Trump’s Dark Past Surfaces as He Prepares to Fire Bondi!!

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2:47Ben Meiselas:It's all coming out, Donald. Even your war crimes and your catastrophic and disastrous war against Iran, it's not going to distract the people from your cover-up of the Epstein files. And now, Donald Trump's throwing tantrums, saying, I thought that this war was going to distract from my dark past. No, Donald, your dark past is surfacing and people are getting closer and closer. Shout out to Democrats on the House Oversight Committee who continue to push forward and shout out to some Republicans as well, like Thomas Massey and others who are pushing forward. So what we're learning now is Donald Trump is considering firing Pam Bondi.

3:30Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump thought that his attorney general, Pam Bondi, can make this all go away, that Donald Trump's dark past, the Epstein files, the cover-up of the child sex trafficking ring would all just disappear, that the files could be hidden, that people wouldn't ask questions, but tick-tock, Donald, your time is up and nothing you can do can distract we the people. So the latest reporting from the New York Times is that the potential termination of Donald Trump's attorney general, Pam Bondi, is imminent. The New York Times report that Donald Trump is now talking with lots of his staff about getting rid of Pam Bondi because of the way she botched the cover-up of the Epstein files and botched the cover-up of Donald Trump's dark past.

4:23Ben Meiselas:And Donald Trump has not made his final decision, but he is now leaning to replace Pam Bondi with Lee Zeldin, the EPA administrator. Now, this comes as we've now learned about hard drives that have been hidden by Epstein's private investigators. We've learned about DEA investigative files of not just a sex trafficking ring, but a money laundering drug trafficking ring running adjacent to Epstein's sex trafficking ring. And that that's being potentially covered up by Donald Trump's deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche. And now even James Comer, James Comer, the MAGA Republican sycophant who heads the House Oversight Committee, who chairs it right now, even he says, well, we all admit that the DOJ has done a really bad job.

5:19Ben Meiselas:Like, we all know that Pam Bondi and the DOJ has screwed up. So Pam Bondi's deposition is supposed to take place. She's been subpoenaed for April 14th. Remember that stunt she pulled two weeks ago where in 24 hours she's like, I'm going to go visit the House Oversight Committee and I'm going to voluntarily give information. And Democrat ranking member Garcia is like, get me the hell out of here. We're leaving. The Democrats are leaving. This is a setup as a way that Pam Bondi is going to try to avoid testifying under oath where she's been subpoenaed because she's going to say, well, I just showed up already and I volunteered to testify.

5:57Ben Meiselas:And so I think that was her and Donald Trump trying to come up with the plan for her to get out of her subpoenaed deposition. And I think the plan is that if she can't wiggle out of that deposition, if she can't try to escape it, which she's ordered to appear at, I think she's gone by April 14th. Although we will see. But here's what James Comer had to say. Play this clip. Well, I think the Justice Department has botched this. I don't think anyone in America, Republican or, you know, avid Trump supporter would defend the way that this has been rolled out. Having said that, it's very complicated because of all the lawsuits.

6:36Ben Meiselas:What about Nancy Mace, MAGA Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace? Well, our Pablo Monriquez, one of our White House and Washington, D.C. correspondents, D.C. correspondents, he was in the Capitol building. He caught up with Nancy Mace and he said, do you support a special prosecutor? Here, play this clip right here. Is it time for a special prosecutor for the F.C. files to get the rest of the files out? I've always supported a special prosecutor. I've always supported getting all the files out. You know, I think the biggest question is, why didn't more people go to jail? And I think it's not just for sex trafficking or prostitution.

7:18I mean, there are financial crimes, it appears, in the files. You know, and it just goes to show there's a two-tiered system of justice, one for the rich and powerful, and then one for everybody else. Thank you, Jefferson. I appreciate it.

7:31Ben Meiselas:Now I want to cut to Scott McFarlane, the head of the Midas Touch Washington, D.C. Bureau right now. Scott McFarlane is our chief D.C. correspondent. He talks to us about what House investigators have learned about the secret hard drives from Jeffrey Epstein's home that's unaccounted for. Tick tock, Donald. We're going to get those hard drives. We're going to get that DEA file. there's nothing you can do to hide your dark past we're gonna get it scott mcfarlane take it away hey i had some breaking news and wanted to give it to you as efficiently as possible according to a new investigation and a series of letters released just now by the democrats on the house oversight committee there may be some jeffrey epstein hard drives from his home that still are unaccounted for still are somewhere which raises an awful lot of questions and the prospect of new information coming out.

8:29According to a series of letters that Robert Garcia of California has sent to some private investigative firms, Darren Indyke, an Epstein attorney who spoke with the committee in recent days, indicated that those drives may have been in the possession at some point of PI firms and that they still haven't figured out a chain of custody or exactly where they are now. So in these requests, Congressman Garcia and the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are asking these private investigators to sit for some questions, come in and talk, and to either find, turn over, or account for any evidence about Epstein that may be in their possession.

9:06We'll see what the response is to all this, but you see the bottom line, don't you, that these Epstein questions persist, new questions surface, and if anybody is trying to turn the page on the Epstein controversy, if not crisis in the administration, There are new hurdles every day turning those pages. And we have another one to conclude the week.

9:29Ben Meiselas:Now, I don't think the White House is doing themselves any favors when they post instead of only fans, they post only farms. Just think about it as Donald Trump is screwing over royally farmers, right? If you're a farmer, you know that your input costs have gone up, up, up. Donald Trump has shut down export markets to you. And now you can't get your fertilizer because of Donald Trump's catastrophic and unlawful war in the Middle East. And now Donald Trump's doing porn jokes. Only fans, except he goes, only farms. Curious how American farmers are benefiting right now or exactly how much each state has saved?

10:07Ben Meiselas:Dude, you had to bail them out to the tune of billions of dollars before. You have to bail them out again. You're crushing farmers and now you're making their job compared to like the porn site OnlyFans. What are you doing? As Congress member Thomas Massey says, can you arrest Epstein's co-conspirators instead of riffing off a damn porn site? What the heck are you all doing? Also, Pablo Manriquez from the Midas Touch Network. Well, he caught up with the Democratic ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, Robert Garcia. Here's what Congress member Garcia had to say. Let's play this clip.

11:11structure in this country. And so it's time for Donald Trump to actually release the files and end this war right now. And do you think it's time for, does Congress have the power to compel a special prosecutor perhaps to? Absolutely. We should do everything that we can to get the release of the files. Half of them have been hidden. Donald Trump has been trying to cover up the EFCE files from day one. Pam Bondi should be held in contempt. She needs to come in front of our committee and testify. And most importantly, he's going to continue with these distractions. They've gotta end it. All right, let me tell you about something I've actually been using lately, One Skin.

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13:08Ben Meiselas:Let's dig in a little bit more into this New York Times article. Trump has discussed firing Attorney General Pam Bondi and replacing her with Lee Zeldin. Donald Trump has grown frustrated with Pam Bondi and her failed leadership because of the Epstein files. He's floated Lee Zeldin. Well, he hasn't made any decision. He showed up with Pam Bondi on Wednesday to the Supreme Court arguments where Donald Trump got absolutely humiliated. He's sitting there. Pam Bondi's there. The Supreme Court justices are there. Donald Trump did the executive order to try to overturn the Constitution's 14th Amendment allowance or the 14th Amendment, which provides for birthright citizenship.

13:56Ben Meiselas:If you're born in the U.S., you become a citizen by an executive order. Donald Trump's like, migrants can't get birthright citizenship. I hereby decreed in my executive order. Well, Donald, you haven't read the Constitution, even the right wing justices mocked Donald Trump and Donald Trump walked out of the Supreme Court oral argument after the Solicitor General John Sauer, basically Trump's lawyer, argued and the Supreme Courts were just laying into him and Trump. Chief Justice Roberts was like, have you read the Constitution? Do you know what the Constitution? Out of what world are you all living in Trump regime?

14:32Ben Meiselas:Even the right wing justices, by the way, even the justices Trump appointed. Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, they were not buying what Trump was selling. Pam Bondi was telling Donald Trump he was going to win it. Donald Trump's like, what you doing, Pam Bondi? Trump storms out. Look, we have the sketches. Here's Donald Trump. Here's John Sauer. The Supreme Court's like, oh, Donald, you're dumb. You're an idiot. What are you doing? You're a traitor. What are you doing? Get out of here. And then Donald Trump, they didn't say that. I'm exaggerating that part, okay? But maybe they were thinking that.

15:03Ben Meiselas:But then Donald Donald Trump just jets out of the court. There he is running away by the time the ACLU lawyer made her argument. Anyway, back to Pam Bondi, her potentially being fired. It says in this New York Times article, Trump has been souring her on months, the way she's handled the Epstein files. Also, he thinks she's not aggressive enough in going after his political enemies. Her deposition is scheduled for April 14th. And so we'll see if she gets fired. But people expect that she's the next to go and then she'll go pretty, pretty soon. We will make sure we'll be covering that every step of the way.

15:41Ben Meiselas:A few data points, though, I'll point out. Donald Trump, in my opinion, has such a guilty conscience, right? I mean, actually, he doesn't have that much of a guilty conscience, but he projects that he's not. I should repeat that. He doesn't have a guilty conscience. He knows what he's done. And I think the thing that he's worried about, let's just put it this way. He's worried about not getting into heaven. And he keeps on repeating, I'm not going to get into heaven. I think I'm not going to get into heaven. I'm not going to get into heaven over and over again. And then yesterday he called in his faith leader who tried to like sue them.

16:14Ben Meiselas:And she's like, just like Jesus, you were just like this person. You were falsely accused, Donald. You were falsely accused. Here, play this clip. And Mr. President, no one has paid the price like you have paid the price. It almost cost you your life. You were betrayed and arrested and falsely accused. It's a familiar pattern that our Lord and Savior showed us, but it didn't end there for him and it didn't end there for you. Then, by the way, in Iran in the past 24 hours, you had people on the streets throughout Iranian cities. And this is how they were describing their protest. They had millions of people out protesting the Epstein coalition airstrikes and missile fire.

17:02Ben Meiselas:That's how they were referring to it. We are protesting the Epstein class missile strikes and the Epstein class war and the Epstein war. That's how they're talking about it in Iran right now. A few other data points. I'll show you Thomas Massey leaving the Capitol building the other day. Pablo Manriquez, Midas Touch DC correspondent caught up with him. Here's what he said. Let's play it. Mr. Massey, quick Epstein files question, if you don't mind. Is it time for Congress to perhaps appoint a special prosecutor to get these files out? Is that something that's realistic or what do you make of that?

17:39I think Panbani just needs to follow the law.

17:43Ben Meiselas:Keep it simple. Yeah. The special prosecutors and the subpoenas and things like that, that's what they used to do before they passed laws. I mean, we've literally passed a law. And if Pam Bondi doesn't follow this law, her successor could prosecute her for that. So we're in new territory and I think it's incumbent upon her to just follow the law. Any updates at all about when we might be able to see the rest of these documents that haven't been released yet? i don't know we still there's they're quietly releasing some things and unredacting things they say that they're done but they're not really done got it thank you appreciate it uh digging in by the way into this dea investigation that i told you about before as senator wyden explains deputy attorney general todd blanche trump's former personal criminal lawyer who was also responsible for gilane maxwell's transfer to a cushy club that has intervened to block the DEA from providing details of a mysterious Epstein investigation to my finance committee.

18:46Ben Meiselas:Recent reporting revealed that Epstein was one of several targets of a big drug trafficking investigation a decade ago. DEA has key info. Based on what we know, Epstein was likely pumping his victims, young women and girls, with incapacitating drugs to facilitate abuse. By the way, hat tip Jason Leopold at Bloomberg. He's a great reporter. He's been covering Epstein every step of the way. According to a confidential tip received by my staff, DEA Administrator Terry Cole was ready to provide an unredacted copy of the memorandum, but you stepped in, Todd Blanche, to prevent him from doing so, Wyden wrote.

19:21Ben Meiselas:Your alleged interference in this matter is highly disturbing. The investigation was spun off from a 2011 DEA OCDETF operation called Chain Reaction that targeted drug trafficking rings and individuals associated with organized crime families. Separately on Monday, Senator Whitehouse, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, sent a letter to Bondi, Kash Patel, and Terry Cole and DEA administrators requesting records and details about another OCDETF operation that surfaced in the Epstein files that was also cited in Bloomberg reporting. That operation, known as TripNot, was launched by OCDETF and the FBI a few months before Epstein was arrested and charged with sex trafficking.

20:08Ben Meiselas:This was a money laundering and human drug trafficking investigation. The money laundering part was key, and that's being covered up in Epstein's co-conservators in money laundering, sex trafficking, drug trafficking, all still being covered up. millions of documents, if not tens of millions of documents still being covered up by the Department of Justice. And finally, here's what Donald Trump said about FBI Director Kash Patel the other day. Let's play.

20:40So before we leave, I want to thank Attorney General Pam Bondi, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. These are great people. Chief of the National Guard Bureau General Stephen Nordhaus, FBI Director Cash Patel. Wonderful guy, actually. You got to get to know him. Once you get to know him, he's a wonderful guy. I've known him too long, right? He's a good guy.

21:05Ben Meiselas:There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. We're never going to give up talking about the Epstein files. We're always going to keep covering it here on the Midas Touch Network. I know that's one of the things you like about the Midas Touch Network. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. And thanks so much for watching. Thanks for watching. Be sure to add the Mind is Touch podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts for new updates every single day.