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Welcome to Ben on breaking news. I'm Ben. Mecelis and this is your breaking news. Katie Fang. Katie Fang. Katie Fang. Katie Fang hero. Katie Fang pushing. forward when nobody thought it was. possible on the Epstein. Well, we. thought it was possible. You thought it. was possible. But the naysayers in. corporate news, the legal pundits, the. mightest haters, independent news haters, they thought it.

wasn't possible. Katie Fang pushing. ahead, fighting for these survivors, for. the Epstein Transparency Act to actually. have a modiccom of transparency and a. big order moments ago from federal judge. Sullivan in Washington DC, ordering the. Trump DOJ regime to show up in federal. court next week and to describe why and.

discuss why they've been violating court. order after court order. This is big, folks. And I think this also shows the. power of independent news. And when you. have people like Katie Fang out there. and Allison Gil and some of these heroes. that I am so fortunate to be working. with every day, they're putting out the. foyer requests. They're fighting. And. sometimes people say, "Look, you guys.

talk a lot. You talk a lot, but when are. you going to walk the walk? How do you. show us that you're fighting for us?". And I say, "Look, I'm just humbled and. honored to be on the same team as people. like Allison and Katie, you know, and. others, you know, and and I'm a talker. I'm actually not that much of a talker, actually, when I'm not doing this.". Have you met me privately? Because. people all the time they want to like. debate me privately and they I I really. am not a talker privately other than.

what I'm doing. I I'm I'm a I'm. deliberative. I'm a researcher and a reviewer, but I'm. actually fairly quiet when you and I. think that's what surprises people when. they meet me outside of this. I'm. actually pretty quiet and not um you. know loud outside of outside of uh these. forums. But I think it's it's a. deliberate loud when it is with the. mightest mighty. And um I'm I think it. is important though to reframe corporate. news and redo it as it's been destroyed.

Independent news leading the way. But. you know just uh just incredible. We'll. go through that order with you. Right. And it's in contrast to what's also. going on in the southern district of. Florida. Right. We all know Trump. terrified of BBC. Trump scared BBC. and he sued BBC and then BBC fought back. against Donald Trump and said, "Well,

you sued us, so now you're going to. participate in discovery? You're going. to turn over documents, big guy, or you. going to taco?". As the Iranians saw as well, Trump will. huff and he'll puff and he'll blow your. house down. Except when you stand up to. that pathetic loser, he backs down. If. he sues you, put him up for deposition. right away. Right away. If he sued us, I. don't even think I would file a motion.

to dismiss. I would say, "Set a trial. date. Let's just do the trial. Let's go. Let's go, big guy. Do it in public. show. up in front of a jury and make one of. your frivolous rack 12 put the jurors on. and when you stand up and you fight back. against him we've seen the heroes as. well outside of the mightest touchdown. eene Carol David Hearn ago Garcia the. Epstein survivors.

they've stood up to the regime and when. you stand up to the regime the regime. reveals. They're not the wolf in sheep's. clothing. They are the emperor with no. clothes in the sheep's clothing. They are empty. Empty vessels. Empty vessels where people can put in. their hatreds, their resentments, their.

anger, their divisions, their fascism. That's what it is. That's what MAGA is. You follow the yellow brick road or the. fake gilded bronze statue reflecting. pool road and it leads you to. the Wizard of Oz with no clothes. A. coward. Cow. Pathetic coward in 1600. Pennsylvania. Who now.

pathetic coward? And look at that. Look. at that thing. Look at that scumbag. Look at that thing. Natalie Hart. following him behind him. Where's. Natalie Harp at? She's always usually by. his side. Is she around? Natalie. Oh, there you are. Human printer. There's Natalie. There she is. You know, that's who he flew back with. on Marine One. drinking a Diet Coke at 2. a.m. Not surrounded by advisors,

not surrounded by, you know, top people. giving him advice as America continues. to get humiliated abroad. Natalie the. human printer. Maybe she can print out. new fake articles for him to claim that. his polling's the greatest it's ever. been in history. We're in the golden. age. Did you know? Did you know we're in the golden age and. that everybody's rich and everybody's. wealthy and the tariffs have made. everybody billionaires? Dude, you didn't. get the memo. You didn't get the Doge.

dividend check or the tariff rebate memo. that you are rich billionaire. that actually. if you look in the empty refrigerator. where you can't afford food right now or. the empty freezer where you can't afford. microwavable food anymore because the. Trump destruction of the economy there's. actually a check for billions of dollars. and guess what just like Donald you. don't have did you know that you don't.

even have to pay your taxes you get tax. immunity he's given you everything he's. like Lenin he's like Lenin the greatest. communist ever He's given you. everything. You didn't Did you not get. the You're not living like Donald Trump. and Dell and Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. I. thought you were No. No. That's just for. the oligarch crew who can deduct. acquisitions of sports teams and private. jets and they could depreciate it as.

well. You you not you don't get to do. that. What about clearly. your uh you took advantage of when. remember when Bessant. uh put on his notepad in Camp David 5. to10 billion bailout for the yen? Remember when he said that? Uh you took. advantage of the currency swaps, right? Come on. Did you take advantage of the. currency uh issues there with the with.

the swaps? No, you didn't. Did you what. what position did you take on the yen? Because, you know, he he he showed the. oligarchs that he was going to put 5. to10 billion dollars in the yen. So, uh, if you're like me, you probably, you. know, said, "All right, what can I do. here? We're going to sell euros and. we're going to buy the yen. So, should I. short the euro and should I uh take a. more constructive position on the yen? Is that what I should do?" No, you.

didn't get that. Not not for you, huh? Not for you, huh? But, you know, I'm. sure they're calling you a communist. because you want health care. I'm sure. they're calling you a socialist, communist, whatever name they want to. call you, because, you know, you just. want maybe a better life for future. generations, for yourself, for your. family, for your neighbors, for your. kids, for your grandkids, right? because. you want education, because. you want to be able to afford a home,

because you want to be able to, I don't know, get prescription drugs for. your illnesses so that you don't die. That makes you, but he reduced it 600%. You didn't get the memo, right? Because. maybe his housing plan is actually the. prescription plan. Maybe it's all. blended together. You saw that was what. the plan was because the pharmaceutical. companies are now paying us for their. drugs. If we get enough of their drugs,

maybe we can buy a home. That was his. plan. Brilliant. The dealmaker chief, everybody. Great work, Donald. So, if we. go to the pharmaceutical company, if we. all do we if we go to we go to CVS and. you know what what do we need? What do. we need? Let's just say we get a lot of. medication and then they'll pay us $600. that right for every $1. Then we can. aggregate all of that and then we can.

buy a home with this housing plan and a. prescription drug plan. They think we're. stupid. They think we are the dumbest people. And here's the thing, they never. factored in that they could tear down. all of these institutions, make these. institutions submit. But all they've. revealed is that all those institutions. were broken. And those institutions are. what led to someone like Donald Trump.

rising. And guess what? The people. always knew those institutions were. betraying us all. Donald Trump exploited. that and said that he was gonna fix it. But Donald Trump is the vessel of the. oligarchs. He is the vessel of that. machine that we should rage against. He. is the vessel of authoritar. That's what. he is. And there are vessels like him. across the world. But they didn't count.

on the fact that we the people. There's. a reason why the founders emphasize. those words. We the people. It's not we. the followers of the institutions. It's. not we the. cult. It is we the people and Democrats, independents, Republicans, people from all different people who. don't like politics. And I tend to put.

myself in that category. I don't like. it. But I care about values and. principles. And I want to see who's. fighting for me with those values and. principles. If they if those are. Democrats, great. If they call. themselves something else, great. I. don't care. You fighting for me or you. not fighting for me? What are you doing? You fighting for me like Katie Fang's. fighting for me? You fighting for me. like Allison Gill's fighting for me? Are. you fighting for me the way frankly. Bernie Sanders is out there been. fighting for for for healthcare?

I like that. And by the way, just. because I adopt one thing that I like of. someone doesn't mean I have to I talk. about this in the book WTF America. This. is the advice that my dad gave me. growing up. He said, "Ben, just because. you admire someone doesn't mean you have. to take every one of their qualities, that's ridiculous." He would say to me, "Just because you like Michael Jordan, he's a good basketball player, doesn't. mean you have to like the way he. gambles. Just because you like Tiger. Woods, doesn't mean you have to like the. way he drives a car and a bunch of other. things. Why don't you take the good.

qualities and leave out the bad ones?". We, the people, understand that we don't. live in these boxes that corporate news. wants to create to divide us. And the. one illuminating thing from Trump is. that it shed light on this system. I'm using more music examples that Trump. likes to steal. You know, I said rage. against the machine before or it's the. system of a down. system meant to put us down and keep us. down. The people know it. I feel more. confident than ever right now with.

inspirational. uh jolts or bolts or whatever like Katie. Fang. It makes me feel It makes me feel. empowered. Seeing this community respond makes me. feel stronger. And seeing. Donald Trump out there flail, not. because he's Donald Trump, screw that. guy. I mean, if you're if he was just. some nasty, disgusting billionaire with. the new wig, you know, I'm sure he'd.

piss me off. But that I don't have like. people like, "Oh, you you hate this guy. There's a lot of there's a lot of. there's a lot of orange-faced wigwearing. billionaires, you know, out there, you. know, that I don't I don't think about, I don't talk about. I probably don't. like them. I I'm not going to I don't. No, no, no. This is a person who took a. position of public service and turned it. into private grift at the highest level.

that has brought shame upon our great. nation and shame to the world. You know, when I take a look at MB Galabaf, Iran's. parliament leader making this post. before I go live. Oh, it just it makes. me as an American feel shame. that this is what our country that this. is the joke our country has become. That. you have in Iran someone who our country.

without the approval of the people. invaded. Iran with Netanyahu. We ran out of weapons the same way. Donald Trump bankrupted his casinos. We. ran out of SM2s and SM3s and SM6s on the. Navy destroyers, those anti-bballistics. We ran out of pack three interceptors, the Patriot interceptors. We ran out of. fads. We ran out of on the offensive.

weapon posture attackums. Those ATACMS, you call them attackums, the highars, you know, where we shoot. We ran out of. our weapons. in the catastrophic war in Iran. We ran. out of them. $1 trillion. in a military budget last year. They. want $1.5. trillion, these scumbags, from us.

They want $1.5 trillion now after losing. one trillion. They want 1.5 trillion. These scumbags, these sickos, these vile. things. Why? Why do you want 1.5? Oh, because. you want to build a Trump class of. battleships. Because the pathetic thing. in the White House liked the way. battleships looked like in the immediate.

era post World War I. and he doesn't. like stealth or submarines or aircraft. carriers or the way drones look. So, he. wants to build freaking battleships. So, at first it was going to be $250. billion of that budget would go to a Did. you even know this? A Trump class of. battleships and now it seems that that. underestimated it by 50%. Because Trump lies about everything and. he's a lifelong fraud. So now they're.

saying, "Oh, well it could cost 300. billion. It's going to cost like $500. billion dollars to build stupid. battleships, nuclear battleships." And you want to. know what happens to a battleship in. 2026? It's like having AOL dialup modems. battleships in 2026. Okay. You want to. know what happens to them? An unmanned. submersive. I'm not sure why I'm doing the walking.

Boom. Take your $250 billion dollars and. sink them in the sea. How could you. observe? I guess the answer is by not observing. what is taking place in modern warfare. and go, "Yeah, what we need is World War. I style battleships." That would change. the course of this war because yeah, we. saw all of our destroyers and aircraft. carriers comfortably control the. straight of Hormuz, right? They told us.

they control, we control the straight. SenCom post that every day. Idiotic. Sencom. Our SenCom has become a. laughingstock. Our SenCom's like a troll. account. Sentcom. And as a patriotic. American, it is our duty, we the people, to call out what a pathetic entity. Sentcom has become. What the hell? Used. to be something that was viewed with the. utmost credibility. And by the way, don't take my word for it. the captains. of tankers on the VHF radio frequencies.

when Sentcom says, "All right, we. control the straight of Hormuz in the. hierarchy of maritime law where. Sentcom's aircraft carriers and the. super carriers were beyond like the. lions of the jungle in maritime world. You've got tankers on these VLCC's out. there saying, "Shut the up. Shut the f. We ain't go. What are you talking about? We ain't using that route. We're We're. not going to get our ships blown up. What the hell are you talking about?

That's what Sentcom has become right. now. And Trump's plan is we want battleships. No. You know what you need right now? If. you were going to spend the money. appropriately, you don't need you want. me to give us I'm going to give us. universal healthcare right now. You want. me to show you how I do it? It's very. basic right now. Number one, I'm going. to tax the rich a little more. And by. the way, I don't have to you know, there's a discussion. Well, do you tax. the unearned gains, right? They're paper.

gains. There's a debate one way, there's. a debate the other way, you know, about. someone's net worth not being the cash. value. And if you tax the uh amount of. money that has been unrealized at this. stage, would that force them to have to. sell? And would that okay? Those are the. normal debates in normal America that we. could actually have. And you could. explain to me why we should or shouldn't. tax the unrealized capital gains. But I. think that if you just adjusted the.

taxes upwards 1% more, maybe three, say. 3% more, two and a half, 3% more for. people who make over a billion dollars. or over say $500 million. Who needs $500. million? Okay, I'm not saying you. shouldn't have it, but after $500. million. in the system that you've been able to. take advantage of to make $500 million, which means you probably haven't been. paying all your workers all that great. You haven't been, but whatever. You. know, you know, I'm still 500 million,

make your money, but tax it 3%. Tax 3%. more, 2 and a half% more. Think about. the tax money that comes in there. Then. instead of $1.5 trillion for our. military budget, I've got a wild idea. Let's do $400 billion. We'll still lead. the world. We'll still lead the world by. far in defense spending. And let's put. the $400 billion to use in modern. freaking warfare. Even though, to be.

very clear, I'm someone who prefers. peace. Just don't want to think that I'm. like a wararmonger neocon. I'm just. trying to deal with complex situations. right here. Just so you know, I'm not. for the catastrophic war. I'm very. against it. Okay, just be very very. clear where where I stand. But I want to. let you know how this is not a. complicated issue. Okay, so make it $400. billion. Invest in drones in Trump loves. drone ports. Drones. Drone ports. Even. do one on the White House roof if you.

love your drone ports, Donald. um FPV drones, drone interceptors, unmanned submersives and uh purchase. all of the technology um that is all of. this kind of you know unmanned. stuff that is the future of of warfare. It's where warfare is going. Um you. don't every single fad is about $11. million to intercept. Does it make sense.

that we shoot 11 million interceptors to. shoot down $250,000. drones? No. That's stupid. You know, invest in the drone interceptors. The. Pack 3 Patriot interceptors are three. and a half$4 million. Does it make sense. that we shoot each interceptor and. usually have to shoot two or three? And. same thing with that. You usually need. to shoot two for every one. I guess one second. So, think about.

that's how do you how do you think how. do you think we've ran out of the. interceptors? Oh, and by the way, um you. saw Donald Trump's post. He's going to. hunt down the leakers. He says he's. going to hunt him down. That's what that. was his post last night as he was. heading in with Natalie Har. We're going. to hunt down tough guy. He's going to. hunt down the leakers for telling the. truth. We don't need Here's the thing. We don't. need we don't need the leakers because. we know that you don't have the. interceptors because if we just looked. at the satellite footage, we can see.

that Iran keeps striking the bases. Yeah, we don't have to actually look at. SenCom statements go, "Oh, SenCom said. they struck everyone down." No, we can. look at the satellite footage and see. our bases are getting hit and that the. um and that the interceptors and the. thads and the Patriots aren't either. aren't working. or we don't have them. Pretty basic. I. knew that without those leaks. I've been. reporting on it for weeks without the. leaks happening because I'm showing you. what the bases freaking look like. So,

let's reduce the budget from 1.5. trillion to 400. We've just saved. $1.1 trillion. I just saved you $1.1. trillion. I've taxed the rich about 3%. more. I probably brought in there. another trillion. I just brought $2.3. trillion in. And you know where that. money can go? It can go to healthcare. And then we could have people who are. healthy. And guess what? Billionaire.

idiots, healthy people buy. you know, their their main thinking is. that they want to live with their. family. They want to work product. They. want to, you know, I know you want to. take away food stamps from little kids. like a 100,000 kids who just lost food. stamps in Arizona alone. 450,000 people. in Arizona lost their food stamps. And. you're bragging about that as a good. thing. You you're claiming the kids are. fraudulent. Most people want to just. live. But even if you're thinking. selfishly, you billionaire idiots,

healthy people live longer and buy more. of your So, don't you want them to. be healthier? Don't Don't you want that? Or no, are you so myopic and smallminded. in your thinking? Are you so Trumpian in. your thinking that really it's all about. who in this moment in time has more. money? Are Bezos richer than Zuckerberg? is though you buy richer than you. You. have the newest yacht. I need to buy.

seven of them. No, I'm going to buy 13. of them. [laughter]. Oh, you know, dude, just stop it. Stop. it. I mean, that's why systemically, and. you know, this has been a major part of. the reporting here. We break down the. breaking news every damn day. We're. going to go through the Katie Fang. victory in court and why it's such a big. deal. We're going to go through um you. know other other breaking news today as. well. I have that's my job you know I.

mean it's like you know it's like uh. day-to-day in order to build the. building you got to chop the wood you. gota you know get the steel you gota you. gota you got to do the stuff so that's. the day-to-day stuff but we need to be. thinking longer term about this great. American experiment this project this. international thing that we're a part. of. We have to expand. our conception, our perception of generational change.

And we have to be united. We have to be united against these truly. evil forces that want to divide us. Evil. There's evil out there. It's it's. it's, you know, it's it's no joke. There's these there's evil trying to. divide us, to harm us, to take from us, to steal from us. And we need to ex. understand that that's not just here. It's international. And these forces. want to screw us all over.

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my promo code Midas so they know that I. sent you. Welcome back to Ben on breaking news. I'm Ben Marcelus. This is our breaking. news. It's our breaking news. Um, another big update moments ago. in Virginia, uh, the plaintiffs in that. case which block the J6 slush fund. Remember that? Remember there's two. cases. There's the Florida case, there's. the Virginia case. The Florida case is.

the case that Trump filed. It's the case. where Trump sued his own Treasury. Department and IRS for $10 billion, entered into the settlement that the. federal judge found collusive, and then. reported the lawyers to the state bar. That's the Florida case. In Virginia, there was injunctive relief that was. granted to uh the group of plaintiffs. uh to block the the case was first just. focused on the J6 slush fund and a court.

granted a preliminary injunction. blocking the J6. uh anti-weaponization fund or whatever. the hell they call it. Now, moments ago, there was an amended complaint filed and. the plaintiff said, "Now, we want you to. block Trump's tax immunity." That. Trump's tax immunity is illegal. If you. give him tax immunity, then everybody. needs to get tax immunity. Um because. why are we just giving him preferred tax. immunity? If a federal judge in Florida.

has already voided the agreement as. collusive, they can't enter into a deal. using the federal judge's name. Right? Because the agreement has remained in. place. Right? The Todd Blanch order that. he did was just an order to resend for. now temporarily. It's temporary the. anti-weaponization. fund. Um but it is not a recision of the.

settlement agreement which created the. anti-weaponization fund and it did not. resend the addendum to the settlement. agreement and the addendum gave Trump. and his family tax immunity. So now that. is being challenged in the Virginia. court and I suspect we'll see what we. have to wait for a federal judge's. ruling but that if another right it's. comm not comma d none of this is funny.

it would be funny if it wasn't so real. but comma t with a ty um having respect. for the decision of your colleague right. so a federal judge in Florida ruled the. settlement agreement was collusive and. void. So if you are now creating an. addendum to the settlement agreement to. give Trump immunity. from paying taxes, that should be void, too. And so that's what's now being.

argued in Virginia. That amendment was. filed moments ago. And I think that that. is a very uh big deal as well. Um let's. take a look what else we got. Let's talk. about Katie Fang. Okay. Um, federal. judge and I did a video on it with Katie. Fang. So, watch the video I did with. Katie Fang also after this. Um, and we. had Katie Fang exclusively on here first. on the Midas Nudge on the Midas Touch.

Network uh in order to discuss. uh how important this order is. But so, Judge EMTT Sullivan, he's a district. court judge in DC. He's the judge. assigned to the case that Katie Fang. filed against Todd Blanch. In a new. order, Sullivan says the Department of. Justice failed to provide evidence. supporting key victim redactions, questions why handwritten FBI notes.

remain withheld, and also a timeline for. when the redaction log or the privilege. log is going to be produced by the. Department of Justice. Not if you will. produce it. Give me the date. Shut up and give me the damn date when. we get to see the documents you are. withholding in a privilege log. Now, one. of my theories, which I think has proven. to be correct, is there was a reason.

Judge Sullivan did not address the. privilege log and redaction issues in. his initial order where he told the DOJ, "Turn over a certain amount of documents. for inc camera review." And I think what. the judge wanted to see before getting. to the redaction log or privilege log. issue is with this small group of. documents, are you being forthcoming with the. court? I think Judge Sullivan knew the.

Trump regime's never forthcoming, but I. think it was an initial test. Let's. focus on a small group of documents. Category one, category two. Category. one, you've redacted all of these names. They appear to be the bad guys, the. co-conspirators. So why did you redact the bad guys. names? You're claiming they're victims. So that's what the Trump regime is. saying that the co-conspirators. have reached out to the DOJ through. their lawyers, right? These rich men.

have hired, Do you get what's happening? The rich men hired powerful lawyers. And. it's possible that there are some women. too, but overwhelmingly the rich men. hired powerful lawyers who would call. the DOJ and say, "We are asserting. that our clients are victims.". So because we said the magic words like. Harry Potter, what what's the magic. words in Harry Potter? I don't I read it.

a long time ago. I say it's not hocus. pocus or whatever. Um, but you said. victims, so therefore the DOJ will keep. your name redacted. It's why it was so. smart that Katie Fang and her legal team. very surgically said, "We don't believe. you. We think that those are the. co-conspirators.". And the judge said, "Show me documents. that support that these individuals. whose names you're redacting are truly. victims and not the bad guys." And.

instead of doing that, Todd Blanch just. said, "You see, we told you that they. said they were victims and therefore. they're the victims." And the judge was. like, "Well, that's pretty circular. That's a nonsequittor. That's not what I. asked for." I said, "Show me documents. that these people are the victims and. not the perpetrators because they look. like the perpetrators. They look like the bad guys." and Todd.

Blanch violated the order. The judge. said that you the judge said you did not. comply with what I said. Pretty narrow what the judge was pretty. basic, right? Like if you and it's in. camera, meaning that we don't get to see. it. So Todd Blanch can't say, "Well, we. didn't want to tell you, judge, because. we wanted to protect the victim's. identity or victim's council told us we. couldn't tell you." You know, the judge. said, "That's why I want to see it. privately, and you're not giving me.

you're not allowing me to understand why. you're claiming these people are. victims. They don't seem like victims to. me." So, that was the first group. The. second group of documents were. handwritten notes regarding those FBI. 302s. that involve the allegations of Donald. Trump assaulting underage an underage. girl that those allegations Trump denies. it. Trump's lawyers deny it. They say.

it's frivolous just to be clear what. they've said. Okay, these are what the. allegations in the files. And so the judge said, "Let me see the. notes." And Todd Bland said, "No, they're substantially similar to the. report, so we're not going to give them to you, judge." And the judge in the order said, "The hell are you talking about? Who? You don't get to decide. The law. says turn them the hell over. You're.

creating a substantially similar. exception to the Epstein files that if. you, Todd Blanch, deem these documents. to be substantially similar to what. you've produced, you don't have to. reproduce the notes. No, that's not the. way it works. I want those notes now. What federal judge Sullivan said, you. can't hide them from me. And then Judge. Sullivan said, "Well, since you didn't.

comply with my order on the first part, you didn't comply with my order on the. second part." Well, tell me when I get. to see all of your redaction log. I want. to see it all. I don't give a if. it's a million, three million, five. million documents. You go through them. one by one and you give me an Excel. spreadsheet where you explain why you. withheld each and every one of these.

documents. That's what the Epstein. Transparency Act required. That's what. you need to do. A privilege log. And by the way, folks, I've done. privilege logs for millions of. documents. personally, what do you think first. year, second year, third year associates. do? That's what you do as a lawyer. sometimes. And I didn't have the tools that they. probably have now, which makes it easier. to do these locks, you know. And and by.

the way, I still at least had search, OCR, optical character recognition. But. lawyers before me didn't have computers. They would have to go through boxes of. millions of documents and produce. privilege logs. It's tedious. It's. terrible to do. It's one of the worst. You know, you go to good law school, you. want to do trials, you want to do. depositions, but there you are, 18-hour. days freaking doing privilege logs with. five other associates for four months.

And by the way, it's why litigation's. expensive, right? That's why they pay, you know, you pay a lawyer, you know, $750 an hour, $1,000 an hour, big law firm. Right? Now, I've seen big. law firm fees, $1,500 an hour, expensive. I think when I was doing it was like. $500 an hour, $450 an hour. Shows you. the inflation. I mean, I think now it's. like 1,500. You know, when I was. practicing it was like 500 an hour, which is which is high then. Anyway,

we'd go through them document by. document. You would say bates number. reason for it being withheld to from and. then you would try to explain the reason. like this privilege that privilege. executive privilege. Here's what it is. And so. federal judge Sullivan ordered Blanch. show up August 13th. I want to see the. DOJ be prepared to answer questions.

Number one, why you violated the court. order regarding claiming perpetrators. are victims? Number two, when are you going to give me the notes? When are you going to produce them. publicly? We don't care if they're. substantially similar. Show us the. notes. And again, think about Katie Fang. surgically and her lawyer surgically. knowing that those documents could o. this is why I had such a I appreciate it. as as just a litigator. the strategy.

behind it, right? Because they know that. if you can open up these areas, it opens. up Pandora's box. If you immediately, that's why her preliminary injunction. was surgical because if you just went. scorched earth and did everything, which. may seem to be turn over everything, well then you couldn't narrow into the. fact that there's massive massive crime. and fraud and criminality going on with. Trump's DOJ.

So now you see it. Ah, got it. That's. what these are your tactics. So now the. judge said, "And I want to see the. privilege log, which once that gets. produced, that can then open up what we. all suspect. You think they're ever. going to turn over the privilege log? You think Blanch is ever going to turn. over?" No, they're never They didn't. Here's what I They never prepared a. privilege log. They never did a. redaction log. They did a summary. They. drafted a summary where they said, "We've withheld documents on the.

following grounds." blah blah blah blah. blah blah blah blah blah. But if you. remember Pam Bondi's fake deposition, which was not under oath, which was not. a deposition at all, which was not on. video camera, remember the DOJ. objections? 2020 objection 2024. What? It happened in 2024, so she can't. answer. Kind of objection is that time. scope objection. It's not a real. objection. What are you going to do. about it? We're the DOJ.

Okay. Miss Bondi, did you ever discuss with. Donald Trump cover? Objection. Okay. What's the objection? It happened. in the White House. Objection. What do you mean? Executive privilege. Executive privilege for covering up a. child sex trafficking ring. That you. think that's what the founders meant by. executive privilege? that that is the. presidency's role is to cover up.

victims of child sex trafficker. Yes. What are you going to do about it? We're. the DOJ. So if they were doing that. there, what do you think they've done with the. other? That's why we know there are tens. of millions of files that they're not. turning over in addition to the. documents that we know are about four to. five million docu documents, not pages. That could be 25 million pages. That also doesn't include the. moneyaundering investigations and all.

these other criminal investigations into. Epstein, which are not even part of. those, folks. We could be talking about. 30, 50 million more pages of documents. And remember that one of the reasons. that Trump and Epstein uh had their. falling [snorts] out was actually. because of a financial transaction where. Donald Trump acquired a property in West. Palm Beach from under Epstein when. Epstein thought that Trump would help. him purchase this property at an auction.

uh by one of their billionaire Palm. Beach friends. And then Trump bought it. And then a few years later, Trump sold. it for twice the value to a Russian. oligarch who never moved into it, which. Epstein then made lots of accusations. against Donald Trump for the shadiness. of the money from the oligarch. And Epstein. was. apparently out there telling anybody who. would listen that Trump engaged in that.

conduct. And then it's believed that. that's why Trump may have given may have. and this is what Maga Mike Johnson may. have been alluding to a potentially. information to the police based on what. he knew from Epstein. And that's why. Maga Mike said that Trump may have been. an informant. Remember when Maga Mike. the speaker of the house said that Trump. was an informant. remember that? Remember that? I remember. that.

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this one going viral. That's not. actually the wig, but but it does look a. lot like that. I know the producer is going to throw. that one up, but that was a good one. Hey Jeremy, ju just show um show him. from the first stack in one of those. interviews talking about Iran with that, you know, with the interview afterwards. Just ju just ju just ju just ju just ju. just ju just ju just ju just ju just ju. just ju just ju just just just toss any. of them up. It's fine. You can just put any one of them up. >> All of the things including men and. women sports, transgender surgery for.

everyone. Uh they will overturn it if. they get in. We can't let that happen. >> Yeah, do do the other one buy it, too. That's great. Just show the other one. with Iran. It's I think it's right by. that. It's right by that one also. Jeremy. >> seems to be working out quite well. >> What makes you think this will be. different? Because they tend to never. >> It may be and may not be. I think that. the threat of this I mean we were this. was more than a threat. We were ready to. [music] go and you know in life they. know when you're ready to go and when. you're just bluffing. No, we were ready. to go and we are ready to go. We have to.

do that. >> Pull up the MB Galab uh post. if we've got it. And it's Yeah. Yeah. This is This is the parliament leader of. Iran. Did was I did I say I was going to. show this one before and then I went on. my rant and then forgot to show it. You. know, did I do one of those? At any. event, you know. Yeah. [laughter]. The producer like, "Yeah, you did say. that you were gonna I knew I was going.

to show it." You know, the reality is I. um I you know, I don't use I I don't. just so you all know like the process if. you were if you were ever wondering what. the process is. Um I I don't use any. scripts ever. I never really plan. I I I. basically storyboard out the ideas and I. send myself a text of different. um posts and videos in screenshot form. And you know, sometimes it may be.

helpful to have like a script so I stay. on [laughter] so I stay on on track. But. okay, MB Galabuff, you saw Donald Trump. with that appeared to be, you know, a. wig. I mean, the whole thing was absurd. though too, right? I mean like a that. actually kind of looks like what it was. to be honest with you. And um who's the. I let me I want to make sure I give. credit to the guy who came up with that. graphic um or the person I think they're. they're called Maggade Devil Dog. I. don't know if Magadeevil Dog is a Trump.

supporter or not a Trump supporter. Some. of the stuff looked like it was. supportive of I don't know it it's it's. quite it's quite illuminating that. that's actually what Donald Trump looks. like though. So I want to give credit. for the person who uh I appears to be. AI. It may be a real photograph. I can't. tell if that's actually a real photo or. AI. I'm kidding. MB Galabuff. MB Galabuff. He writes, quote, "Massive attack. coming. Wait, never mind. They want to.

negotiate. That's theater diplomacy on. loop. Using bullying plus broken. promises plus fake news as leveraged is. a failed strategy. Acknowledge the facts. and fulfill your commitments. We don't. need more theater, folks. That's coming from Iran's. parliament leader and lead negotiator MB. Galab.

Th this this whole. catastrophic and unlawful war by Trump. and Netanyahu has I mean it's really. been it's really been illuminating to. me, you know, and it's really kind of. forced me honestly. and I think this is part of being a. reporter. I think this is part of being. someone who craves knowledge and craves. the truth. to really start to to think about a lot. of things that you weren't thinking.

through before even. which is you know you know you go back. and and I started studying the history. of. the Persian Gulf you know and the United. States interference and the US shooting. down a commercial flight uh in the late. 80s and never taking accountability for. it. Just slaughtering more people in the. straight of Hormuz. um in this commercial flight and and.

never never apologizing, never taking. accountability, never accepting respon. We we awarded the commander. like a medal of valor. And so one of the. things I talk about in WTF America is. look, Trump is obviously the most. egregious. uh most obviously transparently. disgusting vile manifestation of this. I. mean, I showed you, you know, he, you. know, the last clip. I mean, he's like.

wearing this bizarre wig and the YMCA is. playing and he's lying about. negotiations and it's like it's. incredibly it's incredibly embarrassing. But to simply say it's a Trump thing, I. think really misses some of the broader. points. It misses the broader points. internationally. and it misses the broader points. historically. Now Trump's out there bull in a china.

shop wrecking ball. word vomiting. But. look back at George W. Bush, look back. at Reagan. look back at a lot of these. decisions and perhaps others dealt with. it more. vi more elegantly.

or in ways that. weren't so transparently. ridiculous and dangerous and didn't. gloat about the war crimes. But that. didn't mean they weren't taking place. They were. And by the way, that doesn't. mean that America is not or wasn't a. special place or that we can't be a. special we we can hold complex thoughts. That's kind of one of the most important.

points in life in NWTF America. We we. can look back at these things and we. could. condemn them. That doesn't make us weak. it doesn't make us. um it doesn't make it impossible for us. to then strive for better things and to. make improvements. Quite the contrary, I. think it's helpful that we acknowledge. these things. And I think where perhaps. even somebody like me.

was, you know, and I I consider myself I. I hopefully consider myself someone. who's well read and learned and and I. cared about information, but there's so. much that I felt that even the. propaganda and lies, I didn't fully appreciate, you know, some of some of this stuff, some of this. history. And and that's I think part of. growth. I think that's a good thing. I I.

think that's that's we we need to be. open. It's part of making these. connections, being better people. Um, but when I see it laid so bare and I see. Trump, he's at the Red Rock. Casino and Spa. in Las Vegas. making up fake negotiations with Iran. after we ran out of our weapons.

And I see the Iranian parliament leader. in a. kind of mocking yet elevated tone. saying enough with the theater. Honor. your commitments. And I see these images side by side. I have to reflect on seriously like d. like wt like where where where where are.

we? Where are where are we as a country? And. we are in a bad place. But. I feel as we look at the recent. elections, as we look at the type of. movements that are gaining strength here. in the United States and. internationally, when you draw inspiration from Canada.

going elbows up, Greenland standing up, when you see the Egene carols in Abrago. and David Hearn succeeding in court, by. the way, the DC court just officially. granted the dismissal in the David Hearn. case. I know you there was a motion to. dismiss it, but the court now has. ordered the dismissal. When when when. you see that. when you see Trump being scared by BBC, when you see Trump choking.

as BBC fights back [snorts]. and says, "All right, granted, you had a. terrible Trump appointed judge. who just ruled, "Good point, Donald. You uh you said that you were you want. to change your complaint, little baby. Donald. You don't want to say that uh your. business was injured for $10 billion. Baby Donald, you want to say your. reputation was Okay, we understand. Baby.

Donald, you're scared of BBC. Okay. Okay. We'll give you We'll give you another. shot there, Baby Donald. Okay. Little. give you a participation trophy. Little. baby Donald, you want to amend your. complaint? Little little baby. The institutions are broken. And it's those broken institutions.

that led to a Trump in the media, in the. courts, corporations, law firms, right? and Trump. and the people. who led those institutions, they thought that if they. consolidated under the authoritarian. that we the people would follow. They. thought we gave a.

about their institutions. That that their institutions were what. we that we had to watch CBS or Fox or. ABC or wherever. That we had to we had. no choice but to go to these firms. We. had no choice but to buy these products. We had no choice. They control it. They didn't realize. that we all recognize that we hold the. power.

Those institutions betrayed us. So what. are we the people doing right now? Rebuilding, creating new institutions. that could be powered by the people, not. by the oligarchs. We don't want the data. centers in our backyard. We don't want irresponsible, reckless. handling of AI. that replaces.

workers. We don't want that. We don't want. this wealth gap. where all of the money is hoarded by the. chosen class of MAGA sick offense. We. don't we don't like that. We don't want. that. We know that's not fair. They're. scared. Why do you think they're saying anything. that's not that is communism.

is socialism? Look, when Donald Trump says that he. thinks. that the opposition to the Epstein. class, which they now label. communism, right? The opposition to the Epstein. class, they call communism because. they've been exposed as the Epstein. class. You get that, right? They. weaponized. Epstein to go after their enemies. That's how they used to do it. They.

created a whole QAnon thing to use that. to go after their enemies. But when they. were revealed as the Epstein class, the. Cabal, when that was exposed, now it's. the Cabal of Communists. And the Epstein. class is saying that they're going to. save the world from the Cabal of. Communist. And Trump says that all these. other people out there. who he labels communists. because they oppose the Epste, not.

because they're actually communists. The. most communist people are Trump and his. regime. Look how they behave. They they. behave more like Stalin than anybody. Senator Bernie Sanders agreed with you. when I was saying that. Did you see my. interview with uh Senator Bernie. Sanders? But now they're saying it's the mo that. that if you disagree with the regime, you're more dangerous than al-Qaeda, the Taliban,

than ISIS. This is what Trump said. than. the Nazis. and anybody in World War I. That's what. he says. That's what that's aligned in. his speech. I gotta say, I gotta say it. They're more dangerous than than I mean. it. I. mean it. They're more dangerous than the. Nazis and the blah blah blah and then. World War I and World War II. Blah blah. blah. Look at the stupid wig. Look at my. stupid hands. People are like, "Yo,

enough. Enough. Enough of this. We've had. enough. Shouldn't have been here in the first. place, would we? Enough of this. Shut. up. And people are fighting back. People are. fighting back. You're fighting back. That's what makes this moment actually. That's why they're actually terrified. Get your copy of WTF America. Pre-order. it now. The pre-orders are really important.

Again, the publisher tells me the Ben, focus on the pre-orders. Focus on the. pre-orders. That's that's the that's what they tell. me. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to say. that. Focus on the pre-orders. because then we could to figure out how. we promote the book and where we could. advertise and all those things. But they. said there's a lot of momentum on the. pre-orders. But if you can put in the. comments how many copies you've gotten, if you've pre-ordered it, put WTF in the. comments or in the chat. All right. I've. got the show with Oh, did make sure you.

all subscribe to Katie Fag's YouTube. channel. That channel needs to hit a. million subscribers, right? Tell people to subscribe to her. channel. Subscribe to her audio podcast. as well, the Katy Fang audio podcast. Sidebar with Katie Fang. I'll see you with my brothers tonight, 8. Eastern, 5 Pacific. It's a different. show than this show. stuff. You're like, you're like, "Ben, we can't we we've. seen enough of you. We don't need to see.

you again. It's a different show. Different clips, different things. It's. not the same show. That'd be said you. don't want to see me again with my. brothers. Come on. We want to see you, but it's it'll be a good show with the. brothers in all honesty. 8 Eastern, 5. Pacific. A lot more breaking news then. as well. We appreciate you. We're. grateful for you. Keep checking in as we. update uh you with breaking news. throughout the day. Seriously, it's it's. really an honor to be in this with you. Shout out Midasmighty. I'll see you.

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