Trump Panics as Epstein Class is Finally Exposed!!!
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2:31Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are panicking as the Epstein class has been exposed.
2:38Exposed in the Epstein files and exposed through Donald Trump's grift and quid pro quos
2:45and all the things he's doing with those right wing oligarchs who are doing the
2:51golden ballrooms and the triumphal arches and all of the shadiness and people are done
2:58with it. The crimes, the shadiness, the grotesque behavior, people are sick and tired of
3:04it. And it's not a partisan thing anymore.
3:06And I think that's been the big revelation from this week that we're not talking
3:11about, oh, is this a Democrat issue?
3:14It's a Republican issue. When it comes to covering up child sex trafficking, it is
3:18an issue that impacts people and people covering it up need to be brought to
3:23justice and held accountable. I mean, right wing podcasters like Andrew Schultz are posting photos
3:29of Howard Lutnick, who, by the way, lied about not meeting Jeffrey Epstein after 2005.
3:35Then it turns out he brought his kids to the island, did business deals.
3:39But there was also reference that Howard Lutnick's family that controls Cantor Fitzgerald, they were
3:44doing deals betting that the United States Supreme Court would strike down Donald Trump's tariffs
3:50against the world and that they could potentially benefit.
3:53Now, Lutnick's family says, well, we were doing that at first, but now we're not
3:57doing it anymore. But we know the Lutnick's lie about everything.
4:00And they're doing a lot of self -dealing, in my opinion, with the government as
4:04well. But here's what Schultz writes.
4:06He goes, the Epstein class playbook 101, fun, both sides of the war policy disgraceful.
4:12They have no love or loyalty to America.
4:14We are simply a vessel for them to exploit for their own enrichment.
4:18If we want Americans to have faith in our institutions, the Epstein class must receive
4:23the highest punishment of the law imaginable.
4:25And he's responding to a post by Meet Kevin, who writes, Howard Lutnick's family bought
4:30up the rights to tariff refunds for 20 to 30 cents on the dollar after
4:35Liberation Day last year. Right -wing podcaster Sean Ryan responds to Donald Trump's latest distraction,
4:43saying that the files he's going after are the alien files right now.
4:48The alien files, that's the big priority.
4:51Sean Ryan goes, nice April fool's joke, plot twist.
4:54What if the files don't reveal aliens, but they reveal us?
4:58And I think the epiphany that we've all seen in these Epstein files is that
5:03it revealed this Epstein class.
5:05The child sex trafficking was the currency used by these individuals who were talking about
5:11epiphany that epiphany that the how they were going to manipulate and destroy the lives
5:15not just of the children they were sex trafficking but of the world in general
5:19and trying to then reap profit off of the pain and suffering of people.
5:25Senator Sheldon Whitehouse says the billionaire class aka Epstein class fetish with not paying taxes
5:31it's now just self -serve it's not just self -serving greed but an actual drag
5:36on our economy and don't get me started on the political corruption the Wall Street
5:41Journal reported tax avoidance by the super wealthy is an economic issue as well as
5:46a political one and our friends dropkick Murphys in the concerts that they've been doing
5:51throughout this country we're seeing this in general permeate the culture right now they've been
5:57showing the Epstein footage rocking out and showing Donald Trump and Epstein together and this
6:03is the people get it now the people understand what's going on let me just
6:06show you a short clip this is from the summer but they've been going and
6:09playing this over and over again on their shows here play this clip want to
6:25bring in Graham Plattner Graham great to see you running for that senate seat in
6:30Maine uh we've been following this campaign we spoke to you before um you've been
6:36calling out the Epstein class since the very beginning of the campaign and before that
6:41as well seems that one of the big changes a zeitgeist shift uh the shocks
6:48that we're really feeling is identifying this thing that this is to me one of
6:53the reasons your campaign has been surging this Epstein class that's out there huh yeah
6:59and I think you know it's important to note that like this is just I
7:03think a lot of us have understood for a long time that there is a
7:06class of people that exist above accountability that exists kind of above of even like
7:13the concept of the nation state that there are there are people out there who
7:17have so much wealth and so much power that they live in a totally different
7:21world than we do and what the Epstein files are showing us is just how
7:27true that actually is and also just how depraved that level of power and wealth
7:32can make people and it is it's amazing that it is really kind of bringing
7:39in a lot of folks who in other in other uh issues don't agree with
7:44each other politically but we are all beginning to realize right left republican democrat down
7:49here in the real world we actually are just there to be exploited by a
7:54small group of people who in some ways are just kind of running the world
7:58for their own benefit and the Epstein files show that in glaring fashion and I
8:04think it's it's just the realization that we're all we're all starting to wake up
8:09to this fact and it is a the only way that we're going to move
8:14forward is by frankly building the political power to hold all these people accountable and
8:19make sure that that kind of wealth just doesn't get to be accrued anymore there's
8:25the expression the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he
8:30didn't exist one of the things that Donald Trump did effectively is fraud and that's
8:37what he's been doing his whole life he convinced the people of Maine and throughout
8:40the rest of the country that while this class may have existed out there that
8:47he was the one who was going to get them and fight them and be
8:51the one who destroyed the deep state and took it all down when in fact
8:56he's the leader of the cabal in my opinion he is the personification of the
9:03Epstein class and everybody who surrounds him at the highest level are the top people
9:08are the lieutenants in the Epstein class and that has been just I think a
9:13revelation again across parties but we're seeing that now it's them it's them who try
9:19to trick and convince and defraud people and say no it's this other cabal out
9:24there they're the center of the cabal they absolutely are I mean we when you
9:28look at the names when you when you look at the people who are now
9:32currently trying to run interference on this stuff they're it's the Trump administration it's the
9:39people in the Trump administration who currently are still frankly stealing from all of us
9:45I mean they just had that crypto summit down at Mar -a -Lago I mean
9:48the the corruption is so brazen but at the end of the day I mean
9:52I think it's so brazen because they they truly feel like there will be no
9:57accountability and that's why it's really important for us down here in the real world
10:02to build the political power necessary to make sure that there is accountability we can't
10:07when this is said and done when we when normal people have power again we
10:12can't all just move on from this we need to make sure that those who
10:16have engaged in this kind of behavior whether it's the corruption or the I can't
10:20believe I'm going to say these worlds the international pedophile ring those people need to
10:26be held to account and to the utmost ability that the law can do and
10:31I think that we are we are reaching a moment where that realization is beginning
10:37to dawn on all of us down here that it really is us versus them
10:41and they're they've been winning for a long time and it's time for us to
10:45build some power and start winning ourselves right you had two summits kind of taking
10:49place around the same time you had the trump family uh crypto summit taking place
10:55in florida then you had an ai summit taking place in india at the same
11:01time zooming in on both but we'll just zoom in on the trump crypto summit
11:05the trump kids said we had to do this so they were asked by cnbc
11:11about the levels of corruption there and the host was like you realize that people
11:14are doing deals with you because they want proximity to the white house and they
11:18want benefits well we've been canceled and this is what we have to do and
11:22and and daddy told us that we need to you know they did that but
11:25what's fascinating too is when you go through the epstein files you see epstein talking
11:32to these same types of people about getting putin involved in crypto and launching it
11:39and you know all of this behind the scenes was being kind of puppeteered and
11:45now you know i i guess if there's one benefit that all of this it's
11:49in plain view like we see it the kids are saying we're doing it here's
11:53what we're doing so what yeah i mean that's like and the irony with the
11:58crypto stuff too is that that was sold to all that was sold to us
12:02as this like decentralized democratized way that we were going to be able to to
12:09use to have like new currency and in reality when you i mean both in
12:15the in the epstein files but also elsewhere in reality it was all just a
12:19money -making scheme for those who already had plenty of money i mean it's just
12:23a way of essentially bilking people out of their actual wealth and investing it into
12:29these into these mediums that are not at all what they were sold as that
12:35are just ways of extracting wealth out of working people which you know shouldn't be
12:39that surprising because that's sort of what this class has been doing for a very
12:42long time um and but the the brazenness of it now the fact they don't
12:48even hide it i mean it really is pretty wild right you know on friday
12:53we got some really bad economic data as well the gdp was less than half
12:59in the fourth quarter of what trump regime people were saying it was going to
13:03be and you had lutnik saying judge me by my fourth quarter gdp it's going
13:08to be five percent what was trump saying 15 okay well it was like 1
13:13.4 percent not that the gdp is necessarily can even be necessarily extrapolated on a
13:19how people are doing but then you look at pce how inflation's impacting consumers that
13:25ticked up and came in hotter than expected but to me you look at the
13:29big one that we've been seeing which is jobs jobs jobs jobs we are in
13:33a jobs recession right now manufacturing has been crippled and donald trump's out there saying
13:41two thousand dollars i'm going to give you rebate checks you know how are we
13:44going to deal with health insurance two thousand for donald trump it is to tell
13:49people who are suffering we're going to give you two thousand dollars and then he
13:53never actually even gives the money but as though as though you should be thankful
13:58when i just give you a two thousand dollar check and and shut up right
14:01that's what they're saying i mean this is really kind of the issue with uh
14:06i would not not just the trump administration but but also often sort of republican
14:10policies which is that they claim that they're going to fix the kind of uh
14:16deeper economic problems that we have but they can't because those policies are being created
14:24to protect those who are benefiting off of the current system i mean like the
14:30idea that we're going to fix the health insurance issue not by going after health
14:36insurance companies not by creating the universal health care system and just divesting ourselves entirely
14:42from a profit -based health care system that's not how we're going to do it
14:45no we're just going to write people checks that then they'll have to go turn
14:49around and give to the same entities that have been exploding them the whole time
14:53it's a it's always this kind of bait and switch where they tell you that
14:59they're going to fix it but when you and this i guess for me is
15:02sort of the point of why this moment is so important that we have a
15:07clear message about what the answers actually are that we have kind of a we
15:13re -engage with political imagination around how to fix the systemic problems that we have
15:19something like a universal health care system like changing the tax code to claw back
15:24all this wealth that has been stolen from working people in this country for decades
15:28we need to re -engage with that because it's the only way to actually fix
15:34the problem and the and we know that we're gonna have to do it because
15:38republican policies will never actually fix it even when they claim that it will we
15:44know that's going to always benefit those who are benefiting now which is not working
15:49people in this country and it is just such a it's so clear at this
15:55point and but i also think that's why we uh and when i say we
15:59i mean democrats or progressives or even just at this point i would say uh
16:05like economic realists we need to have obvious policy prescriptions for these problems because we
16:16cannot just allow this kind of limp along and as the Republican Party continues to
16:20fail because their policies are not actually meant to fix these systemic issues we need
16:25to be there ready to provide people the actual answer and the actual answer is
16:30going after the Epstein class going after the billionaires going after the oligarchy and breaking
16:36their power and that's what excites me about this moment because from the depths of
16:42depravity there is a real opportunity not just for Democrats to pick up seats or
16:49take control of the house what's the purpose of control if you don't do with
16:54control things that actually help the people sure mega mike johnson's the speaker of the
17:00house but he's got no power he's just a Donald Trump sycophant why would you
17:04even want to be the speaker if that's what you do if you're just being
17:07you know in that world so to me we've talked about Republicans but let's end
17:12this by talking about Democrats because to me it's not just power for power's sake
17:17right it is what fundamentally is the Democratic Party and to your point setting aside
17:23the party what what are fundamentally we doing in governance generally what does it mean
17:29to be a senator what does it mean to be look Fetterman ran a campaign
17:35where he made all these promises I'm this this this I I had him on
17:39he did the Fetterman shtick when he was back in the day Mr.
17:43Progressive he went in there and now I can't see the guy on you know
17:47every night Fox News every second you know he made as well so that's not
17:51helpful to have you know someone you know doing in my view you know so
17:55to me talk to talk to that more generally about the opportunity that we have
18:01as a party to move in a certain direction rather than just saying we need
18:05to see power yeah and it's and it's not again I don't actually think it
18:10is the party I mean it's it's a I don't care who comes along with
18:13us I don't care what the letter next their name is if we can put
18:18together a coalition of people who actually want to fight for systemic change who want
18:23to fight for things like universal health care who want to fight for things like
18:26amending the tax code so we can pull back all that wealth who want to
18:30fight for large programs like we used to do like what we did in the
18:36Great Depression large public works programs rebuilding our infrastructure rebuilding our transportation rebuilding our energy
18:43grid in a way that's going to get us off fossil fuels and provide energy
18:47for Americans not prioritizing corporate profits but prioritizing getting people the energy they need to
18:55live good lives that's what we need to be engaged in and it's not just
19:01about if you get power for power's sake you actually don't have any power which
19:07I think is right now what we are seeing in elements of the Democratic Party
19:12leadership they have spent years just trying to get to a place of power but
19:18with no plan of what they were going to do with it when they got
19:21there and when you don't have a further goal when you don't have the intent
19:26of using this power to do something you find yourself to be utterly powerless which
19:31is why I think we see the inability of some in democratic leadership to resist
19:36the Trump administration because they they don't have a theory of power and they don't
19:41really have a theory of change they don't really seem to know what they're building
19:44towards we need to re -engage both politically but also I think culturally with the
19:51concept of using our imaginations to envision a better future for all Americans Americans and
20:00I think the way that we do this in many ways is we get to
20:02look back we get to look at the new deal we get to look at
20:07FDR we get to look at things like the CCC or the Works Progress Administration
20:11we get to look at the Tennessee Valley Authority or the rural electrification program mass
20:16mass programs driven by by political will and government intervention that laid the groundwork and
20:25the foundation of the society that we have today the this the way of thinking
20:31that brought us social security and unemployment insurance laid the groundwork for things like Medicare
20:37and Medicaid we have to re -engage with that kind of imaginative thinking and and
20:43understanding that the purpose of power when we get it is to wield it and
20:48bring about positive change for Americans if we don't have that vision and we win
20:55I'll be very upfront one of my fears is if establishment Democrats coast back to
21:02power this November on an anti -Trump wave but we elect people that have no
21:07interest in actually trying to make systemic change I fear we might not get this
21:12chance again if we let the American people down one more time if they give
21:17us power back and we do nothing I'm worried about the next iteration of this
21:22Donald Trump is terrible but at least he's incompetent I do fear what the next
21:26thing is and I think the way that we guarantee that day never comes is
21:29we don't just try to go backwards to the society we had we try to
21:34build a society that does not allow for this kind of immiseration of working people
21:39that creates the resentment and the fear and the aggrievement.
21:42We give people the material benefits that they deserve in a society that is so
21:47productive and so wealthy that we can actually provide those things.
21:53Graham Plattner, rarely am I left speechless with no further questions at the end.
21:58I won't concede whether or not I am right there.
22:01I'll just wrap it up by saying, where can people learn more about the campaign?
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