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Trump Panics after Shock Finding in Unredacted Files
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Overview In this episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast, hosts Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas delve into the recent panic within the White House stemming from unredacted Epstein files. The episode highlights the significant number of times Donald Trump's name appears in these files and discusses the implications of this revelation.
Key Topics Discussed
- Trump's Connection to Epstein Files
- Unredacted Files: Reported by Jamie Raskin, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, Trump's name appears over 1 million times in the unredacted Epstein files. This starkly contrasts with 38,000 mentions in previously released redacted files.
- White House Response: Caroline Levitt, Trump's chief propagandist, deflects questions regarding a potential pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, prompting suspicions about the administration’s transparency.
- Press Conference Highlights
- Question on Pardon: Levitt avoids a straightforward answer regarding whether Trump would rule out pardoning Maxwell, indicating the administration's discomfort with the ongoing Epstein investigation.
- Contradictory Statements: Reports contradict Trump's claims of ignorance about Epstein’s activities, with police reports suggesting Trump was aware of Epstein's misconduct.
- Support for Lutnick: Despite mounting evidence against Secretary Howard Lutnick, the White House continues to support him, dismissing questions about his ties to Epstein.
- Political Ramifications
- Governors Association Conference: Trump is criticized for excluding Democratic governors from a bipartisan event, raising questions about his administration's commitment to inclusivity.
- Threats to Infrastructure: Trump's threats regarding the Gordie Howe Bridge, which is funded by Canada, are discussed, highlighting his protectionist stance on American interests.
- Social Media and Image Management
- J.D. Vance's Deletions: The episode discusses the fallout from J.D. Vance deleting posts related to the Armenian genocide, showcasing the administration's sensitive handling of international issues.
- Handling Controversial Posts: Levitt is questioned about the administration’s social media management, especially concerning inflammatory posts made by Trump.
- Impacts on American Industry
- Beef Prices: Discussion on Trump's approach to beef prices and the administration's plans to import beef from Argentina, raising concerns among American ranchers.
- Critique of Administration's Ethics
- Characterization of the Administration: The episode frames the Trump administration as the "Epstein class," suggesting a systemic approach to power and privilege that disregards ethical standards.
Key Takeaways
- The unredacted Epstein files’ revelations about Trump are a source of significant concern and confusion within the White House.
- The administration's evasive responses to media inquiries raise questions about transparency and accountability.
- Political ramifications from Trump's decisions, such as excluding Democrats from events and threatening infrastructure agreements, may affect his public image and support.
- The episode portrays a broader critique of the administration’s ethical stance, likening it to a culture of complicity with predatory behaviors.
Conclusion This episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast provides a deep dive into the implications of the Epstein files for Donald Trump and the broader political landscape. Through a mix of humor and serious analysis, the Meiselas brothers engage their audience with critical discussions about democracy and accountability.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOTrump's Name in the Epstein Files
0:45 to 2:00
Exploration of Trump's frequent mentions in the unredacted Epstein files.
“Well, there was a press conference that was held moments ago.”
Caroline Levitt's Press Conference Responses
2:00 to 5:00
Analyzing Caroline Levitt's evasive responses regarding Trump and Maxwell.
“And now we know that he visited the island with his children where the sex trafficking took place.”
Contradictions in Trump's Stance on Epstein
5:00 to 8:00
Discussion about Trump's previous comments on Epstein and recent contradictions.
“Look, it was a phone call that may or may not have happened in 2006.”
Governors Association Conference Controversy
8:00 to 10:00
Debate about Trump's exclusion of Democratic governors from a conference.
“Bridge and owns the land on both sides is unacceptable to the president.”
Threats to the Gordie Howe Bridge
10:00 to 12:00
Discussion on Trump's threats regarding the new Gordie Howe Bridge project.
“This is the Epstein class versus the rest of everybody else in the United States.”
Trump's Infrastructure Funding Tactics
12:00 to 14:00
Exploration of Trump's tactics involving infrastructure funding and renaming.
“which comes with an MGO 850 plus Manuka honey jar, five honey travel sticks, a wooden spoon, and a guidebook.”
White House Policy on Beef Prices
14:00 to 14:21
Discussion on the potential impact of Argentinian beef imports on American farmers.
“to the White House's message that was issued on Armenian Remembrance Day.”
Trump's Approach to Pricing and Ranchers
14:21 to 15:12
Exploration of Trump's strategy to lower consumer prices while protecting American ranchers.
“So some Republican lawmakers from Nebraska have said they're worried that the Argentinian beef executive order will sideline some American ranchers.”
Commentary on Peter Navarro's Job Reports
15:12 to 15:38
A critical look at Peter Navarro's remarks regarding job reports and immigration.
“And he's in touch with those stakeholders.”
MAGA Mike Johnson and Epstein Connections
15:38 to 16:44
Discussion on MAGA Mike Johnson's response to Howard Lutnick's past ties to Epstein.
“He goes, we're going to get, he does this thing with his hands too.”
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Media Focus on Epstein and Accountability
16:44 to 17:56
Analysis of the media's coverage of Epstein and the need for accountability in politics.
“And then you have MAGA Mike Johnson running away when he's asked about Howard Lutnick now admitting that he went on Epstein's Island with his little children after knowing Epstein was a grotesque sex trafficker.”
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:00The White House is panicking right now as the release of the Epstein files is reverberating throughout Washington, D.C. And now we've learned from Jamie Raskin, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, that in the unredacted files, which have not been released yet by the Trump regime, there's millions of more files that haven't been released. Donald Trump's name appears over one million times. That's not hyperbolic. From the redacted files that have been produced, Trump's name appears 38 ,000 times. In the other batch, it is 1 million times. Just think about the sheer number right there.
0:44So how are they reacting in the White House right now? Well, there was a press conference that was held moments ago. Donald Trump's chief propagandist, Caroline Levitt, does what propagandists do. They're going to propaganda. Here's what she does when she's asked by a reporter, is Trump going to rule out a pardon of Ghislaine Maxwell? She goes, I don't even really want to talk about that. We're not even thinking about that right now. So you can't just say no, that he's not going to pardon a convicted child sex trafficker. Play the clip. And if they don't want to, that's their loss. Ghislaine Maxwell, is the president going to rule out a pardon for her in her testimony deposition yesterday, her legal team seemed to be making a case again for a pardon from the president.
1:33Again, this is not something I've discussed with the president recently because, frankly, it's not a priority. He's focused on many of the issues that the American people are dealing with and providing solutions to those issues. So I haven't spoken with him recently. Last time we did speak about it, he said it's not something he's considering or thinking about. And then a reporter asked Caroline Levitt, what do you think about Lutnick lying that he never spoke with Epstein since 2005, and it was just one time. And now we know that he visited the island with his children where the sex trafficking took place.
2:08Listen to what Caroline Levitt says, play this clip. Caroline, Secretary Lutnick today was testifying on the Hill, and he said that he had visited Epstein's island in 2012 with his wife and children. And that's after he said that he had cut ties with Epstein and Justice Department documents show that he was in contact with Epstein through 2018 over messages. So does the White House stand behind Secretary Lutnik right now or given what he has said today, has there been any shift in how the White House is viewing Secretary Lutnik's performance? No, Secretary Lutnik remains a very important member of President Trump's team and the president fully supports the secretary.
2:48I will just point out that there are a lot of wins in the news this week that people in this room have not asked about because you continue to ask questions about the same subject. So let me point them out for you. Next, another reporter asks Caroline Levitt, Donald Trump had previously stated that he had no knowledge at all that Epstein was having sex with under was raping underage girls, that he had no knowledge of what was taking place. He wasn't aware of anything that Epstein was doing. But now there are police reports where Donald Trump was saying back in 2006 that he was aware and that Ghislaine's an evil person.
3:24So then why, if that was the case, would he be moving Ghislaine to a club fed in Texas? And why is he, what is going on, Caroline Levitt? Can you explain that? Because it seems to just be more lies from this dastardly regime. Here, play this clip. The last several days, again regarding a separate topic, Epstein files. According to newly released files, the president had a conversation with the Palm Beach police chief in the early 2000s, according to the police chief in 2019. The president had gone on record before and he's told reporters that he said that Jeffrey Epstein, that he had no idea about Jeffrey Epstein's crimes.
4:06During this conversation with the police chief, however, he did say, according to this recounting of it, that thank goodness you're stopping him. He also called Ghislaine Maxwell evil. My two questions are, did that conversation with Palm Beach police chief happen? And can you explain the discrepancy? What I will say is that the president has always remained consistent and that he kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club at Mar-a-Lago because, frankly, Jeffrey Epstein was a creep. And unlike many other people who are named in these files, President Trump cut off his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and was honest and transparent about that for years and years.
4:45And so I think what the president has said all along has always remained true. And the release of more than three million documents related to Jeffrey Epstein and his heinous, disgusting crimes just shows the level of transparency that this president and administration has committed to in bringing these files to light. But did he call the chief in 2006? Caroline, did he call the chief? Look, it was a phone call that may or may not have happened in 2006. I don't know the answer to that question. What I'm telling you is that what President Trump has always said is that he kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club because Jeffrey Epstein was a creep.
5:20And that remains true. And this call, if it did happen, corroborates exactly what President Trump has said from the beginning. And I'm sure many of you, when you read that alleged FBI report, probably thought to yourself, wow, this really cracks our narrative that we've been trying to push about this president for many years. So we're moving on from that. Reagan. Thanks, Grant. Then next you have Caroline Levitt asked questions about another topic. So the Governors Association conference set to take place and now it has to be canceled because Donald Trump has not invited any Democratic governors.
5:58This is normally a bipartisan event. And now he's saying only Republican governors can show up. Let's play this clip. Sure. Tamara. Thank you. The National Governors Association is removing a meeting with President Trump from his agenda because only Republicans were invited. Is the White House reconsidering inviting Democrats or do you think Republicans are still going to show up? Like, where does that stand? No, look, I just spoke with the president about this. It is a dinner at the White House. It's the people's house. It's also the president's home. And so he can invite whomever he wants to dinners and events here at the White House.
6:34I believe Governor Moore was invited last year and he did not show up to the dinner last year. Nobody reported on it. But again, the president has the discretion to invite whomever he wants to the White House. And he welcomes all those who received an invitation to come. And if they don't want to, that's their loss. And again, you can call it the people's house, but it's now become the pedo house. Or that's what it's been since Donald Trump moved in. The heart of the cabal is right there in the oval. That's the core of where the predators fester. More from this disastrous press conference. A reporter asked Caroline Levitt about Trump threatening to block a new bridge between Detroit and Ontario.
7:20What do you make of that, Caroline? Here play this clip. Thanks a lot, Caroline. Yesterday, the president on social media threatened to block the new Gordie Howe Bridge, which would connect Detroit to Canada. This is a bridge that was fully paid for by Canada. It used American labor to construct it. It used American steel to construct that bridge. The president in 2017 was actually in favor of this bridge, part of a joint statement that he put out when he met with the Canadian prime minister. Why has the president changed his mind as it relates to this bridge? I think the president was very clear and direct in his truth, John, but just to reiterate, the fact that Canada will control what crosses the Gordie Howe Bridge and owns the land on both sides is unacceptable to the president.
8:06It's also unacceptable that more of this bridge isn't being built with more American-made materials, even more so than what President Barack Obama committed to with the Canadians at the time, at the start of the project. He also believes that the U.S. should own at least half of the bridge, have shared authority over what passes across it, and participate in the economic benefits generated by its use. This is just another example of President Trump putting America's interests first. And so he made that very clear in his call with Prime Minister Carney earlier today. You better come correct with the facts because Canada paid for the entire bridge.
8:44It's actually partially owned by Michigan as well as Canada. And this is important to the economic development, both for Michigan and Canada. So what do you make of that, Caroline Levitt? And then Caroline Levitt is asked, can you explain why Donald Trump is asking Schumer to rename Dulles Airport and Penn Station after Trump in order to get money to fund critical infrastructure projects where thousands of New Yorkers are now losing their jobs? And this will cost New York and New Jersey and the tri-state area, billions of dollars in economic damages because of what Trump's doing. Play this clip.
9:28Can you explain why President Trump asked Chuck Schumer to help him rename Penn Station and Dulles Airport after himself? Why is he interested in having his name on those two buildings? And why are the Gateway Tunnel funds the proper point of pressure to get that to happen? To your first question about the renaming, why not? It was something the president floated in his conversation with Chuck Schumer. As for the funding, the president has addressed that separately. It's all a game to them. This is what the Epstein class does. This is the Epstein class versus the rest of everybody else in the United States.
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12:43And then J.D. Vance posted, he's visiting Armenia. He went to the genocide memorial. And then Turkey told Donald Trump to take it down. So J.D. Vance took it down because the Trump regime doesn't view it as a genocide. Okay. So this also follows Donald Trump posting photos of former President Obama and Michelle Obama with their faces Photoshopped on apes, and then taking that down. They just blame this all on staffers. So do you have a posting problem in the White House, Carolina? You think they have a, of course they have a posting problem. them. They're maniacs. And by the way, in Trump's post with Canada, he said that China's going to take away ice hockey.
13:21It's like, we just accept that this guy makes psychopathic posts every day. Anyway, play this clip. Danny. Today, the vice president's account posted and then deleted a tweet about the Armenian genocide. And then last week, President Trump's Truth Social account posted and then deleted a racist video about the Obamas. And the White House, again, blamed that on the staffer. I wanted to ask you, does the White House have a social media problem at the moment? Do you have an auto posting problem that's leading to these mistakes? No. As for the Armenian tweet that you're referring to, I would just refer you back to the White House's message that was issued on Armenian Remembrance Day.
14:04And there's been no change of policy at this time. Mary. Thanks, Caroline. Caroline Levitt then says beef prices are coming down. That's not true. And this is why she's going to screw over American farmers and now start drastically importing from Argentinian farmers. Play this clip. So some Republican lawmakers from Nebraska have said they're worried that the Argentinian beef executive order will sideline some American ranchers. How will Trump administration make sure prices go down for consumers without harming those ranchers? Of course. Well, both things can happen at the same time. That's the president's belief.
14:38He wants to see prices come down. In fact, I just overheard him on the phone with Secretary Rollins. They were talking about something different, but he's always saying we got to make sure that prices continue to come down. As you know, Secretary Rollins successfully did that with respect to ice egg prices, cattle beef prices are coming down slightly. And the president wants to see that continue. He believes that a minor import to the country with cattle might be a short term solution with respect to bringing down prices. But of course, protecting our American cattle and rancher industry is a priority for the president.
15:12And he's in touch with those stakeholders. We've had them here at the White House a few times in recent months to discuss this issue directly. John. She does it with such a smug Epstein class face, right? That's like I called the Epstein class face, right? It's her Treasury Secretary Besson. OK, OK. Howard Lutnick, the Epstein class face. Speaking of Peter Navarro went on state regime media before as well. He goes, we're going to get, he does this thing with his hands too. We're going to get really bad job reports, but they're really good. They're bad in a good way. The new reality is we're just going to do 50 ,000 jobs.
15:53That's what we're doing. That's the new reality because of immigrants. The hell are you talking about? Here, play this clip. One thing I want to note, the jobs reports are going to come out tomorrow. Yeah. We have to revise our expectations down significantly for what a monthly job number should look like. When we were letting in two million illegal aliens, just they're coming in, coming in. We had to produce 200 ,000 jobs a month for steady state. And by the way, all of the jobs that we were creating in Biden years were going to illegals. Americans were going to the unemployment lines. That's totally reversed.
16:30And now 50 ,000 a month is going to be more like what we need. So Wall Street, when this stuff comes out, they can't rain on that parade. They have to adjust for the fact that we're deporting millions of illegals. And then you have MAGA Mike Johnson running away when he's asked about Howard Lutnick now admitting that he went on Epstein's Island with his little children after knowing Epstein was a grotesque sex trafficker. And MAGA Mike's like, it's okay, man, that's just what we do. That's what we do here now in the Republican Party. Pro-sex trafficking. That's your agenda. Okay, there are a bunch of sickos.
17:07Here, play this clip. Mr. Speaker, Howard Lutnick had said that he had cut out ties with Jeffrey Epstein in 2005. The documents that came out can't predict that. Democrats and Thomas Massey said he should resign. Do you think that Howard Lutnick should resign? Of course not. It's absurd. Howard Lutnick is a great commerce secretary. He's done an extraordinary job for the country. And Thomas Massey should stop playing good. Do you have any concerns about Ludwig's ties with I don't know anything about that. I know Howard as an individual and I trust his word on it. I mean, I don't know of the timing and all that.
17:40I'm not sure you have to ask others. At least in the New York Times, every front page story is on Epstein right now. Look at this. Epstein, Epstein, at least seven or eight stories on Epstein. That's good. So what they should be focused on. They should be focused. They should be focused on the truth. There you have it. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million. Thanks for watching.
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