IHIP News: Ghislaine LEAKING Evidence AGAINST Trump Ahead of Her TESTIMONY?!

What this episode is about

Ghislaine Maxwell has filed a motion in federal court revealing that nearly 30 associates of Jeffrey Epstein received undisclosed settlements and naming four unindicted co-conspirators, potentially implicating Trump and his allies. This move appears to be a strategic attempt by Maxwell to leverage her position and seek either a pardon or the overturning of her conviction by highlighting her connections and allegations against prominent figures.

Key takeaways

• Ghislaine Maxwell’s court filing could be the ultimate game of chess—or perhaps just a power play for a pardon.
• A 'birthday book' of secrets ties Trump to Epstein; leverage isn’t just a political strategy—it's a survival tactic.
• Leon Black paid $62.5M to settle with Epstein—proving sometimes the richest are just the best at hiding secrets.
• Maxwell knows the skeletons in Trump’s closet; her whispers could topple towers, if she chooses to speak.
• Epstein's covert wealth may have stemmed from compromising powerful allies—proving that in politics, it's all a quid pro quo.

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 3:00: Donald Trump, Leon D. Black
2. 3:00 – 6:00: Leon D. Black, Victoria's Secret
3. 6:00 – 9:00: Donald Trump, Miami Herald, Howard Stern
4. 9:00 – 12:00: Sasha Riley, Donald Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Jim Jordan
5. 12:00 – 15:00: Donald Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi
6. 15:00 – 18:00: Jamie Raskin, Donald Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Daily Beast

Notable quotes from "IHIP News: Ghislaine LEAKING Evidence AGAINST Trump Ahead of Her TESTIMONY?!"

• According to Black's sworn testimony, might have been in a strip club together. Black paid Epstein roughly 170 million nominally for tax and estate planning, but denied…

  about Leon D. Black · at 3:45

• Victoria, right? Victoria Secret guy who has also been subpoenaed to testify before oversight. I'm sure he won't, but he has been subpoenaed. He's the one that started it. That's where the.

  about Victoria's Secret · at 4:33

• Epstein, and I will never get over this, America listener, I will never get over this. Before Trump ever descended on the escalator, he was on Howard Stern's radio show, which…

  about Howard Stern · at 6:24

• Well, and interestingly, Julie K. Brown was on this podcast and she's the one that broke the story on Jeffrey Epstein right prior to his arrest with the Miami Herald, and she said she is still.

  about Miami Herald · at 8:44

• That there was a whole group of wealthy men that he and girls were trafficked for. And he names like Jim Jordan, he names Donald Trump, he names some other Republican guy.…

  about Jim Jordan · at 10:17

• It's just pitiful. But one thing I want to keep reminding people Pam Bondi and the DOJ, they are breaking the law every single day. And so this week they filed a letter with the judge that says, Oh, we're still going through the Epstein.

  about Attorney General Pam Bondi · at 11:30

• Trying to protect the victims. And we know as early as May 2025, Pam Bondi had a whole team of FBI agents pulled off other cases to go through and skim these files for Donald…

  about Donald Trump · at 12:15

• [ __ ] ever? Okay, one thing I just want to bring this up and I know we've talked about it at some previously, but Jamie Rascin has initiated an investigation into the…

  about Jamie Raskin · at 16:31

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Donald Trump — Person · Primary referenced political figure (alleged subject of leverage/cover-up) · 8 mentions · first at 0:02
  Central figure in the discussion: hosts speculate about his ties to Epstein/Maxwell, potential exposure in 'Epstein files,' and DOJ actions allegedly aimed at protecting him.
• Attorney General Pam Bondi — Person · Referenced government official (DOJ leadership in episode narrative) · 3 mentions · first at 11:33
  Presented as a key actor in alleged DOJ delay/withholding of Epstein-related materials and as potentially involved in decisions affecting Maxwell’s conditions and document review.
• Jamie Raskin — Person · Referenced lawmaker (oversight/investigation) · 3 mentions · first at 16:35
  Mentioned as initiating an investigation into Maxwell’s prison treatment and alleged irregularities (e.g., mail handling), supporting the episode’s claim of preferential treatment and possible interference.
• Leon D. Black — Person · Referenced wealthy associate/settlement example · 2 mentions · first at 2:48
  Cited as an example of a wealthy figure who settled claims tied to Epstein and as someone alleged to have social proximity to Trump; used to support the hosts’ theory of kompromat/financial payoffs.
• Sasha Riley — Person · Referenced alleged witness/accuser (Substack testimony) · 2 mentions · first at 9:34
  Discussed as the name attached to a Substack-hosted testimony alleging trafficking involving Epstein and naming prominent figures; hosts note they are awaiting journalistic corroboration.
  Ho. Have you been on the Substack where there is a lady, she has a Substack and it is a male named Sasha Riley?
• Howard Stern — Person · Referenced media figure (archival clip context) · 1 mention · first at 6:31
  Used as the setting for a cited past on-air exchange with Trump; invoked to support the hosts’ argument about Trump’s sexual comments and proximity to Epstein-era behavior.
• Peter Thiel — Person · Referenced wealthy tech figure (example of payments/claims) · 2 mentions
  Cited as an example of a wealthy person allegedly paying Epstein for 'tax stuff,' used to argue that large payments for services appear suspicious.
  That started it. That's where the massive wealth accumulation started. But in terms of services, we have Palunteer Peter Teal saying, Oh, well, he did tax stuff for me. To the tunes of hundreds of millions of dollars. that just seems shady.
• Jim Jordan — Person · Referenced politician (named in allegation) · 1 mention · first at 10:23
  Named in the discussion as being alleged (via Sasha Riley’s testimony referenced by hosts) to be among wealthy men involved; presented as unverified but discussed as disturbing.

Companies & orgs

• Miami Herald — Company · Referenced company · 1 mention · first at 8:51
  Mentioned as the publication that broke the story on Jeffrey Epstein prior to his arrest.
• Victoria's Secret — Company · Referenced company · 1 mention · first at 4:31
  Mentioned in the context of Les Wexner, the founder of Victoria's Secret, and his alleged connections to Jeffrey Epstein.
• Daily Beast — Company · Referenced company · 1 mention · first at 16:55
  Mentioned in the context of an article about Ghislaine Maxwell's treatment in prison.
  That up, you can. whistleblowers have come forward and they about her being coddled behind bars. If you go into the article written by the Daily Beast, not whistleblowers are…

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 Gain Maxwell has filed what I think is a shot across the bow to Trump and his allies. In federal court, Galileain Maxwell has filed saying there are four unindicted co-conspirators and at least 25 people that were not indicted but paid settlements popped this up. Gain Maxwell dropped a bombshell alleging that nearly 30 friends of Jeffrey Epstein reached secret settlements and were never indicted. And why I think that this is super important is remember the birthday book. There was speculation and then it was confirmed that the birthday book with Trump saying we're such good friends and we have secrets in the woman caricature that was alleged to have been from Glain Maxwell to tell Trump I've got [ __ ] on you and then Todd Blanch ran down there now she's been transferred all of those things. To me, this is a power play from her to say, "I want my conviction overturned. That's what she's asking in

1:07 federal court, or I want a pardon." What are your thoughts? You know, I I don't follow this stuff as much as you do. Uh the the minutia of it, but I have always just known that she has a lot of uh leverage over him because he uses the phrase, I she's a very nice person. and I wish her well. And when Elon Musk before he dropped the bomb about Trump's in the Epstein files, before he dropped that on Twitter when they first broke up, he said, "I I wish him well." So for me, when Trump says, "I wish him well." I'm sure he's probably said that about Putin before, too. It's a tell because he can't. His go-to is just Rip City. Like his go-to is, you know, screw Gain. She sucks.

1:54 Nobody liked her anyway. Jeffrey cheated on her all the time. you know, he can't help himself. So, when you hear this malignant narcissist that is a an insultthrower say he wishes somebody well who is a convicted sex trafficker, I know that she has so much tea on him, it's ridiculous. Okay, so let's get into the article of what she says in this filing. And I think this is not a surprise, but the fact that she's putting it on paper tells me there's all kinds of leverage. You're exactly right. Pop this up, Kyle's. Okay. Buried in the habius corpus petition that Maxwell recently filed in court. Blah blah. The convicted associate, four potential co-conspirators, and 25 men who reached secret settlements but were never indicted. And then you find out what kind of settlements are we talking?

2:48 You see that Leon Black, who is a Trump ally, former Apollo CEO, paid 62.5 million in US Virgin Islands to settle claims tied to his financial dealings with Epstein. So, here's the thing. There's no charges. It was this a quidd proquo with authorities? I don't know. And Leon Black, who is big buddies with Trump, also testified in 2018 before Congress that he vaguely remembers being in Russia and he could have been in a strip bar with Trump. So, this goes back years and years and years ago. That's bananas. Kylie, will you put that up? There was something underlined that I wanted to see. It said um gave evidence about being in with Trump during a trip with Russia. This is what you just said. in the naughty 90s where they attend a concert, a disco tech, and according to Black's sworn testimony, might have been in a strip club together. Black paid Epstein roughly 170 million nominally for tax and estate

3:56 planning, but denied knowledge anything about his industrial scale sex trafficking. That's crazy. So, is this was is this maybe and I'm just pontificating here or guessing. Is this maybe how he had so much money? Because nobody really knows where Jeffrey Epstein's wealth came from. Did he honeypot and compromise really wealthy men and then they had to pay him off? That's what I think. That's how I think it started. I think that he was Les Wexner was the first person that he made big

4:31 Victoria Secret Guy. Victoria, right? Victoria Secret guy who has also been subpoenaed to testify before oversight. I'm sure he won't, but he has been subpoenaed. He's the one that started it. That's where the massive wealth accumulation started. But in terms of services, you know, we have Palunteer Peter Teal saying, "Oh, well, you know, he did tax stuff for me." To the tunes of hundreds of millions of dollars. I mean, that just seems shady to me. And $170 million for estate planning. I'm not a billionaire, but I wouldn't I would think a hundred or one million would be a lot for estate planning, but but I don't know. I don't have that kind of money. It's not that complicated. But 1 million seems like it'd be really really a lot for estate planning. I think it's all [ __ ] I think that Howard Letic truth one time and that's when he said Jeffrey Epstein bribed people because he got them in

5:30 there in that smarmy townhouse. I mean, he's a cabinet secretary. He says this while Trump is under investigation. I don't think that he's any different than anybody else that went in that townhouse.

5:43 Yeah. I mean, I think that there's so many compromised people. Gain Maxwell knows all of the names. She knows where all the bodies are buried. Trump was in it up to his cankles um back when he had ankles. Um and you know, the interesting thing about Trump, it just really fascinated me. He doesn't really have friends.

6:03 No. But Jeffrey Epstein was like his buddy. I mean, they were very, very close friends. And the interesting parallels that I've always found just uber red flag. Obviously, it's well documented that Jeffrey Epste was a child rapist. But around the same time that Donald Trump is hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein, and I will never get over this, America listener, I will never get over this. Before Trump ever descended on the escalator, he was on Howard Stern's radio show, which used to be a much was before podcasting. Like everybody listened to that type of stuff. Howard Stern, he's a big big deal at the time.

6:41 Lot millions of listeners. And Howard Stern was always sexually provocative, inappropriate. I'm shocked as [ __ ] he still has a radio channel and didn't get me to, but whatever. So he asked Trump, Trump's talking about how, yeah, he'd love to screw his daughter if it wasn't his daughter. And then he goes, "What's your cut off age?"

7:01 He goes, "You know, I mean, I can go pretty young. I can go pretty wrong." And and Howard's like, "Well, how young?" And Donald Trump, the sitting president of the United States, he wasn't sitting president then, but this is on tape and audio. He says, "I think 12 is the cut off." A 12year-old. And after that was released, these evangelical Christians pro-kid pro-traditional family voted for a man who says 12 is as young as he goes with girls. And this is the exact same time that he's ping around with child rapist and child sex trafficker

7:41 Jeffrey Epstein. And so I mean I think that I think we only know the tip of the iceberg on Jeffrey Epstein. Not only what the documents that haven't been released yet pumps, but with these type of crimes, so many go unreported. The majority go unreported because it takes a lot for people to report it. The these types of victimization leads to addiction. um suicide, all sorts of problems. So, you know, I know when they studied when they uh

8:19 did the priests, that was just merely a fraction, right, of the victims. And I think it's the same with Jeffrey Epstein. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if he didn't have the same operation with young boys for rich men that preferred that. And so, I mean, that's just my opinion because when you start dehumanizing children in general, you know, the gender and stuff wouldn't matter.

8:44 Well, and interestingly, Julie K. Brown was on this podcast and she's the one that broke the story on Jeffrey Epstein right prior to his arrest with the Miami Herald, and she said she is still getting calls of victims that are just now coming forward. And I look at the situation, how these then girls, now women have been treated. They have been slandered. They have been maligned in every way. They have been shamed. There, it's no wonder that this is a hard crime to report because now we have on a national stage bullying these women.

9:20 It's a hoax. They don't know what they're talking about. I mean, it's just it's horrible how these victims and survivors have been treated.

9:27 Ho. Have you been on the Substack where there is a lady, she has a Substack and it is a male named Sasha Riley?

9:38 Have I sent that to you? I have read that about the boys. Yes, I have read it. So, there's allegations.

9:44 So, I don't know been substantiated or not. I I know that I I listen to it. I listened to his testimony and I think extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and and um I'm not saying that I don't believe victims, but I do think some corroborating things would help us cover that more intensely. But in this uh testimony that is on tape on Substack, it is that this Sasha Riley was trafficked for Epstein. And he alleges um that there was a whole group of wealthy men that he and girls were trafficked for. And he names like Jim Jordan, he names Donald Trump, he names some other Republican guy. can't remember his name, but it's it's really I listened to like the first hour of the testimony and then it was so disturbing I haven't listened to the rest of it, but I know a lot of our listeners put that in the comment section and the reason I haven't dived into it so much is because I'm waiting. We're not

10:47 journalists and I'm waiting for more journalists to cooperate some of the timeline. But I think his testimony thus far that I've heard is incredibly brave and quite frankly I personally believe him. I agree. It's it's extremely likely that given how they did girls, they would do boys. And let's not forget these men, whether they're married or not, we know that they like little boys. I mean, you hear about it all the time. So that that's not like, oh my gosh, the last thing I've heard. I do think like you there will be more that come forward at least to a journalist with anonymity to verify that. But no, I have been watching that and I do. It's just so this whole thing is just so damn sad.

11:30 It's just pitiful. But one thing I want to keep reminding people Pam Bondi and the DOJ, they are breaking the law every single day. And so this week they filed a letter with the judge that says, "Oh, we're still going through the Epstein files and um we're reviewing millions of redacted pages and we should complete our review in the near term, but there's no specific date or ballpark for release." And in this letter, they make a big point at the DOJ, we're protecting the victims. Well, that's horseshit because when these files were originally released, they hid the names of perpetrators but not victims. So, I do not believe for one minute they are trying to protect the victims. And we know as early as May 2025, Pam Bondi had a whole team of FBI agents pulled off other cases to go through and skim these files for Donald Trump's name. So for them to sit there and act like they haven't been through that,

12:35 that is horshit. That is [ __ ] And just as an aside, as an attorney, if I had a deadline that the law required me to turn something over on dece December 17th and I rolled in and said, "Well, you know, I'm working on it and I don't have a timeline. I can't tell you what I'm doing." My ass would be held in contempt. Full stop. That you just don't do that. And what makes me so angry about this Justice Department is they get away with [ __ ] nobody else would get away with. They continue to get slack from Congress. You know, well, we have rules that we have to go through to site them for contempt and all that. And I and I agree, but this is so blatant.

13:14 December 19th was the deadline. Nothing nothing more than we had. Over a million documents have not been released. And then just something I always like to browbeat this whole entire administration about is just the incompetency of the cover up. So Norm Eisen, who we know prosecuted Trump in the first impeachment, pop this up Kylie. We have reviewed DOJ's Epstein releases and uncovered 70 plus files quietly pulled and reposted with new redactions. That's why we filed a formal complaint with the DOJ inspector general calling for an expanded investigation. Under normal times, that would matter, the DOJ inspector general, but we know in these times it doesn't. But I'm just like, you had months and months and months and thousands and thousands, tens of thousands of manh hours to cover this [ __ ] up. And just the incompetency of the cover up never fails to shock me. But then I think, look who

14:15 we're dealing with. Yeah, this they know he's cooked in the files. I mean, this administration is a death cult, a child sex cult. And all of the people, all of the Americans that still support the triple Trump need to be reminded all day, every day, you support the party of pedophiles. Period. I never ever ever for the life of me and I had to hear it for so many decades living in Oklahoma were the party of family values. Well, I believe in traditional family. I had so many women, sanctimonious,

14:59 shitty little Christian white women say to me all the time, "Well, I'm voting for George W. Bush because I believe in traditional families." I want to say to those ladies and all the other ladies, "Fuck you." No, you don't. It was all a ruse. It was all a ruse. You're depraved. You're brainwashed. Your religion is constantly co-opted by the worst organizations and cults that America has to offer. The KKK, the NRA, MAGA, because that's how insignificant and not based in principle and not based in goodness white evangelical Christianity is. it could get co-opted by a dead [ __ ] pig and they would worship the pig. That's how depraved and morally bankrupt and lacking conviction the core of this MAGA movement is. No.

15:53 And I'll agree with that. And I'll say also a huge lack of empathy. When I have asked MAGA people in my life, what do you think Jesus would do? Because that's your big, you know, you're banging on that drum about these immigrants. Well, I I think he'd agree. And I'm just like,

16:10 do they say that he would cover up for pedophiles? No, I've only asked regarding how they're treating.

16:16 You need to up it. You need to up it comes the next family dinner. I ask, do you think Jesus, And you need to phrase it. Do you think Jesus would cover up for pedophiles?

16:26 Well, I'll need to report back dropped when it was like, oh, I think Jesus would agree. I'm just like, what the [ __ ] ever? Okay, one thing I just want to bring this up and I know we've talked about it at some previously, but Jamie Rascin has initiated an investigation into the treatment that Gain Maxwell is getting and we've heard about that before, but now we're finding out among other things. Kyle, if you want to pop that up, you can. Um, whistleblowers have come forward and they about her being coddled behind bars. If you go into the article written by the Daily Beast, not whistleblowers are being punished, which we've heard, but now we have corroborated testimony according to Jamie Rascin in this document. They're also sending out mail under the name of prison employees and not Gain Maxwell so that they can't be gone through by the guards. Now, to me, that tells me there is something going out of the mail that

17:24 is way, way more damaging than we thought. Because I I get that she gets a puppy. I get that she gets bottled water instead of tap water. She shouldn't be there in the first place. But let's not forget, it was after the birthday card by Trump when he sent Todd Blanch. It was within days that she had moved to a prison that she is not even allowed to be at according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. So Jamie Raskin is asking the question, who is approving all this stuff? And of course, my answer is Pam Bondi and Todd Blanch, of course, because Donald Trump told them to to keep her quiet. So we'll keep an eye on that.

18:03 I just want to say one thing. I just need to inject one thing here. Okay, Jeffrey, look at all the special treatment she's getting and then ask yourself again, did Jeffrey Epste hang himself when Donald Trump was in president the first goround? If this is what's happening here, did he in a jail cell that's 6 foot tall with a bed 3 feet off the ground hang himself? every single person we've asked and our personal armchair detective path pathological assessment of it is that no suicide would have been impossible. So I think when you put all of this stuff together this thing stinks

18:41 to high heaven and it also makes sense as to why this uh very politically savvy yet albeit varying degrees of incompetence administration knows how to wag the dog. They know how to change the news cycle away from this. the pumps. Thank you for this awesome reporting on this because it's something that needs to be it's worse than Watergate. It's worse than anything and we need to keep it at the top of the news cycle. We'll see you guys later. Like, subscribe, comment.

Questions about this episode

What is "IHIP News: Ghislaine LEAKING Evidence AGAINST Trump Ahead of Her TESTIMONY?!" about?

Ghislaine Maxwell has filed a motion in federal court revealing that nearly 30 associates of Jeffrey Epstein received undisclosed settlements and naming four unindicted co-conspirators, potentially implicating Trump and his allies. This move appears to be a strategic attempt by Maxwell to leverage her position and seek either a pardon or the overturning of her conviction by highlighting her…

What is mentioned in this I've Had It episode?

11 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Donald Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Jamie Raskin, Leon D. Black, Miami Herald, Sasha Riley. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "IHIP News: Ghislaine LEAKING Evidence AGAINST Trump Ahead of Her TESTIMONY?!"?

The episode runs 19 min; the transcript is about 3,146 words in 31 timestamped sections.

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