Trump VISIBLY PANICS at PRESS CONFERENCE over Epstein Files!!!

What this episode is about

During a press conference, Donald Trump expressed panic over the release of Epstein files, claiming the Department of Justice should move on and asserting that he is vindicated despite the presence of significant allegations against other high-profile figures. He incorrectly insisted that the files contained no references to him, while emphasizing a supposed conspiracy involving Epstein aimed at undermining his election campaign.

Key takeaways

• When it comes to Epstein, Trump seems to favor historical revisionism over any actual history.
• Claiming no references to him in Epstein files is like finding Waldo at a striped shirt convention.
• Trump's 'innocence' is overshadowed by 38,000 references to him in the Epstein documents—talk about an awkward detail.
• The real conspiracy? Trump’s attempt to frame Epstein’s dealings as a Democrat-only affair—plot twist incoming.
• Posting pictures of Bannon amid Epstein chatter? That's either a strategic misfire or a desperate cry for help.

Who speaks in this episode?

• Donald Trump (Guest) · 12 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 3:00: Donald Trump, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Michael Wolf
2. 3:00 – 6:00: Donald Trump, Sean Bannon, Michael Wolf, Ahood Barack
3. 6:00 – 9:00: Donald Trump, Congressman Thomas Massie
4. 9:00 – 12:00: Jerome Powell, Janine Piro, Smalls, Donald Trump
5. 12:00 – 15:00: Smalls, Donald Trump, Wall Street Journal
6. 15:00 – 17:37: Wall Street Journal, Donald Trump, United Arab Emirates

Notable quotes from "Trump VISIBLY PANICS at PRESS CONFERENCE over Epstein Files!!!"

• Donald Trump just made numerous incriminating admissions during a disastrous press conference in the Oval Office when he was talking about the partial release of Epstein files from.

  about Donald Trump · at 0:00

• Morning, Donald Trump's been posting photos of Steve Bannon, which is interesting because Donald Trump hasn't talked about Steve Bannon a lot lately.

  about Sean Bannon · at 4:53

• Compliance because it doesn't contain a private cause of action. Remember when Ro Kana and Thomas Massie tried to get an independent monitor to precisely protect against what…

  about Congressman Thomas Massie · at 8:03

• Until the criminal case or investigation against Powell is closed. closed and Donald Trump says, I don't care. She's going to take it to the end and go after Powell. So, Donald…

  about Jerome Powell · at 9:31

• That's why cats.com names Smalls their best overall cat food. For a limited time, get 60% off your first order plus free shipping when you head to smalls.com/midas.

  about Smalls · at 11:29

• Were cancelling their shows and it was embarrassing. Finally, Donald Trump is asked about the Wall Street Journal report about the royal family from Abu Dhabi, United Arab…

  about Wall Street Journal · at 14:54

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Donald Trump — Person · Main speaker (referenced) / central subject · 15 mentions · first at 0:00
  The episode centers on Trump's Oval Office remarks about the Epstein files, his denials, threats to sue, and related political/legal fallout.
• Sean Bannon — Person · Referenced political operative · 2 mentions · first at 4:53
  Presented as appearing in the Epstein files and as communicating with Epstein; the episode suggests Trump is highlighting Bannon due to fear of what the files contain.
• Bill and Hillary Clinton — Person · Referenced political figure · 3 mentions · first at 0:30
  Trump claims the released materials implicate Clinton rather than himself; the episode disputes that claim and uses it to illustrate Trump's deflection strategy.
  He claims that he is vindicated and he says, there's no references to me. It's just Bill Clinton in there and other people, which is 100% false. Let's watch this. Play this…
• Congressman Thomas Massie — Person · Referenced lawmaker (criticized by Trump) · 3 mentions · first at 8:08
  Massie is described as a co-sponsor of the Epstein Transparency Act and is attacked by Trump in the episode, used to show political conflict over oversight of the files.
• Jerome Powell — Person · Referenced public official (target of investigation) · 3 mentions · first at 9:18
  Discussed as the Federal Reserve Chair allegedly under investigation; Trump is quoted supporting continuing the investigation, illustrating political pressure on institutions.
• Michael Wolf — Person · Referenced author (alleged co-conspirator in narrative) · 3 mentions · first at 1:04
  Trump alleges Wolf conspired with Epstein to damage him; the episode cites this as part of Trump's defensive messaging around the document release.
  Steve Bannon was communicating with Epstein about every aspect of Donald Trump from the presidency to the election to interfering in foreign government elections to being a.
• Janine Piro — Person · Referenced prosecutor/media figure · 3 mentions · first at 9:09
  Mentioned as a Fox host who is described as the top U.S. attorney in Washington, DC in the episode; tied to the Powell investigation and Trump's comments about it.
  Documents. Not very good. Donald and people aren't buying what you're selling. Also, reporters were asking Donald Trump at this press conference about whether Janine Piro, the…
• Ahood Barack — Person · Referenced foreign political figure (likely mis-transcribed) · 1 mention · first at 5:19
  The transcript references 'Ahood Barack' as a former prime minister of Israel connected in the narrative to Epstein/Bannon communications; this appears to refer to Ehud Barak.
  Trump from the presidency to the election to interfering in foreign government elections to being a strategic adviser for the former prime minister of Israel, Ahood Barack, who…

Places & events

• United Arab Emirates — Place · Setting · 1 mention · first at 15:00
  Mentioned in the context of a report about the royal family investing in Trump's company.
  About it. Play this clip. Mr. President, Mr. President, Wall Street Journal reported that the royal family of Abu Dhabi invested hundreds of millions of dollars in your world…

Media & podcasts

• Wall Street Journal — Media · Referenced work · 3 mentions · first at 14:58
  Cited as the source of a report about the royal family of Abu Dhabi investing in Trump's company.

Sponsors

• Smalls — Product · Sponsor · 5 mentions · first at 11:12
  Sponsored product mentioned in the podcast, promoting fresh cat food delivered to your door.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 Donald Trump just made numerous incriminating admissions during a disastrous press conference in the Oval Office when he was talking about the partial release of Epstein files from last Friday. 3 million documents were released. We believe there's at least 3 million more documents still missing, perhaps 50 million pages that are missing. Let's take a look at what Donald Trump said here. He says the Department of Justice needs to move on. He claims that he is vindicated and he says, you know, there's no references to me. It's just Bill Clinton in there and other people, which is 100% false. Let's watch this. Play this clip

0:37 that have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epson. And in fact, if you look at the DOJ, they announced, you know, they released 3 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 turned 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 Leburg 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 that the amount of time that's being wasted. You know, when Epste was alive like 10 years ago, nobody cared about it. But they were

1:33 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. And then Donald Trump talks about suing Trevor Noah who hosted the Grammys because Noah did a joke about Donald Trump in the Epstein Island. And Donald Trump here refers to Epstein's island as Jeff. What do I know about Jeff? I wasn't there. The whole point though is Epstein brought his island to you in Mara Lago and you in return brought your spa to Epstein's home. and Epstein sex traffked at Mara Lago. There are 38,000

2:36 references to Donald Trump in 5,000 documents within the Epstein files. And you sure seem to pretty quickly call him Jeffrey. Sounds like someone who knew him really well. What they would say here, play this clip.

2:51 They want to see a shut down. Mr. President, are you going to sue Trevor Noah last night? In a post, you alluded that something could be coming.

2:56 Yeah. Well, he said that he said that 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 Epson. 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.

3:33 And then throughout the whole day, Donald Trump's been panic posting about Epstein. Donald Trump posted the following on his social media platforms. Not only wasn't I friendly with Jeffrey Epstein, but based upon information that has just been released by the Department of Justice, Epstein and a sleazag lying author named Michael Wolf conspired in order to damage me and or my presidency. So much for the radical left's hope against Hope, some of whom I'll be suing. Additionally, unlike so many people that like to talk trash, I never went to the infested Epstein Island, but almost all of the crooked Democrats and their donors did. Not so much, Donald.

4:17 And also 38,000 references to you with some of the most disgusting and grotesque allegations and FBI 302 and informant reports about you that were in the files that were produced. You've got a lot of explaining to do. And if your excuse is that you weren't friends with Epste, you were Epstein's best friend. Objectively, you were his best friend. You flew with him on his plane and he flew on your plane over and over again. So, don't be like, "Oh, we didn't even know each other." Also notable this morning, Donald Trump's been posting photos of Steve Bannon, which is interesting because Donald Trump hasn't talked about Steve Bannon a lot lately.

5:01 So, why would he be mentioning Steve Bannon? Oh yeah, Steve Bannon is mentioned all over the Epstein files. Steve Bannon was communicating with Epstein about every aspect of Donald Trump from the presidency to the election to interfering in foreign government elections to being a strategic adviser for the former prime minister of Israel, Ahood Barack, who was then working with Epstein in order to have communications with foreign leaders as part of Epstein's cabal. Let's take a look at this one right here. Steve Bannon to Jeffrey Epstein in April of 2019, three months before Epstein's arrest. And this is who Donald Trump is saying. Very good guys who were treated very unfairly. You see, Donald Trump is terrified. So he's saying, "Steve, we're still good, right? Steve, you're my friend, right? Be quiet, Steve. Don't say anything." Steve Bannon to Jeffrey Epstein in April 2019, 3 months before his arrest. Quote, "We

5:58 need to work around your 38. First, we need to push back on the lies. Then, crush the pedot trafficking narrative. Then, rebuild your image as a philanthropist. Or how about uh this right here? An email from Epstein in 2015. One more week till birthday. Where are you? I hope David Ko got your message. Donald's financial disclosures are his Achilles heel. Should also be noted that Donald Trump and his DOJ have been deleting files that include Donald Trump's name on them throughout the day. I did a video on this this morning. Uh and there are files that talk about uh Donald Trump and Epstein together. And Epstein says, "I brought this one for you." Uh and accusations about Donald Trump and young girls. And they deleted those. They put it back up. They deleted it. Also, they leaked the names of so many victims and survivors, which was like the one task was to protect the survivor's identity that the survivors

6:59 attorney just filed an emergency motion before the federal judges, Judge Burman and Judge Angle Meer in New York saying, "Please, Judge, you've got to do something. Claw back what's been put out there because uh our survivors, the survivors have been ret-raumatized. Our clients, the survivors have been ret-raumatized. Judge Burman just responded moments ago to Attorney Henderson and US Attorney Clayton. Thank you for your recent letters dated January 30th and January 31st, 2026 and February 1st, 2026 and February 2nd. I recognize your concern and the urgency of the issues you have presented. I will set aside a conference on Wednesday, February 4th at 11:30 a.m. If that is convenient for you, you are invited to bring your clients. I am not certain how helpful I can be and I encourage you to continue to resolve open issues in good faith. Federal Judge Burman because you'll note the Trump regime took the

7:54 position that federal judges can't appoint independent monitors and don't have an independent ability to enforce the Epstein Transparency Act or compliance because it doesn't contain a private cause of action. Remember when Ro Kana and Thomas Massie tried to get an independent monitor to precisely protect against what just happened and they were rejected for doing it and the DOJ opposed it? Well, they seem awfully preient right now. Also, you have Donald Trump attacking Thomas Massie, one of the co-sponsors behind the Epstein Transparency Act. And here's what Donald Trump says. People are saying that Thomas Massie became a liberal because of his new wife. blessed be their marriage is supposedly a radical left flamethrower. This new union all went so fast that maybe he didn't know what he was getting into. But nevertheless, he is an absolutely terrible and unreliable Republican, perhaps a rhino, or maybe

8:48 even worse. And Donald Trump's attacking him because he co-sponsored the Epstein Transparency Act. So Trump is attacking Massie right now because again, 38,000 references to Donald Trump and 5,000 documents. Not very good. Donald and people aren't buying what you're selling. Also, reporters were asking Donald Trump at this press conference about whether Janine Piro, the Fox host who's now the top United States attorney in Washington DC, will be dropping the criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell because Republican Senator Tom Tillis of North Carolina said that he won't uh support any approval of Trump's new Federal Reserve chairman nominees until the criminal case or investigation against Powell is closed. closed and Donald Trump says, "I don't care. She's going to take it to the end and go after Powell." So, Donald Trump, referenced 38,000 times in the Epstein files,

9:44 thinks he's vindicated while he goes after Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, for just trying to preserve his independence. Play this clip.

9:53 Questions for Mr. President, speaking of the Fed, um would you like to see Janine Piro drop the investigation and determine Powell to help Senator Tillis has basically said that, you know, he's not going to really be working. So, would you like to see the invest take it to the end and see like you're doing a small renovation and they've spent almost $4 billion doing a small renovation? Uh I'm doing buildings. cuz I built a hotel, the Waldorf it's called, and uh I did it for around $200 million is a much bigger job. They're spending almost it could be $4 billion.

10:30 I I tell you what, I don't even see an ended sight. I feel badly for the new Fed chairman because he may not have an office for four years. Uh I don't know what these people are doing. So, it's either gross incompetence or it's theft of some kind or kickbacks. I don't know what it is, but Janine Piro is incredible and she'll figure it out. But no, you want to take it and just find out what happened because we can't go around doing a renovation of a small little complex, very small, couple of little buildings, and spend billions and billions of dollars on it. Something went wrong. We have to find out what it was. Yeah, please.

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13:14 Find out what it was. Yeah, please. Mr. President, thank you. Speaking of renovations, you announced you wanted to build a new and spectacular entertainment complex at the Kennedy Center. Do you plan on tearing it down? And how much will all of the renovations cost?

13:29 Probably around $200 million. And u you know it's funny in real estate and building I've done so much of it. I've done so well with it. You want to sit with something for a little while before you decide on what you want to do. And you know we sat with it. We ran it. It's in very bad shape. It's run down. It's dilapidated. It's sort of dangerous. PE things fall out uh fall out of ceilings. You've seen it. And uh we had some big events there. We had a lot of great events there over the last year. But uh you can't do any work because people are coming in and out and you have the workman who we have a marble man over there the other day he said you know every time I put down a piece of marble people are stepping on the marble they don't even have time to dry and you can't do the same quality job you if you close it and you know we're fully financed and so we're going to close it and we're going to make it unbelievable

14:19 far better than it ever was and we'll be able to do it properly. I was thinking maybe there's a way of doing it simultaneously, but there really isn't. And we're going to have something that when it opens, it's going to be brand new, beautiful. Uh I'm not ripping it out. I'll be using the steel. So, we're using the structure. We're using some of the marble and some of the marble comes down, but when it's open, it'll be brand new and really beautiful. It'll be at the highest level. And yet again, who's paying for this? And we all know the real reason Donald Trump shut down the Kennedy Center. The staff were quitting.

14:50 People weren't showing up. and the performers and artists and musical acts were cancelling their shows and it was embarrassing. Finally, Donald Trump is asked about the Wall Street Journal report about the royal family from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, giving Donald Trump hundreds of millions of dollars to invest in Trump's company that didn't have a product, so it was being funneled directly to Trump. And then in return, the United Arab Emirates got access to our most highly classified semiconductor chips, which every prior administration protected because it destroys our national security interest.

15:25 And Donald Trump says he knows nothing about it. Play this clip. Mr. President, Mr. President, Wall Street Journal reported uh that the royal family of Abu Dhabi invested hundreds of millions of dollars in your world financial. Can you explain why you decided to take that investment? Was that a transaction?

15:40 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 Iran and with Russia and Ukraine and with all the things we're doing. So I don't know. I don't know exactly other than, you know, I'm a big crypto person. I'm the one that probably helped crypto more than anybody because I believe in it. And the reason I believe in it is because if we don't do it, Scott, I think we can say then China's going to do it, right?

16:17 If we don't do crypto, then China's going to do it. And it's just like AI. We're leading AI by a lot. And if we weren't leading, China would have led. You know, they're very capable. They're very good. Really? You know nothing about that? Because as Rebecca Ballhouse in the Wall Street Journal reports, four days before Trump's inauguration, lieutenants to an Abu Dhabi royal secretly signed a deal with the Trump family to buy a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial for $500 million. The buyer paid half up front, steering $1787 million to Trump family entities and $31 million to Witco entities. The investment was backed by the UAE National Security Adviser Tanun Bin Zed.

16:56 The deal put two executives at his company on the board with Eric Trump and Witoff's kid. At the time, Abu Dhabi Royal invested in World Liberty. The company had no products at all, so it was just basically money going to Trump. And then Trump gave him access to our classified semiconductor chips. Judge for yourself. Form your own opinions. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers. And thanks for watching. The truth is more important than ever. Check out our new truth over lies collection at store.midestouch.com.

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Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Trump VISIBLY PANICS at PRESS CONFERENCE over Epstein Files!!!"?

Donald Trump (Guest).

What is "Trump VISIBLY PANICS at PRESS CONFERENCE over Epstein Files!!!" about?

During a press conference, Donald Trump expressed panic over the release of Epstein files, claiming the Department of Justice should move on and asserting that he is vindicated despite the presence of significant allegations against other high-profile figures. He incorrectly insisted that the files contained no references to him, while emphasizing a supposed conspiracy involving Epstein aimed at…

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11 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Donald Trump, Sean Bannon, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Congressman Thomas Massie, Jerome Powell, Wall Street Journal. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Trump VISIBLY PANICS at PRESS CONFERENCE over Epstein Files!!!"?

The episode runs 18 min; the transcript is about 3,156 words in 29 timestamped sections.

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