EXCLUSIVE: Mike Benz Says Trump Admin Has ‘Once-In-Generation’ Chance To Put Deep State On Defense Post-Epstein Files
'we should be having five million CIA files'
What the Epstein files REALLY reveal (it's far darker than just his twisted sex-trafficking empire)
The latest Epstein file dump, which included an additional 3 million documents along with roughly 2,000 videos and 180,000 images, prompted widespread public shock and outrage over its revelations of Epstein's apparent connections to prominent figures worldwide as well as grotesque but unverified accusations of child sacrifice and satanic rituals.
While the file release has not resulted in any new criminal charges or prosecutions, Christians, says BlazeTV host Rick Burgess, can walk away with one certainty: We’re getting closer to the end times.
“What we're seeing right now in our society is foreshadowing of the end times,” the “Strange Encounters” host warns.
Rick says the reign of the antichrist will be preceded by a movement toward “globalization.”
“If you're not watching these globalists right now, you better keep an eye on them. … I believe the Epstein files show us Satan working his plan,” says Rick.
The convicted sex offender, who he believes was “demon-possessed,” built a dark empire composed of “great influencers” — “celebrities,” “royals,” “politicians,” and “the super intellectual” — who “come from everywhere,” he says.
Citing Daniel 7, Rick reminds us that the “antichrist will be an outstanding orator, an intellectual genius, a military leader without parallel in human history, a shrewd, calculating, manipulating politician, and the ultimate religious charlatan.”
“If you look at the clientele in the Epstein files, it's all there. It's all there,” he declares.
“Do you really think these men with all this influence … need Epstein to go help them get dates? Are you kidding me? You think they have a problem getting dates with the wealth, the intellect, the celebrity, the power that they all have?” Rick asks.
“No — they're going after something that is crude; they're going after something that is depraved; they're going after underage girls for their jollies. That's wicked. That's evil.”
The level of depravity in Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he says, goes far beyond the typical temptation and sin we see in “a bachelor party that got out of hand” or even seeking out “adult women prostitutes.”
These are people who “want to sexually abuse a child,” he says, noting that this kind of wickedness has long been “an underlying part of paganism.”
“If you go to paganism, you find sexual lewdness. You find young boy and young girl prostitutes … and you find, ultimately, the sacrifice of the innocent child because there's nothing more wicked than that. And all of that we're seeing as these Epstein files come out,” says Rick.
This combination of unmitigated evil and powerful elites from all over the world is a sure sign that end times are drawing nearer, he says.
“When you look at Epstein's files and you look at what's going on with all these influential people, they represent the characteristics of the spirit of antichrist — not the person, because he's not been revealed yet, but the spirit of antichrist, putting together what antichrist is going to need.”
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Glenn Beck’s fiery reaction to ex-Prince Andrew’s arrest: ‘Nobody is going to jail for actually having sex with children!’
Back in the fall of 2025, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was stripped of his royal titles and honors by King Charles III, due to ongoing controversy and persistent ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
This week, on his 66th birthday, the ex-Duke of York was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office related to his Epstein ties but released just hours later.
When Glenn Beck heard the news of the disgraced former prince’s arrest, he was incredulous.
“Notice: Nobody is going to jail for actually having sex with children. … [Mountbatten-Windsor] was arrested for ‘wrongdoing,”’ he says mockingly. “Well, I think having sex with underage kids is wrongdoing.”
Glenn cites a recent Reuters poll that found that 69% of Americans strongly agree with the statement: “The files show that powerful people are rarely held accountable.” 17% somewhat agreed with the statement, and only 11% disagreed.
“This is universal,” says Glenn, “and yet all that we're seeing is people playing politics with it.”
On February 16, a panel of independent U.N. human rights experts declared that the content within the Epstein files may constitute “crimes against humanity.”
“That's the U.N. — crimes against humanity! But who was having sex with kids?” Glenn exclaims.
Every time more information about Epstein comes out, we’re left with “more questions,” never actual answers, he laments.
“They release stuff and you're like, wait a minute. Well, that just opens up more. It's not clarity. It's fog. And it's happening everywhere — both sides of the Atlantic,” he says, citing the U.K.'s long-running grooming-gangs scandal, where Parliament voted down a Conservative push for a national inquiry in January 2025, despite the massive scale of child exploitation.
Glenn mocks the politicians claiming that "we care so much about our children.”
“I don't think you care about our children. I'm beginning to think you're not really human,” he says.
But it’s not just politicians who are to blame; part of the problem, he says, is us.
“The outrage that we all have on any topic lasts about 72 hours, and then we move on. Have you noticed that one?” Glenn asks.
“I don't know what that says about us. Does it say that we're overwhelmed? That there's just a new thing to be outraged on every 72 hours? That we're exhausted? ... Does it say that we're fragmented into so many tribes that we're only pursuing accountability when it hurts the other team?”
Glenn fears the answer may be far darker.
Perhaps “we've become totally accustomed to scandal,” he says, or worse — “Nothing's real any more. Child rape is not real any more. Even our outrage isn't real any more.”
He argues that social media is the only reason we’re even still talking about Epstein. Without X, Facebook, and other platforms artificially prolonging and amplifying the scandal, Glenn fears the public would have long forgotten the convicted sex offender and his countless victims.
“There was a time in Great Britain … in the entire West, if there was a whiff of corruption at high levels: national reckoning,” he says.
But today, we just “wait it out,” and scandal after scandal just quietly “goes away.”
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Ex-Prince Andrew arrested after police open Epstein-related misconduct case
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew and the younger brother of King Charles III, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
The Thames Valley Police said they arrested a man in his 60s from Norfolk around 8 a.m.
Misconduct in public office is a common-law offense in England and Wales and can carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
The BBC confirmed that Mountbatten-Windsor had been arrested, sharing footage of police vehicles arriving at the estate.
Assistant Chief Constable Oliver Wright added in a statement:
"Following a thorough assessment, we have now opened an investigation into this allegation of misconduct in public office. We understand the significant public interest in this case, and we will provide updates at the appropriate time."
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Thames Valley Police confirmed last week that it was assessing allegations tied to documents within the U.S. Department of Justice’s Epstein files.
Wright said last week: “We can confirm today that Thames Valley Police is leading the ongoing assessment of allegations relating to misconduct in public office. This specifically relates to documents within the United States Department of Justice’s Epstein Files.”
Mountbatten-Windsor served as the United Kingdom’s special representative for international trade and investment from 2001 to 2011.
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King Charles III acknowledged the arrest, “I have learned with the deepest concern the news about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and suspicion of misconduct in public office.”
Charles said that he expressed “deepest concern” and that “the law must take its course,” adding that the royal family would offer “full and wholehearted support and co-operation” to police.
Misconduct in public office is a common-law offense in England and Wales and can carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
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Do the Epstein files confirm this Pizzagate theory? NY Mag contributor makes stunning admission.
WikiLeaks published tens of thousands of leaked emails from the personal account of John Podesta, former President Bill Clinton's chief of staff, in late 2016.
The decentralized army of sleuths that subsequently combed over the leaked emails found not only damning insights into Hillary Clinton and her doomed presidential campaign but odd messages about pizza, hot dogs, ice cream, and other foods.
'842 occurrences of the word pizza, which seems like a lot.'
The recurring references to food in non-culinary contexts prompted some to theorize that they were code words related to pedophilia and human trafficking — a theory that the mainstream media and so-called fact-checkers emphasized was "dangerous," "fake news," and, in essence, a "moral panic."
New York Magazine, one of the publications that strenuously criticized the so-called Pizzagate theory nine years ago, suggested in the wake of the new Jeffrey Epstein documents' release that "pizza" might be a code word, after all.
Dan Brooks, writing for New York Magazine, noted that the latest trove of Epstein files published by the Department of Justice "contains 842 occurrences of the word pizza, which seems like a lot. By comparison, the word hamburger appears only 190 times, while the phrase 'sex with children' appears 20 times."
Brooks admitted that "some of the pizza-related material seems pretty weird."
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Not only did Epstein appear to have automated alerts reminding him to deliver a certain individual pizza, but he was asked on more than one occasion if individuals could have a "quick pizza" together in his absence.
One email said, "I wanted to let you know that the crew really enjoyed the pizza today. Thank you for letting us do that."
Another message from a redacted sender stated, “This is better than a Chinese cookie! Let's go for pizza and grape soda again. No one else can understand."
Additional emails carry subject lines such as “The Pizza Monster!” and include more peculiar uses of the word.
“You mean radiating a soft glow with the look of bliss and excitement. Yeah, that's the pizza...” one message reads.
"These recent Epstein materials do make the financier seem strangely interested in pizza and unusually committed to having it delivered to other people," added Brooks.
There are also recurring references to "pizza and grape soda" in the child sex offender's texts and emails.
Despite the strangeness of the exchanges, a photograph in a text conversation between Epstein and his urologist appears to indicate that on at least one occasion, they were actually discussing pizza and grape soda.
While there has been plenty of speculation in recent weeks about the pizza references, particularly because they appear in both the Epstein and Podesta files, the term "cream cheese," which appears 196 times throughout the Epstein messages, has also raised eyebrows.
In one exchange, a participant wrote, "Lol, I don’t know if cream cheese and baby are on the same level," alongside discussions of scheduling activities that some observers say raise further concern. The phrase also appears in other unsettling contexts, including "cream cheese baby."
The use of cheese and pizza imagery in reference to pedophilia and child abuse is not limited to so-called Pizzagate conspiracy theorists.
In 2020, the Telegraph, a U.K.-based newspaper, reported that a parents' group working to curb the dissemination of child sex abuse material online allegedly found that cheese and pizza emojis were being used as stand-ins for "CP," meaning "child porn."
The founder of the group, a London woman identified only as India, indicated that in some cases, individuals using the emojis shared images of children scraped from parents' social media accounts.
"There are pictures of little boys aged 5 or 6 on the beach in their swimming trunks and chances are that picture was taken by their parents on their holiday," said India. "Somehow that picture has gotten into their hands."
Brooks, prickled by recent declarations by Redditors and others that at least one core Pizzagate claim might have been accurate all along, stated, "If Epstein and his friends did use pizza as a code word for sex, that wouldn’t mean that the original Pizzagate conspiracy theory was correct — even if it was also the case that pizza was a sexual code word in the Podesta emails."
After spending the bulk of his article entertaining the possibility that "a syndicate of pedophiliac celebrities, financiers, and their urologists," equipped with code words, committed "unimaginable acts of cruelty," Brooks spends his final paragraphs attacking those who made similar claims nearly a decade ago.
The NY Mag contributor suggested that such "conspiracists" — not the allegedly vampiric cosmopolitan elites who might refer to their preferred victim types with fast-food references — are "one of the most terrifying forces in 21st-century America."
Having turned his ire away from the dead pedophile and his associates to those Americans searching for justice and accountability, Brooks concluded his article by smearing American democracy as a "well-documented conspiracy of morons."
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Gov. Pritzker's cousin steps down at Hyatt over Epstein relationship
The Department of Justice belatedly released a massive trove of documents related to child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein last month. The documents provide damning insights into the dead pedophile as well as his network of former business associates and friends.
One of the affluent individuals whose name comes up repeatedly in the Epstein files is Thomas Pritzker — cousin of Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker — who has served as executive chairman of the Hyatt Hotels Corporation since August 2004.
'Good stewardship also means protecting Hyatt.'
The 75-year-old billionaire revealed to the board of the hotel chain on Monday that he was retiring, effective immediately, to protect Hyatt from the fallout of his relationship with the dead pedophile.
In his letter to the board, which was reviewed by the New York Times, Pritzker said that "good stewardship also means protecting Hyatt, particularly in the context of my association with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, which I deeply regret."
Pritzker noted further that he "exercised terrible judgment in maintaining contact with them, and there is no excuse for failing to distance myself sooner."
The retiring Hyatt executive chairman appears to have maintained a friendship and remained in frequent contact with Epstein long after the sex offender pleaded guilty to procuring a child for prostitution.
In the newly released Epstein files, the email address accompanying Pritzker's name is frequently redacted. However in some cases, it is crossed out but still visible.
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Richard Tuttle, chair of the Hyatt board's nominating and corporate governance committee, said in a statement, "Tom’s leadership has been instrumental in shaping Hyatt’s strategy and long-term growth, and we thank him for his service and dedication to Hyatt."
Mark Hoplamazian, Hyatt's president and CEO, has stepped into the role left open by the Epstein associate.
Pritzker is among a growing list of individuals whose relationships with Epstein have earned them heightened scrutiny and professional consequences.
After new details about their relationships and/or communications with Epstein came to light:
- Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem resigned as chairman and chief executive of the global ports operator DP World;
- David Gelernter, a Yale University computer science professor who lost a few fingers opening a package sent by the Unabomber, defended a controversial correspondence he had with Epstein and was barred from teaching classes at the university;
- Peter Mandelson, a prominent Labour Party figure who was appointed Britain's ambassador to the U.S. in 2024 by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, resigned in disgrace from the House of Lords while his protege stepped down as Starmer's right-hand man;
- Kathy Ruemmler said she was resigning as Goldman Sach's chief legal officer;
- Brad Karp resigned as chairman of the top U.S. law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP;
- U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was grilled in a Senate hearing about his 2012 meeting with Epstein at the pedophile's island;
- New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch, who NFL commissioner Roger Goodell indicated might ultimately face an internal investigation, admitted to a "brief association where we exchanged emails about adult women, and in addition, we discussed movies, philanthropy, and investments";
- Letty Moss-Salentijn was stripped of her administrative duties at Columbia University's College of Dental Medicine;
- Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York and former wife of ex-prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, saw her charity, Sarah's Trust, shuttered; and
- Thorbjørn Jagland, Norway's former prime minister, was charged with aggravated corruption.
B is for butthead: Raunchy rapper threatens 'bear mace' for ICE agents
Cardi B must have some weird fans.
The singer responsible for the hit we can’t even begin to name here took her turn blasting Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during a recent concert performance. Yawn.
You will pick a side ... and it better be the one we want.
To her credit, Ms. B took her progressive rhetoric up a notch or three. Even AOC might be proud!
“B***h! If ICE comes in here, we gon’ jump they asses ... I’ve got some bear mace in the back! They ain’t taking my fans, b***h!”
And when Homeland Security mocked her outburst, she broke out the left’s weakest talking point.
“Why y’all don’t wanna talk about the Epstein files?”
Let’s hope she never faces any of the violent criminals caught up in ICE’s net. We’re guessing mace might not be enough to stop them from thanking her for her support ...
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AI A-listers
It’s Brad Pitt versus Tom Cruise in the battle of the 60-something superstars. And it’s all thanks to Seedance 2’s new AI technology.
A viral video of the stars’ digital doppelgangers caused a stir on social media this week. The Chinese AI company’s visuals are impressive, far less awkward than some digital clips we’ve seen.
There’s no blood spilled as the Hollywood heavyweights duke it out. But not everyone was tickled to watch the faux fight. The Motion Picture Association quickly cried foul, calling the China-based company’s video a massive copyright infringement.
The creator of the video, an Irish filmmaker named Ruairi Robinson, said it took all of two lines of text to prompt the video into life. He added a darkly humorous response after the understandable backlash commenced.
“Today’s question is: should i be killed for typing 2 lines and pressing a button.”
Here’s betting some Hollywood suits didn’t find it remotely funny ...
Monkee business
He’s the last Monkee standing.
Micky Dolenz is back on tour this year to honor his band’s 60th anniversary. Yes, the ad seeking "4 insane boys, ages 17 to 21" to star in a Beatles-esque sitcom launched a quartet that has yet to wear out its welcome.
“The Monkees” only lasted two seasons, but the “pre-Fab Four’s” pop gems endure. And Dolenz isn’t ready to pull an ego trip at this stage in his career. If you want the hits, you’ll get ‘em.
"I'd been to some very disappointing shows where the headliner doesn’t do anything except maybe one big hit.”
"If I ever do go back and am asked to sing [the Monkees'] songs, I’m going to make sure I sing every one in their entirety, no medleys and no screwing around.”
He should have said, “no Monkeeing around,” but he might be tired of that pun after six decades ...
Wim and vigor
You will pick a side ... and it better be the one we want. Remember how the press bullied both Taylor Swift and Jimmy Fallon into getting political after years of nonpartisan stances?
That mantra is part and parcel of the Hollywood ecosystem in 2026. ICE? Nazis! Trump? Hitler 2.0! Voter ID laws? Jim Crow 2.0!
And the granddaddy of them all — the endless Israeli/Palestinian conflict? It’s a genocide!
Except Wim Wenders didn’t read the approved talking points. The veteran director got pressed by a journalist at the Berlin Film Festival on that intractable conflict and the festival’s lack of an official position or statement on the subject.
The celebrated director said, and we paraphrase, no dice.
“We are the counterweight of politics. We are the opposite of politics. We have to do the work of people, not the work of politicians. If we make movies that are dedicatedly political, we enter the field of politics. No movie has really changed any politician’s idea, but you can change people’s idea of how they should live.”
How long before Wenders is dubbed Hitler 3.0 by the left or the media (but we repeat ourselves)?
Be like Kevin
Kevin James didn’t bring his new rom-com, “Solo Mio,” to the Berlin Film Festival. He still took a page from the Wenders playbook.
If you want to know who he voted for in the last election, good luck.
“Politically, for me to speak on it, there are experts who know much more than I do,” James says. “I’m just focusing on what I can do, delivering a fun, heartfelt break from the craziness of the world. Everybody carries themselves around all day long with a lot of stress. It’s necessary in some ways, but you also need a break.”
Call him the anti-Mark Ruffalo. Or to be blunt, downright refreshing.
Deace: The Pam Bondi Show needs to be canceled
I know you thought the Super Bowl halftime show brought to you by a double-digit-IQ reprobate was bad, but Pam Bondi appeared before Congress this week and said "hold my beer."
She’s playing the Republican base for suckers with her constant night-at-the-improv act. That future gig as a Fox News contributor ain’t gonna happen all by itself.
The memes cataloguing her jackassery simply won’t stop despite Trump’s mightiest efforts to bail her out. I mean, how do you explain away "don’t worry about the Epstein rape island because have you considered where the Dow is?"
Yikes.
The midterms called and said the blue wave is a-coming! We’ve clearly come a long way from "lock her up," but in exactly the wrong direction. The message is highly radicalized, but the perception increasingly seems to be that we are not delivering on it and perhaps we never intended to.
A lot of politics is perception. That’s just the plain reality of it. It’s why one of my Ten Commandments of political warfare is "never attack what you aren’t prepared to kill." So if, for example, we pull out of Minneapolis right now and declare victory but Tim Walz, Don Lemon, and Ilhan Omar pay no discernable cost, what has actually been gained?
In fact, the right will have managed to disappoint both sides of its political coalition. First the establishment thought the optics were too violent, and now the base thinks the optics are too cowardly. Then add to that mix elitist talk about the Dow papering over the need to expose the perpetrators of global sex crimes, and prepare for a dire electoral judgment day.
You can personally admire the president and everything he has done for this country (and I do) but still remember that Trump lost about 40 House seats in the 2018 midterms. What about this time? You have to live in the world of actual realities and outcomes. So when the pollster calls you about the current direction of the country and your personal situation includes homes that you still can’t sell and schools that are still trying to trans your kids, you are going to need your affinity for Trump to be doing a lot more heavy lifting than whatever Pam Bondi is bringing to the table on his behalf.
When the base starts to ask why protecting Howard Lutnick is more important than protecting base voters, Houston, we have a problem. But perhaps I’m wrong. Let he who has not brought his family to Epstein Island cast the first stone!
Given that the attorney general is arguably the most important position in the executive branch other than president, I wish I had more to analyze for you than the level of stupid now before us. What would we have said if Hillary Clinton tried something like what Bondi just did before Congress? I don't know that I have ever seen a figure on the right being more justifiably and savagely ridiculed by her own side.
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Does everyone understand what a self-own it was for Bondi to try to own the libs by accusing Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) of being a crooked inside trader? Because what position in the federal government is uniquely equipped and empowered to find out if Raskin should be punished for abusing his position within the United States Congress? Could it be Attorney General Bedazzler Bondi herself? Good grief.
She’s playing the Republican base for suckers with her constant night-at-the-improv act. That future gig as a Fox News contributor ain’t gonna happen all by itself, is it, Pam?
Meanwhile, and maybe I’m weird this way, I just want to win. And by that I don’t mean something as trite as the final score of a football game. No, winning means saving America for our children to live safe and free. The existential stakes of our current political moment fall nothing short of that.
The cold truth is that Pam Bondi at this point is clearly an embarrassing impediment to that goal. She's not only not helping us win, but I've got a set of binders right here and they all say it's more likely that she'll be the reason we lose.
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