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It's called Karma Donald. And the walls are closing in. So not only is Trump on The Epstein files 38,000 times in the documents that have already been released, there's 3 million documents that are still missing. We're now even learning about the deeper ties that his administration has, even more than we knew the day, a day or so ago. U.S. commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick not only continued the relationship with Epstein well after he said he stopped talking to him, but apparently they were business partners together. They entered into an investment for a company called Adfin together in December of 2012, four days. They were apparently hanging out with each other and with apparently Lutnick's children were on the island as well or with him. And then they entered into this deal to invest in a company called Adfin where they were both partners on. We're learning that the Pentagon, Deputy Secretary Feinberg and a company he co founded appear in hundreds of documents in the Epstein files, including personal emails sent by Epstein and whistleblower emails alleging a vast money laundering scheme. We're learning that Navy Secretary John Phelan is named on the flight map manifests found among the documents that were produced there. So, yes, and Donald Trump's appeared 38,000 times. Let's be clear about that. Shifting gears for a moment to what's going on in Milan right now, where there is the Winter Olympics, the United States delegate delegations getting absolutely booed. J.D. vance, Rubio, Ushavans getting mercilessly booed. There are protests there against ICE because it was believed that the Trump regime may be sending ICE officials to guard J.D. vance, when he's in Italy, when he's in Milan, and maybe some of the athletes. And that's what the Trump regime said at first. And now they're saying, no, it's actually DHS special agents, Department of Homeland Security special agents out there where the people are doing f ice. Chants, booing mercilessly JD Vance and Marco Rubio and all of them, you have people doing urine protests against ice, like the British American Olympian Gus Kenworthy. He's a freestyle skier, and he posted urine saying f ice on his Instagram account, and that's gone mega viral. And then you had Donald Trump two nights ago, he was posting the photo or the video of former President Obama and former first Lady Michelle Obama with their faces photoshopped on apes. And then Donald Trump's regime first said, that's just Donald Trump being funny because he's saying this is like the Lion King movie and he's the king of the jungle. And so that's why he posted that photo. And he did it, but that's why he posted it. Then they blamed it on a staffer and said, Trump didn't know what he was. He had nothing to do with it. Even though it was posted at midnight. Apparently there are staffers who are making the post for him at midnight. But then Donald Trump said, no, no, no, I was the one who did it. So let me just show you what went down here. Donald Trump was an Air Force One, of course, he was going to Palm beach, right? The. Going back to the site of the sex trafficking at Mar A Lago. Right? That was the site. I'm not. I'm not saying things that are like, ooh, Ben, you gotta say allegedly. No, I mean, undisputed fact. Mar A Lago was one of the sites where child sex trafficking was connected to. Right. Virginia Giuffre worked at Mar a Lago. She worked at the spa, and that's where she was recruited by Epstein and sex traffic. And she tragically died by suicide recently as her horrific, horrific stuff. And then we know that Trump, Mar a Lago, would send the spa to Epstein and Epstein would expose himself to the girls, and that was one of the ways he would try to recruit girls again. That's just something that's known right now, and that's a horrific fact. But Donald Trump says he's vindicated, even though he says Epstein's a great guy who likes women on the younger side. Even though Donald Trump says he grabbed. Donald Trump said that he grabs women by their vaginas without their consent. Because he's rich and he gets away with it. He said that he is. When he owns beauty pageants, he gets to look at girls naked, non consensually and inspect them. He goes. Because he becomes an inspector. Sick, sick, sick human being. Evil, evil, evil human being. Anyway, when Donald Trump was on Air Force One, how did I get there? I was. Yes, he was going to the crime scene. Mar a Lago. That's. Ah, yes. Donald Trump is asked by a reporter. So what's your message to many Americans who are very offended by you posting a photo with the former President of the United States and the former First Lady's heads photoshopped on apes? Would you want to apologize? Here's what Donald Trump says to the.
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Many Americans who are offended by the video. I didn't know about it, so I mean, it went up. I really have no message. All I know is here's my message that our country has never been in a position like this. We were a laughingstock all over the world and now we're a country that's respected more than we've ever been respected before. If you come back a year and a half ago, our country was a laughingstock and now we're respected all over the world. Like probably almost never before. I would say maybe like never before. And you know, it's okay.
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No apology again. He's a sick human. He's evil, he's horrible, he's trash. Should be nonpartisan. We should all agree that's just a real trash human. Right? I mean, he's just a bad. Just let's, let's not even talk politics that just speak basic morality. That's a horrible human being right there. Donald Trump is then asked about J.D. vance and America being booed in Milan. Here, play this clip.
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Did you see that the vice President got booed during the opening ceremony, though? What do you make of that? Sort of frosty. The vice President got booed during the opening ceremony. What do you make of that?
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Frosty.
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Is that true? Is that right? Yeah, it's surprising because people like him. Well, I mean, he is in a foreign country, you know, in all fairness, but he doesn't get booed in this country.
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Oh, and then Donald Trump won. Everybody to know, though, he's the least racist. No, there's never been a president less racist than him. That's clearly what people who aren't racist, I'll go around saying that they're the least racist. So if he says it, he says it. Here, play this clip.
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Black voters have been great to Me, I've been great to them. And I am, by the way, the least racist president you've had in a long time. As far as I'm concerned. I've had a great relation. Think of what I've done, okay?
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Ridiculous. Donald Trump is then asked about the fact that he sued the IRS for $10 billion. He sued his own government, and now he's gonna have the DOJ and Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, because the IRS is under the portfolio of the treasury department, pay him $10 billion. He's gonna give himself a $10 billion payout from taxpayer money, stealing our taxpayer dollars, because he's claiming that he was part of a, of an IRS data breach and his tax returns were leaked in 2021 as part of a data breach involving 400 to 500,000 other people's personal tax returns. So he's suing for $10 billion. And here's how he describes it. Play this clip.
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Mr. President, you sued or suing the federal. You're suing the federal government about your taxes. I'm wondering, is it fair to ask the American people to pay for that?
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Well, anything I win, I'm going to give 100% to charity.
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But that still takes it from the.
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American people because they give charity anyway. They give away $40 billion a year to charity. Our government, you know, our government gives away $40 billion plus a year to charity. So anything I win from that. But when they go and release your tax returns, which is totally illegal, people go to jail for that. And they've already found a person that did it. And as you know, they got in big trouble. And based upon that and other things, we did, and we did sue and anything I went, I'm giving 100% to charity. Very, very good and respected charities.
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What do you mean? No, because they're giving money to charity. What does that even mean? You're stealing taxpayer dollars. And you know, his assume it goes to charity. You understand what his charity scheme is, right? His charity scheme is he's gonna settle with the irs. Let's just assume it goes to charity, which I don't think it even will. He'll settle with the irs. He'll claim a personal physical injury under the IRS code so that he can take a personal injury settlement. He'll claim emotional trauma is my guess. So he won't pay any taxes on the money then. What he'll do is if he donates the money to a charity, he'll then use that as a deduction to then roll over year by year based on the income that he's now making by selling off semiconductor chips and other classified information from the United States to uae, the Saudis, Qatar, whoever, our foreign adversaries, they are getting our classified information. Trump's getting richer and richer. He's made 1.5 or $2 billion more that we know about right now. He's probably made a lot more than that. That's hidden in secret Qatari bank accounts. I don't know that I'm giving you my opinion. This is all First Amendment speech, opinion, speech, right. I'm allowed to articulate. This video is hereby protected by my First Amendment right to give you opinion. So let's just clarify that as, as well. And then Donald Trump will, will roll over, in my opinion, the charitable giving as a deduction and he'll say for the rest of his life he doesn't have to pay taxes. So that's what, that's his scheme there. When he says whatever. Okay. Here he's asked by a reporter, well, you frequently criticize Biden for not knowing what was going on in his name. But now you claim you don't know people who make social media posts on your behalf. Here, play this clip.
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You frequently criticize Joe Biden for not knowing what is going on in his name. This racist video that was posted on your social media doing a hell of a lot better than you do. You don't know what's going on. I know what's going on now. Joe Biden didn't have a clue. But we know everything.
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By the way, even Laura Ingraham wasn't buying what the Trump regime was selling yesterday. And she's like, can you really, this is what she was saying to Caroline Levitt. Are you really going to throw a staffer under the bus? Here, play this clip.
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It's been, it's been issue after issue at the same time and I know even dealing with this today. But Donald Trump's true social post set off a firestorm online. I only noticed it this morning as I was writing, but it was a video that he had posted portraying Michelle and Barack Obama with an ape motif. And I guess there were other politicians who were portrayed in other animal motifs as an Internet meme. Tim Scott, Senator, obviously African American, said he was praying it was fake because it was the most racist thing he'd ever seen out of the White House. The president should remove it, Caroline. I know the president did remove it, deleted it, but it was up for I think 12 hours or something like that. How did this happen? And can you really Throw a staffer under the bus for this.
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Well, look, Laura, you know, it was a meme that was posted by a staffer on the president's True Social account. It was from a Lion King video depicting, as you pointed out, different Democrats as different animals. I think Kamala Harris was depicted as a turtle in this video meme. The president did take it down. He spoke with lawmakers today. Out of respect for them, including Senator Tim Scott, the post was removed. But leave it to the leftist media, of course, to talk about this all day rather than talk about the fact that the Dow has broken over 50,000 points for the first time in our nation's history.
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Caroline Levitt's pure trash also, I mean, utterly evil. Then finally, let me bring you to Virginia right here where you have Virginia Governor Spanberger signing the bill allowing Virginia to vote on redistricting. Ten to one, they're going to wipe out four Republican seats in Virginia. And so Donald Trump's gerrymander plan totally backfired when he wanted to rig the midterms and do the mid decade redistricting. So he tried to obviously do it in Texas. They picked up five seats there. California Governor Newsom fought back, picked up five seats there, neutralized Texas. And now you have Democrats in Virginia picking up four seats there to counteract the other seats that Republicans are picking up in other districts. Then Democrats are still considering it in other states. Democrats are going to end up picking up more seats through this gerrymandering process than Trump did. And this is a fight that Trump started. And as you'll hear the new governor of Virginia, Governor Spamberger, who we interviewed a lot during the campaign here, she sets out, you know, we're doing this to save democracy here, play this clip. All right.
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On this one, our fourth and final one is the redistricting amendment. This is the work of the legislature. It's recognizing that Virginia has the opportunity and the responsibility to be responsive in the face of efforts across the country to change maps, that Virginia is moving forward with this temporary and responsive, responsive effort to redistrict. Now there, I know there's many press in the room. There are multiple steps. This is the one that will enable us to move forward with this referendum.
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I was going to go in order.
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But you're right there, that.
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Episode: Trump Loses it on Air Force One as Collapse Accelerates!!!
Date: February 7, 2026
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas
This episode centers on the escalating scandals and public controversies surrounding former President Donald Trump, highlighting his chaotic behavior aboard Air Force One, worsening legal troubles, and incendiary social media activity. The Meiselas brothers dissect the latest revelations from the Epstein files, public protests faced by American officials at the Milan Winter Olympics, and Trump’s legal maneuvering for a $10 billion payout from the IRS while lampooning and critiquing his attempts at damage control. The episode also touches on recent redistricting wins for Democrats in Virginia, spotlighting the wider fight for democracy and election integrity.
Trump ignites a national uproar after posting a video/photoshopped image with Barack and Michelle Obama’s faces on apes—a post that Trump’s regime alternately blames on a staffer and then Trump himself claims authorship.
Trump (05:56): “All I know is here's my message—that our country has never been in a position like this... we're respected all over the world like probably almost never before.”
When asked by a reporter if he would apologize for the racist post, Trump claims ignorance and gives no apology, making broad assertions about U.S. respect abroad.
On American officials getting booed overseas:
Trump (07:05): “Is that true? Is that right? Yeah, it's surprising because people like [J.D. Vance]. Well, I mean, he is in a foreign country, you know, in all fairness, but he doesn't get booed in this country.”
Trump repeatedly defends himself as having “been great” to Black voters and being “the least racist president...in a long time.”
Trump (07:31): “Black voters have been great to Me, I've been great to them. And I am, by the way, the least racist president you've had in a long time. As far as I'm concerned.”
The hosts break down Trump’s lawsuit against the federal government, seeking a $10 billion payout due to a 2021 IRS data breach.
Trump pledges (dubiously) to donate any winnings to charity, arguing that since the government gives money to charity, there’s no harm.
Trump (08:36): “Well, anything I win, I'm going to give 100% to charity... Our government gives away $40 billion plus a year to charity.”
The hosts dissect his anticipated scheme: claiming “personal injury” for tax-free compensation and using charitable contributions to offset future personal tax liabilities.
When pressed on blaming staffers for the racist post, despite frequent attacks on Biden’s awareness, Trump crudely pivots to insults and double standards.
Trump (11:06): “I know what's going on now. Joe Biden didn't have a clue. But we know everything.”
Even Fox News’s Laura Ingraham presses Trump’s spokesperson Caroline Levitt about the racist meme and the dubious staffer explanation:
Laura Ingraham (11:34): “Can you really throw a staffer under the bus for this?”
Caroline Levitt (12:25): “It was a meme... posted by a staffer... The president did take it down... But leave it to the leftist media to talk about this all day…”
Big political news as Virginia Governor Spanberger signs a bill enabling new redistricting, likely erasing four Republican seats and countering recent GOP gerrymanders.
The brothers note the irony of Trump’s attempt at mid-decade gerrymandering backfiring, with Democrats effectively neutralizing Republican gains in states like Texas and making significant ground in California and Virginia.
Governor Spanberger (14:05): “Virginia has the opportunity and the responsibility to be responsive in the face of efforts across the country to change maps.”
Summary Prepared for Listeners Who Missed the Episode
This episode provides listeners with both laughter and outrage as it chronicles Trump's latest unraveling—from the fallout of a racist meme and fragile defenses aboard Air Force One to plot twists on the legal and electoral fronts. The Meidas brothers contextualize these stories as part of a broader struggle for accountability, transparency, and the survival of American democracy.
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