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Tara Palmeri (0:32)
Welcome to the Tara Palmieri Show. It has been quite a weekend. President Trump had a really shocking reversal on the Epstein files. He decided that he's for releasing them. He gave the House permission to release the files or at least to vote to release the files. And I'm guessing because the House now has permission, so does the Senate. You know, I think that he's following them rather than pressuring them one way or another. I think the writing was on the wall. That's what I heard from my sources. Polling overwhelmingly showed that there was bipartisan support for releasing the Epstein files. And I think he realized that there were enough votes for this to happen and he had to succumb. You could say he had to surrender to the release of the file. So we'll see what happens. But it's really stunning to me because I think we have to remember how hard he worked this summer with Speaker Johnson to make sure that this vote didn't happen. You know, they, they let Congress out of session early this summer. They had a really long recess because of it. They didn't want them to vote on releasing the files. They stalled confirming the new congressman from Arizona, Adelita Grijalva, because they didn't want to have a vote on this. And now it just seems like the dominoes were falling. And I, and I reported on that last week. If you've been following the podcast that, that this was happening, you had Greg Stube, Dom Bacon, a number of others joining Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boeber and Nancy Mace in this, in this call to, you know, release the Epstein files. So I think he realized it was unsustainable and that they might actually get a majority of Republicans, a veto proof majority, even more so and so that even if the bill was on his desk, he would have to, to, to vote on it. And he says, you know, he's doing it in the name of talking about affordability, that this has gotten in the way of his, of his messaging. But it is a stunning reversal. I, of course, am always suspicious when it comes to Department of Justice and policing itself, this bill would command the Department of Justice to release the files. Will it be all redacted, like what we've been seeing right now? Just tons of redactions all over like what you see on the FBI's website? Or will we get a real understanding of who was involved in Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking ring and a real understanding of why he got this sweetheart deal? I'm a little dubious to be honest. I think as long as Pam Bondi, who obviously lied to the American people about the Epstein files for so long, and Cash Patel, the FBI director, are in charge, we will not get the full story. I can hope and I can pray, but, but I am very, very suspicious. But yeah, this is one of those few stories where few people can agree on anything in this, in this world that we live in, especially in America right now, but they can all agree that these files need to be released. And I think you could even see with the fight that he had with Marjorie Taylor Greene. You know, Marjorie Taylor Greene has been pretty adamant about the fact that she believes that the Epstein files need to be released. And he called her a traitor. He called her Marjorie Traitor Green. But, but on the Internet, on, on, on X and on all of those places, if you, if you follow closely, a lot of MAGA world sided with Marjorie Taylor Greene in that fight which shows that President Trump is losing grip on his base. That might explain why when asked about Tucker Carlson and the decision to platform Nick Fuente as the white supremacist and head of the Gripers, why he said, oh yeah, sure, let him come on the show, tell everyone about it, let them decide. He, it seems like he might be afraid that he's losing his grip on the MAGA base. And we know this is all happening while there's a civil war playing out over the decision to side with these white nationalists, these anti Semitic white nationalists all over the idea of America First. It is quite a time in the Republican Party, but in the meantime, I want to tell you that Lisa Murkowski, the senator from Alaska who was this the deciding vote against releasing the Epstein vials in September, has made it known that she will vote to release the files if the bill comes to Senate. Take a listen here.