Trump’s Dark Past Used by FBI to Shake Him Down?!!

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2:18Ben Meiselas:There have been shocking revelations from the Epstein files in just the past 24 hours. And then you had Kash Patel in Milan partying it up with the gold-winning Olympic hockey team from the United States. He was chugging beers. He wore the gold medal. This was after his spokesperson denied that he was going to be partying or hanging out or even going to the Olympic Games at all when he flew to Milan. They said, oh, it was just an official visit. But I think it's important that we recognize this is all connected. Look, Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, that whole crew, they have the goods on Donald Trump.

2:59Ben Meiselas:They have Donald Trump by the you-know-what because they're actively, in my opinion, co-conspirators with Donald Trump in covering up a child sex trafficking ring. They are covering up Epstein files. There are still about, I think, around 50 terabytes of Epstein files that are missing. That could be tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of documents that are far more devastating than even the devastating documents that have been released. And we know from the documents that have been released, the redacted documents have 38 ,000 references to Donald Trump in it. We believe there could be as many as a million references in the unredacted files.

3:37Ben Meiselas:And then in addition to the unredacted files, there's those additional 50 terabytes of documents. And so Kash Patel and this whole Trump regime, like to me, they're out there gallivanting around the country and gallivanting around the world because they know what Donald Trump was up to. They now have all of the information, not just on Donald Trump, but his inner circle and their friends and the Epstein class. And this is the protectors of the Epstein class. So I think their view is what's Donald Trump going to do with me? Watch me drink a beer. I'm not even going to work hard anymore. It doesn't even make a difference anymore.

4:15Ben Meiselas:I'm going to give my middle finger to everybody. I'm going to fly on private jets. You can't, I'm untouchable because I know what's really gone down in the Epstein files, right? Patel's been read on. Bondi's been read on. You know, this whole regime, this, you know, Bongino, they've seen it. So I think they think there's nothing Donald Trump can do to them. I mean, look, just look at Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker who's getting VIP treatment and club fed. And, you know, she had Donald Trump's number two at the DOJ, Trump's criminal defense lawyer, meet with her. And after interviewing her and she said exactly what Trump wants, she got moved to this club fed VIP facility.

4:58Ben Meiselas:So I think people are like, oh, got it. So Ghislaine has dirt on Donald Trump. Look how she's treated. Kash Patel and Bongino, they're like, look, okay, what's he going to do to us? He ain't going to do anything to us. He's scared of the info we have. By the way, you know who else knows that? Iran and Iranian hackers who are out there saying to Donald Trump as well, guess what we did when we hacked Truth Social back in 2025? Guess what we have when we hacked your campaign back in 2024. Guess what we have when we've hacked Ehud Barack's email addresses. Those Iranian hackers, 313 group and that whole crew over there, they've been hacking and doing spearfishing into Trump and Trump's inner circle for many, many years right now.

5:47Ben Meiselas:And the Ayatollahs even hinted that they've got dirt on Donald Trump. So let's just take a look at some of these revelations just from the past 24 hours. Aaron Parnas from the Midas Touch Network, he broke the following. I mean, it's in the Epstein files, but he brought attention to this yesterday. In 2020, one year after Epstein died, an assistant United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York discussed a confidentiality agreement with the Southern District of New York in connection with the investigation into the murder of Jeffrey Epstein. That's how they were referring to it within the prosecutor's office when in Trump's first regime, in Trump's first administration, the murder investigation and getting out confidentiality agreements like the one we did when Epstein was murdered, not died by suicide, murdered.

6:42Ben Meiselas:And you know from our previous reporting as well here on the Midas Touch Network, that the day before Epstein died, the SDNY prosecutors in New York, they prepared a press release saying that Epstein died the day before he died. They had prepared the documents saying he died and it didn't have the language by suicide or by apparent suicide. They just said that he died. And I think they basically implied that it was a murder as well. Then the next day they said died by apparent suicide after he actually did die. Let's just take a look at this email. It's dated June 11th, 2020, and it's from the prosecutors to each other, from Eastern District of New York prosecutors to Southern District of New York prosecutors.

7:26Ben Meiselas:I'm an AUSA, an Assistant United States Attorney in Eastern District of New York, and I'm working on an investigation into the death of an inmate at Brooklyn MDC, Metro Detention Center. The OCME told me that it signed a confidentiality agreement in connection with the investigation into the murder of Jeffrey Epstein. We were hoping to extend a similar agreement, and I wanted to see if you could share the agreement or boilerplate version of it. I'm happy to speak over the phone if that's easier. My cell is. In other words, Let's not put any more of this on email. OCME, the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, signed a confidentiality.

8:13Ben Meiselas:Isn't there already HIPAA and privacy rules? Why would they need to separately sign a confidentiality order into the murder is what the prosecutors use the word. Jeffrey Epstein, that was in the past 24 hours. That story broke. Connor Stringer writes, huge story this evening. This is from The Telegraph. Great, our great reporting from The Telegraph. Jeffrey Epstein paid private detectives to remove equipment from his home and store them in secret storage units across the U.S. Search warrants reviewed by the Telegraph suggest U.S. authorities never raided the lockers, raising the possibility they may contain unseen evidence relating to Epstein and his associates.

8:55Ben Meiselas:Epstein hid computers and photographs from the United States authorities and secret storage lockers the Telegraph can reveal. Documents uncovered by this newspaper show that Pedo paid private detectives to remove equipment from his Florida home in an apparent attempt to prevent investigators from finding it. The documents also show that he rented six storage units across the U.S. and used them to house items from his properties, including computers from his private Caribbean island. He leased at least one unit from 2003 when he was part of a Florida social set that included Donald Trump. Then they show credit card receipts obtained by the Telegraph, show regular storage payments continuing until 29, the year of his death.

9:43Ben Meiselas:The search warrants reviewed by the Telegraph suggest that U.S. authorities never raided these lockers, raising the possibility that they may contain unseen evidence relating to Epstein and his associates. The documents, the Telegraph on Earth show that he instructed his private detectives to do this. He discussed moving computers and CDs from his private island in the U.S. Virgin Island, from West Palm Beach, from New York. And he was apparently hiding this from the government. And he was hiding this from prosecutors and from investigators who, who, by the way, doing basic investigative work could have been able to find this.

10:22Ben Meiselas:So big story there. And then, you know, the Midas Touch Network reported over this past weekend, and others did as well, that Ghislaine Maxwell is, this is the part that we reported that I think is important. She's pretending that she's unable to secure a personal lawyer for herself in connection with the criminal case where she was already convicted of child sex trafficking, and she's done with her appeals. She already lost at the Supreme Court. So she's done appealing. She's now filing what's called a habeas petition, which any prisoner can file, just saying they've discovered some new evidence, extraordinary circumstances exist so that she should be released from prison.

11:04Ben Meiselas:And she says, you know, this new information involves some of the stuff that she's seen in the files. She has the audacity to say the files vindicate her. She goes, now that I've seen the finals, the files, they vindicate me because it shows, she argues, she's a sicko. She's a sicko pedo. She says it vindicates her because it shows that no minors were involved, that the survivors lied about being minors, she said. The hell are you talking about, you sicko pedo? That's what she says. But anyway, she pretends she can't have a lawyer. But then her lawyers in a civil case that's been closed regarding Virginia Giuffre suing Ghislaine back in 2015.

11:47Ben Meiselas:And we know Virginia Giuffre died by suicide about a year ago or so. In 2015, Giuffre sued Ghislaine. And in that case, Maxwell has hired lawyers to try to block 90 ,000 documents from coming out that are still being blocked in the Epstein files. And she's saying her privacy concerns are at stake and that this is rule 6E grand jury material. And she's saying that these depositions should never come to light because it involves sexual things involving her. Well, you're a child sex trafficker, So I don't care if this embarrasses you. I care about the survivors, you sicko. So there's that revelation that come out.

12:33Ben Meiselas:But then she's telling the federal judge in the criminal case that she can't find a lawyer. So she needs to delay things there. But she has a lawyer in the old civil case. And she had a lawyer at the House Oversight Deposition where she invoked the Fifth Amendment all of those times, right? All right, quick confession. Before Tavala entered my life, I often had a moment of panic when I had to figure out what I was doing for dinner after a long day. I'm talking about that moment at like 7.15 where you realize you forgot to defrost anything, so now you're panic ordering$47 takeout or eating cereal like a college freshman.

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15:12Ben Meiselas:while he's covering up a child sex trafficking ring, you know, with Donald Trump. I mean, he's saying to the world, I don't give an F about this. I'm untouchable. Because this behavior is not just fireable. This is, in my opinion, this is as criminal as you get. Imagine being at the FBI and seeing your boss behave like this. Here, play this clip of him in the locker room.

15:42Ben Meiselas:Here's another clip that Ken Delanian posted. Congratulations to USA! And look, you want to know what I think is in those lockers? You want to know what I think is in those lockers? I mean, look, say what you want, but Michael Wolff, who was Epstein, was potentially going to be Epstein's biographer. He was Donald Trump's biographer as well. Wolff has called it spot on all the stuff that Epstein has, in my opinion. And Wolf said that, you know, there are photos that he saw of Donald Trump with girls of indeterminate age, with Trump with a stain on his pants, with these topless girls who have looked very young.

16:21Ben Meiselas:And that where are those photos? Wolf said he believed they were kept in a locker in a safe in Epstein's place. Where are those photos? Are those part of the ones that are being hidden? What if the FBI did actually get their hands on those? And that's in the terabytes of documents that are being concealed. Remember when Michael Wolff said this? Here, play this clip. But at any rate, at one point after Trump had been elected, and I was sitting talking to Epstein, and he said, wait a minute, I got to show you something. And then he went into his safe, and he came out with photographs. They were Polaroids, I think.

17:05And he kind of spread them out like playing cards. And it was Trump, I mean, I think there were a dozen of them, and it was Trump with girls of an uncertain age at Epstein's Palm Beach house, where all of the things that he would ultimately be accused of took place. And I remember very vividly three of them. There are two in which Trump is, the girls, topless girls are sitting on Trump's lap. And then a third in which he has a stain on the front of his pants. And the girls are kind of pointing at it, sort of bent over, laughing, you know, covering, you know. Covering their mouths. Exactly, exactly.

17:57And pointing three or four girls. And those are the ones I specifically remember. And my assumption is that they, I mean, they were in the safe, and I have seen them on other occasions take them out of the safe. And I think it's certainly not unlikely that they were in the safe when the FBI came in after his arrest and took everything from the House, including everything that was in the safe.

18:27Ben Meiselas:and folks people aren't buying any of this though right i mean even the right-wing podcasters are not buying any of this i mean you have andrew shoals saying this here play this clip so now that we know that everybody from trump patel bondi bongino like everybody that was involved in this ah this is just a hoax we don't have anything like they're all they're all on record saying versions of this, right? With the latest tranche, all of that is a lie. Yes. Right. Has it been proven effectively that is a complete falsehood? What exactly is a falsehood? The statements that this is just a Democrat hoax and this is I don't even know what that means.

19:09Ben Meiselas:And then, by the way, when Kash Patel was on state regime media, he was asked by Brett Baer, any regrets on how you've handled these files? Any regrets at all? Right. Any regrets? And here's what he says when he's asked if he has any regrets at all. Here, play this clip. ... professionals involved. Bouncing around, the Epstein files, the last tranche, we're told, put out. Looking back since the beginning, and you've been a part of talking about this, and DOJ has obviously produced these elements. Do you have regrets about how it's been handled? Look, like any other hot topic issue, the American public and the world had a great interest in this.

19:49And what we did under President Trump's leadership is produce the most transparent DOJ and FBI history. Three other administrations had the opportunity to do this, and we produced everything we legally and lawfully could. We worked with our partners in Congress. We followed the statutes and the court orders, and we produced, what, three million-some pages. So I think we got to the result in the right way. Could we have gotten there faster? I'm not really sure because of numerous court cases, multiple protective orders, multiple court ceilings. And so now we've produced everything we can while protecting victims' rights involved.

20:18Do you think that it.

20:19Ben Meiselas:And let's just take a listen to what this Missouri voter says about this all. Let's play it. He needs to be removed. Trump needs to be removed. And everybody that is kowtowed to him, Patel, Bondi, and all those people need to be removed and prosecuted for their crimes against the public. And the fact that he's taken all our medical money to finance ice is totally ridiculous. It's sick. You know, and finally, I think this is a major, you know, thing as well. I mean, look, I don't like showing videos of Tucker Carlson, but when Tucker Carlson was interviewing Mike Huckabee, the United States ambassador to Israel, top official in the Trump regime, just watch this exchange.

21:07Ben Meiselas:This is shocking stuff. You're playing this clip. I have many questions for the Justice Department, like why are Are millions of Epstein files still classified? Why do you think that is? I have no idea. I haven't kept up with that. I've never met the man. I don't know him. You haven't kept up with the Epstein disclosures? I mean, only from a distance. I'm 6 ,000 miles away from D.C. these days. I'm pretty sure that there's so much going on. The current president of Israel, current president, who I know you know, President Herzog. Knowing very well. Apparently was at Pedo Island. That's what it says in the disclosures.

21:38And of course, we know that the former prime minister, Ehud Barak, was living on and off at Epstein's house. So still living, high-level Israeli officials are directly implicated in Epstein's life, if not his crime. So I would think that you'd be following this. Only, I was not aware that there was any connection with President Herzog. I would be surprised to hear that. and knew there was about the former prime minister who apparently had a lot of dealings with Epstein. Business dealings. And by the way, I'm not alleging anything, but I mean, it's in, yes, in the Epstein files. And I don't know that I've heard the current president of Israel respond to it, but he is listed as a visitor to Petto Island.

22:24So that's kind of a big deal. I wonder, considering there are so many suggestions in the files, as I'm sure you know, of sexual abuse. And given that Jeffrey Epstein was a convicted sex offender, I wonder why the administration you work for would be holding millions of files, which I believe belong to the public, hidden for, quote, national security reasons. What would those national security reasons be, do you think? Honestly, I think you've probably got more access to the White House sometimes than I do. I should ask them. But you're the government official representing that White House. in Israel.

23:02And I represent the U.S. in Israel to the Israeli government from the U.S. government. But honestly, nobody has presented that to us. We have a pretty dynamic situation here. I don't know if you know that or not, but there's a lot going on in this part of the world. And frankly, that has not been top line item. But you're surprised to hear that the current president of Israel, whom you know, is listed as a visitor to Petto Island. Had never heard that. Never heard even in the Israeli press. Are you going to ask him next time you see him? I'll be happy to. Talk to him almost every week. Really?

23:36Ben Meiselas:Huckabee's claiming he doesn't know anything about this? I mean, come on, folks. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million. Thanks for watching, everybody.

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