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Trump's DOJ Caught Blocking Epstein Release As They Panic Over Deadline

20 Jan 2026

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Chapter 1: Why is the DOJ trying to block the release of the Epstein files?

4.942 - 31.185 Jennifer Welch

The Justice Department continues to try to stop the release of the Epstein files. We know they're violating the law. We know that contempt proceedings are coming, but they seem awfully slow. So one option the Oversight Committee gave the DOJ was the appointment of a special master. Pop this up, Kylie. Turns out, according to Midas Touch, the DOJ has filed a motion to block the appointment of a

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31.165 - 51.435 Jennifer Welch

independent monitor to release the Epstein files in the Ghislaine Maxwell case. The DOJ argues that the federal courts lack the authority to enforce the Epstein Transparency Act and that the monitors that were provided aren't good, whatever. Bottom line is this.

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51.415 - 63.992 Jennifer Welch

An independent monitor would be someone that went through the files and made sure the victim's names were redacted and that everything else was released. But Pam Bondi and the Justice Department do not want that.

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64.453 - 89.967 Jennifer Welch

They do not want any information released that they haven't already given to influencers and binders and given small amounts redacted to the gills in this case because they are protecting Donald Trump And they are protecting other powerful people because to them, it is more important to cover Trump's ass than justice for the survivors.

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90.147 - 102.083 Jennifer Welch

And this is, in my mind, this puts Watergate to shame in terms of corruption. People's lives have been ruined and they are still being ruined.

Chapter 2: What legal arguments is the DOJ using to prevent the appointment of a special master?

102.664 - 108.692 Jennifer Welch

And our Justice Department, Pam Bondi at the helm, is saying, fuck you. We don't care.

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109.718 - 140.071 Angie Sullivan

Okay, here's a really important component to this where the Democrats, if they had a spine, could really attack here. Pam Bondi, little Moses Mike Grinder Johnson, and others in the Trump regime are big, grifting, Bible-thumping, patriot-loving, the Lord this, I have my Christian cross on that. They are pedophile protectors.

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140.491 - 158.845 Angie Sullivan

All of these men that they are protecting, one of which is their boss, because we know this because Elon Musk, who got inside the Death Star, who got access to the entire federal government, and he got all of his goons, I'm sure, this is my opinion, to transfer all the hard drives of FBI everything.

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159.787 - 175.534 Angie Sullivan

When everybody got sick of him running around the White House high on ketamine with his little kid wiping boogers all over the place, he goes to Twitter and he outs Donald Trump. He will never release the Epstein files because he's in the middle of them.

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175.514 - 190.435 Angie Sullivan

And so the biggest thing for me right here to all of these MAGA Christian voters, to the Riley Gaines of it, to the Erica Kirk of it, to all of these people on the moral high ground that try to lecture to women

191.495 - 215.983 Angie Sullivan

they're not somehow female enough because they didn't get married at the age that erica kirk and riley gaines think they should or that they're not breeding at the rate to which these two people i want to flip the script and what i want to say to riley gaines to erica kirk to pam bondy and all of these christian grifters these mega church christian grifters if your religion

215.963 - 243.658 Angie Sullivan

tells you that you shouldn't stand up for little girls that were raped by rich men you are in a sick sadistic sex cult and nobody wants anything to do with your religion you are walking talking breathing example as to why people are running away from christianity and that even gets before i get to little moses mike grinder johnson

243.638 - 267.824 Angie Sullivan

Little Moses Mike Grinder Johnson, who will not shut the F up about praying and the Lord and all of his religious psychosis. This man, his Christianity, just like these other mega church Christians, their Christianity informs them, we must protect these pedophiles at all costs.

268.665 - 296.427 Angie Sullivan

And so when they bring their religion into the conversation, it's important that we connect it, that this sect of Christianity is a... pedophilic sex cult and it is you have people who are propagandizing this and protecting for a pedophile and other powerful pedophiles surrounding them and these christians these big christians that preach all this patriotism

Chapter 3: How does the DOJ's actions reflect on their commitment to justice for Epstein's survivors?

296.407 - 322.549 Angie Sullivan

america they're lying to you they're lying to you they don't give a about their faith they don't give a about patriotism these are billionaire ass kissers their whole identity is kissing the ass of billionaires imagine you're the speaker of the house you could actually do something you could actually say wait a minute i'm going to stand up for these these little girls who were used

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323.44 - 345.651 Angie Sullivan

And you don't. You use your religion to say, well, the Lord this and the Lord that. You use it to provide cover, yet you weaponize it against people in your alleged probably own community, Mike. You weaponize it against the LGBTQ plus people. These people are depraved hypocrites to their core.

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346.508 - 362.475 Jennifer Welch

Well, and just to add to that, look at every large church denomination throughout the United States and abroad. Always, you find sexual abuse against women and girls.

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363.517 - 363.978 Angie Sullivan

And boys.

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364.559 - 394.825 Jennifer Welch

Right. Against kids. All kids. i think that they have grown these hyper religious people they've grown callous to it they they're so used to it in their religion and people inside the leadership of their religion doing it that on some level they must think it's okay because they're rubber stamping this they're also in in the evangelical christian movement the

394.805 - 413.576 Angie Sullivan

fetishization of their children's sex lives right in teaching them this purity culture and talking to them at five at six little girls about being pure and not about like boundaries and you know to really actually protect them against predators.

Chapter 4: What role do political figures play in protecting powerful individuals in the Epstein case?

414.077 - 435.173 Angie Sullivan

It's really weird. It's a really weird thing. This whole purity culture thing that you start talking to kids about their sex lives when they're like five and six years old. That's a really, that is not normal. I think it's child abuse. I think there's so many facets of evangelical Christianity that are absolute child abuse.

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435.322 - 458.359 Jennifer Welch

Well, and when they start talking about it so young in these religious circles, they put so much shame on it. So then when they're violated by another trusted leader or member of the church, they use that to keep these little girls silent. And it's just, it's horrifying, but they need to look at ground zero. Why do they continue to allow it?

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458.339 - 479.639 Jennifer Welch

And then moving on to something that I saw for the weekend that I knew would make you so happy, Jenny, the polls on Trump are out to date in the year 2026. Did I say that right? I always say it wrong. So pop up this poll, Kylie. Okay, so poll by CBS News, which I'm like, Barry Weiss, where are you?

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Chapter 5: How does evangelical Christianity intersect with the protection of abusers?

479.659 - 511.034 Jennifer Welch

The approval rating for Trump is 41%, disapprove 59%. Who the fuck? are the 41%. Well, you see they're all GOP. 90 to 10 approved in the GOP, 3 to 97 in the Dems, and 31 to 69 in the Independents. But look where he is on immigration. Minus 12. That was one of his biggies coming in. The handling of Iran, minus 16. Venezuela, minus 18. The economy, the price of eggs.

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511.054 - 522.838 Jennifer Welch

I'm going to lower the price of eggs on day one, minus 21. And inflation, minus 30. People do not like Trump and how he governs.

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524.168 - 529.457 Angie Sullivan

Yeah, he's been, it was surprisingly, he's been underwater on immigration now for like four months.

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Chapter 6: What are the implications of purity culture in religious contexts?

529.897 - 553.176 Angie Sullivan

Like that's not new. And so the thing that's interesting for me right now is these polls, we show these a lot with all the minus and he's underwater on everything. Sometimes politicians kind of govern a little bit with what public opinion is doing. And again, I don't expect the hive mind of Moses, Mike Grinder, Johnson, Pam Bondi.

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553.196 - 574.35 Angie Sullivan

I don't expect any of these people to have principles, but corporate Democrats, at least when you see how underwater he is on everything, the fact that legislatively they play patty cake with him and they continue to, you see a big breakup of Democrats that continue to vote with Republicans on certain forms of legislation.

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575.471 - 597.156 Angie Sullivan

I cannot understand this other than to say that the people who were pulling their hair out in 2016 regarding the corporate Democrats were right all along. And that movement that Bernie Sanders started back then to highlight the

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american public under the intoxication of capitalism and how distorted our thinking has become under that he was spot on and that sometimes the seeds of change get planted a decade prior and so i think we've all learned a big lesson i think everybody in the country with the exception of those 90 of republicans and the corporate democrats that are in congress i don't think i've met a democrat and i've always been surrounded by democrats

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627.562 - 657.028 Angie Sullivan

a lot of corporate you know establishment democrats if you will that thinks that chuck schumer corey booker or hakeem jeffries are doing a good job at resistance i just haven't i don't see that anywhere and so the polling for me would be a bigger opportunity for the democrats to really really start hammering this home but i i i just i'm mystified every single time i get on

657.008 - 685.817 Angie Sullivan

the news i'm mystified that you started off this episode about jeffrey epstein and the democrats controlled the doj a couple years ago and this wasn't released i mean because those oh well we couldn't we have to govern incrementally well donald trump has shown you when you have power for four years you can use it the fact that the biden administration could have really exposed

685.797 - 710.556 Angie Sullivan

all of this and i'm sure there's probably democrats involved in it too that were customers of oh sure of jeffrey epstein expose them i want them arrested as well like i'm not a hive mind elon musk you know like that's not my jam like i will criticize my own party i will criticize um uh our own country and so i just think what a disappointment the democratic party continues to be

711.363 - 718.395 Jennifer Welch

biggest disappointment. And when you think about we're getting a budget, you know, they have to pass a budget vote by the end of this month.

Chapter 7: Why is the Democratic Party criticized for their handling of justice in this case?

719.017 - 746.613 Jennifer Welch

We've got ICE that they could just say, fuck no, no more. Homeland Security, all of these things that he's doing, they could control in the budget. We're going to get health care subsidies back. Here's the thing. They did a government shutdown. They made inroads with the American public and then they fucking caved at the last minute. So they look every bit as bad as they are.

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746.993 - 770.128 Jennifer Welch

And then just one final poll I wanted to show you because it turns out Greenland and Trump adding to his kingdom, Americans, 89% can agree on anything. Here you go. 86% disapprove of using military force. to take over Greenland. Net approve, minus 40, minus 94, and again, minus 40. Here's the deal.

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770.629 - 782.322 Jennifer Welch

Nobody, even really stupid Republicans when they lay their head on the pillow at night, know that Greenland has nothing to do with national security. It has to do with resources.

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Chapter 8: What does public opinion reveal about Trump's approval ratings and political actions?

783.663 - 814.355 Angie Sullivan

Here's the thing that nobody talks about. We can have as much military support in Greenland as we want, and we can have the resources that we want. That's not what this is about. Those agreements are already in place because they are our ally. This is about Vladimir Putin wanting to blow up NATO. People on Twitter, in Russia, in Vladimir Putin's cabinet are very excited about this.

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814.455 - 850.807 Angie Sullivan

This is a very unnecessary step. None of this needs to happen. The only country that benefits from this is the failed state of Russia, a weak Russia. This infuses oxygen. into Putin's long-term game plan of tearing down Western democracies, which now coincides with the tech oligarch's desires to tear down Western democracies. We have basically Greenland.

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850.847 - 870.919 Angie Sullivan

It's not a part of the United States of America, but there are agreements in place. You want to have troops in Greenland for national security, for NATO security? You can have them. You want some of the minerals? The United States can have them. This is the big lie that the Trump administration is propagating to the United States public right now.

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870.899 - 887.288 Angie Sullivan

that mainstream media fails to recognize this is a Russian play. This is the American government executing Russian foreign policy, and everybody in Europe knows it, but the dipshit Americans don't.

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887.622 - 907.032 Jennifer Welch

Well, a lot of dipshits in America. I would just say it's interesting. It struck me while you were talking. All of this shit that Trump is doing and he's crying around about not winning the Nobel Peace Prize. He's threatening troops in Greenland. You know, Norway's no longer peace. Venezuela. It's just it's crazy that nobody around him figures out.

907.573 - 912.981 Jennifer Welch

You can't murder people on a boat and want the Peace Prize, but they can't. All right.

913.021 - 913.522 Angie Sullivan

They know.

913.602 - 915.064 Jennifer Welch

They just won't tell him.

915.635 - 941.541 Angie Sullivan

do you think they know or you think they're so red yes yeah yeah i do i think a lot of them probably know but they they but knowing something and then caring about it like they don't care a lot of people know that like racism exists in the united states but they don't care same thing like once you're in this you know they know like oh yeah like he's gonna get the peace prize when he's blowing all this up but nobody is gonna dare

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