Verdict with Ted Cruz - November 20, 2025


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Jeffrey Epstein Hillary Clinton Donald Trump Clintons Bill Richardson James Comer Ben Ferguson Mike Johnson Steve Bannon Stacey Plaskett George Mitchell Chuck Schumer Larry Summers Michael Wolff Peter Navarro Reid Hoffman John Thune
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It is official. The Epstein files are now public. The biggest political backfire in modern political history. Now, Democrats are concerned that this could backfire and hurt President Donald Trump and his re-election campaign.

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00:00:05.500 The evidence did not suggest that any additional investigation of third parties was warranted.
00:00:11.780 What changed since then that you launched this investigation?
00:00:15.260 Information that has come forward.
00:00:17.380 Information.
00:00:18.420 There's information that new information, additional information.
00:00:22.140 And again, we will continue to follow the law to investigate any leads.
00:00:26.200 If there are any victims, we encourage all victims to come forward.
00:00:29.320 And we will continue to provide maximum transparency under the law.
00:00:34.480 You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
00:00:38.420 Good Thursday morning.
00:00:39.460 So nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update.
00:00:42.680 And there's one big story.
00:00:44.440 It is official.
00:00:45.600 The Jeffrey Epstein documents or the files, whatever you want to call them,
00:00:50.180 are now going to be made public for everyone to see.
00:00:53.780 The big problem now is many Democrats are concerned
00:00:57.040 this could be the biggest political backfire in modern political history,
00:01:01.500 including for Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton.
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00:02:59.400 and it starts right now.
00:03:01.460 Story number one.
00:03:02.540 It is official.
00:03:03.680 The U.S. House of Representatives voted 427 to 1 to release the Epstein files
00:03:09.220 and then moved to the Senate where they voted in favor of giving it to the President of the United States of America.
00:03:15.660 And now the President has signed it, releasing what documents we have that many have called the Epstein files.
00:03:23.620 Really, they should be called the Epstein papers.
00:03:26.340 Now, this all goes back to when the Democrats decided to actually give a damn about Jeffrey Epstein.
00:03:32.660 They didn't care about the victims, but what they did care about was trying to hurt President Donald Trump with the Epstein files. 0.56
00:03:39.620 Why?
00:03:40.200 Because in July of this year, the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI issued a memo stating that they found no credible evidence that Epstein had a so-called client list.
00:03:51.420 Yes, there were a lot of names and there was a lot of paperwork, but there was no actual client list.
00:03:57.320 And they also said there was no reason for an investigation against uncharged individuals that would be supported.
00:04:04.160 And that is when Democrats decided to actually act like they cared about Jeffrey Epstein.
00:04:10.420 Again, it wasn't to actually protect victims or get to the bottom of anything.
00:04:14.640 It was to try to imply that Donald Trump was covering up to protect himself.
00:04:19.220 We all know that is a lie, and it's official now because you can read it all.
00:04:25.020 You fast forward to September of this year, and the push in Congress began to gain traction among Democrats via a discharge petition in the House to force a vote on releasing Epstein-related documents.
00:04:37.180 Notice it wasn't a client list.
00:04:39.320 Then in November, the House passed the bill, the Epstein Filed Transparency Act, by a vote of 427 to 1.
00:04:46.980 The very next day, November the 19th, the Senate passed the bill by unanimous consent, and they sent it to the President's desk.
00:04:54.880 That is where we are now.
00:04:56.660 President Donald Trump has signed the bill into law.
00:04:59.580 Now, under the law, once signed by the President, the DOJ must release to Congress,
00:05:04.700 and publicly, in a searchable, downloadable format, the unclassified records, the communications, and investigative materials related to Jeffrey Epstein,
00:05:15.480 and, to the extent possible, declassify and release classified materials within 30 days.
00:05:23.080 Now, what President Trump and the White House have said publicly is this.
00:05:26.700 Trump posted on his platform, True Social, upon signing, saying this.
00:05:30.840 I have just signed the bill to release the Epstein files.
00:05:34.400 He also claimed it encouraged the House Speaker, Mike Johnson, and the Senate Majority Leader, John Thune,
00:05:39.820 to move the bill, leading to the near-unanimous vote.
00:05:42.800 And the White House had also made it clear they expected the President to sign the bill, which he has done,
00:05:48.020 even saying to reporters earlier in the day, quote,
00:05:50.640 This will be signed. The bill will be signed whenever it gets to the White House.
00:05:55.360 There's also the question of victim protection.
00:05:57.760 The White House and GOP leaders expressed major concerns about protecting victim identities and ongoing investigations.
00:06:05.840 For instance, Speaker Johnson, while ultimately supporting the bill,
00:06:08.720 said he had hoped for amendments to better protect the victims.
00:06:13.000 Now, President Trump also made it clear about the politics behind all of this.
00:06:17.880 He referred to prior criticism as a Democratic hoax, insisting that his administration has nothing to hide,
00:06:25.280 and linked the matter politically, claiming, quote,
00:06:28.100 All of the friends of Epstein's were Democrats.
00:06:31.440 Now, there's other important issues that you need to understand.
00:06:34.880 There's a scope and limitations.
00:06:36.980 Even though the bill mandates broad disclosure,
00:06:39.240 it still allows for redactions or withholding a material that would identify victims,
00:06:44.400 reveal ongoing investigations, or compromise national security or classified information.
00:06:49.660 Now, the other question is this.
00:06:51.980 Is this maybe one of the biggest political backfire in modern political history for the Democrats,
00:06:57.860 who are demanding all of this?
00:06:59.980 The answer seems to be yes at this moment.
00:07:03.480 We also know that newly released campaign finance records are now showing that from 1990 to 2018,
00:07:11.960 Jeffrey Epstein directed about 89% of his political donations to Democratic and progressive causes,
00:07:21.240 with notable individual recipients, including Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and Chuck Schumer.
00:07:27.800 Now, this also should be, I believe, the number one fight for Republicans moving forward.
00:07:33.660 We don't need to move on from this.
00:07:35.900 Let me explain why.
00:07:37.200 You literally had Democrats in bed politically with Jeffrey Epstein at every corner.
00:07:41.960 For example, we had a Democratic member of Congress who was caught texting Jeffrey Epstein during hearings,
00:07:48.280 and Republicans voted against censoring her. 1.00
00:07:51.140 That is insane.
00:07:52.720 And the Democrats should have learned from this mistake.
00:07:55.520 This is a cycle, by the way, that keeps happening.
00:07:57.940 It's a reason why Republicans keep losing elections,
00:08:00.920 because when they have the opportunity to stand up to the radical left,
00:08:03.940 many times they don't really do it.
00:08:05.940 And until Republicans grow a backbone and demand more transparency from the Epstein files about what the Democrats are doing,
00:08:13.600 nothing will change.
00:08:15.220 And I say it again.
00:08:16.320 This is why so many times Republicans keep losing.
00:08:19.340 We don't fight.
00:08:20.540 They've never demanded the release of all of Epstein files,
00:08:24.120 even though every shred of evidence points directly, I believe, to mostly Democrats.
00:08:29.400 You have massive Democratic names that were in bed with Jeffrey Epstein.
00:08:34.560 Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, Stacey Plaskett, Bill Richardson, George Mitchell,
00:08:41.620 Hakeem Jeffries was even asking Jeffrey Epstein for money after he was convicted of sexual crimes.
00:08:49.940 Michael Wolff is another name.
00:08:51.880 All of these names should be what Republicans should now be talking about.
00:08:56.680 Which brings me to the two biggest names that we know about so far
00:09:00.100 that clearly don't want you to know about what they were doing with Jeffrey Epstein.
00:09:04.880 And that was Bill and Hillary Clinton.
00:09:07.180 Now we know that there's a good chance that Bill and Hillary Clinton are literally risking prison time over Epstein's silence.
00:09:15.420 How do we know that?
00:09:16.440 It's coming from the House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer.
00:09:19.660 And Comer said that former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
00:09:24.880 could face criminal exposure related to newly surfaced Jeffrey Epstein documents, saying this.
00:09:31.880 We expect to hear from Bill and Hillary Clinton, Comer said.
00:09:34.960 Donald Trump answered questions for years about Jeffrey Epstein.
00:09:38.300 Every day he gets asked questions about Epstein and he answers them in front of the American people.
00:09:43.260 We've subpoenaed Republicans and Democrats.
00:09:45.560 Comer's comments underscore how the looming release of these records related to Epstein,
00:09:51.160 the disgraced financier who died by suicide in jail awaiting sex trafficking charges,
00:09:56.280 is becoming a flashpoint in national politics, with the Democratic Party now bracing for real fallout.
00:10:03.240 Many in the Democratic Party didn't believe that these documents would ever be made public.
00:10:07.620 And that's why they weaponized them to try to hurt Donald Trump.
00:10:10.920 Now, although there's no direct evidence that the Clintons committed any crimes at this point,
00:10:16.740 suggestions of possible legal exposure inject new tension into an already charged debate
00:10:22.240 over transparency and accountability and the political weaponization of the Epstein files.
00:10:29.420 The Justice Department said on Friday that it is now examining Epstein's purported connections
00:10:34.940 to high-profile Democrats, among them the former President of the United States of America,
00:10:40.320 Bill Clinton, who has repeatedly insisted that he was unaware of Epstein's criminal conduct.
00:10:46.420 Now, as part of the investigation, James Comer issued the subpoenas to the Clintons
00:10:50.860 and eight other individuals that followed the release by Congress last week
00:10:55.560 of more than 20,000 pages of documents connected to Epstein.
00:10:59.180 And now we have a whole lot more.
00:11:01.140 Now, that batch of newly released correspondents included messages involving Bill Clinton,
00:11:07.360 Hillary Clinton.
00:11:08.380 And the question now is, what will be done with this moving forward?
00:11:12.200 We also know that no survivor or associate has ever accused Clinton of misconduct tied to Epstein,
00:11:18.320 though Trump has for years suggested Clinton's travel on Epstein's jets was suspect.
00:11:23.920 The Clinton Foundation has dismissed the renewed attention, saying the emails that have been released
00:11:28.980 proved that Bill Clinton did nothing and knew nothing and argue the controversy is being used as a political distraction.
00:11:35.760 But here's what we do know.
00:11:37.360 Flight records tell a little bit different story.
00:11:40.420 The flight records disclosed in earlier civil litigation show that Clinton took several trips
00:11:46.620 on Epstein's plane in 2002 and 2003,
00:11:50.700 traveling with staff to destinations across Africa, Asia, and Europe.
00:11:55.460 James Comer argued that while some Democrats have formally stated they had no knowledge of Epstein,
00:12:01.620 the Clintons have never responded to congressional inquiries or taking questions from reporters
00:12:06.900 or investigators about their ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
00:12:11.300 We also know that other Democrats have sent letters saying they knew nothing about Epstein,
00:12:16.000 which would hold in court if something ever comes out, that they did know something, Comer said.
00:12:20.940 And he said this,
00:12:21.900 And then they've committed perjury here, but the Clintons have never responded.
00:12:25.660 They're the one group in this investigation that's never had to answer questions in front of a credible reporter.
00:12:31.860 And they've never certainly answered questions from attorneys or members of Congress.
00:12:36.520 So we expect the Clintons to come in, or I expect the Clintons to be met with the same fate
00:12:41.980 that Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro were met with when the Democrats were in control.
00:12:46.940 House Democrats sought criminal charges, you may remember, against Steve Bannon and former Trump White House strategists
00:12:53.380 after he refused to appear before the House committee investigating the January 6th attacks on the U.S. Capitol.
00:12:58.900 A federal jury ultimately found him guilty of two counts of contempt of Congress
00:13:03.300 and received a four-month jail term in 2022.
00:13:06.380 Navarro, a senior trade advisor during Trump's first administration, faced a similar outcome.
00:13:11.080 He, too, given a four-month federal prison sentence after being found guilty of defying a subpoena from Congress
00:13:16.540 issued by the same January 6th investigation.
00:13:19.640 So here we are.
00:13:20.680 As James Comer said, the Democrats have Trump derangement syndrome.
00:13:24.380 They're just hoping and praying that there's something in these documents,
00:13:27.780 somewhere that they don't know where, but somewhere that would implicate Trump in reality.
00:13:33.000 Now that the files are open,
00:13:34.580 there's a very good chance that people like Bill and Hillary Clinton are going to be in a lot more trouble
00:13:39.440 than they ever could have imagined.
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