Trump’s Dark Past Surfaces as he Can't Help it at MAR-A-LAGO

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1:15Ben Meiselas:If you think that we're just going to move on, you are very much mistaken. You can't even control yourself, by the way. Mar-a-Lago, which was one of the locations where the sex trafficking of Jeffrey Epstein took place. I mean, Virginia Giuffre, 17 years old, was working at the Mar-a-Lago spa back in the early 2000s when she was sex trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. They found her there, as you said, Donald, and they took her from you, as you would say, Donald. So Mar-a-Lago is the location, in my view, where Epstein was, I think it should be in lots of people's views as well, was identifying underage girls that he would sex traffic.

1:58Ben Meiselas:And Mar-a-Lago in the past 72 hours was used in a look like this weird bordello-like scene. Sure, you said it was a great Gatsby-themed party, but as I looked around at what was taking place and I was like, this is what the leader of the United States is doing. You had like half-naked women or girls or whatever was going on there, and you could like see them pretty much. I mean, there wasn't a lot left to the imagination right there, and this is what the Trump cabinet was doing. I mean, do you just want to remind everybody, release the files, release the files, release the files. You have that going on, and we know the backstory of what was going down at Mar-a-Lago with Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein back in the day.

2:45Ben Meiselas:And this is what's going on right now. Then you have MAGA Mike talking about the Epstein files. It wasn't a Freudian slip. It was just MAGA Mike's, I don't even know what you want to call it, but when MAGA Mike was doing the morning shows, he started talking about the Epstein files. And he's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. We're done. We turned over all of the Epstein files. Everybody knows that we released the files. The public's so happy they've got the files. We're done. We did it. We did it, everybody. Yay. Mission accomplished. Listen to what Mag and Mike had to say. Here, play this clip.

3:18But the Epstein thing is a complete red herring. It's a distraction from what's going on right now and them causing harm to the American people with the shutdown. The Epstein estate documents are out. The Epstein files are out. 43 ,000 pages so far.

3:31Ben Meiselas:And then when Donald Trump was returning from his whatever the hell you want to call that Mar-a-Lago Great Gatsby, what was the roaring 20s? You know what happened at the end of the 1920s, you idiot? It was called the Great Depression, Donald. And what was the theme? The slogan for the party is a little bit of partying never killed nobody as Americans are quite literally starving to death right now. Now, Elisa Marie Antoinette said, let them eat cake. Donald Trump says, let them starve to death while I take away American people's health care and kill them. By the way, no wonder why in the latest YouGov poll, I digress for a second, amongst 18 to 29-year-olds, they disapproved by Donald Trump by up to 75 % of people, 18 to 29-year-olds disapprove of Donald Trump.

4:17Ben Meiselas:Anyway, I digress. While Donald Trump was on the airplane heading back to Washington, D.C., He was talking about how he felt very bad for the, not the victims of Epstein, not the victims of Prince Andrew who now lost his titles and he's been kicked out of the royal family purportedly. He feels very bad for the royal family, what they're going through. You feel bad for them, what they're going through? That as a result of Prince Andrew being involved in the Epstein ring? That's who you feel bad for? How about you just say you feel bad for the victims? How about you show a shred of empathy? Oh no, you're covering up the sex pedo trafficking ring.

4:58Ben Meiselas:Here's what Donald Trump had to say while on the plane. Play this clip.

5:12I feel very badly. I mean, it's a terrible thing that's happened to the family. That's been a tragic situation. And it's too bad. I mean, I feel badly for the family.

5:28Ben Meiselas:And then again, just show you what was going down at this party right here. You'll just see like a guy and it looks like it may be his son, but someone who looks younger. They're like looking at the girls dancing. They're like, hey baby, hey baby. Just it's grotesque. Like watch this here, play this clip.

5:58I'm just warming up tonight. Oh my God, it's Halloween 25.

6:03Ben Meiselas:The hell is even going down there? And then you have the lady on the glass. I don't even know how to describe this. She's in a shot glass. She's in a martini glass or something. And her legs are spread open or something. Here, just play what's going down there. What is even going on here? Here, play this clip.

6:36Ben Meiselas:Back to MAGA Mike Johnson for a second, where he talks about, you know, look, we're clearly not swearing in Adelita Grijalva because we're worried about the Epstein stuff. No, no, no, no, no, no. We're following Nancy Pelosi's precedent. Everybody remembers when Nancy Pelosi shut down the government and wouldn't swear in a congresswoman elect for the longest time in the history of the United States. Let's just blame Nancy Pelosi. We'll call it the Pelosi precedent. Can't just make stuff up. The only time Nancy Pelosi didn't swear someone in right away is because the person asked to be sworn in later so that their family could join them.

7:15Ben Meiselas:They said, hey, can we just wait a few weeks? We're good. I just want my family to be able to be there. These people are liars, but more nefariously, they're covering up a pedo sex trafficking ring. Maga Mike is. Here he is. Play this clip. At seated Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, there's now a lawsuit about this. They say there's no dispute about her election or her qualifications and add this. Speaker Johnson wishes to delay seating Ms. Grijalva to prevent her from signing a discharge petition that would force a vote on the release of the Epstein files and or to strengthen his hand in the ongoing budget and appropriations negotiations.

7:49Why hasn't she been sworn in? What's your response to the lawsuit? Paul, this is so ridiculous. And we could take 30 minutes and talk about all this. But Grijalva, Rep. Grijalva, will be sworn in as soon as we get back to regular session. Remember, it's the Democrats who shut the Congress down, so we can't do that. Can you not swear her in, though, when you're not operating in regular? There is a precedent for doing a pro forma session swearing in, but we're not engaging in regular business right now. And what I'm doing is following the Pelosi precedent in the past when she was speaker. and you had representatives elected during special elections, special situations.

8:22When Congress was on recess or out, she would wait until the regular session to do it. I'm doing the exact same thing.

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10:01Ben Meiselas:I mean, do you remember what we reported this weekend to? This drop this weekend. While Donald Trump was doing that, whatever the hell you want to call that party. I mean, it looked like a strip club in there. I mean, you saw that. That's not like normal stuff, right? What the hell is going on in there? Gosh. And then you have the release of these files, these SARs, 4 ,700 SARs, suspicious activity reports from JPMorgan Chase that got released because the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal did a request for the release of these records. And when you look down here, look at the bottom, what it talks about.

10:40Ben Meiselas:$1 billion in potential money laundering Epstein was involved in. He was being investigated by, you guessed it, Alex Acosta, Donald Trump's former labor secretary, who was the main federal prosecutor in 2007, who gave Epstein the sweetheart deal. Not only the sweetheart deal regarding the sex trafficking, but a sweetheart deal on a billion dollars in money laundering, likely shifting around all of this money of these billionaire men who were paying for these underage girls and young girls and women and other people. You take a look at all of these entities that are listed, but it talks about the following.

11:15Ben Meiselas:I'm reading you right now from the JPMorgan Chase Suspicious Activity Reports. It talks about involving alleged sex trafficking of minors, allegations that Epstein misappropriated funds while employed as a money manager, the use of multiple accounts, the high risk jurisdiction of the Russian Federation and politically exposed persons, Russian money. And by the way, who was involved in the 2008 purchase of the West Palm Beach property that Donald Trump got in 2004 from Abe Gossman's foreclosure sale. Trump bought it for$40 million. Four years later, sold it for$95 million. Rybolov, Russian oligarch, was involved in this as well.

12:03Ben Meiselas:And in the Epstein-Gilane emails that Bloomberg got their hands on, it says they, meaning the feds, have probably already talked to Trump, Gossman, and got the WPB, the West Palm Beach documents. It also mentions a guy named Pascal, a real estate guy. You take a look over here too. This is an August 15th, 2007 AML investigation report from the bankers at Bear Stearns. And here they talk about also how Epstein would give$1 ,000 Christmas bonuses to different girls,$100 ,000 donation to a massage parlor,$1 ,000 to one or more females referenced as Christmas gifts. The hell is going on there? Now, the Epstein survivor, well, I would say survivors, but Virginia Giuffre died by suicide after the stress and depression that this, and the toll this took being sex traffic.

12:59Ben Meiselas:So her family spoke out this weekend. Her brother and her sister-in-law had this message to Maga Mike Johnson, play this clip. When you say gaslit and slapped in the face, what do you mean by those comments?

13:18Our country, our government, our president, our Department of Justice, our Speaker of the House has consistently gaslit survivors, called it a hoax. Mike Johnson said, oh, well, only 20 survivors showed up on the steps of Washington, D.C. to make sure that their voices were heard. Only 20? One is one too many. And it's quite disgusting and shameful the way that our administration has treated our sister's trauma, the survivor's trauma. They dangled it like a political toy that they could use to get votes. And we're here now. And they kicked this hornet's nest. And now they're surprised that the hornets are stinging them.

13:58You're nodding there, Sky. What do you think this action by the King here in the UK may or may not do in regards to the situation in the US and furthering this search, this fight for justice that you're looking for? Yeah, it's a really good question. And I think the answer is that the king is setting a roadmap. He's setting a precedent to the rest of the world to say, I do stand with survivors. I am going to hold even my brother to account. But it's still, it's not enough in the sense that he's still walking around a free man. I mean, let's not be naive that he's not going to be living on the side of the road here.

14:40He's still in a very, let's say, cush spot where he should be investigated. Let's put it that way. And I think that our government, to Amanda's point, is safeguarding these documents. They have it locked away in this little Pandora's box of people that are implicated, and we need to fully investigate them because Prince Andrew is just one of many that need to be investigated thoroughly. And so I think the king should put pressure on our government. He should put pressure on President Trump. He should tell President Trump verbatim, President Trump, put your big boy pants on and let's get these Epstein files released so that we can go after these monsters properly.

15:25Ben Meiselas:Then a group of 20 Epstein victims urged MAGA Mike Johnson and Trump immediately swear in, please, Adelita Grijalva. This is the letter from the Epstein survivors. We, the survivors of the Epstein-Gilain-Maxwell abuse call on the Speaker of the House to immediately move forward with the swearing in of Representative Grijalva. Grijalva was duly elected and certified in the United States House of Representatives. Her constituents have spoken and their voice deserves representation without further delay. The continued refusal to cedar is an unacceptable breach of democratic norms and a disservice to the American people.

15:59Ben Meiselas:Even more concerning to us as survivors, This delay appears to be a deliberate attempt to block her participation in the discharge of the petition that would force a vote to unseal the Epstein-Maxwell files. The American public has a right to transparency and accountability, and we as survivors deserve justice. Any attempt to obstruct a vote on this matter by manipulating the House procedure or denying members their seats is a direct affront to that right and adds insult to our trauma. Speaker Johnson must stop using procedural tactics to protect the powerful and instead uphold the integrity of our democratic institutions.

16:37Ben Meiselas:Our trauma is not a pawn in your political games. Every day you stall is another day survivors are denied justice and the American people are denied the truth. Swear in Representative Grijalva and let democracy speak. Meanwhile, you have the Democratic ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, Congressmember Robert Garcia, talking about how Alex Acosta during his deposition with the House Oversight Committee apparently did not mention the financial investigation of a billion dollar money laundering into Epstein and the Russian Federation and all these other billionaires that may have been involved where this money was moving about.

17:19Ben Meiselas:Congress member Garcia is like, what? They chose not to prosecute and he didn't even talk about it during the deposition. Here's what Congress member Garcia has to say. Here, play this clip. And this is a huge problem. First, it's a revelation to us. We were not aware that the U.S. Attorney's Office had actually opened up and was looking at the bank records and the financial records that would connect many of the men that were paying for these horrific crimes, these abuses of children, women and girls to Jeffrey Epstein. And the fact that Alex Acosta's office was actually investigating these crimes, the fact the line prosecutor was actually presenting information to that department and to that office, and yet Alex Acosta couldn't remember if actually they were actually doing that part of the investigation is incredibly troubling.

18:09It really shines a light to his whole testimony. What was he not being honest about? What is Alex Acosta hiding? And it's clear in these reporting and in these documents that Acosta was actually cc'd in numerous of these conversations and in these emails about these bank and financial records. We have been demanding that the attorney general, that the president hand over the files, including all of these bank records. We think it's past time that the bank records also be subpoenaed. But it's also clear that Alex Acosta may not have been truthful in his deposition to us in Congress. And that's a huge, huge concern.

18:47Ben Meiselas:And then Congress member Garcia has this message as well to the MAGA Republicans. It's been three months since oversight Democrats forced the subpoena of the Epstein files. What the hell are you doing, MAGA Mike? Other than covering up for a pedo sex trafficking ring, MAGA Mike. Here, play this clip. It's now been over three months since Democrats forced a subpoena at the Oversight Committee to get the Epstein files released to us. And still, the Department of Justice continues to stonewall. Pam Bondi, what are you hiding? Why are you involved in this White House cover-up? We know that 97 % of the documents you sent over to us were already released to the public.

19:26We need the Epstein files now. And House Republicans and Oversight Republicans might be okay with the stonewalling, with hiding the truth, with protecting billionaires and pedophiles, but we are not. We need the files now to bring justice to the survivors and to the victims. Pambani, it's time to stop this cover-up and release the full files now.

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