November 20, 2025 • 9 mins
TRENDING - Stacey Plaskett faces intense scrutiny over newly revealed texts connected to the Epstein case. Investigators now suspect the step-brother of Titusville teen Anna Kepner in her murder aboard a Carnival cruise ship. We also cover the indictment of Natalie Greene for allegedly staging an anti-MAGA attack, along with a new billboard campaign calling out politicians over soaring grocery prices.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This trending story brought to you by Trajan Wealth. Visit
them at trajanwealth dot com. Stacy Plaskett, the delegate from
the Virgin Islands who was texting with Jeffrey Epstein during
a twenty nineteen hearing with Michael Cohen, just refuses to
express remorse for communicating with him. She was on CNN
with Pamela Brown and here's some of what she said.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
But, like many constituents, individuals get your phone number, they
text you about issues, they speak with you. I have
spoken with him about issues that are relevant, things that
are going on in the Virgin Islands and elsewhere around
the country.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Right, But on that day that we're talking about, you
initiated the tax exchange at seven fifty five in the morning.
So why were you even texting with Epstein at the
time he was a known sexephiner.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Then sure, you know, I explained to people, I've been
a prosecutor for many years and there are a lot
of people who have information that are not your friends
that you use to get information for to get at
the truth.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Yeah, so a bunch of.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Excuses no time. Now, she says, Yeah, you know what,
I probably shouldn't have been you know, talking to that guy.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
And as a prosecutor, you would think a former prosecutor,
you would think that she'd be outraged that he wasn't
behind bars for all that he had done. And give
me a break, this idea that yeah, every constituent he
just texts their member of Congress.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Right, and and his home in the Virgin Islands was
where he committed so many of these sex trusts too.
So then Hikeem Jeffries was on with Caitlyn Collins and
she pressed him on whether or not he thought Plast
acted inappropriately, and he just kept dodging the question, kept
shifting it back to Trump. She would ask him again,
(01:39):
and then she asked him a third time, and this
is what happened.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
You know, I was just asking if you personally believe
messaging with Jeffrey Epstein, who was at that point a
registered sex offender, is appropriate for a member of the
House Democratic Caucus.
Speaker 7 (01:53):
That's third time you've asked me this question, and I'm
going to give you the same exact answer. Our focus
today is on making sure that the Jeffrey Epstein files
were released. I want to have a conversation with Stacey
Plaskett about it. I'm sure she'd be willing to talk
to you.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
It's so ridiculous, Like, why can't these people ever say, yeah,
what she did was wrong?
Speaker 5 (02:11):
And that's why I don't have politicians. So that's why
I try my hardest not to have politicians on the show.
They won't answer the questions. It's so ridiculous. Everybody watching
and like, they look like jerks.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, no, they look like idiots. I mean she asked
him three times, and you know what, obviously he's like,
I'm going to keep dodging the question.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
And if you've got them behind closed doors, you know,
even it came to Jeffrey's he'd be like, yeah, that's
really bad what she did.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
We all know that we are learning even more about
what happened to Florida cheerleader Anna Kempner. Her sixteen year
old stepbrother is an FBI suspect in her killing, according
to court documents, and there have been some rough family dynamics.
Apparently the boy's mother and his stepmother, Shan Tell Hudson,
and her ex husband have been fighting over custody of
their two minor children for the last couple of years.
(02:57):
She accused him of domestic and physical abuse against the kids,
including the sixteen year old accused of the murder. The
Department of Children and Families has apparently been investigating claims
against the father and that case is still open.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
He's accusing the mother of getting into a violent altercation
with their other child, an adult, and he blames the
sixteen year old son's current issues on the mother keeping
him from having a relationship with his father. Now, the stepbrother,
who is just identified as th in the court documents,
(03:31):
is now in the care of one of his mother's relatives.
And we talked earlier about how he is a suspect.
They think he did it, but they've got to determine
who's going to actually charge him. Is going to be
a federal case. FBI Miami is investigating, but since it
happened on a cruise ship in international waters, there's a
lot of that stuff that needs to be worked out. Meanwhile,
(03:51):
and his friends and family gathered for her funeral yesterday
and she was remembered as a beauty who lived every
day with.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Her whole heart.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
There was also a report that I saw that said
the night before she was found under the bed in
her cabin she had told relative she wasn't feeling well,
went back to her room, and then when she didn't
show up for breakfast, that's when the search began.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Wondering what happened to her. Yeah, and then she was
found under the bed, wrapped in a blanket with life vests.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Yeah, kind of like it.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
It seems like covered so she wouldn't be discovered or something, right.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, and this hasn't been made public yet, but the
person who sent us a message on TikTok, who said
that she knows a family message.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
They've been right every step of the way, that person.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah, absolutely, And she said that the brother had issues.
The stepbrother was obsessed with her to the point where
he wasn't allowed at the house sometimes. So then the
question becomes, really if there was an issue, Yeah, no,
but maybe they thought you would never actually do something.
I don't know, but really really sad story. This trending
story brought to you by Trajan Wealth. Visit them at
trajanwealth dot com. Natalie Green, a former staffer for New
(04:55):
Jersey Republican Congressman Jeff Van Drew, was indicted yesterday her
fabricating a wild story about being viciously assaulted by anti
Trump attackers. So, according to the DOJ, she and a
co conspirator stage day faux attack and blamed it on
three men. On July twenty third, the co conspirator called
nine one one, claiming they were walking on a nature
(05:16):
trail when they were approached by the men and that
the attackers referenced her employment as a GOP staffer. She
had been cut multiple times with the scalpel and the
words Trump whore were written on her stomach and Van
drew is racist was written on her back. Her hands
and feet were bound with zip ties, her shirt was
pulled over her head. She was crying and screaming that
(05:39):
one of the attackers had a gun, and there are
pictures of this and it looks like she was brutally attacked.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Well.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
When police talked to her and the co conspirator separately,
they gave conflicting reports about what happened, different descriptions of
the three men. And they discovered that she had duct
tape and zip ties in her vehicle and she had
searched z hip ties near me on her phone within
the last couple of days. So it turns out that
(06:06):
this was a hoax. And two days before the alleged assault,
she drove to Pennsylvania and paid a body modification artist
she found on Instagram god five hundred bucks to carve
the gruesome wounds into her face, neck, chest, back, and
shoulders with a scalpel.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
A freak.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah. So she was charged with conspiracy to convey false
statements and hoaxes and making false statements to federal law enforcement.
And she was arraigned yesterday and released on a two
hundred thousand dollars bond. And she's facing up to a
decade behind bars if she's convicted. So when I'm looking
at these pictures, I'm thinking, did is this makeup? Or
(06:48):
did she actually have somebody like harm her? But I
think she really had somebody cut her.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
That is really crazy, and there's so much to unpack
from this, but I just find and it fascinating she
went through all that trouble to make it look like
she was attacked.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
They didn't get their story straight, No, not right.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah, they separate the do of them and then they
basically yeah, but.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
That's that's I mean, it's it's the opposite of Jesse
small At that was, you know, a maga person allegedly
attacking him. He made the whole thing up, and this
is the opposite an anti MAGA person allegedly attacking her,
and that's not what happened.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
This trending story brought to you by Trajanwealth. Visit them
at trajanwealth dot com. The Hillsboro Society, a Tampa political
group focused on working class issues, put up a billboard
on Henderson Boulevard calling out high grocery prices. It says
in huge letters trump flation and points out that vegetable
prices are up thirty nine percent. The executive director of
(07:50):
the organization said, this billboard hits home at grocery prices
every week when you go to the store, prices are
going up and up. Food and security is sitting at
an all time high. The food banks can't even handle
the capacity for the number of people who need them
right now. And he also said they chose that location
because it's a part where people have to slow down,
and they really want people to see it, and they're
(08:12):
planning on putting more billboards up across the area.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Now.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
The problem is, first of all, when you do the
whole trumpflation thing, then you know a lot of people
are just gonna roll their eyes instead of bringing attention
to the issue itself. Once you do that political, it
looks political. And then also the thirty nine percent stat
that's spike and vegetable prices. That's from a June producer
price report. That's producer prices. That's not what consumers are
(08:39):
paying at the grocery store. Those prices have gone up
about three percent year over year and about twenty five
percent over the past five years. So you know, you
say thirty nine percent spike and vegetable prices, but that's
not what people are actually seeing in the stores.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
So it's kind of a little misleading too.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I think people know that things have gotten more expensive,
but if you actually look up that stat that's not true.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Right. Beef is up big, that's up about like twenty percent.
This trending story brought to you by Trajan Wealth. Visit
them at trajanwealth dot com. Stacy Plaskett, the delegate from
the Virgin Islands who was texting with Jeffrey Epstein during
a twenty nineteen hearing with Michael Cohen, just refuses to
express remorse for communicating with him. She was on CNN
with Pamela Brown and here's some of what she said.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
But, like many constituents, individuals get your phone number, they
text you about issues, they speak with you. I have
spoken with him about issues that are relevant, things that
are going on in the Virgin Islands and elsewhere around
the country.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Right, But on that day that we're talking about, you
initiated the tax exchange at seven fifty five in the morning.
So why were you even texting with Epstein at the
time he was a known sexephiner.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Then sure, you know, I explained to people, I've been
a prosecutor for many years and there are a lot
of people who have information that are not your friends
that you use to get information for to get at
the truth.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Yeah, so a bunch of.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Excuses no time. Now, she says, Yeah, you know what,
I probably shouldn't have been you know, talking to that guy.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
And as a prosecutor, you would think a former prosecutor,
you would think that she'd be outraged that he wasn't
behind bars for all that he had done. And give
me a break, this idea that yeah, every constituent he
just texts their member of Congress.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Right, and and his home in the Virgin Islands was
where he committed so many of these sex trusts too.
So then Hikeem Jeffries was on with Caitlyn Collins and
she pressed him on whether or not he thought Plast
acted inappropriately, and he just kept dodging the question, kept
shifting it back to Trump. She would ask him again,
(01:39):
and then she asked him a third time, and this
is what happened.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
You know, I was just asking if you personally believe
messaging with Jeffrey Epstein, who was at that point a
registered sex offender, is appropriate for a member of the
House Democratic Caucus.
Speaker 7 (01:53):
That's third time you've asked me this question, and I'm
going to give you the same exact answer. Our focus
today is on making sure that the Jeffrey Epstein files
were released. I want to have a conversation with Stacey
Plaskett about it. I'm sure she'd be willing to talk
to you.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
It's so ridiculous, Like, why can't these people ever say, yeah,
what she did was wrong?
Speaker 5 (02:11):
And that's why I don't have politicians. So that's why
I try my hardest not to have politicians on the show.
They won't answer the questions. It's so ridiculous. Everybody watching
and like, they look like jerks.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, no, they look like idiots. I mean she asked
him three times, and you know what, obviously he's like,
I'm going to keep dodging the question.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
And if you've got them behind closed doors, you know,
even it came to Jeffrey's he'd be like, yeah, that's
really bad what she did.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
We all know that we are learning even more about
what happened to Florida cheerleader Anna Kempner. Her sixteen year
old stepbrother is an FBI suspect in her killing, according
to court documents, and there have been some rough family dynamics.
Apparently the boy's mother and his stepmother, Shan Tell Hudson,
and her ex husband have been fighting over custody of
their two minor children for the last couple of years.
(02:57):
She accused him of domestic and physical abuse against the kids,
including the sixteen year old accused of the murder. The
Department of Children and Families has apparently been investigating claims
against the father and that case is still open.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
He's accusing the mother of getting into a violent altercation
with their other child, an adult, and he blames the
sixteen year old son's current issues on the mother keeping
him from having a relationship with his father. Now, the stepbrother,
who is just identified as th in the court documents,
(03:31):
is now in the care of one of his mother's relatives.
And we talked earlier about how he is a suspect.
They think he did it, but they've got to determine
who's going to actually charge him. Is going to be
a federal case. FBI Miami is investigating, but since it
happened on a cruise ship in international waters, there's a
lot of that stuff that needs to be worked out. Meanwhile,
(03:51):
and his friends and family gathered for her funeral yesterday
and she was remembered as a beauty who lived every
day with.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Her whole heart.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
There was also a report that I saw that said
the night before she was found under the bed in
her cabin she had told relative she wasn't feeling well,
went back to her room, and then when she didn't
show up for breakfast, that's when the search began.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Wondering what happened to her. Yeah, and then she was
found under the bed, wrapped in a blanket with life vests.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Yeah, kind of like it.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
It seems like covered so she wouldn't be discovered or something, right.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, and this hasn't been made public yet, but the
person who sent us a message on TikTok, who said
that she knows a family message.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
They've been right every step of the way, that person.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah, absolutely, And she said that the brother had issues.
The stepbrother was obsessed with her to the point where
he wasn't allowed at the house sometimes. So then the
question becomes, really if there was an issue, Yeah, no,
but maybe they thought you would never actually do something.
I don't know, but really really sad story. This trending
story brought to you by Trajan Wealth. Visit them at
trajanwealth dot com. Natalie Green, a former staffer for New
(04:55):
Jersey Republican Congressman Jeff Van Drew, was indicted yesterday her
fabricating a wild story about being viciously assaulted by anti
Trump attackers. So, according to the DOJ, she and a
co conspirator stage day faux attack and blamed it on
three men. On July twenty third, the co conspirator called
nine one one, claiming they were walking on a nature
(05:16):
trail when they were approached by the men and that
the attackers referenced her employment as a GOP staffer. She
had been cut multiple times with the scalpel and the
words Trump whore were written on her stomach and Van
drew is racist was written on her back. Her hands
and feet were bound with zip ties, her shirt was
pulled over her head. She was crying and screaming that
(05:39):
one of the attackers had a gun, and there are
pictures of this and it looks like she was brutally attacked.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Well.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
When police talked to her and the co conspirator separately,
they gave conflicting reports about what happened, different descriptions of
the three men. And they discovered that she had duct
tape and zip ties in her vehicle and she had
searched z hip ties near me on her phone within
the last couple of days. So it turns out that
(06:06):
this was a hoax. And two days before the alleged assault,
she drove to Pennsylvania and paid a body modification artist
she found on Instagram god five hundred bucks to carve
the gruesome wounds into her face, neck, chest, back, and
shoulders with a scalpel.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
A freak.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah. So she was charged with conspiracy to convey false
statements and hoaxes and making false statements to federal law enforcement.
And she was arraigned yesterday and released on a two
hundred thousand dollars bond. And she's facing up to a
decade behind bars if she's convicted. So when I'm looking
at these pictures, I'm thinking, did is this makeup? Or
(06:48):
did she actually have somebody like harm her? But I
think she really had somebody cut her.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
That is really crazy, and there's so much to unpack
from this, but I just find and it fascinating she
went through all that trouble to make it look like
she was attacked.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
They didn't get their story straight, No, not right.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah, they separate the do of them and then they
basically yeah, but.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
That's that's I mean, it's it's the opposite of Jesse
small At that was, you know, a maga person allegedly
attacking him. He made the whole thing up, and this
is the opposite an anti MAGA person allegedly attacking her,
and that's not what happened.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
This trending story brought to you by Trajanwealth. Visit them
at trajanwealth dot com. The Hillsboro Society, a Tampa political
group focused on working class issues, put up a billboard
on Henderson Boulevard calling out high grocery prices. It says
in huge letters trump flation and points out that vegetable
prices are up thirty nine percent. The executive director of
(07:50):
the organization said, this billboard hits home at grocery prices
every week when you go to the store, prices are
going up and up. Food and security is sitting at
an all time high. The food banks can't even handle
the capacity for the number of people who need them
right now. And he also said they chose that location
because it's a part where people have to slow down,
and they really want people to see it, and they're
(08:12):
planning on putting more billboards up across the area.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Now.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
The problem is, first of all, when you do the
whole trumpflation thing, then you know a lot of people
are just gonna roll their eyes instead of bringing attention
to the issue itself. Once you do that political, it
looks political. And then also the thirty nine percent stat
that's spike and vegetable prices. That's from a June producer
price report. That's producer prices. That's not what consumers are
(08:39):
paying at the grocery store. Those prices have gone up
about three percent year over year and about twenty five
percent over the past five years. So you know, you
say thirty nine percent spike and vegetable prices, but that's
not what people are actually seeing in the stores.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
So it's kind of a little misleading too.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I think people know that things have gotten more expensive,
but if you actually look up that stat that's not true.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Right. Beef is up big, that's up about like twenty percent.
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