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While they are trying to ignore the law and bury the Epstein files, Trump thinks he's going to get away with it. I wouldn't be here with the flu like I am today if I was okay letting it happen. Don't worry, it's very, very mild.
Fortunately, Baroo Hashem, it's a very mild case, ladies and gentlemen. Perfect score on the flu. Um, listen, here is what's going on. After what we have seen for the last several months and Friday with the supposed release of the Epstein files, I can understand why Trump and his and his administration believe that they are going to get away with this. They finally quote released the quote Epstein files after years of promises about transparency and then walking it back. I guess it wasn't optional in the sense that Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act. It required disclosure with only very limited and narrow redactions. Victims, the names of minors, people actively under investigation. That's it. And yet what we got is a complete and total farce. Page after page blacked out. Documents rendered useless from redactions. And then very quietly files started disappearing from the Department of Justice website altogether. No explanation, no notice, just gone. That is not transparency. It is evidence control and mitigation.
And it gets even worse because while the DOJ was wiping documents and redacting names that legally should not have been redacted, the White House was actively pushing misleading material into the public conversation. The deputy press secretary posted a photo falsely implying that Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross were pictured with Epstein victims when the image was actually a publicly available fundraiser photo showing Jackson's and Ross's own children. This was not a mistake. I warned everybody two weeks ago. We've got to be really careful with what is actually part of these files and what is real and what is not.
Now, we just I I I I'm looking for the simplest and plainest possible language to explain what's going on. On the one hand, legally mandated documents are being overredacted, withheld, or removed entirely. That's that's on the one hand. On the other hand, we have misleading and outright false material being amplified to redirect attention to political opponents. This is strategy. It's it's not happening out of incompetence. It's happening out of malice. I often say don't attribute to malice that which could be explained by incompetence. I don't have evidence that this is incompetence in this particular case.
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Okay. So now notice something else. Trump's name, someone who is not a victim. Trump is not a victim and Trump, I guess, is not under investigation from what we've been told. His name is redacted in places where others are not. And meanwhile, figures that Trump wants to point at are left visible. They are photographed. They are waved around in press briefings. Selective disclosure, narrative laundering is what they are doing.
Now, Trump is betting on the same thing he always bets on. Exhaustion, a fire hose of distraction and confusion. He's betting people will argue about personalities instead of process. He's betting nobody's really going to remain focused on this to figure out, wait a second, he signed the law, but then his own DOJ is violating it by not actually being transparent with the files. But the maybe uncomfortable truth is that if the full story is ever going to come out, it's probably going to have to happen through a leak. What I mean by that is, let me put it a different way. If we were ever going to get the full Epstein files through official channels, I think we'd have them right now. And if you look at history, it kind of tells us how this goes. The Pentagon papers didn't surface because the government changed its mind. Uh NSA surveillance didn't come out because officials suddenly said, "Hey, we should really embrace honesty and just be upfront about what we're doing." They came out because someone inside decided that the cover up was worse than the exposure. And I believe at this point that the only way we get the full Epstein files is if someone leaks them.
Because right now, Trump believes he's buried it all. and he thinks it's buried deeply enough that it's going to be um that it's not going to come out. And if the files do stay hidden and the redactions stand and the missing documents are never explained, Trump will end up being right. So, we cannot allow that. We can't allow it because of politics. We can't allow it because it's what Donald Trump wants. If this works and they are able to suppress the full files, if a president can legally uh be in theory, Trump's been legally forced to release it and if he can still not do it, then it means that the law is optional. Accountability is a mere preference and we are in real trouble. So I believe that that is the real scandal that is at play here and we are going to delve into some of the specifics of individual images that were gone and then put back and sometimes the the details do matter. There's no question the details can inform our broader understanding. But the big picture here is Trump is increasingly confident that he's gotten away with this and we need to make sure that he