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MeidasTouch Podcast Episode Summary
Episode Title
Omg! GOP Panics as Epstein Cover Up Leads to Massive War!!!
Hosts
- Ben Meiselas: Top lawyer and business partner of Colin Kaepernick.
- Brett Meiselas: Two-time Emmy award-winning video editor.
- Jordy Meiselas: Award-winning advertising executive.
Episode Description
In this episode, Ben Meiselas discusses the panic among Republican leaders regarding the cover-up of Epstein files, which has significant international implications amid escalating tensions in Iran and the broader Middle East.
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Key Themes and Discussions
GOP's Reaction to Epstein Files
- Republican leaders are reportedly panicking over the implications of the Epstein cover-up.
- The episode highlights the contrasting narratives pushed by MAGA Republicans regarding Donald Trump's involvement with Epstein.
Mischaracterization of Evidence
- Ben Meiselas critiques the GOP for misrepresenting evidence and testimonies.
- He emphasizes the importance of transparency over private hearings, as seen in the depositions involving Bill Clinton and the questioning of Trump.
Key Exchanges and Testimonies
- Nancy Mace, a Republican representative, claimed that survivors indicated Trump was exonerated, which Ben disputes by highlighting that victims have expressed a desire to question Trump.
- The episode includes several clips of Republican members stating that Trump had no association with Epstein, which Ben counters with evidence of Trump's known presence on Epstein's plane.
Trump’s Alleged Connections
- Meiselas argues that Trump's connections to Epstein are well-documented, suggesting that he was on Epstein's plane multiple times.
- He raises questions about the credibility of claims that Trump was never involved, citing evidence from federal prosecutors.
Discussion on Bill Clinton's Testimony
- The episode includes an analysis of Bill Clinton’s deposition, where he reportedly stated he didn't believe Trump was involved with Epstein.
- Ben argues this is misleading, as Clinton's testimony does not exonerate Trump based on the broader context of their relationship and interactions.
GOP's Cover-Up Tactics
- Criticism is leveled at how GOP members are attempting to downplay Trump's connections while emphasizing Clinton's past.
- Ben questions why the GOP is not calling for the release of evidence that could clarify Trump's involvement.
Broader Implications
- The discussion extends to concerns over how these political maneuvers affect public perception and legal accountability.
- Ben connects the ongoing narrative to larger issues of governance, integrity, and the role of public figures in society.
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Conclusion The episode wraps up with Ben encouraging listeners to remain informed and engaged, emphasizing the importance of uncovering the truth behind political narratives. He invites the audience to subscribe to their YouTube channel and support independent media.
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Key Takeaways
- The GOP's narrative surrounding Donald Trump's exoneration from Epstein-related allegations is challenged by evidence and survivor testimonies.
- Lack of transparency in the political process raises concerns about accountability and the integrity of public officials.
- The episode highlights the ongoing struggle for truthful discourse in the political landscape, with a call to action for listeners to stay informed and participate actively.
Call to Action Listeners are encouraged to subscribe to the MeidasTouch Podcast for more insightful discussions and to join the MeidasMighty community.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOGOP Reactions to Epstein Cover-Up
1:56 to 2:26
Discussion on the GOP's response to the Epstein deposition.
Examining Trump's Claims of Exoneration
2:26 to 5:00
Analysis of Trump's claims regarding his involvement with Epstein.
“and everything in the deposition proves that Donald Trump did nothing wrong and we have 100 % confidence that he's been completely vindicated when that's not what happened at all in the deposition.”
The Role of Mar-a-Lago in Epstein's Operations
5:00 to 7:10
Exploring the allegations of sex trafficking linked to Trump's property.
“We also know there were times where Epstein was on Donald Trump's plane, although we don't have Trump's flight logs.”
Clinton's Testimony and GOP's Narrative
7:10 to 11:41
Analysis of Clinton's deposition and the GOP's attempts to spin it.
“He says, because you're rich and you get away with it when you're rich.”
Introduction to the Epstein Case
14:03 to 15:02
Discussion on the historical significance of recent congressional depositions related to Epstein.
“We can talk about some of his answers in more detail.”
Analyzing Republican Claims on Trump and Epstein
15:02 to 16:48
Examination of statements made by Republican representatives regarding Trump's involvement with Epstein.
“And I look forward to seeing you all react to the depositions as I think that this is information that's important and belongs to the American people.”
Trump's Endorsement of Don Huffines
16:48 to 18:26
Discussion on Trump's endorsement of Don Huffines, who bought Epstein's ranch and his controversial plans for it.
“I don't think Trump's got anything to do with this.”
The Implications of Zorro Ranch's Future
18:26 to 19:48
Exploration of the troubling history of Zorro Ranch and its transformation into a Christian retreat.
“Everybody, that's what that's where they're turning Zorro Ranch into.”
Transcript
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2:25Ben Meiselas:after the deposition of Bill Clinton to say that, oh, Donald Trump has been fully exonerated and everything in the deposition proves that Donald Trump did nothing wrong and we have 100 % confidence that he's been completely vindicated when that's not what happened at all in the deposition. They just want to mischaracterize what Bill Clinton said, what Hillary Clinton said. And this is why when Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton said, we want to do this deposition in public. We want to do it in a public hearing so the entire world can see. This is precisely why James Comer, Donald Trump, MAGA Mike Johnson, and all the MAGA Republicans said, no, we have to do this in private because they wanted to rush, hold this press conference, and then do this cover-up.
3:19Ben Meiselas:And so what happens after the deposition of Bill Clinton. You have all of the MAGA Republican cover-up crew. They hold the press conference, and then they try to characterize what Bill Clinton just released the videotape. And so a reporter asks Comer and Nancy Mace and others up there, so have the survivors told you that Trump is exonerated? Did you hear that from the survivors? And then Nancy Mace says, yes, I did. The reporter goes, well, they've only told me that they would actually like to see Donald Trump question, to which Nancy Mace said, I've never heard that from a single victim. OK, well, why don't you then tell us which person has been saying this to you, Nancy Mace, because that's not what is actually out there.
4:11Ben Meiselas:So here's what the here's the exchange that took place. Let's play it today. I was very impressed with where this went today. Nancy, can I ask you, when Hub survivors said to you that President Trump was exonerated? Yes. Because they've only ever told me we want to see him questioned. Nope. I've never heard that from a single victim. When we met. So next, a reporter asks Comer and the MAGA Republicans, why is it so important to hear from Bill Clinton, but not Donald Trump? Why does that make sense to you? To which they all say, well, it's obvious. Donald Trump was never on Epstein's plane. Bill Clinton was on Epstein's plane.
4:51Ben Meiselas:Time out, pause. Donald Trump was on Epstein's plane like all the time, or at least eight times that we know of in the Epstein files. The federal prosecutors send a message to each other saying, we want to let you know that we've identified that Trump is on Epstein's jet during the period of time we would intend to be charging Ghislaine Maxwell well with more times than any of us previously expected. We also know there were times where Epstein was on Donald Trump's plane, although we don't have Trump's flight logs. We have heard reports in the past that there were girls of indeterminate age with Epstein and Trump on Trump's airplane in the past as well.
5:34Ben Meiselas:So why are you just making up that only Bill Clinton was on the jet? Trump was on the jet, I think way more than Clinton. Here play this clip. Wait, just wait, just real, real quick. If I can also just add into that. If that's the case, though, you can make the case. The chairman makes the case. But why it was so important to hear in great detail from both Clinton's, but why it's not. If I can, if I can just elaborate real quick. He was on Epstein's plane, 26 flights. I mean, he had information with him for hours and hours. Real quick, all the chat. And next, more from James Comer, where he says, from all the evidence that I've seen, Trump has been exonerated for a long time.
6:15Ben Meiselas:Okay, well, what evidence have you seen? Because you're seeing a different files apparently than we're all seeing, or you're just a liar, which is what is happening. We've all seen the accusations against Donald Trump in the files. We've seen the 38 ,000 references to him in the files that have been produced by the Department of Justice. We also know that there may be as much as a million references to him in the files that haven't been produced. Why don't you produce all of those? We know that there are FBI 302 witness statements that are being covered up, including, we believe, someone who accused Donald Trump of sexual assault as a minor, just an accusation.
6:54Ben Meiselas:But why is Donald Trump covering that up and not producing that FBI 302 report. Why don't you produce those 302 reports? And then setting aside the files, Donald Trump is on audio saying that he grabs women by their vaginas, he said. He uses the P word instead of vagina. He says, because you're rich and you get away with it when you're rich. And when confronted about that, he says, that's locker room talk. He says, that's just how men talk to each other in the locker room. It's not how men talk to each other in the Oh, locker room, you disgusting, vile piece of trash. What a despicable thing to say.
7:32Ben Meiselas:Then he said he owns beauty pageants, and then he gets to inspect the girls naked in the locker rooms, in the locker room, in their changing rooms, because when you own it, you're like an inspector, and you get to look at him naked, he said. He was also found civilly liable by a federal jury of sexual assault. So a jury found him liable for sexual assault. So what are we even talking about here? But anyway, here's what Comer has to say. Here, play this clip. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. President Trump said today that he knew nothing about the Epstein file and he was exonerated. Do you agree that he is exonerated of this matter?
8:09From all the evidence I've seen, he's been exonerated for a long time. And would that preclude your committee, if that's your position, from your committee calling? Well, we'll discuss that as we move forward. Obviously, we've got more people to bring in and we'll see if any new evidence arises. But right now I haven't seen anything. And if anybody can I just say this, the Epstein victims have exonerated President Trump. This is a trope that you guys are a rabbit hole. You guys are going down. But he has been exonerated over and over again by Epstein victims. We need to get all the information on co-conspirators.
8:41We still even have the names of all the co-conspirators because the Southern District of New York is hiding that information by redacting those names. And so wait, just wait, just real, real quick, if I can also just add into that.
8:56Ben Meiselas:Oh, and I shouldn't mention it is undisputed. It's an undisputed fact that Mar-a-Lago was used for some of Epstein's sex trafficking. Virginia Giuffre as a child, sex traffic from Mar-a-Lago, undisputed. Trump's home is a location where sex trafficking took place. That's an undisputed In fact, I don't get why people are like, that's normal. It's normal that the guy lives in a place where sex trafficking took place. It's absolutely despicable. Then you have Anna Paulina Luna. Again, she pretends to care about the victims, the survivors. But then she says, there's nothing that we're seeing where there's criminal involvement or reason to believe the president has any wrongdoing.
9:41Ben Meiselas:Well, we know that Mar-a-Lago was a location for sex trafficking. Where Virginia Giuffre, or do you not believe Giuffre? Is that what you're saying, Luna? Here, play this clip. People, what I will also say is that, like Nancy has said and the chairman, there is nothing that we are seeing where there's criminal involvement or reason to believe that the president has any wrongdoing. And that is why we are not supporting this crazy theory in bringing him into all of this. We appreciate that President Clinton said what he did. And I will say that that has probably been, I guess, a silver lining in all of this.
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11:41Ben Meiselas:Then Anna Paulina Luna says that Clinton referenced a 2002-2003 conversation of which he did not feel that Trump had any wrongdoing in regards to Epstein. Let's play this clip. information is with them for hours and hours. Real quick, Chad, if I can just add in President Clinton and you guys will all be able to hear specifically what he said, reference a 2003, 2002, 2003 conversation of which he did not feel that President Trump had any wrongdoing in regards to Jeffrey Epstein. It's incredibly important that you guys see through the partisan nature of what has become this entire investigation.
12:20Ben Meiselas:OK, well, we know that a lot of this is propaganda because we know that the reality is and the truth is what Clinton testified to is that Donald Trump had told Clinton that he liked Epstein, that Epstein was a good guy, how, you know, or words to that effect. And that they had a falling out though over a real estate transaction, which I believe to be the real estate traction, the real estate transaction, where Trump outbid Epstein in 2004 for Abe Gossman's mansion on the beach, which Trump bought for$41 million, then sold it to Dmitry Rybolov, a Russian oligarch, for double the amount for over$95 million.
13:07Ben Meiselas:Four years later, Epstein was pissed about it. And that's what went down. And Epstein thought that there was some improprieties in the Trump-Rybalov transaction and that he got screwed based on that. And then so that was what the falling out over a real estate deal. And I've been talking about that for a long time. In any event, James Comer then said the following about Clinton. And he said, I will have to say Clinton answered every question, but I'm sure once the video was released, Not only will you, but a lot of people will have more questions about some of the answers that were given. Why don't you just release the damn tape immediately?
13:47Ben Meiselas:Why don't you make this public to begin with? Here, play this clip. It's been a very long day. We believe this was a very productive deposition. I will have to say that President Clinton answered every question or attempted to answer every question. We can talk about some of his answers in more detail. And I'm sure once the video is released and the transcript is released, not only will you, but a lot of people in America will have more questions about some of the answers that were given and where we go from here. But with respect to today, this was a long process. And I want to say this was historical.
14:25I believe that in the history of Congress, the two highest ranked officials to ever be deposed by Congress would be President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
14:37Ben Meiselas:More from Anna Paulina Luna, where she says that she believes Epstein was running an influence and it wasn't a foreign intelligence asset. Let's play this clip earlier and that I do believe and I'm sure some people on this committee also believe that Jeffrey Epstein was an intelligence asset and running some form of a honeypot operation. I do believe that President Clinton, as well as the secretary, were potentially targets of that operation. And we will leave it at that. And I look forward to seeing you all react to the depositions as I think that this is information that's important and belongs to the American people.
15:10Ben Meiselas:Then you had on state regime media doing what state regime media does best, lie, propagandize. They had MAGA Republican Congress members Fallon and Langworthy. And so Fallon said, all the evidence shows Trump had nothing to do with Epstein. And then Langworthy says, well, Bill Clinton said that he had a conversation with Trump and that they had a falling out over a business deal. So Fallon says that they had nothing to do with each other, but Langworthy says they had a falling out over a business deal is what Clinton testified. You realize when you lie all the time, you say things that make literally no sense, just like that.
15:51Ben Meiselas:But anyway, play this clip. All of the evidence, 3 million pages plus, shows that Donald Trump had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. So the Democrats have swung and they have missed. Congressman Langworthy, the picture... Go ahead. Bill Clinton said that he had a conversation with Donald Trump in 2002 or 2003 that he said he doesn't believe he was involved in anything to do with Epstein. They had had a falling out over a business deal, a land deal, and he didn't believe he was involved in any of that. And I think that's why this was such a bad day for Robert Garcia and the Democrats on the Oversight Committee, why they were very quiet, because he let the air out of the blue on this whole fiasco on how they have tried to make this an albatross on Trump.
16:45Because here you have Bill Clinton himself, democratic royalty who basically said, I don't think Trump's got anything to do with this.
16:52Ben Meiselas:And just so you see that this is a common refrain from these MAGA Republicans, this idea that Bill Clinton was on Epstein's jet, but not Donald Trump. When we know that Trump was on Epstein's, objectively Trump was on the jet at least eight times and probably way more than that. And Epstein was on Trump's jet. So why make the dumbest lies imaginable? And don't correct it? What are you doing? Here, play this clip. I don't know what it is, but I would like to hear from her. I would note that Donald Trump was not on the plane. So putting him in the same pool as Bill Clinton, who was on the plane, I think.
17:25But he's mentioned Kayleigh all over. So ask him the question.
17:28Ben Meiselas:Now, with all of this taking place, you have Donald Trump yesterday making an endorsement of Don Huffines. You all know Don Huffines, the guy who bought the I've been doing it. I hope you know Don Huffines by now because I've been doing a lot of videos on it on the Midas Touch Network. He's the guy who bought Epstein's ranch in 2023. He's the owner of the Zorro Ranch, which was never subpoenaed by the Department of Justice, where lots of people believe bodies may have been buried there by Epstein, and people believe that Epstein may have murdered people there. And that was one of the locations where a ton of the sex trafficking took place by Epstein.
18:07Ben Meiselas:Some of the most vicious, disgusting, despicable, grotesque acts happened at the Zorro Ranch. And now that it's being investigated, Don Huffine said that he's turning it into a Christian revival retreat for children or a Christian retreat is what he said. So they're bulldozing it, you know, or locations around it to turn it into a Christian retreat. Everybody, that's what that's where they're turning Zorro Ranch into. So, and then Donald Trump endorses this guy. He was a Texas state Senator. He went to Moscow in 2018 to try to normalize relations between the United States and Russia in 2018. This guy is a big MAGA guy.
18:45Ben Meiselas:His son then got a job for the Trump regime right now. He bought the ranch and now his son works for Donald Trump. And his son was like, worked at a fireworks company before, no offense to that, but like he started working at a fireworks company, then got a senior job in the White House after daddy bought the Zorro Ranch, which was owned by Epstein before. And here's Donald Trump's post about Don Huffines. Don Huffines is a MAGA warrior. He has been with me from the very beginning. He's running for comptroller in Texas, which I love and won big. As a successful businessman, Don knows the America first policies required to grow our economy.
19:24Ben Meiselas:Don Cuffines has my complete and total endorsement. Don will never let you down. Don will never let you down. You hired his son after he buys the Zorro Ranch, which was Epstein's location, and now he's using it for a Christian retreat. The hell are we doing here? Isn't it so obvious to you what's happening? Isn't it so odd? They think we're stupid. They think we're not. We know what's going on. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million. Thanks everybody for watching.
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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Republican Leaders panicking as their cover up of the Epstein files has international ramifications as a massive war breaks out in Iran and the Middle East.
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