Don’t let Trump fool you

The rightly and completely justified Epstein pressure is very clearly getting to Trump because he just had to offer a fake concession up to his base.

They're trying to offer up the optics that they're giving a real concession. But if you dig into what this actually means that they're focusing on grand jury testimony, that they're focusing on pertinent testimony? Will we be getting all of the information that we were promised? We may be getting exactly zero information because the court would have to order the release of grand jury transcripts. This feels more like a Hollywood reality show, maybe another episode of The Apprentice?. It's not in fact reality and here's why, first of all, we have to start with the rules that govern grand jury transcripts and all grand jury materials. It's federal rule of criminal procedure 6E. Here's what it stands for. Grand jury information, that means witness testimony, records that are produced pursuant to grand jury subpoenas, like telephone records, photographs, videotapes, you name it. It is all protected by grand jury secrecy. And here's what everybody needs to know. The rules only provide that a court may order the release of grand jury materials for only very specific and limited reasons

You can read the grand jury rules 6E forward and backward and nowhere in there is the authorized release for public relations purposes or in the public interest, it doesn't exist. So, this is a completely hollow promise once again by Trump. This is nothing more than Trump using this as a pretext to try to claim, look, look, I'm being transparent. No, no you're not. Because the rules don't provide for release of grand jury materials under these circumstances.

Pam Bondi might say, well, what's pertinent is anything that might incriminate anybody other than Trump. Or what's pertinent is anything that might make a Democrat or Democratic donor look bad. So let me ask the judge to release that bit of grand jury information. All of this is for show and none of it, in my opinion, is for substance, and it's very unlikely to produce much of anything.

Let's grant the administration that this actually works. Maybe they look at the fact that, you know, Jeffrey Epstein is dead because we all know he hung himself /s, so there's no prejudice. There's no harm to his lol reputation. And so, let's say a court does opt to grant the grand jury transcripts over to the Trump administration. There's nothing stopping them from just only picking what they want to expose while burying the rest of it. There are so many games that are being played here, semantic games and otherwise that I think this is all completely for show. They think we’re idiots and that they’re so much smarter than us.

In theory, prosecutors could have spoken with people, even people that were heavily involved in the whole disgusting Jeffrey Epstein saga, and they wouldn't even be present in the grand jury information. Tons and tons and tons of evidence and information pours in to a sizable criminal investigation that isn’t grand jury material. Therefore, there is no prohibition against releasing it. At least not a grand jury secrecy prohibition. The DOJ isn’t typically in the business of just kind of willy-nilly releasing information about a pending case or an ongoing investigation. Now people might say, well this investigation is no longer pending. Indeed, you know, the criminal cases seem to be complete even though Ghislaine Maxwell has asked the Supreme Court to review her conviction. But do you think there are other people in the Epstein files who may have criminal exposure for what they did, absolutely.

There are so many moving pieces here, but, you know, what I keep coming back to is I have a feeling Pam Bondi will continue to protect Trump. Do we really think she's going to release anything that might make Trump look bad, never mind make it look like he might have criminal exposure? Absolutely not. There's also the fact that right now Trump, what he wants more than anything is to delay. He needs to get the heat off of him. And so, first of all, Congress is heading toward its recess, so they'll have some heat off of them also because they've been asked multiple times by Democrats to release the files. Every time they refuse to do it, they block these efforts by the Democrats. But Trump needs to buy himself some time. And so, I guess the question here becomes, how long will this process take? Because the alternative is releasing the files that they have or don’t have and then do have once again. Pam Bondi herself said they were on her desk and don’t forget the Epstein phase 1 binders that they had a photo op with. Presumably, the attorney general of the United States would have direct access to this stuff. And so if she wanted to get this stuff out quickly, she has the ability to do so. But by going this route, by going the grand jury route where she needs to get approval by a judge, how long can this all take? Well, here's the thing. You can get a court approval very rapidly, literally within 24 or 48 hours if there's a demonstrated need to secure the court approval by a judge quickly. But they can also drag this out as long as they want. But here's what I'll say about the strategy, the tactic of dragging everything out until people either forget about it or Trump does something else that captures the public's attention and obsesses the media in the process isn’t going to work this time.

It looks like this isn’t going to just go away like Trump wishes. And the reason I say this is because a large segment of MAGA world has turned against Trump and in response he's turned on them. He's called them weaklings if they continue to obsess about or inquire about the Epstein pedophile story. You've got some hard right-wing social media influencers who are almost always on Trump's side who are now seemingly turning against him. You have members of Congress, including MAGA Mike Johnson, who's now calling for transparency when it comes to the Epstein files. I mean, it looks like dragging this out may only build the opposition and fuel the fire against Trump from people who are usually in his corner.

Here’s the million dollar question. Are we going to have any insight into exactly what Pam Bondi asks the judge here? So, if she, for example, wants to offer up some narrow search, I feel like that would be important for us to know. Like, if she's just looking at something that doesn't have to do with Donald Trump or has to do with with Democrats, for example, that would be relevant information for the broader public to have some insight into. And so, are we going to be able to have some exposure into what she's asking, or is that completely opaque and between the attorney general and the judge who she's requesting this info from?

In knee-jerk fashion, I want to say that we won’t have transparency into what Pam Bondi requests the judge to release or authorize the release of. The reason I say that is when attorneys file a motion seeking the release of or discussing in any way grand jury protected material, they always file it under seal. So it’s not publicly available. But here's the thing. Judges after they've made a decision on a motion, let's assume a judge grants Pam Bondi's motion to release some portion of the grand jury materials. The judge will then have the authority to unseal the motion that that DOJ and Pam Bondi filed seeking the release of certain materials. So, Pam Bondi might be able to keep under wraps for a certain amount of time but ultimately once it's in the hands of the judge and the judge rules, the judge will then have the authority to order it unsealed so the public can see that maybe what Pam Bondi requested be unsealed isn’t quite as thorough, sweeping, and comprehensive as it could have been.

These pedophiles must be brought to justice and the full unredacted Epstein list must be released to the public. If that means that 2/3 of Congress and global elites are brought down and destroyed for being pedophiles or helping cover it up then so be it. Thousands of children were brutally and disgustingly abused in the most horrific ways possible and they must have justice served. This isn’t a Left vs Right issue this is an everyone issue and the only people who would have an issue with bringing pedophiles to justice is the pedophiles themselves and the disgusting people who help cover for, protect them and make excuses for them.

Sorry this was so long and thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.