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Related: About this forumShock Update: Trump gets what he deserves - Another Day - Brian Tyler Cohen
Transcript:
The Wall Street Journal drops a
bombshell report about the Epstein
files. I bet Trump is going to sue them
for, let's say, a gazillion dollars this
time. This is just another day.
Last week, Donald Trump sued the Wall
Street Journal over their latest
reporting on the Jeffrey Epstein
scandal. Well, with today's news, I've
got two words Trump may want to hear.
Lawyer up. The Wall Street Journal is
reporting that in May, Attorney General
Pam Bondi and her deputy informed the
president at a meeting in the White
House that his name was in the Epstein
files. That's right. Trump was told he
was in the files by his attorney
general, which makes her the second
member of Trump's cabinet to alert him
to this fact, but presumably the first
who said it without peeing their pants
from ketamine. According to the Wall
Street Journal, in May, Bonsi and her
deputy informed the president at a
meeting in the White House that his name
was in the Epstein files. Many other
high-profile figures were also named
Trump was told. Being mentioned in the
records isn't a sign of wrongdoing,
which is true, but it ain't great news
either. It's like Matt Gates applying to
be the janitor at your local high
school. It isn't a sign of wrongdoing,
but it does make people suspicious. And
speaking of making people suspicious,
just last week, Trump was wandering his
newly flagpled lawn and said uh what I
believe worldrenowned scholars refer to
as a big fat lie.
Did she tell you at all that your name
appeared in the in the
No, no, she's uh she's given us just a
very quick briefing.
You know, the whole quick briefing alibi
doesn't exactly hold up, and I'll show
you why.
Your name is in the files. Under one
second. So unless Donald Trump's meeting
was under half a second, I'm pretty sure
he had plenty of time to hear the truth.
Although, look, it's certainly possible.
You know how the man likes to keep
meetings quick with members of his
cabinet.
You know, these these lamps have been
very important. Actually,
truly the picture of efficiency. Now, we
know that Donald Trump has been sitting
on this information since May, which
shines a new very interesting spotlight
on everything that's happened since. You
know, things like having your attorney
general, who proclaimed that the files
were on her desk, say, "Case closed."
And when people go, "Um, what's that
now?
Are you still talking about Jeffrey
Epstein? This guy's been talked about
for years. You're asking, we have Texas,
we have this, we have all of the
things." What does it say when Trump
would rather talk about a hundred people
dying in a Texas flood due to possible
Republican mismanagement than talk about
his connection to this guy? That's how
badly he wants the Epstein story to get
killed or commit suicide. He knows that
he's in the files and frankly everyone
knew. Pam Bondi knew, Cash Patel knew,
Dan Bonino knew. Meaning that since May,
these people have either been outright
lying or lying by a mission. And like
Don Jr. and Eric both suck.
Donald Trump's whole narrative is that
he's the guy who won't lie to you. I
mean, sure, he'll do it when it comes to
the quality of his sneakers, the
accreditation of his universities, and
the scores of his golf games. But when
it comes to government secrets, he's not
one of them. He's not a member of the
swamp or the deep state. That's the evil
Democrats and dirty progressives and
yes, even the uniarty rhinos. Donald
Trump's entire political movement has
been about sewing distrust among the
American people and his most ardent
supporters joined him in lobbing these
accusations any chance they could get.
What are they hiding?
What is the Biden administration trying
to hide? What would they have to hide?
It appears that it's another cover up
and it begs the question, what are they
hiding?
And is it being hidden inside the girls
locker room? Cuz I'm willing to do
whatever it takes to find out. So, is it
any surprise that the man who is
definitely in the Epstein files would
send out his director of national
intelligence to say this this morning?
President Obama directed an intelligence
community assessment to be created uh to
further this contrived false narrative
that ultimately led to a year'slong coup
to try to undermine President Trump's
presidency. Wow, what a stunning
revelation they've come to even after a
bipartisan yearslong investigation said
otherwise. How could they possibly
explain their findings?
Help us from a 50,000 foot level explain
what do you now have that refutes those
two.
I I will encourage you in my role as the
director of national intelligence. My
job again as I said when I came into
this role was to make sure that uh we
are telling the truth to the American
people uh and that we are ensuring that
the intelligence community is not being
politicized. So I'm not asking you to
take my word for it. I'm asking you and
the media to conduct honest journalism
and the American people to see for
yourself.
See for ourselves? You just dumped a
mountain of documents that you say
points at the smoking gun of Obama's
treasonous behavior. But when pressed on
it, we need to check your work. This
press conference was the biggest jerkoff
since that Denver performance of
Beetlejuice the musical. Tossi Gabard
claims that the release of these
documents is simply an effort by the
Trump administration to restore
Americans trust in their government. But
I believe that trust has been slightly
undercut by a guy who lies his
face off. In just the first 6 months
since Trump's been in office, he's lied
about the trade deals he secured. He's
lied about the billions of dollars Doge
was able to save American taxpayers. And
he's lied about not cutting Medicaid
from 17 million Americans. Now it's
clear he is lying about knowing he is in
the Epstein files. The reality is this
is all an act. It's like kayfabe in
wrestling where everybody knows it's
pretend but you suspend disbelief in
furtherance of the story. But most of us
don't want the wrestling world to
infiltrate our federal government.
Except when it literally infiltrates the
federal government and the wife of WWE
CEO Vince McMahon becomes the secretary
of education. But aside from her, it
mustn't infiltrate the government. It is
beyond depressing to watch an
administration throw halfbaked
conspiracy theories against the wall to
protect the current president from
having to answer any more questions
about his relationship with a child
And it's worth taking a step
back to think about the lengths Donald
Trump will go to to make this happen. He
is willing to get the entire United
States intelligence community to rally
behind these baseless claims of
treasonous conspiracy and then force
Tulsi Gabbard to go in front of the
press and do the equivalent of this.
Well, I'll tell you what I'm blathering
about. I've got information, man. New
has come to light.
Tulsi, you're out of your element. I
mean, at least when Trump lies to the
American people, it's occasionally
entertaining. He loses his temper. He
puts on a show, throws in a reference to
Arnold Palmer's giant for some
reason. But without all that pizzazz,
we're stuck with boring old lies, which
is probably why Trump is going out and
publicly coaching Republican members of
Congress on how to lie. And remember,
don't let them forget. It's so
important. Obama
cheated on the election. And and you
should mention that every time they give
you a question that's uh not
appropriate, just say, "Oh, by the way,
Obama cheated on the election."
Yes, that's what's inappropriate about
the whole Epstein situation. The
questions part. My god, if Donald Trump
is willing to divert this level of time,
energy, and resources towards
distracting everybody's attention from
the Epstein files, then it still raises
the question,
what are they hiding
exactly?