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00:00:00.000 Another 2020 Democrat drops out of the race, and that candidate's failure says a lot about

00:00:07.140 the Democrats' present dilemma. We will examine the fallout as another one bites the dust.

00:00:12.060 Speaking of which, an explosive new book sheds new light on who Jeffrey Epstein was and how he died

00:00:19.840 and if he died. We will get to that. The book just came out yesterday. I've read it, and it is pretty

00:00:25.880 wild. Then a transgender woman, which means a man, demands a gynecologist inspect the genitals that

00:00:32.500 he doesn't have. We will analyze why that matters, and Hong Kong protesters find hope in swole Trump.

00:00:39.540 All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:42.280 Swole Donald Trump, an image of Rocky Balboa with Donald Trump's face, is a symbol of freedom and

00:00:57.840 hope around the world. What a great timeline we are all living in. Could you imagine a better

00:01:04.000 timeline? I can't. But on that point, on 2020, on the leader of the free world and the hope for the

00:01:10.760 future and the hope for 2020, another one bites the dust. You've probably already seen this going

00:01:16.040 around the internet. Kamala Harris is officially out of the race. You know, it's not significant

00:01:22.480 in terms of the actual election. No one thought that Kamala Harris was going to be able to claw her

00:01:28.760 way out of the 2% in the polls that she had. But it does say something about the state of the

00:01:33.660 Democratic Party right now. The fact that her candidacy flopped, her candidacy, which looked very good

00:01:38.080 on paper, flopped, tells you a lot about where we are. Why did the candidacy look good on paper?

00:01:44.720 Because the left is obsessed with identity politics, racial identity, and sexual identity

00:01:50.120 politics. Obviously, Kamala Harris checks those boxes. The left is obsessed with unfettered

00:01:56.220 immigration. Kamala Harris is the child of immigrants. In terms of presidential appeal, in terms

00:02:04.300 of how these races tend to work, if you've been on the scene too long, generally, that doesn't bode well

00:02:09.840 for you, especially in the Democratic Party. Now, think of Barack Obama, right? Barack Obama goes up

00:02:14.880 against Hillary Clinton. We all knew Hillary forever. She'd been around since the dawn of time.

00:02:20.280 She was around St. Petersburg when she felt it was time for a change. So they knew what they were

00:02:24.100 getting in her. Barack Obama, very little was known about him. And that actually helped him. He was a

00:02:29.320 better candidate because people didn't know that much about him. They could project

00:02:32.400 their hopes and dreams onto him. Hope and change was the big theme of that campaign.

00:02:36.660 Same thing was true of Kamala Harris. People didn't really know who she was.

00:02:40.080 She was an attractive-looking candidate. She sounded pretty good when she wasn't giving that awful,

00:02:45.260 cackling laugh. She had been an attorney general. She had been a prosecutor. She had been a senator for

00:02:52.380 about five minutes. Everything looked good about her campaign, except ideologically. Except

00:02:59.800 ideologically, because Kamala Harris couldn't pick a lane. And this, this could be the name

00:03:04.620 of the 2020 Democratic primary is, can you pick a lane? The pick a lane primary, no one's able to do

00:03:11.080 it. They're all veering left. They're all veering center. Liz Warren, is she going to be a kind of

00:03:15.120 establishment Harvard professor? Or is she going to be this radical leftist trying to go to the left

00:03:19.460 of Bernie Sanders? Mayor Pete, is Mayor Pete going to be this radical person saying that if you don't

00:03:23.980 support abortion and gay marriage, you're a, not a Christian? Or is he going to be the moderate

00:03:28.020 guy in Joe Biden's lane? Joe Biden himself, who is the moderate in the race? Is Joe Biden going to

00:03:33.560 lean into being a moderate? Or is he going to support lifting the ban on taxpayer funding for

00:03:38.380 abortion? That's the trouble with this race. And one thing we're seeing is it doesn't hurt you to be

00:03:45.020 in either of those lanes. When Joe Biden is playing the moderate, he generally does pretty well. When

00:03:50.200 Bernie Sanders is playing the leftist, he generally does pretty well. But when you start to veer left and

00:03:55.460 center and left and center, that's when you fall apart. And that's what happened to Kamala Harris.

00:04:00.400 Kamala Harris lost because of her own weaknesses. She also lost because Tulsi Gabbard absolutely

00:04:09.240 shanked her during one of the Democratic debates. You can almost pinpoint, there are two moments,

00:04:15.100 I think, that you can pinpoint when Kamala Harris's campaign completely fell apart.

00:04:19.320 One of them at the hands of Tulsi Gabbard on CNN.

00:04:22.440 Senator Harris says she's proud of her record as a prosecutor and that she'll be a prosecutor

00:04:27.320 president. But I'm deeply concerned about this record. There are too many examples to cite,

00:04:32.260 but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was

00:04:37.360 asked if she ever smoked marijuana. She blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man

00:04:42.620 from death row until the courts forced her to do so. She kept people in prison beyond their sentences

00:04:48.320 to use them as cheap labor for the state of California. And she fought to keep cash bail

00:04:54.200 system in place that impacts poor people in the worst kind of way. When you were in a position

00:04:59.780 to make a difference and an impact in these people's lives, you did not. And worse yet,

00:05:05.200 in the case of those who were on death row, innocent people, you actually blocked evidence from being

00:05:11.420 revealed that would have freed them until you were forced to do so. There is no excuse for that.

00:05:16.380 And the people who suffered under your reign as prosecutor, you owe them an apology.

00:05:22.540 Tulsi, stop it. Stop it, Tulsi. She's already dead. So this was the attack. The attack on Kamala was

00:05:28.340 Kamala's a cop. Kamala's too tough on crime. Kamala was throwing people into the prison system.

00:05:35.020 That was the attack from the left, which is funny that it's made by Tulsi Gabbard, who is

00:05:39.200 ostensibly more to the right of the Democratic Party on a number of issues. That was the hit that

00:05:44.960 they were putting on Kamala. It worked very well because Kamala played her whole campaign as though

00:05:52.380 she's going to prosecute the case against Donald Trump, right? She's the tough prosecutor. She's

00:05:57.880 the serious candidate. She's, she's not one of these hippy dippy candidates. She's going to be really

00:06:02.540 tough. And what Tulsi Gabbard did is she didn't go for Kamala's weaknesses exactly. She went for her

00:06:08.840 strengths. Kamala's running. I'm the ex attorney general. I had a good career as a prosecutor

00:06:13.900 and Tulsi goes for that strength. Now, if Kamala were a smart candidate, she would have leaned into

00:06:19.980 that. She would have said, yeah, damn right. I put criminals in jail and I'm going to put the

00:06:24.260 biggest criminal in America who's sitting in the white house, whose name is Donald Trump. I'm going

00:06:28.760 to put that guy in jail. He would have, he would have kind of done what Donald Trump did in 2016,

00:06:33.460 right? Donald Trump in 2016, when Hillary Clinton said, I don't want to live in an America where

00:06:37.960 you're president. Trump said, yeah, that's cause you'd be in jail, right? He's like leaning right

00:06:41.580 into it. That's what Kamala Harris should have done. Instead, she didn't. She goes on the breakfast

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00:09:07.220 You're a, you're a cop. You're a prosecutor. You're throwing people into prison. Instead of leaning into

00:09:12.420 that, doubling down and saying, damn right. That's my campaign. I'm going to prosecute Donald

00:09:16.340 Trump. I'm going to restore some order and sensibility to America. Instead of doing that,

00:09:22.560 Kamala leans in the other direction and pretends that she's some big pothead when she goes on a

00:09:26.640 radio show. Have you ever smoked? I have. Okay. And I, and I inhale. I didn't, I did inhale.

00:09:35.160 It was a long time ago, but yes. I know you have to go. They say you have to go. I just broke loose.

00:09:40.820 I mean, was it in college? See, see, I like stuff like that. That's a real honest answer.

00:09:46.900 Was it a blunt or a joint? It was a joint. Hey, do you remember the high? I do.

00:09:54.100 Has anybody ever talked about smoking pot in a more calculated and less believable manner?

00:10:01.420 Hey, so Kamala, you ever smoke pot? Yes. Yeah. Is that the right answer? Yes. I, I, yes,

00:10:08.940 I have smoked the ganja, the old Haitian oregano. You betcha. That Peruvian parsley. Yes. I

00:10:14.400 smoked it. Uh, okay. Uh, would you, did you smoke a blunt? Did you smoke a bowl? Did you smoke a bong?

00:10:21.700 Did you smoke a joint? Oh yeah. I had a joint. Is that right? Yeah. Join. I smoked those jazz

00:10:28.940 cigarettes out in downtown Manhattan. Yes, I did. I know. Like I don't, I actually don't even believe

00:10:34.940 she smoked a joint. Just the way she's talking about it. It's so calculated. It's so unbelievable.

00:10:41.400 And then the joke, and I did inhale, you're supposed to inhale marijuana, right? Okay. I

00:10:45.500 inhaled that. I just don't buy it. And then the story gets even less credible when they ask her at

00:10:51.980 the end, well, when you're, when you're smoking all that pot that you allegedly used to smoke,

00:10:57.100 you know, what kind of music were you listening to? Even that doesn't sound believable.

00:11:02.240 So what does Kamala Harris listen to? What were you listening to when you was high?

00:11:07.520 What was on? What song was on? Oh my goodness. Oh yeah. Definitely Snoop. Uh-huh. Uh, Tupac.

00:11:14.280 For sure. For sure. Yeah, definitely. Definitely Kamala. You, you, when you were chewing it up to

00:11:21.880 use Barack Obama's word, you were listening to Snoop and Tupac. And by the way, Kamala, when did

00:11:28.660 you smoke a, okay, she said she smoked pot during college. She graduated college in 1986. I believe

00:11:34.560 it was years before Snoop or Tupac ever released their first album. It's, that's actually a lie.

00:11:41.200 Now, do you want to know what I actually think Kamala Harris did during college? I think she's

00:11:46.420 studied because she's obviously a type A personality. She is ruthlessly ambitious. Ask Willie Brown. I'll

00:11:52.940 just leave it at that. She wants to get ahead in her career. I don't, I, I don't know that she's

00:11:58.880 ever smoked pot even once in her life, even to try it, which is fine. I wish her answer to this

00:12:03.560 question, did you ever smoke pot? Like, uh, no, cause I'm not a degenerate. No, I haven't smoked pot.

00:12:08.860 Even though virtually every young American has, I think they would have respected that answer. At least

00:12:13.440 that's an, that's, there are these two kinds of candidates, right? Candidates who are just trying

00:12:19.500 to pander to you who want to make you believe that you're exactly like them and they're exactly

00:12:24.940 like you. That's what Kamala Harris is trying to do. Or there are candidates like Donald Trump

00:12:30.080 who says, yeah, I'm pretty much nothing like you. I'm a billionaire playboy. I've never had a drink

00:12:35.940 in my life. I've never had a beer, not even once. And yet because of that honesty, because of that

00:12:41.900 bluntness, people feel that they have more in common with Donald Trump because he talks like a real

00:12:46.440 human being. He's not just, every time he's asked a question, he's not just trying to think,

00:12:50.640 hmm, what's the way that I'll be most relatable to the person that I'm talking to in this specific

00:12:54.740 audience. He doesn't do that. And that's, so it's much more believable. If they had said,

00:12:58.780 hey, Kamala, did you ever smoke pot? She goes, no, I enjoy Chardonnay. That's my drug of choice is

00:13:04.960 Chardonnay. Yeah. Who do you listen to when you're, when you're drinking Chardonnay? I listened to Brahms

00:13:10.160 and Haydn and Bach because I'm better than you and I'm smarter than you and I study more than you

00:13:16.820 do. And I have wanted to be a lawyer and a politician since the day I was born. And that's

00:13:21.960 who I am. People would have respected that a lot more. She was disingenuous. She was not believable.

00:13:28.520 She didn't stand for anything. Okay. This, this gets back to advice. I think, I forget if it was

00:13:36.600 President George W. Bush, some, some people from the Bush era would, would regularly bring this up

00:13:42.020 even when they were talking about, say, the Iraq war, for instance, and all the problems that came

00:13:46.320 with the Iraq war. And the point is sometimes a wrong decision is better than indecision.

00:13:54.580 People can respect a wrong decision. People can respect a difference. What they can't respect

00:14:00.780 is waffling and wavering and pandering. Rudy Giuliani, I remember when he lost the 2008

00:14:07.640 presidential race was when he was asked if he was rooting for the, the Red Sox in the World Series.

00:14:14.680 And he said he was rooting for the Red Sox. Rudy Giuliani, a lifelong Yankee fan,

00:14:21.140 mayor of New York, mayor of New York during 9-11. He said he was rooting for the Red Sox.

00:14:24.640 And then he came up with this convoluted logic. He said, because I'm an American League fan.

00:14:30.580 No, you're not. If you're a Yankee fan, you know what your favorite baseball team is? The Yankees.

00:14:35.200 You know what your second favorite baseball team is? Any team that can beat the Boston Red Sox.

00:14:41.060 Simple as that. He, what, he thought he was going to lose all the Massachusetts voters because he

00:14:45.340 doesn't like the Red Sox? They know he doesn't like the Red Sox. He's a Yankee fan. They can respect

00:14:49.160 that. You can respect a difference. You can respect a firm position that someone's holding. How, how many

00:14:54.100 times do you hear this about Donald Trump? Hear people say, I don't really agree with Trump on

00:14:58.500 this, this, and this, but I like that he's honest. I like that he's blunt. I like that he tells me

00:15:02.040 what he thinks. Kamala didn't learn that lesson. There are other, there are other Democratic candidates

00:15:07.060 who have not learned that lesson either. We'll get to that a little bit later. But now that Kamala

00:15:11.180 has bitten the dust, we have got to get to another man who bit the dust, Jeffrey Epstein. There is a

00:15:17.380 bombshell new book. It just came out yesterday. It's called Epstein, Dead Men Tell No Tales.

00:15:22.660 This was in, pardon me, I'm so excited about this. And I'm also a little nervous that the more I talk

00:15:28.080 about this, this episode, or this, this book rather, that Hillary Clinton's going to knock down the door

00:15:32.600 and cause me to commit suicide. But it came out yesterday, really good reporters. I think I might

00:15:39.900 be the only person that's actually read the book so far. I read the whole thing yesterday. I couldn't

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00:15:50.700 information that we've heard hints of. We'll get to that in a second. We will find out perhaps once

00:15:56.340 and for all the likelihood that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself. And if, if he did kill himself,

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00:18:34.960 This book, actually something of a bombshell. Epstein, Dead Men Tell No Tales. It's written

00:18:41.220 by three investigative journalists, Dylan Howard, Melissa Cronin, and James Robertson. It's important

00:18:46.280 to note the authors because these aren't just total kooks. These are pretty well-known Hollywood

00:18:50.600 reporters. Dylan Howard has been a huge investigator for, for U.S. tabloids and show business papers,

00:18:57.460 U.S. Weekly, National Enquirer, star, in touch. Adweek called him the king of Hollywood scoops.

00:19:03.220 This guy broke the story of Mel Gibson's audio tapes screaming at his girlfriend. He broke

00:19:08.260 the governor's love child, Schwarzenegger's kid. He broke a lot of Anthony Weiner stories,

00:19:14.120 the Tiger Woods sex scandal, that Charlie Sheen has HIV. He's a big deal and he's, he's got a pretty

00:19:21.460 good track record. Melissa Cronin is another major tabloid reporter and a Harvard graduate.

00:19:28.160 And Robertson, James Robertson, broke the story of Epstein's first suicide attempt.

00:19:33.160 They, these guys have been investigating Jeffrey Epstein for eight years. They've now put out their

00:19:40.320 book. For some reason, no one, no one really has read it. I haven't seen a whole lot of coverage of

00:19:45.440 this book yet so far. Probably because it just came out yesterday. A lot of salacious details and

00:19:51.380 it does offer some, some suggestions on big questions. The biggest claim in the book is

00:19:57.180 with regard to Jeffrey Epstein's identity. Who is this guy? How did he get his money? Who was he

00:20:04.540 working for? Was he working for anybody? Was there something bigger going on here than just

00:20:08.580 a wealthy guy running a sex ring? The biggest claim in the book strongly suggested by the book

00:20:15.600 is that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were working for an intelligence service. It was a

00:20:25.180 foreign entity. It was Mossad, the Israeli intelligence apparatus. That is probably the most consistently

00:20:33.780 suggested point throughout the whole book. What's the evidence for it? Well, Ghislaine Maxwell,

00:20:38.560 who was Jeffrey Epstein's madam. Her father, Robert Maxwell, almost certainly worked for Mossad.

00:20:44.880 Rafi Atan, who's a famous Mossad agent, says that Robert Maxwell worked for Mossad. Other people have

00:20:50.260 backed that up. The British foreign office believed that Robert Maxwell was a foreign spy.

00:20:55.740 Ari Ben-Manash, who's a former Israeli spy, who says he was the alleged handler of Robert Maxwell,

00:21:01.560 says that Maxwell introduced Epstein to Mossad. How did this happen? Epstein,

00:21:08.560 and Ghislaine Maxwell took a shine to one another early on. Robert Maxwell then allegedly introduced

00:21:15.840 Jeffrey Epstein to Mossad. This is not to say that Jeffrey Epstein was a spy in the traditional sense,

00:21:22.480 that he was, you know, a trained career spy. Actually, what the investigators claim is that Epstein and

00:21:30.000 Maxwell weren't terribly competent. They weren't James Bond exactly, but they were very, very good at

00:21:37.300 socializing. That Epstein had this absolute sixth sense for ingratiating himself to people, for

00:21:44.420 understanding social cues, and that he could just rise through the ranks of any social circle. So

00:21:50.720 because of that, they were very good at blackmailing American politicians and politicians from around

00:21:57.060 the world. Maxwell also had connections, this is Robert Maxwell, to the Khashoggi family. Now,

00:22:06.540 if that name rings a bell, that's because the journalist, according to the mainstream media in

00:22:10.860 America, really known as the Saudi insider, Jamal Khashoggi, was killed by Mohammed bin Salman in Turkey

00:22:18.180 just last year. It was, yeah, it was 2018. Jamal Khashoggi, who the, the West is presenting as this

00:22:25.600 fearless journalist who was really a part of a well-known family in Saudi Arabia and, and worked

00:22:31.260 with the Saudi regime. Robert Maxwell had connections to Adnan Khashoggi, who was obviously very connected

00:22:38.520 to Saudi intelligence. Apparently the, the, the Maxwell's introduced Epstein to Khashoggi. Then

00:22:47.920 Epstein's working with Adnan Khashoggi, who was a major figure in the Iran-Contra scandal in the

00:22:54.120 United States during the Reagan administration, when the United States was selling arms around the

00:22:58.520 world. Epstein was working with Adnan Khashoggi to basically broker these arms deals. Okay, so he's

00:23:05.980 already got these connections, you see, to different, uh, intelligence networks, not just necessarily

00:23:11.840 Israel, but also the United States because the CIA was involved with Khashoggi as well. We know that

00:23:19.420 Jeffrey Epstein was running a blackmail ring. He had cameras fitted out on all of his properties and they

00:23:25.460 weren't cameras like you see at a, at a grocery store or the cameras sticking out of the wall. These were

00:23:30.060 hidden cameras. They were in clocks. They were in parts of desks. They were very, very well

00:23:35.980 hidden. This was gathering tons of information on high level politicians, not just in the U.S., but

00:23:43.860 around the world. We know that Epstein is connected to the CIA. We know he's connected to MI6, the

00:23:49.620 British intelligence apparatus. We know he's correct it, connected to Saudi Arabia. He had a, uh, an

00:23:56.780 Australian or an Austrian passport rather that listed him as a Saudi resident. We know that he used

00:24:02.420 that passport to get into the United Kingdom and to get into Saudi Arabia. Who gave him the passport?

00:24:08.100 Obviously it was some intelligence service. Epstein then in the eighties and nineties boasted that he

00:24:13.860 was connected to the CIA. He was also connected to the CIA because after dropping out of college,

00:24:18.360 he got a job at the Dalton school, a very prestigious private school that had, was being run and the

00:24:25.640 headmaster had just retired, but he was still very involved by Donald Barr who worked with the CIA.

00:24:30.460 And if the name Barr sounds familiar, it's because Barr is the father of the current U.S.

00:24:34.580 Attorney General, William Barr. Lots of weird connections to intelligence here. How did that

00:24:41.980 play out in Jeffrey Epstein's sweetheart deals? How did it play out in his death? We'll get to that

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00:26:53.520 So all of these connections to international intelligence apparently got Jeffrey Epstein

00:27:00.260 some pretty sweetheart deals, not just on the sex scandals that came in the mid-2000s and obviously

00:27:07.260 more recently, but even on financial scandals. So according to one of Epstein's ex-colleagues,

00:27:13.580 Steven Hoffenberg, Epstein was being investigated for financial crimes at Towers Financial in the 90s.

00:27:22.420 The people who were investigating him were two of his closest friends and confidants. How did he hook

00:27:27.820 that up? He happened to just be this mastermind criminal with a lot of information on everybody.

00:27:34.620 So he gets investigated by two people who were close to him. This means that Epstein's colleague,

00:27:40.540 Steven Hoffenberg, ends up in prison with a $1 million fine, $463 million in restitution,

00:27:46.560 20 years in the clink. Epstein gets off scot-free. By the way, right before his death, Epstein put all of

00:27:54.240 his wealth into a trust that was being controlled by the two men who investigated him and let him

00:28:01.000 off the hook for these financial crimes in the 90s. This raises the question in the book,

00:28:04.960 is Epstein still alive? Epstein gets pinched for fraud and a Ponzi scheme. Again, Epstein gets off

00:28:12.180 scot-free. He actually gets a sort of a promotion because he ends up cleaning up the finances of

00:28:17.240 Les Wexner, who's the head of Victoria's Secret. During this time, he then ends up renting an apartment

00:28:22.760 for $15,000 a month in New York City, but he doesn't have any money. How does he get the apartment?

00:28:28.440 Guess who his landlord is? The State Department. During this whole time, after Jeffrey Epstein has

00:28:35.420 been discovered to be this criminal, at least in the financial sense, he's renting an apartment

00:28:40.660 from the State Department. Then Les Wexner, the head of Victoria's Secret, buys a major mansion in

00:28:47.940 New York. The Herbert N. Strauss mansion, buys it for $40 million. It's the biggest private sale

00:28:52.420 ever in New York at the time. He guts it. He installs cameras all over it. He installs a heated

00:28:58.220 sidewalk. Then he just gives it to Jeffrey Epstein. There's no record of any money changing hands

00:29:03.820 during that sale of the property. The transaction was never recorded in New York City records online.

00:29:10.160 Another aspect of all this, when the cops finally raided Epstein's Palm Beach house in 2006,

00:29:18.560 they get there and everybody was totally calm. Epstein wasn't on the property at the time.

00:29:22.760 Everyone's totally calm because the house had already been cleaned out. All those records that

00:29:26.360 they were looking for, already gone. Someone had tipped him off. He obviously had connections

00:29:30.480 to law enforcement. The investigators write that Epstein's lawyers knew about details of the

00:29:36.720 cop investigation ahead of time. He gets the sweetheart deal from the federal government

00:29:41.200 because Alex Acosta, then U.S. attorney, ended up being labor secretary for Trump,

00:29:45.500 went over the head of the investigators to the DOJ, got the case dropped. Even the way it was reported

00:29:51.460 in the press at the time, the New York Times gave a very fluffy report. Said, oh, it's not a big deal.

00:29:56.720 The reporter who wrote that, Landon Thomas Jr., went so easy on Jeffrey Epstein. We'll get to how

00:30:03.080 Epstein's connected to Trump in a second. He then got a $30,000 donation from Epstein to a preferred

00:30:10.420 charity of his and then ultimately left the New York Times under a cloud of controversy.

00:30:15.060 Jeffrey Epstein knew freaking everybody. He knew everybody. The flight log, this is where Trump

00:30:20.800 comes in. The flight logs on his plane, the Lolita Express, include Kevin Spacey, Ralph Fiennes,

00:30:27.280 David Blaine, Courtney Love, Jimmy Buffett, Charlie Rose, Bill Wallace, Bill Gates, Tony Blair, Ehud

00:30:34.020 Barak, former prime minister of Israel, David Koch, the zillionaire conservative libertarian funder,

00:30:40.700 Bill Clinton, former president of the United States, you might recall. Bill Clinton, who flew on that

00:30:48.420 plane 27 times, even though he denied it. Bill Clinton, who went with his wife and stayed at Epstein's

00:30:54.920 properties in New Mexico and to Donald Trump, except Donald Trump, there's not a lot of evidence

00:31:02.440 that he flew on the Lolita Express plane. Interestingly, of all these very powerful men,

00:31:09.000 the Epstein accusers say they saw Trump a number of times, but they never saw Trump engage in the

00:31:15.300 sexual activities. Even Virginia Roberts, who's the main accuser against Epstein, she says, yeah,

00:31:19.900 I saw Donald Trump, but I never saw him engage in any of the weird sex stuff. But Epstein was close

00:31:26.620 to so many other people. Mohammed bin Salman, who's running Saudi Arabia, who ordered the killing of

00:31:31.820 Jamal Khashoggi, who's the nephew of Adnan Khashoggi. When, when Jeffrey Epstein got released from his

00:31:37.260 sweetheart jail sentence in Palm Beach, he had a welcome home party attended by Prince Andrew,

00:31:41.760 Charlie Rose, Katie Couric, Chelsea Handler, the comedian, Woody Allen, and George Stephanopoulos,

00:31:46.740 who's the chief political anchor over at ABC, and who was the communications director for Bill

00:31:51.440 Clinton. All of these guys so connected to him. Prince Andrew, according to this reporting,

00:31:56.880 way more involved than anybody had previously thought. And then you get to the weirdest matter

00:32:02.540 of all, which is all the mysterious deaths that occurred just around the time of Epstein getting

00:32:09.580 pinched and Epstein's alleged suicide. We'll get to that in a second. Then we'll get to,

00:32:13.700 speaking of creepy sex stuff, Jessica Yaniv, the transgender activist who is demanding that

00:32:20.720 gynecologists treat the genitals that he does not have. We will get to the world's largest animal

00:32:26.960 sacrifice. We will get to swole Trump. All of that and more. But you must go to dailywire.com.

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00:32:48.140 has a lot to do with Hollywood and the creepy, weird sex stuff that goes on here and how that's

00:32:54.340 connected to international leftism. And it's pretty much just about Jeffrey Epstein, even though Drew

00:33:01.500 wrote the book before Jeffrey Epstein was a big news story. Truth is sometimes just as true as fiction

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00:33:19.900 back with a lot more. Just one last note on Jeffrey Epstein and what it might mean for his alleged

00:33:38.140 suicide. There was not just the death of Jeffrey Epstein when we saw the death of Jeffrey Epstein.

00:33:45.200 There were a lot of other people who were close to Epstein who died around that time.

00:33:49.720 So Epstein was terrified that he was going to be assassinated. This has gone on for decades.

00:33:54.460 He had his pilots when his plane was grounded drive out to Texas to armor plate his car because he was

00:34:00.420 so convinced he was about to be killed. The guy who owned the company that Epstein's chauffeur worked

00:34:08.020 for, you got to remember Epstein's chauffeur is working pretty much exclusively for him.

00:34:11.720 He died mysteriously three days before Epstein died. And the people close to him say they have no

00:34:18.120 idea why he died. In 2018, one of the Palm Beach sheriff guys, one of the guys on the case,

00:34:26.860 died suddenly at the age of 50. The age of 50, very young man, just when all this Epstein stuff came

00:34:33.760 about. Died of a very sudden illness that came on quickly and he was dead within six months.

00:34:39.680 Around that same time, a house man for Jeffrey Epstein who cleaned Jeffrey Epstein's sex toys

00:34:46.580 died of a similar illness, a six month cancer at the young age of 60. At the same time,

00:34:53.560 one of the victims for the plaintiffs or one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs rather died of another

00:34:59.040 quick acting cancer at age 68. A lot of weird deaths occurring around Jeffrey Epstein at a very

00:35:08.800 early age. Now, I'm not a conspiracy theorist guy. I always want the simplest answer to the

00:35:16.360 question. Some of these people might've just died. People die. That happens. But as more and more

00:35:24.520 of these coincidences start to occur, as more of these connections start to occur, I mean,

00:35:29.420 the connections between Jeffrey Epstein and the intelligence services are undeniable.

00:35:33.540 How do we know that? Because Alex Acosta, the U.S. attorney on the case, actually said that they

00:35:40.640 reduced the punishment for Jeffrey Epstein because he's above my pay grade, quote, he belongs to

00:35:46.280 intelligence. Jeffrey Epstein was operating an international blackmail ring. All of that seems

00:35:54.660 to suggest not a conspiracy theory, but an actual conspiracy. Why does it matter? Why does this book

00:36:02.900 matter? The book matters because nobody's taking the case seriously anymore? I mean, we joke about it.

00:36:11.640 I've been joking about it all the time. You know, Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself. That became a

00:36:15.160 meme. People would add it to normal, everyday, quotidian conversation, and then they'd end with this

00:36:21.500 non sequitur and Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself, and we all laugh about it. We are laughing about it,

00:36:26.240 sure, because it's so funny that no one's talking about Jeffrey Epstein anymore. The guy ran

00:36:32.480 the most notorious sex ring, certainly in modern memory, maybe in an even longer memory. It involved

00:36:42.920 heads of state. It involved some of the biggest names in finance, technology, business, diplomacy.

00:36:50.700 It involved royalty. Prince Andrew deeply involved in this, and we're all just letting it go. That's

00:37:01.700 it. Jeffrey Epstein dies under suspicious circumstances. Look, he very well might have

00:37:06.720 killed himself. The fact that he was allowed to kill himself is pretty weird, but let's just say

00:37:10.180 he killed himself. Who cares? That's the least suspicious part of the whole thing. Why are we not

00:37:16.480 looking into this anymore? Why is nobody talking about this? Why is it just a joke?

00:37:22.040 We have actually seen the most powerful people in the world connected to this guy to an underage

00:37:29.180 sex ring. And by the way, we're not just talking about 16-year-olds here. We're talking about like

00:37:33.100 12-year-olds, all right? The evidence from just the birth dates of the people who were at Jeffrey

00:37:38.340 Epstein's various compounds show that they were really, really young, all right? Not just junior,

00:37:44.860 senior in high school young, like middle school young, like even younger. And yet it's just become

00:37:52.040 a joke. That shows you the power of the people involved. The very fact that nobody will take it

00:37:59.660 seriously shows you the power of the people involved. And when we talk about, from a political

00:38:05.020 angle, say the deep state or the mainstream media monopoly, the apparatus, or big tech, the monopoly

00:38:12.360 they have over information and your information. This is a really good way to demonstrate that

00:38:18.960 power. This story, which is obviously lurid, it has all these sex details, because the story,

00:38:26.640 just like Jeffrey Epstein, is going away. It's biting the dust. It's going down the memory hole.

00:38:32.120 This was a good first step. This book is good. I highly recommend you read it. But obviously the

00:38:38.480 book leaves, the book gives a lot of answers. It leaves far more questions than answers.

00:38:45.920 We'll have to leave it there with Jeffrey Epstein, because we have to talk about more creepy sex stuff,

00:38:50.280 namely Jessica Yaniv, the transgender activist who very famously put immigrant beauty salon workers out

00:38:58.000 of business in Canada because they refused to wax his genitals. He walks in to get a Brazilian wax.

00:39:05.040 This is a procedure that can only be done on women. There is another thing called a manzillion.

00:39:09.900 Let's not explain the details, but it's a different procedure. He goes in there. He says he wants a

00:39:14.820 Brazilian wax on his male genitals. They say, well, that's not possible. And also we don't want to

00:39:21.200 touch your genitals. And he sues them. He doesn't sue them. He files a complaint, which ends up putting

00:39:26.620 them out of business. Now he wants to shut down a gynecologist for not operating on or inspecting

00:39:35.300 the genitals that he does not have. This is what he wrote. Quote, so a gynecologist office that I got

00:39:40.460 referred to literally told me today that we don't serve transgender patients and me being shocked and

00:39:45.660 confused and hurt. Are they allowed to do that legally? Isn't that against the practices?

00:39:51.660 Gynecologists form a part of the multidisciplinary team who engage with transgender and non-binary

00:39:59.180 patients either as part of the transition stage performing surgery or managing pre or post

00:40:03.580 gynecological problems. The Canadian Bureau has confirmed to me that the refusal I've received

00:40:11.440 is discrimination under the BC Human Rights Code. I will file a complaint with you today about that

00:40:16.080 clinic. Okay. At this point, I'm wondering, is Jessica Yaniv just the joker? Is he just this

00:40:24.720 absolute anarchist with an absurdist sense of humor who wants to cause pain to people? I'm beginning to

00:40:30.500 think that. I mean, Yaniv, after he came to the attention of everybody for shutting down these poor

00:40:36.640 beauticians businesses, putting them out of work, he also tried to host a queer kids party. So a party

00:40:43.900 that would be topless for kids as young as 12 years old. That ended up not happening. But he's

00:40:49.020 obviously a provocateur. He's obviously got a screw loop. He was texting young girls, sexting them,

00:40:54.560 very inappropriate conversations. Is he just the joker? I actually kind of defend the existence of

00:41:01.960 someone like Jessica Yaniv. Because what Jessica Yaniv is doing is testing the boundaries of our new

00:41:10.540 revolutionary society. He's testing the boundaries of leftism. Are we going to put up with this? Is

00:41:16.200 this the society that we want to live in? Where you're putting gynecologists out of work because

00:41:21.260 they won't operate on men's genitals? Where you're putting female beauticians out of work because they

00:41:28.040 won't perform a technically impossible procedure on a man? They won't fondle a man's genitals.

00:41:34.580 Is that the kind of society that we want to live in? That is pretty barbaric stuff.

00:41:41.120 Gets to other kinds of barbaric cultures. You know, our culture is becoming more barbaric.

00:41:46.320 We're getting a glimpse of other barbaric cultures around the world. There was the world's largest

00:41:51.620 animal sacrifice just the other day in Nepal. Hindu worshipers have started beheading thousands of

00:41:59.020 buffalo in Nepal as part of the world's largest animal sacrifice event. It's called the Gadimai

00:42:04.580 festival. Started in the early hours on Tuesday morning when a priest killed a goat, rat, chicken,

00:42:09.540 pig, and pigeon. Then cut himself open. Offered blood from his own body. There were around 200 butchers

00:42:16.720 using these kukri knives and came to this walled temple and started to behead an estimated 3,500

00:42:25.500 buffalo. 3,500. You know, they never tell you about this part when you go to buy the yoga mat.

00:42:32.380 There are a lot of people here in the West who really like the idea of Eastern religion and

00:42:36.740 Eastern culture. They never tell you the part about slaughtering 3,500 buffalo with a knife,

00:42:41.020 do they? No, they don't. We can recognize that as barbaric. And yet in our own culture,

00:42:48.600 we're attracted to these sorts of things. We're attracted to primitivism. We're attracted to

00:42:53.600 the idea of the noble savage, being one with nature, following your desires and your appetites

00:42:59.140 as though your desires and appetites will simply lead you in a proper direction rather than following

00:43:05.800 the traditional religion of the West, rather than following the traditional moral order,

00:43:09.920 rather than restraining your desires and your appetites, rather than recognizing mankind as a

00:43:15.320 unity of body and soul, not merely metaphysical, not merely physical. It's actually, it's the same story

00:43:21.760 as the Jessica Yaniv story. It's the story of civilization as we know it, falling back to long

00:43:30.360 discredited religious views. In the case of transgenderism, the idea that we are not at all

00:43:37.300 our bodies, that we can butcher and mutilate our bodies, the idea that we should just follow our

00:43:41.300 desires to the end, no matter what pain that causes to other people. And in the case of this

00:43:48.060 animal sacrifice, obviously, the same thing following a long discredited religion, the religious

00:43:54.420 practice rather, this mass animal sacrifice because of some kind of pantheistic or pagan

00:44:02.000 intuitions that human beings have. That's where we're headed. That's when we're, when we're throwing

00:44:10.000 off the yoke of our own traditional culture, something's got to replace that. Everybody's got to

00:44:16.280 serve somebody, okay? And when we follow the left, which simply wants to destroy, the left

00:44:24.620 simply wants to tear down our tradition. The left simply wants to tear down that which we want to

00:44:30.620 conserve. That doesn't just leave you in a void. That doesn't just leave you floating in space.

00:44:37.200 Something will fill that. Political ideas, cultural ideas, religious ideas. And the left wants to pretend

00:44:43.180 these are all new ideas. They're not. They're the oldest ideas in the world. There's a reason we

00:44:46.680 discarded them in the first place. There's a reason why we developed the civilization we have. There's a

00:44:50.860 reason that we want to conserve it. Maybe we should cling a little more closely to that. Maybe we should

00:44:56.320 try a little harder to conserve that. I mean, you, you see this all the way around the world in Hong Kong.

00:45:02.560 In Hong Kong right now, you have the protests against the Chinese government. They've persisted for six

00:45:07.240 months. They've turned violent now. I mean, the Chinese government is clamping down on them.

00:45:12.980 There is a new photo that has emerged, a new image that has emerged for the Hong Kong protests.

00:45:19.540 It's an image of Donald Trump's head on Rocky Balboa's body. They're calling it Swole Trump.

00:45:24.600 And they are using this unironically as the image for the protest. What does it mean?

00:45:29.380 It means that the traditional image of America is still a hope to those seeking freedom from

00:45:35.680 tyranny. That's the conservative image. They wouldn't be holding images of Swole Obama. There's

00:45:40.560 no such thing. It means that manliness is still a virtue. It's not toxic. It's not toxic like the

00:45:46.600 left says. It means that eternal truths still hold. It means that the people who are protesting in Hong

00:45:52.720 Kong, really protesting tyrannical government, they recognize the worth, the value of our

00:45:59.300 civilization and our culture that we're just throwing away to the left. You know, Hong Kong

00:46:04.860 was a westernized city until the late nineties when the British gave it back to China. And since

00:46:09.660 then it's gotten worse and worse each year. These eternal truths though still hold. You know,

00:46:16.980 the left always wants to convince conservatives that modernity has totally changed circumstances

00:46:21.900 in human nature. It hasn't. Just listen. There's a great guy on the streets in Hong Kong who gave a

00:46:27.520 very simple message for the United States. He goes out there and he just says,

00:46:35.580 Trump, don't give in on China. China is a, and then he uses a profane word that I'm not going to use,

00:46:44.780 but he's very simple. Don't give into China. China are a bunch of jerks is what you could say. It's

00:46:50.280 simple as that. They recognize the value of our civilization. We're throwing it away. And that

00:46:54.840 doesn't just mean one politician is going away. One political candidate's going away. One big news

00:47:01.080 story, one international sex ring, one major political issue is going away. It doesn't mean

00:47:09.320 that. It means we could lose our whole civilization if we don't pay attention, if we don't try to

00:47:14.540 preserve and conserve those things that have allowed us to flourish for this long. All right.

00:47:19.980 We're, we're done flourishing for today. We will flourish again tomorrow. Tune in. In the meantime,

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