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Shopify.com setup Donald Trump's Department of Justice has been caught red handed deleting massive troves of information about individuals convicted of crimes during the January 6th insurrection who were also involved in child sex crimes. You heard that right. The Trump regime, the Epstein class deleting information about individuals convicted of child sex crimes who were invol in the January 6th insurrection. Hat tip to Merrill Cornfield from the Washington Post, who caught the Department of Justice doing this? The Department of Justice then responded, let me show you what went down and I'll also share with you. While all of this is taking place, including Donald Trump setting up a $1.8 billion slush fund for January six insurrectionists using our taxpayer dollars. You have MAGA Republicans like Ron Des running away from the cameras like the cowards that they are refusing to answer questions. Watch as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis runs away from a very basic question and I'm going to show you in a moment what he's also running away from. Donald Trump's Department of Justice deleting information about these individuals who Trump wants to pay money to who are also involved in child sex crimes. Let's watch DeSantis running away.
Interviewer
Governor, what do you think of the weaponization fund, the DOJ fund?
Narrator/Host
Could you comment on that?
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Now here's what was posted by Merrill Kornfield. She posted the following the Trump administration is quietly deleting info about the Capitol attack from the Department of Justice website as it prepares to give funds to to these January 6th insurrectionists. This week the Department of Justice deleted a press release about one man with an ongoing child sex solicitation case who came to the Capitol with bear spray. She then shows the before and after. The before is the press release. The after currently page not found here was the press release that was deleted. Houston man sentenced to prison for assaulting law enforcement with dangerous weapons during January six Capitol breach. A Houston man was sentenced to prison today for assaulting law enforcement and other charges related to his conduct during the breach of the US Capitol on January 6th. His actions and the actions of others disrupted the joint session. Andrew Take, 35, of Houston, Texas was sentenced by U.S. district Judge Carl Nichols, by the way, a Trump appointed judge to 74 months in prison, 36 months of supervised release, and ordered to pay $2,000 in Restit. Shiitake pled guilty to one count of assaulting, resisting and impeding certain officers using a dangerous weapon, which is a felony. He pled guilty on December 20, 2023. This is an individual who pled guilty who was sentenced by a federal judge, a judge appointed by Donald Trump. You look at the website, it says page not found. But let's dig deeper about who Andrew Take is. September 30, 2025, Andrew Take, pardoned for January 6 insurrection, pled guilty to Harris County, Houston child sex crimes. Here's what we learned about him. The plea agreement he pled guilty again requires Taki to register as a sex offender for the next 10 years. He was accused of sending explicit messages and photos to an undercover police officer posing as a 15 year old on the Plenty of Fish and Dating website. Now, once the Trump regime was exposed, deleting this information. What did they say? Remember Merrill Kornfeld says the Trump administration quietly deleting info about this person who then pled guilty to the child sex crime as well. The DOJ rapid response account says nothing quiet about it. We are proud to reverse the Department of Justice's weaponization under the Biden administration. We will do everything in our power to to make whole those who were persecuted for political purposes. This includes stripping the Department of Justice's website of partisan propaganda. Wow, Partisan propaganda. Posting public information about an individual who pled guilty to assaulting police officers who was later found guilty also by plea bargain of a child sex crime involving a 15 year old. I mean, this Trump regime is a bunch of despicable, vile rats. These are monsters. This Epstein class. I'm sorry, I get so angry. They're deleting this and calling this liberal propaganda is calling out people involved in child sex crimes who were also pled guilty to assaulting police officers. Merrill Kornfield, she did a great job. She posted this as well. Here's another press release that was archived last month but is no longer on the DOJ website describing the first breach of the police barricades around the Capitol building. This was deleted by Trump's DOJ. Four men sentenced for actions during January six capital breach. And it talks about individual sentenced to eight years. Another individual sentenced to 36 months. Another individual sentenced to 30 months. And these were all people involved in very violent crimes, brandishing deadly weapons, inflicting bodily injury. Serious issues involving Capitol officers and people who were there. Here's another one. This now deleted press release describes in graphic detail an attack on police officers. Upon reaching the front, Dempsey threw a short pole like object into the tunnel, striking a police officer. Dempsey shouted, fuck you cops. Dempsey is someone who Donald Trump is going to be giving our taxpayer dollars to under the plan as a reward for striking a police officer with a pole like object and trying to seriously injure or perhaps kill the officer, saying fuck you cops. You know, I don't like cursing, but I need to describe exactly what the conduct is which the DOJ once again says we are removing all partisan propaganda. I mean, I don't know how any police union can be supportive of this Trump regime unless the police union leaders hate the police. Because when I read that conduct, this is what the Trump regime is doing while rewarding also people who were convicted of child sex crimes like Taki in that first thing that I read right there.
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Jamie Dupree writes, the Justice Department eagerly admits they are erasing press releases about January six convicts. Those criminals attacked police and targeted Congress for only one reason that day because of Trump's lies about the 2020 election. Now Maga Republican Senator Kramer, he says that he is very upset right now that Donald Trump would inject this slush fund while the reconciliation bill had not been passed. Because now Republicans have to deal with Democrats adding amendments to the reconciliation bill to block Donald Trump's slush fund. And now Republicans are being put on the spot in a way that they can't hide what they're trying to do with Donald Trump. So they're now telling Donald Trump and Attorney General Blanche, we can't put your slush fund in anymore because now Democrats are smartly calling their bluff by trying to tie it to this reconciliation bill. So we've got that going on as well. Now there's more information about just the disgusting behavior by Trump's doj. Apparently they with Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch working with MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives in the House Oversight Committee, which is part of the RICO criminal enterprise as long as along with the doj, the DOJ is a criminal enterprise. And the Trump regime White House criminal enterprise they all apparently work together to coordinate. Right before Howard Lutnick a few weeks back was supposed to sit under oath and take a deposition in the House Oversight Committee. Guess what happened. He cut a $5 million check to House Republicans to the main House Republican PAC, the main House Republican super PAC political action committee, right before his testimony. And then the House Oversight Committee canceled his deposition under oath and then called it an informal involuntary interview. No video cameras, not under oath because Lutnick paid $5 million to Republicans. And that was all worked out with Trump, Trump's doj, the same doj, the Epstein class DOJ that is now covering up child sex crimes as well by removing other in public information about January 6th insurrectionists from the DOJ website. Here is what MAGA Republican Congressmember James Comer had to say back on May 6th before we knew about this $5 million transaction that the New York Times just reported on. Here's what he had to say. Play this clip.
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Based on, you know, his description of events, do you have any concerns about the secretary's conflicting statements? And why not do this as a videotape?
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Well, this is, you know, with this transcribe, he's coming in voluntarily, first of all. So we didn't video, we don't video. People that come in volunteer. We didn't video. Ted, wait. Last week and, but at the end of the day, the transcripts, the most important thing, I assume there'll be Democrat members here today. If not, there'll be staffers. I know there was criticism. I read somewhere that a member, too, was complaining that this was on a day when Congress wasn't in session. When this was scheduled, we were supposed to be in session. This, this day, this week was flipped with King Charles last week. So when we scheduled this, he was supposed to be here. So, you know, if you're interested in investigation, you can, you can come here. I missed my son's baseball game last night because I want to be here, obviously, for this interview.
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And now who's leading these efforts in the Justice Department? Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. Todd Blanche, Donald Trump's former criminal defense attorney, the one who represented Donald Trump in the New York case where Trump was convicted of dozens of felony counts. Yes. There's a felon in the White House who is also found civilly liable for sexual assault. Yes, there is a sexual predator in the White House. And then Todd Blanche, as I'm sure you know the story now, also cut a deal with Donald Trump to prevent any further IRS audits or tax audits about Donald Trump. Trump's company, Trump's kids, they have full tax immunity. They don't have to pay taxes anymore because Donald Trump filed a frivolous $10 billion lawsuit against the government in January 2026, alleging conduct from 2019, when Trump was in office, a claim that was time barred, patently frivolous, and that there's no basis for that. It also affected 450,000 other people as well. But now I will share with you what Todd Blanche recently said on a podcast hosted by Stephen Miller's wife, who apparently, even though nobody watches this on YouTube, she's gonna be getting a show on CBS state regime media with Barry Weiss. Listen to what he Said about the Epstein Klein list. Todd Blanche, let's play it.
Todd Blanche
Does a client list exist? Is the government list. Does an Epstein client list exist and is the government in possession of it?
Interviewer
No. I mean, listen, everything. I can ask you the same question, right, because everything's been released. So there's. There, there's what's commonly referred to as the client list, if I were speculating, is the. The black book that has been released for years and years and years. That was basically Epstein's address book.
James Lutnick
He.
Interviewer
There was a list of masseuses. It's not a client list. Obviously those are. A lot of those women were actually victims. That. That exists. But I don't even, to be honest with you, I don't know what a client list is. And I'm not trying to be naive, but what, what, what would a client list consist of? You mean a list of Mr. Epstein's, the people he was supposedly blackmailing? Is it people that were his business clients, his personal clients? But no, I have not seen such a list.
Political Commentator
And again, you see the connections here about what's going on. Finally, Todd Blanche says that there was never an Epstein cover up at all. Here's what he has to say. Let's play it.
Todd Blanche
Do you think the investigators covered it up? Given how many victims there are, surely. I mean, there should be more prosecutions and more charges than there are.
Interviewer
Well, look, the Epstein files are available for everybody to see, so it's not. So do I think there was a cover up? No, I don't. But it's not just up to me. Everybody that's watching this, everybody that the Epstein. The Epstein transparency has now allowed us to release the entire Epstein files.
Todd Blanche
There's still 3 million held back, though not all of them are public.
Interviewer
No, they're all public.
James Lutnick
No.
Interviewer
So look, that's. That's not true. So the. There's a narrative that there's 3 million pages that are being held back there. They have nothing to do with Epstein.
Political Commentator
And then of course, Donald Trump's speech that he just gave in. In New York, that really weird speech where he said the following about Lutnick. And then here's what Lutnick had to say. Let's play it.
James Lutnick
Because the money we're being made. Is that right, Mr. Lutn? Secretary of Commerce is here. Looks good, looks handsome. Reasonably. He doesn't look like Jackson. I'd rather look like Jackson. I'll take Jackson any day. Look, serving in the cabinet of Donald Trump is the greatest honor of a lifetime. As his commerce Secretary, my job is to bring in investment in America. And we brought in $18 trillion. We're bringing confidence back to America.
Political Commentator
One more time. Hat tip to Merrill Cornfield. Great investigative reporting. They're catching what the DOJ was doing. And then the DOJ publicly posted. We ain't doing it quietly. We help people. You heard what they said. We help people who were convicted also of child sex crimes. Huh? What are we doing here anyway? Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Date: May 23, 2026
Hosts: Ben, Brett & Jordy Meiselas
Theme: Exposing actions by the Trump administration to systematically delete incriminating DOJ press releases, especially about January 6th insurrectionists involved in sex crimes, and the broader implications of these efforts for democracy, accountability, and the ongoing "slush fund" controversy.
This episode features the Meiselas brothers as they cover breaking developments regarding claims that the Department of Justice (DOJ), under the Trump administration, is deliberately erasing press releases and data concerning individuals convicted for their roles in the January 6th insurrection, including those convicted of child sex crimes. The hosts deliver a detailed, impassioned breakdown—citing reporting by Washington Post’s Merrill Kornfield—on how these deletions are reportedly linked to efforts to funnel taxpayer dollars to January 6th convicts and shield Trump allies. The episode also delves into corruption in Congressional oversight, the controversial role of Todd Blanche as Acting Attorney General, and alleged cover-ups tied to Jeffrey Epstein's client list.
(02:57-10:18) The hosts detail how the DOJ under Trump is caught “red handed” deleting online records about January 6th criminals, including those with concurrent convictions for child sex crimes.
Deletions Framed as Anti-Partisan
Rewarding Offenders with Taxpayer Dollars
(04:26-11:59) MAGA Republicans, including Ron DeSantis, try to avoid discussing the DOJ fund when confronted by the media.
Republican Senators “Upset” at Timing
(11:59-17:09) The hosts implicate Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and MAGA leaders in using DOJ and House oversight as a criminal enterprise.
James Comer, House Oversight, & Deflection
On Deleting DOJ Releases:
On DOJ’s Public Defense:
On Blanche & Epstein:
On Congressional Corruption:
The brothers mix incisive legal and political analysis with direct personal commentary, humor, and outrage. Their language is passionate, with an unfiltered, prosecutorial style typical of the MeidasTouch approach: they blend evidence, sarcasm, and explicit calls for accountability. Notable moments are delivered with heightened emotion, particularly regarding issues of sexual predation and institutional corruption.
The episode offers a comprehensive, forceful takedown of the Trump DOJ’s attempts to conceal damaging information, ties these actions to broader corruption narratives within the GOP, and ends with a direct appeal to support independent media and democratic accountability. It’s a must-listen for anyone seeking to understand the current battle over justice, memory, and the rule of law at the intersection of the White House and Congress.