In short
The episode argues that U.S. institutions are being obstructed and that escalating wars are used to distract from the Epstein/DOJ cover-up. It claims more than 1,200 former DOJ employees signed a 59-page letter urging senators to block Todd Blanche’s confirmation, alleging a “culture of fear” and politicized prosecution. It also alleges DOJ efforts to block Blanche’s communications about the Epstein investigation from being released, and asserts Blanche met Ghislaine Maxwell alone and may have helped secure favorable treatment. The host links Epstein-related pressure to renewed U.S. strikes in Iran, including claims that commanders ignored outdated intelligence leading to a strike that killed ~160 Iranian schoolgirls. The episode further criticizes Trump’s ceasefire remarks, calls him an “authoritarian,” and argues war spending enables dismantling social safety nets.
Guests
The transcript names no episode guests; it references prior interviews with Jason Stanley, Timothy Snyder, and Ruth Ben-Ghiat.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOIntroduction to Epstein Files and DOJ Corruption
0:00 to 0:45
The discussion opens with a connection between escalating conflicts and the release of Epstein files.
“All right, there seems to be a link that every single time we get close to another drop in the Epstein files, or getting close to the heart of the corruption of the cover-up, then the war in Iran escalates.”
DOJ Officials Urge Against Todd Blanche's Confirmation
0:45 to 3:35
Over 1,200 former DOJ officials sign a letter urging senators to block Todd Blanche's confirmation, citing a culture of fear.
“And I think that's thejusticeconnection.org.”
Critique of the Justice System Under Trump
3:35 to 6:00
Analysis of how the DOJ is reportedly being manipulated for political gains under Trump's influence.
“I don't even have to be inside the DOJ to see all the conflicts of interest that Todd Blanche, Pam Bondi before him, Trump true social something.”
Ghislaine Maxwell's Privileged Treatment
6:00 to 8:57
Discussion on Todd Blanche's interactions with Ghislaine Maxwell and the implications for the Epstein investigation.
“It's the fact that this is the president of the United States that sits there and says, do you know what scam is?”
Escalation of Conflict in Iran
8:57 to 12:14
Exploration of the connection between the DOJ's actions and increasing military tensions with Iran.
“And we have people in charge of it that enjoy it.”
Escalation of Conflict in Iran
12:20 to 12:32
Exploration of the connection between the DOJ's actions and increasing military tensions with Iran.
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The Impact of Military Strikes on Civilians
12:32 to 14:01
Discussion on civilian casualties due to U.S. military strikes in Iran and the lack of accountability.
“When they talk about kids and they talk about breeding and they talk about families and they talk about all of their values and all of this, it's all bullshit.”
Trump's Leadership and the War Situation
14:01 to 17:22
Discussing Trump's lack of empathy and the current war dynamics as a result of his administration's choices.
“And he is living his best life right now.”
The Republican Party's Role and Historical Context
17:22 to 18:30
Examining the Republican Party's complicity in Trump's policies and historical parallels with past autocrats.
“But he gets bored with Iran and now he's like, well, I want Greenland again.”
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:04All right, there seems to be a link that every single time we get close to another drop in the Epstein files, or getting close to the heart of the corruption of the cover-up, then the war in Iran escalates. And let me unpack this for all of you guys. First story, pop this up, Kylie. 1 ,200 DOJ officials publicly urge not to confirm Todd Blanche. More than 1 ,200 former DOJ employees have signed a letter urging senators to block Todd Blanche's confirmation. There are so many signatures. This letter consumes 59 pages. It was distributed by at Justice CXN. And I think that's thejusticeconnection.org.
0:51The culture of fear that Blanche has instilled within the DOJ's workforce must end. And the DOJ knows that Donald Trump, like all authoritarians and autocrats, the first thing they do is they turn the justice system and the rule of law completely upside down. You have judges that were appointed by George W. Bush, George H. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, and Trump 1.0 federal judges that are all scratching their heads at the way the DOJ is functioning right now. Well, the rule of law in the DOJ is gone. It has gone strictly to who can prosecute my enemies. That's what I want. I don't give a shit about the law.
1:33Who can create a slush fund for my cronies? Who can do the most damage to the legal system? And again, the Supreme Court allowed all this. Yeah, the Supreme Court is a completely corrupt court and domestic terrorists and veggie boy, Mitch McConnell, machinated for years with the Heritage Foundation long before Trump ever descended on that escalator to put this type of court in because they have been reeling since the United States of America has been more inclusive. the Voting Rights Act, FDR's expansion of government. And FYI, FDR did all of these things to protect capitalism, but the capitalists don't want protection.
2:19They don't want to have a system that works for everybody. And they want a system where the rules only apply to, the rules are an exception to the elite. And here we have another story. The DOJ is trying to block Blanche's communications about Epstein investigation from being released, pop this up. So as you can see, they are trying to block the communications about the Epstein files. And remember, this is the administration. He says, we're the most transparent in history. He ran on knowing that his base were cankles deep in the Epstein files. And they thought it was Hillary Clinton and a cabal of Democrats.
2:58The truth of the matter is, it's a bunch of rich people, both Democrats and Republicans. There's one party that is calling for the release of all of this, and it's the Democrats. Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton were subpoenaed to come down, and they sat there and testified. Nobody in Trump's orbit is even being remotely accountable for this, and Todd Blanche is uniquely disqualified for this position, but more than that, He's a loser of a lawyer. This is the guy who marched into court and got Trump convicted. 34 felony accounts, unanimous across the board. Pumps. Here's the thing. I don't even have to be inside the DOJ to see all the conflicts of interest that Todd Blanche, Pam Bondi before him, Trump true social something.
3:48She wants somebody indicted and then it's immediately done. Todd Blanche went and met with Ghislaine Maxwell. Then she has moved to a low security prison where nobody is supposed to be over a certain grade of prisoners. No sex offenders are supposed to be in it. She's moved there. She has all these privileges. The DOJ runs the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Todd Blanche knew it. He interviewed her without anyone else there. So he could convince her to say Trump had nothing to do with it. It was everybody else. He's dirty. It stinks to high heaven. And every single person that gives a shit about the rule of law, ethics, and morality should vote no in the Senate.
4:39But they won't. They won't. And I think it's even deeper than what you stated. the facts that we know about Todd Blanche's meeting with Ghislaine. I would even pontificate that he has told her, here's your pardon. It's right here. Keep your mouth shut. Don't leak anything else to the Wall Street Journal. We hear you. We see you. When it's politically convenient, you're out. I will sign this pardon and it's over with. I think the fix is in on this thing. The fix is in and the fix goes all the way up to the top, all the way past Todd Blanche to Donald Trump. Donald Trump said, I wish Ghislaine Maxwell well.
5:18This is a child sex trafficker. And I just want to say it again, every single time we dissect this and unpack this, MAGA is a death cult. It is an anti-family pro-pedophilia death cult, which leads me to the Iran war. And it always seems like these two things happen in tandem. When the Epstein files escalate, when there is pressure on the DOJ, then Trump is like, oh, fuck it. Let's blow everything up in Iran. Pop this up. Do you have any questions? Is the ceasefire over? Is the ceasefire done? Is the MOU dead? It's a very interesting question. To me, I think it's over. I don't want to deal with them anymore.
6:01They're scum. You know what scum is? They're scum. They're sick people. They're led by sick people. and they're vicious, violent people. It's the fact that this is the president of the United States that sits there and says, do you know what scam is? I mean, these are people's lives. This is a country where civilian populations are getting carpet bombed, where the United States killed 160-something Iranian schoolgirls. This is very serious stuff. And this guy is such a dipshit. And he's so devoid of empathy or decorum or international law or decency. And he is colluding with the world's worst people.
6:49Benjamin Netanyahu, Vladimir Putin, the president of Turkey, anybody who before that Victor Orban. This man now is on a complete death spiral, nonstop talking about communism. communism, the most communistic president I've ever seen in my lifetime is him. He's the one who's like, well, I want a piece of that deal. Well, we should have a piece of that deal. And here is a video of Trump's comments that came after the US struck Iran in response to the attacks on the three strips in the Strait of Hormuz.
7:35You're a man's man. So you could hear kids screaming in the background. And this is why when he sits there and he's like, do you know what scum is? And he acts like such a dipshit. This is really serious stuff. There was a time period, even with presidents that I couldn't stand, like George W. Bush, who I think was a war criminal, a liar. I think that a lot of people, Rumsfeld, Cheney, et al., should have been charged with war crimes. I think that was one of our crimes that led to the incubation of all of this. But there was a decorum in which when you spoke about war, when you spoke about blowing shit up, you're not sitting there like a dipshit going, they're scum.
8:15Do you know what scum is? And let me let me take that back. George W. Bush was every bit as impolite about this stuff as he would sit there and say, you know, they hate us for our freedom and all of this stupid propaganda. And this stuff is just so incredibly serious. They are dismantling the global economy, all of our allies. And then when we go to look at leadership, we have to sit and listen to that guy. Yeah, thinking he's like the tactical genius behind this, given the results. Here's the thing about all of this. Trump got us into a war where he said it was over possible nukes. Then he said it was over the, you know, theocracy in Iran.
9:00The reality is we have no goal. We have no purpose. We have no exit strategy. And we have people in charge of it that enjoy it. Like Pete Hex said, he loves to think I'm a big guy that drops bomb and I kill people. They like it. So the convenience of being able to drop bombs, dismantle the economy to avoid Epstein for Trump, in my mind, I don't think he gives a shit as long as he's not at the top of the news cycle with the report from the 13 year old who alleges he raped her when she was 13. And Trump is living his best life right now. He says it. He says, I don't really worry about anything. I mean, this was two years ago, he's worried about going to federal prison.
9:48Jack Smith had him by the balls. And the big error of establishment status quo politics, particularly with the Democratic Party, is when we get power, we're told that, oh, we can't upset the system. And we always have socialism. Like, think back to 2008. Think about the banking crisis meltdown. We have socialism for those banks. But whenever there's a social safety net for the citizens, we're told, no, we can't afford that. We can't do that. That's going to turn off voters. And it's all been bullshit. All of it from both sides have been bullshit. And that's why you see people voting against status quo.
10:27Even this last election, Kamala Harris represented the status quo. I voted for her. I campaigned for her. I don't regret my vote one bit. There's no question the United States would be completely different right now. But the fundamentals, I wonder, would they be different? Would we still be servicing corporations? Would we still be funding the genocide? Would we still be doing all of these things that leave the psychological soil in the ground primed for people to fall prey to a demagogue or, you know, something completely different? That's why I think you see the DSA rising up because unregulated capitalism and servicing corporations has not helped us.
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12:31And then this is where MAGA truly is. When they talk about kids and they talk about breeding and they talk about families and they talk about all of their values and all of this, it's all bullshit. The renewed attacks, renewed attacks in Iran right now, they're coming as the Epstein stuff is heating up. And then there's new reporting that the United States ignored intelligence warnings that led to a strike that killed 160 Iranian girls. Pop this up. Senior U.S. military commanders bypassed warnings in critical databases that intelligence about potential targets in Iran was severely out of date and approved some strikes, including one that hit a school killing nearly 200 children and adults, according to three sources familiar with decision-making processes.
13:21Now, typically, this would be something that would be investigated. The fact that we just have, we move on from all of this stuff, Alex Preddy, Renee Good, no investigation. Their murderers are just transferred to another, you know, part of the ICE system. The fact that Pete Heckseth is systematically and in a very racist manner, erasing black service members and women and people that threaten his fragile white masculinity. And that all of the people that want to lecture us about our lifestyles and think that they're so morally superior, they have no problem with 160 schoolgirls getting killed.
14:06And it shouldn't surprise you any because the president of the United States on his true social put up a an image of kindergarteners that had on hijabs and he he always has to fear monger that's all he does this is not a this is not a political party that is capable of being honest and using rigorous honesty to get us past this whole administration was to get Trump out of trouble, enrich all of his friends. And he is living his best life right now. He has no empathy. He's not capable of it. I don't even think he has empathy for his kids. No, I don't think he has empathy for his kids either. And the thing about when you talk about leadership and administrations, that's why you have to rely on experts.
14:59That's why you put the best people with the most knowledge in these positions. But Trump was like, oh, Pete Hexer, he's nice looking. He can get on Fox News. He'll do whatever the fuck I want. And in terms of where we are now, we're in a war we're never going to get out of at this point, because there is no strategy behind it. The Pentagon is running out of supplies. They want 67 million more dollars. And we have Mike Johnson saying, Americans, we're going to have to cut Medicare and Social Security. Because at the end of the day, what America needs is the back burner. Nobody gives a shit. Donald Trump wants to avoid accountability.
15:45Pete Hegseth is incompetent, and we are seeing the results of that. In every area of Trump's administration, It's failure across the board. And I just want to remind that it's intentional. And we have spoken to Jason Stanley, Timothy Snyder, Ruth Ben-Ghiat. It is intentional that he chose people that would morally bend for him. This is a feature, not a bug. This is a feature of autocrats. This is a failed playbook. We know how the story ends. and he has learned from Trump 1.0. When Susan Collins, another domestic terrorist in the Senate, when she said Trump learned his lesson when she didn't vote to impeach, she's 100 % right, he did learn his lesson.
16:33He learned his lesson from Trump 1.0 to Trump 2.0. I will not appoint anybody who has a moral compass. I want to appoint people that like to get humiliated, that will do everything on the planet for me, that will sit and tell me how great this is a feature. It's not unique to Donald Trump. Go back in history and look at every single autocrat and every single authoritarian. This is the playbook. These people are, it's hard to know what they are more of, more incompetent or more unoriginal because they are equally both of these things. None of this is new to historians and experts. And I just want to leave you all with this.
17:14Trump gets bored very easily and his oligarchs are laser focused on Greenland. I believe it's Rothschild that has been laser focused on this for a long time, long before Trump even came in. But he gets bored with Iran and now he's like, well, I want Greenland again. Play the clip. And it's surrounded by China's ships and Russian ships. And that's not going to happen.
17:54It's just enough. It's enough. We've all heard it. He started his shit with this. He will not stop with this shit. And all of this could be stopped. Every single bit of this could be stopped by the Republican Party. But they won't do it because him spending money on wars gives them a permission structure that they wanted for decades to dismantle all of the social safety nets that FDR put into place. And why did FDR get more than two terms? Why was he so popular? Why did he win in landslides? Because when government delivers for people, the people like it and they vote for it accordingly. That's all we have.
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