. If it's something. Excuses hurt. The constant reframing insults the intelligence of people who have been paying attention. Nobody wants a remix, they want the master tape. And the cynicism here isn't performative, it's earned. Institutions that preach transparency keep tripping over their own shoelaces. The comedy is dark because the consequences are darker. Watching officials juggle narratives is funny until you remember the victims. Then it just becomes disgusting. Humor becomes a coping mechanism, not a punchline. Sarcasm is the armor you wear when seriousness keeps getting ignored. And what makes this especially galling is the self pity woven into the outrage. The loudest voice in the room insists it's the most persecuted. Every critique is reframed as betrayal, every question as sabotage. It's exhausting theater. A one man show with no intermission. Accountability gets treated like a personal attack. Meanwhile, the actual harm sits patiently, waiting to be acknowledged. There's a reason people roll their eyes when the blame game starts. Passing the buck has become a relay sport and everyone's wearing gloves. The baton never reaches accountability. It circles the track until the crowd gets bored. Trump didn't invent this dance, but he performs it with extra jazz hands. The tradition of avoidance predates him. And that's the problem when the system trains leaders to look away. Looking away becomes policy. Breaking that habit requires more than stupid ass tweets. And the irony is that transparency would actually help. Real disclosure has a way of calming storms, not feeding them. Secrets fermented, and the smell gets worse with time. Every half measure invites another question, and every question exposes another half measure. The spiral is self inflicted. If you wanted this to end, you'd end it. Instead, we get spectacle dressed up as resolve. I think I could speak for most people when I say this. They're not asking for theater, they're asking for answers. They're not interested in partisan scorekeeping or or holiday tantrums. They want the record straight, the files whole and the excuses retired. If you think the public is confused, you're wrong. The public is insulted. There's a difference and it matters. Treating curiosity like treason is a losing strategy. Trust doesn't regenerate on command and at this point, every contradiction is a banana peel, every pivot a pratfall. The laughter is bitter, the kind that catches in your throat. You laugh because crying would be too generous. Cynicism becomes a survival skill in a landscape of spin. And still the expectation is that we nod along. No thanks. Because at some point, even the most loyal audience gets tired of the reruns. The plot holes are familiar, the characters stuck in loops. Growth would require admission, and admission requires courage. Neither thrives in a vacuum of accountability. The tragedy isn't that the truth is complicated. It's that honesty keeps getting postponed. So here's a simple ending to this complicated mess. Release everything without filters, without excuses, without theatrics. Stop blaming ghosts and start answering questions. Let the chips fall where they may, and stop pretending gravity is partisan. All of the information that goes with this episode can be found in the description box. What's up, everyone? And welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. When it comes to Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene's relationship, there's no doubt that there is no turning back. Donald Trump and those who support him have completely jumped ship on Marjorie Taylor Greene. And where she was once a darling of the movement, she's now considered a pariah. All because she demanded transparency when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein. Now, think about that for a minute and ask yourself, what sort of movement, what sort of man would jettison somebody as loyal as MTG over an issue like Jeffrey Epstein? So you choose to defend Jeffrey Epstein's enablers. You choose to defend your friends. You choose to defend people who did horrific things instead of just doing what you said you were gonna do and give us full transparency when it comes to Epstein. But Marjorie Taylor Greene's the problem. She's the issue. Huh? I mean, it's absurd. And look, I'm not some big fan of Marjorie Taylor Greene, certainly not a big fan of the rhetoric that she uses that divides people, especially these days. We don't need to be divided. What we need is a leader that's going to step up and bring everybody together. Walk back the govern from the middle. And understand that if you're the president or if you're an elected official, you have a responsibility to the whole country, not just to your political party. And your responsibility to the country should come before any political party or any politician and say what you will about Marjorie Taylor Greene, but on this issue, she's not wrong. She's demanded transparency from the jump. And considering this gigantic bill that's come due for her, you gotta give her a tip. Of the cap. Right. Takes courage to do this, to go against somebody like Donald Trump in an environment such as this, not an easy thing to do. So I certainly give her credit for that, and I give her a lot of credit for being brave, because there's a lot of people in Congress who feel the same way, who are scared of Donald Trump, and they're not gonna step up, they're not gonna come forward, they're not gonna put their name on the line. So it was up to people like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie and Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert to do that. And look, again, I'm not claiming that I enjoy any of these people for their politics, because I am just disillusioned with the whole entire situation when it comes to politics, no matter what side's in charge. So it's not like I think things are going to change the next election when the other guys get elected. I'm old enough to understand that it's meet the new boss, same as the old boss, and I've seen that my whole entire life. And I highly doubt that changes this time around. Now, do I want it to change? I do. We need younger people running this country. I mean, if you're 65, probably a good time to pack it in and head home and enjoy your retirement. I'm sure you have grandkids. I'm sure you have hobbies, whatever it might be. Quit the grift and get your ass back home. But what happens is we get these people who understand that if they get these political offices, they're going to benefit financially. And when I say benefit financially, I mean big time. Not, you know, an incremental raise. But we're talking about showing up being worth a hundred grand and leaving being worth, what, 35 million, 45 million? And where do you think they get that money from? Do you think that people just show up and drop dough into a donation jar? Hell, no, they don't. They're donating that money and giving up that money because they want you to do something for them. And these politicians know that. And they're all willing to play ball. All of them. How many of them end up leaving being worth just an insane amount of money? Meanwhile, you and I are grinding away, making sure we have enough money to buy a couple of chicken cutlets and some spaghetti. It's absurd. And then you have these people with the audacity to be mad at Marjorie Taylor Greene because she wants transparency and justice when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein. Seems kind of absurd to me, especially considering how much carrying on we heard from people about Wayfair, about Adrenochrome, and just about everything else that you would have heard on an Art Bell episode of coast to coast 10 years ago. But they can't be bothered when faced with an actual human trafficking ring that was international in scope. And we have a mountain of evidence to prove it all because, you know politics. Today's article is from People and the headline Trump yelled My friends will get hurt at Marjorie Taylor Greene for threatening to name Epstein abusers, she claims. This article was authored by Kyle Alvord. Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is offering more details about her falling out with President Donald Trump, saying in the final Straw revolved around her push for more government transparency surrounding sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's crimes. Imagine getting mad about that. It is so crazy to me to think that a president of the United States is willing to burn so much political capital to defend a bunch of people who enable Jeffrey Epstein I'm here

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And the fact that he yelled out that you know his friends are going to get hurt. That's common knowledge We've been talking about that for how long? And this is what I've been telling you folks for months now. When it comes to Donald Trump, the focus should be on the COVID up, because I think there's a lot of there there. And if you want to chase the salacious ghosts, you're gonna end up running into dead ends. And that's exactly what they want. Make no mistake about it. They want you chasing your tail. They want you listening to people like Ian Carroll's dumbass and jumping all the way down a rabbit hole and running through an endless loop of warrens. That's what they want. They don't want you focused on the particulars, they don't want you focused on the overall scope, and they certainly don't want you focused on the institutions. And when you hear people talking about this story, if they're not talking about the institutional failures, they don't know what they're talking about. In an exhaustive new profile for the New York Times that chronicles the longtime Magaz allies fracture of with her former leader, Green told journalist Robert Draper that her small disagreement with Trump throughout the year likely got on his nerves. But it was Epstein that drove the ultimate wedge between them. Epstein was everything. And this is what I'm saying. This is the Fulcrum, folks. This is where the battle is going to be fought. And if America has any soul left, we're going to have to come out victorious here because this country cannot be run by people who are going to cover for animals like Jeffrey Epstein and his associates. It's not even negotiable. The Epstein files represent everything wrong with Washington, Green, 51, told the Times for the Dec. 29 profile, which was based on multiple interviews with the outgoing Republican congresswoman. Rich, powerful elites doing horrible things and getting away with it, and the women are the victims. Well, that's true and fair. We know that's a fact. And there's a lot of people who didn't believe that for a very long time. Oh, there's no such thing as systemic corruption. These so called elites, they might be a little degenerate, but they're not involved in anything like this. Yeah, okay, sure. Tell me you've never met someone who considers themselves one of the so called elite without telling me. And folks, look, when I work for Caner Fitzgerald, I met my fair share of degenerate people. And the vast majority of these fools were working in the financial sector. So my personal experience with them is not good. And then you look at the overall picture and you understand why if the frontline employees are the way that these people are, can you imagine how the executives are? Can you imagine the kind of that's going on at their Eyes Wide Shut party over at Howie Lutnick's house? In September, Green spoke directly to Epstein survivors during a closed door House oversight hearing, which moved her to fight for accountability on their behalf. After leaving the hearing, she rallied reporters and publicly threatened that if necessary, she would work with victims to reveal the names of Epstein's associates who perpetrated sexual abuse against women and girls. That threat, she said, resulted in a hostile phone call from the president, their last proper conversation. According to the Times, which heard about the call through both Greene and one of her staffers, Trump, 79, rang her Capitol Hill office to voice his frustration with her public advocacy on the issue. The whole office could allegedly hear him yelling at her on speakerphone, according to the staffer. Real tough guy, that Donnie Diddles, huh? Giving Marjorie Taylor Greene the business over the phone. But that shit tracks. Sounds like something that Donald Trump would do. There's no loyalty to country, there's no loyalty to the citizens. It's only loyalty to Donald Trump and whatever scumbag he wants you to protect, I guess. But the truth is, Marjorie Taylor Greene was more MAGA than just about anyone, and even that wasn't good enough. Greene claimed that when she expressed confusion to Trump on the call over his resistance over outing potential Epstein conspirators, the President told her, my friends will get hurt. Yeah, no shit they will. All your little dirtbag friends that were palling around with Epstein. Or how about Leon Black's son, Ben Black, who is in your own administration? I'm sure he is just excited to see all this information get dumped and his dad get put on blast. When she suggested that the President could invite Epstein and survivors to the Oval Office to show that their stories were being heard, the President allegedly said that they had not done anything to earn such an honor, according to Green's account of the conversation. That should tell you everything you need to know about Donald Trump, bro. Is not somebody who cares about your kids, doesn't care about you, cares about your vote, cares about you fighting for him. But when it comes down to it, he's not willing to fight for you. And like I always tell you folks, if it's me, it's most certainly you. And that applies throughout my life, whether it's politics, friendships, whatever it might be. And considering the way that Donald Trump has behaved, considering the way he's conducted himself throughout this whole entire scandal, this maelstrom. Well, does Donald Trump really deserve anyone's respect? Not from my perspective. Now, if you want to, you know, respect Donald Trump and support him, that's on you. You have to live with your own conscience. Me, personally, it's the same. It's always been around here. Anybody who's in the way of transparency or justice is on the other side, whether it's Donald Trump, the Pope, or whoever, I don't care. And if you were under any illusions that Donald Trump wasn't on the other side, this should really open your eyes. This should end all those illusions and show you what the reality really is. This man does not care about what Jeffrey Epstein did. All he cares about is protecting the people that enabled that behavior for all those years. When reached by people for comment, the White House dismissed Green's comments to the Times and as petty bitterness. President Trump remains the undisputed leader of the greatest and fastest growing political movement in American history, the MAGA movement. White House spokesperson Davis Engel said in a statement. On the other hand, Congresswoman Greene is quitting on her constituents in the middle of her term and abandoning the consequential fight we're in. We don't have time for her petty bitterness. Well, you don't have time for anything but enriching yourselves. You don't have time for anything but digging the chasm between people deeper. Right? That's all you care about. There's no conciliation. There's no coming across the aisle trying to figure things out. And it goes for both sides. But when we're talking about this specific issue, Trump's the man in charge. This is the dude behind the sticks. He controls everything right now. Has both chambers of Congress, the Supreme Court. And what exactly has he done? Oh, a bunch of executive orders. How much of that shit's been codified? Oh, that's right. None of it. So what that means is the next president, whoever that might be, is going to come in and get rid of Donald Trump's executive orders. So what did he really accomplish? Well, that's right. Absolutely nothing. Especially when you frame it with that as the backdrop, when you have everything lined up like that and you can't advance anything and get it signed into law, I think it's pretty telling. And I think that they squandered a great opportunity to do good here. If Trump would have just done what he said he was going to do and been transparent with this subject specifically, he wouldn't be bleeding support from independents. Have you taken a look at his Numbers with independent voters right now not looking good. Greene, who was formally resigning from Congress on January 5th over her refusal to be so called battered wife to Trump, previously described her explosive phone call with Trump during a recent 60 Minutes interview. We did talk about the Epstein files and he was extremely angry at me that I had signed the discharge petition to release the files, green told CBS News Leslie Stahl at the time referring to her decision to sign a U. S. House petition pushing the government to release all documents related to Epstein. When Stahl asked Green to further describe what Trump said, she paused. He said that it was going to hurt people. The congresswoman replied, yeah, what about the people that have already been hurt? Those people don't matter. Those people don't exist. Oh, that's right. They haven't done anything extraordinary enough to be recognized by the White House and the president. Imagine saying that to somebody. Imagine even having that thought pop into your head. What an absolute buffoon. With Green's help, the House passed the Epstein Files Transparency act and a stunning 427 to 1 vote on November 18, and the bill was unanimously approved by the Senate. Trump signed the bill into law the following day, which gave the federal government 30 days to release all remaining files related to the sex trafficking investigation into Epstein. The bill allowed for some exceptions, such as withholding anything that is classified or that could identify victims or interfere with an active federal investigation, giving the Department of Justice the ability to be selective about what they release and what information is redacted. Well, that's the poison pill that should have been rectified in the bill. That bill should have had more teeth. Right. And that's why I've been calling for a special counsel or special prosecutor to come in and clean up this mess. And I think at this point, it's the only way that we can actually take a look at this in a fair manner.

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The DOJ missed the deadline to release all files by December 19th and has been uploading thousands of pages of files on a rolling basis, often with major redactions that omit significant context. So far, information that has been released includes photos of Epstein with powerful men like Trump, Bill Clinton, and Michael Jackson, none of whom have been accused of wrongdoing in relation to Epstein, and an uncorroborated rape claim made against Trump Shortly before the 2020 election, which the DOJ characterized as untrue and sensationalist. Well, if that's the case, and I'm not disputing that it is, but if that's the case, why not bring charges to somebody that's making false claims? If they lied in court, then somebody should be held accountable for that, right? I would think that if somebody is bullshitting around and they're telling serious lies like that, especially somebody as litigious as Donald Trump is going to sue them, but I guess not. There were also some dubious pieces of visual evidence that ended up on the DOJ website, including a clearly fake video of Epstein's jail cell suicide that was uploaded and later removed. Talk about Keystone Cops. When you have Cash Patel as the head of the agency, I guess you get what you're gonna get. Or as the saying goes, you get what you pay for. On December 23, people discovered an unauthenticated suicide note from Jeffrey Epstein to sex offender Larry Nassar among the files which accused Trump of sharing their love of young, nubile girls. And look again, I have no idea if that's real or not, but the language is language that was used by Epstein, for sure. New Biles. That was an Epstein and Glenn Maxwell thing, without a doubt. But is the letter real or not? I can't tell you one way or the other. I don't know. The White House initially declined to comment on the unverified note, instead referring people to a DOJ statement about how the Epstein files include some unfounded allegations against the president. Hours after People and other outlets reported on the strange note that appeared in the files, the White House reached back out to people with new statements from the DOJ that said an FBI investigation had just determined the note was fake and warned not to trust the legitimacy of all documents included in the Epstein files, seemingly casting doubt on the newly unsealed evidence as a whole. Now, the cynic in me says that was all done on purpose. They let that note be found so that they could say, look, this is all just bs. Didn't you see that note that Jeffrey Epstein allegedly sent to Larry Nassar that was inserted in the files? And what they're looking to do is cause confusion and chaos like I Always tell you, but the bad news for them is all of you out there are aware of that and you know the game plan now and it's not going to work. So they could save the gaslighting and the bullshitting for other people. That shit is not going to work here. Reacting to the messy rollout of the files, Epstein survivor Haley Robson, a Republican, told cnn, I am no longer supporting this administration. I redact any support I've ever given to him. Pam Bondi, Cash Patel. I'm so disgusted with this administration. I can't tell you how many people I've heard that same thing from. People that voted for Trump, people that supported him. Maybe not, you know, vocal like a MAGA supporter, but people that thought things were gonna be a little different, thought that Trump was going to focus on the things that matter instead of the bullshitting around that he's doing. You know, remember the no new wars? Well, here we are about to have a war with Venezuela for no good reason, by the way. Not going to stop anything when it comes to drugs, especially fentanyl. And for those of you who are new to the podcast, it's a topic that I've extensively talked about. The war on drugs is very personal to me because of how many people I've lost. And I promise you that none of them would have been saved by a boat being blown up off the coast of Venezuela. You know what would have saved them? Wraparound services. An actual facility that treated not only the addiction, but the mental problem that comes with it. What caused the addiction? That's what needs to be treated. I mean, folks, not for nothing, but we have lost, like, over 900,000 people since 2011 to drug overdose. And that's why I call it the American genocide. So I'm not going to go too far down that rabbit hole in this episode, but it's certainly a topic that is near and dear to my heart. And I think that if we want to deal with the drug issue and we want to deal with it the right way, blowing up some boats off the coast of Venezuela is not the way to do it. Now, if that's part of the overall strategy, great, but if that's all you're doing, forget it. And if you want a maha, then it starts with taking care of all of the people here in this country that are dealing with addiction. She then appeared to reference comments from Trump that he made on December 22 when the President said, it's a terrible thing that photos of famous people were being released in the Epstein files because some had nothing to do with Epstein and simply happened to cross paths with them at some point. So, in other words, what he's saying is that you're too stupid to know the difference between people that were adjacent to Epstein and people that were enabling him. That's what Donald Trump thinks. He really thinks that everybody's stupid. But the truth is, the only thing that's stupid is the way that he's managed this whole entire affair. If you're telling the public and the world and the survivors that just because somebody is in a picture with him doesn't automatically mean they were involved in the crimes against children, which I understand, and I get that fully, then why are you so scared to release the files and why has there been so much resistance? Robson wondered aloud, if it's just a picture, why are you going above and beyond to hide the identities of these men? And that's the truth. If it's just a picture and they just cross paths, the truth will come to light. Explain yourself like I've been telling you to do from the very beginning. But all of you wanted to run, all of you wanted to hide. And now that the butcher bill is showing up, you don't want to pay it. Well, guess what? The days of dining and dashing are long over and that bill is doing full. 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