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Trump Loses It as Clinton Deposition Backfires in His Face

26 Feb 2026

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Chapter 1: Why is Donald Trump's deposition plan backfiring?

0.031 - 20.707 Ben Meiselas

Donald Trump is losing it this morning as his plan with the MAGA Republicans to depose former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. It is blowing up in Donald Trump and MAGA's face right now. So in Chappaqua, New York, You have Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton's deposition taking place today.

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But what the press were asking the MAGA Republicans who showed up for these depositions, although they weren't at Les Wexner's depositions, but what the people want to know and what the press want to know is why is Donald Trump covering up FBI charges? 302 interviews from survivors who have accused Donald Trump of sexual assault when they are minors. So that was posed to James Comer.

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Comer, what do you have to say about that? Here, play this clip.

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Are you concerned that there has been a cover-up of sexual abuse of a minor by President Trump that are missing FBI records that appear to be No, we're looking into the accusation by the NPR. We don't know the answer to that. We know what the administration says. We're still looking to get a definitive answer on that.

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Also, James Comer and the MAGA Republicans who showed up to Hillary Clinton's deposition in connection with Epstein. Why in the world are the Clintons being deposed here? What are we even talking about? Clinton's name's not even in Hillary Clinton's name's not even in the files, but okay. You want to go there, Comer? All right. What about Howard Lutnick?

Chapter 2: What accusations are being raised against Donald Trump?

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Why isn't Howard Lutnick's deposition taking place? And watch what James Comer says. Here, play this clip.

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We'll do one more question.

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Go ahead.

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In the spirit of bipartisanship, would you then ask the Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to come testify? It seems like he has some information. That's very possible, and I think it's a good possibility that his name will arise in some questioning today. It'll be on my list, and I have an email I printed off for Hillary to ask about Howard Lutnick today.

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We're asking again, and I want to remind everyone, we've already brought in Alex Acosta and Bill Barr for depositions. That's two Republicans in the Trump administration. So this isn't just about Democrats. This is about anyone that has any knowledge of Epstein, the investigation. I think we all agree the government failed. The government failed the victims.

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And what our role is, we can't prosecute anyone. But what we have been doing is getting transparency of the American people.

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We subpoena. Then you have Democratic Congress member Garcia. He held his press conference outside where Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton were being deposed. And Congress member Garcia says, what we really need to be talking about are the fact or is the fact that Donald Trump and his regime are hiding massive amounts of information from the Epstein files.

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And specifically, we know he's hiding files that are from individuals who say that when they were minors, Donald Trump sexually assaulted them. Those accusations are now being hidden. Watch Congress member Garcia make it clear what should really be discussed right now. Here, play this clip.

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But I also want to say, which I think is very important, that at this very moment, the Department of Justice continues to lead a White House cover-up. And we're going to be demanding, even over these next few days, that the remaining files that have not been released get released to the public.

Chapter 3: Why are the Clintons being deposed in this investigation?

346.049 - 364.416 Congressman Suhas Bermanian

It's about protecting people who committed crimes. And so we as Democrats on the Oversight Committee are going to continue to approach this investigation in a nonpartisan way, because all we want is the truth and we want justice for the survivors. And we want to make sure this never happens again, no matter how rich and powerful the perpetrators are. Thank you.

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Also this morning, it should be noted that Borge Brend, the president and CEO of the World Economic Forum, remember that guy? Remember at Davos, he was the guy who was all chummy with Donald Trump. You see them on stage right there. Borge Brend was, remember he posted on January 21st. It was a pleasure. to welcome Donald Trump to Davos.

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At a time of significant economic, technological, and geopolitical change, the World Economic Forum provides a platform for leaders from government, business, and civil society to exchange views on issues shaping the world. Well, that guy, Borge Bren, has now announced that he's stepping down from his position, he's quitting, following an independent investigation into his relationship

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with Jeffrey Epstein. Here's a photo of him and Steve Bannon as well. And so one of the things, first off, he was Norway's foreign minister, and then he took over the World Economic Forum in 2017. The recently released Epstein files, as EuropaReports.com, revealed that Brend had communicated with and met Jeffrey Epstein numerous times, despite stating he had not done so previously.

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Brend claimed that he was unaware of Epstein's criminal past, but the files show that he sent a thumbs up emoji to a link Jeffrey Epstein sent him of his criminal sentence. Controversy was also caused, Europa says, by Epstein and Brend ridiculing the wife of Benjamin Netanyahu and calling her Miss Piggy. I guess they use the name piggy as well, the way Donald Trump refers to women as.

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But seems like it's the Epstein class protecting the Epstein class. But for Donald Trump, the message that he wants out this morning is that this is about the patriots versus the hatreds. Maybe Donald, it's about the pedos and pedo protectors like you and your regime versus the people. Maybe that's the divide that we're seeing right now.

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The Epstein class and everybody else, Donald, I think that's how the American people see it, Donald. And then the Epstein class protectors all had to rush on state regime media this morning to protect dear leaders, fragile, but rapidly deteriorating, cracking ego. So you had over here Perino interviewing MAGA Republican Congress member Pat Fallon. And so what do you think the question was?

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What do you think? There seems to be a lot of questions that the Department of Justice may be suppressing files. What say you MAGA Republican congressman? And the MAGA Republican congressman goes, oh, it's Biden's fault. Biden released zero. Look at what we're doing right now. Everything with them is Biden, Biden, Biden. Hey, your dear leader is all over these files, bud.

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38,000 times in what has been released, potentially a million times in what hasn't been released. In what has been released, his name appears more than Harry in the Harry Potter series, more than God or Jesus in the Bible. But okay, go ahead and talk about Biden. Here, play this clip. Yeah.

Chapter 4: What is the significance of the missing FBI files?

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It's your job as the head of the beauty pageant. Isn't it that guy who found civilly liable for sexual assault? But go ahead, Fallon. Go ahead. Here, play this clip. Here we are. We made a lot of accommodations. We came to them. But we just want to find out the truth. We want accountability and transparency for the American people and for the survivors of...

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So this has never been done before and a former president's never been compelled to appear before Congress. Is this where this is all heading as of today? Well, we've never had a former president either this close to a convicted felon either. I mean, it's problematic. Okay, but now they need their pivot, right? Oh no, what did we do?

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Now everybody's talking about Donald Trump and the accusations against him in the Epstein files. All right, where are we going with this one? War with Greenland, so they start that again. Doug Burgum, Donald Trump's Interior Secretary, or someone says the Secretary of the Exterior, right? Why is the Interior Secretary talking about War with Greenland?

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But okay, War with Greenland Day again, everybody. There they go, we need to take it over, play this clip.

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What else can you tell us about that?

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Well, Ambassador Whitaker has it right. This is a strategic importance. Think of it as a bookend. Alaska on one end and Greenland on the other, really providing the shield, if you will, to protect North America and the United States. Absolutely critical. And of course, there is more activity up there, both Russia and China active in the Arctic region. And we need to make sure that the U.S.

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is, if we're going to carry on the, as they call it, the Donro doctrine, North and South America free from these interests of our adversaries, Greenland is key. Some people have described Greenland as, you know, one big piece of ice. It is two and a half times the size of Alaska. And Alaska is the size of California plus Arizona plus New Mexico plus Texas.

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And so the 80% of Greenland that it does have ice, the 20% that doesn't in Greenland is the size of California, size of California with 50,000 people living there. There's such an opportunity for the Greenlanders, such an opportunity for North America and the United States in a partnership. Just like again, when we bought Alaska, there was hardly anybody living in Alaska.

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When the United States bought Alaska, now 800,000 people and a major contributor to defense and a major contributor to US energy. then bring in NATO Ambassador Matt Whitaker.

Chapter 5: How are the Clintons connected to the Epstein investigation?

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Oh, yeah. Other than strangling them? Oh, yeah. Well, that's what we need to do. We need to strangle the regime. For too long, we've been actively, not actively, but passively helping them. You know, we send remittances. We have flights. We allowed luxury goods to be exported from the United States, kind of circumventing the Helms-Burton law.

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Right now, you know, everything is, you know, the noose is tightening around their neck. They lost Venezuela.

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which is one of their prime um you know uh friends in the region uh mexico is no longer helping them as much as as uh as they were in the past and so they they are slowly slowly you know strangling to death which can't come soon enough for me we need that regime to go yeah the regime is causing this humanitarian crisis in cuba and the faster they go the faster that we can help the cuban people

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War in Iran, war everywhere, war everywhere, everybody. You get the point. Those are all the clips this morning. Also, I mean, if you think about the aircraft carriers right now and the tours that they are doing right now, as this says, news.usni.org points out, should the USS Gerald Ford remain deployed until mid-April, right? We're getting pretty close to that.

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It would have broken the post-Vietnam War 294-day record for carrier deployments. If the carrier route is until early May, it would match the 300-day-plus deployments that carriers conducted to the Gulf of Tonkin. I mean, Trump is really stretching our military thin right now.

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The president of peace is going to so much wars that the morale in our military and the resources are being stretched very, very thin right now. A few other things I want to point out. Data, folks. You know we love data right here. When you look at Donald Trump's State of the Union address viewership, only 28 million viewers across the eight major networks.

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By the way, the Midas Touch Network People's State of the Union drew over 2 million viewers. And if you look, this was like the one of the worst ratings for a state of the union ever. I mean, in 2020, 37.2, 2018, 45.6. Just look at Donald Trump's other state of the unions. Nobody wants to hear this guy speak in the latest Emerson poll of the Democrat of the.

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