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Nothing came out about me. We will continue to follow the law.
Is no credible information. I will never be in the room with that disgusting person ever again. They all lied about the Epstein files. From Donald Trump to Pam Bondi to Cash Patel to Howard Lutnik and a cast of others. They are all a pack of liars. Remember this from the very beginning. Mrs. Pam Bondi talking about how she has the Epstein client list on her desk. Here she is.
This is something Donald Trump has talked about. The DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients. Will that really happen? It's sitting on my desk right now to review. Um that's been a directive um by President Trump.
And not long thereafter, this was at the White House. Well, the celebration was premature for many reasons. In part because most of these files were already public information. But more than that, Pam Bondi neglected to say that the files they were releasing at that time were part of six million documents. This was a tiny fraction of the Epstein files. So part of the reason Bondi claimed they didn't release more files at that time was she said they wanted to be very careful not to include the names or identities of victims when they released the files. We will continue to follow the law with maximum transparency while protecting victims.
Well, they got that wrong, too, because when they were finally compelled by law and Congress passed a bipartisan law to compel the release of the Epstein files, they trickled them out, but still didn't redact all of the victim's names. In fact, some victims appeared over and over and over again in these files, including photographs, nude photographs with the faces of young girls released by the Trump administration. A scandalous injury to people who had already been victimized. Another broken promise by Pam Bondi.
Now, even as they failed to redact the victim's names, there is increasing evidence that what they did redact were the names and identities of some of the perpetrators. This is a 2014 email to Jeffrey Epstein from Redacted saying, "Thank you for a fun night. Your littlest girl was a little naughty." This is from 2018. A redacted sender emails Epstein, quote, "I found at least three very good young poor, but we were so tired." There's further indication in this email about the subject matter when it says this. "Meet this one, not the beauty queen, but both likes her a lot." Another says she's like Lolita from Novokco's novel where the email goes on to say "fem miniature and has a little smiley face." And if you haven't read Lolita, it's about a middle-aged man falling in love with a 12-year-old. That's what the email is addressing.
Now, these are redacted. The senders are redacted. The identities are redacted. Why are they redacted? This is the question. Now, some of the members of the House of Representatives have already had the chance to go see redactions at the Justice Department, and they've raised serious questions about who is being protected here. And there are six men uh some of them with their photographs that have been redacted. And there's no explanation why those people were redacted. And as a result of just those first visits to the Justice Department, some of these redactions are being unredacted.
But here's the thing. They're inviting members of Congress to go review these six million documents, but prohibiting them from taking any kind of recording device, prohibiting their staff from being present. All you're allowed to do when you review the documents is take notes by hand. This is designed to make it impossible to really scrutinize these documents, these redactions. It would take years and years and years to go through them all in such a laborious manner. and that is deliberate. It's not about protecting victims here. It's about protecting perpetrators.
So, how do we square what we've already seen in these documents with a testimony of people like Cash Patel? You might remember Cash Patel appearing before the judiciary committee. Here he's asked by Senator John Kennedy, a Republican, about who Epstein trafficked minors to. And Patel's answer is shocking. He makes the absurd claim that Epstein wasn't trafficking minors to anyone except well except Epstein.
"Is no credible information. None. If there were, I would bring the case yesterday that he trafficked to other individuals and the information we have again is limited." So the answer is no one. For the information that we have. In the files. In the case file. Okay.
Now, just to make sure that I wasn't misunderstanding his answers to Senator Kennedy, I probed him further and only got further evasions, but the conclusion was still the same. Apparently, Epstein's client list had only one name on it, and it was Epstein. That's what Cash Patel would have us believe. So, is it your testimony today that in all the Epstein files that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked no one to anyone but himself? Is that your testimony, Mr. Patel? I never said Jeffrey Epstein didn't traffic anyone else. Did he traffic any any young woman to someone other than himself? That was Mr. Kennedy's question. Senator Kennedy's question. The information that three administrations have had access to have made determinations that there are no investigative leads that were credible to prosecute and investigate any others. I'm specifically stating testimony today. You just read it and I said it 10 minutes ago. So, let the record reflect my testimony.
Of course, this is the same Cash Patel who prior to becoming FBI director said that the FBI director had the client list, had the black book basically on his desk. Here he is. Who has Jeffrey Epstein's black book? Blackbook. FBI. But who that is that that I mean there's Oh, that's under direct control of the director of the FBI. So, one thing that hasn't changed, Cash Patel was a liar then, he is a liar now, and he continues to cover up for the perpetrators.
Let's look at another one of these liars, and that is Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik. So, Lutnik, you might remember, last year said that he met Epstein at his house, which is very close or next door to Lutnik's own house, and he was so appalled by this guy, this creepy guy, he wanted absolutely nothing more to do with him. And in the six or eight steps it takes to get from his house to my house, my wife and I decided that I will never be in the room with that disgusting person ever again. So I was never in the room with him socially, for business, or even philanthropy. If that guy was there, I wasn't going cuz he's gross.
Well, then some of the files come out and what do they reveal? They revealed that Lutnik went into business deals with Epstein, that Lutnik brought his family to Epstein Island. In fact, it even came out in the Epstein files that Lutnik left his phone at the Epstein and had to be returned to him in 2011. What a pack of lies. I've called for his resignation. If he's doing business with this pedophile, he shouldn't be doing business as the United States Commerce Secretary.
Now, Lutnik testified in the Senate today, and look at him trying to evade the questioning. Look at him trying to explain away his previous lies about his relationship with Epstein. I did not have any relationship with him. I barely had anything to do with that person. Did you in fact make the visit to Jeffrey Epstein's private island? I did have lunch with him as I was on a boat going across on a family vacation. My wife was with me as were my four children and nannies. I had another couple with they were there as well with their children and we had lunch on the island.
This was of course after the time when Lutnik said he wanted nothing more to do with Jeffrey Epstein, but somehow he had a lot more to do with Jeffrey Epstein. Which brings us to the liar and chief, President Donald J. Trump. What's his role in all of this? Well, he was asked prior to taking office whether he would support the release of the Epstein files. And although he equivocated a bit, he was in favor of it. Would you declassify the Epstein files? Yeah. Yeah, I would. All right. Yes, I would. I think that less so because, you know, you don't know it. You don't want to affect people's lives if it's phony stuff in there because there's a lot of phony stuff with that whole world. Uh but I think I would.
Now, after becoming president, it was very different. He pushed back. He said, "There's nothing to see here." And when legislation was introduced on a bipartisan basis to require the disclosure of these files, he went into all-out mode to try to stop it. Even so far as calling people who had signed a discharge petition in the House to compel a vote to release the Epstein files. When he was unsuccessful, when that bill passed overwhelmingly, he signed it very begrudgingly. And we can see why. Because notwithstanding the president's claim that these files somehow absolve him, they do anything but. There are serious accusations made against the president in these files. They will need to be looked into. But nevertheless, they do not absolve Donald Trump.
After all, this is someone who previously claimed that the reason he parted company with Jeffrey Epstein was because Epstein was stealing women, young women from Mar-a-Lago. People were taken out of the spa, hired by him. In other words, gone. One of those stolen um you know, persons that include Virginia. Uh I don't know. I think she worked at the spa. I think so. I think that was one of the people. He He stole her.
But he now says that he wants the country to move on. He admitted to apparently Marjorie Taylor Greene that his friends might get hurt with these releases and he wants the country to move on. And when Greene said to the president like, well, you know, why you why won't you allow this? Why won't you permit this to be released? Trump said this quote, "My friends will get hurt." Focusing on powerful men, not the victims. I think it's really time for the country to get on to something else really, you know, now that uh nothing came out about me other than it was a conspiracy against me, literally by Epstein and other people. But I think it's time now for the country to maybe get on to something else.
Well, the country is not going to move on. Not until that law is followed, not until these files are released, released unredacted, at least as far as the perpetrators are concerned. Uh there is going to be no letup until there is some justice. And that justice must begin with transparency. So I don't really care whether the president's friends are going to get hurt. What I care about is the fact that so many victims were hurt. And so many victims were hurt again when the Justice Department so callously pushed out information about them and not the perpetrators. So, we're going to keep the pressure on until these files are released, until the law is observed, and until the victims get a measure of justice.