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Analysis Summary
Ask yourself: “If I turn the sound off, does this argument still hold up?”
Us vs. Them
Dividing the world into two camps — people like us (good, trustworthy) and people not like us (dangerous, wrong). It exploits a deep human tendency to favor our own group. Once you accept the division, information from "them" gets automatically discounted.
Tajfel's Social Identity Theory (1979); Minimal Group Paradigm
Worth Noting
Positive elements
- Provides detailed summary of specific newly released FBI interview excerpts from 2019 alleging Trump involvement, including dates and quotes, useful for tracking Epstein-related document releases amid war context.
Be Aware
Cautionary elements
- Us vs. Them framing that equates Trump critics' opponents with an 'Epstein class' to manufacture moral distance.
Influence Dimensions
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Transcript
Donald Trump's dark past continues to surface and it is becoming a major liability for our troops in Donald Trump's invasion of Iran. Iranian leaders, both their religious leaders at the Ayatollah level as well as their political leaders in parliament, continued to talk about Donald Trump's connections with Epstein, the Epstein class. And they continue to frame this war against Iran as a war by the Epstein class. It should be noted that before the war took place, in fact about nine months ago or more, Iranian hackers were able to extract huge amounts of data from Ahoud Barack's uh emails. The former prime minister of Israel, who was one of Epstein's closest buddies, and they were able to then leak a lot of that information before the Epstein files were even out there. We reported on some of the stuff that they leaked as well which existed on certain opensource forums. Remember I was doing reports on Ahoud, Barack and Epstein's relationship uh with each other and how they would go around throughout the world uh in order to prop up authoritarian regime. So Iran was prepared in one of its ways of responding to a Trump invasion by utilizing Trump's dark past, his connections with Epstein, and to rally people within Iran that, hey, these Epstein class people are coming to get you. And again, in my view, that puts a huge, huge liability on our soldiers when they are being lumped in with the Epstein class like that as a result of having someone in the Oval Office who is at the center of this cabal, at the center of this child sex trafficking cover up taking place with Trump and the DOJ's cover up of the Epstein files. That is in my opinion, of course. I am allowed to share my First Amendment opinion speech with you, aren't I? That's what this video is. That's what I do here sometimes on the Midas Touch Network. Now, the Miami Herald reports the following. Shout out to Julie Brown. She's an incredible reporter. She broke all of the big Epstein stories that led to his arrest the second time as well. DOJ releases Epstein files with accusations against Trump. Three FBI interviews that contain graphic sexual and physical assault allegations against Trump were released Thursday by the Justice Department. The reports were follow-up interviews with a woman who gave these interviews to the FBI in 2019 when the agency was investigating Jeffrey Epstein and Gilain Maxwell sex trafficking crimes. There was no indication in the reports whether the FBI was able to verify her claims. The White House on Thursday said, "This is baseless." But a DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying. In the end, she declined to cooperate with their investigation and they lost touch with her. The source said three FBI interviews contain very graphic sexual and physical assault allegations. in her first interview on July 24th, 2019, was contained in the Epstein files that were released by the DOJ in January. That report, which was redacted, said the woman alleged that she was raped by Jeffrey Epste in the 1980s when she was about 13 and living in Hilton Head, South Carolina with her mother. Her mother, who worked in real estate, had put an advertisement for babysitting services in a packet provided to her tenants. Epstein responded, the report said, and she sent her daughter. Epstein gave her drugs and raped her over the course of several years. The report said the interview summary did not contain Trump's name, although the report was heavily redacted and the woman alluded to having a photograph of Trump on her phone, which agents noted to be a widely distributed photo of Trump and Epstein. When pressed further by the agent, she became emotional and ended the interview. An examination of the date stamps showed that she was interviewed three more times, but those FBI interviews were not part of the files, prompting a public outcry earlier this week. The controversy comes as Pam Pam Bondi has been under fire, and as you know, she's just been subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee. The DOJ said the missing files had not been published because they were incorrectly marked as duplicative. In those subsequent interviews, though, which were not duplicative, they were new. The woman described how Epstein traffked her to several men, including Donald Trump, in the 1980s. She was interviewed again by the FBI on August 7th, 2019, August 20th, and October 16th, 2019. In her second interview, she claimed that Epstein either flew or drove her from South Carolina to New York or New Jersey, where she was between 13 and 15 years old. She was introduced to someone with money. It was Donald Trump. The report said she recalled she was in a very tall building with huge rooms when she met Trump, whom she said immediately didn't like her because she was a boy girl or tomboy. Uh she claimed she was with Epstein and several other people who left her alone in the room with Trump. Quote, "Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be." She recalled Trump saying according to the FBI report that's now just been released. She said that he Trump unzipped his pants and forced her head to his penis. She said she immediately bit him and Trump struck her. The report said she told the FBI agents that she bit him because he disgusted her. In her third interview, she told agents she wanted to clarify that uh how Trump reacted to her, biting him, explaining that Trump pulled her hair and punched her on the side of the head. She also said that Epstein blackmailed her mother by saying he had explicit photographs of her daughter and that her mother later went to prison for embezzling money from her job in an effort to purchase the photos from Trump. During her third interview with agents, she detailed how she and her mother received numerous death threats. She said that she felt she was being threatened by Epstein and Trump. She said the callers told her, "We know where you're at. You need to keep your mouth shut." In the last interview in October 2019, she said she felt what's the point? The assaults took place so long ago, she said that she felt that nothing could be done right now. So, those are the reports that were released. So, what are they actually saying in Iran? Well, Iran Parliament speaker Muhammad Bdar Galibbath said the following. Americans will come to understand that the fate of dear Iran, which is more precious than life, will be determined solely by the proud Iranian nation, not by Epstein's gang. And then in addition, you have this Iranian analyst, Muhammad Morandi, went on Piers Morgan and continued to refer to Donald Trump and America as the Epstein class. And folks, this is why moral character, moral clarity, having people who aren't covering up child sex trafficking rings, having people who are not best friends with Jeffrey Epstein, having, you know, look, Donald Trump's out there on audio. We have audio of him, of course, you know, saying that he grabbed that Donald Trump says he grabs women by the P word, by their vaginas, because when you're rich, you get away with it. Donald Trump's out there on audio saying that he owned these beauty pageantss cuz he got to inspect the girls in these beauty pageantss naked because when you own it, they let you inspect them like a doctor. Then Donald Trump says, "This is how people talk. This is locker room talk. Donald Trump's home, the place where he lives is where the child sex trafficking took place of Virginia Juy. And I'm not worried about saying things that are false because it's 100% true that Virginia Juy, let me be very clear, when she was a child, when she was underage, was sex trafficked after working at Mara Lago. That's why I'm saying that, right? That's where Epstein found her. Mara Lago sent their spa essentially to Epstein's home down the road. Donald Trump was quoted in New York magazine saying Epstein's a great guy who likes those women on the younger side. Really beautiful ones. He likes them on the younger side. to which Melania responded uh in an email to Gileain Maxwell saying, "Hey G. Hey G. Really love the New York Magazine article." She said this in 2002. "Really love that article. Great picture of you. Jeffrey J was amazing in that." To which Gileain said, "Hey, sweet pe. Looking forward to seeing each other soon." And if you're like, "Well, what does this even have to do with the war?" Well, you know, psychological warfare, uh, credibility, uh, rallying rallying your people are important. when Donald Trump beams his image, right? Trump and Netanyahu are hacking into Iranian television and Donald Trump's beaming his image on the TV. And it's like, is that, you know, in addition to the being, you know, the guy who bombed a elementary school that resulted in 150 children dying, um, and 175 people in total dying. Um, in addition to, you know, all the stuff they know about Trump. Like, is is that the Epstein guy? Is that like Epstein's like Epstein's guy? And then Donald Trump's like, I'm going to be the guy who picks the Ayatollah. Epstein that the leader of the Epstein cabal is going to be picking the Ayatollah. you're out there saying that you're going to be the one as opposed to if there was actually a humble, you know, decent human being in the United States who was the leader, they could at least articulate things with some more clarity. But did I show the clip of the Iranian the Iranian analysis, Muhammad Mandi? If not, let's just play it. the leader, he was martyed because he stayed at home and he said, "I'm not leaving my office and my home because many Iranians have nowhere to go and so I cannot leave." And he chose to stay even though everyone knew that he would be a primary target. Unlike your leaders and the Epstein class in your country which do all sorts of things to ordinary people, he stood with his people and he stayed with his people and that's why he's so popular. And unlike the propaganda that uh we see on your show all the time with these insane pundits who've never been to Iran, who know nothing about Iran, who just repeat these Epstein class talking points. The Iranian people are steadfast and standing beside and behind the Islamic Republic. And as we speak across Tehran under missile fire, you see huge crowds of people in different parts of the city protesting against the United States and calling for the armed forces to resist and might does not make right. Now, um I want to show you as well a few other data points right here that I think are very uh important. This from the House Oversight Committee. After the oversight, Democrats voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi. The DOJ released a portion of previously withheld documents with serious allegations against Trump and underage victims. That's what I was just discussing. The FBI interviewed the witness four times, and the American people can now see some of those documents for themselves. But let's be clear, this White House cover up is ongoing. Millions of pages still remain concealed from the public and our committee. We will get answers when Pam Bondi appears before our committee under oath. Uh Pam Bondi's been subpoenaed. Howard Lutnik has been subpoenaed. And all this is taking place while the United States is at war because Donald Trump thought that going to war with Iran would distract from the Epstein files and would be a distraction. He thought Operation Epic Fury would not be Operation Epstein Fury or the Jeffrey Epstein war. And now Donald Trump is demanding that we the people give him $50 billion more in a defense funding supplemental uh rather than us be able to have health care or affordable housing or education or or for you to have decent paying jobs. Nope. It's going to the uh defense industry. uh it's going to more Epstein class people. That's what's going on. Now, Congress member Robert Garcia was on TV recently and he described what subpoenas have been sent out. And he said, "Look, we're working hard on this. We're going to get Bondi under subpoena. We're going to get we're going to we have a subpoena for Bondi. We're going to get her under deposition. And Howard Lutnick, we're going to get him under deposition as well." Here, play this clip. The fact that we were able to win a subpoena to get the attorney general of Donald Trump in front of us is huge. And I'm I want to thank the entire committee, all of our members of oversight Democrats that were united that were able to pull over a handful of Republicans to join us to subpoena the attorney general specifically on the Epstein file. All of these questions that we have around the documents, why 50% of the files are still missing and this broader investigation, that hearing is going to be critical and we look forward to it. A date has not been set. We're hopeful it's set soon. Same with Howard Lick, someone that's been lying through his teeth about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and of course is now the commerce secretary to Donald Trump. How convenient. So, those two depositions have not been set, but we expect them to have dates hopefully in the next week. As it relates to the other folks coming forward, look on that list, you're talking about Epstein's personal assistant, Epstein's former lawyer, Epstein's former personal accountant. These are people that have intimate knowledge about where the money came in, who who was actually going in and out of these spaces in Epstein's different homes. Perhaps more information about what was actually going on at Mara Lago with the trafficking of women and girls through and to Jeffrey Epstein. And so those are critical pieces of this investigation. There, of course, others on there that folks that we want to speak to, anyone that that we've said from day one, we don't care what party you're in. If you know Jeffrey Epstein or have information, we want to talk to you. >> Now, Democratic Senator Sheldon White House put out the following message. There is plenty of circumstantial evidence connecting Trump, Russia, and Epstein. And here's the video that Shel that that Senator White House just put out here. Play this clip. >> As a lawyer, I know that you can prove cases with circumstantial evidence. You don't always need the smoking gun. What we do know [clears throat] is that a significant number of powerful men, our current president, some of his cabinet secretaries, tech billionaires like Elon Musk, Bill Gates and others were very mixed up with Epstein at different times and Epstein seems to have been very mixed up with Russia. We also know that there is a cover up a foot at the Department of Justice. The MAGA Department of Justice is trying to shield Trump from something in the Epstein files. We know that documents in the files about President Trump that should be released have not been released. Sometimes with a little imagination, you have the chance to see what's right in front of your face. As Roger Sullenberger explains, as reporters said a week ago, at least 53 pages from this woman's account were missing. Not just the interview 302s, but the notes informing at least three of those interviews. And after this extensive review, the DOJ still hasn't released at least 37 pages. So, some pages were reviewed and released. Some pages still have not been released, but I but I basically explained to you what what was in it thus far. um three FBI interviews that contain graphic sexual and physical assault allegations against Trump. A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that they found her to be credible. Let me repeat that. They found her to be credible. And you heard about the disgusting things that she said that she alleges that Donald Trump was saying uh to her. Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be before he unzips his pants and forced her head to his penis. And then she bit him because he was assaulting her is what she alleges. And the FBI found her to be credible. That's why they according to this article. That's why they interviewed her multiple times. And this is the guy sending our troops to war. Now he wants ground troops out there, right? Sicko. Absolute sicko in there. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million. Thanks for watching. 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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s dark past surfacing as witness interviews the FBI was hiding have been finally released as Trump’s horrible personal conduct is now hurting our troops and the war. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! MeidasTouch relies on SnapStream to record, watch, monitor, and clip the news. Get a FREE TRIAL of SnapStream by clicking here: https://go.snapstream.com/affiliate/meidastouch/meidasnews?utm_campaign=4490308-affiliate2025&utm_content=customerpartner Support the MeidasTouch Network: https://patreon.com/meidastouch Add the MeidasTouch Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-meidastouch-podcast/id1510240831 Buy MeidasTouch Merch: https://store.meidastouch.com Follow MeidasTouch on Twitter: https://twitter.com/meidastouch Follow MeidasTouch on Facebook: https://facebook.com/meidastouch Follow MeidasTouch on Instagram: https://instagram.com/meidastouch Follow MeidasTouch on TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@meidastouch