On this week's episode of This Week in Feminism, we discuss the Epstein scandal, the release of the Epstein files, and why we should all be mad at Pam Bondi. Also, Gerald and Josh talk about the new Miss Universe 2018 winner, Chile's Miss World, and the president of the United Arab Emirates.
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00:12:05.000So let me leave this with last week, Toyota announced a $10 billion investment in the United States, including about $900 million to actually expand this hybrid production at five United States plants here.
00:12:18.000It's a $10 billion bet that Toyota is making when it comes to production here in the United States.
00:12:38.000And I think, look, like all major companies in Japan, I think they telegraphed with the administration, at some point we're going to be making another big commitment in terms of investment in the United States.
00:18:42.000We don't blame the United States with the tariffs.
00:18:44.000That's not where we're not upset about that.
00:18:45.000We understand it and we want to work with our American allies.
00:18:48.000And when you look at the amount of revenue that's been generated through these tariffs, look, there's going to be some growth and some shrinking.
00:18:54.000There are going to be some ripples that take place.
00:18:56.000But the Japanese are a good example of how to handle it.
00:18:59.000And they're an example of what a friend should be, unlike Canada.
00:19:03.000Also, later this week, President Trump is expected to sign an executive order replacing Diwali with Toyota Than.
00:25:19.000World leaders are laughing at Donald Trump.
00:25:22.000The Emirates' first astronaut gave President Trump a tour of the presidential palace before the UAE bestowed on President Trump its National Medal of Honor.
00:25:32.000And President Mohammed bin Zayad promised to invest $1.4 trillion in the U.S. in the next 10 years.
00:25:39.000What we saw today were leaders from nearly every democracy on earth signaling that while Trump is abandoning democracy and vacating our spot as leaders of the free world, that they're going to step in.
00:26:00.000And just think about this for a second.
00:26:29.000Saudi Arabia, of course, not a bastion of human rights over there, but there's no choice but to deal with them.
00:26:35.000And by the way, every single president has had to deal with Saudi Arabia.
00:26:39.000So would you rather have presidents who deal with Saudi Arabia and are subservient, or presidents who will have a meeting with leaders of Saudi Arabia and actually pressure them into investing in the United States?
00:26:53.000So when you see the left melting down about Saudi Arabia saying Donald Trump is supporting terrorism or whatever it is that they're saying, remember how Barack Obama dealt with the Saudis much sooner after 9-11.
00:27:14.000Yeah, I don't have a problem meeting with Saudi royalty.
00:29:19.000So Mohammed bin Salman responded to the assertion about 9-11 in Kashagi.
00:29:25.000I feel painful about the families of 9-11 in America, but we have to focus on reality.
00:29:34.000Reality, based in Siya documents and based on a lot of documents, that Osama bin Laden used Saudi people in that event for one main purpose, is to destroy this relation, to destroy the American-Saudi relation.
00:31:12.000If you have to deal with people on the world stage, this is one of those areas where relationships are complicated.
00:31:18.000Sometimes it's the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
00:31:20.000What it really comes down to, to me, the differentiating factor is, is our president approaching this relationship with the best interests of Americans in mind first?
00:31:33.000That is what differentiates Donald Trump from these other people.
00:31:36.000Case in point, Saudi Arabia committed $1 trillion in American investments.
00:31:41.000I believe, Mr. President, and today and tomorrow, we're going to announce that we are going to increase that $600 billion to almost $1 trillion of investment, real investment and real opportunity by details in many areas.
00:31:53.000And the agreement that we are signing today in many areas in technology and AI and earth materials, magnet, etc., that would create a lot of investment opportunities for the USA.
00:33:03.000Now, this is where it's complicated because Israel at the same time would also, in some instances, ally with Saudi Arabia because they are one of the most vocal protesters to Iran getting nuclear weapons, right?
00:35:07.000Another Democrat who still meets with and is friendly with Saudi Arabia but doesn't force their hand to a trillion dollars worth of investments?
00:35:15.000Also, do you think it would be a president who doesn't realize that Mohammed bin Salman looks like terrorist Brendan Schaub?
00:36:36.000And I know we should be weaning ourselves off of foreign energy, but because of previous administrations and because of policy for a long time, we're not there yet.
00:36:46.000So it's good to have people who can make sure that the American citizens aren't left holding the bag.
00:36:50.000Again, he's negotiating on behalf of you, having to fuel your car, going to work.
00:36:56.000They're also one of the biggest purchasers of weapons from the United States, right?
00:37:00.000Helping to kind of balance that region.
00:37:01.000Now, it doesn't mean that they're angels, right?
00:37:04.000And I don't have any faith in that region at any point as Earth exists, just to be clear.
00:37:10.000But currently they do kind of help with some counterintelligence, some anti-terrorism operations.
00:37:14.000We do need some strategic locations for our bases.
00:37:49.000It's very important, especially with leaders that you disagree with.
00:37:51.000I think for a long time, our foreign policy objective has been to isolate leaders or punish them when they do stuff that we don't agree with, right?
00:37:59.000So for the killing of a journalist, you could theoretically go a number of different directions, right?
00:38:10.000Our other presidents didn't have the ability to go and meet with these guys and to have a good conversation and be able to tap them on the leg with this and be like, oh, that's a fantastic thing.
00:38:47.000This is the racist Tea Party, the racist right, just looking for a reason to criticize Barack Obama.
00:38:54.000When Donald Trump meets with him and gets him to commit to a trillion dollars worth of investments in the United States, and by them I mean the Saudi government, I know that things change, people change out.
00:39:03.000They go, oh, look, this is a betrayal of the American people.
00:39:06.000So it's not when Barack Obama bows and gets nothing for his efforts, but it's a betrayal when Donald Trump is leading the dance and forcing them to invest.
00:39:14.000You need to apply the standard equally.
00:39:18.000Look at the action and look at the reaction from the media and the left, but I repeat myself.
00:39:23.000One quick note here, just on the Kashuki story.
00:39:26.000This is what he tweeted out, I guess, the day that bin Laden was killed.
00:39:30.000I just fell apart crying heartbreak to you, Abu Abdullah.
00:39:34.000You were beautiful, brave in those beautiful days in Afghanistan before you succumbed to anger and passion.
00:39:38.000So it is a controversial figure for sure.
00:39:42.000Yeah, but when you say as the who wrote that?
00:39:50.000When you say like, you know, as the crime president, we're going to like, you know, make sure this doesn't happen again.
00:39:54.000It's not like you like forgot to put somebody's fries in the bag in the order, you know, like at the drive-thru and you're like, ah, we have procedures in place.
00:40:00.000Like somebody came into an embassy in Turkey, I believe, and never left.
00:41:43.000I've always thought the files should be released.
00:41:45.000I don't think that Donald Trump should be impeached because of this quagmire that has taken place.
00:41:49.000But here we are now, where the House, Senate, and President are all on the same page.
00:41:55.000House and Senate both voted for the release of the Epstein files, which will be sent now to President Trump's desk.
00:42:01.000Now it is on its way to the president's desk in a remarkable turnaround in an extremely fast move here.
00:42:09.000The Senate has essentially greenlighted this bill to be approved as soon as tonight and be sent to the president's desk.
00:42:16.000Now, essentially what happened was that in the aftermath of this House vote this afternoon, 427 to 1, just one member of the entire United States House voting against it.
00:42:48.000So Representative Clay Higgins, he was the lone no vote in the House.
00:42:54.000Now, to present you his side of the story, he wrote and explained on X, I have been a principled no on this bill from the beginning.
00:43:02.000If enacted in its current form, this type of broad reveal of criminal investigative files released to a rabid media will absolutely result in innocent people being hurt.
00:43:12.000He went on to say, if we release the files on this child sex predator, then we'll have to do it for all of them.
00:44:19.000And of course, the left, Donald Trump said that we should release the files.
00:44:25.000And then it was voted unanimously yes, of course, from the Senate and the House.
00:44:30.000And during the Biden administration, where the left really didn't, there was not a peep from them about Epstein.
00:44:35.000Republicans were pushing for it for a very long time.
00:44:37.000As a matter of fact, the big reason for the civil fracturing on the right, because you still have a lot of principled people on the right who believe that the files should be released, and it looked like they wouldn't.
00:44:45.000Somehow the left is spinning this as a victory for them.
00:44:50.000This is a dramatic legislative turnaround and a huge loss for Trump, make no mistake.
00:44:54.000Trump has clearly just given up the fight.
00:44:58.000Donald Trump tried to desperately stop this night from happening.
00:45:06.000They tried everything they could to stop it.
00:45:09.000The goal of this bill passed by such a large margin that Trump can't put his little orange thumb on the scale and give it the old Cheeto veto.
00:45:18.000The Epstein files have finally broken Donald Trump's dictatorial grip on the House and on the Senate.
00:45:26.000When it became clear that the House was going to ignore Trump and vote to release the Epstein files anyway, Trump backtracked and said, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, do that.
00:45:35.000Donald Trump spent much of the past week trying to strong-arm his party into voting against the release of the Epstein files.
00:45:40.000Basically, every Republican except for one rejected Trump's demands.
00:45:44.000His pressure and jockeying didn't work this time.
00:45:47.000And of course, Jasmine Crockett, not to be outdone by anyone else who refuses to do a mockum of research, called out all the people who took money from someone who may have also been named Jeffrey Epstein.
00:46:00.000Folks who also took money from somebody named Jeffrey Epstein, as I had my team dig in very quickly, Mitt Romney, the NRCC, Lee Zeldon, George Bush, Wynn Red, McCain Palin, Rick Lazio.
00:46:37.000A physician named Dr. Jeffrey Epstein, who is a totally different person than the other Jeffrey Epstein, donated to a prior campaign of mine.
00:47:18.000Here's the irony: Stacey Plaskett, who's sitting next to her in that video, she took campaign donations directly from the actual Epstein in 2016.
00:49:00.000And if anything, if you find this to be a disappointment when and if the files are released, I would like you to direct your ire toward Pam Bondi.
00:49:11.000Pam Bondi is the common denominator here that has been a problem.
00:49:16.000Remember, this is going to allow, by the way, Pam Bondi to withhold or redact information that could jeopardize any active investigations or name victims.
00:49:26.000And the problem is redactions have been used for far more than that in the past.
00:49:30.000So there needs to be some level of transparency here.
00:49:33.000And the reason that this is different from a lot of other cases is Americans watch this take place in real time, and it perfectly crystallizes elites getting off with horrendous crimes that the average American would never be able to imagine.
00:49:48.000Keep in mind, this is a woman, Pam Bondi.
00:49:49.000She had a lot of time to address, to take on cases from Epstein victims during her time as AG in Florida.
00:49:58.000There were a lot of, I know that he was convicted, got that sweetheart deal.
00:50:01.000I believe it was 08, maybe it was 2006.
00:50:05.000But then there were a lot of people contesting it, people bringing forward briefings, people bringing forward cases in Florida, and Bondi did absolutely nothing.
00:50:12.000And of course, she was the one who completely botched the rollout of the files in February, one of the biggest embarrassments at any point in either of Trump's administrations.
00:50:23.000The DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients.
00:51:09.000If this is disappointing, if what comes to fruition, remember, the final judgment call as to what will be included or redacted rests with Pam Bondi.
00:51:19.000If I'm going to criticize President Trump, it is his loyalty or any fondness that he has for Pam Bondi.
00:51:40.000And by the way, if you're redacting people's names that have actually come out and publicly spoken on this on the steps of the Capitol, they're right over there.
00:52:07.000I mean, you saw it with, was it the New York Times or Washington Post who withheld the name of Virginia Guff when she was very public about what happened with Epstein and that Trump had no involvement?
00:52:58.000By the way, the betting odds currently on Cal Sheet are actually that President Trump, that these files get released before 2026, 68% chance, and before September 2026, an 88% chance, which tells me, you know what would be hilarious, and this may not happen, but it would be hilarious if they released these just in time for midterms and it was awful for Democrats if all of this was a play.
00:53:24.000You think that might be what's afoot and what do you expect in these Epstein files?
00:53:28.000This is, don't ever let anyone tell you, I will say, don't ever let anyone tell you that, oh, you know what?
00:53:40.000We watched this take place in real time.
00:53:42.000It was the most clear example of corruption or one of that we have seen in our lifetime.
00:53:47.000And everyone wonders, how did this get through and how is this guy still protected?
00:53:50.000And the drain the swamp mentality that Donald Trump has had since his first time running for president, saying, I'm going to drain the swamp.
00:53:57.000This is the swamp in most people's eyes because they know that there are a lot of powerful, very well-connected individuals that are associated with this that could be implicated and hurt by this.
00:54:06.000And the only reason for not releasing it is to make sure that you protect them.
00:54:09.000And it's like, well, if you're just the same as everybody else, this is the contention.
00:57:41.000Look, $23 million on lavish travel, on luxuries, and yes, taxpayer-funded.
00:57:50.000So you, and in this case, it might just be mostly Chicago because a lot of the funding for public schools are not just federal, but state as well.
00:59:16.000The money too, and this happens in schools across the country, and you could say the same about healthcare, it's going to the pockets of the administration, not teachers and not necessarily students.
00:59:25.000So Chicago from 2019 to 2025, the administrative growth, 40%.
01:00:35.000And as a matter of fact, if you go look at different municipalities, often where you see the costs or the taxpayer, sort of what's paid out, you see scores worse even where you see more spending in places like D.C., in places like Chicago, in places like Detroit.
01:00:50.000You certainly cannot argue that there's a correlation with increased spending and better results.
01:00:54.000Usually, you're seeing the inverse, to be clear.
01:00:57.000But 87.6% increase in administrative positions.
01:01:00.000That's what happens when you write a blank check to a failing system.
01:01:05.000Not to mention some of the teachers themselves facing criticism for their poor student relations.
01:02:40.000And some estimates say if you adjust for inflation, it's closer to $3 trillion.
01:02:44.000Let's say between $2 and $3 trillion on the department, the federal Department of Education.
01:02:48.000And we have, and I want to be clear about this, not some results, not okay, give and take, zero results.
01:02:57.000Zero, and in many cases where you see increased spending in urban areas, worse results.
01:03:04.000Can you point me to anywhere else in the natural world where you would have trillions, billions, millions, tens of thousands of dollars invested into an enterprise, into a business that fails at its express purpose for half a century and it continues?
01:04:13.000The only way to win this game is not to play.
01:04:15.000Please, parents, avoid public schools and comment below if you at some point maybe did pull your children from public schools and saw the results.
01:04:24.000I just, it's one of those things the left goes, what, you don't care about kids?
01:04:32.000Well, every time we've tried to fix those issues, we've made them worse.
01:04:36.000The Federal Department of Education is just another wealth redistribution scam.
01:04:42.000And it only serves to enrich those who are orchestrating the scam.
01:04:48.000Those in administrative positions, who, by the way, also control the purse strings of the unions who give repeatedly to Democrats.
01:04:54.000As long as Democrats exist in the United States political system, the Federal Department of Education will be a failure and your children will be worse off.