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All right, with us now, independent reporter Tara Palmieri, the host of the Tara Palmieri Show. Always great to see you. And Tara, you've covered politics and White House and everything like that extensively, but also the Jeffrey Epstein case extensively. I want to ask you first on something Elena just reported there. The fact that the President has ducked questions at the last two White House events, the types of events where he might have this is ever since these emails came out. Just what does that tell you when you look at that? Why might he not want to face questions on this in this 24 hour period?
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It's a very strange thing to see President Trump turn down the opportunity to speak to the press. I don't think I've ever seen that happen before actually, since I covered him as a White House correspondent during his first term and followed him during this second term as well. It suggests that this is political kryptonite for him. I mean, he can't control this story. It is only getting worse and the stonewalling is just not working. They, they don't have us, they don't have this under control. And from the sources that I speak to inside of the White House, they know not to ask about it. They're in the dark. They know nothing. It is just a, those are no, there's no Merta. I was told on Epstein, don't even ask. They don't know the truth when they're responding to inquiries about Jeffrey Epstein because they can't ask President Trump. Remember they were telling people that he was thrown out of the club. And now you have Epstein saying, I was never a member of the club to begin with. They were that close. He didn't need membership. They were best friends.
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So we have these emails which he frankly didn't have before. And then you have the so called Epstein files that the Justice Department has had custody for a long time now. What's the space between the two? Right? What, what is, what's in one thing and not in the other? What are the files? What might be in the files that aren't in the emails. Just explain that.
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Okay, so these are just email exchanges. We are just putting together pieces of what happened based on Jeffrey Epstein's emails from a period of time in which the criminality in which he was actually, you know, arrested for and tried back in 2008. They're not. We don't even have emails from that period of time. We're just looking back on that period of time and his associations. So there is so much more. These files, if the full expansive amount of files should date all the way back to 1996, when Maria Farmer made that first complaint to the FBI saying that she and her sister Annie Farmer were. Were molested by Jeffrey Epstein. So if these are the full files, it will go back that far. There are a thousand victims. There'll be a trove of evidence. I know from speaking to Virginia Giuffre, who was brought into the FBI headquarters to look at some of their evidence to try to identify her body. Among pictures that they had, they have photographic evidence of young girls with men. And she couldn't find herself in those pictures. Just based on identifying body parts. You know, they have thousands and thousands of gigabytes. We've. You can go to the FBI vault right now. I mean, it's all redacted, but there are thousands and thousands of pages and we've only seen maybe 1% of them. So when you have that many victims, you've got depositions, you've got evidence, police reports, you. You have so much. And then they started a money laundering investigation on him back in 2008. If to assume there's more there, I mean, I would reveal, if these documents are unredacted, the names of his associates, other men who were involved that victims say they were trafficked to. I mean, this is. We haven't even seen the, the start of it. If you actually listen to the stories of the victims, there is just so much more and it can be revealed in these files.
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That's. Thank you for putting that in perspective there. Just so people know what's still possibly out there. From your perch this morning, where does this put the deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, who, you know, flew down to then Florida to speak to Ghislaine Maxwell, dramatic fashion, asked her two days of questions. Where do you think he is now in this story? After all these emails were released.
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He is the number two law enforcement official in this country. He sat down with a woman who was charged with perjury. He offered her softball questions. No follow ups. She was able to speak about the President of the United States, said she he never saw her do anything, saw him do anything appropriate, said he never saw him in Jeffrey Epstein's house, which could actually contradict what the victims themselves have said. And even Trump himself, I mean, Trump told Brad Edwards, according to my interview with him, that that Trump had been to Epstein house before. He said he thought it was weird that the girls in, in his telling to Brad that there were so many girls hanging around the pool, they were so young and that Epstein told them it was a Big Brother, Big Sister program. There are so many inconsistencies. And Blanche, who is a lawyer, an attorney by training, did not try to poke any holes in the story, just took it and said, okay, case closed. We'll move on from that question. President's been cleared. And then Glenn Maxwell, knowing that she is speaking to an audience of one, moves on to a prison camp in Texas where they allow prisoners to have a support animal. I mean, she should be nowhere near rents. Sex offenders are supposed to be in high max security prisons. They often never leave. And now she's asking for a commutation. And she's not just some random woman asking for a commutation. She's known Trump since she was in her twenties, almost four decades now, since through her relationship with her father, the media mogul Robert Maxwell, who was a friend of Donald Trump when he owned the Daily News, had him on his yacht, the Lady Glenn and on the Hudson River. They are longtime pals. And so he's going to get a request from his friend to get out of prison. We'll see what he does.
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Tara Palmieri, A lot to chew on there. Thanks so much.
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That was another episode of the Tara Palmary Show. Thank you so much for tuning in. I will be back again soon. I am just putting out the appearances one after another. It's been a hectic 24 hours. More to come. Can only imagine what next week will be like when there's the vote. But yeah, we've got things are moving, things are happening. There's going to be another rally. The the victims of Jeffrey Epstein will meet with House members next week. It's going to be another moment. So stay tuned. And of course, if you want to support my independent journalism, please go to tarapalmieri.com that's T A R A P A L M E R I dot com. You can can sign up for my newsletter, the Red Letter. It's how you support my independent journalism. You become a paid subscriber, you keep me going. Please of course. Tell your friends about this podcast, share it, follow like it, subscribe it, leave a comment. I want to hear from all of you. You're all a part of this community. We are doing this together. I want to thank my producer, Eric Avanate. I want to thank Abby Baker, who is helping me with socials and as a reporter, and Adam Stewart on the market on the graphics. See you again soon.