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BONUS POD： Dumpapalooza-ABC Buried Epstein Bombshell for 3 Years—Now It’s All Coming Out


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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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