Truth About Trump's Press Ban Gets Exposed! The Real Reason Is Shocking...

21 Sep 2026 · 18 min · 7 chapters

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In short

The host argues Trump’s White House press ban is a self-preservation tactic to prevent scrutiny of serious allegations (including Epstein-related claims) and to counter “fake news,” alongside warnings about escalating Middle East conflict and threats toward Iran.

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Key claims

A federal judge ordered DOJ to release FBI notes tied to a woman’s claim Trump assaulted her at 14; Trump allegedly pressured/handled Ghislaine Maxwell via Todd Blanche; Fox News “lies” and paid nearly $1B over 2020 voting-machine claims; Trump threatens genocide of Iran; Republicans cover up pedophilia and war crimes; election interference is ongoing (e.g., Texas polling-place closures).

Notable examples

Fox News settlement; State Department warning about Houthis; Trump comments on “wiping Iran out”; references to “Epstein files,” Todd Blanche, Ghislaine Maxwell, and “blue tsunami” midterms.

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Chapters

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Unpacking the Media Ban

0:45 to 2:14

Discussion on Trump's motivations for banning certain news outlets from the White House.

“All roads seem to always lead back to these Epstein files.”

The Distraction of Fake News

2:14 to 4:26

How the concept of 'fake news' is used as a distraction from serious allegations against Trump.

“And millions of Americans go along with this.”

Escalating Tensions in the Middle East

4:26 to 6:20

Analysis of the Middle East situation and Trump's involvement in ongoing conflicts.

“Netanyahu, where we are being lied to about the war left, right, and center.”

Concerns Over Trump's Decision-Making

6:20 to 8:14

Exploration of Trump's decision-making process and potential ramifications for international relations.

“And I think this is just what terrifies me and I'm sure it terrifies all of you.”

Trump's Impact on the Economy

8:14 to 10:04

Discussion on how Trump's policies are affecting American workers and the economy.

“policies and the Republicans don't give a shit.”

The Need for Political Change

10:04 to 12:12

Call to action for political change and voter mobilization ahead of the midterms.

“And it's getting, the evidence is getting pretty big here.”

Mobilizing Voter Action in Texas

14:07 to 14:40

Learn about the importance of organizing and planning to vote in Texas amidst challenges.

“When MAGA sees these people and they see them covering up for pedophiles and they see them being racist, they think, yeah, I like this.”
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0:04All right, there seems to be a story behind the story as to why the president of the United States Donald Trump is banning and kicking out some mainstream media outlets where millions of Americans get their news. And a lot of people believe this is the real reason why he's banning the press from the White House. Pop this up. Federal judge orders DOJ to release the FBI notes regarding a woman's claim Trump sexually assaulted her at 14 years of age by September 24. for. This is why Trump is banning certain news outlets from the White House. It's another distraction. All roads seem to always lead back to these Epstein files.

0:51And it's really important to remember that this administration wants to tell you they're about law and order and they're for the kids and traditional family. He sent Todd Blanche to go meet with Ghislaine Maxwell, well, a convicted child sex trafficker. And he gave her a sweetheart deal and moved her to a cream puff prison where she has a puppy and yoga and all of this stuff. This regime is soft on pedophiles because the call is coming from inside the house. We have a sitting president of the United States that there are credible claims that he sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl, Yet all of these people, Moses Mike Grinder Johnson, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, they all want to lecture us about traditional family values when Donald Trump is the man they worship.

1:43And Trump is responding to backlash from the banning of the press. Pop this up.

1:52The White House is not instituting an assault on the free press, something which I cherish. It is instituting an assault on the fake news, something that has grown like a cancer in our beloved United States of America. He has been droning on about fake news, fake news, fake news forever because real news hurts his feelings. And like a child, he has to say, oh, that's fake. And millions of Americans go along with this. Millions of Americans right now as I'm broadcasting this are knowingly sitting down in front of Fox News, watching it, knowing that Fox News lies to them. And how do we know that?

2:32Because Fox had to pay just shy of a billion dollars in a lawsuit to settle for lying about voting machines pertaining to the 2020 presidential campaign. So we have a portion of the electorate that likes being lied to. Why? Why do they like being lied to so much? And it's because critical thinking and the truth hurts. This is a group of people from a very young age that have been told, you have to have blind obedience. You have to trust. You have to have faith. Don't ask questions. That's blasphemous. Don't ask these things. This portion of the electorate is primed to fall prey to an authoritarian government.

3:17It's familiar. This type of abuse and gaslighting is familiar and comfortable for them. And over the weekend, the State Department issued the following warning. Pop this up. Middle East. Due to tensions in the Middle East, the security environment remains complex with the potential for unforeseen escalation. Americans currently in the Middle East should exercise heightened vigilance and be aware of potential flight cancellations, airspace closures and travel disruptions. Iranian-supported Houthis have engaged in hostilities against Saudi Arabia, including civilian airports. And it goes on and on.

3:58So on top of the fact that we have a president that is in the middle of a scandal that makes Watergate look quaint, and I want to remind everybody that it was the Republicans that brought Richard Nixon to heel, his own party, not this Republican Party, not these MAGA Republicans. They lie and cover for pedophiles. They also lie and cover for a war that Donald Trump engaged in at the request of Benjamin Netanyahu, where we are being lied to about the war left, right, and center. We have our bases being attacked. We are partnering with a war criminal. The United States of America is partnering with a war criminal, Benjamin Netanyahu, and we have the audacity to tell the world, oh, look at Israel in the United States.

4:48We're beacons of democracy. It's utterly disgusting. And then we have this president whose only instinct is self-preservation. He knows the heat is coming from the Epstein files. What does he do? Get out any news outlet that's going to ask me about it, remove. That will preserve him a little bit longer. We know that he has been droning on and on and on when Barack Obama was in office. Obama will start a war with Iran to stay in power or to tinker with the elections. So that's been in his brain a long time. What does he do? He starts a war with Iran. We are triple tapping schoolgirls. We are committing war crimes left and right.

5:28We are getting our asses handed to us. And the only thing this little toddler brain of his knows to do is to threaten genocide of the Iranian people. Here's a clip of Trump. He left Camp David after the State Department put out this warning where it seems that all of this stuff is escalating, rapidly, rapidly escalating in the Middle East. And he calls into a safe space Fox News. Play the clip. Spoke with President Trump about the situation with Iran. He tells Fox News he's in a deciding mode and that very big things are going to be happening in the not so distant future. The president described the current choices on the table as wiping Iran out, letting them rot economically or making a deal.

6:12He added, my question is, if and when do I blow the entire nation up, they better behave. Now, I asked. If and when does he blow the entire nation up? And I think this is just what terrifies me and I'm sure it terrifies all of you. he is increasingly a cornered rat here. He is increasingly exploited every part of the government that he can, but there are still some guardrails that are existing that are still kind of holding this place together, particularly federal judges, far more than the Supreme Court. And he knows, he's seen the polling, he knows this is going to be an absolute blue tsunami, even though they are going to cheat and interfere as much as they possibly can.

6:54They're going to threatened people at the polls. Governor Abbott in Texas is closing down polling places to make it longer and harder for people to vote, but yet they believe in freedom and democracy. On top of all of this, he started this war where he is threatening to genocide Iran. This is a massive story, but here's the problem. He does this shit all the time. We have a ridiculous president, but my fear is, is he knows accountability is coming. a blue tsunami is incoming he his self-preservation is going to kick in he's surrounded by a bunch of yes men sycophants that are completely submissive wives to this man would do anything that he says he's going to say you know what i think we should nuke iran bb's going to be like great idea let's do it.

7:46And I just am terrified. Congress is out. Moses Mike Grinder Johnson, the big pro-life guy, turns out he's pro-death. This Republican Party is an absolute death cult of the highest order, and they have a drunk driver in charge of the United States of America, and they refuse to take the keys away. Everybody, even people that are triple Trumpers are suffering from this man's policies and the Republicans don't give a shit. They won't do anything to offer relief. Instead, they are subservient to a completely demented man who we've all seen has taxpayer funded naps, is not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

8:39And listen to these MAGA truckers. Listen to this. Voted for Trump, but I've done lost because there's no reason for these fuel prices and the cost of living been this high. Truck's going to sit there and rot now until this idiot president is out of office. I voted for him, and I'm so sorry I voted for him. I never thought I would say this. I miss Joe Biden. Our fearless fucking leader, Trump the chump, now has pissed me off to the point where I want him out of office right now. He's pissed off the white truckers. I mean, this is now, of course, this is anecdotal. And of course, we all have major PTSD from what happened in 2000 and what happened in 2004.

9:28war. But anybody who's still fully in the tank for Trump, it's just their brain is so far cooked. Even triple Trumpers, their self-preservation is kicking in. And they're realizing this guy is stealing money in broad daylight. This man is lying about the Epstein files because he's in them and there are credible claims against him. This man is making sure all of his buddies are rich, All of the corporations are richer. He doesn't give a fuck about working class Americans. He doesn't care about anybody but himself. And it's getting, the evidence is getting pretty big here. This, Midas Touch, tiptoed over to truth social.

10:13This is some pretty damning stuff. Pop this up. So Trump truths, or I should say lies, gas prices were higher under Biden than under Trump. So were almost all other prices, President DJT. And then the true socialers are in there like gaslighter, liar, liar. They're calling him all sorts of stuff. And this is on his own page.

10:42Again, we must always remember the PTSD that we all feel, especially people that live in kind of blue cities or urban areas. is you get this misconception that Trump is wildly unpopular everywhere. And I hope that he is wildly unpopular everywhere, because we have to vote as though every single vote and every single margin is going to be razor thin. But my God, how good would it feel if red states started flipping, if it's double digits here, major deep Republican plus 10 plus counties and districts are flipping to blue to send a message to the Supreme Court, to the oligarchs that want to censor our speech, to the free press that sometimes plays patty cake with fascism and sane washes Donald Trump's depravity.

11:38And then guess what? You still tried to service him. And guess what he does? He still says, tough titties, get out. To send a message to all of these Republicans that cover for a man that's involved loosely or directly in a pedophile cover-up, send a message to these people. The America that you all want is not the America we want. We value diversity. We actually do not value pedophilia. We actually do not want to cover up for pedophilia. We actually don't want to spend money in the Middle East anymore? How many billions of dollars, trillions probably now in totality has the United States of America spent in the Middle East?

12:21And yet we're still friends with Saudi Arabia, the people that funded 9-11. I mean, this is just, we're sold all of this shit that we're supposed to buy into. And we need to send a message to MAGA and also to corporatists, to people within the Democratic Party that want to uphold and preserve the politicians that service these corporate interests that we're done with this. We don't want to go back to the way it was. We want something completely different here. We want guardrails. We want protections. We don't want Supreme Court justices that usurp democracy and endorse a convicted felon to be president of the United States.

13:02We want term limits. We want robust regulations into AI because we don't trust these people. How can we trust somebody like Peter Thiel, who goes around the world giving lectures on the Antichrist? It's insane. We don't think billionaires should have this much power. We don't want a world where Robert Kraft is engaging in speech censorship. We don't want a world where the United States of America and Israel tell everybody, oh, we're all about democracy, yet they're not for free speech. They're not for that at all, because free speech means there's criticism and exposure of all of the evil shit they're doing.

13:43So as we are heading into these midterms and the calendar is getting really into focus, it's important that we remain steadfast. All of us in this community, when we see Trump, when we see Hegseth, when we see Stephen Miller, when we see Todd Blanche, when we see these people, we go, no, those are not my people. And that's the fundamental difference. When MAGA sees these people and they see them covering up for pedophiles and they see them being racist, they think, yeah, I like this. So organize. Make sure you have a plan to vote. If you're in Texas, Governor Abbott is trying to cheat and rig that state as much as he possibly can.

14:28All of the Texans need to coordinate together, vote in person, vote early. I don't trust the mail. I know a lot of people probably need to mail. But we've got this. We have got to deliver a guardrail because this is just absolutely the very last, our very last chance. All right. Please subscribe to our channel. Leave us a comment. We think we're being like shadow banned. I wonder why. Pre-order my book. It's called Not Today Fascist. It's linked right below in the show notes. It drops in just like a couple of weeks. I can't believe it. I'm very proud of it. I worked very hard on it. So make sure you pre-order it and we'll be back later with more news.

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