MAGA Mike Accidentally Exposes Trump’s Criminal Cover Up

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1:48Ben Meiselas:Uh-oh, MAGA Mike Johnson, your words are coming back to haunt you as Donald Trump's cover-up of the Epstein files and Trump's dark past is blowing up in your face, is blowing up in his face. And thank you for laying out the framework for what the cover-up, the criminal cover-up of this child sex trafficking ring is going to be. Because you laid out the roadmap of the criminality. And Maga Mike, you've now implicated yourself in the cover-up of a pedo child sex trafficking ring. Good work, Magamike. That's going to be your legacy. And when the law brings you to justice in a few years, let's bring out the receipts and go through what some of these exhibits are going to be.

2:36Ben Meiselas:Because it looks an awful lot like obstruction to me. And you think you're going to be able to cite the speech or debate clause? I don't know with this level of criminality, Magamike. I just don't think your future is looking good, Magamike. So let's just go through it piece by piece and let me present it to you as if I was the prosecutor, hypothetically, of course, prosecuting Maga Mike Johnson for aiding and abetting the cover up of a child sex trafficking ring. Should I do an opening statement or a closing argument? I'll do a closing argument. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, throughout this trial, you've heard about the heinous and despicable conduct by a little man named Maga Mike Johnson, who was doing anything in his power to endear himself to an authoritarian regime.

3:24Ben Meiselas:There were no depths to his depravity, including covering up a child sex trafficking ring. And he laid out the conspiracy for us right before the Trump regime effectuated that conspiracy to cover up a child sex trafficking ring. Specifically, back in November, Maga Mike Johnson in an excited utterance out of anger that he was being asked about his cover up of the Epstein files back then said, Epstein, Epstein, Epstein. Why do you keep asking me about Epstein? Here, play this clip. They're trying to attack President Trump. This is what they've done. They weaponized the justice system over the last several years to go after him.

4:06And this is their latest attempt. And they don't have a platform or a principle to defend on the Democrat Party side. So they put all their eggs in this basket. And that's why you hear endlessly about Epstein, Epstein, Epstein. Everything's about Epstein.

4:19Ben Meiselas:And then perhaps Maga Mike Johnson revealed more than maybe he should have. Right. Y 'all remember during the trial, I'm giving you a hypothetical trial of Maga Mike Johnson, by the way. Do you remember when Maga Mike Johnson said that Donald Trump was actually an FBI informant, that Trump may have been wired up working with the FBI to bring down Jeffrey Epstein after Donald Trump was involved with Epstein for many years, and they got into a dispute over real estate transactions. And so in order to stop Epstein from going after Trump, did Trump go to the FBI as a CI? Could that have happened? Weird words for the Speaker of the House to say the president was a CI, was a confidential informant.

5:06Ben Meiselas:What was he doing, Maga Mike? Was he trying to avoid his own criminality by helping the FBI or by helping the local Miami police then? Is that why Acosta became Donald Trump's labor secretary as a favor to pay him back for the sweetheart deal? Is that why, Maga Mike, back in 2007, when Acosta gave Jeffrey Epstein, the sweetheart deal. It also gave a provision that has never been seen before in any of these immunity deals that all co-conspirators would be immune. Also, were they, I don't know, referring to other individuals of a high profile nature, Magamike? Here was Magamike saying that it was Donald Trump was a confidential informant.

5:53Ben Meiselas:Play this clip. He's not saying that what Epstein did as a hoax, it's a terrible, unspeakable evil. He believes that himself. When he first heard the rumor, he kicked him out of Marilago. He was an FBI informant to try to take this stuff down. The president knows and has great sympathy for the women who have suffered these unspeakable harms. It's detestable to him. He and I have spoken about this as recently as 24 hours ago. And then MAGA Mike said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. That was all taken out of context. It's like a day later. He's like, I didn't really mean confidential informant. What I mean is that Donald Trump just wants to get the information out, right, he just wants to be transparent.

6:28Ben Meiselas:Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, do you believe this guy? Here, play this clip. What I was referring to in that long conversation was what the victim's attorney said. More than a decade ago, President Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago and he was one of the only people, one of the only prominent people, as everyone has reported, not President Trump, but everybody about him, that he was willing to help law enforcement go after this guy who's a disgusting child abuser, sex trafficker, all the allegations. That's what they heard. So the president was helpful in that. I don't know if I use the right terminology, but that's common knowledge and everybody knows that.

7:05So this is much ado about nothing. Did the president tell you this specifically about his role? I was recounting what others have said. The president and I have talked about the Epstein evils many times. He's as disgusted by it as everybody else. He has long had a history of acknowledging that. And he has said repeatedly he wants everything to come out, all credible information, everything for the American public to decide. Was he ever asked to wear a wire or anything like that? I have no idea. No, I'm not saying that. I have no information about that whatsoever. I was repeating what has been common knowledge for a long time.

7:38The president was helpful in trying to get Epstein, for the law enforcement to go after Epstein. That's always been my understanding. That's common knowledge. It's the public's understanding. I was not breaking news there.

7:50Ben Meiselas:And throughout the trial, we've heard more from Maga Mike. And one of the things we heard from Maga Mike is that who he was really concerned about throughout all of this was covering up for the perpetrators, the rich and wealthy Wall Street guys, the rich and wealthy billionaire men and deca-millionaire men and the powerful politicians who were co-conspirators of Epstein. The perpetrators is who Maga Mike considered to be the victims, the new victims. So when Maga Mike was trying to obstruct the discharge petition from being signed for the Epstein Transparency Act to become a law, now we saw once it was a law, the DOJ was suddenly using Maga Mike's arguments that the perpetrators, that the men who engaged in the vile conduct of the underage girls, that they were the victims.

8:43Ben Meiselas:How sickening is that, ladies and gentlemen of the jury? Maga Mike is calling, and the Republican Party, they're out there saying that the men who engaged in the underage sex trafficking ring, that the men were the victims? It's what Maga Mike's saying. Let's play the clip. Let's throw that exhibit up that you saw during the trial. Let's play this clip. The discharge petition could create new victims, okay? Because it requires the DOJ to release information even in cases where the DOJ or the FBI has already reviewed it and determined it is not credible. It is false information. Doing this and requiring this to come out could ruin the reputations of completely innocent people, such as those who may just have known Epstein but knew nothing of his crimes or whose names he exploited.

9:32Think of this, innocent people whose names he exploited and used to try to get close to his intended victims. Their names may be in these files, and they had nothing to do with this. And so by just haphazardly releasing it, you're going to destroy their reputations. Releasing information containing the names of innocent people would subject those innocent people to a guilt by association. It would create an entirely new group of victims who have no means to clear their names. That's a concern of Congress, and it should be. It should be. Sometimes the best gift you could give the people you love isn't another thing.

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11:38Ben Meiselas:And folks, Maga Mike was willing to say anything, anything to cover up for this underage child sex trafficking ring. He said that there were national security concerns involving the files, that our national security, our intelligence could be compromised at the same time, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, that Donald Trump invited the top Russian envoys, Kirill Dmitriev, Yuri Ushakov, and others to Miami. That wasn't a security concern, but this helping vindicate the victims, the survivors, that was a national security concern. Here play this clip. It jeopardizes future federal investigations and we have national security concerns regarding classified information.

12:26We'll put this in the record because we need the legislative record to reflect what is the legislative intent behind this vote.

12:32Ben Meiselas:And MAGA might continue to say, oh, Donald Trump has nothing to do with anything, nothing to do with it. Play this clip. Trying to somehow tie President Trump to the scandal. President Trump has nothing to do with it. He has said himself he has nothing to hide. And and that's clearly what they've been trying to do. They're trying to attack President Trump. This is what they've done. They weaponized the justice system over the last several years to go after him. And this is their latest attempt. Mega Mike Johnson said that they wanted maximum transparency when giving you zero. Here play this clip.

13:05These ladies who've come forward, they estimate there may be as many as a thousand young women who were subjected to these heinous crimes. And many of them have chosen not to come forward and show their faces and reveal their names because it would it would compound the harm that they've already suffered. And so we want to protect those people. That's the sum total of all of this. That's that's our responsibility. And and short of that, we want maximum transparency. And that is exactly what the American people are getting right now.

13:31Ben Meiselas:And folks, even when Maga Mike was confronted with an obvious birthday letter that Donald Trump wrote to Jeffrey Epstein back in 2003 for Epstein's 50th birthday that we all know Donald Trump wrote, that we saw his handwriting. We saw the letter. What do you think happened? That a time traveler went back to 2003 and planted the Trump letter at the time when Trump was best friends with Epstein and put it in the files with Donald Trump's signature that looks exactly like Trump's signature, where they talked about their underage enigmas and that their secrets always will remain there. Really? Well, here's Meg and Mike says, I don't believe it's real.

14:13Ben Meiselas:I don't believe that that's a real thing, Donald Trump tells me. So folks, this guy's got zero credibility, zero credibility. Here, play this clip. Mr. Speaker, do you think the Trump birthday note to Epstein is real? I don't, they say it's not. And who else was involved in this conspiracy? Well, Magamike was aided and abetted by regime media. Mark Levin, who will do anything for Donald. Mark Levin, who knows no depths to his depravity as well. He laid it out to Magamike, channeling the messages from their fuhrer, Donald Trump. We better be united. We can't waste our time on this. Let's be united, did mega Mike do you understand mega Mike so that's how he talks here play this clip we have a lot to run on and you have a lot to run against given the other party but I will tell you this we better be united we better be strong we better be focused we better be articulate we can't waste our time on Epstein and other stuff that are going on here that some people want us to focus on I'm about had it with all that stuff we better focus on who we are what we're doing where we want to take the country and what they want to do to the country.

15:25Mr. Speaker, God bless you, my friend. I appreciate you very, very much. You too, Mark. Thanks for all you do. God bless.

15:31Ben Meiselas:And then more from MAGA Mike when he was on Meet the Press with Kristen Welker. Should all of the Epstein files be released? And MAGA Mike would use this word, all credible evidence. Okay, all credible evidence should be released? Interesting, because now you're saying that the letter that was sent by Epstein to Nassar was not credible. So you're releasing not credible info? Here, play this clip. But Mr. Speaker, it's not just Republicans supporting this. It's 11, not just Democrats, it's 11 Republicans as well. Let me just ask you, because I hear you saying that, yes, the files should be made public while protecting the victims.

16:18Let me just ask you, though, should all of the files related to Jeffrey Epstein be released and made public? Yes, I agree with President Trump, with the Department of Justice, with the FBI, that you need all credible evidence and information out there. That word credible is important. And why? Because you have to protect innocent people's names and reputations whose names might be, as you noted at the outset of the program, intertwined into all these files. This has been a long legal process. There's a reason, for example, that grand jury materials are protected under the federal rules of criminal procedure because they're not to be put out.

16:56See, the Massey and Kanna discharge petition would require the release. They would require the DOJ and FBI to release information that they know is false, that is based on lies and rumors and was not even credible enough to be entered into the court proceedings. And that would be a dangerous thing. Our main concern here, though, is the protection of the innocent victims. I mean, these are minors in many cases who are subjected to unspeakable crimes, abject evil. They've already suffered great harm. We do not need their names being unmasked.

17:28Ben Meiselas:Well, there you have it, folks. Magamite guilty, guilty as charged. Hit subscribe. Let's get to six million subscribers. and thank you for watching.

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