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LIVE: MeidasTouch RESPONDS to MAJOR BREAKING NEWS - 2/2/26

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "LIVE: MeidasTouch RESPONDS to MAJOR BREAKING NEWS - 2/2/26", an episode of MeidasTouch published February 3, 2026 (1 h 19 min, about 13,916 words). It mentions 15 people, works and ideas, including Donald Trump, Midas Touch Network, Epstein Transparency Act, Sean Bannon, United Arab Emirates.

What this episode is about

The discussion centers on the recent partial release of Epstein files, revealing 38,000 references to Donald Trump and implicating high-profile figures in connection with Epstein. The conversation also touches on Trump's claims of vindication despite the damaging content of the documents, including allegations and detailed communications involving various public figures, along with commentary on Trump's actions regarding cultural institutions like the Kennedy Center and recent Democratic successes in Texas.

Key takeaways

  • 38,000 Trump mentions in Epstein files—definitely not the 'complete vindication' he claims it to be.
  • High turnout for Texas Democrats in a Trump stronghold signals a growing disillusionment among independent voters.
  • While Trump disavows knowledge of UAE dealings, his administration granted unprecedented semiconductor access post-investment.
  • The Kennedy Center debacle: transforming a cultural gem into a Trump-branded disappointment is fast-tracked vandalism.
  • The elite's network thrives in shadows; Trump's accusations of a 'deep state' may simply reflect his own inner circle.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 10:00: Donald Trump, United Arab Emirates, Texas State Senate District 9, Epstein Transparency Act
  2. – 20:00: Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Epstein Transparency Act, Midas Touch Network
  3. – 30:00: Donald Trump, Sean Bannon, Midas Touch Network, United Arab Emirates
  4. – 40:00: Donald Trump, Sean Bannon
  5. – 50:00: Donald Trump, Sean Bannon
  6. – 1:00:00: Donald Trump, United Arab Emirates, World Liberty Financial, Kennedy Center
  7. – 1:10:00: Donald Trump, Kennedy Center, Sean Bannon, United Arab Emirates
  8. – 1:19:26: Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Peter Teal

Notable quotes from "LIVE: MeidasTouch RESPONDS to MAJOR BREAKING NEWS - 2/2/26"

  • 38,000 references to Donald Trump in the partial release of Epstein files on Friday. I say partial release because only three million documents have been produced. We believe there may be as.
    about Donald Trump · at
  • The emails, these are the confidential informant reports. We'll go through them again, but we've done some deep dives here on the Minus Touch network where we've gone over…
    about Midas Touch Network · at
  • Was not a low voter turnout. There was a high turnout, but independents and Republicans voted Democrat. Taylor Remmit, the Democratic candidate, union worker, who fought for…
    about Taylor Remmit · at
  • The Trumps and Witoffs and then shortly thereafter. during the Trump term so far. Trump gave the United Arab Emirates access to the most highly classified semiconductor chips…
    about United Arab Emirates · at
  • Lot of activity in those cases in the kind of post-trial motions. But when Massie and Connor said, We need an independent monitor and a special master. Remember the Trump DOJ…
    about Epstein Transparency Act · at
  • Work is stressing me out. Could you please tell me what day your wildest parties on the island are going to be? I would really like to go to your wildest parties. These are all people who have been pretending Oh, once I.
    about Elon Musk · at
  • At events like Brexit, right? like I'm talking major global events. You see that it was this group of people tied to Jeffrey Epstein and these associates and people like Steve…
    about Peter Teal · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Donald Trump — Person · Primary referenced political figure / subject of allegations · 41 mentions · first at
    Central figure discussed in relation to the Epstein document dump, alleged associations, DOJ handling, and broader claims of corruption and dishonesty.
  • Sean Bannon — Person · Referenced political operative alleged to have extensive communications with Epstein · 14 mentions · first at
    Portrayed as having frequent contact with Epstein (including during Trump’s presidency) and as part of a broader elite/political influence network.
    Musk is all over it. Peter Teal is all over it. The whole crew is mentioned, oh, Steve Bannon was having like daily conversations with Epstein. It's all right there. And for…
  • Elon Musk — Person · Referenced elite/tech figure alleged to appear in Epstein-related materials · 6 mentions · first at
    Named as part of a purported elite network appearing in the Epstein files; used as an example of powerful figures allegedly misrepresenting their associations.
  • Howard Lutnick — Person · Referenced business figure alleged to appear in Epstein-related materials · 2 mentions · first at
    Discussed as appearing in the Epstein files and as an example of a public figure allegedly downplaying or mischaracterizing the extent of contact with Epstein.
    Republicans were talking about, well, turns out it's in the White House right now. Howard Lutnik is all over it. Elon Musk is all over it. Peter Teal is all over it. The whole…
  • Galane Maxwell — Person · Referenced convicted associate of Epstein / legal case anchor · 1 mention · first at
    Discussed in the context of the DOJ’s document handling, victim privacy failures, and the procedural posture of the Maxwell criminal case and post-trial motions.
    In the active federal cases, or inactive in the sense that Epstein is dead and Gileain Maxwell is convicted of child sex trafficking, but there has been a lot of activity in…
  • Peter Teal — Person · Referenced tech investor figure alleged to appear in Epstein-related materials · 3 mentions · first at
    Mentioned as part of the ‘whole crew’ allegedly appearing in the Epstein files and tied (in commentary) to influence/technology and information ecosystems.
  • Taylor Remmit — Person · Referenced political candidate (Democratic winner in TX special election) · 2 mentions · first at
    Cited as the Democratic candidate who won a Texas State Senate special election, used as evidence of electoral backlash against Trump/MAGA.
  • Lee Wamsgans — Person · Referenced political candidate (MAGA Republican loser in TX special election) · 2 mentions · first at
    Presented as the MAGA-aligned Republican candidate who lost the Texas special election; used to illustrate Trump’s endorsement behavior and post-loss disavowal.
    Who's that? Donald Trump like continued to endorse her over and over again and now pretends that he didn't even know who the Republican candidate was there.

Companies & orgs

  • Midas Touch Network — Company · Business focus · 3 mentions · first at
    The podcast network where the discussion is taking place, mentioned as the platform for deep dives into the Epstein files.
  • World Liberty Financial — Company · Business focus · 3 mentions · first at
    Mentioned in the context of financial transactions involving the Trump family and the United Arab Emirates.
    Financials, like the Trump kids and the Wititov kids are in this company together. And they got $500 million from the United Arab Emirates. and this was before there was even a…

Concepts & topics

  • Epstein Transparency Act — Concept · Core topic · 2 mentions · first at
    Discussed as a legislative effort to release documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, with implications for accountability and justice.

Places & events

  • United Arab Emirates — Place · Setting · 8 mentions · first at
    Mentioned in the context of financial transactions and classified information sharing with the Trump family.
  • Kennedy Center — Place · Setting · 5 mentions · first at
    Discussed as a cultural institution that was shut down by Donald Trump, with implications for its cultural significance.
    We've gone over extensively the three million documents that have been produced. We'll talk about Donald Trump shutting down the Kennedy Center after staff has been quitting.…
  • Texas State Senate District 9 — Place · Setting · 3 mentions · first at
    Mentioned in the context of a political victory for Democrats in a traditionally Republican district.
    It. Will cover that. We should talk about this massive victory for Democrats in Texas. Texas State Senate District number nine had a special election that oddly took place on a…
  • COVID-19 pandemic — Event · Referenced event · 4 mentions
    Mentioned in passing, possibly in the context of its impact on events or discussions.

Full transcript with timestamps

38,000 references to Donald Trump in the partial release of Epstein files on Friday. I say partial release because only three million documents have been produced. We believe there may be as many as 3 million more documents, perhaps 50 million pages that are still being hidden. And based on my experience as a litigator, I believe the most devastating documents have not yet been produced. But there have been bombshells. As noted just moments ago, 38,000 references to Donald Trump. He appears in 5,000 separate files and some of the most grotesque and vile ways. But Donald Trump says it is a complete vindication of him when it isn't. Um, when you actually look at these files, the cabal that Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans were talking about, well, turns out it's in the White House right now. Howard Lutnik is all over it. Elon Musk is all over it. Peter Teal is all over it. The whole crew is mentioned,

oh, Steve Bannon was having like daily conversations uh with Epstein. It's all right there. And for me, not getting conspiratorial. I'm just going to read the documents and share with you what they say. And I'll be clear, you know, some of them are just allegations. Some of them are statements of contemporaneous writings between Epste and others. You form your own opinions, but these are the documents, these are the emails, these are the confidential informant reports. We'll go through them again, but we've done some deep dives here on the Minus Touch network where we've gone over uh extensively the three million documents that have been produced. We'll talk about Donald Trump shutting down the Kennedy Center after staff has been quitting. Performers have been cancelling uh their shows and no one has been showing up to attend.

Donald Trump took a crown jewel of Washington DC, a true treasure. And in record time, he destroyed it by vandalizing it with putting his name on it. Will uh cover that. We should talk about this uh massive victory for Democrats in Texas. Texas State Senate District number nine had a special election that oddly took place on a Saturday when nobody was expecting it except if you live uh in Texas, but it was very much hyped up in Texas. There was not a low voter turnout. There was a high turnout, but independents and Republicans voted Democrat. Taylor Remmit, the Democratic candidate, union worker, who fought for workers rights and affordability, won by plus4 in what was previously a plus 17 Trump district.

That's a plus 31 overperformance by Democrats. And then Donald Trump's like, uh, I don't even know who the candidate is. Lee Whamans, the MAGA Republican. Who's that? Donald Trump like continued to endorse her over and over again and now pretends that he didn't even know who the Republican candidate was there. That's a little bit of insight into the future MAGA Republicans. And actually, it's a blast from the past because this is what Trump does. He uses you, abuses you, and then throws you under the bus. We'll also talk about the Wall Street Journal exclusive about how Trump and Witoff's company, World Liberty Financials, like the Trump kids and the Wititov kids are in this company together. And uh they got $500 million from the United Arab Emirates. Um and this was before there was even a product that existed in this company. So it was basically money that went directly to the Trumps and Witoffs and then shortly

thereafter. uh during the Trump term so far. Trump gave the United Arab Emirates access to the most highly classified semiconductor chips that the United States has that no prior American administration would even think about giving to the United Arab Emirates. And then earlier today, Donald Trump said, "I know nothing about it. I know they like Bitcoin, but I know what what are we talking about here? I know nothing about it." Talk about that and more here on the Midas Judge podcast. I'm Ben Myellis joined by Brett and Jordy brothers. How are you doing?

Doing great. Doing great. Ben, doing great. Jordy, doing great. Mighty, it's great to be here everybody on this Monday, Tuesday, if you're listening on audio. You know, it was interesting when we saw the Don Lemon arrest go down the other day. I don't know why I had this instinctual gut feeling. I'm like, they must be getting ready to drop another round of Epstein files because this is so ridiculous and and insane that, you know, I know it's become a cliche at this point to say that they're trying to distract from something, but I was like, this is just way too freaking weird. And I think not an hour after I said that did Todd Blanch get out there and then announce this new trove of the Epstein documents. And while Trump tries to go out there and say, you know, basically what he says every time he's in trouble, I'm fully exonerated. Everything's great. It actually says I'm good. Those files were bad. Those files were

horrific to watch. I went fully down the rabbit hole all weekend pouring through a ton of files. There were three million of them. I went through as many as I can. I was searching keywords, key phrases, and the things that we found here and that other people have found are are truly horrifying. And I think it even goes beyond the fact, and we'll talk about this in greater detail, beyond the fact that this was a child sex trafficking ring and a sex trafficking ring in general, but it really shows this kind of behind the scenes elites, the way they use their network to get things done. You know, thinking back, every uh accusation is a confession. We know Donald Trump spoke about the idea of a deep state. it was the big thing he ran on and QAnon and Pizzagate and all of those things. Well, it seemed like all of those things that he was saying was deflections from the things that him and Epstein and their

associates were doing throughout these years. And by the way, I guarantee you it's all happening right now as well without Epstein. We're going to dive into it all. You know, we got to toss to Jordy. Jordy, what's the latest?

What's up, brothers? What's up, Midas Mighty? Great to be here. Excited to get into today's show. And let me just say this real quick, Brett. So to your distraction note, right, you know, everything feels like Donald Trump continues to distract and just throw stuff, right, and hope it sticks. I think, well, that's exactly what he's doing, but he's doing it in a much dumber way than he had been doing it previously. Or let me say this, he hasn't kept up with the times. I think that's a better way to phrase it. He's using his same media strategy here that he did in 2016, and that has just continued to work for him his whole life. But now where we are in 2026, he wasn't counting on independent media to hold his feet to the fire. He wasn't counting on pro-democracy communities that quite frankly I don't think existed in this capacity back in 2016 and even 2020. Where we sit right now, he can

only try to distract quote unquote people from caring about these stories when now we've built the collective. We have built these communities to one hold each other accountable, but to hold power accountable. And so we're not going to forget. He could try and, you know, uh, distract by doing this thing or or arrest Don Lemon, which is a very, you know, serious thing and not a funny thing at all to get people talking about that or then bombing this country or doing something crazy here. But at the end of the day, we're all collectively in this and are hyperfocused on every single issue and we're not going to let up. We're not going to let anything just go unanswered. We're going to turn over every single rock. Again, the collective we here. I'm excited to get into today's show. Before I toss it over to you to Benji, I made this bold prediction here for the Midas Touch Network last episode. Now, within the 30 days when

that that was three days ago, so I guess now 27 days I have, we're going to hit 6 million subscribers to our YouTube channel. We are just 90,000 subscribers away at the time of this recording. I'm feeling bullish. I'm not going to have to shave my head. I think that was the bet that Brett tried to throw in. I'm not going to do it be because the mightest mighty are not going to let us down. We are going to hit 6 million subscribers by the end of this month. So, please check to see if you're subscribed. You may think you're subscribed, but you might not actually be. So check to see that you're subscribed to the Maetouch YouTube channel right now. Benji, where too big bro?

The Trump cover up of the child sex trafficking ring sadly follows a predictable pattern with bad actors. First they obstruct and refuse to turn over documents. Then they get cornered and then they do a dock dump. and they will put in the dock dump bad documents to make you think, well, that must be it because why would they turn this over if they're hiding more? And then they're usually using that dock dump as a moat, if you will. Think about a moat around a castle to hide the real treasure of the most devastating documents. So, when people ask me, well, why would they turn that over? Well, because they're probably hiding much worse documents.

And if you go back and you read some of the court filings that the Trump DOJ made, they've told federal judges that they are withholding documents on the basis of privilege claims. And a privilege in a lawsuit is a claim that a litigant can assert for not producing documents. Ultimately, a federal judge makes a ruling if a privilege claim is valid or not valid. But here, the Trump regime is banking on the fact that since there's no active case, per se, and that the Epstein Transparency Act doesn't have a written private cause of action that says here, who here's who has standing to sue that a federal judge can't intervene and make a ruling that a privileged claim is invalid. You'll recall when Ro Kana and Thomas Massie, the Congress members behind the Epstein Transparency Act, filed in federal court in the active federal cases, or inactive in the sense that Epstein is dead and Gileain Maxwell is convicted of child

sex trafficking, but there has been a lot of activity in those cases um in the kind of post-trial motions. But when Massie and Connor said, "We need an independent monitor and a special master." Remember the Trump DOJ swooped in and said, "No special master. These Congress members don't have standing." It's a case between the DOJ and Gileain Maxwell and we don't want a special master. So judge, you don't have any authority to appoint an independent monitor or special master and you don't have any ability to intervene in this judge. And remember what the judges said. Unfortunately, I guess that's right. I don't have the ability even if we want to. But boy were Massie and Kana right. Right. They were preient in making uh that request. Um but this is what the DOJ is doing. They want to rule on their own privilege claims and the types of privilege claims that they're making behind the scenes. And this is

why they haven't submitted the report about where their redactions are coming from and what they're withholding. They're claiming deliberative process privilege. That means internal drafts, internal memos within the FBI, inter and intraoffice correspondence, attorney client privilege, work product privilege, executive privilege. So they're making all of these claims to avoid producing those millions of documents which may be highly highly relevant. I just want to put that out from the outset. Also, I want to say from the outset that the survivors are absolutely furious right now because they've been outed in these files over and over again. This the task that Trump DOJ had since last February is just protect the survivors names and release all of the files. And instead, the Trump regime is still withholding 3 million plus documents. And that's documents.

Those may be 20, 30, 40 pages per document, which is why I say there may be 50 million pages of 3 million documents still outstanding, but you were able to identify the survivors names, addresses, social security, and other identifying information. There was an entire file that we were able to access at the Midas Touch Network that had photographs of underage girls and minors that were just out there and we had to reach out. As much as I didn't want to reach out to the DOJ or any contact, we flagged it with Aaron Parnes for the DOJ and said, "Take this down.

There's underage girls in your file. What the hell are you doing?" And so think about the retraumatizing of these victims and survivors that photos of them as underage girls have been from the have been produced. So they did that and then these survivors filed an emergency motion on Monday to the federal judge saying, "Judge, please help us." And the federal judge set a status conference for later this week and said, "Let me try to do what I can, but I don't know what I could even do as a federal judge because our system is based on the concept that the DOJ is supposed to be the good guys and the criminal defendant is adversarial with the presumption of innocence. But in the case of Gileain is a convicted sex trafficker, so is guilty, guilty, guilty. and the DOJ is supposed to be representing the victims and survivors against the bad guy. But here they're basically on the same team, the DOJ and

Gilane. And that's not what our system was built on. So the judge is saying, I don't really have the tools. I'm not sure what I can do. So I wanted to give that framework because obviously we'll go through the documents, Breny, but I don't think that level of analysis has been explained to people. And so that's why I want to focus there from the outset versus going through the emails and stuff.

And I want to remind people of this incredibly important point. The deputy attorney general at the Department of Justice is Donald Trump's former criminal defense attorney, Todd Blanch. He's the guy who was trying to get Donald Trump not convicted of crimes. You think he's going to be out there and he's going to be releasing documents and releasing things that could possibly incriminate Donald Trump? You think? or do you think he's going to be doing everything that he has done his entire career as with his time with Donald Trump and defending Donald Trump? This DOJ views their job as being Donald Trump's defenders, not defenders of the law, not defenders of the Constitution.

And we are seeing that in play with this disastrous release of the Epstein files. Nevertheless, as we've been saying in this massive document dump, there was a lot of stuff, a lot of really bad stuff about Donald Trump, about Elon Musk, about Howard Lutnik. And I think the one of the big things that sticks out to me as I read this are just the lies. The lies were so apparent. It would be one thing, and that doesn't necessarily make it much better, but it would be one thing if these people were honest about their associations with Jeffrey Epste.

If Howard Lutick actually was honest about his associations with Jeffrey Epste. if Elon Musk was actually honest about it. But these people all did the same kind of lies. If you remember, there was a clip uh from a podcast with the New York Post, a journalist that Howard Lutnick was on uh that we posted on on my touch. We played it on the show a few months back where Howard Lutnik uh was talking about Epste and they were like, "Oh, so you know Epste." Howard Lutnick was like Epstein's neighbor and like bought the house that Epstein used to live in or something. And and Howard Lutnick's like, "Oh, yeah. I went into a party in 2005. I saw the guy. It was dis I knew right away when I saw him. He was disgusting. It was just He was disgusting. I said, "Never call me again. I don't want to talk to you ever again." Right. And then wasn't even a party bread. He said that Epstein knocked to give him a tour of the house

as neighbors because they lived together for like lived next to each other for like a decade. And he said he said, "I get in there." And Epstein said, "You like that massage table right there?" And I said, "Why do you have a massage table in the center of your place?" And Epstein said, "You know the kind of massages I like, right, hour?" And I said "You disgusting." So I went to my wife and I told my wife, "That man is a disgusting animal." And I never talked to him ever again. That's a really good That's a really good Letic. And sure enough,

like an A+ you you've been working on it. I could tell. And and you and sure enough, you know, a decade later, he's still talking to Howard Lutnik. And we see it in the emails that they had literally made plans for Howard Lutnik to or he's still talking to Jeffrey Epste. You see plans um Howard Lutnik going to Epstein's island. Um Epstein's asking him if he's bringing children with him. Lutnik says I think he was like bringing his whole family with him. Um, and then there is an email that comes after the kind of plans are made which basically confirms or appears to confirm, I should say, um, that Lutnik actually did go to the island on this occasion where they said, "It was nice seeing you there, Jeffrey wanted me to uh, pass this message along. Nice seeing you, Howard." And so we saw that with him. We see it with Elon Musk where Elon's like Elon's like Jeffrey Epstein. Uh, Jeff Jeffrey, I'm I

really need to let loose this weekend. Work is stressing me out. Could you please tell me what day your wildest parties on the island are going to be? I would really like to go to your wildest parties. These are all people who have been pretending like, "Oh, once I learned about that guy, I was disgusted and I'm never going to ever associate myself with the guy." But as I was saying, as you look at this, I think there's the sex trafficking operation angle of this, which is depraved and appalling and horrifying. And then there I think is a broader story that was being told especially in this latest email batch and it's a story about power. And I think you know when you speak about things like rape or sexual assault often times I would say all the time it's not about sex it's about power. It's about dominance. And these emails reveal a culture of people who are predators who are preying on

everybody almost the entire world. Donald Trump spoke about this idea of a deep state when he was running. Well, I think one of the most revealing things that at least comes to the surface for me when I'm reading these emails is that it seems like there was this network, this web of these elites, these powerful people. You had people like Jeffrey Epste, you had people like then Prince Andrew. You had uh, you know, prime minister of this country, prime minister of that country, the head of the CIA here. you you had all of these leaders in all of these countries that were using Jeffrey Epstein as an intermediary to get things done and they were all using each other for favors and Epstein would help people get certain jobs in certain places when they had issues. Um when there was uh people who needed uh uh attorneys because they were accused of sexual assault themselves, Epstein would try to help them out with that and

he would hang these kind of favors over people's head in order to get things that he wants for powerful people. and he developed this rolodex with all of this powerful people and it is my belief that they were really shaping global events within their network and using their leverage over each other to do it. So I mean some of the biggest events they were talking about in some of these emails like toppling governments. I'm talking like really really big serious things and I think Epstein was an essential part. It was like the nexus of all of that. But I think all roads basically pointed back to Epstein and pointed back to Trump. And these files were incredibly revealing in showing this power structure which I feel like a lot of people kind of instinctually, you know, think exists and know exists. But when you actually see it like that and when you hear it in the recordings and see it in the videos, I think it takes

on a whole other light. There was a recording uh quite quite, you know, a decently long recording with Ahoud Barack, the former prime minister of Israel um that was in these documents. And one of the interesting things about this was it was like a few months before he was going to be out of power or maybe even just a few weeks and he's talking to Jeffrey Epstein and he's basically going to Epstein for advice. This is the then prime minister of Israel. How do I make money off this position once I leave this office? How do I profit off my power? And you would think when someone's asking for job advice, you'd say, well, what are you good at? Do you got any skills? Got any hobbies? You know, how do you want to live it? You're 70 whatever years old. How do you want to live the rest of your life? You you you tell me. But Epstein's immediate advice to him was, "Give me a list of all the people you know, who owes you

favors. Uh who did you wrong? Who did you help out?" And it really gives you a mindset. This is how this is how you're going to make money. I know Tony Blair's making X million. I know this person's making X million a year. I could get that for you, but I'm going to need you to give me those names of the people who owe you things. And it's really just a window into the psychology of the way that these people operate, the way these networks operate and how they do so in a way that enriches themselves at the expense of the people. And when you look at all these events over the past few years, past decade plus, when you look at events like Brexit, right? like like I'm talking major global events. You see that it was this group of people tied to Jeffrey Epstein and these associates and people like Steve Bannon and people like Peter Teal and people like Elon Musk and Donald Trump and Prince Andrew and and

and Lord Mendelson and in the UK and you name it was all these people who were involved in shaping the course of our history and leading to where we are today. I almost had an epiphany like shit's so crazy right now. And as I was reading these things, I'm like, is it because of all of these people? Are they the ones who put us on this path? It's truly truly mind-blowing stuff. And I know Ben's gone into greater detail in all of his hot takes, which are all incredible and you should watch and listen to them. But but this is jaw honestly jaw-dropping stuff which I think is even greater the like a much bigger deal and a much bigger story than it's even often presented as.

Brilliant. Brett, I I think you're absolutely on to something there. No doubt about it. And Benji, your breakdowns on on this entire saga have been so fascinating to listen to and just so brilliant as well. And to Brett's point, please, if if you haven't watched Ben's videos on on all of this, he he breaks it down in a way where I like to say anybody could really understand the connections to to to all of this. So Benji, you know, kudos to you, big bro. I I want to quickly go back to the the Lutnik and Trump relationship of it all. specifically how they how they always make themselves the hero in their own stories. Uh especially as it uh relates to Epstein, right? What was Trump what was Trump's thing? I kicked him out of Mara Lago. I kicked him

Johnson said Mike Johnson said he was FBI informant actually helping him. I mean

exactly Trump's an FBI informant. Trump Trump kicks him out of Mara Lago. What a what a hero. Lutnik. Oh, he Lutnik and those Spidey sense instincts of his. the first day he met him, he went to his wife, said, "Nu, this guy's a sleeves bag. We're not going in there." Lo and behold, communications decades later shows that they're buddies, apparently. I mean, what other conclusion can you draw there? It's because there's not an honest bone in any of these people's bodies. These people will do whatever it takes to continue to enrich themselves at the expense of of anybody else. And really like the really disgusting portion of of it here is that h how they decided apparently to to kind of I'm talking about like the real like deal like the Epstein, you know, all of that like the Epstein inner circle is is how they just there's a human element to all of this is what I'm getting at. And and what

these men did and I'm not saying Lutnik in particular. I'm not that's not what I'm saying here. But what these men did to these girls on on Epstein's Island and how they abused these girls and how they raped these children to me is just utterly appalling. And now we, you know, come decades later and the information is getting out there and now just the retraumatization of it all with the mishandling of the Epstein file released to me is just absolutely disgusting. And the fact that they just can't own that they are fumbling the release of these files that they aren't doing their due diligence trying to protect the victims to me is just so again disgusting and upsetting for for so many different ways. I don't know how you feel about Benj. Well, I do know how you feel about it actually, but like for you when you see the mishandling of these documents. To me, it almost feels intentional with just

how poorly the redactions are and what we're seeing come out. Can you comment from like your lawyer side of it, just just how badly they're fumbling this?

This is a simple document production. It's actually not complex at all. every day. Back when we had competent federal prosecutors and for any civil civil litigators out there watching this who handle complex cases involving financial fraud or what have you, you deal with terabytes of documents all the time. the number three to five million documents or pages. In my world, when I was a litigator, that's actually not a lot of documents. Why? You work with teams of people to review them. You use search tools that help you. You do it every day and you just sit down and review it.

It's it's it's not all that hard. You know, if if you have a team of five people, right, some of these emails and text messages are short, some of the pages are long because it has a lot of filler or news articles or things that aren't necessarily relevant. So, you start to see these patterns when you do your document review. And so, you know, typically for me, a 3 to five terabyte doc review, which may be 5 to 10 million documents is a 60-day to 75day task. So, if you told me I had until February to January 31st of the next year to do this, plus I had 250 lawyers, maybe more, because if you believe the DOJ, they claimed they had a thousand lawyers working on this back last year. A thousand? I would tell you this is a 30-day task. It's easy.

But also, you have no leadership at the DOJ. You have horrible actors at the DOJ. you've got Donald Trump's criminal defense team at the DOJ and so that's why you have the outcomes uh that you do. Few other points I just want to make though. Howard Lutnik received $50,000 apparently from Epstein in 2017 when Lutnik received some award. So that communication was happening at least through 2017. So I just want to talk about that in in terms of some of these other events. You have Epstein speaking with people at the highest level about things like Brexit, Putin's annexation of Crimea, Jaire Bolsinaro, the right-wing extremist kind of dictator guy who took over Brazil and was their Trump was their MAGA puppet that Bannon helped implement and Bannon was instrumental in getting Bolsinaro elected there and talks about it in the messages with Epstein as they're talking about toppling world governments. So you have

Bolsinaro who's mentioned, you have Epstein talking about getting Putin involved in lots of different things including Bitcoin back in 2013 and 2014. Lots of Bitcoin talk. You have uh Prime Minister Ahood Barack, the former prime minister of Israel. You have the prime minister, former prime minister of Norway, Thorban Jagland uh who was also the uh secretary general of the council of Europe from 2009 to 2019. You had Sultan bin Solium, a royal affiliated person in the United Arab Emirates. interesting because we're going to talk later in this episode about Trump's current connections and receiving lots of money from the UAE and they're talking at the highest level with Epstein as the main connector about world events. And in my opinion, and I'm not suggesting any specific person or this or that or the other. I'm just saying more broadly when I look through these files, the sex trafficking

is the currency that was used by Epstein and other predators in order to transact and blackmail each other. And that was part of this as well. It was the currency which was used to transact on their world agenda. throughout all of these issues that I'm uh that I'm talking about here. Now, I I I want to mention this and then we'll we'll get into some more very much specifics, but you know, you have allegations against Donald Trump like the following. And there's FBI spreadsheets and presentations. The Midas Touch got it right away and then the DOJ took it down and they had to put it back up because we already put it on our Substack atplus.com.

But you know there are allegations like this about Trump. Jane do stated Epstein introduced her to Trump who subsequently forced her head down his exposed penis which is subsequently bit. In response Trump punched her in the head and kicked her out. Or Jane Doe. Remember Epstein introduced her to Trump saying this is a good one huh? And Trump responded yes. And there are lots of other stuff like I mean I I could go through I I've done this on all the other videos, but there's lots of stuff. And to be clear, these are allegations, right? They they don't appear to have been fully investigated the way they should have been, but these are allegations.

But there's again 38,000 references to Donald Trump and 5,000 files. And Trump's closest people were involved. talking about Trump and oral sex with people in the White House. I mean, you have Bannon saying things to Epstein about and things like that, which I mean, this is this is in the files. And you know, when Donald Trump says this has completely vindicated me, the hell are you talking about? There's sick and disgusting stuff in there, and we know that more stuff is still being hidden. And then you layer on top of that, not in a conspiratorial way, Epstein was listed by confidential informants to the FBI as Putin's money manager.

The a confidential source that that was work that the FBI was working with called him Putin's money manager. He says he's Putin's money manager, the money manager of Zimbabwe and other world leaders as well. Right in 2016 when those uh when Russia hacked the DNC and released all of those files on Wikileaks, you had Epstein doing lots of meetings at that time with Russian diplomats and Russian people at that time. All kind of taking place right there. And again, you can go and watch the deep dives where I read the messages. I go one after another. And so I'll show you how Donald Trump is responding to this and I'll show you how he's responding to all of these things by saying, "H, you know, if anything, it's Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton looks like the bad one in here."

Let's be clear, Bill Clinton does look pretty bad, files. You know, like he's hanging around on Epstein a lot. Like that's not a good look by any means. Trump's like the main person referenced. Bannon's one of the main people referenced, you know, and and Putin's referenced over and over again.

The crazy thing about B the Bannon obviously is it's during Trump's presidency,

during the presidency. And they're talking about giving information to Trump, what Trump knows, like very detailed stuff during the first administration about what was going on. All right, let's take our first quick break of the show. On that note, um reminder, uh make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel. Help us get to six million subscribers. Let's try to get there this month. Jordy predicts we will help us get there. Uh become a member. Join the YouTube channel and gift memberships to others. That helps us grow. Subscribe on audio in addition to our YouTube page. And check out midasplus.com.

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Please leave five stars and a review. It really helps us in the algorithm. Last thing, Benji, really quickly. So, as our listeners know, this is going to be like just like a little lighter note here. I live in Pittsburgh. Uh, I love living in Pittsburgh. I've been here now for about five years. We had a really big snowstorm the other day, and my mind's blown. I'm open to this whole new thing called a parking chair. So apparently when it snows in Pittsburgh like we got like we're still recovering. It was a big storm. Uh folks uh I went to the city and them folks who were outside their apartments if they shovel their spots that's their spot and they put a park Yep. We have a photo of it. They put a parking chair of it. And by the way, I'm not I'm not bad mouthing the parking chair. I respect this a lot. So, if you shovel out your spot next to your apartment, that's all yours. I had no idea this was a thing. I was driving

around and I'm like, "Why are there so many chairs just like off the side of the road? I'm trying to find a parking spot." My wife's like, "It's a parking chair. Duh. Didn't you have this growing up?" I'm like, "No, we didn't." So, I posted it on to threads. And it's a thing. It's totally a thing. You can't touch somebody's parking chair, otherwise you're a Jagoff. You don't do it. Apparently, parking chairs are also relevant in Chicago and Philly. So, if you are familiar with the parking chair trend, let me know. Let me know where you're from. And uh and if you do this because my mind's blown. I love it. I'm all for it. I want to I want that to be clear. All right, Benji, now that uh that's out of the way.

You know, I I'm really not sure even how I could top that after that parking chair. How am I gonna even

You didn't know I was going to talk parking chairs. How am I going to take command of the show and talk about, you know, the news of the It's, you know, I'm going to do my I'm just kidding. That's how the brothers get along. I'm not teasing Jordy. You know, no comments about bullying Jordy and and and we feel bad for Jordy. Jordy, Jordy and I are very, very good. All right, let's take a look though about what went down in the Oval Office today where Donald Trump said the DOJ should just move on from Epstein. It's done. No one's talking about it anymore. We're good, right?

We're good. And obviously, you know, they're covering up much more. Go back to what I said at the beginning. This is kind of textbook 101. How bad actors behave. And it's done in almost a way that feels like parody because it's so obvious. Like you could inscript it more. But here's what Donald Trump says. Let's play it.

That have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epson. And in fact, if you look at the DOJ, they announced, you know, they released three million pages. It's like this is all they're supposed to be doing. And frankly the DOJ I think should just say we have other things to do because that whole thing has started out I mean other than Bill Clinton and you know Bill Gates and lots of people that have there are a lot of questions about it but nothing on me but it was even sort of better than that because they found that Jeffrey Epstein and this Lebag writer named Michael Wolf were conspiring against Donald Trump to lose the election. So Epstein was conspiring with a writer for me to lose the election. So right there, you know that I had nothing to do with this guy. But um yeah, it's a terrible thing. The the amount of time that's being wasted. You know, when Epste was alive like 10 years ago, nobody cared about it, but they're only

doing it. But now it's it's really hitting back on them because Bill Clinton is such a big part of it. The Democrats are pushing it. And the problem is that it's turning out to be the Democrats that were with and conspired with Epstein. So I think you're probably going to see a little pullback from them. But but think of it, they were working together to try and help me lose the election. But this is the Oval Office, so I guess that didn't work out too well. Okay, one more.

38,000 references to Donald Trump on 5,000 documents. Okay. I mean, when he says these things objectively, I don't again care what political party you're from. This is not political. This vile individual who's sitting there in the Oval Office is just a massive liar. What aspect is he lying about? Quite literally everything that comes out of his mouth. He's acting like he's vindicated. He's telling the DOJ to move on. No one cares about this. Should be noted that former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, according to reporting earlier today, they're going to be testifying.

They've agreed to show up and testify before the House Oversight Committee. There's really no significant precedent for having someone like Hillary Clinton testify or a former president testify in this situation. They've tried to negotiate in good faith the terms of the deposition, but they're showing up, you know. So, if they're showing up, shouldn't Donald Trump have to sit for a deposition? Or does James Comr say, "Well, you know, that's unfair at this point, why would we do that? He's vindicated." Right? You have Brett, do we have the clip of Mike Johnson from this weekend where he was on the weekend shows and he was out there? he was asked. So, do you think there are questions about Trump or what do you make of the fact that he's on there? You know, no, I've been satisfied. You know, uh, I think we're good. We're good to move on. I mean, come on. How weak and pathetic are you? Here, play this clip

of Maggam Johnson if we've got it. President Trump's name appears throughout the Epstein files, including in many of the new documents released this week. Now, we want to stress appearing in the Epstein files does not amount to or imply criminal wrongdoing, but do you have any outstanding questions given that about the relationship between President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein?

I do not. I mean, I've spoken to the president about this privately and personally many times, and he's spoken very candidly and openly to the public. He says the same things privately that he does publicly. He's never had any concern about that. Remember, President Trump was one of the first people that called Epstein out and he kicked him out of Marila Lago off the property because he heard of some of the nefarious things he was engaged in. Uh he's never had any concern about that at all.

He did at one point call these files a Democratic hoax. But let let me ask you about something.

Well, he he he what he said specifically was the hoax of the Democrats trying to turn this into a political issue and use it against him. Let's be clear, the Mara Lago spa was brought to Epstein's home. Epstein didn't even have to go to the spa. Trump and Mara Lago sent the spa to Epstein. And there are messages throughout about Epstein back channeling communications whether you know you know potentially to Trump uh about going to Mara Lago in 2012 or being invited over there. again, all of these relationships with people in the Trump regime.

I mean, it's just it's so evil what these people are doing right here. So, let me just show you. I just want to show you this one before you move on because he brought up other people in the Trump regime. Let me show you just this backtoback exchange with Steve Bannon quickly. And there are so many messages, and when I say so many, I mean hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands of messages between Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein, all very recent. Um, and let me show you this one just because I think it sums it up. Epstein says, "Of course, if you think I can be helpful in strategizing, you are welcome to come to Palm Beach. My plane will fly you home for the holidays if you like."

And Bannon says, "You are always helpful, Obi-Wan Kenobi." I mean, if that doesn't show you the friendly relationship that these with one another while Donald Trump was in office. While Donald Trump was in office, that was 2018. 2018. I cannot even like you cannot talk about the depravity enough here of what was going on.

Well, here's the thing, too, right? Let's assume Donald Trump is not in the files. 38,000 times and 5,000. Let's assume that's not the case. But you learn that Steve Bannon was having all of these communications with Epstein about figuring out ways to utilize your first administration to be involved in all of these geopolitical outcomes and that there were all of these communications happening, right? as a leader, like wouldn't you condemn Bannon in a situation? Like, let's assume you truly had nothing to do cuz why would you want to associate with someone then who objectively is all over this? By the way, there's messages from Bannon to Epstein in April of 2019, few months before Epstein is arrested, saying, "Let's come up with a plan to rehabilitate your image. Let's make sure that people stop calling you pedto and we'll figure out the best way to rebrand you as a philanthropist right here and

let's rebuild your image. Right? This is Bannon to Epstein April 2019 in text messages. And again, there's so much stuff about Trump. Now, if you're Trump and you have to comment about Bannon today and you're a leader because that person worked with you who's all over the files, wouldn't you condemn it? No. Here was Donald Trump's post about Bannon today. He posted a photo of Bannon and says, "Two very good guys who were treated so unfairly by sleepy Joe Biden, but now they are bigger than ever. DJT. So you're praising Bannon." And by the way, it's not like Trump posts photos about Bannon all the time. It's like the first time he's posted about Bannon in a long time. So obviously Donald Trump is communicating. It's like we're not stupid. Like we know what you're doing, right? He's communicating with Bannon and basically saying, "You still got a place with me. You're still my friend, right? We're good. I got your back.

Don't screw me over." That's clearly what the message is by posting that photo. Like, are we supposed to be so dumb to be like, "I wonder why he posted about Steve Bannon today." Oh, what a coincidence. And that's why these MAGA Mike Johnson and all these MAGA scumbags just piss me off. And it's again not a political thing. These are just scumbags. These are thugs. These are evil, evil people involved in depravity. That's why I don't like them. I don't care that they're Republican or These are bad humans who are either the stupidest humans ever or they're so malicious and they think we're so stupid. By the way, here was Donald Trump and the Oval Office today, too, suggesting he was going to sue Trevor Noah for mocking Donald Trump during the Grammys. But Donald Trump refers to Epstein's Island as Jeff Island. Your pleasure.

It's what you call a tell folks. didn't want to see a shutdown either. Mr. President, are you going to sue Trevor Noah? Last night in a post you alluded that something could be coming.

Yeah. Well, he said that he said that I spent time on Jeffy's Jeffrey Epstein's Island. I didn't I mean he's a lightweight this guy. He's a terrible I thought I think he's terrible. I thought he did a terrible job at the Grammys. I thought the whole Grammys was terrible. I watched part of it. It's not watchable. But he was a lousy host. I'd say not as bad as Jimmy Kimmel, but pretty close. And no, he made a statement about me and Jeffrey Epstein. I have nothing to do with that. I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epson. And in fact, if you look at the DOJ, they announced uh you know, they released 3 million pages. It's like this is all they're supposed to be doing.

Jeff I want to let me show one other clip right now. Hey, when we were hanging on Jay Dog's boat, when we were when we were on the Jay Dogs Island, I What was that? I mean I mean Epstein's island. I mean Epste Jeffrey Epste old old habits kick in sometimes.

I thought comedy was legal again. I mean comedy was sums up everything as well though. Take a look at this as Donald Trump talks about uh the Wall Street Journal report about his family being funneled $500 million uh from the United Arab Emirates or the UAE family. Um and uh and and the person they call the spy shake um because he's taking our classified information and potentially giving it to China. So they call him the spy shake. Well, that was the concern at least that prior administrations had why they didn't give semiconductor classified data to the United Arab Emirates because they said the UA is just going to give it right to China.

Okay? And let me be clear when the Trump regime says we're not worried about that. We've got the safeguards in place to track and prevent that technology. Y'all can't even redact documents appropriately in the Epstein files. You think that you're going to be able to track United Arab Emirates semiconductor chips being laundered to China through a covert black market? Yeah, I just I I don't think you guys have the capability. There we go. But here's what Donald Trump says when he's confronted about a fact that his family got paid $500 million where their company with Witco didn't even really have a product at the time. has got $500 million and thereafter the UAE gets this incredible classified information that has now sabotaged our national security. Let's play it.

Mr. President, Mr. President, the Wall Street Journal reported uh that the royal family of Abu Dhabi invested hundreds of millions of dollars in your world liberty financial. Uh can you explain why you decided to take that investment? Was that a transaction?

Well, I don't know about it. I know that crypto is a big thing and they like it. A lot of people like it. The people behind me like it. Uh my sons are handling that. My family is handling it. And uh I guess they get investments from different people, but I'm not. I have all I can handle right now with

Pull up the graphic. World Liberty Financial and who's involved in it. Donald Trump, Eric Trump, Don Jr., Baron Trump, Steve Whit, Zack Whit, Alex Whitco. Again, don't treat us like we're stupid. I don't know anything about that. I don't know what you don't know that you made $500 million from the United Arab Emirates personally and then you visited the United Arab Emirates and gave them our classified semiconductor chips and you've now sabotaged our national security. You you you don't know that. That's that's new data for you. That's new information. And again, let me say the following. I don't care if you're Democrat, Republican, or independent. That right there is just a liar. That's the liar who has bankrupted casino after casino, company after company, and has destroyed lives his entire life. That is the liar who just destroyed the Kennedy Center, a crown jewel and national treasure as the

performers canled, the staff quit, and nobody attended after he vandalized it by putting his name on. It's just objective facts that we're told. I don't know anything about that. Shut up. Just enough. And people here in the United States are psychologically tortured, living paycheck to paycheck if they're lucky enough to get a paycheck as they're being left behind in this disastrous economy, where right-wing oligarchs are sucking up all the resources, where we have a jobs recession right now, where America has killed its alliances abroad, where healthc care has been ripped away from people. And guess what else? Donald Trump sues his own IRS for $10 billion.

He sues our government. The IRS is under the Treasury Department. So, the defendant, it's Donald Trump versus Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant. And Trump is now entering into a settlement agreement with himself for $10 billion of our taxpayer money to go to him. It's like when you pay your taxes, which Donald Trump what? we pay zero dollars in taxes. And that's what was uncovered when Donald Trump's taxes were leaked like 10 years ago. And that's why his he says his reputation was harmed when every other president released their tax returns except for him. And now he says his reputation was harmed. When you pay your taxes and actually pay them the fact that it's now going to pay Donald Trump to settle his phony and frivolous cases while you're suffering in this economy while he's screwing you over, again, I don't care what political party you're from. That should piss you off.

And it pissed off people in Texas State Senate District 10. So when we come back, we're going to talk about what took place there. Uh state senate district was it nine or 10? State senate district 9 or 10. Um which flipped Democrat. It was a plus uh 17 Trump district. It went plus 14 uh in favor of the Democrat. Uh we'll talk about that. We'll talk about Trump shutting down the Kennedy Center and more. Let's take a Senate District 9. Let's take a quick break. We will be right back. A reminder, make sure you're subscribed to our YouTube channel and make sure you are also subscribed to our Substack Minus Plus and subscribe on audio as well. We'll be right back.

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You're you're concerned about parking chairs. I'm nose deep in the Epstein files. I mean, you know, we all we we all we all have our I got to say when I was looking through the files and everything like

you really feel like a crazy person when you're looking through these files because it's like all of these things that you think that might be happening or things that has always felt funny, you're like, "Oh, here it is in writing." Like this is actually real. This is actually crazy. And it was just a honestly like a just a really kind of just dark and horrifying experience uh going through these things because you even see like random people you don't expect, right? Like there was an email about Joe Mansion and you're like, you know, Joe Mansion, that guy was so annoying. He, you know, blocked Biden's agenda. He blocked so many good things from happening. Why was he behaving so funny? Right? And then you learn that like he's in the files. I'm not saying he did anything wrong or anything, but I'm just saying. Apparently, Joe Mansion was uh Epstein was involved trying to get a yacht for then Senator Joe Mansion

so that he could host a boating party for 22 people in the Virgin Islands. This is something that's in the Epstein files. And I just kept seeing that I all these people like why did they turn why did they become the way that they are today? How did they kind of go down this weird path? RFK Jr. I could tell you the RFK Jr. story if Ben lets me. Uh, but you know, all all of these things, you know, you see what's in the files here and you're like, "Holy crap, okay, it's all connected. All these people are intertwined and there's something else at play here where you almost get the sense that these people are just all protecting each other and are doing everything they can to just do what whatever they can to avoid getting into trouble themselves and also just to gain as much power and money and wealth that they can as possible.

It's not even a a smoking gun. The the gun is is on fire. The proverbial gun in this when you go through those emails, Brett, Ben, Midas mighty. Jaw-dropping. Jaw-dropping.

But, you know, but and people's reaction though too, Brett, to your message. You know, we don't know what happened on the yacht. We don't know if the yacht was rented. We don't know. Like, so let's be clear. But why is the senator from West Virginia talking about yachts off the coast of the Virgin Island? And and and there's so much of that right now. We're connecting this to the suffering of people here in the United States and how these elites and these oligarchs have been sucking up the resources and the futures of people. And when you see what's going on in these messages, the level of disdain and hatred for other people who are just trying to go and live their lives, right? You know, and and and live with their families and go to the parks or see a movie or have brunch with each other, right? and have hobbies while you have, you know, quite literally, you know, an Epstein and Bannon and all of these people like

trying to puppeteer destruction and devastation amongst amongst people's lives and people like I'm just trying to I just want to live my life right now. And I think that part is is is important to is important to mention, you know, which to me actually connects to Trump shutting down the Kennedy Center. And one of the things that Trump says is it wasn't profitable. It wasn't profitable. And and so I have to shut it down. First off, it's a memorial for former President Kennedy was shot and killed, assassinated. It's a memorial and it's a nonprofit.

Not everything has to make profits. It's a nonprofit, but it had net income of $40 million. So, it was actually not losing money. So, with everything Trump says, you always have to like look at the data. So, I wanted to just look at it and say, what were the expenses? What was the revenue? The revenue because I think I have to give you the facts. And if it was like losing all of this money, by the way, I'd be okay with it because it's a nonprofit and its goal. Sometimes things don't have to make money. Sometimes things can bring cultural enrichment and inclusiveness and and bring people together and that could be the purpose of something. That's okay.

In fact, that's laudable in sometimes. But its revenue was 306 million. Its operating expenses were 266 million. So it had net income of 40 million. So it was actually being run pretty efficiently and people like the Kennedy Center and Hamilton played there and some of the most uh interesting and exciting and well-known orchestras and symphonies played there. And then Trump goes, I'm shutting it down for maybe two years, maybe longer, I don't know. And Trump says, it was a disaster. It's doing horrible, so I'm shutting it down.

You're shutting it down. And again, just add it to the list of lots of other Trump things that have been shut down and destroyed. So, look, people are fed up with it. So, go to Texas State Senate District number nine. Apologies for calling it 10. It's number nine where you had this election between a Democratic candidate there, Taylor Remmit, who beat the MAGA candidate Lee Wamsgans. Now, Donald Trump endorsed Whams Gans, the Ultra MAGA is on her bio. Ultra MAGA. This was a plus 17 Trump district in 2024. I mean, Trump endorsed over and over again, I know her. I support her.

She's amazing. Don't let me down. Make sure you elect her. I mean, messages profusely endorsing her over and over again. She loses. No one expected it. MAGA Republicans put $2.5 million into that race, which was basically $2.5 million more than the than the Democrats put in there. And it wasn't a low voter turnout issue. It was that independents almost all went Democrat, which is what we've been seeing in a lot of these special elections. And a good chunk of Republicans voted Democrat. You had the Democratic candidate, Remit. He was talking about workers rights.

affordability, kitchen table issues, the MAGA candidate, social issues, and I'm here to be Donald Trump's rubber stamp. And the people of Texas State Senate District 9 rejected it. And what's really important, I think, as well, because Trump and Abbott gerrymandered Texas the way they did, believing they would create five new Republican congressional seats there. In order to do that, you have to dilute and remove people from existing Republican seats to try to get rid of the blue seats. So seats that were maybe plus 16, you may reduce them to plus eight in order to turn a Democratic seat into say a plus four or five Republican because you have to remove people and put people in other districts. So now there are all of these districts that are below plus 15 because Trump and MAGA were going by the 2024 results when they also won a lot of Hispanic votes in the state of Texas where their approval amongst Hispanic

voters now Trump and MAGA is like 25% to 24% approval. some of the highest net negatives ever, even worse than in the past before Donald Trump lied and was able to rally some Hispanic voters. So if what occurred in the state senate district 9 if you repeat that and had a pl let's just say you had a plus if you had a plus 31 overp performance then all of these seats are going to go every single one like including ones that no one even expected would go Democrat in Texas but let's just say you did a plus4 overperformance not a plus 31 plus 14 plus 15 plus 16 overperformance All those plus tens, you're going to flip right now. But let's take a look at what Donald Trump said in the Oval when he was in Mara Lago over the weekend when he was asked about that Texas state senate district race. Let's play it if we got that clip.

Mr. President, Texas, um, a Democrat won a special election in an area that you had won by 17 points. What is your reaction to that?

I don't know. I didn't hear about it. Somebody ran where? in Texas a special election for legislative the ninth state senate seat.

I'm not involved with that. That's a local Texas race. Did you endorse the Republican?

You mean I won by 17? You did and this person lost. Things like that happened. Does it worry you about

Well, you don't know whether or not it's transferable. You know, I'm not on the ballot, so you don't know whether or not it's transferable. But, you know, you put the Democrats in, you'll end up with open borders again. You'll end up with crime all over the place. We have no crime anymore. And I mean, think of it. The country has the lowest crime it's had in 125 years in recorded history. The year 1900. That's a long time ago. So, it's very good. No, I don't know anything about it. I didn't know. I mean, I know there's a race going there. And uh it's too bad. What can I say? I have nothing to do with it. Yeah.

Brett and Jordy, let me toss it over to you. But the theme I want to share with you in this episode, Epstein, I know nothing about it. I had nothing to do with it. United Arab Emirates getting hundreds of millions of dollars personally directed to him and then giving our classified semiconductor information over to the United Emirates. I know nothing about it. I don't know anything. I know nothing about it. He loses the race uh that he endorsed on. I know nothing about it. I don't know nothing about it. I never I don't even know who she is. Now, we showed you all of the data throughout this episode that he's on the files 38,000 times.

We know that he's on the board because there's websites that have his face on it and you would know if you brought in $500 million for yourself and we're showing you his endorsements that he made. I I could do this on any issue. But I hope the point I'm making on this episode is one that actually isn't partisan at all, but is factual. By the way, partisan could also be factual. But but what I'm explaining to you is that set aside your politics. I've showed you three egregious lies. Corruption, Epstein, losing. What? Like what more do you need to be lied to your face before you go, "Yeah, you think I'm stupid?"

The only other thing that I want to add is on many of these episodes I've talked about how these billionaires have put forth a concerted effort to control the flow of communications to own the TV networks to own the social media apps to take over all the ways that you are receiving your information. Look what just happened with Tik Tok right now. I w to com I I want to take that and I want to line that up with some of the other things we learned in the Epstein files because I think they actually match up and I think it's part of this kind of brainwashing and the lying that we see from uh Donald Trump and that's that there are in when you look at the Epstein files you see that Epstein uh was having these meetings with the people who created the 4chan politics board. That was a big way that a lot of this disinformation spread um before the 2016 election especially.

It was like a main source and it continues to be a main source of a lot of crazy stuff that comes out there. And Epstein allegedly, it appears that he played a a big role in all of that. It appears that Epstein played some sort of role in the Wikileak stuff. We've learned through these documents that Galain Maxwell was a Reddit moderator. She was a moderator on Reddit, controlling what content people see and what content people don't see. I mean, just think about how crazy that is. Then we obviously see that Elon Musk, we know that he purchased Twitter, he's all over the files. We see that Peter Teal who is all over the files. He controls a lot of the flow of information. He, you know, started Palunteer and all this other stuff. So, we see all of these figures out there and we in some cases are able to transparently see their takeover of these media companies and and social media apps and in some cases we just

don't know. You know, you don't necessarily know who's the person running 4chan, have they met with Jeffrey Epstein in secret or whatever it is, right? But this is more proof that that's what's happening. And so when you're on these social media apps, when you get hit with a deluge of hate or whatever, like just just remember like this is coming from somewhere, right? Whenever you're like, there's no way there are all these people who are like this. Remember, it's all coming from somewhere. These are the same people.

Epstein may be gone. He may be gone, maybe he's not. I don't know. But Epstein may be gone. But I'm telling you, the structures that were there that Epstein was the kind of in between of, those all still exist. And all that is still happening and all those people are still enriching themselves, expanding their power and doing everything they can to avoid accountability and to control people. And so I think that's what we're seeing. I think it's something we need to stay on top of and understand that Donald Trump is integral to that goal and to that kind of elite uh group of people who are all involved in this sort of stuff. And we're not going to let up. We're not going to relent. We're going to stay on top of these stories no matter what. And uh and that's our pledge to you and thank you for

Absolutely. And look to that. I just want to go back to what I was saying earlier in the show with with Donald Trump. There is not an honest bone in his body. It It's clear. It's crystal clear by by all of the times we've we've played the clips. It it is crystal freaking clear. The the guy takes no accountability for himself. But we're also seeing with with MAGA Mike and the entire MAGA Republican ilk right now is that they don't care about you, the American person. They just they simply don't. They are going to lie, cheat, and steal so long as it continues to enrich themselves. And so I am hopeful that um for example, what we saw in Texas is a sign of things to come. And I think we've seen this over the year with all the special elections that we've seen as well. It's just time that people are are are frankly fed up and and that's where we stand, right? I I don't view myself as a political person. I I view myself

as someone who's pissed off, who's someone who's angry, who's someone who just simply wants the best for my fellow Americans. I I know that for future generations. And so just to see the smuggness of which these Republicans continue to lie at the rate they continue to lie about just knowing that they don't care to actually help the American people. They just want to enrich themselves at the end of the day. It hurts me deeply personally on a personal level. And it looks as if it is hurting the American people on a deeply personal level as well just from what we saw with those independents in in Texas.

Benji, I want to leave us with this. Can't believe I'm even showing this, but Donald Trump's number two at the Department of Justice, his former criminal defense attorney, Todd Blanch, had the following to say about his response to Trump and others being all over the file. So, just play the clip. as well as some of the people we saw on camera at the rallies. Um, is there any chance that any of these individuals who partied with Epstein and engaged in um, uh, you know, relations with minors will be prosecuted?

Any chance? We I'll never say no. And we will always investigate any evidence of misconduct. But as you know, it is not a crime to party with Mr. Epstein. And and so as horrible as it it's not a crime to email with Mr. Epstein. and and some of these men may have done horrible things and and if we have evidence that allows us to prosecute them, you better believe we will, but it's also the kind of thing that that the American people need to understand that it it isn't a crime to party with Mr. Epstein. It isn't a crime to

look like that's all that was going on on some of those photos. I mean, if the photos could speak, they some of them look pretty bad.

That's right. And and unfortunately, photos can't speak. And so we need witnesses and we need

Are there videotapes that you all have or the witnesses are in the files? The survivors and victims are in the files. The photos of the people do speak. We can see them. We can actually hear the audio. We can see the grotesque photos. You're the DOJ. So you could reach out to these people. They've been actually trying to reach out to you and you retraumatize them by showing their faces and their information in the files. Again, this regime should horrify you. Not because you're a political this or a political that, but just because you're a human being.

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Ben Myellis (Host), Brett Myellis (Guest), Jordy Myellis (Guest).

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The discussion centers on the recent partial release of Epstein files, revealing 38,000 references to Donald Trump and implicating high-profile figures in connection with Epstein. The conversation also touches on Trump's claims of vindication despite the damaging content of the documents, including allegations and detailed communications involving various public figures, along with commentary on…

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