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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The evidence did not suggest that any additional investigation of
third parties would warned.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
What changed sinctent that you launched this investigation. Information that
has come for information, there's information that new information, additional information,
and again we will continue to follow the law to
investigate any leads if there are any victims. We encourage
all victims to come forward, and we will continue to
provide maximum transparency under the law.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
If you're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with
Ben ferguson.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Good Thursday morning, so nice to have you with us
on the forty seven Morning Update.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
And there's one big story. It is official.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Jeffrey Epstein documents or the files, whatever you want to
call them, are now going to be made public for
everyone to see. The big problem now is many Democrats
are concerned this could be the biggest political backfire in
modern political history, including for Bill Clinton and Hill or
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Story number one. It is official.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
US House representatives voted four hundred and twenty seven to
one to release the Epstein files and then moved to
the Senate where they voted in favor of giving it
to the President of the United States of America. And
now the President has signed it, releasing what documents we
have that many have called the Epstein files. Really they
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should be called the Epstein Papers. Now this all goes
back to when the Democrats decided to actually give a
damn about Jeffrey Epstein. They didn't care about the victims,
but what they did care about was trying to hurt
President Donald Trump with the Epstein files. Why because in
July of this year, the US Department of Justice and
the FBI issued a memo stating that they found no
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credible evidence that Epstein had a so called client list. Yes,
there were a lot of names, and there was a
lot of paperwork, but there was no actual client list.
And they also said there was no reason for an
investigation against uncharged individuals that would be supported. And that
is when Democrats decided to actually act like they cared
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about Jeffrey Epstein. Again, it wasn't to actually protect victims
or get to the bottom of anything. It was to
try to imply that Donald Trump was covering up to
protect himself. We all know that is a lie, and
it's official now because you can read it all you.
Fast forward to September of this year and the push
in Congress began to gain traction among Democrats via discharge
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petition the House to force a vote on releasing Epstein
related documents. Notice it wasn't a client list. Then in November,
the House passed the bill, the Epstein Filed Transparency Act,
by a vote of four hundred and twenty seven to one.
The very next day, November nineteenth, they Senate passed the
bill by unanimous consent and they sent it to the
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President's desk. That is where we are now. President Donald
Trump has signed the bill into law. Now, under the law,
once signed by the President, the DOJ must release two
co and publicly in a searchable, downloadable format, the unclassified records,
the communications and investigative materials related to Jeffrey Epstein, and
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to the extent possible declassify and release classified materials within
thirty days. Now, what President Trump and the White House
have said publicly is this. Trump posted on his platform
True Social upon signings saying this, I have just signed
the bill to release the Epstein files. He also claimed
it encouraged the House Speaker Mike Johnson and the Senate
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Majority Leader John Thune to move the bill, leading to
the near unanimous vote, and the White House had also
made it clear they expected the President to sign the bill,
which he has done, even saying to reporters earlier in
the day quote, this will be signed. The bill will
be signed whenever it gets to the White House. There's
also the question of victim protection. The White House and
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GOP leaders expressed major concerns about protecting victim identities and
on going investigations. For instance, Speaker Johnson, while ultimately supporting
the bill, said he had hoped for amendments to better
protect the victims. Now. President Trump also made it clear
about the politics behind all of this. He referred to
prior criticism as a democratic hoax, insisting that his administration
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has nothing to hide and link the matter politically, claiming, quote,
all of the friends of Epstein's were Democrats. Now, there's
other important issues that you need to understand. There's a
scope and limitations. Even though the bill mandates broad disclosure,
it still allows for reactions or withholding a material that
would identify victims, reveal ongoing investigations, or compromise national security
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or classified information. Now the other question is this, is
this maybe one of the biggest political backfire in modern
political history for the Democrats who were demanding all of this.
The answer seems to be yes at this moment. We
also know that newly released campaign finance records are now
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showing that from nineteen ninety to twenty eighteen, Jeffrey Epstein
directed about eighty nine percent of his political donations to
democratic and progressive causes, with notable individual recipients including Bill Clinton,
Hillary Clinton, and Chuck Schumer. Now this also should be,
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I believe the number one fight for Republicans moving forward.
We don't need to move on from this. Let me
explain why you literally had Democrats in bed politically with
Jeffrey Epstein at every corner. For example, we had a
Democratic member of Congress who was caught texting Jeffrey Epstein
during hearings, and Republicans voted against censoring her. That is
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insane and the Democrats should have learned from this mistake.
This is a cycle, by the way, that keeps happening.
It's a reason why Republicans keep losing elections because when
they have the opportunity to stand up to the radical left,
many times they don't really do it. And until Republicans
grow a backbone and demand more transparency from the Epstein
files about what the Democrats are doing, nothing will change.
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And I say it again, this is why so many
times Republicans keep losing.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
We don't fight.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
They've never demanded the release of all of Epstein files,
even though every shred of evidence points directly I believe
to mostly Democrats. You have massive Democratic names that were
in bed with Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reed Hoffman,
Stacy Plaskett, Bill Richardson, George Mitchell, Hakeem Jeffries was even
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asking Jeffrey Epstein for money after he was convicted of
sexual crimes Michael Wolfe is another name. All of these
names should be what Republicans should now be talking about,
which brings me the two biggest names that we know
about so far that clearly don't want you to know
about what they were doing with Jeffrey Eppstein, and that
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was Bill and Hillary Clinton. Now we know that there's
a good chance that Bill and Hillary Clinton are a
literally risking prison time over Epstein's silence.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
How do we know that?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
It's coming from the House Oversight Committee chairman James Comber.
And Comber said that former President Bill Clinton and former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton could face criminal exposure related
to newly's surface Jeffrey Epstein documents, saying this, we expect
to hear from Bill and Hillary Clinton. Comber said Donald
Trump answered questions for years about Jeffrey Epstein. Every day
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he gets asked questions about Epstein and he answers them
in front of the American people. We've subpoenaed Republicans and Democrats.
Comber's comments underscore how the looming release of these records
related to Epstein, the disgraced financier who died by suicide
in jail awaiting sex travecking charges is becoming a flashpoint
in national politics, with the Democratic Party now bracing for
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real fallout. Many in the Democratic Party didn't believe that
these documents would ever be made public, and that's why
they weaponized him to try to hurt Donald Trump. Now,
although there's no direct evidence that the Clintons committed any
crimes at this point, suggestions of possible legal exposure inject
new tension into an already charged debate over transparency and
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accountability and the political weaponization of the Epstein files. The
Justice Department said on Friday that it is now examining
Epstein's purported connections to high profile Democrats, among them the
former President United States of America Bill Clinton, who has
repeatedly insisted that he was unaware of Epstein's criminal conduct. Now,
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as part of the investigation, James Comber issued the subpoenas
to the Clintons and eight other individuals that followed the
release by Congress last week of more than twenty thousand
pages of documents connected to Epstein.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
And now we have a whole lot more now.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
That batch of newly released correspondence included messages involving Bill Clinton,
Hillary Clinton, and the question now is what will be
done with this moving forward. We also know that no
survivor or associate has ever accused Clinton a misconduct tied
to Epstein, though Trump has for years suggested Clinton's travel
on Epstein's jets was suspect. The Clinton Foundation has dismissed
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the renewed attention, saying the emails that have been released
proved that Bill Clinton did nothing and knew nothing, and
argue the controversy is being used as a political distraction.
But here's what we do know. Flight records tell a
little bit different story. The flight records disclosed in earlier
civil litigation showed that Clinton took several trips on Epstein's
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plane in two thousand and two and two thousand and three,
traveling with staff to destinations across Africa, Asia, and Europe.
James Comer argued that while some Democrats have formally stated
they had no knowledge of Epstein, the Clintons have never
responded to Congress inquiries are taken questions from reporters or
investigators about their ties to Jeffrey Epstein. We also know
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that other Democrats have sent letters saying they knew nothing
about Epstein, which would hold in court if something ever
comes out that they did know something Comer said, and
he said this, and then they've committed perjury here. But
the Clintons have never responded. They're the one group in
this investigation that's never had to answer questions in front
of a credible reporter, and they've never certainly answered questions
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from attorneys or members of Congress. So we expect the
Clintons to come in or I expect the Clintons to
be met with the same fate that Steve Bannon and
Peter Navarro were met with when the Democrats were in control.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
House.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Democrats sought criminal charges you may remember against Steve Bannon
and former Trump White House strategists after he refused to
appear before the House committee investigating the January sixth attacks
on the US Capitol. A federal jury ultimately found him
guilty of two counts of contempt of Congress and received
a four month jail Terman twenty twenty two. Navarro, a
senior trade advisor during Trump's first administration, face a similar outcome.
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He too, given a four month federal prison sentence after
being found guilty of defying a subpoena from Congress issued
by the same January sixth Investigation.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
So here we are.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
As James Comer said, the Democrats have Trump derangement syndrome.
They're just hoping and praying that there's something in these
documents somewhere that they don't know where, but somewhere that
would implicate Trump.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
In reality, now that the files.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Are open, there's a very good chance that people like
Bill and Hillary Clinton are going to be in a
lot more trouble than they ever could have imagined.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
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