In short
The episode claims the Trump-era Department of Justice deleted multiple DOJ press releases from its website about January 6 defendants, including people convicted of child sex crimes and violent assaults on police. It cites Washington Post reporter Merrill Kornfield’s screenshots showing “page not found” after DOJ removed items. Key example: a deleted DOJ release about Houston man Andrew Taki, sentenced for assaulting law enforcement with dangerous weapons during January 6; the episode adds that Taki also pled guilty to child sex crimes involving an undercover officer posing as a 15-year-old and was required to register as a sex offender for 10 years. Another example: a deleted release describing Dempsey throwing an object at police and shouting profanity. The episode also alleges a $1.8 billion taxpayer “slush fund” for January 6 insurrectionists and criticizes Acting AG Todd Blanche and MAGA Republicans, including Ron DeSantis.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOTrump's DOJ Deletion Scandal
1:49 to 3:14
Discussion about Trump's DOJ deleting information related to January 6th insurrectionists and their crimes.
“Donald Trump's Department of Justice has been caught red-handed deleting massive troves of information about individuals convicted of crimes during the January 6th insurrection who were also involved in child sex crimes.”
Details of Deleted Information
3:14 to 6:50
In-depth analysis of specific cases and details surrounding the DOJ's actions concerning convicted individuals.
“Governor, what do you think of the weaponization fund, the DOJ fund?”
Reactions and Implications
6:50 to 9:09
Exploration of the political implications and reactions to the DOJ's deletion practices.
“They're deleting this and calling this liberal propaganda is calling out people involved in child sex crimes who were also pled guilty to assaulting police officers.”
MAGA Republican Responses and DOJ Actions
10:50 to 14:00
Discussion of MAGA Republicans' reactions to Trump's funding plans and the DOJ's actions.
“The Justice Department eagerly admits they are erasing press releases about January 6th convicts.”
Importance of the Transcript in Investigations
14:00 to 14:34
The significance of the transcript in ongoing investigations is emphasized.
“But at the end of the day, the transcript is the most important thing.”
Todd Blanche's Role in Trump's Legal Challenges
14:34 to 15:16
Discussion on Todd Blanche's involvement in Donald Trump's legal issues.
“Todd Blanche, Donald Trump's former criminal defense attorney, the one who represented Donald Trump in the New York case where Trump was convicted of dozens of felony counts.”
Trump's Tax Immunity and Lawsuit Controversy
15:16 to 15:35
Analyzing the implications of Trump's frivolous lawsuit and its effects.
Todd Blanche's Statements on Epstein Client List
15:35 to 16:44
Exploring Todd Blanche's comments regarding the Epstein client list.
“It also affected 450 ,000 other people as well.”
Investigator Coverups and Epstein Files
16:44 to 17:43
Discussion on the narrative of coverups and the availability of Epstein files.
“Epstein's, the people he was supposedly blackmailing?”
Trump's Speech and Commerce Secretary Remarks
17:43 to 18:33
Highlights from Trump's speech and remarks from the Commerce Secretary.
“And then, of course, Donald Trump's speech that he just gave in New York, that really weird speech, where he said the following about Lutnik.”
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DOJ's Public Statement on Child Sex Crimes
18:33 to 18:56
A shocking revelation about the DOJ's stance on helping those convicted of child sex crimes.
“And then the DOJ publicly posted, we ain't doing it quietly.”
Transcript
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1:49Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump's Department of Justice has been caught red-handed deleting massive troves of information about individuals convicted of crimes during the January 6th insurrection who were also involved in child sex crimes. You heard that right. The Trump regime, the Epstein class, deleting information about individuals convicted of child sex crimes who were involved in the January 6th insurrection. Hat tip to Merrill Cornfield from the Washington Post who caught the Department of Justice doing this. The Department of Justice then responded. Let me show you what went down. And I'll also share with you while all of this is taking place, including Donald Trump setting up a$1.8 billion slush fund for January 6th insurrectionists using our taxpayer dollars.
2:44Ben Meiselas:You have MAGA Republicans like Ron DeSantis running away from the cameras like the cowards that they are refusing to answer questions. Watch as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis runs away from a very basic question. And I'm going to show you in a moment what he's also running away from. Donald Trump's Department of Justice deleting information about these individuals who Trump wants to pay money to who are also involved in child sex crimes. Let's watch DeSantis running away. Governor, what do you think of the weaponization fund, the DOJ fund? Could you comment on that?
3:29Ben Meiselas:Now, here's what was posted by Merrill Kornfeld. She posted the following. The Trump administration is quietly deleting info about the Capitol attack from the Department of Justice website as it prepares to give funds to these January 6 insurrectionists. This week, the Department of Justice deleted a press release about one man with an ongoing child sex solicitation case who came to the Capitol with bear spray. She then shows the before and after. The before is the press release. The after currently page not found. Here was the press release that was deleted. Houston man sentenced to prison for assaulting law enforcement with dangerous weapons during January 6th Capitol breach.
4:16Ben Meiselas:Houston man was sentenced to prison today for assaulting law enforcement and other charges related to his conduct during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on January 6th. His actions and the actions of others disrupted the joint session. Andrew Take, 35 of Houston, Texas was sentenced by US District Judge Carl Nichols, by the way, Trump appointed judge to 74 months in prison, 36 months of supervised release in order to pay$2 ,000 in restitution. Taki pled guilty to one count of assaulting, resisting and impeding certain officers using a dangerous weapon, which is a felony. He pled guilty on December 20th, 2023.
4:59Ben Meiselas:This is an individual who pled guilty, who was sentenced by a federal judge, a judge appointed by Donald Trump. You look at the website, it says page not found, but let's dig deeper about who Andrew Take is. September 30th, 2025, Andrew Take, pardoned for January 6th insurrection, pled guilty to Harris County, Houston, child sex crimes. Here's what we learned about him. The plea agreement, he pled guilty again, requires Taki to register as a sex offender for the next 10 years. He was accused of sending explicit messages and photos to an undercover police officer posing as a 15-year-old on the Plenty of Fish dating website.
5:47Ben Meiselas:Now, once the Trump regime was exposed, deleting this information, what did they say? Remember, Merrill Kornfeld says, the Trump administration quietly deleting info about this person who then pled guilty to the child sex crime as well. The DOJ rapid response account says nothing quiet about it. We are proud to reverse the Department of Justice's weaponization under the Biden administration. We will do everything in our power to make whole those who were persecuted for political purposes. This includes stripping the Department of Justice's website of partisan propaganda. Wow, partisan propaganda, posting public information about an individual who pled guilty to assaulting police officers who was later found guilty, also by plea bargain, of a child sex crime involving a 15-year-old.
6:45Ben Meiselas:I mean, this Trump regime is a bunch of despicable, vile rats. These are monsters, this Epstein class. I'm sorry. I get so damn angry. They're deleting this and calling this liberal propaganda is calling out people involved in child sex crimes who were also pled guilty to assaulting police officers. Meryl Kornfield, she did a great job. She posted this as well. Here's another press release that was archived last month, but is no longer on the DOJ website describing the first breach of the police barricades around the Capitol building. This was deleted by Trump's DOJ. Four men sentenced for actions during January 6th Capitol breach.
7:30Ben Meiselas:And it talks about individual sentenced to eight years, another individual sentenced to 36 months, another individual sentenced to 30 months. And these were all people involved in very violent crimes, brandishing deadly weapons, inflicting bodily injury, serious issues involving Capitol officers and people who were there. Here's another one. This now deleted press release describes in graphic detail an attack on police officers. Upon reaching the front, Dempsey threw a short poll-like object into the tunnel, striking a police officer. Dempsey shouted, fuck you, bitch ass cops. Dempsey is someone who Donald Trump is going to be giving our taxpayer dollars to under the plan as a reward for striking a police officer with a poll-like object and trying to seriously injure or perhaps kill the officer saying, fuck you, bitch ass cops.
8:36Ben Meiselas:You know, I don't like cursing, but I need to describe exactly what the conduct is, which the DOJ once again says, we are removing all partisan propaganda. I mean, I don't know how any police union can be supportive of this Trump regime unless the police union leaders hate the police. Because when I read that conduct, this is what the Trump regime is doing while rewarding also people who were convicted of child sex crimes like Taki in that first thing that I read right there. Whether you're planting now or later, Fast Growing Trees has everything you need to make your dream yard a reality, starting with the best quality and selection of plants delivered to your door.
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10:49Ben Meiselas:Jamie Dupree writes, The Justice Department eagerly admits they are erasing press releases about January 6th convicts. Those criminals attacked police and targeted Congress for only one reason that day, because of Trump's lies about the 2020 election. Now, MAGA Republican Senator Kramer, he says that he is very upset right now that Donald Trump would inject this slush fund while the reconciliation bill had not been passed because now Republicans have to deal with Democrats adding amendments to the reconciliation bill to block Donald Trump's slush fund. And now Republicans are being put on the spot in a way that they can't hide what they're trying to do with Donald Trump.
11:37Ben Meiselas:So they're now telling Donald Trump and Attorney General Blanche, we can't put your slush fund in anymore because now Democrats are smartly calling their bluff by trying to tie it to this reconciliation bill. So we've got that going on as well. Now, there's more information about just the disgusting behavior by Trump's DOJ. Apparently, they, with Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, working with MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives and the House Oversight Committee, which is part of the Rico criminal enterprise, as long as long with the DOJ, the DOJ is a criminal enterprise and the Trump regime White House criminal enterprise.
12:18Ben Meiselas:They all apparently work together to coordinate right before Howard Lutnick a few weeks back was supposed to sit under oath and take a deposition in the House Oversight Committee. Guess what happened? He cut a$5 million check to House Republicans to the main House Republican PAC, the main House Republican Super PAC, Political Action Committee, right before his testimony. And then the House Oversight Committee canceled his deposition under oath and then called it an informal involuntary interview, no video cameras, not under oath because Lutnick paid$5 million to Republicans. And that was all worked out with Trump, Trump's DOJ, the same DOJ, the Epstein class DOJ that is now covering up child sex crimes as well by removing other public information about January 6th insurrectionists from the DOJ website.
13:21Ben Meiselas:Here is what MAGA Republican Congress member James Comer had to say back on May 6th before we knew about this$5 million transaction that the New York Times just reported on. Here's what he had to say, play this clip. Based on his description of events, do you have any concerns about the secretary's conflicting statements and why not do this as a videotaped interview? Well, with this transcribe, he's coming in voluntarily, first of all. So we didn't video, we don't video people that come in voluntarily. We didn't video Ted Waite last week. But at the end of the day, the transcript is the most important thing.
14:03I assume there will be Democrat members here today. If not, there will be staffers. I know there was criticism. I read somewhere that a member or two was complaining that this was on a day when Congress wasn't in session. When this was scheduled, we were supposed to be in session. This week was flipped with King Charles last week. So when we scheduled this, he was supposed to be here. So, you know, if you're interested in the investigation, you can come here.
14:29Ben Meiselas:I missed my son's baseball game last night because I want to be here, obviously, for this interview. Now, who's leading these efforts in the Justice Department? Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. Todd Blanche, Donald Trump's former criminal defense attorney, the one who represented Donald Trump in the New York case where Trump was convicted of dozens of felony counts. Yes, there's a felon in the White House who is also found civilly liable for sexual assault. Yes, there is a sexual predator in the White House. And then Todd Blanche, as I'm sure you know the story now, also cut a deal with Donald Trump to prevent any further IRS audits or tax audits about Donald Trump, Trump's company, Trump's kids.
15:14Ben Meiselas:They have full tax immunity. They don't have to pay taxes anymore because Donald Trump filed a frivolous$10 billion lawsuit against the government in January, 2026, alleging conduct from 2019 when Trump was in office, a claim that was time barred, patently frivolous, and that there's no basis for that. It also affected 450 ,000 other people as well. But now I will share with you what Todd Blanche recently said on a podcast hosted by Stephen Miller's wife, who apparently, even though nobody watches this on YouTube, she's going to be getting a show on CBS, State Regime Media with Barry Weiss. Listen to what he said about the Epstein client list.
15:58Ben Meiselas:Todd Blanche, let's play it. Does a client list exist? Does an Epstein client list exist and is the government in possession of it? No. I mean, listen, everything, I can ask you the same question, right? Because everything's been released. So there's, what's commonly referred to is the client list, if I were speculating, is the black book that has been released for years and years and years that was basically Epstein's address book. There was a list of masseuses. It's not a client list, obviously. A lot of those women were actually victims. That exists. But I don't even, to be honest with you, I don't know what a client list is.
16:39And I'm not trying to be naive, but what would a client list consist of? You mean a list of Mr. Epstein's, the people he was supposedly blackmailing? Is it people that were his business clients, his personal clients? But no, I have not seen such a list.
16:54Ben Meiselas:And again, you see the connections here about what's going on. Finally, Todd Blanche says that there was never an Epstein coverup at all. Here's what he has to say. Let's play it. Do you think the investigators covered it up? Given how many victims there are, surely. I mean, there should be more prosecutions and more charges than there are. Well, look, the Epstein files are available for everybody to see. So it's not. So do I think there was a cover up? No, I don't. But it's not just up to me. Everybody that's watching this, everybody that the Epstein Transparency Act has now allowed us to release the entire Epstein files.
17:30There's still three million held back, though. Not all of them are public. No, they're all public. No, so look, that's not true. So there's a narrative that there's three million pages that are being held back. They have nothing to do with Epstein.
17:43Ben Meiselas:And then, of course, Donald Trump's speech that he just gave in New York, that really weird speech, where he said the following about Lutnik. And then here's what Lutnik had to say. Let's play it. Because the money we're being made, is that right, Mr. Lutnik? Secretary of Commerce is here. Looks good. Looks handsome. Reasonably. He doesn't look like Jackson. I'd rather look like Jackson. I'll take Jackson any day. Look, serving in the cabinet of Donald Trump is the greatest honor of a lifetime. As his commerce secretary, my job is to bring in investment in America. And we brought in$18 trillion.
18:27Ben Meiselas:We're bringing confidence back to America. One more time, hat tip to Merrill Kornfield. Great investigative reporting there, catching what the DOJ was doing. And then the DOJ publicly posted, we ain't doing it quietly. We help people. You heard what they said? We help people who were convicted also of child sex crimes. Huh? What are we doing here? Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks for watching. and unlock exclusive content, ad-free videos, and custom emojis by becoming a paid member of our YouTube channel today. You can also gift memberships to others. Let's keep growing together.
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