Trump Gives MIDDLE FINGER to Worker over EPSTEIN FILES

What this episode is about

During a recent visit to Detroit, Donald Trump reacted aggressively to protesters accusing him of being a "pedophile protector," responding with a middle finger and an expletive. This incident coincides with a federal judge's order for the Department of Justice to address a request for the release of Epstein files, amid claims of a cover-up involving Trump's administration in child sex trafficking.

Key takeaways

• Protests in Detroit reveal Trump's heated rejection of accusations, highlighting his fraught relationship with accountability.
• The bipartisan push for Epstein transparency shows that focusing on Trump may just be a convenient distraction.
• MAGA Republicans are quick to redirect blame, revealing a common political tactic in facing scandals.
• Clinton's calls for transparency contrast starkly with Trump's defensive maneuvers, underscoring a polarizing political landscape.
• As the ramifications of Epstein's case unfold, the real question remains: will any political legacy emerge unscathed?

Who speaks in this episode?

• Unknown Host (Host) · 13 min speaking
• Ro Khanna (Guest) · 3 min speaking
• Thomas Massie (Guest) · 2 min speaking
• James Comer (Guest) · 1 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 3:00: Trump regime, Judge Angle Meer, Massie and Kana, Southern District of New York
2. 3:00 – 6:00: James Comr, Midas Touch, MAGA Republican, Trump regime
3. 6:00 – 9:00: Trump regime, James Comr
4. 9:00 – 12:00: Judge Angle Meer, Massie and Kana, Southern District of New York
5. 15:00 – 18:00: Trump regime, AI

Notable quotes from "Trump Gives MIDDLE FINGER to Worker over EPSTEIN FILES"

• Now folks, the walls are truly caving in on Donald Trump and his despicable regime today as it relates to the Epstein files. As we reported earlier, a federal judge in the Southern District.

  about Trump regime · at 1:41

• The Capitol Hill, what Trump has ordered is syphants like MAGA Mike Johnson the snake and James Comr, the other MAGA Republican snake. Frankly, all of them are like this pretty…

  about MAGA Republican · at 3:13

• Mr. Speaker, there's going to be By the way, a quick reminder, make sure you subscribe to the Midas Touch YouTube channel. You may think you're subscribed. Help us get to 6…

  about Midas Touch · at 4:43

• Bipartisan manner, we will move next week in the House Oversight Committee, MARCA, to hold former President Clinton in contempt of Congress.

  about James Comr · at 8:23

• Been communicating with the judge saying we still have 2 million documents to release. 23 of the attorneys in the Southern District of New York are working on this right now.…

  about Southern District of New York · at 9:49

• It's unfortunate. We tried to extend the benefit of the doubt. Thomas Massie and I requested meetings with the Department of Justice. We requested with Bradley Edwards who was the lawyer for the survivors saying, At least consult the.

  about Massie and Kana · at 11:40

• Apparently AI, by the way, the only thing I'm sure of about AI, I'm not an expert, is that AI, as soon as we have robots running around this country, they'll all be pedophiles, too. There's.

  about AI · at 16:59

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Judge Angle Meer — Person · Referenced judicial authority · 4 mentions · first at 1:53
  Federal judge said to have ordered DOJ to respond regarding whether the court can order appointment of an independent monitor/special master under the Epstein Transparency Act.
  Epstein files. As we reported earlier, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York, Judge Angle Meer, has ordered the Department of Justice to respond to a request by…
• Massie and Kana — Person · Referenced lawmaker / transparency advocate · 3 mentions · first at 1:57
  Identified as a Democratic member of Congress pushing (with Massie) for court intervention and a special master/independent monitor to force release of Epstein documents.
• James Comr — Person · Referenced political antagonist / committee chair · 4 mentions · first at 3:17
  Portrayed as defending DOJ redactions and shifting focus to Clinton; also attacks Hakeem Jeff and discusses contempt proceedings.

Companies & orgs

• Midas Touch — Company · Publisher / host network · 2 mentions · first at 4:51
  The episode includes calls to subscribe and support Midas Touch, references its Substack (midasplus.com), and mentions its DC bureau and partnerships.

Products & tech

• AI — Product · Side topic / comedic aside · 2 mentions · first at 16:59
  Appears briefly in Tim Dylan’s commentary as a joke about future robot leaders, not as a substantive technical discussion.

Concepts & topics

• Trump regime — Concept · Core framing concept / alleged cover-up apparatus · 7 mentions · first at 2:24
  Used repeatedly to describe the administration/DOJ as untrustworthy and as allegedly operating like a racketeering enterprise to conceal Epstein-related information.
• MAGA Republican — Concept · Political bloc / criticized group · 2 mentions · first at 3:17
  Described as 'sycophants' attempting to redirect scrutiny from Trump/DOJ to Clinton and defending the pace/redactions of document releases.

Places & events

• Southern District of New York — Place · Key jurisdiction / institutional setting · 3 mentions · first at 1:51
  The federal judge and attorneys referenced are situated in SDNY, which is described as heavily involved in processing millions of Epstein-related documents.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 Wow. While Donald Trump was visiting Detroit, there were protesters and some workers there who were shouting at him, "You're a pedophile protector. You're a pedophile protector." Then Donald Trump looked at them and said, "F you. F you." And then gave the protesters or gave the people who were just calling him pedophile protector the middle finger. Watch what just took place. Let's play this clip.

0:44 Did you see what just happened there? The people of Detroit were calling Donald Trump pedophile, pedophile protector, pedophile protector. Then he said, "F you." that people know that Donald Trump is covering up the Epstein files, the largest child sex trafficking ring in world history, and Trump is covering it up. Let's just play that clip one more time so you can see. And this is so disgraceful that I even have to say this. The president of the United States giving the middle finger to peaceful people who are saying, "You're a pedophile protector." And Donald Trump gives him the middle finger and says, "F you." Here, play this clip.

1:41 Now folks, the walls are truly caving in on Donald Trump and his despicable regime today as it relates to the Epstein files. As we reported earlier, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York, Judge Angle Meer, has ordered the Department of Justice to respond to a request by Democratic Congress member Ro Kana and Republican Congress member Thomas Massie, who were behind the discharge petition where they sent a letter brief requesting an independent monitor be appointed in order to review and produce the Epstein files. Massie and Kana say that criminal violations have indeed been committed committed and they have been committed by the Trump DOJ and the Trump regime which has become a racketeering enterprise to cover up child sex trafficking. But Kana and Massie say the most pressing need Judge Angel Meer, we need an independent monitor to get these documents released immediately and we

2:42 need your intervention. And the federal judge has ordered the Trump regime respond forth with. Let us know your position about whether I as a federal judge can make that order under the Epstein Transparency Act. Wow. If an independent monitor or special master was appointed, that can be a gamecher and we can find out all of these illegal redactions the Trump regime is doing and what is really taking place. And folks, what they're trying to do now on Hill on the Capitol Hill, what Trump has ordered is syphants like MAGA Mike Johnson the snake and James Comr, the other MAGA Republican snake. Frankly, all of them are are like this pretty much. They've been trying to make this about Bill Clinton now. So, here you have MAGA Mike Johnson running away from uh reporters, by the way, including one of our reporters who we now have on the Hill with our DC bureau. and he's like, "Yeah, Clinton's the one who's committed

3:41 contempt. Clinton's refusing to show up for a deposition. Bill Clinton is the real issue here, not the violation of the Epstein transparency law." By the way, Clinton called for the release of all of the Epstein documents, which by law had to be produced December uh 19th. Here, play this clip of Johnson running away like the cowardly snake that he is. Play this clip.

4:04 Clintons defied the subpoena today. One, are you going to hold them in contempt? Two, should the House committee also pursue Trump and get testimony from him with his lunch seal? Um,

4:16 why would why would they need the President Trump relationship just President Trump is open uh unending press conferences on a daily basis. Anybody can ask him anything and he's addressed this issue ad nauseium.

4:29 Under under oath, it's different. The Clintons have not. And uh and I think it's a defiance of Congress for them to defy the subpoena. I mean I think by definition it's a consent of Congress.

4:43 Mr. Speaker, there's going to be By the way, a quick reminder, make sure you subscribe to the Midas Touch YouTube channel. You may think you're subscribed. Help us get to 6 million subscribers. And also check us out at midasplus.com. That's our Substack. You've seen us build out our on the ground reporting capabilities. You've seen our partnerships with Status Coup. You've seen our Washington DC bureau with Pablo Monriquez and the great work they're doing on Capitol Hill now. So support the Midas Touch Network if you can turn notifications on. MAGA Republican James Comr is asked about the release of the Epstein files and James Comr's like look Trump and the DOJ are doing exactly what they should be doing.

5:30 How pathetic that this is what the MAGA Republican who leads the oversight committee is saying. Utterly despicable. Here, play this clip right here. We subpoenaed Pam Bondi for the documents. She started producing the documents. Then Congress voted for the uh the discharge petition uh to send another message and we all voted for that. Uh she is she they are sending documents. They sent a big batch. The Democrats were were unhappy. they uh they said there weren't enough redactions. So now the DOJ is going through trying to make sure they redact everything. So as from from my standpoint, the Department of Justice is cooperating. They are turning over documents. We would all like for him to turn documents over quicker, but at the end of the day, they are complying. President Trump is answering your questions about Epstein. He's answered them over and over and over again. Who we haven't heard from is Bill

6:24 Clinton. And I stated why. the amount of time that that Epstein spent with Clinton while he was president and post presidency. So, I don't think it's it's uh out of line for former President Clinton to come in for a bipartisan subpoena and sit down and answer questions. So, thank you all. And then Comr attacks Hakee Jeff, the Democratic leader, and says that leader Jeff needs to go to a Somali therapy center, because Jeff was calling out Comr's cover up with the Trump regime as part of a criminal racketeering enterprise of covering up child sex trafficking rings. So, he says that Jeff should go to a quote Somali therapy center. Play this clip island right now.

7:10 Bill, go ahead. Uh, we asked Hakeem Jeff about this last night and he called you a deeply unserious person. Said he doesn't have faith in you to lead this investigation. How would you like to respond to him?

7:19 Well, look, the feeling's mutual. I I don't have any confidence in the King Jeff. Uh, yeah. I don't think the King Jeff ever mentioned my name the first nine years I was in Congress. In the last two months, he's mentioned my name and made slurs at least five times. I I think that Trump derangement syndrome is is morphing into comr derangement syndrome for Hakee Jeff. My advice to Hakee Jeff is first of all recognize the fact that the members in your conference voted to subpoena Bill Clinton. It was the me it was the Democrat members of the Congress that voted for that subpoena. Number one, and number two, uh he clearly has a problem with me. Maybe he should go to one of those Somali therapy centers and and get some uh uh some type of therapy for his disdain for me. If he if he's accusing me of any wrongdoing, then he should file a complaint. And here is Comr once again saying we will be

8:16 holding Clinton in contempt of Congress here. Play this clip right here. unanimously by the committee in a bipartisan manner, we will move next week in the House Oversight Committee, MARCA, to hold former President Clinton in contempt of Congress.

8:32 So, uh, wow, a lot of other developments right now are happening on Capitol Hill. Um, as the Trump regime is in freakout mode over what Judge Angle Meyer just ordered, you see the stress obviously that Donald Trump is the pressure that he is feeling and good. What a pathetic, vile piece of trash he is covering up a child sex trafficking ring, giving the middle finger to people out there in Detroit. How utterly pathetic. A reminder here is what Democratic Congress member Ro Kana had to say about Judge Angle Meer. play this clip. So the the special master request by a judge procedurally this is a kind of a request that's made all the time in various forms of litigation and judges usually make it on the the decision on the basis of is there any other way uh for this to be handled fairly and if not we may need a special master. So this could be the key that unlocks this lock. You're absolutely right, Lawrence. Judge

9:35 Anglemmer has been very thoughtful and deliberate about his rulings. He has cited the Epstein Transparity Act, saying the DOJ has an obligation to release the documents. And Pam Bondi has been communicating with the judge saying we still have 2 million documents to release. Uh 23 of the attorneys in the Southern District of New York are working on this right now. And so what we're saying is Judge Angle Meyer uh appoint a special master so that we know that we're getting the information that the law requires. The DOJ has not been providing that. They have been engaged in excessive redactions. Why don't you ensure that the law is being followed

10:18 and and a special master like that really reports to the judge. The judge can check in on the special master. How many documents now? How's the progress going? They schedule regular uh meetings in court with those kinds of special masters, don't they?

10:32 Absolutely. And it's a common practice when you have millions of documents involved, when you literally have twothirds of our lawyers in the Southern District of New York, one of the most important uh US attorney's office working on this when the country is looking at what should happen. What this says is the special master will look at the the law, the plain reading of the law, and will determine what should come out and what should be protected. Frankly, the DOJ should welcome this. Have an independent person. I'm not we're not saying Massie or I should do it. We're not saying the survivor's lawyer should do it. We're just saying have a judge appoint an independent person to interpret the statue uh and have a release of these documents.

11:12 And this is such an interesting angle on this because normally between the executive branch and the legislative branch uh when there's an issue uh of this sort, it gets worked out and it it gets worked out in good faith and and the executive branch might say, "Look, this has taken us longer than we thought." They come over, they explain why, they show you why. You go, "Okay." And and but but since this is so contentious and they are obviously so untrustworthy, uh this is what has forced you to court.

11:40 It's unfortunate. We tried to extend the benefit of the doubt. Thomas Massie and I requested meetings with the Department of Justice. We requested with Bradley Edwards who was the lawyer for the survivors saying, "At least consult the survivors." As you remember, they didn't even call the survivors of the survivors lawyers on the first release. We didn't criticize them until that first release. But now weeks after the deadline, they have not explained the redactions. By their own admission, they have millions of documents. And our interest is not to score points against Pam Bondi. Our interest is the survivors. We just want these documents released, especially the 302 statements where the survivors name the other rich and powerful men who were involved in the rapes and in the abuse.

12:23 And I have extraordinary confidence in Judge uh Angle Mayor. His decisions have been very thoughtful and I believe he would appoint a person of integrity to oversee this process

12:35 and that would be a huge breakthrough. Congressman Roano, thank you very much for joining us tonight.

12:40 Thank you. And here is what Thomas Massie had to say as well about uh Trump telling Marjorie Taylor Green that it would hurt Trump's friends. Trump's friends would be hurt if the Epstein files were released. You know, remember back in high school and people be like, "You're going to hurt my friends, so don't do that." And it was usually about themselves as well. Anyway, play this clip. So yeah, anyway, LA last month before retiring from Congress, one of the few Republicans supporting your effort, now former Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green, she spoke with the New York Times about how this issue created this rift with President Trump. And in the interview, she talked about President Trump calling her a upset after she threatened to identify men who abused Epstein survivors. And the Times writes, quote, Green says she expressed her perplexity over his entrance. According to Green,

13:35 Trump replied, quote, "My friends will get hurt," unquote. I'm sure you saw that. What's your reaction?

13:42 Well, you know, I knew about that for at least a week or two before that was said because Marjorie shared that with me privately the day it happened. So, I I have even more reason to believe that happened than the general public. And of course, you have this video right here that Donald of Donald Trump partying with Epstein. We all know that. Play this clip. Trump goes to greet three new guests. Among them, the financier Jeffrey Epstein. Come on in.

14:09 More than a decade before his guilty plea on state prostitution charges. Later in the footage, Trump is seen talking to Epstein and another man as women are dancing in front of them. Trump alternates between dancing and pointing out women to Epstein and the other man and telling Epstein about the cameras. Though exactly what they say is difficult to understand. As they discuss the women and their appearances, Trump gestures to one and appears to say to Epstein, "Look at her back there. She's hot." And then Trump says something else into Epstein's ear that makes him double over with laughter. I like what James Talerico, who's running for Senate in Texas, Democratic candidate, said, "So, when did pedophilia become a partisan issue?" Watch what Terico says here.

15:02 Play this clip. When did pedophilia become a partisan issue? The The American people deserve to know the whole truth about Jeffrey Epstein and every single powerful person who enabled him. every name, every flight log, every coverup, all of it. The White House and congressional Republicans are hiding the Epstein files. Why? These are the same politicians who call librarians groomers, who call their political opponents pedophiles. And and to be clear, if there is a Democrat on that list, I will be the first to call for their prosecution. Because if there's one thing we should all be able to agree on, Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and progressives, it's that no one, including the president of the United States, should be able to cover up crimes against children.

16:02 And here's what a right-wing podcaster named Tim Dylan had to say as well about the Trump regime. Play this clip. Let's look at Trump here. And I do think unfortunat this this kind of is the end of I say unfortunately not because I care truly, but I say unfortunately because it seems to not be doing anything good for anyone. This this is the end of the Trump administration. This is the beginning of the lame duck presidency. It's obvious to everyone, even his most ardent ardent supporters show up to the White House like Laura Ingram. was kind of shocked going, "What the hell's going on?" Now, we'll start, you know, three years of talking about the ballroom. Um, he will trail off. He will get older.

16:48 He's going to he's he's adorned the White House in gold. Um, Epstein's going to suck the oxygen out of a lot of this. We're going to talk about that a little later on. Apparently AI, by the way, the only thing I'm sure of about AI, I'm not an expert, is that AI, as soon as we have robots running around this country, they'll all be pedophiles, too. There's no one in power that will apparently just not be a pedophile. All these robots will be pedophiles. 100% will deal with pedophile robots. Our first robot president will be a pedophile. I know that. I know that. It's the only thing I know. Our first AI robot president will absolutely be a pedophile. And by the way, TMZ got the first uh exclusive of this uh and and shared their video with us. So, shout out with them as well. They've got a Pop Culture of History channel and so check that out and thanks for them for sharing us that video right away and we were

17:40 able to pull it up. We asked them, could we use that video and we were able to share that video immediately. Um, I'll show you also these protests right here of uh outside the Customs and Border Patrol building in Washington DC. So, the Trump regime is getting protested everywhere. Play this clip

18:05 one more time. Let's play that clip at the beginning of Donald Trump giving a middle finger to somebody saying he's covering up for pedophiles. Let's play it. There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Help us get to 6 million subscribers. Love this video. Support independent media and unlock exclusive content. Add free videos and custom emojis by becoming a paid member of our YouTube channel today. You can also gift memberships to others. Let's keep growing together.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Trump Gives MIDDLE FINGER to Worker over EPSTEIN FILES"?

Unknown Host (Host), Ro Khanna (Guest), Thomas Massie (Guest), James Comer (Guest).

What is "Trump Gives MIDDLE FINGER to Worker over EPSTEIN FILES" about?

During a recent visit to Detroit, Donald Trump reacted aggressively to protesters accusing him of being a "pedophile protector," responding with a middle finger and an expletive. This incident coincides with a federal judge's order for the Department of Justice to address a request for the release of Epstein files, amid claims of a cover-up involving Trump's administration in child sex…

What is mentioned in this MeidasTouch episode?

8 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Trump regime, Judge Angle Meer, Massie and Kana, James Comr, Midas Touch, Southern District of New York. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Trump Gives MIDDLE FINGER to Worker over EPSTEIN FILES"?

The episode runs 19 min; the transcript is about 3,033 words in 31 timestamped sections.

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