Political Commentator (4:13)

Is having a disastrous Sunday morning as the dominoes are falling from the partial release of documents the Epstein files. About 3 million documents, which could be as many as 20 to 50 million pages are still being withheld by the Trump regime as the COVID up continues. But we're seeing international leaders starting to resign while the Trump cabal in the United States they're claiming they're vindicated when they are all over the file. So international leaders like Slovakia prime minister's national security advisor has just resigned. His name was in the Epstein file sending grotesque text messages to Jeffrey Epstein. This individual's name is Miroslav La Jacques and he and Jeffrey Epstein were talking about girls together. It was disgusting, frankly. No different than the way people in the Trump regime were being talked about. But in the United States, the Trump regime, they are part of this cabal and they are not resigning. But we're seeing international leaders tap out. Now Donald Trump, I'll give you a good example right here. Donald Trump's been sending his sycophants to do the morning shows and they're out there saying, oh, Donald Trump is vindicated. I have no more questions that we need to ask. Donald Trump was in these files over 5000 times in some of the most ghoulish grotesque and disgusting ways imaginable. If you've reviewed those files the way I have, all 3 million of them, watch the videos that I did. And you think anybody in this Trump cabal should be anywhere near the proximity of power. Strike that, anywhere near children or other human beings. These people should all be locked up. And if you don't think so, I don't know what's going on with you, to be honest. So Donald Trump sends MAGAGA Mike Johnson. Maga, Republican, speaker of the House. He's doing the Sunday shows, and he's asked by Kristen Welker. So. So do you have any questions, any concerns about, you know, how Donald Trump's mentioned in here? MAGA Mike's like, you know, absolutely. I do not. I do not. I think it's all okay. It's all hunky dory, I guess. Watch a MAGA Mike says here, play this clip.

Podcast Host (6:29)

President Trump's name appears throughout the Epstein.

Interviewer (6:32)

Files, including in many of the new documents released this week. Now, we want to stress appearing in the Epstein files does not amount to or imply criminal wrongdoing.

Political Commentator (6:42)

But.

Podcast Host (6:43)

But do you have any outstanding questions.

Interviewer (6:46)

Given that, about the relationship between President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein?

MAGA Mike Johnson (6:50)

I do not. I mean, I've spoken to the president about this privately and personally many times, and he's spoken very candidly and openly to the public. He says the same things privately that he does publicly. He's never had any concern about that. Remember, President Trump was one of the first people that called Epstein out. He kicked him out of Mar A Lago, off the property because he heard of some of the nefarious things he was engaged in. He's never had any concern about that at all.

Interviewer (7:15)

Called these files a Democratic hoax. But let me ask you about something.

MAGA Mike Johnson (7:19)

Well, what he said specifically was the hoax of the Democrats trying to turn this into a political issue and use it against him.

Political Commentator (7:26)

Then they bring in Todd Blanche, the number two at the Department of Justice, the Deputy ag Pam Bondi. The Attorney General is quite literally too scared to be in public right now. I think she's gonna resign soon if I'm gonna predict this. And I think Blanche is gonna become the new Attorney General or the acting Attorney general. Bo too afraid to make public appearances or be interviewed. Like, she's like that scared right now after what's gone down. But remember Todd Blanche, who I'm about to show you right now, he was Donald Trump's former criminal defense attorney. He literally. His job was to represent Trump in criminal cases where Trump was convicted on felonies 34 separate felony counts. So Todd Blanche, who's now the number two at the Department of Justice, he's asked by Dana Bash on cnn, so did you look into those allegations against Donald Trump in the files that we've all read now and covered? Because they're pretty serious right there. And Todd Blanche, again, Trump's criminal defense lawyer and also the number two at the Department of Justice, says the following. Here, play this clip.

CNN Reporter (8:34)

Among these new files is a list compiled by the FBI just in August of numerous salacious, and to be really clear, unverified allegations about President Trump. Why did the FBI create, create this list last year and have all of these claims been investigated by the doj?

Todd Blanche (8:54)

So, look, it's not about President Trump. It's around. It's about a ton of people, multiple, multiple, multiple people that, that were, quote, in the Epstein files. And what I think folks will see when they review the materials we released is that there have been hundreds of, of calls made to the FBI where allegations are made by either anonymous individuals or people who are very quickly determined to not be credible, whether it's the nature of what they're saying or the fact they won't provide any information or corroboration. And that's part of the Epstein files. So go ahead.

CNN Reporter (9:27)

I understand that, but the fact that you created a list, the FBI created a list about the allegations against President Trump is certainly noteworthy. I mean, he's a sitting president. And the question is whether or not the doj. But the question is, and I'm not saying that they're, that they're verified at all. And that's what my question is to you. Did you look into what you have on those lists?

Todd Blanche (9:55)

Yes, of course, but no, but what? You're not being fair in that question, because that index, that list you're talking about was not just President Trump, it was all kinds of individuals, other politicians, other, quote, famous people, where we wanted to understand, okay, there were members of Congress that were accusing us of hiding things, which we're not doing and which we haven't done. And so we wanted to understand why and where that was coming from. And it turns out there was a number of claims made by either, like I said, anonymous people or somebody, for example, calling and saying, I used to have a roommate who told me this sensational story. So just, you know, obviously that's not something that can be really investigated. Right. What's your roommate's name? I don't remember. Right. So that's what that's about. I don't Appreciate it being directed towards Donald J. Trump because that, that pushes a narrative that is completely false. It's, there are all kinds of people that are mentioned in the, the quote, Epstein files that, that we had to look at and run down.

CNN Reporter (10:53)

Yeah, no, I understand. He is the only sitting president who we're talking about. I do want to.

Political Commentator (10:58)

And then Todd Blanche tried to continue his cover up tour this morning and he declares the review is over. There's no more review of the Epstein files happening. He again blames the judges for why certain documents are not being turned over. And then he says there's only like a handful of missing documents. We're not stupid. Todd Blanche. There are millions and millions of documents and pages that are still missing. As many as 20 to 50 million pages are probably still missing. And that's probably even more devastating than the stuff that's been produced. I'll talk about that in a moment as well. Here, play this clip.

Todd Blanche (11:36)

Will more documents be released? We have released. There are a small number of documents, as I said on Friday that we're waiting for a judge to, to say we can, we're allowed to release because of a protective order. But there, this, this review is over. I mean, we reviewed over 6 million pieces of paper, thousands of videos, thousands, tens of thousands of images and which is what the, it required us to do. You know, it's interesting, leadership on the, on the Hill, Congressman Massie, Senator Schumer are quick to complain there is no way they have spent any time looking at the materials we produce because I know the materials we produce, we produce them on Friday. By Saturday, they're already complaining about what we did. And by the way, apparently Massie and others wrote a letter to come and review unredacted materials. I didn't get that letter yet. They leaked it to the press before they actually sent it to me.

Political Commentator (12:33)

But yeah, then of course, of course you all remember that last night Donald Trump, when he was on Air Force One said from what I've heard from very powerful people, they've told me that I am vindicated in the files and that it shows that I did nothing wrong. It literally shows the opposite. It shows that you've been involved in the most disgusting behavior imaginable. Based on those allegations, I frankly can't fake fathom much worse scenarios for Trump, Lutnick and the rest of that cabal. But anyway, here, play this clip right here myself.

Donald Trump (13:08)

But I was told by some very important people that not only does it absolve me, it's the opposite of what people Were hoping, you know, the radical left that Wolf was a third rate writer, was conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to hurt me politically or otherwise. And that came through loud and clear. So we'll probably sue Wolf on that and maybe the embassy in the state, I guess, I don't know, but we're going to certainly sue them. What do you mean, I guess so? Because he was conspiring with Wolf to do harm to me politically. That's not a friend.

Political Commentator (13:47)

I'll just give you my experience as a litigator. When you litigate against very bad actors the way I've litigated against them in the past when I was a practicing lawyer, first they don't produce the documents. Then when you force them to produce documents, what they'll do is they'll do a document dump where they will include some bad documents for themselves in there. But what they're really trying to hide is the even worse documents because they think that you'll believe, oh well, they turn these over so that must be it. Nothing else to see. But they're really hiding even worse documents. And I believe that's what's happening here as well. I think you believe it. Most people believe that. And the coverups just keep on continuing. The criminality continues. I read for you this article in my morning video, but let me share it with you again. The spy Sheikh from Abu Dhabi bought a secret stake in Donald Trump's company, the Abu Dhabi Sovereign Fund. Or through this Sheikh. Not even through the funds. Separately, through this prince, through this royal family member of Abu Dhabi did a $500 million investment for 49% of of world Liberty right before the United Arab Emirates won access to America's most classified chips, the most classified semiconductor chips Trump gave over to to the United Arab emirates after this $500 million investment was made in Donald Trump's company. Who's in this company? Donald Trump, Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr. Baron Trump, Steve Witkoff, Zach Witkoff, Alex Witkoff, the Trumps and the wit coughs. When the wit coughs are out there being Putin bootlickers as well. Four days before Trump's inauguration, lieutenants to an Abu Dhabi royal secretly signed a deal with the Trump family to buy a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial for $500 million. According to documents and people familiar. Rebecca Bellows writes, the buyer paid half upfront, steering $187 million to Trump family entities and $31 million to Witkoff entities. The investment was backed by the UAE National Security Advisor, Tanun bin Zayed. The deal put two executives of his company G42 on the board of World Liberty Financial along Eric Trump and Zach Witkoff. At the time the Abu Dhabi royal invested in World Liberty, the company Trump's company had no products. It had raised $82 million by selling a token called WLFI. But the investment didn't give the buyer, the UAE Abu Dhabi Fund, rights to future WLFI token sales, leaving Tanoon backed entity out of what was then the company's only source of revenue. So they put $500 million into nothing. Quite literally a quid pro quo. Okay, but then Todd Blanch, Donald Trump's number two at the Department of Justice. Okay, Donald Trump's criminal defense lawyer is asked about that. And what he does is he says Biden did the same thing. So it's Biden's fault. Watch this.

Todd Blanche (16:56)

Respond to those who say this is a serious conflict of interest. I love it when, when these papers talk about something being unprecedented or never happening before, as if the Biden family and the Biden administration didn't do exactly the same thing and they were just in office. So I look, I saw that article. I don't have a comment on it beyond President Trump has been completely transparent when his family travels business reasons, they don't do so in secret. We don't learn about it when we find a laptop a few years later.

Political Commentator (17:26)

Be very clear, Biden did not do that. Utter lie. Not even Biden didn't do anything remotely similar in the same planet or the universe. But assume for the sake of argument he did. Let's assume Biden did. All of you magas hated Biden and said that he was the worst person ever for all the conspiracies you threw his way. So your defense is to say that Donald Trump is as bad as you claim Biden was. That's the nice things that you say about him. No. But you lie about everything. Biden wasn't doing this. Nobody's engaged in this level of corruption right here. But I think the voters understand what's going on right here. Right. Because if you looked at what happened in Texas yesterday in Senate district number nine, there was a massive, massive upset that took place right there where you had Taylor Remt, the Democrat in this runoff beating the MAGA Republican candidate. Wow. And nobody expected that to happen. Right there. A massive upset by the Democrats right there. And you see right wing media is not covering this at all. And I think it's important that we see media bias what's being reported out there. I often get asked, how do I stay up to date on the news all the time. In order to do this podcast, um, my biggest go to news source is Ground News. It's a subscriber funded app and news site. And every day they pull in thousands of articles from around the world and organize them by story and then show you what the rights reporting, what the center's reporting and what the left is reporting. It's a game changer because as an active, responsible citizen, we must get our news from reliable sources. And in Trump's America, being informed about facts and media bias is the most important thing that you can do. But that's why I love Ground News. For every article, they also tell you, did a media conglomerate put this news out or was it independent media? 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So go to gr o u n D News mtn and we've pinned the link to purchase your subscription below. So check that out right now. I want to share with you also just these images right here of Liam Conejo Ramos and his father Adrian Conejo Arias as they boarded a flight February 1, 2026 from San Antonio where they were put in that concentration camp. Concentration camp in Dilley. They went back to their home in Minneapolis after a federal judge ordered that they be released from a Texas immigration detention facility. Look at Liam right here. Look at Liam and his father. Congressmember Castro, who was instrumental in getting Liam released, wrote yesterday, 5 year old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley Detention Center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home, but look what they're going Back to these are what I'm about to share with you are scenes from occupied Minneapolis this morning. Here's how our Aaron Rupert describes it. This morning, federal agents staged at the Powder Horn Park Recreation center lot and began to throw chemical irritants at observers. They also kidnapped an observer. Our parks are meant for our children, youth and neighbors. They should never be militarized zones meant to separate families. This was at 3345 15th Avenue at South Minneapolis. And I think about, I'm taking my daughter to a park right after I do this video. And to think about or ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo terrorizing children. And this is where Liam and his father are going back to. It should send chills through our spine. This shouldn't be a political issue. This is just downright wrong right here. But you had MAGA Mike Johnson on the morning shows this morning saying that we don't really agree that the ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo should remove their masks. And he also said, why would we go through this extra process of having judicial warrants? We don't need judicial warrants. That's what Maga Mike was saying. He disagrees with the Democrats in that because the Democrats want in future DHS funding bills a requirement that there be judicial warrants, not administrative warrants, which is just a restatement of the law. And Maga Mike's like, why would we do that? We don't want judicial warrants. Why add an extra layer of bureaucracy? Because that's in the Constitution. Maga Mike here, play this clip.

MAGA Mike Johnson (22:47)

But the mask, for example, the additional judicial requirement for a warrant would be a whole other layer of effectively bureaucracy. Remember, the immigration judges have already issued warrants and that's what the ICE officials are acting upon. So there's, there's a lot of details in this. We could get deep in the weeds. But we will do that over the next two weeks. And I hope that Democrats will be in good faith as Republicans are to try to bring some, some order to oil.

Political Commentator (23:13)

And then the rest of the Fox this morning in state regime media, it was Donald Trump sending his sycophants out like Caroline Levitt, who was lying about the economy. And she's like, inflation is down to 1.4%. No, it's not. The core core of CPI inflation is at 3.3% and surging. The last read of inflation is hotter than expected. We're not stupid. We know it's not good out there. Caroline, play this clip.

Caroline Levitt (23:37)

Because we need a new chairman of the Fed, not just for timing purposes, but also for our economy. Look, President Trump has brought the core annualized inflation rate down to 1.4%. This is a remarkable turnaround from the record high 9% inflation we saw under the previous administration. And President Trump has done the work. His policies are working, and the interest rates for the American people need to be lowered. Kevin Warsh ultimately will make that decision himself. But it's very unfortunate that Senator Tillis is making such comments.

Political Commentator (24:07)

But then Caroline keeps on promoting the utter failure. The Melania Trump movie. Here, play this clip.

Caroline Levitt (24:14)

And first of all, I want to say congratulations to Mrs. Trump, our beautiful, wonderful, classy first lady, on the debut of her documentary film. I know that it's a blockbuster movie in theaters now. And it's a really a great example of what the first lady is truly like behind the scenes. And she has a great influence on the president.

Political Commentator (24:33)

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