Massive Epstein Files Hack Revealed, Lying Ted Cruz Does Not Want You To See This

12 Mar 2026 · 21 min · 9 chapters

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Podcast Summary: IHIP News - Episode: Massive Epstein Files Hack Revealed, Lying Ted Cruz Does Not Want You To See This

Episode Overview In this episode, hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie "Pumps" Sullivan delve into the recent revelation that the Epstein files were hacked prior to their public release. They also discuss Ted Cruz's reaction to AI-generated images that lampoon him. The episode mixes political commentary with humor, emphasizing the absurdity of current political events.

Key Topics Discussed

Epstein Files Hack

  • Main Revelation: Reports from Reuters reveal that the Epstein files were hacked by a foreign entity in 2023, likely a state-sponsored actor rather than an individual hacker.
  • Analysis by Ted Lieu: The hosts reference Ted Lieu's comments, suggesting that the files could be used for blackmail against high-profile individuals, including President Trump.
  • Concerns Raised:
  • The timing of the hack raises questions about the security of government officials.
  • The lack of transparency during the Biden transition period regarding the compromised files.
  • A call for accountability from both parties regarding how they handle the Epstein case.

Critique of Political Figures

  • Donald Trump:
  • Described as an "abuser" and "incompetent," with concerns about his vulnerability to blackmail.
  • Criticism of his administration's handling of foreign relations, particularly with Russia.
  • Ted Cruz:
  • Called "Lying Ted," his hypocrisy is highlighted, particularly regarding his support of Israel.
  • The hosts mock Cruz's outrage over AI images depicting him in a bikini with the Israeli flag, labeling it as a distraction from more significant issues.
  • The hosts emphasize Cruz's alignment with extremist Christian beliefs and how it affects his political decisions.

The Role of Evangelicals in Politics

  • The hosts express disdain for the influence of evangelical Christians on Trump and Cruz, portraying them as a co-opted group that has lost moral clarity.
  • They discuss the absurdities of the evangelical support for Trump, particularly in light of his controversial actions and statements.

Implications of US Foreign Policy

  • The episode highlights how MAGA Republicans overwhelmingly support US military actions, particularly against Iran.
  • The hosts argue against attempting to appeal to MAGA voters, advocating instead for a platform that supports equality for all, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation.

Key Takeaways

  • Security Lapses: There are significant concerns about government security and transparency related to the Epstein files.
  • Political Hypocrisy: Both Trump and Cruz are highlighted as figures lacking integrity and accountability.
  • Evangelical Influence: The episode critiques the manipulation of evangelical beliefs for political gain, undermining genuine moral and ethical considerations.
  • Voter Engagement: The hosts caution Democrats against compromising their values to attract MAGA supporters, emphasizing the importance of inclusivity and equality.

Final Thoughts The hosts conclude with a call for solidarity among marginalized groups, advocating for a political stance that prioritizes equal rights for all, regardless of political affiliation. They humorously encourage listeners to engage with their podcast through likes, comments, and subscriptions, promising more commentary on current events in future episodes.

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Unpacking the Epstein Files Hack

0:46 to 3:55

Discussion on the implications of the hacked Epstein files and the potential political fallout.

“Somebody, some foreign entity, and this isn't probably just some individual hacker.”

Ted Cruz and Evangelical Support

3:56 to 7:12

Critique of Ted Cruz's hypocrisy and the dynamics of his support from white evangelical Christians.

“Like, I mean, it's just the only people that support this man are white evangelical Christians because it's the most co-opted, emotionally stunted, unevolved group in all of the Western world.”

The Rapture Preppers and Political Rhetoric

7:13 to 12:52

Examination of the intersection of rapture preppers' beliefs and political discourse surrounding Israel.

“And so this group of people, of course, the most co-opted group in the world are white evangelical Christians because they fucking believe in nothing.”

Trump's Shoe Gimmick and Legal Issues

12:53 to 14:01

Discussion about Trump's shoe gifts to allies and the legal troubles of the shoe company involved.

“Ted Cruz is the most embarrassing, unfuckable person.”

Overview of Waco Group's Lawsuit Against Trump

14:01 to 15:01

Learn about the Waco Group's legal actions against the Trump administration regarding tariffs.

“But does the president know that Florschein parent company, Waco Group, is suing the Trump administration over tariffs?”

Trump's Ignorance and Symbolism in Politics

15:01 to 16:16

Explore Trump's apparent disdain for the implications of his policies and the theatrics surrounding his administration.

“He just wants he and his posse and his squad to be all in the same pair of shoes.”

Analysis of a Former National Security Advisor's Views

16:16 to 18:34

Examine insights from Nadia Shadlau on the constitutional powers regarding war declarations.

“from John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.”

MAGA Support for Military Action Against Iran

18:34 to 19:49

Review polling data showing MAGA Republicans' strong support for U.S. military actions in Iran.

“And when she gets outside of that, just a simple reading of one sentence of the Constitution, and she was completely debunked.”

Call to Action for Democrats

19:49 to 20:58

Understand the speaker's advice to Democrats on maintaining a platform of equality and not compromising with MAGA supporters.

“and you're on MAGA algorithms, you get dumber and dumber and dumber and dumber and completely broken, just like this woman is here.”
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0:04Some explosive news coming out of Reuters yesterday and it is that the Epstein files were hacked in 2023. Pop this headline up, Kylie. Exclusive foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI. Source and documents show. So Representative Ted Lieu has some analysis here, which I think is spot on. Pop up his post. A foreign hacker likely has the Epstein files. the best way to prevent blackmail of government officials such as Trump and Howard Letnick would be for Pam Bondi to stop the cover up and release all the Epstein files as required by law. So let's think about this for a second.

0:54Somebody, some foreign entity, and this isn't probably just some individual hacker. This is probably some spy agency, Mossad, et cetera. So who has the Epstein files? Who has the copies of the Epstein files? And that's a really important question. And so I go back to the timeline of 2023. Why wasn't this announced then when Biden was president? during the transition, why wasn't this leaked that, hey, somebody got hacked into the Epstein files and there's compromising information about the incoming president in these files. And he's very susceptible to blackmail. Like every time I look at this whole thing and why we're here being governed by this abuser, Donald Trump, incompetent dementia ridden abuser, I'm always like, where are the guardrails?

1:54Like just a year and a half ago, Joe Biden was president. They were transitioning. Did anybody set up any for this thing? And we're all just kind of out here, like thank God Massey and Kana were able to get bipartisanship support to get what we have released. But then when you look at the way Trump rolled out the red carpet for Vladimir Putin and stood there after he like walked in a curvy line because dementia, you know, they walk, they can't walk straight and they claps like a seal and he has our, uh, uh, military that MAGA is so like, Oh, we just respect the military so much on their hands and knees, rolling out red carpet for a war criminal.

2:38So does the former KGB agent, was it a Russian hacker that went in there and got it? Was it Mossad? Or one could argue that Jeffrey Epstein, a lot of people argue that he was a Mossad agent, that Israel already has all of that. So this is just really, really stunning, but it makes me question if we ever get power back. It's not only grilling all of these criminals surrounding Donald Trump, every single one of them, but also grilling the Biden FBI and DOJ and transition team that were just now finding out about this in 2026 is utter insanity. Was Congress briefed that the incoming president of the United States, somebody had compromising information on him.

3:32It's just a complete security lapse from Democrats to Republicans, top to bottom, and all roads lead to, no matter which party's in power, rich people get off the hook. And so now we have this embarrassing, compromised individual that is a convicted felon, a con artist, dumber than a box of hot rocks, a world-class cheater, and a lying Christian. Like, I mean, it's just the only people that support this man are white evangelical Christians because it's the most co-opted, emotionally stunted, unevolved group in all of the Western world. I'm not even going to just say the United States. I'm going to say all of the Western world.

4:20And then I might even expand it to say all of the Eastern world. Because after this whole Iran thing, of course, he riles up all the rapture preppers into the oval and they lay hands on him and they start doing a bunch of tongue talking and all this crazy ass shit, right? And the majority of Americans look at this stuff like it's crazy. And the rest of the world looks at it even crazier. pop this up. The Chinese are openly mocking Trump's White House prayer sessions on social media. So the Democrats rarely criticize this. They rarely criticize the abuse of this faith, that the majority of Americans are of Christian faith, by the president of the United States.

5:11And he got this support from Jerry Falwell Jr. Jerry Falwell Jr. is the son of the pastor Falwell who thought the blue Teletubby was gay. And he was super obsessed with gay people, right? So then he has a son. And as you can imagine, if your dad thinks the blue Teletubby's gay, you're probably not getting a rock solid childhood, right? You're probably growing up in a lot of fucking crazy shit. Well, Jerry Falwell Jr. is married. He has Liberty University, which is a university that doesn't allow the students to kiss. All they can do is handhold. They can't cuss. They can't drink. None of the fun stuff you get to do in college, you can't do if you're an evangelical Christian.

5:53So Jerry Falwell and his wife hire a pool boy from Miami, a hotel in South Beach. The pool boy bangs his wife while Jerry Falwell sits in the corner of the room beating off. All right. This, in the evangelical Christian world, forgiveness without accountability. Donald Trump goes and sucks up to Jerry Falwell Jr. and riles up all the evangelical grifting mega church pastors, and they're all on board. They're all on board with Donald Trump. So they do all of this performative Christianity. And I've been making the big argument that one of the subjects that has failed to be discussed both in media and by the Democrats is the fact the Republican Party Christian signals.

6:41And that propaganda that you saw of Donald Trump surrounded by all of those unhinged, emotionally stunted, psychotic, evil Bible thumpers in the Oval Office, that is Christian signaling. He's signaling to his base, oh, this illegal Iran war where you're hearing about little girls that were at school getting killed with one of our missiles, it's all divinely inspired. God put his twinkle fairy dust on it. And so everybody's coming in the oval to put their hands on Donald Trump, a war criminal. And so this group of people, of course, the most co-opted group in the world are white evangelical Christians because they fucking believe in nothing.

7:34They believe in nothing except for supporting Israel. And so Lion Ted Cruz, as everybody knows, is just this overwhelmingly disgusting hypocrite when it comes to everything. Being a family man, Trump calls his wife ugly. He can't even stand up for his wife. Being an American, that's no big deal because he's all chips in for Israel. So Lion Ted is madder than a hornet because people are posting AI images of him in a bikini that is like the Israel flag, like an Israeli flag bikini. And here he is. Play the clip. I could tweet this morning. Good morning. and hundreds of anti-Semitic responses would immediately fill my social media.

8:30Turns out I've seen many times an image of myself in a bikini with the flag of Israel. Okay, so this is how stupid MAGA people are. It's just, it's unbelievable that in 2026, and we've all been around social media now for a decade, that he gets onto a camera and says, every time I log into social media, I'm attacked by these horrific anti-Semites who make images of me in a bikini with an Israeli flag, as though once that is posted, millions of people are not going to troll the fuck out of that moron with even more photographs like this. Pop the first one up, Kylie. Here we have Lion Ted with his milky man boobs, and he is a United States Senator for Israel.

9:24Oh, I'm sorry. I mean, Texas. And he has taken $4.5 million from AIPAC. Let's look at the next image of Lion Ted. Here he is sitting down for an interview and he says, I came into Congress 13 years ago with the stated intention of being the leading defender of Israel in the United States Senate. And there he is. And he's claiming that if you post this, you're an anti-Semite because you're not allowed, I guess, in Ted Cruz and Benjamin Netanyahu's version of democracy to have free speech and to call out somebody who is morally corrupt and morally bankrupt. And here's the last image of Lion Ted that I found online.

10:07Now, this one is a bridge too far for me. We've got Benjamin Netanyahu and he has a dog collar around Lion Ted and Lion Ted has his little collar. And this is just a little bit over the top because everybody on the planet knows that Ted Cruz is not that toned. This offends me. It offends my ability to understand what he looks like in real life and the transference of Ted Cruz, Cancun. Remember the Cancun airport photo where he has a muffin top galore, at least if you're going to do this, have the accurate accuracy and the integrity to go from what he looks like in real life to what he would, what he looks like as Benjamin Netanyahu's little lap dog.

10:55Okay. So this right here, number one, shows how stupid Ted is. Number two, how compromised he is. Because now, listener, viewer, you know what the job is. Make AI slop of lying Ted Cruz in his little bikini with his little teeny weeny and his big mushroom top and his little milky tits and put the Israeli flag all over him because he doesn't give a fuck about the people in Texas. He doesn't give a shit about Texans. All of the work he's doing for Israel, for a war criminal, Benjamin Netanyahu, doesn't help the people of Texas at all, but he has to lie to the people of Texas and say, oh, so here's the thing.

11:42I'm involved in this whole thing because of the rapture. So I'm such a pro-Israel guy, and I'm this champion against anti-Semitism. And listen to how perverted this thing is. This is what these rapture preppers think, you guys. Little lion Ted with his little milky Israel tits. He is telling the people of Texas, the Jews need to be in Israel for the rapture to happen. And all of this escalation with the Iran war, it's Armageddon. Jesus is coming any day now. Jews, get in your places, get in your places right now immediately so Jesus can come. And then Jesus is going to come down and guess what Jesus is going to do to all the Jews?

12:30Send them to hell. So it's just unbelievable that these rapture preppers want to lecture us on Jewish safety when their apocalyptic fantasy is to send them all to burn in hell with Beelzebub or Satan or Donald Trump and Ted Cruz for all eternity. So this movement, you guys, is just, number one, it's embarrassing. The Chinese see it. Ted Cruz is the most embarrassing, unfuckable person. There's not enough AI on the planet that could make that guy fuckable. And then moving along here, you may remember that all of these alpha males that follow Trump, right? Trump suggested they all wear matching shoes, right?

13:21So I don't know if that was in the signal chat. I don't know if it's just in the oval, but he's like, Hey guys, I thought it'd be really cool if we all wear matching shoes. So he buys little Marco some shoes and they're like, I'm not kidding you, like two inches too big. I played this for you all yesterday. and apparently the shoe company that Trump likes is suing him. Pop this up. President Trump's obsession with Florsheim shoes has led him to hand out the$145 loafers to J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, Howard Lutnik, Sean Hannity, Lady Graham, and many others. But does the president know that Florschein parent company, Waco Group, is suing the Trump administration over tariffs?

14:10In December, Waco filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration asking the U.S. Court of International Trade to declare the president's unprecedented power grab illegal. The company also requested a refund with interest of the$16 million it paid in tariffs last year if the policy were struck down last month. When the United States Supreme Court did just that, Florsheim co-authored a piece for the contrarian titled Business Leaders Welcome to SCOTUS Tariffs Decision. Presumably, Trump wouldn't be handing out the Oxfords if he knew how vocal Florsheim has been against one of his signature policies, the tariffs.

14:53Or maybe Trump just loves his Florsheims that much. So let's review here just really briefly. This guy who has all of these cultists come into the Oval Office, speak in tongues, and do some bullshit religious ceremony to signal to the rapture preppers that this war, this illegal war in Iran is prepping them for the end of times. Trump doesn't give a shit about that. He just wants he and his posse and his squad to be all in the same pair of shoes. Even if they don't fit little Marco, he doesn't give a fuck because he wants to humiliate them by putting them in all those goofy loafers. And I don't even think he cares if the company is suing him.

15:41I don't think he cares. I don't think he gives a shit about that kind of stuff. And so one of the things that we have to realize about the people surrounding Trump or the people that have capitulated to Trump, maybe at some point had some moral clarity. Maybe at some point they had some judgment. Maybe at some point they had some intelligence, But as they triple-Trumped with each capitulation to the moral collapse and the stupidity that this man offers, it broke something in his people, even the smartest supporters around him. And I want to play a clip for you from a former national security advisor to Donald Trump.

16:20Her name is Nadia Shadlau. She has a Ph.D. from John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. I would have to say, clearly not a dumbass if I just read the resume. Here she is being interviewed by Ezra Klein. Play the clip. This does not have a constitutional role in the declaration of war. Congress has a role in cutting off funds for wars, which it is threatened to do. The president doesn't have to get permission, but yes, you can debate. You can decide that's his choice and how he wants to do it. I mean, here I will quote the Constitution. The Congress shall have power to declare war.

17:06Grant letters of mark and reprisal and make rules concerning captures on land and water. I think the president should be the commander in chief of the army, but it is Congress that has the power to declare war. So constitutionally, the Constitution says Congress has the power to declare war. But the issue is whether or not a president who deploys military force abroad needs to do so only after having Congress declare war. Look at his face. Keep that up, Kylie. Put that back up. So here's the thing about MAGA people, you guys. This is willful stupidity. It is absolute willful stupidity. Now, Trump, he can't help it.

17:51He's just stupid. He was born stupid. All right. That's that's it. But there are people around him that have capitulated for whatever it is they're in their agenda, whether it's their Israel thumpers or their Bible thumpers or they're prepping for the rapture or they're just, you know, greedy capitalists or they're over racist. Right. And here's the thing you have to understand. Once they've allowed Trump to break them, this woman who has a PhD from John Hopkins School of International Studies thought, because when she's inside the MAGA media bubble, everybody can just say all this crazy shit.

18:32Nobody fact checks anybody. And when she gets outside of that, just a simple reading of one sentence of the Constitution, and she was completely debunked. And here's what everybody has to understand what we're up against. Kylie, pop this up. New, there is no MAGA split on Iran. Poll after poll shows that 85 to 90 % of MAGA Republicans support the US strikes on Iran. Many news outlets ran with stories from Tucker, Bannon, et cetera, without checking if they represented any meaningful segment of GOP voters and they don't. And this is from Gabe Fleischer. And this is incredibly important. Look at this MAGA support for Iran.

19:20MAGA Republicans, 90%, NBC, 88%, CNN, YouGov, 85 % approval. I would argue that you can take this issue with anything. And MAGA is always going to be that level of support. And that's why you see so many broken people, a person with a PhD, go on to Ezra Klein's podcast and humiliate herself because she's hanging out with those 90%. And I would argue that when you hang out in MAGA circles like this and you watch MAGA TV and you're on MAGA algorithms, you get dumber and dumber and dumber and dumber and completely broken, just like this woman is here. And so my argument for bringing all of this up is to the Democrats.

20:10Do not try to get these 90 % people that support this to vote for you. Do not cede ground. Do not throw trans people under the bus. Do not throw gay people under the bus. Do not throw women under the bus. Stand up for working class Americans and equality for everyone. And that means everyone, even if MAGA doesn't like it, tough titties. We have to have a platform in the future that says we are for equal rights and affordability for everyone. And MAGA will go, oh my God, but we don't want a trans person to have it. And we'll go, tough titties. That's the difference between you and us. Your version of America is exclusionary.

20:47You only think some people get equal rights. But as Democrats, we think everybody gets equal rights and we're not obsessed with people's genitalia and gay sex like you freaks are. All right. That's all I have. Please like, subscribe and comment. And we will be back later with more news. Thank you.

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The Epstein files were hacked far before they were ever "released" to the public, and Ted Cruz throws a fit over AI images making fun of him.


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