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Fly from Midtown Manhattan. Here comes the Mark Simone Show
on SEVENOA. Oh it's cold out there. We'll get to
Johnny Carson coming up. We'll get to Epstein, We'll get
to Bill Atman, We'll get to we'll give you all
the latest on Mom Donnie, everything you need to know,
where there is to know right now. We'll get to
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Hunter Biden. We'll get to affordability and a whole lot more.
Lots to talk about today, A freezing cold. This is
the first well we had one last week, but this
is another one of those winter days today. So I
come into our beautiful, magnificent iHeart headquarters, which is floor
after floor after floor after floor of studio's office. But
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on our sixth floor here, the first thing I see
is that Christmas tree. Why is there a Christmas tree?
It's not even Thanksgiving yet. It's not just here. They're
all over the place, these Christmas trees. It's starting earlier
and earlier and earlier, and it's gotta stop. It's got
to stop. The I told you last week about that
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condominium place in Florida where they made residents take down
the Christmas decorations, told them they're not allowed to put
them up till after Thanksgiving. Their rule is one holiday
at a time, and it makes sense. So President Trump,
let me just explain this Epstein stuff. This has been
going on for quite a while now. Donald Trump has
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nothing to do with Epstein. There's no Epstein connection with
Donald Trump. There's nothing there. But he has been brilliantly
playing the Democrats, letting them build it up and build
it up. If you're watching the Sunday shows, it was
all about Trump Epstein, Trump Epstein. He's letting this build
and build and build and build. So it'll end up
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when they're all released, all these files, it'll be another
example of Democrats totally misleading the public, totally conning them
about something. Now, the Epstein situation is pretty simple. He
made himself a lot of money, showed up in Florida
Palm Beach, and being a zillionaire, suddenly started hanging out
at mar A Lago and there he was all over
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mar A Lago. This is back in the good old
and they were talking twenty something years ago, maybe twenty
five years ago. And anytime anybody with a lot of
money starts spending it at mar A Lago and throwing
parties there, or back when Trump owned the plaza, if
somebody spent a fortune throwing an incredible gallot in the ballroom,
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Trump would always show up. And you'll notice even now
if you follow all this stuff on Instagram, when there's
a big, big wedding or an event at mar A
Lago where they rent the ballroom, Trump will show up.
He'll show up and wander through the crowds hill ever.
So that's how he met Epstein, That's how I got
to know him. Epstein had lots of women and fun
and celebrities, so Trump started hanging out with him whenever
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he was at mar A Lago or there'd be a
party in there. It was just at parties, nothing else.
A couple of times Epstein came up to Trump's office
showing off to some women that he could bring up there.
Not underage, not under age, perfectly appropriate, age appropriate women.
And that was the relationship. Well, then a couple of
things happened at mar A Lago. Epstein started hiring some
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people away from mar Olago mar A Lago's staff members,
so Trump told him to cut it out, and he didn't. Also,
at one point Epstein went after I think she was fifteen,
a girl that worked in the locker room. It was
actually the daughter of a member. It got back to Trump,
and Trump immediately banned Epstein from mar Alago. This is
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twenty something years ago. Banned him. It's actually twenty four,
twenty one years ago. Banned him from mar Alago forever,
never spoke to him again, cut off all ties with
the guy. Now, as far as these young young girls,
that was Epstein's preference, that's what Epstein liked, these young
young girls. So it was him. There's rumor that Prince
Andrew also liked that and got involved. But all these
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people hanging around with Epstein, it wasn't about young girls
for them, not pedophiles. That was Epstein. But if you
went to and I was at a few Epstein things,
if you went to Epstein's parties, there were women all
over the place, but all ages, all ages, not young girls.
He had a lot of his young girls working for
him as messuse's and if you go to the party,
they'd be checking the coats and that kind of stuff.
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But Trump has no worries at all about Epstein. It's
going to be nothing in those files that's going to
bother Trump. And he knows that so that's why he's
been stringing Democrats along. He's now last night called for
Republican release all the files, and at some point you'll
see it. All, all the files will come out. Now.
The problem is, this is the only problem Trump might have.
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There might be some big, big donors of his, the
friends of his, that are in the files, but if
it's in the files, it's not going to be young girls.
It's going to be them at these parties, maybe cheating
on their wife, that sort of stuff. That's like a
Bill Gates kind of situation. One has already come out.
Larry Summers, Treasury Secretary to Bill Clinton, resident of Harvard,
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very prestigious guy, a very married guy. But he was
carrying on with women, not young girls, older women. And
the emails have already emerged from the Epstein estate. They
found the emails where Larry Summers is and I don't
know why you would put this in writing, but these
guys put it in writing. He's emailing back and forth
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about this woman that woman, and she won't see him anymore,
and they're talking about they're talking about his dating life,
and he's turning to Epstein for advice on how to
get this woman back. This is a married guy, So
that kind of stuff will come out. That's the worst
of it. But nobody Trump's has no Epstein problem at all.
Once it's all released, you'll see that one of the
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people at Epstein hired away from Marlago was this infamous woman,
Virginia Giuffrey, who worked at mar Alago in the Spa.
It was Gallaine Maxwell that recruited her way into Epstein world.
She eventually killed her. She committed suicide not that long ago.
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But she did a million interviews with law enforcement, US Attorney, FBI,
all that sort of stuff, and she wrote a book
and in all the interviews and in the books, she
made it clear nothing ever happened with Donald Trump. In fact,
she said he was a very nice man and always
a total gentleman with her. And remember she had worked
for him too. So the US Attorney here in New York,
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good guy Jay Clayton, he's been told to oversee an
investigation and to look into Democrats because a lot of
Democrats are going to have a problem. Now you know
who was really tangled up with Epstein or the banks.
Nothing to do with sex, but JP Morgan, Chase and
these other banks were really really close with Epstein, working
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hard with him. The reason they did that Epstein had
billions of dollars that he was working with and he
had to put it somewhere, so they wanted it in
their bank because they can make a fortune having his
billion in their banks. So JP Morgan chasing. These other
banks were very nice to Epstein, and these are the
same banks that d banked Donald Trump threw him out,
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refused to take his business. And if you're a major corporation,
you can't exist without banks. You have to have banks
for everything. So that was just disgusting the way they
d banked. It wasn't just Trump, other conservative companies. So
they deserve everything they're getting with this Epstein stuff. Now,
who else will have a problem A lot of celebrities,
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George Stephanopolis will have a big problem with George Sloppadopoulos,
Katie Couric, these are some of the celebrities that were
at Epstein's house having dinner with them. You know, when
you see the ABC Sunday Morning Show this week make
a big deal out of Epstein, they failed to mention
George Stepanopolos at Epstein's house having dinner with him. Now
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when asked about it. Stephanopolis gives you this ridiculous explanation.
I didn't know who he was. I had no idea
who he was. I had no idea who he was.
I should have done my due diligence. Is Stephanopoulos's quote, Well,
the guy's a news broadcaster, host of a news show,
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supposedly a journalist and a newsman. They didn't know Jeffrey
Epstein was. Now, this is after Epstein was convicted of
being a pedophile. This was trafficking the miners for prostitution.
Epstein was already convicted and had gone to prison for it.
George stephanoppois, I had no idea he was. I should
have looked into it. Well, I knew who he was.
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You probably knew who he was. You probably read about it,
the guy in Florida that got convicted. Of course, you
read about this guy's a professional newsman on a network,
claiming he didn't know about it. This is this clip
running around the internet right now of Katie Couric. She's
on with what's the Bravo guy's name, Andy Andy Cohen.
She's on the Bravo show, and good for Andy Cohney said,
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the hell were you doing at Jeffrey Epstein's house, having
dinner with him. So she said, well, I didn't know
who he was. I probably shouldn't. Remember she was the
anchor of the CBS Evening News, that's one of the
top news jobs in the world. And she didn't know
who Jeffrey Epstein was. This is after he was in prison,
this is after he'd been convicted, after he went to jail.
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I didn't know who he was. I guess I should
have invested. First of all, who goes to anybody's house
and you don't know who they are? Have you ever
been to a house I'd had dinner with somebody and
when you're leaving, who is that? I don't know. I
have no idea who the guy is. I just say,
you having dinner in his house? Yeah, I don't know
who he is. Even if somehow you were that stupid,
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that ignorant that you didn't know who he was after
spending the evening at his house, wouldn't you then have
some idea who he was? So, Katie Kirk, I didn't.
I should have checked. Now, she uses the excuse that
Prince Andrew was going to be at the dinner and
that Megan Markle and Prince Harry were going to become
a big, big story or there was a royal waves.
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She said, I felt I should get to know Prince Andrew.
He could help me get the exclusive. It doesn't work
that way. You just you don't need to go to
somebody's house and you can start working the story without that.
So a lot of people like Stephanopoulos, Katie Kirk are
going to have a big, big Epstein problem. You know,
there's a woman in Congress, Stacy Plasket, She's a Democrat.
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Now there's a lot of files being released from the
Epstein estate, and this Epstein would text like crazy with people.
But apparently this Democrat congresswoman is texting back and forth
with Epstein. And it's during the hearings. You remember they
had hearings on Trump. Was it Michael Cohen or something?
It was Michael Cohen. There were these hearings going on
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and they're asking questions, you know, they take turns each
congress person on the committee. Well, they're about to come
to the Stacey Plasket in the during the hearings, she's
texting Epstein, who's watched it live on TV? What should
I ask him? You've been watching the testimony. What did
they leave out? What should I? And Epstein is texting
her questions to ask and at one point the witness
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is talking and he mentions Rona. So this dumb congresswoman
texts Epstein is what's Rona? Is that an acronym for something?
And Epstein text back, No, that's Rona, his assistant, his
chief of staff, and he said, Rona is the keeper
of the secrets. Dig into Rona. This is this congress
woman during the hearings, contexting with Epstein. So these democrats
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were very, very very close to Epstein. Rona, by the way,
is Rona graft Who's the nicest woman, the most decent, honest,
There was nothing bad there, So I don't know what
Epstein was talking about. And the other thing, if you
start reading through the emails, Epstein had nothing to do
with Trump after two thousand and four, nothing, no connect
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for twenty years. He didn't know Trump at all, but
a lot of these people think he still did. So
you see these very very powerful, big people are texting
and emailing Epstein right up until the end during the
first Trump term. I'm going to Washington to meet with
the present. What should I say? Or a meeting with
this official in the White House, and Epstein is texting
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back as if he's connected to Trump, which he wasn't
at that point, giving advice, well he likes this, he
doesn't like this, or don't see Jared, make sure you
see this person. Epstein didn't know anything. He was just
conning these people like crazy. Now here's another important point
to remember. The Biden administration had these Epstein files for
four years. The Biden administration looked through, carefully inspected everything
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in the Epstein files for four years. They couldn't find
anything that would hurt Trump. They were looking for it
because they wanted to hurt Trump. They wanted to arrest them,
prosecute him, do whatever they could to stop him. They
looked through the files. They couldn't find anything in there
that would help. That's why you never heard about the
Epstein files for the whole four years of Biden. There
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was nothing in there that hurt Trump. And this is
the way this all works. Look at these democrats yelling
and screaming, the demanding we must see the Epstein files. Well,
how come you didn't say a word for four years?
How come you didn't want to see him? In twenty
twenty four. Why didn't you want to see him in
twenty twenty three? How come in twenty twenty two you
never asked to see him twenty twenty one, you never
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mentioned it. It's the same thing with the media. You know,
you hear about this is the affordability crisis. Affordability crisis.
Inflation under Biden hit nine percent, It averaged five percent,
but it hit nine percent. None of these people, the
same Democrats, the same media, never mentioned affordability. It never
came up pro check for four years, never mentioned it
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at nine percent. Now it's two point five percent. That's
all they can talk about, the affordability crisis. Two point
five percent. Try. Trump was asked to about Epstein last night.
They're using Jeffrey Epstein as a deflection from the tremendous
success that we're having as a party. Yeah, yeah, Actually,
Epstein's stuff. You could also call it operation change the subject.
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That's what it's all about. It sounds good, it sounds
but again Trump has been setting them up and brilliantly. Hey,
President Trump said he will meet with Mom Donnie. Mom
Donnie said he will meet with Trump. Looks like the
meeting will take place in Washington, DC. We'll get into
it in detail a little later. Also, Mom Donnie has
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talked with Jessica Tish again. They spoke over the weekend.
Hopefully she'll stay. The fire commissioner's great guy, Robert Tucker.
He's already quit and left, but he's got a huge
business he can go back to, and I don't think
he wants anything to do with Mom Donnie. Jessica Tish
will see if she stays. Well. There's a lot of
Mom Donnie stuff. We'll get into it a little later.
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Lots to talk about and we'll take some calls next.
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