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Breaking: Calls for Trump’s Impeachment Escalate as Epstein Files Revelations Grow
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Aaron
I just spent the afternoon reviewing Pam Bondi's testimony in the Epstein investigation and while she threw Todd Blanche completely under the bus and I can show you the exact times when she did it, how she did it, and more. She refused to talk about her conversations with Donald Trump, which is not really surprising, but it's still on the record. At the same time, Donald Trump's name is coming down from the Kennedy Center. This afternoon, a memo was sent to all Kennedy center employees to begin the process of removing the Trump name from everything Kennedy center related and it'll be off the side of the building by the end of next week. I will be there or I will try to be there when it happens. But Trump is moving on to instead putting his name on parts of the Lincoln Memorial and much more. I speak with Governor Tim Walls, who has called for Donald Trump's impeachment in an exclusive new interview. So like Comment share and if you can subscribe to my substack link below to support my work. A lot of you guys have commented saying I look extra tired this week. Well, I am. My daughter isn't sleeping too well, but that's okay right now. I love this work and I'm not slowing down. So if you value independent journalism that isn't afraid to ask difficult questions, please consider subscribing to my substack link below. Here's Pam Bondi's testimony Pam Bondi was asked whether President Trump directed her or any subordinates to take any official action related to Jeffrey Epstein or Maxwell. Each time she was asked about Donald Trump, she said the same thing. I'm not going to discuss any conversations that I've had with the President of the United States. But when asked what was your role in carrying out the entire Epstein Files Transparency act, she says, quote, todd Blanche supervised the entire process, throwing Todd Blanche under the bus and confirming that Todd Blanche, the current Attorney General of the United States of America was was responsible for everything. Epstein related other conversations she was asked about between her and Trump. She said, I'm not going to discuss any conversations. Once again. And she was asked what her understanding was to the extent Trump was aware of Epstein or Maxwell's crime. She said she didn't know. So those are the top lines from the Bondi testimony. But it is pretty significant nonetheless that she's willing to come out and kind of throw Todd Blanche under the bus like that. And Todd Blanche, for his part, is facing renewed scrutiny by Epstein survivors. Epstein survivors released a new statement today that I obtained exclusively calling out the acting Attorney General. The statement reads in part, Let me show you it right now. It says, quote, the DOJ's post on Twitter calling a woman hysterical for demanding that obvious leads be pursued is insulting, unserious and revealing goes on say survivors and their advocates are not being hysterical. They're asking the Department of Justice to do its job, review the evidence, pursue credible leads, meet with the people who come forward and provide honest answers about what has been held withheld and why. Goes on to say Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch and the DOJ cannot continue to claim it is protecting victims while refusing to meet with survivors, failing to explain what has done with their evidence, and dismissing legitimate outrage as hysteria comes this afternoon as staff at the Kennedy center have been officially told by the Office of the General Counsel to remove any references to the Trump Kennedy center or the Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy center for the Performing Arts, reverting the name back to the Kennedy center or the center. Donald Trump's name is coming down. It will be down by June 12, but that hasn't stopped him from potentially now putting his name on something else,
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Donald Trump
the Lincoln Memorial, doing something that just came up. We'll have a little breaking news here because nobody's heard of it. But at the Lincoln Memorial, the front was supposed to be the back. The back was supposed to be the front. It never got built because they built two roadways behind it after it was built. And it shut off the gateway to the water. That was really going to be the main entry. And we're going to be doing that. We're going to, it's called the promenade, be the promenade. They want to call it the Trump Promenade, but I don't know if I want to do that. But it's going to be beautiful. It's a beautiful project. And it's going to take the Lincoln Memorial right down to the Potomac, which it was always scheduled to do. But when they built the roads, that was the end of that. But we have a way of beautifully going over those two roads, highways, very, very strong, very important roads, actually, as you know, from the bridge. But it's going to be great. So can I ask Doug, just for just a couple of seconds to talk about those, those three great projects that we just.
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Aaron
So the Trump Promenade is now being built. That's the latest attachment of the Lincoln World. Now, I spoke with Governor Tim Walls of Minnesota about the Trump family corruption. And I asked simply point blank, do you think Donald Trump should remain in office? He says, no, it's time for impeachment. Like Comment Share subscribe to my substack link below to support here is Governor Walz excited today to be joined by Minnesota Governor Tim Walls. Now, Governor Walz, I gotta ask you, right now we are seeing unprecedented levels of possible corruption from the White House. A lot of money being moved between Trump administration officials, specifically stock trading. I gotta get your reaction. What is your reaction to the fact that the president of The United States traded 3,3700 times in Quarter 1 of 2026 in the stock market?
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Governor Tim Walz
Yeah, it's it. Well, first of all, thanks for having me, Aaron, and thanks for covering this. Look, I, I go way back with this. I was one of the original authors with Brian Baird from Washington State of the Stock act, the idea that there's insider trading in members of Congress. A study had been done in the early 2000s that members of Congress outpaced the Stock market, you know, in winnings, far outpaced the average person. So what it meant was it was the, the greatest collaboration of really intelligent people or they were trading insider information. And when it's Congress, I would go with the latter. And that's exactly what was happening. And so this idea that, that you would trade stocks on information that you had is insidious. It undermines faith in government. It cheats the system. It puts all of us at risk. And we've seen everyone in the past, certainly at the White House level, and we tried to do it in Congress, try and put firewalls up on that, but this president won't release his tax returns. He's traded, as you said, thousands of. He's got rid of $100 million fine against him, he's trying to use the IRS against him, and then his whole family's involved with things like drone activities or these prediction markets, which, by the way, we became the first state to ban. In a time when faith in government and institutions is at an all time low, this just adds to it. And let's be very clear, this president is a failure at business except when he got elected to office and can use corruption except. And it's frustrating to me. I'm glad to see there are some movements, but I think I need to be. It's not just this president, unfortunately. There's Democrats that are trading stock in Congress too. And I think it should be a practice that we should take a pledge. Don't trade any individual stocks. I wore it with a badge of honor when the Wall Street Journal said that I was the least wealthy person to ever run for vice president. That's because I was middle class and that's the way it should be. I went into office and, and I'm going to leave office with the same net worth. You're not in office to get wealthy. If you want to do that, go work in the private sector.
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Aaron
Now, the White House talks a lot about fraud. When it comes to your state of Minnesota, you've used Minnesota as kind of the poster child for their fraud investigation. What's your response to the White House making Minnesota kind of the headline in 2026 as it relates to fraud?
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Governor Tim Walz
Yeah. Well, look, fraud is insidious. And did it happen here? Yes. That's why dating back six years to when I came into office, we've been prosecuting people. Will people still try to steal Y and I've taken responsibility. We're doing things. I've asked the legislator to give me more authority to stop payment I've given them. We now have an inspector general that we didn't have before, more tools to be able to do that. But I want to be very clear throughout everything that's happened in Minnesota, we're investigating, we're putting people in prison and we're correcting our system. Not a single state employee was involved in any of this. And for myself included, I have released 40 years of tax returns. That is very, very different than corruption. And that's what you're seeing at the national level. So look, we should fight fraud and we're doing it here in Minnesota. And I will leave office with making Minnesota the most secure. Our program integrity will be as high as anybody. But will the fraudsters continue to try and do it? Yes, they will. But that's very, very different than the people who are in charge enriching themselves. And so I have to take it a little bit on this is I'm not going to be lectured about good governance from this White House, from the corruption and the nepotism that they put in. But it doesn't change the fact that we need to do the work here and we need to stop fraud to ensure integrity of those programs. And the difference between us and them is they want to just stop all these programs and cut Medicaid, which of course hurts people. And it hurts the 99% of people who are playing by the rules and using these systems. Well, we're focusing on that 1% who's trying to steal and putting them in jail. That's very different than this President cutting down Medicaid, cutting down everything. Said he doesn't care about the cost of things while he and his family have increased their wealth exponentially on, on insider trading. It's as simple as that.
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Aaron
Now, you mentioned his family and especially his children. His daughter is now building a luxury resort in Albania. His sons have gotten these government contracts because of their position as their, as his sons. Do you believe that there should be investigations launched not just into the president, but specifically his children?
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Governor Tim Walz
Yeah, 100%. The fraudical sons return home. Yes, absolutely. These are. They've increased their wealth. They're trading on this. Look, I make sure that my family, you know, you see a lot of these members of Congress hire their children and things like that. My family doesn't work. No one in my family. No one extended family. And that's the way it should be. And I would encourage Democrats to take a strong stand on this. I would asked Democrats that he. Yes, he should be investigated. But look, we gave up when he didn't give out his tax returns, which I thought was a huge mistake. Because I think it's really important that if I'm going to ask the people of Minnesota, I'm going to run for office. Well, where, where do you have your investments? So for example, I'm making a big case that, that we expanded our school meal programs or whatever. Well, I think it would be important, Aaron, to know that, well, you know the governor, if I had investments in school launches that we sell to the schools, that, so it might be a noble cause, but you're still enriching yourself. I just absolutely believe the litmus test here is you should not enter public life and leave public life wealthier or with more net worth. And I don't think you should take an oath of poverty. I think we should pay our members of Congress, we should pay our governors what's fair. And I believe in Minnesota we do that. That's enough. If you want to go make money, go make money. But my job here today is government. And so yes, I think the family needs to be looked at. I think it's absolutely outrageous. We're sued now because we shut down these prediction markets and the, the President's son is, is a major player sets on the board of these and now they're suing us. And I'm sure the Department of Justice will spare no expense to sue the state of Minnesota to attack the state of Minnesota because we're doing the right thing. And you know, he comes out here and does a press conference and sends out Dr. Oz and RFK Jr. To take credit for investigations that Minnesota investigators started years ago. We need our federal partners. The FBI has more tools have, but they see it as a, as a hammer. And then they pick out ethnic groups like for example in Minnesota, the Somali group to try and blame them for corruption. So it's really frustrating and I think, look, it serves their purpose on this. They get into office, they say government is corrupt. Government can't do anything. That's because they're corrupt and can't do anything. And it fulfills that self fulfilling prophecy. So I think as Democrats, I'm encouraging folks, Aaron, we need to take a pledge. No stock trades, get out of it, no investments. You can, you can be quite middle class and represent your constituency well without spending your time trading stocks.
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Aaron
Now Governor, I got to ask you about something else. The president had his third annual physical in 13 months. We learned today that his doctors omitted medication that he's taking and now claim that they don't need to release all of his medications to the public. Are you concerned that the president may not be physically fit to continue serving?
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Governor Tim Walz
Well, yes, mentally, I'm definitely concerned mentally fit on this. And I think it's once again not, not telling people what the truth is, distorting the truth. Look, he's getting older and that's, that would be fine. But look, he made in his family had a cottage industry of going after Joe Biden while he himself is doesn't appear like it. He can't stay awake, he can't stay on a train of thought, looking terrible. But yet, you know, he's putting out memes, showing himself as a super fit and all that. And I, I don't know, I try and stay in my own house. My, my daughter and I are running a half marathon here in two weeks. So he keeps coming at me. I would invite the President to come run with us if he wants to.
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Aaron
I don't know that he's going to take you up on that. Off course we talk about all of the financial possible corruption. We talk about the ailing mental fitness or acuity. I mean if Democrats were to take power in November, a conversation that's going to take hold is impeachment. Is that something Democrats should look at with this president?
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Governor Tim Walz
Look, if you're going to do it, don't make a note out of it, follow through with it. I'm pretty bitter after January 6th that, that there was an immediate follow through on that. And I have been openly critical of Merrick Garland and what we need to do because I don't think you can just let things pass. I don't think you see, because we see what the President did, we let him do election denial undermine our system and it has created a very dangerous, dangerous situation in this country. And if laws are broken, you should be held accountable for them. You don't get this immunity and certainly his family doesn't get presidential immunity. That you need to understand. And I think you have to go after these things, you have to hold accountable because that's about restoring faith in the system. And I have to say, Aaron, I said doing these jobs, there's a lot of stress to them. You got to make a lot of decisions. But I said the one thing that allows me to sleep at night is that we follow the law. We do those ethically and immorally as we possibly can. If you get a decision wrong, it wasn't because you violated any of those things. So I don't know how these people do it. I mean he wakes up in the morning concerned how he's going to make money. He wakes up in the morning and says he's not concerned about gas prices, of course, because you and I both know and your viewers know that guy has never taken the hook off a gas pump, put it into a car, pumped it, and understand exactly what that means when those dollars go through. So this is a guy that's enriched family. The most successful thing he's ever done in his life was grift off the government once he's in there. And there needs to be accountability on this, not just for his family, but everybody who's surrounding him and doing these things. Because again, if it's, if it's fraud in Minnesota, you're right, we got to do better. We got to prosecute these people and we got to put them in jail. That's what we're doing. But you don't get a pass because you're the president of the United States and you and your family are grifting and making it more difficult for the rest of the. So, yes, I think they need to pursue that if there's things there they need to be followed up with. And you can't be afraid of people saying, oh, we just need to move on. No, not if there's crimes committed. You need to follow through.
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Aaron
Governor, thank you so much for taking the time.
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Governor Tim Walz
Good to be with you, Aaron.
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Aaron
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