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Trump GETS CAUGHT as 3 MILLION Epstein Files REMAIN MISSING!!

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Trump GETS CAUGHT as 3 MILLION Epstein Files REMAIN MISSING!!", an episode of MeidasTouch published January 31, 2026 (35 min, about 5,720 words). It mentions 9 people, works and ideas, including Donald Trump, Epstein Transparency Act, Kate Blanch, Dan Goldman, Elon Musk.

What this episode is about

The discussion focuses on the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein files, highlighting the production of 3 million documents while another 3 million remain undisclosed. It critiques the use of various privilege claims to justify withholding these documents, which, under the Epstein Transparency Act, should be fully released except for necessary redactions to protect victims' identities.

Key takeaways

  • 3 million documents down, but 3 million more are locked away—Trump's transparency resembles a magician's trick.
  • Claiming privilege on withheld Epstein files ignores the Epstein Transparency Act’s clear mandate for full disclosure.
  • When the Trump DOJ 'reveals' damaging records, it’s likely a smoke screen to obscure even worse evidence.
  • Missing documents from Epstein's case suggest the Trump era is more about cover-ups than accountability.
  • With missing FBI memos and witness statements, the real Epstein legacy may be in the shadows, not the spotlight.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: Epstein Transparency Act, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Southern District of New York
  2. – 10:00: Kate Blanch, Donald Trump, Southern District of New York, Congress
  3. – 15:00: Congress, Donald Trump, Epstein Transparency Act
  4. – 20:00: Donald Trump, Dan Goldman, Elon Musk, Kate Blanch
  5. – 25:00: Donald Trump, Kate Blanch
  6. – 30:00: Donald Trump, Congress
  7. – 35:00: Donald Trump, Dan Goldman, Congress

Notable quotes from "Trump GETS CAUGHT as 3 MILLION Epstein Files REMAIN MISSING!!"

  • 3 million more documents are still missing, are still being concealed, and it's my view that the Trump regime is withholding those 3 million documents, which I think are the…
    about Donald Trump · at
  • Transparency Act, we will be withholding certain documents on the basis of privilege claims. Now, the Epstein Transparency Act does not permit the Trump DOJ to withhold…
    about Epstein Transparency Act · at
  • Some memos and some documents that describe real disgusting conduct, disgusting conduct, grotesque conduct of people like Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the owner of the Giant…
    about Elon Musk · at
  • Look, we I my team has certain communications with the White House. Let me just be clear. They had nothing to do with this review. They had no oversight over this review. They did not tell this.
    about Kate Blanch · at
  • Regime's sloppy handling and continued cover up. And here's what Congress member Garcia has to say. Play this clip. Donald Trump and the Department of Justice just made it clear right now that they intend to withhold approximately.
    about Congress · at
  • Water. Very strange behavior, but that's what we've come to expect sadly from the Trump regime. Let's bring in Democratic Congress member Dan Goldman from New York. Congress…
    about Dan Goldman · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Donald Trump — Person · Primary referenced subject (alleged beneficiary of cover-up) · 16 mentions · first at
    Central figure in claims that his DOJ is withholding significant portions of the Epstein files and that released materials contain damaging references to him.
  • Kate Blanch — Person · Referenced DOJ official / spokesperson in press conference · 6 mentions · first at
    Presented as Trump’s deputy attorney general who publicly explained releasing ~3M pages out of 6M and was questioned about White House communications.
  • Dan Goldman — Person · Main guest (interviewee) / referenced investigator-critic · 3 mentions · first at
    Appears as the interviewed Democratic congressman and former federal prosecutor arguing the DOJ production is sloppy, unlawful, and indicative of a cover-up.
  • Elon Musk — Person · Referenced public figure named in released documents · 3 mentions · first at
    Cited as appearing in the produced Epstein materials, including alleged email communications about visiting Epstein’s island and references involving his brother.
  • Secretary Howard Lutnik — Person · Referenced public figure named in produced documents · 2 mentions · first at
    Cited as appearing in released materials as having connections/communications with Epstein; used as an example of DOJ releasing some damaging content while allegedly withholding worse.
    Bill Gates, other people. there was some really horrific conduct that was being dri Howard Lutnik. Well, one of the things that I learned as a litigator is that when we were…
  • Bill Gates — Person · Referenced public figure named in produced documents · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as one of several prominent individuals appearing in the produced Epstein materials described as containing “horrific conduct.”
    Some memos and some documents that describe real disgusting conduct, disgusting conduct, grotesque conduct of people like Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the owner of the Giant…

Concepts & topics

  • Epstein Transparency Act — Concept · Core topic · 5 mentions · first at
    Central legislation discussed in the episode regarding the release of Epstein files and the alleged cover-up by the Trump DOJ.

Places & events

  • Southern District of New York — Place · Setting · 2 mentions · first at
    Mentioned as the jurisdiction where federal judges are involved in the Epstein files case and where significant documents are allegedly being withheld.
    Privilege. In a previous filing before two federal judges earlier this week, federal judge Angle Meyer and Federal Judge Burman, Trump's DOJ previewed that they would be…
  • Congress — Place · Setting · 9 mentions · first at
    Referenced as the body to which the DOJ was supposed to release all Epstein files and where oversight is being demanded.

Full transcript with timestamps

Don't fall for the Trump regime's smoke and mirrors and slight of hand when they claim they've produced all of the Epstein files on Friday. Sure, they produced about 3 million documents, but 3 million more documents are still missing, are still being concealed, and it's my view that the Trump regime is withholding those 3 million documents, which I think are the most significant and damning documents. They're withholding them in my view on the basis of phony privilege claims, making claims of things called deliberative process privilege, attorney client privilege, work product privilege, executive privilege. In a previous filing before two federal judges earlier this week, federal judge Angle Meyer and Federal Judge Burman, Trump's DOJ previewed that they would be withholding documents and records. They stated that at some later date, they didn't give the date at the time, they said they would be producing

the Epstein files and records, but they said pursuant to the Epstein Transparency Act, we will be withholding certain documents on the basis of privilege claims. Now, the Epstein Transparency Act does not permit the Trump DOJ to withhold documents and evidence on the basis of privilege claims. The Epstein Transparency Act simply says you have to produce every document in the Epstein files, but you can do redactions of victims and survivors names, identities, faces, photos, and personal identifying information to prevent victims and survivors from being retraumatized. But the Epstein Transparency Act doesn't say you can withhold documents on the basis of privilege. Further, the Epstein Transparency Act says that the Trump DOJ needed to produce a report about redactions that were made and what was being withheld with specificity 15 days after December 19th. December 19th was the date under the Epstein Transparency

Act where all of the documents were supposed to be turned over. So far, the Trump DOJ on Friday only produced 3 million documents. They claim that there were six million documents they collected and they just claim the other three million documents don't meet the criteria of the Epstein Transparency Act. What does that mean? It does not meet the criteria. If you read the filing they made earlier this week, they talk about privilege claims. And you see my view, having reviewed all three million documents on Friday, there were significant documents missing. The indictment of Epstein, in my view, I didn't see it. That was missing.

Important victim and survivor statements to the FBI. That was missing. Lots of memos, internal memos from the uh United States attorneys in the Southern District of New York and the Southern District of Florida were missing. Internal FBI memos were missing. transcriptions of phone calls, transcriptions of videos, all of that was missing from the 3 million documents that were produced. Now, there were some bombshells in the 3 million documents that were produced. So, you may be asking, "Well, Ben, what kind of cover up is it if they released some pretty damaging documents, right? There were some memos and some documents that describe real disgusting conduct, disgusting conduct, grotesque conduct of people like Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the owner of the Giant, Steve Tish, uh, Bill Gates, other people. I mean, there was some really horrific conduct that was being dri Howard Lutnik. Well, one

of the things that I learned as a litigator is that when we were fighting against really bad defendants, criminal defendants, and just horrible people, at first they would try to obstruct and not turn over documents and records. Then when you compel them to turn it over, their next step was to kind of build a moat around the real damning documents, the real smoking guns. So what they would do is they would do a document dump of millions of documents and they would put in there some documents that were damaging uh to themselves or to their client so that you would say, "Well, if they turned over these documents, then that's probably it." But that was part of their strategy to get you to look away from the other documents that were still being hidden and concealed. And one of the ways as a litigator I would be able to determine what else was being hidden and concealed is I would say were there any third

parties that turned over documents that look different or are additive to what was produced and if there was I would say that was one of the hints that there were documents that were missing. So here with the Epstein files produced by the DOJ to me it's notable that the Epstein estate produced all of these documents and records that had lots of photographs on them. remember all the photos that they had with Trump on these photos and other people those real creepy and grotesque photos. Why is it that in the recent DOJ uh production, those photos and documents are missing?

Why are some of the other Epstein estate documents missing? And so when you compare them, it's clear that there's major documents missing. And as I noted, Epstein indictment stuff is missing, witness statements missing, FBI memos, DOJ memos that are missing, 302 statements, which is FBI uh victim statements that are missing. So, I think we need to look for that. I want to show you more of the parameters of the cover up here. And remember, right now, when people say, "Oh, well, the Trump DOJ produced the files on Friday." Remind them no. There's 3 to 5 million records that are still missing, at least in my opinion. Well, here was Donald Trump's deputy attorney general, Todd Todd Blanch, at a press conference on Friday.

And here he admits that the DOJ collected 6 million pages of documents, but they're only releasing 3 million. Listen to what he says here. Play this clip. He aired on the side of overcolcting of materials from various sources to best menure ensure maximum transparency and compliance which necessarily means that the number of responsive pages is significantly smaller than the total number of pages initially collected. That's why I mentioned a moment ago we're releasing more than 3 million pages today and not the the 6 million pages that that we that we collected.

And then when Todd Blanch was asked about what communications he's had with the White House regarding the release of these files, look how flustered he gets and he starts stuttering and you can see that he's obviously lying right here. Let's play this clip

on Epste. Sir, if I may just ask one on that, please. You mentioned a letter to Congress. How and to whom did you notify the White House about the production that you're announcing today before you came out and spoke to us? How did I do what?

Notify the White House. What was your interface with the White House? You said there's a letter to Congress. Who did you update at the White House about this?

Well, I don't know. I don't really understand the question. You mean who did I update them?

Yeah. Did you provide them um an explanation of what today's release would be? Look, we we I my team has certain communications with the White House. Let me just be clear. They had nothing to do with this review. They had no oversight over this review. They did not tell this department how to do our review, what to look for, what to redact, what to not redact. Um they they absolutely knew that we were I was doing this press conference today and that we're releasing the materials today. Um but but there's not there's no oversight by the White House into the process that we've undertaken over the past 60 days. I also found it notable that Attorney General Pam Bondi was not there at that press conference and that Todd Blanch was not flanked by any other United States attorneys or FBIs. You have Blanch, the same guy who interviewed D. Lane Maxwell, right, where she lied through her teeth.

Blanch, who was Donald Trump's criminal defense lawyer before becoming the number two at the DOJ. He's Trump's personal criminal defense lawyer, was the only person there. How odd is that? Wouldn't in normal circumstances you'd have all these deputies and assistant United States attorneys, and wouldn't you be flanked by the FBI and other people if you were doing such a courageous thing? The fact that people weren't there is also telling me that there's a massive cover up taking place. And remember, as I mentioned, there's this document January 27th, 2026, that letter by the DOJ to Burman and Angel Meer, two federal judges in the Southern District of New York, telling them that there are documents that are being withheld on the grounds of privilege, and that that's one of the reasons why some documents are not being turned over. And it specifically says documents are not being turned over for privilege

and privacy um concerns. I want you to listen to the lawyer for Epstein survivors talking about how sloppy this document production has been. Play this clip.

You know, it's it's consistent with what we've been seeing from the Department of Justice for quite some time now. And I've I've sort of called this it's like an incompetent cover up. A it's clear they are trying to cover up documents. They're trying to withhold documents. They're trying to keep things from the public. But worse, they're the things that they're supposed to be keeping from the public, they're not good at keeping from the public. I mean, it's it's a cover up. It's it's it's uh it's it's nonsense, really. It's just a pure incompetence.

I think that's an important point because the Trump DOJ is going to claim the reason that these additional 3 million records and documents are not being produced is to support the victims or help the victims or whatever. But from the 3 million documents that were produced, the victim's names really weren't redacted uh effectively. And lots of victims and survivors were ret-raumatized. We heard from uh the lawyer uh Brad Edwards from the group of survivors as well saying that this is an ultimate betrayal of the survivors and the victims. Expect the survivors and the victims to sue the DOJ. They're going to file a lawsuit soon, I'll bet you, for uh leaking their names and providing identifying information in violation of the Epstein Transparency Act. The Epstein survivors issued a joint statement uh calling out the Trump regime's uh sloppy handling and continued cover up. And here's what Congress member Garcia has to say. Play

this clip. Donald Trump and the Department of Justice uh just made it clear right now that they intend to withhold approximately 50% or half of the Epstein files while claiming to have fully complied with the law. This is outrageous and incredibly concerning. Now, the oversight committee subpoena, which we have had in place now since the summer, had directed the attorney general, Pam Bondi, and the Department of Justice to release all the files to our committee, of course, while also protecting our survivors. They are now in violation of that law. And here's what Congress member Ro Kana has to say. Let's play this clip. Well, look, I uh am glad that documents are being released. I'm going to be looking at whether the appropriate documents were released. What are what are we looking for? The FBI statements.

We need to see whether the 302 forms are being released. That's where the survivors mention who the other rich and powerful men are who abused or raped them. We know from even Maxwell that there are many other men uh who cut secret deals. Who are these people? Those are in the 302 files. And second, are the prosecution memos being released? This is the document that shows why these rich and powerful men weren't prosecuted.

And Congress member Subramanian says something similar as well. One of the things that I'm noticing is what's not in the files. Uh, as you just mentioned, the DOJ said that they had over six million files, but they're only releasing about three to three and a half. And we want to know, uh, you know, where are the other three million files? Why are they withholding them? Uh, there's some files that are missing in here. Uh, I'm talking about the indictment that was prepared against Jeffrey Epstein before he was given the sweetheart deal, as well as the memorandum in support of that. talking about um interviews with uh victims and witnesses talking about his crimes and also how they were covered up. And so there's a lot that's missing in here so far that and there's no indication that any of that is in here. And so again, I go back to, you know, August, which is when the oversight committee issued a

subpoena asking for all of the documents to be released to us. and go back to last March, which is when they said they had all the documents ready to release and all of them were redacted already and ready to go. And so there's something fishy happening again with this Department of Justice and they need to be held accountable.

So speaking of redactions, uh they did say that they redacted across the board uh women's faces. Uh they said that members of Congress who were interested in seeing unredacted files could give them a call and see them. Uh, is that something you intend to do?

Oh, certainly. I mean, uh, and just more than that, they forgot to redact or failed to redact more victim identifying information in this batch as well. We've seen a few instances already. And in the last one, they did the same. And so, you know, they've said this is a reason to withhold files. Uh, yet it's happening again. And then we also want to know what are they withholding too, right? what information are they not releasing uh because they feel like it's not necessary. I think this cherrypicking of the release is just as concerning as what's in here.

And as Seth Abrams says, former criminal defense attorney here, if what we've seen of the Epstein files so far heavily redacted and with 3 million pages still missing is bad. Keep in mind that the files in full are 100 times worse. That's how this works. You're seeing the G-rated version of this, which I agree with. And Congresswoman Presley says Trump's DOJ is lying and violating the law. They claim they released the Epstein files, but there are 3 million pages missing. They don't care about accountability for survivors, only about protecting pedophiles like Donald Trump.

Release all the files. And notice that they make certain people kind of the fall guy and put him out there as well. people who were grotesque and involved in it, but like they released a lot of documents showing Howard Lutnik had all of these uh connections and communications with Epstein. Elon Musk would write to Epstein. What day and night will be the wildest party on your island? Elon Musk to Epstein. Also, Epstein cancelled Musk's island visit on one occasion, not the opposite way around. In a 2012 email chain, Kimell Musk, the brother of Elon Musk, is warned not to harm Jeffrey Epstein's girl identified as Jennifer. And Kimble responds by agreeing and says he's enjoying the time with her. Here's what EP here's what Elon Musk said recently or before the election when he was uh right around the election when he was on with Tucker Carlson about how he believes that if Trump didn't win, he

would probably get arrested. sit here. Play this clip. If he loses, man, what I'm

You're [ __ ] dude. I'm [ __ ] If he loses, I'm [ __ ] It does seem that way. You can't just be like, you can't just be like, "Yo, I Yeah, I'm like, how how long do you think my prison sentence is going to be?" You think,

"Will I see my children?" And so, you see, it's cover up after cover up after cover up, covering up the Epstein files. And now they said they've released three million out of six million documents and there are heavy redactions and the survivors are absolutely livid because their names weren't redacted. So what the heck is being redacted? It's an absolute travesty what they've done in covering up this child sex trafficking ring and we can't really even trust what they've produced. They're covering up Donald Trump's health, his cognitive and physical rot before our eyes. We see him deteriorate and then they keep on coming up with these excuses that literally make no sense. They're covering up ICE and Border Patrol, murdering Americans and other people who are in this country. They're covering up Donald Trump's war crimes off the coast of Venezuela, these fishing boats uh that have continued to be blown up there and

in the Pacific. Um, and they're refusing to release the video footage and think that we're all just going to forget about it of the double tap strike or the double strike uh of individuals who survive the first round of the war crimes on the Venezuelan fishing boat. And we saw a Senate hearing where Senator Kaine said, "I wish we could talk about what's happening, but the Trump regime is claiming everything is classified. So, we can't even bring it up in this hearing with Marco Rubio." And boy, did Marco Rubio look weird during that hearing. He was like sweating. He looked like he was putting things into his mouth as he was chugging water. Very strange behavior, but uh that's what we've come to expect sadly from the Trump regime. Let's bring in Democratic Congress member Dan Goldman from New York. Congress member, it's great to see it. It's cover up after cover up. Your skill set as a former

federal prosecutor seems well suited to trying to smoke out each of these cover-ups taking place. Well, why don't we start with each of them? Um, you and I were talking about Epstein really before lots lots of people were, you know, nine months ago or so. You and I were, you wrote the letter, we broke the story where you called them out and you said, "Here's what's going to happen." And what you've said seems to be exactly what went down. And then on Friday, they released files which mentioned Trump's name over and over again. Todd Blanch is saying, "Ah, but it's not not in a bad way." And then the survivors are livid.

What do you make of it all? Well, the the first thing that's really remarkable is that we've been hearing um so much about all the efforts and the hours and the prosecutors and the agents who've been going through these files to redact them. And this was after there were reports that back all the way back last March that there were thousands of hours of manhour of going through and redacting. and now they're late ostensibly complying with the law almost a month and a half late uh because they had so much to redact and then they come out with it and the redactions are all messed up. Um so first of all that's incredibly problematic and actually against the the law the victim's protection act um you have to uh redact victim's identification information. Um, but it is also uh unbelievably sloppy and dangerous. Um, and it just reflects the fact that it undermines this whole notion that they've been sp spending so

much time doing that. So, it confirms that this is all just a cover up. Um, and they're continuing to cover up because only half of the documents are released. I I don't understand what why they get to decide uh without expl explanation why half would be held back. Um and Donald Trump's name is all over it. So now we know why there was such a cover up and they couldn't even they can't even do that well. So what we have now is clearly still trying to cover it up, doing it poorly, putting up a a a document that lists uh in great detail complaints from uh people who have clearly called into a tip line that includes Donald Trump raping raping a 13 or 14year-old. Now, we don't know if that is true, but that is what is in the allegations. And Todd Blanch is saying there's nothing to see here. I mean, come on. This is this is exactly why they've been covering this up. They don't do it well because they're

incompetent, but they're still trying to do it. And because they don't do it well, we know much more than what they want us to know. So, we know there's a lot of smoke there. Uh, and they're still trying to gaslight us and cover it up. I It's It's really outrageous. And you know, I haven't I'm just starting to go through a lot of these documents like you are, but I have not seen any videos. Um I I don't know if there are any photos. There certainly would be that in the files and the information. Uh and you can easily redact a victim's face as we saw the Epstein estate do with photos with Donald Trump and a bunch of young women.

Let's talk about Trump's mental and cognitive decline and the cover up there. Same thing with what you know what you see with the Epstein files. I mean, in the sense of different stories every day. First he got an MRI, then it really wasn't an MRI, and then it's a you know, this just one thing after another. But we see what we see. I mean, you know, Donald Trump uh in the speech he gave in Iowa, he said that China was going to send to his desk a bill that he was going to sign into law few weeks back in Davos. He t he confused Iceland with Greenland and said he was going to invade Iceland. Um you know, he keeps on repeatedly

repeatedly keeps on bragging about cognitive exams. I I mean it is so obvious that this individual is cognitively and physically deteriorating before our eyes. And uh to me this should be one of the biggest stories yet, you know, we we cover it all the time here, but it seems like it's one of those things and it's just Trump being Trump. No. and and given especially recently uh not too long ago where Joe Biden's every word uh was scrutinized and ridiculed and commented on by both the media and the uh other elected officials. Uh it is quite remarkable that we're not hearing anything when honestly the symptoms are very similar.

There are some times when Donald Trump seems cogent and coherent and there are a lot of other times when he does not at all and that is the sign of sility that is the sign of old age. You layer on that, Ben, and with his hands and the bruising and the swollen ankles and his walk seems uh offkilter, uh I I think it's very clear that he is he is under some health concerns and we don't know anything about it. Um we don't even know whether it was a CAT scan or an MRI. Uh you don't get a full body MRI that he explained. So, um, that he said. So, it's there's they seem as well to be covering up some of his health conditions, um, and health issues that he's quite obviously going through.

Now, as a former federal prosecutor, it must just be additionally tragic, not just as someone who supports the rule of law, as you do, but as someone who worked in the DOJ, uh, who worked, uh, in a federal prosecutor's office in New York, to see what the DOJ has become. And I'm not speaking from a partisan lens. I mean, as a law professor, you would always tell your students, one of the most noble job paths is to start off working at the DOJ because they were the best law firm in the country, regardless of who was in office. These were sharp lawyers, top law schools doing great work. And now it's an embarrassment when they show up in front of federal judges from all parties, whether it's Trump appointees, George W. Bush appointees, Reagan appointees, they've been writing these scathing orders saying, "Y'all are just bad lawyers. You keep violating the law over and over again, and enough is

enough." And then the DOJ, like Trump's personal law firms would always do. They just whine about missing deadlines and the whole thing. You layer on top of that what's going on in Minnesota, Minneapolis, and St. Paul with the and across the country with killings of American citizens and migrants, just people in this country from ICE and Border Patrol and the constant cover-ups, the defamation of the victims after being deceased. I'd love to get your perspective on that.

Yeah, let's focus on the immigration stuff. I mean, we we you you and I have talked at length um about the very dangerous um and downright scary politicization of this Department of Justice. and and we've spoken about how the first thing that the United States government says to other countries who are trying to build democracies is the first thing they need to do in order to start having an economic relationship with us or the democratic western world is not prosecute their adversaries. And that is exactly what Donald Trump is doing. But it is now doubly worse because of what's going on in Minneapolis. And this is to me really, really scary because you have these masked, rogue, untrained, outofcontrol ICE and CBP agents who are clearly enga using excessive violence, unnecessary violence. And that's before we talk about the two murders. So, but then after the two murders happen, the FBI cuts out their partners on the

state level and then closes the investigation of the murders. So you have a scenario where ICE is totally out of control uh violating all sorts of any policy they may have and the law and then there's no accountability because there's no even a criminal investigation. So now they know that they're just operating with impunity that they're invincible. And when you put the two together that is fascism. That is fascism where you have the state sponsored government terrorizing and violently attacking citizens and they're doing it without any accountability from the FBI. And this is now another layer of this uh dangerous dangerous and it's beyond politicization. It is authoritarian.

It is fascist. And I'm going to call it out because that is what it is. I am not inciting political violence. I want to be very clear. I am responding to political violence and to excessive violence and to no accountability. And the tool of fascism, as I mentioned at the outset, is the constant uh Russian nesting doll game, which is probably an apt analysis here. It's it's the constant look the other way, find some pretext to just push through your authoritarian agenda. The authoritarian doesn't go out there and just always say, "I'm the authoritarian, but they look for just that sliver so that they have some justification to do whatever it is they want." I mean, we see that right now with the United States and Canada, in Alberta, the Trump regime supporting a secessionist movement in Alberta as Trump wants to pursue the 51st states. And that's exactly what Putin does with Donbos. You know, the

way Putin attacks journalists, Trump's, it's out of the same book. And I think that's why we see cover up, cover up, cover up, cover up. And it and it follows the exact same pattern of thousands of years of what authoritarians would do. It's not new. It's just new in the United States that it's so blatant and obvious. So before we go, I mean, what do we do? There's a lot of Americans this weekend who are they see Don Lemon getting arrested. They see ICE attacking people on the streets and murdering. What do we do do you still feel hopeful? I mean, Trump's approval is is tanking. It's 37%. like could could we win this fight?

Well, look, I I think we u we are set up very well to win the election in November, but we can't wait until then. Uh what is going on now every day is an absolute travesty that is descending our country into something uh that at some point we're not going to be able to so easily reclaim. And your analogy and analysis of how similar it is to Vladimir Putin is spoton. You forgot to mention, well, you didn't forget, but there's so many things that he called the oil executives before he told Congress that he was going in with a mil with the military to take out Maduro. So just like Vladimir Putin uh communicates with his oligarchs rather than the Knesset, Donald Trump is doing the same thing. And we have always seen for 10 years this really really unusual, suspicious um and and scary uh obsession with Vladimir Putin that Donald Trump has. And now we are seeing Vladimir Putin's playbook playing out

right now. And what drives me absolutely crazy, Ben, is the silence of the Republicans that Yes. now after two blatant murders by ICE with no accountability, they're calling hearings. Um, and some have said, a couple uh moderates or retiring members have said that uh Christy Gnome should be removed and she should be removed yesterday. Um, this is absolutely unbelievable the degree to which he is lying, etc. But they're just silent as they're watching this presidency, this government, Steven Miller, and his master plan here completely take over the government and use it to terrorize Americans, residents all over the country. And part of what we have to do is continue to make our voices heard. Uh today, for example, I'm trying to instill some accountability. I introduced a bill uh that would eliminate qualified immunity for these CBP and ICE agents. So if a civil suit is filed against them, they can be held

liable and held accountable, even though it is not the same as criminal accountability. Um but we need to be creative. We need to be aggressive. We need to be out there. We need to be speaking up and we need to be reaching out to Republican members of Congress who are in the majority who control uh the hearings, who control subpoenas, who control the floor of the of the House. Uh we we need them to actually pass legislation. We need them and and you're seeing it uh as we are standing up for the uh people around this country by refusing to fund the Department of Homeland Security until significant changes are made. We have to use whatever leverage we have and that includes the upcoming election. That includes the filibuster. Whatever opportunities we have, we have to use our leverage and use it aggressively because we cannot allow this to continue.

Congressman, appreciate you as always. Appreciate you from the very beginning calling exactly what the cover up was going to look like by the Trump regime in your letter back several months ago. Uh we appreciate the work you're doing on the Hill.

Yeah, thanks. And I will add one other if we're talking about predictions. um the the interplay between what is going on with ICE and DOJ and the election interference tactics that this administration is using uh is now very direct and I think very scary. Pam Bondi offered to withdraw ICE if Tim Walls gave the federal government Minnesota's voter roles. There's no reason for the federal government to have Minnesota's vot voter roles other than to purge them. They they seized they raided the Fulton County Board of Elections to seize 2020 voter roles. We're in 2026.

That's outside the 5-year statute of limitations. And Tulsi Gabbard is there in the intelligence community, which does no prosecution. So the these efforts are very intertwined in trying to create chaos, create violence so that Donald Trump might have a rationale to invoke the insurrection act and then he will say, "Oh, with this invasion and insurrection, we can't possibly have elections." But if that doesn't work, then they're going to go through the voter roles and they're going to try to purge the voter roles. Um, I introduced an amendment last week that would prohibit the Department of Homeland Security in this bill from seizing any voter roles, any voting machines. Um, and we ought to include that amendment in this Department of Homeland Security bill because it is very clear they are coming after the November 2026 election because they know they cannot win it and they will not stop. They will literally

do anything they can to rig that election. And so we have to be on alert now and we got to be focused on it. And I really hope that the Senate uh puts in that my amendment so that we keep the Department of Homeland Security away from our voter roles and our voting machines.

New York Congressman Dan Goldman, thanks for joining us. Thank you everybody. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers. Want to stay plugged in? Become a subscriber to our Substack at midasplus.com. You'll get daily recaps from Ron Philipski, add free episodes of our podcast, and more exclusive content only available at midasplus.com.

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