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Chapter 1: What triggered Donald Trump's holiday meltdown?
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Donald Trump's coverup of the Epstein files gets worse by the day. The Department of Justice now says they miraculously found 1 million additional documents out of the prosecutor's office from the Southern District of New York.
This follows the Midas Touch expose where we said there's probably about a million to five million documents in Southern District of New York, which have not even been produced to the Department of Justice yet. Literally within 12 hours of our report, the Department of Justice makes that post. We found more documents. We'll get into it all.
We'll also talk about Donald Trump's deranged behavior on Christmas, on Christmas Day. He's posting over and over again, 100 to 200 posts calling for former President Barack Obama to be prosecuted, complaining that the 2020 election was stolen. And it actually gets more deranged from there if you can believe it.
And then there was that, what you even want to call it, Donald Trump holding that press conference on Christmas Eve where he told the little eight-year-old girl how cute and beautiful she sounds and must be. Donald Trump saying that they're there to stop the infiltration of Santa. Can't do anything normal at all there.
And it's just an interesting observation right now that I think does not get enough attention is what's taking place internationally. I mean, a French general is echoing the sentiments of a lot of people in Europe right now, suggesting that the United States is now a systemic adversary of Europe. United States is imposing sanctions on European officials.
As Marco Rubio says, Europe is a censorship regime against the United States. So while you have Russians in Miami meeting with Trump's people in order to plot the surrender of Ukraine, they're not being sanctioned. In fact, the US is removing sanctions from Russia The US is now imposing sanctions on Europe on the basis of free speech censorship.
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Chapter 2: What new developments have emerged in the Epstein saga?
The email goes on to say there are approximately 1.2 million records currently being imaged. The images will be available on Monday, November 2nd, 2020 at the earliest. The production of the records will begin as soon as the images are available in the workspace. please feel free to contact me if you have any questions, thanks.
This is something I'm very familiar with when they talk about USB Epstein workspace. The workspace is the eDiscovery, the electronic discovery platform where these documents are being uploaded on.
Chapter 3: How many documents were found in the Epstein case?
That's why they're saying these records are being uploaded. They say 1.2 million records right here, but notice that it says P-R-O-D, 008 to 0014. So one question I immediately have is, okay, what about 001 to 007? That clearly exists. You don't just start at 008. So that's why I go, there's probably a lot more than 1.2 million records.
And then there could be production 0014 to 0050 for all we know. This is just one hard drive. I don't have the other emails, so I don't know the other hard drives, but I found this email and what I was able to review. So there may be 10 hard drives with more stuff like this. And this is just the workspace, the e-discovery involving electronic discovery of USB Epstein. This is not U.S.
v. Ghislaine, and this is only in the Southern District of New York. So this isn't in the Southern District of Florida, where there was that sweetheart deal that Epstein entered in 07-08 with Acosta, Trump's guy who became the labor secretary. So there's probably a whole lot of other documents there. And then even if you use that universe, that's just the criminal cases.
What about all of the civil cases? What about the international stuff, the Virgin Island stuff, the island, the St. James stuff? What about all of those cases? What about the cases against the banks? So between all of that stuff, to me, it's obvious that we're talking about at least 5 million records, not even documents. One record could potentially be 1,000 pages.
So we could be talking about tens of millions of actual stuff here. And that's the analysis. That's how I get that. I want you to know I don't just come up with these things. That's how I estimate that. And any litigator who's been involved in big document production cases would know that I'm saying is so obviously true in our profession.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of Trump's Christmas Day posts?
It would be like one plus one equals two. It's not even like a whoa, I'm going out on a leap here.
then so the department of justice yesterday wrote the following the u.s attorney for the southern just think about this what they wrote on christmas eve this is their message the u.s attorney for the southern district of new york and the fbi have informed the department of justice they have uncovered over 1 million more documents potentially related to jeffrey epstein's case
The DOJ has received these documents from SDNY and the FBI to review them for release in compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act existing statutes and judicial orders. We have lawyers working around the clock to review and make the legally required redactions to protect victims. We will release the documents as soon as possible.
Due to the mass volume of materials, this process may take a few more weeks. The department will continue to fully comply with federal law and President Trump's direction to release the files.
When we know that between March and July, there were a thousand lawyers and FBI officials purportedly working on the Epstein files, we know that they were billing the taxpayers because we've seen through Jason Leopold at Bloomberg's great reporting that there were tens of thousands of overtime hours alone, yet alone the other hours, millions of dollars.
So what were they doing with those millions of dollars in document review? When I was a litigator handling document productions far bigger than this, I had a team. And for those litigators out there listening, they'll be like, yeah, I absolutely get what you're saying, Ben. My team was five associates and we'd be able to get through this, not like overnight.
We'd be able to get through all of this easy 90 days, no problem. We'd load it on our workspace. We'd have keywords, search terms. The privilege would have notes about why it's privileged versus why it's not privileged. This was an easy production to do. What were those thousands of lawyers spending hundreds of thousands of hours doing?
The first thing you would do in a situation like this, if you were, let's say, the main partner or the attorney general tasked with this, you know where the universe is. Heck, I know where the universe is. You know it's Southern District of New York. You know it's Southern District of Florida. You know the civil cases. So you create a list first. What are all of the cases, right?
Then you put out a request to each of the people who run these offices because there's, you know, and then you say, let me get them. So that's the process. But I will remind you that Maureen Comey was the lead prosecutor in the Southern District of New York against Epstein and Ghislaine, James Comey's daughter. She was a renowned prosecutor out there in Southern District of New York.
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Chapter 5: How is the U.S. viewed by European leaders currently?
I have the client list. They are on my desk right now. I'm going to release them. Remember that they were on her desk. Then all of a sudden vanished. They don't exist anymore. She says all of a sudden there is no client list that doesn't exist anymore.
Chapter 6: What concerns do European officials have about U.S. policies?
Then she goes, uh, they get through the whole binder, uh, fiasco where they give the binders, uh, to the, uh, MAGA influencers from Twitter. And that's, that was their strategy.
And they released previously released information just with additional redactions, documents that we had already seen be released during the Biden administration, during the Ghislaine Maxwell court case, they tried to pass those off as if they were new documents. And then it was just lie after lie, after lie, pulling teeth to try to get any of these documents released.
Donald Trump refused to do it. And then all of a sudden, uh, He starts calling it the Epstein hoax over and over again. Finally, it takes an act of Congress.
It takes Congressman Ro Khanna and it takes Representative Thomas Massey, a Democrat and a Republican respectively, to come together to do a discharge petition because Mike Johnson refused to put a popular bill on the floor to release these files. Mike Johnson refused
because he said he was worried about the effect it may have on the real victims, the men who were around Epstein when their names leak out. That's actually what Mike Johnson said. And then the discharge petition goes through, and here we are today. It's just been such a mess. This has been the worst handled situation.
And the fact that this administration has the nerve to go out there still and tweet unironically, that they are the most transparent administration in history, is just so batshit crazy that even his own followers right now, every time they see that stuff, are like, no you're not, this is appalling.
And I know that, I think it's honestly part of the reason why we see Donald Trump's approval collapsing the way that it has, because this issue in particular is one that is getting to his own base. including survivors who have voted for him. They've talked to other survivors. They've started to hear stories from other survivors about the Epstein files.
And so all of this now is coming to fruition. And ironically, Donald Trump's attempt to hold back information on this issue to protect himself has actually caused more damage than he ever could have imagined. One thousand percent.
And I guess like it always comes down to the central ethos is that anytime this administration opens their mouth, anytime anyone from this administration opens their mouth, they're lying. And the American people feel that. And as you just laid out, Brad, even Trump's most loyal supporters are starting to feel that. And I guess my big question, Ben, for you, I'm interested in your perspective here.
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Chapter 7: What does the Midas Touch report reveal about Trump's connections?
So then the DOJ, their social media account, which is now being controlled by Trump, like Trump's White House is running the DOJ social media account. They're calling reporters dopes. You're a dope. It's a fake document. We were told to produce everything, so we were going to produce fake documents. Well, let's be very clear.
The Trump regimes, as part of their cover-up, one of the things that they've always been saying to not turn over other documents, what have they always been saying? Geordie Brett and Midas Mighty. We're going to focus on the credible documents. We want to put over credible information first. The credible info is what we're going to get produced.
if they believe it's a fake document and just assume that it is fake and i'm not convinced that it's fake i want to see the laboratory results the forensic analysis that was done in 2020 because that document's being concealed but just even assume it's fake doesn't that make it worse that the regime's prioritizing putting out without context fake not credible documents first
to what, to torture the victims, to make the survivors suffer more. So your priority, what you are turning over are the fabricated ones and you're holding back the real ones. That's how you've interpreted the Epstein transparency. I think it makes it worse if you accept what they're saying is true.
And Jordy, the point of all of this, though, is what they want to do is they want to assault the truth. and they want to wear people down so you don't know what's true or false. And in this chaos, Donald Trump can steal for himself and enrich himself and enrich his family. That's their end game. There is no end game to benefit the country.
There is no end game to benefit institutions or democracy. Trump just wants to try to get as much money as he can hoard it for his family, destroy the country, get the hell out. Do you think Trump truly cares if America is strong in the future? If future generations prosper, if Russia takes over Europe, do you think Trump truly cares about it? Of course he doesn't care about that.
He cares about Trump and Trump making money. That's it, and people are seeing that. All right, let's take our first quick break of the show. When we come back, we've got a lot to discuss. A reminder, check out MidasPlus.com, M-E-I-D-A-S-P-L-U-S.com. That's where we've been breaking a lot of these stories, and those Midas Plus Substack memberships have been a major help in our growth.
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All right, we'll be right back after our first quick break of the show. We've got a lot to discuss. Feeling a little heavy, depleted, and off your routine after the holidays? Yeah, same here. That post-holiday slump is real. That's why I've been looking at Prolon's 5-Day Fasting Mimicking Diet, which makes it easy to reset your body, habits, and energy heading into the new year.
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Chapter 8: How does Trump's behavior reflect on his administration's transparency?
Watch what she's got to say. You're talking about Trump, right, just to be clear, in terms of pointing the finger. Yes. Yes, exactly. And you've said that before, that you have never heard anything to implicate him.
Exactly. It wasn't until I started meeting some of the other women from different countries and different states where I really started to hear their stories. And, of course, as a survivor sister and going through what I went through, I do believe these girls. But at the end of the day, I am no longer supporting this administration.
I redact any support I've ever given to him, Pam Bondi, Kash Patel. I am so disgusted with this administration. I think that Pam Bondi and Kash Patel both need to resign. And I would love to see number 47 get impeached over this. And I'm just waiting.
Should Pam Bondi be held in contempt, you think, for the release of these files?
She needs to be held more than in contempt. Absolutely.
Okay, Haley, stand. So I do want to provide for anybody who was misled and brainwashed by Trump, even if they're making this realization now, an off-ramp. as hard as it is sometimes to be like, cause I could go into it and be like, really, this wasn't a giveaway or that wasn't a giveaway and this wasn't a giveaway and that wasn't a giveaway. I do think that we can feel that way.
Like nothing's gonna change that. I could probably do 10 podcasts that last 10 hours each trying to go into that entire universe. I'm not sure if it's a productive exercise. We need to expand a coalition of people who care about empathy and truth and accountability and democracy. And so I'll take it wherever we can get it. And I think her sentiments are being echoed by a lot of people.
I mean, look, even Marjorie Taylor Greene is out there. saying she's done. So when you got Marjorie Taylor Greene out there saying she's done, you have a lot of these MAGA Republicans even retiring from Congress. To me, I just think rather than get distracted with our time in saying,
really i think it's kind of like let's embrace people who have left him and let's let's get into accountability but i want to address one thing brett journey and i'll i'll turn it to you every time i see whether it's cnn or ms now by the way state regime media doesn't even cover this stuff like i don't even know fox has done an epstein story right their big story is some oklahoma teacher who failed the student because the student didn't respond to the science project
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