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IHIP News: 🚨 Rep. DROPS BOMB on Trump After Seeing UNREDACTED Files! "The Famous Names are HORRIFIC"

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "IHIP News: 🚨 Rep. DROPS BOMB on Trump After Seeing UNREDACTED Files! "The Famous Names are HORRIFIC"", an episode of I've Had It published February 13, 2026 (32 min, about 5,901 words). It mentions 22 people, works and ideas, including Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump, Congressman Thomas Massie, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Palunteer.

What this episode is about

A congressman describes exposing extensive, high-profile involvement in the Epstein case, highlighting horrific abuse, the exploitation of survivors from working-class backgrounds, and bipartisan efforts to release the unredacted files and connect powerful figures to the alleged cover-up.

Key takeaways

  • Epstein files reveal power’s immunity: wealth and politics shield predators while survivors bear the cost in silence.
  • Two percent glimpsed from three million files underscores breadcrumbs, not the full trail—transparency is still a mirage.
  • Bipartisan push poisons the narrative if accountability remains outsourced to optics, not prosecutions and independent reviews.
  • Survivors’ voices outpace media pundits; justice demands hearings, not heated hot takes or empty apologies.
  • Linking Epstein to January 6 shows a pattern: incentives and immunity for the powerful, accountability for the vulnerable.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: Jeffrey Epstein, Congressman Thomas Massie, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Marjorie Taylor Green
  2. – 10:00: Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump, Congressman Thomas Massie, Attorney General Pam Bondi
  3. – 15:00: Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, Palunteer, Peter Thiel
  4. – 20:00: Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Congressman Thomas Massie
  5. – 25:00: Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Palunteer
  6. – 30:00: Jeffrey Epstein
  7. – 31:46: Peter Thiel

Notable quotes from "IHIP News: 🚨 Rep. DROPS BOMB on Trump After Seeing UNREDACTED Files! "The Famous Names are HORRIFIC""

  • One person said it's like a box. You can push it away, but it comes back up. So for me and Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Green, this became very personal and to see the…
    about Marjorie Taylor Green · at
  • Revealing her confidence said, Look, I was raped when I was 17 in France. And there was I was raped in a building by someone who had the bu lived in the same building as Jeff…
    about France · at
  • Pam Bondi I thought her ridiculous immature smug performance was most I mean it most of all was a direct insult to these victims and such a flagrant expression that your voice doesn't.
    about Attorney General Pam Bondi · at
  • Mean, Trump's all over it. As are, by the way, people in his own cabinet and administration. the fact that Lutnik is still in the cabinet should just be horrifying regardless…
    about Jeffrey Epstein · at
  • Suppress it. And then you have Pam Bondi who is genderwashing the whole thing. the sweetheart deal and the prison moving of Gilane Maxwell. Could you imagine if that happened under Democratic DOJ?
    about Ghislain Maxwell · at
  • They scrubed them, right? Thomas Massie and my bill passes in November that says you need to give all the files that are there. Here's what they do. They send the scrubbed FBI files to the DOJ. The.
    about Congressman Thomas Massie · at
  • People? All of these wealthy people are have access to rape little girls. these conversations with Peter Thiel and Palunteer and now all of these government contracts to Palunteer.
    about Palunteer · at
  • In the house and civility and I feel like there is a mass magga psychosis like if you look at the speaker of the house whom I refer to as Moses Mike Johnson because he has conversations with God.
    about Mike Johnson · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Jeffrey Epstein — Person · Central referenced figure (subject of investigation) · 16 mentions · first at
    The discussion centers on the 'Epstein files,' alleged coverups, and accountability for people connected to Epstein and his trafficking network.
  • Donald Trump — Person · Primary political figure accused/criticized · 9 mentions · first at
    Portrayed as central to alleged suppression/redaction of files and as someone who should be investigated/deposed regarding allegations and mentions in the files.
    Convicted pedophile and he lies about it and then he has alleged business dealings with it. And Donald Trump who from his own documents calls up the police in 2006 saying I…
  • Congressman Thomas Massie — Person · Bipartisan partner (co-lead on legislation/effort) · 3 mentions · first at
    Presented as the Republican partner working with the guest to pass a bill/discharge effort to release Epstein files and push investigations.
  • Attorney General Pam Bondi — Person · Referenced official criticized for handling/stance · 5 mentions · first at
    Depicted as performing political 'genderwashing,' threatening Republicans, and contributing to survivors' loss of hope regarding investigations/prosecution.
  • Peter Thiel — Person · Referenced billionaire/ideological antagonist · 2 mentions · first at
    Discussed as a powerful tech billionaire linked (in the conversation) to surveillance-state ambitions and alleged communications with Epstein; criticized for anti-democratic views.
    People? All of these wealthy people are have access to rape little girls. these conversations with Peter Thiel and Palunteer and now all of these government contracts to Palunteer.
  • Howard Lutnick — Person · Referenced cabinet figure criticized for Epstein ties · 1 mention · first at
    Cited as an example of alleged elite impunity: accused of visiting Epstein's island after Epstein's conviction and remaining in a Trump cabinet role.
    Mean, Trump's all over it. As are, by the way, people in his own cabinet and administration. the fact that Lutnik is still in the cabinet should just be horrifying regardless…
  • Marjorie Taylor Green — Person · Referenced Republican ally in effort · 2 mentions · first at
    Named as part of the cross-party coalition supporting disclosure/pressure regarding Epstein files; framed as one of the Republican women creating fissures in MAGA.
  • Mike Johnson — Person · Referenced institutional gatekeeper (Speaker of the House) · 2 mentions · first at
    Portrayed as unwilling to use Speaker powers to investigate; also framed as a risk factor in close elections due to control over seating members.
  • Ghislain Maxwell — Person · Referenced convicted associate in trafficking case · 1 mention · first at
    Discussed as a convicted facilitator who allegedly offers to name other men in exchange for clemency; used to illustrate alleged deal-making and coverup dynamics.
  • Bill and Hillary Clinton — Person · Referenced political figure (comparative accountability) · 2 mentions · first at
    Raised as another powerful figure who should testify/investigated; used to argue the issue is not partisan and involves elites across parties.
    But get me out of prison. And she's trying to cut a deal with Trump. And then Trump is basically saying, I don't want Bill Clinton to testify because I know if he testifies…
  • Nancy Mace — Person · Referenced Republican ally validating 'cover up' claim · 2 mentions · first at
    Presented as a Republican who told the guest directly that the situation is a coverup, reinforcing bipartisan concern.
    So hard to make this to cover this up. And it's not just me saying it or even Massie saying it. Nancy Mace came up to me and we've had heated disagreements. You said, Ro, this…
  • Jamie Raskin — Person · Referenced lawmaker (source of claim) · 1 mention · first at
    Cited for asserting Trump appears in the files extremely frequently; used to bolster the argument that Trump should be investigated.
    And it's just unbelievable to me. I heard Jamie Raskin say that he thinks Trump's name is in the files over 1 million times.
  • Benjamin Netanyahu — Person · Referenced foreign leader responding to allegations · 1 mention · first at
    Cited as having to address Epstein-related issues, supporting the claim that Epstein's network touched high-level international politics.
    States. He's talking about what he's going to do with the Israeli prime minister to the point that Benjamin Netanyahu felt compelled to address the issue. He had met with Ehoud…
  • Ehoud Barack — Person · Referenced foreign leader connected in narrative · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as someone Epstein met many times, used to argue Epstein had extensive international elite connections.
    Minister to the point that Benjamin Netanyahu felt compelled to address the issue. He had met with Ehoud Barack so many times. and he's meeting with the rich and powerful across the world.

Companies & orgs

  • Palunteer — Company · Business focus · 2 mentions · first at
    Mentioned in the context of government contracts and surveillance, linked to Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein.
  • New York Post — Company · Referenced media · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as attempting to provide cover for Howard Lutnik in relation to Epstein files.
    You don't have as a parent, we're not going there. And the fact that Howard Letic New York Post tried to provide cover before this came out and every time I open up my phone, a new person from Trump's orbit has entered the chat.

Places & events

  • France — Place · Setting · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as a location where a survivor was raped, linked to Epstein's network.
  • Israel — Place · Setting · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned in the context of Jeffrey Epstein's communications with nefarious adversaries or allies of the United States.
    Jeffrey Epstein was with very nefarious adversaries andor allies of the United States. communications with Russia, communications with Israel, and I always had wondered how did he get all of this money? How is how was he a billionaire?
  • Russia — Place · Setting · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned in the context of Jeffrey Epstein's communications with nefarious adversaries or allies of the United States.
    Jeffrey Epstein was with very nefarious adversaries andor allies of the United States. communications with Russia, communications with Israel, and I always had wondered how did he get all of this money? How is how was he a billionaire?
  • Austria — Place · Setting · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as a country investigating anyone with correspondence to Epstein.
    In Sweden and Austria, they're investigating anyone who had any correspondence with Epstein. Yet in our country, there isn't this sense of accountability.
  • Sweden — Place · Setting · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as a country investigating anyone with correspondence to Epstein.
    In Sweden and Austria, they're investigating anyone who had any correspondence with Epstein. Yet in our country, there isn't this sense of accountability.
  • Iceland — Place · Setting · 1 mention
    Mentioned in passing, no specific relevance to the main discussion.

Full transcript with timestamps

All right, welcome to IHIP News. We are in New York with Congressman Ro K Connor who has been in the epicenter of the biggest coverup in American history. I think possibly global history and of course I'm talking about the Epstein files. You have partnered with a strange bedfellow, a Republican, bipartisanship support to release the full files.

First of all, it's good to see you in person. I usually see you just on a Zoom screen and I appreciate uh your voice. It's been so disturbing and disgusting. I mean, look, I've met these survivors uh for months. They've come into Congressman Thomas Massie in my offices. They have broken down in tears. People talk about being raped at 13, 14, and then being told to recruit others or they're going to continue to be raped. One person said it's like a box. You can push it away, but it comes back up. So for me and Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Green, this became very personal and to see the level of people who are involved uh and the most famous people and powerful people in finance, in business, in Hollywood, thinking there's nothing wrong going to a convicted pedophile's island and watching at parties where pe girls are being paraded naked or knowing that young girls are being raped. I mean, it is just

horrifying to me. Genuinely horrifying. And that's why I call this the Epstein class because if you look at the survivors, so many of them come from working-class backgrounds. One of the things I found so disturbing is many of them didn't have a father. So, they were being prayed on in that kind of calculated way. And the people who were abusing and raping them were rich and powerful and new politicians and told them don't call the police. So it is just this abuse of power that people for their own gratification treated these folks as disposable for years.

What percentage of the Epstein files have you seen? I have seen uh more than probably most, but it's still two 2% or so because they have 3 million of these files that they they're allowing us to to see. uh and the unredacted versions of just those three million. They're three million that they've totally scrubbed the FBI, but they give us one hour to to do it in a cubicle about the size of the studio with four computers. So, they've they've kept a lot of it hidden. Uh and I have more insight because I' I've got a great team and I' and the survivors will text me. You know, one person without revealing her confidence said, "Look, I was raped when I was 17 in uh in France." And uh there was I was raped in a building by someone who had the uh bu lived in the same building as Jeff Jeffrey Epstein. And this person's in the files and he's left the United States and he left France because he doesn't want to be under any

jurisdiction. And she's like, "Why aren't we investigating this person? Why aren't we prosecuting this person?" And I can't tell you how many cases there are like that. They're not all famous people. They're just rich and powerful men who raped these girls. And they there's no investigation. There's no prosecution. And one of them texted me after Pam Bondi and she said, "I've lost hope." Right? I mean, all the pundits are looking at this, "Oh, who insulted who? Who came out ahead?" and the survivors are just saying what is going on in this country that we can't get investigations and prosecution.

Uh Pam Bondi I thought her ridiculous immature smug performance was most I mean it most of all was a direct insult to these victims and such a flagrant um expression that your voice doesn't matter. But what I have to think about is these women came forward a long time ago during the Obama administration. Yes. And if we take it all the way back, we have Democratic DOJ's uh and then Trump's DOJ where Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide. And then I said that in quotes if for those of you that are listening and then we have Merrick Garland's DOJ where that wasn't even investigated at all. And now it's back here. And because of you and your bipartisanship, we are pushing forward.

And it's just unbelievable to me. I heard Jamie Raskin say that he thinks Trump's name is in the files over 1 million times.

He did and and Jaime is not one to exaggerate. I mean, he's very precise and uh he looked at some of the searches and and and came to that conclusion. I mean, Trump's all all over it. As are, by the way, people in his own cabinet and administration. I mean, the fact that Lutnik is still in the cabinet should just be horrifying regardless of your politics. He is our representative, our face of business to the world. and he takes his family to Epstein's island after he knows that Epstein is a convicted pedophile and he lies about it and then he has alleged business dealings with it. And Donald Trump who from his own documents calls up the police in 2006 saying I need I know that Epstein is doing some horrible things with young girls. He has Howard Lutnik in his cabinet even though Lutnik was uh doing business with this guy after Trump called. The fact that we're not willing to say Republicans and Democrats that

Lutnik doesn't need to go sends a message that we're just okay with this that that if you have wealth, if you have power, there's no accountability. And look at other countries. I mean, the British monarchy is in trouble. The British government may fall. Norway, the princess, is not going to become queen because of the l lack of public support. In Sweden and Austria, they're investigating anyone who had any correspondence with Epstein. Yet in our country, there isn't this sense of accountability.

And you know, it seems that there's a through line between January 6 and the Epstein files. And what it is is that they go after uh low-level offenders in January 6. They never went after who funded it. Exactly.

All of those people that got ended up becoming convicted and then got a pardon, these are people that got radicalized online. Somebody paid their way out to DC. They committed these crimes. Right

now, we know since then that Trump has spent $3 million of his own money to fund January 6. But DOJ set on this set on the rich people that funded it, much like they're doing with the Epstein files. And what's been so jarring for me with the Epstein files are the timestamps.

Right after somebody is a convicted pedophile, Howard Lutnik, we're bringing our children and here are their genders and ages. That's some weird

That really is. I mean, that's just unbelievable that you don't have as a parent, we're not going there. And the fact that Howard Letic New York Post tried to provide cover

before this came out and every time I open up my phone, a new person from Trump's orbit has entered the chat. Yeah.

Dr. Oz has entered the Epstein chat. I saw that. It's almost as if they all got together and said, "Look, we have to go back and get these files or we're all going down." I mean, it's what what leads you to believe the collusion and the cover up and the coordination with all of these men to suppress it. And then you have Pam Bondi who is genderwashing the whole thing. Um the the the sweetheart deal and the prison moving of Gilane Maxwell. Could you imagine if that happened under Democratic DOJ?

Yeah. I mean, it's so much for Law and Order. I mean, they're basically taking someone who is a convicted pedophile who facilitated the abuse and rape of these young girls, and she has the audacity to testify saying, "I know who the other men are. I can name them, but I'm not going to name them unless you give me clemency and let me out of prison." I mean, she's basically uh is saying to the entire country, I know all of this, but get me out of prison. And she's trying to cut a deal with Trump. And then Trump is uh basically saying, "I don't want Bill Clinton to testify because I know if he testifies, I'm going to have to testify." And Maxwell is there saying, "I'm going to tell you that Trump and Clinton didn't do anything wrong." It is a it is a club.

And that's what's that's why they fought so hard to to make this to cover this up. And it's not just me saying it or even Massie saying it. I mean, Nancy Mace came up to me and we've had heated disagreements. You said, "Ro, this is a cover up. It's a cover up." And look, they scrubbed in March. Donald Trump ordered the FBI to scrub those files. They scrubed them, right? Thomas Massie and my bill passes in November that says you need to give all the files that are there. Here's what they do. They send the scrubbed FBI files to the DOJ. The DOJ then does additional redactions. And now they're asking members to come in and see the files that the DOJ redacted, but not the original scrubbed FBI files.

So members are going there and they're saying, "Well, there's still everything is still blacked out because they have not done the unredactions of the FBI files." And what's in the FBI files? That's the most important stuff. Yeah, we got the emails that show that people went to the island and uh were involved, but the survivors have named the names, and those are in the FBI files. How do I know? because I've talked to the survivors and the survivors lawyers. I was so angry about it that I went on the House floor uh after Massie and I found six people who were covered uh and shouldn't have been and I just named their names because there has to be some sense of accountability in this country.

Yeah. And then what is really interesting to me is how connected Jeffrey Epstein was with very nefarious adversaries andor allies of the United States. um communications with Russia, communications with Israel, and I always had wondered how did he get all of this money? How how is how was he a billionaire?

Right. And as you start to see this whole scheme unfold because of you and um Congressman Massiey's bill, you start to deduce that, oh, was he blackmailing people? All of these wealthy people are have access to rape little girls. um these conversations with Peter Thiel and Palunteer and now all of these government contracts to Palunteer. They're surveilling you and your co-workers. Peter Thiel wants a surveillance state. The emails between Jeffrey Epste and Peter Thiel about these two deciding that democracy is incompatible and they're cheering on Brexit. That stuff, aside from all the child sex stuff, is a bombshell for national security and it just

it doesn't seem to get traction. Well, you're absolutely right. I mean, look, he is uh meeting with Gordon Brown's uh trade representative, Peter Mandelson, who's giving him tips that Britain is going to be buying the eur euro and uh and Epstein is trading on it. He is collecting prime ministers as if they're you know part of his friend network and he's talking about facilitating introductions uh to for the Indian prime minister in the United States. He's talking about what he's going to do with uh the Israeli prime minister to the point that Benjamin Netanyahu felt compelled to address the issue. He had met with Ehoud Barack so many times. Uh and he's meeting with the rich and powerful across the the world.

Uh and so this is a club and it's a club that has no regard for the law that is extractive in its wealth generation that has shafted sort of the working class not just in this country but in other parts of of of the world and really has given rise to an angry populism. And so the the historians are going to study those files not just for the rape and for what what happened and the survivors. are going to study it from a lens of how callow, immature, reckless, venal the elite, the governing elite of our society in America and around the world were at this time. I mean, it's a it's a shameful look at at the elite.

And what do you make of Donald Trump's the claims in there? There is some sworn testimony, not tipline. Sworn testimony of sexual violence against the president witnessed signed under oath. What do you make of that?

He needs to be investigated and answer questions. I mean, the there's an FBI sheet where he's listed as one of the top uh suspects for alleged wrongful behavior and alleged crimes. Uh and the reality is that uh he's he's literally the first person who should be deposed and asked questions. I mean, and here we have, you know, comr chasing everyone else. And that's not saying, look, I think the Clinton should come. I think the others should come, but how do you not have Donald Trump as the first person that you're asking questions under oath and that there was there should be an investigation and there should be an investigation for for everyone? And Massie and I have said this from day one. It's not partisan for us. It's not about Trump. It's not about Clinton. It's about the people who were involved and holding them accountable.

And uh he shouldn't be above the law and escape the accountability. He always does, doesn't he?

He always does, though. This is different. And he knows this is different. You know why this is different? I was on uh Sean Ryan's podcast. He's one of the uh the big podcasters on the on the MAGA side. He was all in for Trump. And he said, "Ro, I would never vote for him again because he's protecting pedophiles. I just am I'm done with him." and uh you know he's got someone in a factory town in Michigan saying m you know Donald Trump stop protecting pedophiles. This has broken through and it's broken through particularly I think with a lot of young men who see the world as good and bad and they thought okay they're the good guys. They're on the side of law enforcement and these are bad guys and Donald Trump was going to somehow expose this corruption and now he's part of the corruption. I I think this has cut more deeply in his MAGA base and losing trust than almost anything. And he he knows

that. That's why he keeps saying let's move on. Let's move on. The irony is every time he says move on, it just becomes a bigger and bigger issue.

What about your Republican colleagues? I um remember you and I are old enough to remember when there was a sense of decorum

in the house and uh civility and I feel like there is a mass magga psychosis like if you look at the speaker of the house whom I refer to as Moses Mike Johnson because he has conversations with God.

Um the he's so I haven't been so blessed. Me either. He's so these men are so submissive. They campaign and they uh do all of this tough talk that there are these big alpha males and Donald Trump is this, you know, beacon of masculinity. Yeti wears a full face of makeup right?

Decorates his oval office to the point of a complete travesty. Listens Blair's opera music. I mean, just kind of acts like this old queen. And then you have all of these alpha males, your colleagues that pretend to be alpha males that are so submissive to this man.

Yeah. These MAGA people, a lot of them deeply religious. Do you think it's breaking through to any of your colleagues or are they too scared of him? Are they too scared to buck him or do they just have maga psychosis? Like get us into the psychology of these Republicans that have this power and don't use it. They don't practice what they preach. I think it was the Republican women who broke Trump when when when history writes the turning point because it was a Nancy Mace and Marjorie Taylor Green and Lauren Boowbert that stood with Thomas Massie and me and at some point it'll come out what all threats they had to undergo. I mean, being hauled into the situation room, being threatened, not just with their careers, but security.

And they stood up and people didn't think we had a shot in hell to to get this passed. And we passed it in the House and we passed it in the Senate. And Donald Trump caved. And since that moment where people said, "Wow, Trump, you can stand up to Trump and you can win." There have been so many of these Republican discharge petitions now on different issues. It's sort of like the floodgates have opened up that yeah, you can question Donald Trump. You can stand up to Trump. It's still not enough. Uh but people see that he's losing his grip on his own base for those all this masculinity. I mean, what is more masculine than protecting a young girl from a pedophile? So, they see the protection of pedophiles as the least masculine thing. And uh and and and this has started to break through. So I I believe that you have a crack in the MAGA coalition. Though I was disappointed yesterday with Pam Bondi

because they all circled the wagons, but Pam Bondi allegedly was threatening Republicans that the DOJ is going to go after you if you don't fall in line. And they did this to Mark Kelly, right? They're they've done this to to Eric Swallwell. They're they're perfectly capable of opening up investigations to make someone's life uh very difficult. Uh and this is what you look they they have certain they haven't done that to me. One of the reasons that no one goes went after the Epstein files just in re real talk is there are a lot of powerful people there and there are a lot of powerful people who are donors on both sides and you make a lot of enemies. I mean Massie has all these billionaires coming after him for multiple reasons. I have billionaires upset at me and they don't they won't say it's because of the Epstein files but the reality is the way to make it up in politics is you you it's addition. You keep your head down.

you're affable. You make friends. You try to win everyone over. You don't go take fights with the most powerful people. You don't make enemies. Uh and both Massie and I had a sort of a maverick streak saying, "No, we we don't care." And that's I think and we did win in this case in terms of the legislation. I think it's giving more people the confidence to stand up.

What do you think is the ultimate push of all of this? I mean, they're breaking the law right now, correct? by not releasing the full

files. So, what power do you all have to continue to force the drip of all of this information?

We the survivors could go to court. You know, Massie and I lost in court in put calling for a special master judge. I believe that uh he may the judge may actually think that was a good idea given these redactions. We didn't lose on the merits. He just said we didn't have standing, but the survivors do. and he welcomed us to bring a lawsuit. So the courts are an option. In my view, once we take back Congress, we should have a special committee on the Epstein hearings and we should hold in front of Congress every single person who has emails saying, "I went or want to go to Epstein's Island." I mean, if if if someone goes to an island with a known convicted pedophile where, you know, young girls are being raped, I'm not saying they're guilty, but you would at least think they'd be investigated, asked, "What did you see? What do you know? what was happening there. None of that happened. So, Congress should be

having those investigations and the next administration needs to say we will actually investigate and prosecute this. I have no confidence in Pam Bondi or Donald Trump actually doing that and we our law mass and my law doesn't allow for the uh unclassification of information because that would have been unconstitutional. But a president should appoint someone who is trusted really trusted to look at the uh intelligence the classified information about Epstein. They're public pictures of him at the CIA to look so it's not conspiratorial and explain to the American public how did he make his money, what was he doing, what were his actual uh ties to intelligence agencies here or around the world and not speculate about it, but actually do that.

What about what do you know about his brother Mark Epste? He seems to be pushing this narrative that he it wasn't a suicide and he's ordering a new autopsy. Does that fall into anything that you all are doing or do you keep a breast of that?

So when I started all of this, I would have told you he killed himself for sure and now I have some doubt. I mean I don't I can't say that it's not the truth but there are too many things that they have covered up that I don't know for for for sure and that is why I think we have to look at not just the unclassified information but also the classified information and only the president can do it. Congress can't declassify. So you need uh and this president obviously isn't going to do it. So they that is something for for the future but it for right now Congress could haul these people in tomorrow. I mean, Speaker Johnson, if he was just even for the politics, he should be appointing a special committee, put Massie and me in charge of it, or even do Garcia and Comr at oversight and start hauling people in and asking them what they knew, what they they what they did they do, and let's investigate these

people if justice isn't going to investigate them. And the speaker just seems 100% out to lunch. Every interview I see with him, if it's a controversial question, he says, "Oh, I haven't heard of this." And I'm like, you're you monitor your son's porn.

You said that on his words. He takes the time to monitor his son's porn use and his son monitors his porn use. And he expects us to believe that he's not briefed

on the things that are happening in the country when he is the speaker of the house. And to have that kind of power and not wield it, to be speaker is just about the most submissive thing I have ever seen. Do you see any people in the Republican party, you said there's some fissures with the women, do you see any fissures with the men in the Republican party? Because there's a theory, proven theory, that when strong men, and that's what Trump is, a dictator, when they become frail and you can see the physical manifestations of their aging, right? You know, he has the cankles, he has to wear the makeup on his hands, he has the looks like he has had a stroke, the droopy face,

that that's when fissures within the support really start taking off. And I feel like from now to midterms would be the most important time for this to happen because I do not trust

him to not do everything in his power to uh suppress, cheat. Oh, absolutely. Have I harass people, do all I he will do.

It's all on the table. Yeah. Look, I I I think you're absolutely right. I didn't think of it in terms of the physical aging, but this is how like other countries that have authoritarian rulers, they just wait until the ruler ages, right? and and to some extent you are seeing fissures. You have Don Bacon who I respect. He's was a general. He's been served the country 30 years. He's departed from Trump on tariffs on uh NATO. I mean he he's very concerned that Trump's insulting Canada and insulting NATO allies. Uh you have uh Brian Fitzpatrick uh from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where I grew up. He just voted against the the tariffs. So, you're starting to see Turner, Representative Turner from Ohio, uh said, "Look, in this country, uh we don't just have capital punishment for people who may be coming and bringing drugs into America." Like, you don't just shoot them and kill them, even if they're bringing drugs. So, I think

they're they're waking up, but they're not enough of them. Uh but the cracks the the cracks are there. And uh my view is we have a real chance for a a significant win in the midterms. And that's how we have to approach it. We've got to win by decisive margins because they're going to kick people off the rolls. They're going to have ICE intimidate. They're going to uh try to intimidate the the county elections where they can. And the scariest thing is uh Mike Johnson gets to determine in a close race whether to seat someone.

And that is the uh place where we have a constitutional crisis. And remember, this is someone Mike Johnson who was the lawyer for Donald Trump in 2020 in filing those cases saying that the election was uh not legitimate. So, uh this is going to come to a head when there are close races and who to seat and we can't take that chance. We've got to win by 20 to 25 seats and we've got to win by a plus five margin. That's that's the reality of what we're facing.

What do you make of uh DOJ um using surveillance on your colleagues? you there they there there was a Getty photographer that took an image of Pam Bondi's burn book,

right? and she had your um congresswoman your colleague her name eludes me but her search history in the ski looking at the epste if they're surveilling

what exactly you all are looking at and when I think about that and then I think about what's actually in the Epstein files which is Peter Teal

Palunteer surveillance colluding with Jeffrey Epstein and also these ICE agents that are taking pictures of people and putting them in some database it really seems like Even Congress people are falling prey to this surveillance state. Yes. That is the desired outcome of these crazy billionaires. And I just, this is just me. I don't think that Trump I think he's evil. I think he's a racist. But I think fundamentally he's a I don't think

I agree with you. I think he has the intellectual rigor to be super diabolical long-term planning. In short term, he can, but his whole brain works short term.

Totally agree. That's our saving grace from authoritarianism is just his incompetence at times. Not that we can be complacent, but I totally agree with that that diagnosis. I look how he tried to overturn the election. It was so incompetent who he was calling it justice and how he was frantic about it. It was evil. It was uh unamerican, but it was also fundamentally incompetent. Uh and but but people around him like uh Russell Voy and Steven Miller, they're not incompetent. They

No, they're diabolical. Long term. Long term. Yeah. What about Peter Tilliel? He lives in your district.

Well, I I I gave a whole speech uh about it nine months ago calling out why he's so dangerous. Some of these people in Silicon Valley, if you talk to them, they say, "Well, we would have been conquerors in a different age. We are Uber Mench. We are No, I'm not kidding. you know, they all they all read Iron Rand's novel and like the the Fountain Head or Atlas Shrugged and then they stopped reading after that and they view themselves as these civilizational builders and they view people like me for those who have read Ein Rand as like a Peter Keading fellow like one of these bureaucrats these people who get in the way these politicians who are are stopping us from building greatness and Peter Teal literally says that democracy uh and innovation are are not compatible. They rather, if you ask them, have the wealth accumulated within the hands of a few because they think they know how to invest in AI and invest in Mars and keep

America soaring. And all the rest of the folks, well, uh they're just uh the the little people who who are in the way. And it is such an arrogance uh of uh world view that I don't think people fully understand. Uh and especially with AI where they're talking about eliminating jobs. I mean Musk is saying let's just eliminate jobs. This is what we have to stand up uh to. Uh are we going to have an AI revolution for all of us or for these billionaires? Are we going to have a country uh for all of us uh or these powerful few? And uh that to me is the the biggest issue.

Look in the guilded age Rockefeller had was the wealthiest person compared to GDP. Musk just surpassed that with 700 uh 700 billion. So as a percent of GDP, we now have people who are at the wealthiest relative to everyone else. And there's an unholy alliance between wealth and power.

You know what pisses me off about uh Peter Teal. Yeah. Is he wants to be a politician, but he doesn't want to put his name on the ballot and go win the proper way and get the support of people. and he has um absorbed all of the benefits of democracy of living in California which all of these people bash all the time. It made him and he's an immigrant that has come here and then he's colluding

with Jeffrey Epstein and all of these other rich pedophiles and he wants to cheat to gain power. And at the core of this Epstein thing and all of these oligarchs is they're not going to put their name on a ballot. Peter Till is not put and run against Roana because you'd kick his ass.

They just want to threaten me, you know? I mean, imagine the this thing all these billionaires who who said, "Oh, let's recruit someone." I get these texts. We're thinking of recruiting someone to run against you. We're I'm thinking of funding your opponent. None of them say, "I want to run against you." But imagine this. it. Look, should one person have that much power that they think that because they disagree with someone in Congress who represents 700,000 that they can just take them out? But that's what they think. They And why? Because uh they can put hundreds of millions of dollars into these super PACs.

And we need to as Democrats define that as such a weak puss boy move. You have to pay your way to try to get power. You can't do it through work. You want to find some political prostitute via JD Vance who is Peter Peter Till's prostitute.

It's creation his whole creation. And it's just it's such a puss boy move that the this party that's all about masculinity and being men,

right? I never I didn't even think of it that way. You know, it's like the weakest thing you can do. You have to find some boy like JD Vance who's changed his name three times, changed his religion, can't stand up for his immigrant parents, can't stand up for his mixed race children. You know, he's totally on board with the racial profiling of ICE.

And I guess it never occurs to him that he lives with people that have a different complexion than he does, but he's bought and paid for. And it's just such a weak move. these oligarchs. When every time I hear Elon Musk speak, I realize we have been sold a bill of goods in America. We have been pro propagandized that if you're rich, you're smart.

That That's exactly right. It's such a lie. I have heard Peter Thiel speak and it's so weird that his side hustle is speaking about the antichrist you know like he does these right and then when you hear

I mean I met him I knew him in we had a common professor at University of Chicago and I met him in 2014 I haven't met him since or 2012 and uh you know he's at the time he just seemed like okay he's he's this libertarian guy but you now come to realize these these folks think they're better than the than us they think they're better than And you come to realize they're not that smart.

And they they're not and they're not. Nor do they have any RZ at all, which is why they can't run for office,

right? Yeah. Although Vance got there, but I guess he got he got picked. He he was derivative RZ. Derivative RZ.

Yeah. And I think that was a deal, was it? Like, hey, we'll fund you if you put our boy in place. Because I don't think Trump really likes Vance. I've heard that he plays

Rubio and Vance against each other. Authoritarian experts call this divide and rule. It's a very common playbook. Yeah.

Um, but I want to thank you. We're going to have part two with Roana coming up later where we are going to talk about the midterms, dims, ICE, billionaire tax, all of that. So, we'll be back in just a minute.

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Ro K Connor (Host), Thomas Massie (Guest), Marjorie Taylor Green (Guest), Pam Bondi (Guest), Donald Trump (Guest), Howard Lutnick (Guest), Peter Thiel (Guest), Ben (unspecified) (Guest).

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A congressman describes exposing extensive, high-profile involvement in the Epstein case, highlighting horrific abuse, the exploitation of survivors from working-class backgrounds, and bipartisan efforts to release the unredacted files and connect powerful figures to the alleged cover-up.

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