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When he flew to Milan, they said, oh, it was just an official visit, but I think it's important that we recognize this is all connected. Look, Cash Patel, Dan Bongino, that whole crew, they have the goods on Donald Trump. They have Donald Trump by the. You know what? Because they're actively, in my opinion, co conspirators with Donald Trump in covering up a child sex trafficking ring. They are covering up Epstein files. There are still about, I think, around 50 terabytes of Epstein files that are missing. That could be tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of documents that are far more devastating than even the devastating documents that have been released. And we know from the documents that have been released, the redacted documents have 38,000 references to Donald Trump in it. We believe there could be as many as a million million references in the unredacted files. And then in addition to the unredacted files, there's those additional 50 terabytes of documents. And so Keshe Patel and this whole Trump regime, like, to me, they're out there gallivanting around the country and gallivanting around the world because they know what Donald Trump was up to. They now have all of the information, not just on Donald Trump, but his inner circle and their friends and the Epstein class. And this is protectors of the Epstein class. So I think their view is, what's Donald Trump gonna do with me? Watch me drink a beer? I'm not even gonna work hard anymore. It doesn't even make a difference anymore. I'm gonna give my middle finger to everybody. I'm gonna fly on private jets. You can't. I'm untouchable because I know what's really gone down in the Epstein files, right? Patel's been read on, Bondi's been read on. You know, this whole regime, this, you know, Bongino, they've seen it. So I think they think there' Donald Trump can do to them. I mean, look, just look at Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker who's getting VIP treatment and Club Fed. And, you know, she. She had Donald Trump's number two at the doj, Trump's criminal defense lawyer meet with her. And after interviewing her and she said exactly what Trump wants, she got moved to this Club Fed VIP facility. So I think people are like, oh, got it. So Ghislaine has dirt on Donald Trump. Look how she's treated Cash Patel and, and Bongino, they're like, look, okay, what's he gonna do to us? He ain't gonna do anything. Does he scared of the info we have, by the way? You know who else knows that? Iran and Iranian hackers who are out there saying to Donald Trump as well, guess what we did when we hacked Truth social back in 2025. Guess what we have when we hacked your campaign back in 2024. Guess what we have when we've hacked Ehud Barack. We, those Iranian hackers, Three One Three Group and that whole crew over there, they've got, they've, they've been hacking and doing spear phishing into Trump and Trump's inner circle for many, many years right now. And the ayatollahs even hinted that they've got dirt on Donald Trump. So let's just take a look at some of these revelations just from the past 24 hours. Aaron Parnas from the Midas Touch network, he broke the following. I mean, it's in the Epstein files. But he brought attention to this yesterday in 20, in 2020, one year after Epstein died, an assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York discussed a confidentiality agreement with the Southern District of New York in connection with the investigation into the murder of Jeffrey Epstein. That's how they were referring to it within the prosecutor's office when in Trump's first regime and Trump's first administration, the murder investigation and getting out confidentiality agree, like the one we did when Epstein was murdered, not died by suicide murdered. And you know from our previous reporting as well here on the Midas Touch Network, that the day before Epstein died, the SDNY prosecutors in New York, they prepared a press release saying that Epstein died. The day before he died. They had prepared the documents saying he died. And it didn't have the language by suicide or by apparent suicide. They just said that he died. And I think they basically implied that it was a murder as well. Then the next day they said died by apparent suicide after he actually did die. Let's just take a look at this email. It's dated June 11, 2020, and it's from the prosecutors to each other, from Eastern District of New York prosecutors to Southern District of New York prosecutors. I'm an ausa, an Assistant United States Attorney in Eastern District of New York, and I'm working on an investigation into the death of an inmate at Brooklyn MDC Metro Det Center. The OCME told me that it signed a confidentiality agreement in connection with the investigation into the murder of Jeffrey Epstein. We were hoping to extend a similar agreement and I wanted to see if you could share the agreement or boilerplate version of it. I'm happy to speak over the phone if that's easier. My cell is. In other words, let's not put any more of this on email. Ocme the Office of Chief Medical examiner signed a confidentiality. Isn't there already HIPAA and privacy rules. Why would they need to separately sign a confidentiality order into the murder? Is what the prosecutors use the word. Jeffrey Epstein. That was in the past 24 hours. That story broke. Connor Stringer writes huge story this evening. This is from the Telegraph. Great out, great reporting from the Telegraph. Jeffrey Epstein paid private detectives to remove equipment from his home and store them in secret storage units across the U.S. search warrants reviewed by the Telegraph suggest U.S. authorities never raided the lockers, raising the possibility they may contain unseen evidence relating to Epstein and his associates. Epstein hid computers and photographs from the United States authorities in secret storage lockers the Telegraph can reveal. Documents uncovered by this newspaper show that Petto paid private detectives to remove equipment from his Florida home in an apparent attempt to prevent investigators from finding it. The documents also show that he rented six storage units across the US and used them to house items from his properties, including computers from his private Caribbean island. He leased at least one unit from 2003 when he was part of a Florida social set that included Donald Trump. Then they show credit card receipts obtained by the Telegraph show regular storage payments continuing until 29 the year of his death. The search warrants reviewed by the Telegraph suggest that US Authorities never raided these lockers, raising the possibility that they may contain unseen evidence relating to Epstein and his associates. The documents the Telegraph unearthed show that he instructed his private detectives to do this. He discussed moving computers and CDs from his private island in the U.S. virgin island, from West Palm beach, from New York. And he was apparently hiding this from the government and he was hiding this from prosecutors and from investigators who, by the way, doing basic investigative work could have been able to find this. So big story there. And then, you know, the Midas Touch Network reported over this past weekend and others did as well that that Ghislaine Maxwell is. This is the part that we reported that I think is important. She's pretending that she's unable to secure a personal lawyer for herself in conn connection with the criminal case where she was already convicted of child sex trafficking. And she's done with her appeals. She already lost at the Supreme Court. So she's done appealing. She's now filing what's called a habeas petition, which any prisoner can file just saying they've discovered some new evidence, extraordinary circumstances exist so that she should be released from prison. And she says, you know, this new information involves some of the stuff that she's seen in the. The files. She has the audacity to say, the files, Vindicator. She goes, now that I've seen the finals, the files, they're vin. They vindicate me because it shows. She argues, she's a sicko. She's a sicko pedo. She says it vindicates her because it shows that no minors were involved, that the minor. That the survivors lied about being minor. She said, the hell are you talking about, you sicko pedo. That's what she says. But anyway, she pretends she can't have a lawyer, but then her lawyers in a civil case that's been closed regarding Virginia Giuffre suing Ghislaine back in 2015. And we know Virginia Giuffre died by suicide about a year ago or so, that Virginia. In 2015, Giuffre sued Ghislaine. And in that case, Maxwell has hired lawyers to try to block 90,000 documents from coming out that are still being blocked in the Epstein files. And she's saying her privacy concerns are at stake and that this is Rule 6E grand jury material. And she's saying that. That these depositions should never come to light. Cause it involves sexual things involving her. Well, you. You are a child sex trafficker. So I don't care if this embarrasses you. I care about the survivors, you sicko. So there's that, that, that. There's that revelation that come out. But then she's telling the federal judge in the criminal case that she can't find a lawyer, so she needs to delay things there. But she has a lawyer in the old civil case, and she had a lawyer at the House oversight deposition where she invoked the Fifth Amendment all of those times. Right.
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So a few, few things I want to bring up here. So I think that Cash Patel look, I mean, just look at him. He's mocking Donald Trump. You know how Donald Trump wears the gold medal, the fake gold medal Cash Patel has, you know, basically the real gold medal that isn't his right. Donald Trump stole the Nobel peace prize from Machado. You have, you have Patel stolen valor stealing the gold medal from the hockey team. But just look at his behavior while he's covering up a child sex trafficking ring. You know, with Donald Trump, I mean, he's saying to the world, I don't give an F about this. I'm untouchable. Because this behavior is not just, is not just fireable. This is in my opinion, this is as criminal as you get. Imagine being at the FBI and seeing your boss behave like this. Here, play this clip of him in the locker room. Here's another clip that Kendallane and posted. And look, you, you want to know what I think is in those lockers? You want to know what I think is in Those lockers. I mean, look, say what you want, but Michael Wolf, who was Epstein, was potentially going to be Epstein's biographer. He was Donald Trump's biographer as well. Wolf has called it spot on. All the stuff that Epstein has, in my opinion. And Wolf said that, you know, there are photos that he saw of Donald Trump with girls of indeterminate age, with Trump with a stain on his pants, with these topless girls who have looked very young and that. Where are those photos? Wolf said he believed they were kept in a locker in a safe in Epstein's place. Where are those photos? Are those part of the ones that are being hidden? What if the FBI did actually get their hands on those and that's in the terabytes of documents that are being concealed. Remember when Michael Wolf said this. Here, play this clip.
Michael Wolf
But at any rate, at one point after Trump had been elected, and I was sitting talking to Epstein and he said, wait a minute, I gotta show you something. And then he went into his safe and he came out with, with, with, with photographs. They were, they were Polaroids, I, I think. And, and he kind of, kind of, they were kind of spread them out like playing cards. And it was Trump. I mean, I think there were a dozen of them. And, and it was Trump with girls of an uncertain age at Epstein's Palm beach house where all of the things that he would ultimately be accused of took place. And I remember very vividly three of them. There are two in which Trump is. The girls, topless girls are sitting on Trump's lap. And then a third in which he has a, a stain on the front of his pants. And the girls are kind of, kind of pointing at it, sort of bent over laughing, you know, cover, you know, you know, covering their mouths. Exactly. And pointing. Three or four girls. And those are the ones I specifically remember. And my assumption is, is that they, I mean, they were in the safe and I have seen them on other occasions take them out of the safe. And I, and I think it's, it's certainly not unlikely that they were in the safe when the FBI came in after his arrest and took everything from, from the house, including everything that was in the safe.
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And folks, people aren't buying any of this though, right? I mean, even the right wing podcasters are not buying any of this. I mean, you have Andrew Scholz saying this here, play this clip. So now that we know that everybody from Trump, Patel, Bondi, Bongino, like everybody that was involved in this, ah, this is just a hoax. We don't have anything like they're all on record saying versions of this. Right. With the latest tranche. All of that is a lie? Yes. Right. Has it been proven effectively? That is a complete falsehood. What exactly is a falsehood? The statements that this is just a Democrat hoax and this is. I don't even know what that means. And then by the way, when Cash Patel was on state regime media, he was asked by Bret Baier, any regrets on how you've handled these files? Any regrets at all? Right. Any regrets? And here's what he says when he's asked if he has any regrets at all. Here at play this clip.
Guest or Interviewee
Professionals involved bouncing around the Epstein files. The last tranche we're told put out. Looking back since the beginning and you've been a part of talking about this and, and DOJ has obviously produced these elements. Do you have regrets about how it's been handled?
Government Official or DOJ Representative
Look, like any other hot topic issue, the American public and the world had a great interest in this. And what we did under President Trump's leadership is produced the most transparent DOJ in FBI in history. Three other administrations had the opportunity to do this and we produced everything we legally and lawfully could. We work with our partners in Congress, we follow the statutes and the court orders and we produce what, 3 million some pages. So I think we got to the result in the right way. Could we have gotten there faster? I'm not really sure. Because of numerous court cases, multiple protective orders, multiple court ceilings. And so now we've produced everything we can while protecting victims rights.
Guest or Interviewee
And do you think that it.
Commentator or Analyst
And let's just take a listen to what this Missouri voter says about this all. Let's play it. He needs to be removed. Trump needs to be removed. And everybody that is kowtow to him, Patel, Bondi and all those peoples need to be removed and prosecuted for their crimes against the public. And the fact that he's taken all our medical money to finance ICE is totally ridiculous. It's sick. You know, and finally, I think this is a major, you know, thing as well. I mean, look, I don't like showing videos of Tucker Carlson, but, but when Tucker Carlson was interviewing Mike Huckabee, the United States Ambassador to Israel, top official in the Trump regime. Just watch this exchange. This is shocking stuff. Here, play this clip.
Interviewer or Journalist
Many questions for the Justice Department, like why are millions of Epstein files still classified? Why do you think that is?
Guest or Interviewee
I have no idea. I haven't kept up with that. I've never met the man. I don't know him.
Interviewer or Journalist
You haven't Kept up with the Epstein disclosures.
Guest or Interviewee
I mean only from a distance. I'm 6,000 miles away from D.C. these days. I'm pretty sure that there's so much.
Interviewer or Journalist
The current president of Israel, current president who I know you know, President Herzog knowing very well apparently was at Pedo Island. That's what it says in the disclosures. And of course we know that the former Prime Minister Ehud Barak was living on and off at Epstein's house. So still living. High level Israeli officials are directly implicated in Epstein's life if not his crime. So I would think that you'd be following this.
Guest or Interviewee
Only I was not aware that there was any connection with President Herzog. I would be surprised to hear that. And knew there was about the former Prime Minister who apparently had a lot
Interviewer or Journalist
of dealings with Epstein, business dealings and by the way, I, I'm not alleging anything but I mean it's in. Yes, in the Epstein files and I don't know that I've heard the current president of Israel respond to it but he is listed as a visitor to Peto island. So that, that, that's kind of a big deal. I wonder considering there are so many suggestions in the files, as I'm sure you know, of sexual abuse. And given that Jeffrey Epstein was a convicted sex offender, I wonder why the administration you work for would be holding millions of files which I believe belong to the public, hidden for quote, national security reasons. What would those national security reasons be, do you think?
Guest or Interviewee
Honestly, I think you've probably got more access to the White House sometimes than I do. You should ask them.
Government Official or DOJ Representative
Well, you're.
Interviewer or Journalist
But you're the government official representing that
Guest or Interviewee
White House in Israel and I represent the US In Israel to the Israeli government from the U. S Government. But honestly nobody has presented that to us. Well now they have a pre dynamic situation here. I don't know if you know that or not, but there's a lot going on in this part of the world and, and frankly that has not been top line item.
Interviewer or Journalist
But you're surprised to hear that the current president of Israel whom you know is listed as a visitor to Peto
Guest or Interviewee
island had never heard that. Never heard it even in the Israeli press.
Interviewer or Journalist
Are you going to ask him next time you see him?
Guest or Interviewee
I'll be happy to talk to him almost every week.
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Episode: Trump’s Dark Past Used by FBI to Shake Him Down?!!
Date: February 23, 2026
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas
Network: MeidasTouch Network
This episode dives into the latest revelations stemming from the Epstein files and their connections to Donald Trump, his inner circle, and powerful global figures. The Meiselas brothers analyze new stories about missing evidence, confidential government agreements, suspicious legal maneuvers, and the possible leverage these secrets may confer to both Trump associates and foreign actors. The tone fluctuates between investigative fervor and the brothers’ trademark lively, sometimes irreverent banter.
[01:15 – 07:40]
“Keshe Patel and this whole Trump regime… they now have all of the information, not just on Donald Trump, but his inner circle and their friends and the Epstein class… I’m untouchable because I know what’s really gone down in the Epstein files.” — [03:40]
[07:40 – 10:55]
"Epstein hid computers and photographs… in secret storage lockers… the possibility they may contain unseen evidence relating to Epstein and his associates." — [09:17]
[10:55 – 12:14]
"She's pretending that she's unable to secure a personal lawyer… she's a sicko pedo. She says it vindicates her because it shows… the survivors lied about being minors." — [11:34] (host commentary, echoing Maxwell’s shocking claim for context)
[14:12 – 16:09]
"There are photos that he [Wolf] saw of Donald Trump with girls of indeterminate age… Where are those photos? Are those part of the ones being hidden?" — [15:11]
[16:09 – 17:54]
“He [Epstein] went into his safe and he came out with photographs… Trump with girls of an uncertain age at Epstein's Palm Beach house… I remember very vividly three of them… My assumption is that they were in the safe and I have seen them on other occasions… I think it’s certainly not unlikely that they were in the safe when the FBI came in after his arrest.” — Michael Wolf [16:09]
[17:54 – 18:52]
"[We] produced everything we legally and lawfully could... Could we have gotten there faster? I’m not really sure." — Cash Patel [19:10]
[19:47 – 23:02]
"Why are millions of Epstein files still classified?... What would those national security reasons be, do you think?" — Tucker Carlson [20:44]
"Honestly, I think you probably got more access to the White House sometimes than I do. You should ask them." — Mike Huckabee [22:19]
On leverage and impunity:
“He’s saying to the world, I don’t give an F about this. I’m untouchable. Because this behavior is not just fireable. This is… as criminal as you get.” — [14:12]
On government secrecy:
“Why would they need to separately sign a confidentiality order into the murder? Is what the prosecutors use the word. Jeffrey Epstein.” — [08:37]
On concealed evidence:
“Search warrants reviewed… show US authorities never raided these lockers, raising the possibility they may contain unseen evidence relating to Epstein and his associates.” — [09:17]
On global implications:
“Iran and Iranian hackers… saying to Donald Trump, guess what we did when we hacked Truth Social... They've got dirt on Donald Trump.” — [04:42]
Throughout the episode, Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas blend sharp, fact-driven analysis with pointed humor and plain indignation. They emphasize the extraordinary volume of yet-unseen Epstein evidence implicating Trump and global elites, and scrutinize the culture of impunity among Trump’s associates. The brothers insist accountability—both legal and public—remains elusive due to strategic concealment, legal maneuvering, and international intrigue. The episode closes with an urgent call for transparency and independent journalism.