Trump Hurls Attacks At Reporter When Asked About Epstein Survivors, He's Panicking

4 Feb 2026 · 19 min · 10 chapters

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Podcast Notes: IHIP News - Episode: "Trump Hurls Attacks At Reporter When Asked About Epstein Survivors, He's Panicking"

Episode Overview In this episode of IHIP News, hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie "Pumps" Sullivan discuss Donald Trump's recent press conference where he deflected questions about Jeffrey Epstein and his victims by attacking reporter Caitlin Collins. They express outrage over Trump's behavior and the complicity of Republicans, particularly in relation to the ongoing Epstein scandal.

Key Themes and Discussions

Trump's Treatment of Women

  • Historical Context: The hosts note Trump's history of misogyny and sexual assault allegations.
  • Key Quote from Trump: Attacked Collins personally, stating she is "the worst reporter" and accusing her of being dishonest.
  • Misogyny in Politics:
  • The hosts argue that Trump's treatment of Collins reflects a broader culture of toxicity in politics that endangers women.
  • Call for Solidarity: If they were journalists in the press pool, they would advocate for a collective walkout in protest.

The Epstein Scandal

  • Deepening Concerns: Discussion of the latest revelations surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, including disturbing claims regarding sex trafficking and the murders of young girls.
  • Need for Justice: A desire for a serious investigation into Epstein's operations and the implications for powerful figures involved.
  • Connection to Trump: The hosts emphasize Trump’s connections to Epstein and how these issues are swept under the rug by certain news outlets like Fox News.

Republicans' Complicity

  • Lindsey Graham's Role: The hosts criticize Graham and other Republicans as "fascist collaborators" who support Trump despite his alleged criminal behavior.
  • Voter Ignorance: A study is mentioned that shows many Republicans rely on Fox News for information, creating a cycle of misinformation and ignorance.

Media's Role

  • Fox News as Propaganda: Discussion on how Fox News shapes narratives around Trump's actions and the Epstein scandal, often downplaying serious accusations.
  • Calls for Accountability: The hosts call out media figures and organizations that fail to challenge Trump's behavior and the underlying misogyny.

Political Landscape

  • Analysis of Trump's Inner Circle: The episode touches on the influence of figures like Leonard Leo, who is implicated in securing favorable court rulings for Trump.
  • Public Reaction: The hosts predict that many in the Republican Party will face consequences for their current affiliations, comparing political actions to historical racism and injustice.

Key Takeaways

  • Toxic Misogyny: The episode highlights how Trump's behavior toward women reflects deep-seated misogyny present in the political sphere.
  • Urgency for Change: A strong call for journalists and the public to demand accountability from political figures and media.
  • Ongoing Investigations: Emphasis on the need for thorough investigations into the Epstein case, signaling that many secrets remain uncovered.

Conclusion Jennifer and Pumps leave listeners with a sense of urgency to continue following the Epstein story and to hold political leaders accountable for their actions. The episode serves as a critique of the current political climate, especially regarding women's rights and the integrity of media coverage.

Call to Action Listeners are encouraged to like, subscribe, and engage with the podcast for ongoing discussions about political news and justice.

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Chapters

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Trump's Disgraceful Behavior Towards Women

0:05 to 2:52

Discussion on Trump's history of misogyny and his recent confrontational response to a reporter.

“He has been credibly accused of sexual assault.”

The Epstein Files: Uncovering Horrors

2:52 to 4:05

Exploration of the shocking details surrounding Jeffrey Epstein's activities and the implications.

“And for God's sake, he doesn't give a fuck about the survivors of victims that he helped traumatize.”

Echoes of Power and Corruption

4:05 to 6:19

Linking Trump's behavior to his support base and the complicity of Republican leaders.

“that the worst of it, we can assume has not even been released.”

The Role of Media and Public Perception

6:19 to 10:18

Discussion on the media's portrayal of Trump and the impact of misinformation on public opinion.

“I want to now I'm jumping back to the press conference that we had.”

Trump's Legal Challenges and Political Maneuverings

10:18 to 14:02

Analyzing Trump's legal issues and his relationship with influential figures like Leonard Leo.

“I have talked to the MAGA people in my life that snort Fox News every day.”

Trump's Fears Over the Supreme Court Tariff Decision

14:02 to 14:54

Discussion on Trump's anxiety regarding a pending Supreme Court tariff decision.

“This is also something that I think we need to watch.”

Credible Charges Against Trump Amidst Epstein Files

14:55 to 15:35

Analysis of Trump's connections to credible charges of child abuse revealed in the Epstein files.

“I just can't wait for all the other shoes to drop.”

Republican Party's Support for Trump Amid Scandal

15:36 to 16:46

Exploration of the Republican Party's loyalty to Trump despite serious allegations.

“In these files are that Putin has compromising information on Trump, and so does the government of Israel.”

The Contrast of Political Accountability: US vs UK

16:47 to 18:34

Comparison of political accountability in the US and UK, highlighting resignations and scandals.

“And so even in this right here with this Peter Mendelsohn resigning, the current prime minister of England, of the UK is the one that appointed him.”

Reflections on History and Accountability

18:35 to 18:59

A reflection on the long-term consequences of political actions and societal change.

“These things don't age well and you all are on the wrong side of history.”
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0:04All right. Trump hates women. We've known this forever. He has been credibly accused of sexual assault. He is an adjudicated rapist. He is cankles deep in the Epstein files. And when journalist Caitlin Collins asks him about the victims, about their humanity, here's how he goes off. Something that people care about. What did you say? What would you say to the survivors? You are the worst reporter. CNN has no ratings because of people like you. She's a young woman. I don't think I've ever seen you smile. I've known you for 10 years. I don't think I've ever seen a smile on your face. You know why you're not smiling?

0:48Because you know you're not telling the truth. And you're a very dishonest organization, and they should be ashamed of you. Okay, go ahead. Okay, this is a guy who said he'd date his own daughter. This is a guy who said his cutoff age for a sexual relationship was 12. This is a guy who said, grab him by the pussy. We can go on and on and on. And so he has done this multiple times, treated women like this publicly. And the women who provide cover for him in doing this, that have ridden the coattails of hard work for gender equality and now are willing to tear it all down is just something else.

1:31And I don't know what the right answer is to this, but I am such a fighter and I have so much conviction and I don't shy away from it in the least bit. If I were in that White House press pool, I would lead a revolt for everybody to walk out in solidarity because this is just unacceptable. The quiet piggy, all of this stuff. And the through line, aside from homophobia to all of this autocracy and dictatorships and fascism is just breathtaking toxic misogyny. I completely agree. This is disgusting. If you worked in a place like this and your boss treated you this way in front of people and you went to HR, I believe that boss would be fired.

2:23But the president of the United States, the White House is not a safe place for women. Full stop. He has done this repeatedly. You went over just the awfulness of his personal record. And the thing about it is, I mean, I go back and forth on this. You need real journalists in the White House. But all this does is expose them to toxicity, harassment. And he's never going to tell the truth. And for God's sake, he doesn't give a fuck about the survivors of victims that he helped traumatize. It could not be more obvious. And I, too, am disgusted by the women that work for him and the people that continue to have him and his sycophants on their shows, i.e.

3:13Fox News. And they don't call this out. It is bullshit. It sets women back. And it's just, it's unbelievable that the president of the United States is allowed to behave this way. The only thing I would add to everything you said that was spot on is not only is Fox News never going to call it out, and not only are the people in the administration never going to call it out, they are co-abusers. They are fascist collaborators. These people are on board with it. these women are 100 % fine with tearing down the work that we've done in this country to help women seek equality. All right. Okay. You guys, switching gears here, the Epstein files are so crazy.

4:00And there's so many. I want to remind you before I get into what we're about to read, that the worst of it, we can assume has not even been released. And this is just crazy. I found this last night. Pop this up. So two foreign girls, according to the files, two foreign girls died from rough fetish sex and Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell ordered them buried in the hills outside his ranch in New Mexico. And Quad Carl posted, I still can't believe that fucking bitch is in a minimum security camp. So here is from Eddie to a couple of people and it is a confidential Jeffrey Epstein where he is basically sharing this information about girls that were roughed up during sex, which is really pretty believable considering all of the dehumanization and the child rape scheme that he was running.

5:08And so this is just, there's so much stuff in there, blackmail, rape, oligarchs, American oligarchs trying to overturn democracy, and then bodies at the ranch. And I always forget about the ranch. We always focus on the island. But of course, if he was doing it on the island, he's doing it on his ranch pumps. What do you know about the ranch? You follow this a little more closely than I do. I know that he did traffic girls to that ranch. I've heard survivors speak who were raped and assaulted at that ranch. So I know they did that. And here's the thing. I want a real Justice Department to investigate this.

5:51I want them to go out and see if they can find the bodies. Of course, I have no expectation of this Justice Department to do that. But where was Merrick Garland when this stuff came in? Where was Merrick Garland? Where was an investigation? I mean, this is murder. Full stop. But again, nobody did anything because of the power and the money that this man is backed by. I completely agree. All right. I want to now I'm jumping back to the press conference that we had. And I just wanted to put that bit of Epstein drop in the middle of these two stories here, because I want to paint the picture as to who these Republicans are defending.

6:40And I'm not just talking about Republicans in office. I'm talking about the Republicans that you know. Donald Trump still basks in high 80s percentage points of approval from the Republican Party. And so you have all of these people that just constantly glaze him, look the other way. And we know that Lindsey Graham is one of the biggest glazers of Donald Trump. I was about to say glazers of something else, but I think you all would know what I was talking about. Anyway, here he is in the Oval Office yesterday. And this is one of Trump's humiliation exercises. He has the entire Republicans, as many that he can get behind him, while he's talking about overturning elections, while he's talking about election fraud, while he's talking about how great he is.

7:31even Susan Collins is standing there holding a MAGA hat, you know, the one who claims to be independent and claims to be moderate. Here's Lady Graham just glazing kinks. I will say this. I think I can say, what do you think, Lindsay? My second term is blowing my first term away. And my first term was really good. Reagan plus. Reagan plus. Well, whatever. Thank you very much. Okay. There he is getting Lindsay to glazing and then humiliating him. And you notice all of the Republicans standing behind him. You could just see a few, but if on the wide shot of that, you see all of them. They're all holding these MAGA America is back MAGA hats.

8:15These people, all of these people are fascist collaborators and pedophile protectors, period. That's what they are. People who still support this regime that you know in your everyday life are fascist collaborators and pedophile protectors. I read an interesting study that just came out that Republicans are so intellectually lazy that the majority of them still only get their news from Fox News, even though a lot of other conservative publications exist, like the Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal is actually read by more Democrats than Republicans. And so it's such an easy job for him to go out and create soundbites for Fox News, who, by the way, barely, barely covers the Epstein files.

9:08I mean, they'll be all over the Clinton aspect of this, but you won't hear anything about credible sworn testimony of girls saying that Trump raped other girls. you won't hear that. And so you have Lindsey Graham, who there's no question, this administration or Russia or Israel or all of the above have compromising information on Lindsey doing a bunch of gay stuff. I think we all know that, you know, I mean, that's there. So this, this Epstein thing is I'm starting to understand it more and more as a child sex ring. but why so many cameras why so many emails why so open why so brazen after this guy has already been convicted after because he's compromising all of these powerful men and powerful people to bend the knee to him and his ambitions and we always wondered how did Jeffrey Epstein get all this money.

10:10He's not just like he has a big hedge fund or anything. Blackmail. It's a big blackmail scheme where then all of these people are now in the epicenter of Trump's cabinet. They surround him in every circle. One thing I just want to say about Fox News, because you came up, you saw or read a report that Fox News viewers that are religious viewers of Fox News, They know less about the news than the people that don't watch any news. I have talked to the MAGA people in my life that snort Fox News every day. They know it. They know they have less news, but they don't care because when they watch Fox News, they bash Democrats, they bash gay people, they bash women, and they lie.

11:05and they'd rather be lied to than have to critically think and take responsibility for the actions that their vote has created in this country, in my opinion. Yeah, don't forget the racism. I mean... Oh, that's the cherry on top, and that was a complete mess. That's the driving component of Fox News. Okay, and then this I found really interesting. Yesterday, Trump starts bashing Leonard Leo. And viewer, Leonard Leo has been a big benefactor to the worst Supreme Court justices on the planet. And I believe, isn't this the guy? No, it's the other one that collects Nazi dishes. Anyway, Leonard Leo is basically made the court that Trump now has immunity from.

11:58Leonard Leo was an architect in the court, corrupt court, that is giving Trump all of these wins on the shadow docket. So I don't know what's happened, but clearly something's happened because Pudding Boy drops this on his true social yesterday. Sleazebag influencer and lawyer, Leonard Leo, who has legal issues of his own, goes around telling everyone he has the legal system rigged. I hope that's not true. And if it is, should be thoroughly looked into. Leonard has a big and very dangerous mouth. mouth. Melanie DiRaggio retweets this and says, Leonard Leo literally rigged the Supreme Court to benefit Trump and his oligarchs.

12:47Leo spent hundreds of millions of dollars to pack the courts and arrange bribes for justices. Trump's cognitive decline is betraying him. And y 'all may remember about a month ago, I predicted that Trump would start like people do when they are, and when they're older and they have dementia or Parkinson's or whatever it is, they start on their deathbed saying, well, honey, I always loved you more than I did your older brother. The truth starts coming out. Well, this is happening. This is happening right now in real time. He's literally biting the hand that feeds him. There is a whole network of white nationalists that have been machinating to pack the court and spent hundreds of millions of dollars.

13:33They own Thomas. They own Alito. They own Kavanaugh. It is a very dark network of white Christian nationalists. And here is Trump with a tell that all of this is corrupt because Pudding Boy, his brain is completely cooked. You're so right about it. I can't wait for it when he outs Lindsey Graham in public and says he has pictures. Oh, it'd be the best day of my life. This is also something that I think we need to watch. Trump, the only thing that Trump hasn't gotten lock, stock and barrel from this Supreme Court personally and as president is this tariffs decision that they're holding onto and they're too chicken shit to release.

14:20I think that he knows It's coming because, of course, they've called and told him and Leonard Leo may know. But here's the deal. That will be the final domino to fall that, yes, they're 100 percent going to give him everything he wants. So just everybody sit back and watch it. But this tariff decision scares him every now and then in the middle of the night. He starts texting about it. So I'm anxious to see that and wondering if the Leonard Leo issue and if maybe he's not aligned with Trump's on tariffs. But we'll see. But I don't trust the Supreme Court. And I agree. I just can't wait for all the other shoes to drop.

14:59I can't wait for him to admit the assassination attempt, quote unquote, was that's what I'm waiting for. Okay. And then as all of this is being dumped, the Jeffrey Epstein stuff, Trump is engaging in at the same time that all of this stuff is proving that there are credible charges of child rape against him in the Epstein files. He packs the Oval Office with Republicans behind him that say, we are child rapist collaborators. We are fascist collaborators. He even gets moderate Susan Collins in there to stand, holding MAGA merch, right in the epicenter of all of this stuff being dropped. In these files are that Putin has compromising information on Trump, and so does the government of Israel.

15:54And what do the Republicans do? They say, we are MAGA first. This little cooked pudding boy that wears a full face and makeup is our top priority. Not you, working class America. That's how fucked up our country is right now. The rest of the world is seeing their leaders and businessmen being revealed in the files and they're losing their jobs and they're resigning and investigations are being launched. Pop this up. British politician Peter Mandelson is resigning from the House of Lords after this photo was released in the Epstein files. Joshua Eagle comments, what a functional country. Someone is implicated in a massive child sex scandal then resigns, as opposed to America where someone is implicated in a child sex scandal and the next day that person authorizes the arrest of random journalists.

16:50And so even in this right here with this Peter Mendelsohn resigning, the current prime minister of England, of the UK is the one that appointed him. And so now everybody is saying, why did you appoint this guy? What kind of people are you hanging out with Keir Starmer? And so this is how much we've fallen. But I wanted to show you all that, the juxtaposition. It's intentional that he has all the Republicans surrounding him. That is a propagandic play. He's not only humiliating all of these Republicans in a humiliation ritual. He's also signaling, I get to do what I want to do. There are credible accusations, sworn testimony of me raping little girls, but the Republican Party doesn't care because the Republican party is Trump first.

17:44And that's the message he's sending. That's the message that Fox News propagandizes to their viewers. That's the message that the whole, that's the whole song and dance. And I want to remind all of the Republicans like Susan Collins and Lady Graham that went in there to humiliate themselves. And little Moses Mike Grander Johnson is standing there, the big Christian, FYI. I want to remind all of you that this man is not in good health. And there's video of all of this, and it will haunt you forever. And you will have children and you will have grandchildren, and they will see this. For example, my grandmother was a racist, and me, the descendant of her, I'm able to say that.

18:32My grandmother was a racist. Her racism disgusted me. These things don't age well and you all are on the wrong side of history. And so this is just really fascinating stuff. The Epstein files are, we're gonna have more drops on this later today, but it's really deep, nefarious stuff. Please like, subscribe and comment and we will be back later with more news. Thank you.

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