GOP Goes into Hiding as Epstein Co-Conspirator Deposed
2/19/202622 mincomplete
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1:18Not a single Republican showed up to the House of Representatives deposition today of Les
1:25Wexner in Ohio. He was the main benefactor, the main money supplier of Jeffrey Epstein.
1:34The House Oversight Committee conducted this deposition of Wexner today in Ohio.
1:40Not a single Republican Congress member showed up.
1:44They have completely abandoned even the pretext of conducting further oversight and investigation into Jeffrey
1:51Epstein's sex trafficking ring. They were ordered by Donald Trump and MAGA Mike Johnson, the
1:57Speaker of the House. Do not show up.
1:59Do not be there at all.
2:01Don't even lend your presence to this deposition.
2:05Now, a lot of bombshells at this deposition.
2:08Les Wexner, who's now 88 years old, admitted essentially that he had given Jeffrey Epstein
2:15about a billion dollars over the course of his lifetime.
2:20He tried to frame it as he was duped by Epstein, and Epstein was a
2:24con artist. But then Wexner admitted in his deposition that he believed he was in
2:29rooms with Donald Trump and Epstein at potentially beauty pageants and Victoria's Secret shows, that
2:35he was at the island.
2:36And then when it came to critical details about girls and what was going down
2:40at the island, what was happening in these meetings with Epstein and Trump and others,
2:44he just conveniently did not recall, as Joe Khalil explains, Les Wexner said under oath
2:52that neither the FBI nor the DOJ even ever sought to question him regarding Epstein,
2:58per the Democrats who sat in.
3:00So no questions by the DOJ when several Epstein victims publicly have alleged Wexner's involvement
3:08in FBI documents list Wexner as an Epstein co -conspirator.
3:14Folks, the cover -up gets worse.
3:16Let me show you what Democratic Congress member Min said when he announced after the
3:21deposition that not one Republican Congress member showed up for this deposition of Les Wexner
3:28today. Let's play this clip.
3:29It is very frustrating the fact that there are no Republicans here today.
3:33I wish there were Republicans because sex trafficking should not be a D versus R
3:38issue. It should be a bipartisan issue.
3:40Everybody should be invested in finding the truth right now.
3:43And the fact that we've had so little cooperation from the Republicans on the House
3:48Oversight Committee that the DOJ has actively tried to obstruct this investigation, that is shameful.
3:53And it will go down as a permanent mark on the records of people like
3:57Pam Bondi and Donald Trump.
3:58Next, here's what Democratic Congress member and the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee
4:04for the Democrats had to say following this deposition.
4:07Here's what he wrote. Today's deposition made one thing clear.
4:10There would be no Epstein, no island, no planes, no money to traffic girls without
4:15the financial assistance of Les Wexner.
4:18We are committed to ending this White House cover -up, which protects criminals and billionaire
4:22benefactors. A billion dollars from Wexner essentially to Epstein.
4:27And apparently the MAGA Republicans don't care about this.
4:31They don't care about the victims.
4:33They don't care about the survivors.
4:34Here play this clip. It's about a billion dollars that was either transferred, provided in
4:40stocks or given directly to Mr.
4:44Epstein by Wexner. We should be very clear that the two were very close per
4:52reporting. They spent a lot of time together.
4:56Mr. Wexner admitted that he traveled to both Epstein's island as well as his other
5:02properties. Mr. Wexner also admitted that Jeffrey Epstein had access to a lot of Mr.
5:10Wexner's wealth. Mr. Wexner's wealth.
5:11And when asked even simple questions, even as it relates to Mr.
5:16Epstein being the co -president of the foundation that established the area that we're in
5:22today, Mr. Webster had little to say.
5:26In fact, it's clear that Mr.
5:28Webster is trying to downplay how close Jeffrey Epstein and Mr.
5:34Webster actually were. And we should be very clear that there would be no Epstein
5:39Island. There'd be no Epstein plane.
5:42There'd be no money to traffic women and girls.
5:46Mr. Epstein would not be the wealthy man he was without the support of Les
5:53Webster. I think it's very important for us to note at this moment.
5:57Now, while that was taking place, what was Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans doing?
6:03Well, Donald Trump held a press conference literally at the same time.
6:06The split screen is so revealing.
6:09And Donald Trump said this is a quote that he's going to force himself upon
6:16blue states and blue cities.
6:18He goes, I will force myself upon you, whether you like it or not.
6:22If I think that your state, a city is too dangerous, I will force myself
6:26upon you is what he said.
6:28Here play this clip. Thousands and thousands of lives in many cities.
6:31And frankly, if these radical left lunatic Democrats would come and say, please help us,
6:37please would stop crimes all over the place.
6:40And we're doing it in a lot of a lot of cities.
6:42Sometimes we have to force ourselves upon them because they're so bad.
6:46And I don't even think they realize what's happening to their cities.
6:49And now going back to Ohio, where this deposition of Wexner took place, Democratic Congresswoman
6:55Jasmine Crockett had the following to say.
6:57Is that there were always young girls seemingly looking for an opportunity to model.
7:03And there were always rich and powerful people on the other side dangling a carrot
7:10saying, I will give you the life that you're seeking.
7:14Yet ultimately, the stories are the same.
7:17They're stories of abuse. They're stories of trafficking at the highest level.
7:23And I will tell you one thing that was remembered for sure was when asked
7:28about Donald Trump. Donald Trump and Epstein and whether or not they had been in
7:34the same room and what that looked like.
7:36He didn't quite remember, but he imagined that, yes, that possibly happened because he did
7:42remember that Donald Trump also would like to show up to the Victoria's Secret runway
7:48shows. Now, that was a little odd to him, he said, because Donald Trump was
7:54not engaged in fashion whatsoever.
7:55Now, again, using our split screen right here, here's what Donald Trump was saying at
8:01his press conference. I love Nicki Minaj.
8:04Her skin is so beautiful.
8:06I asked her, are your nails real?
8:09Do you see what's happening?
8:10While Trump and MAGA were not at Les Wexner, he's out there talking about forcing
8:15himself onto people and how beautiful Nicki Minaj's skin is.
8:19How utterly disgusting. Here, play this clip.
8:22I love Nicki Minaj. She was here a couple of weeks ago.
8:25So beautiful. Her skin's so beautiful.
8:28I said, Nicki is so beautiful.
8:30Her nails, her nails are like that long.
8:33I said, I said, Nicki, are they real?
8:36She said, she didn't want to get into that.
8:40Now, again, split screen. Here's what Democratic Congresswoman Yasmin Ansari was saying after the deposition.
8:47She actually showed up to do this deposition.
8:50Here, play this clip. Over the course of the last year, the American public has
8:54been witnessing what I can only call the most egregious cover -up in American history.
9:00And today was a critical part of our investigation to try to end this cover
9:05-up once and for all.
9:06We have met with the victims of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and the rich and
9:11powerful people that helped to perpetuate these crimes.
9:15And we have heard over and over from these victims the name of Les Wexner
9:20and the importance of following the money.
9:23Because the story of Jeffrey Epstein is one that can almost, you know, almost is
9:29the plot of a movie that is turned into a nightmare.
9:34And the real reason Jeffrey Epstein was able to get away with raping and abusing
9:41children, young women, boys, young men for so many years was because of the vast
9:48amounts of money that he was able to acquire.
9:50And that largely came from Les Wexner here in Ohio.
9:54So we're here to ask Les Wexner the critical questions.
9:57And it's been very interesting to see the types of responses that he's giving and
10:02his demeanor throughout the interview.
10:05He claims to want to provide information and to be helpful in the investigation, but
10:10then quickly follows up by saying that he does not recall details around a relationship
10:16with somebody that he had for decades.
10:19Les Wexner handed his power of attorney to Jeffrey Epstein.
10:24He allowed Jeffrey Epstein to live in his homes, to have hundreds of millions of
10:29his dollars, to use his yachts and his planes.
10:32This was obviously a very, very close relationship.
10:35And so far, what we have seen is a denial of that relationship.
10:39relationship. Another important theme that has come up today is that Les Wexner is actually
10:45tied to other sex traffic, sex trafficking and child abuse scandals here in Ohio, around
10:52the country. There are reports of payments that were made to a gynecologist at Ohio
10:58State University, and that money went through Jeffrey Epstein, but came from Les Wexner.
11:05And he has been asked about this with no real response, no recollection.
11:11And again, as my colleagues have said, I don't think it is feasible or understandable
11:18or conceivable that any individual would not have an understanding of millions, if not hundreds
11:24of millions of dollars of their own money and can't answer to those questions.
11:28So it is clear that this cover up is vast.
11:31It goes as high as the White House and the Department of Justice that still
11:35has not released the majority of the Epstein files, still has illegally redacted information, still
11:42has not begun any indictments or prosecutions for the very credible allegations that are in
11:48the files that we already have seen, all the way to people at universities and
11:54companies and vast networks of elite individuals across this country.
11:58And what I can tell you very clearly is that oversight Democrats on this committee
12:03will not back down until we get every detail, until every person who enabled and
12:11perpetrated these crimes is held accountable.
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14:11Before Donald Trump gave his press conference, we also heard from Caroline Levitt, and she
14:16was being asked questions. She wanted to avoid any questions about Epstein, but when she
14:21was asked basic questions like, so when do the American people get those tariff rebate
14:25checks, Caroline? When do they get those?
14:27She goes, I don't have an update for you.
14:29Then shortly thereafter, Donald Trump posted $2 ,000 tariff rebate checks for everybody.
14:35He's a liar. He's a fraud.
14:37There's no tariff rebate checks.
14:38And this is more of him just trying to lead people on as he's done
14:42his entire career to destroy their lives and try to distract them from the Epstein
14:47files. Here, play this clip.
14:48Sure. I'll go to both of you.
14:51Sure. Okay. Go ahead. And then, Jake, you can go.
14:54Caroline, can you tell me, is there an update regarding the tariff rebate checks that
14:59the White House has promised?
15:00I don't have an update for you on timeline, but I know that it's something
15:03that the president and his economic team continue to very seriously discuss.
15:08Oh. And then Donald Trump also talking about his great friend, Mike Tyson, and the
15:13fact that Mike Tyson likes him shows he's not racist.
15:16So again, while MAGA Republicans were not conducting basic oversight into the child sex trafficking
15:21ring of Epstein, they were hanging out with Donald as he says, Mike Tyson and
15:24I are our best buds.
15:26Okay, Donald, here, play this clip.
15:28You talk about a piece of work, but he could fight, couldn't he, huh?
15:32Mike Tyson, boy, I tell you, Mike has been loyal to me.
15:35Whenever they come out, they say, Trump's a racist.
15:37You know, it's like a saber.
15:38Trump's a racist. Mike Tyson goes, he's not a racist.
15:41He's my friend. He's been there from the beginning.
15:43Good times and bad. Then Donald Trump attacks former President Biden because Trump is demented
15:48and says, our former president's an idiot.
15:51Here, play this clip. Now, we had an idiot as a president.
15:55We had a man that was not a president.
15:58Number one, he didn't win the election.
16:00He was not a president.
16:02Yeah, right. He was a real beauty, wasn't he?
16:05He allowed. 25 million people into our country, many of them should not have been
16:10here. And we've done now we have, by the way, we went from the worst
16:14border in history to the best, by far the best border.
16:19Then he goes on to say the DOJ needs to be prosecuting the fake news
16:24media, he says, because he doesn't like a free press and he's an authoritarian.
16:29Here, play this clip. So we did something.
16:33So they said we couldn't do it in four years.
16:35We did it in one year.
16:37More Americans are working today than at any time in American history.
16:40So we have more Americans right now working than at any time.
16:44And, you know, when I say this stuff, I get the fake news back there.
16:47A lot of it. Thank you.
16:50I agree. Sometimes we have to be very careful because they actually go and it's
16:55not pretty, Leo. We have to get Leo and the DOJ involved.
16:59But think of that, Leo.
17:01And then Caroline Levitt says it's important that we all recognize that anything Donald Trump
17:07posts on his social media should be attributed as directly to Donald Trump.
17:12They're his messages. That's why he's so great.
17:15So two weeks ago when he posted the photo of Obama's faces on apes and
17:21then said it wasn't him, that wasn't the official message.
17:24But now it is the official message.
17:25Anyway, here play this clip to reap the consequences of it.
17:29Sure. Thank you, Caroline. President Trump just said on true social that it would be
17:34a big mistake for the UK to hand over control of Chagos Islands to Mauritius.
17:39But the State Department earlier this week has said the U .S.
17:42does support that handover. So does this post now suggest that the U .S.
17:46does not or that Trump President Trump had changed his mind on this?
17:49The post should be taken as the policy of the Trump administration.
17:52It's coming straight from the horse's mouth.
17:54When you see it on truth social, you know it's directly from President Trump.
17:57That's the beauty of this president and his transparency and relaying this administration's policies to
18:03all of you and to the rest of the world.
18:06More questions to Caroline Levitt that she refuses to answer.
18:10Like, is Donald Trump going to withhold military aid to Taiwan?
18:14And Donald Trump refuses. And they refuse to answer that question.
18:18And because Donald Trump is being told by Xi Jinping, I won't invite you in
18:22April to hang out with me in China if you give more aid to Taiwan.
18:26So I just want you to think about it.
18:27Why I'm showing this to you is because while they're covering up a child sex
18:30trafficking ring, Donald Trump's here also destroying Americans' foreign policy interests.
18:35And you see it taking place right in front of us.
18:37Here, play this clip. I have a few questions.
18:39One, on the president's schedule today, it says he has signing time.
18:42What is he signing today?
18:44Are we expecting executive orders or actions?
18:46That's the first question. And then second, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that a
18:50U .S. arms sale package for Taiwan is in limbo.
18:53Can you just confirm this reporting slash offer any additional comment?
18:57And how concerned is the administration that if an arms deal with Taiwan went through
19:02that this could disrupt the China -U .S.
19:04trade truce? Sure. Well, I haven't read the full Wall Street Journal report.
19:07I will just say with respect to an arms sale to Taiwan, I don't have
19:10any announcements or updates on that for you today.
19:14And to your first question about what the president will be signing, he will be
19:17signing an executive order, which you will all be hearing about later this afternoon.
19:20And you will see him in one hour at the Black History Month reception.
19:24We'll see you there. Thank you.
19:27Now, Caroline Levitt has also asked, well, on Iran, can you share why Donald Trump
19:33would need to strike Iran's nuclear facilities if they're totally obliterated?
19:38And she's so dumb that she doesn't even realize the question.
19:40She's like, well, last time we totally obliterated.
19:43So obviously, we need to do more strikes.
19:45If it's totally obliterated, why would you need to do more strikes?
19:48Here, play this clip. Thank you, Michael.
19:50Garrett. On Iran, I'm not asking you for like military secrets here.
19:56Can you share a little bit about the president's thinking on whether or not to
20:03strike Iran, who he's talking to, what information he's consuming, and why a strike might
20:09be necessary on a nuclear program he says was obliterated by the last U .S.
20:13strike? Well, there's many reasons and arguments that one could make for a strike against
20:18Iran. The president had a very successful operation as commander -in -chief with Operation Midnight
20:25Hammer, as you know, as you just said, totally obliterated Iran's nuclear facilities.
20:31The president has always been very clear, though, with respect to Iran or any country
20:35around the world, diplomacy is always his first option, and Iran would be very wise
20:39to make a deal with President Trump and with this administration.
20:43He's talking to many people.
20:45Of course, his national security team, first and foremost, and you know who the members
20:49of that team are, and this is something, obviously, the president takes seriously.
20:54He's always thinking about what's in the best interest of the United States of America,
20:57of our military, of the American people, and that's how he makes decisions with respect
21:02to military action of any kind.
21:05And as we have two aircraft carrier groups that are right now by Iran, and
21:11we are in a war posture, not like a limited strike, like a massive war
21:15posture unfolding, no explanation to the American people.
21:19This is what Pete Hegseth is doing right now.
21:21He's hanging out with Dr.
21:22Oz, and they are doing a Maha extravaganza right now.
21:27This, as the Pentagon prepares for potential military operations against Iran, as Idris Eregis Ali
21:34posts. There you have it, folks.
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