President Donald Trump has vowed to release damning documents if re-elected, which might complicate life for a lot of powerful people and institutions.
The titular host of the "Lex Fridman Podcast" asked Trump in an episode published Wednesday whether he would seek the release of additional documents pertaining to the associates of the late, convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump said he would have "no problem" doing so.
"There's a moment where you had some hesitation about Epstein — releasing some of the documents on Epstein. Why the hesitation?"
The Republican did not appear to accept the premise, stating, "I don't think I had — I'm not involved. I never went to his island, fortunately. But a lot of people did."
Trump explained why various powerful people allowed Epstein to get close: "He was a good salesman. He was, you know, a hale and hearty type of guy. He had some nice assets that he'd throw around like islands."
"A lot of big people went to that island," continued Trump. "But fortunately, I was not one of them."
Trump initially suggested that the list of clients who went to Epstein's island, Little Saint James, would "probably" be released.
Late last year, Manhattan federal Judge Loretta A. Preska ordered the release of over 150 names of people referenced in Epstein lawsuit documents. The documents subsequently made public the names of some of the pedophile's friends, associates, and alleged victims.
Flight logs for the pedophile's private jet, the so-called "Lolita Express," publicly available since December 2021, also identified a number of individuals who were in Epstein's orbit.
Fridman appeared particularly interested, however, in the names of those affluent individuals who visited the pedophile's island, Little Saint James.
"It's just very strange for a lot of people that the list of clients that went to the island has not been made public," said the podcaster.
"Yeah, it's very interesting, isn't it? Probably will be," said Trump. "I'd certainly take a look at it."
Trump added, "Yeah, I'd be inclined to do the Epstein — I'd have no problem with it."
'I have people come to me and beg me not to do it.'
In the interview, Fridman also pressed Trump on whether he would seek the release of other documents withheld from the American public.
Fridman told Trump that a lot of people "are very interested in footage of UFOs. The Pentagon has released a few videos, and there's been anecdotal reports from fighter pilots."
After priming the pump, Fridman asked, "Will you help push the Pentagon to release more footage, which a lot of people claim is available?"
Trump responded, "I would do that. I'd love to do that. I have to do that."
The Republican indicated that just as there is great interest in the government divulging more information about unidentified anomalous phenomena, he has also faced pressure to release more about President John F. Kennedy's assassination.
"I did release a lot," said Trump. "But I have people come to me and beg me not to do it."
While in office, Trump ordered the release of tens of thousands of documents related to the Kennedy assassination, stating in an Oct. 26, 2017, memo to government agency heads:
The American public expects — and deserves — its Government to provide as much access as possible to the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records (records) so that the people may finally be fully informed about all aspects of this pivotal event. Therefore, I am ordering today that the veil finally be lifted.
Under apparent pressure from the FBI and CIA, Trump temporarily withheld thousands of additional documents pending further review, citing the need "to protect against harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or the conduct of foreign relations that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in immediate disclosure."
RFK Jr. suggested to Tucker Carlson last month that Trump admitted it was former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who had "begged him" not to release the Kennedy documents.
Although Trump postponed the release of the documents, he indicated while in office that the remaining documents would be released by October 2021.
When the time came, President Joe Biden intervened to keep the secret files from the American public.
Trump told supporters following his endorsement by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last month that he would release "all of the remaining documents pertaining to the assassination of John F Kennedy" and that if elected, he would also establish a new commission on presidential assassination attempts.
Trump reiterated to Fridman on his podcast he would follow through and be doing so "very early on."
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The Democratic Party used lawfare and "private investigators" to try to keep Robert F. Kennedy Jr. off the ballot, RFK Jr. claimed during an appearance on "The Glenn Beck Program" on Monday.
RFK Jr. indicated to host Glenn Beck, co-founder of Blaze Media, that the Democratic Party engaged in the underhanded tactics even though polls showed he drew more votes away from former President Donald Trump than from Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.
"Our polling, from the the beginning, was saying that we were hurting Donald Trump much more than we hurt the Democrats. ... And so it was odd that President Trump and the Republican Party never really attacked me, and he was not trying to keep me off of ballots. They weren't deploying, you know, private investigators to dig up every piece of dirt about me and publicize it," he explained.
"The Democrats have this entire organization that was designed to destroy, character-assassinate me, and keep me off the ballots," he continued.
'Their big worry is about disinformation and misinformation,' RFK Jr. said. 'Well, you know, that's not the government's job.'
RFK Jr. told Beck that the efforts to remove him from the ballot were just part of Democratic Party's attempt to exercise "ironclad control" over the electoral process.
"They had to get me off the ballot using the judicial system and Donald Trump off the ballot using the judicial system," RFK Jr. said of Democrats. "It's all about ironclad control of the outcomes and no longer having any trust in the people of our country."
Between these attempts to undermine the democratic process and the "deep state" and "neocon" agenda Harris espoused in her convention speech, RFK Jr. said that he found that he now has more in common with Trump and the Republicans than with the Democratic Party, with which his family has been associated for more than 60 years, and that is why he endorsed Trump after dropping out of the race.
"There have been a series of political realignments throughout American history, about four or five big realignments, and one of those is happening right now," he said. "It's really interesting to be living through it and to have kind of a front-row seat in it."
The "realignment" going on right now is so dramatic, RFK Jr. indicated, that even his late father, Robert Kennedy Sr., and his late uncle, former President John Kennedy, likely would not be welcome in the Democratic Party these days.
"It's become the party of war," he said.
"Their big worry is about disinformation and misinformation," RFK Jr. added. "Well, you know, that's not the government's job."
A portion of the conversation between RFK Jr. and Beck can be seen below. The full three-hour program can be heard by clicking here and subscribing to BlazeTV.
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The Pennsylvania man who attempted to kill former President Donald J. Trump at an election rally July 13 used a laptop computer to search the internet for information on “how far away was Oswald from Kennedy?” FBI Director Christopher Wray told a U.S. House committee on July 24.
Wray told the House Judiciary Committee that would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, generally had a high level of interest in public figures but turned his attention in earnest to Trump around July 6.
Wray’s statement about the Google search done on a laptop associated with Crooks was among the biggest disclosures to date about the shooting of Trump at the Butler Farm Show Inc. fairgrounds in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Crooks’ alleged search was a reference to gunman Lee Harvey Oswald and the shots he fired from the Texas School Book Depository at President John F. Kennedy as Kennedy’s motorcade rode through Dealey Plaza in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Kennedy died from wounds suffered in the shooting.
Wray also told the committee that Crooks was flying a drone in the area of the Trump rally more than two hours before the shooting. A drone recovered from Crooks’ vehicle flew in an area approximately 200 yards from the Trump speaking stage for 11 minutes, starting around 3:50 p.m., Wray said.
Crooks appeared to be live streaming video from the drone, Wray said, but he did not say whether anyone was watching the video stream.
No still images or video from July 13 were recovered from the drone, he said. The FBI was able to “re-engineer” the drone’s flight path, Wray said.
To date, the FBI has not found "any evidence" of coconspirators or others who might have assisted Crooks in his plan to attack the former president and his supporters, Wray said.
Wray disclosed that the FBI recovered three “relatively crude” explosive devices: two from Crooks’ vehicle and one from the Crooks family residence.
A transceiver recovered from under Crooks’ body on the roof of Building 6 at the American Glass Research complex north of the fairgrounds likely could not have detonated the devices found in Crooks’ auto, Wray said.
The FBI has recovered a roughly five-foot ladder that Crooks purchased at Home Depot the morning of the shooting, Wray said. The ladder was not found on site or in Crooks' vehicle, Wray said.
This is a developing story that will be updated as news unfolds.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was just a child when his uncle John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
When he returned home after hearing the news, his father was walking with the head of the CIA at the time, John McCone. McCone was a friend of his father and spent a lot of time at their house, swimming in their pool after work.
“I didn’t know what he said at the time, but it’s been reported since that my father said, ‘Did your people do this?’” RFK Jr. tells Glenn Beck.
“His first suspicion was the Miami Cubans who were affiliated with the CIA and who were very hostile to Jack and my dad, because they believed that my uncle should have invaded the Bay of Pigs,” RFK Jr. explains, adding, “They felt he was a traitor.”
According to RFK Jr., his uncle was supposed to meet with Fidel Castro in Cuba the same day he was killed.
“He knew there was tremendous hostility toward him in the Cuban community,” he explains, “and that a lot of those people had been working with the CIA on the assassination programs against Castro.”
“Is there a way to bring the CIA, NSA, NSC, all of it, under control?” Glenn asks.
RFK Jr. says that there is and has been a way, and it was revealed in documents kept secret by the CIA.
“Last year, one of the documents that was released was a memo from Arthur Schlesinger to my uncle that summarized my uncle’s plans for reorganizing the CIA, for how to end this kind of rogue operation,” he tells Glenn.
And when his father was asked what to do about the CIA by reporter Pete Hamill, his father reflected a similar plan.
“My father essentially paraphrased what this earlier memo said, which is that he was going to separate the plans division, which is the dirty tricks division from the espionage division,” RFK Jr. explains, noting that the CIA was founded for espionage, not dirty tricks.
However, Alan Dulles had changed the function of the CIA to allow more malevolent tasks, like overthrowing governments, fixing elections, and bribing public officials.
“My father saw that that was catastrophic, and that the espionage division was enabling the plans division to do all this stuff and making sure they were never held accountable,” he says.
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Last week, Glenn Beck sat down with independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for an extensive interview. The duo broached a wide range of subjects, including the World Economic Forum, NATO, the conflicts in Russia/Ukraine and Israel/Gaza, climate change, and of course, Big Pharma — which Kennedy has been incredibly outspoken about.
On that subject, Kennedy was quick to bring up the absurdity of how COVID-19 was handled, starting with Donald Trump.
“During COVID ... President Trump got rolled by his bureaucrats, and he came in saying, ‘I’m a businessman, I’m gonna run this place like a business,' [so] he gave the keys to all of our shops and stores and businesses to Tony Fauci and shut down 3.3 million businesses,” he told Glenn.
Glenn agreed wholeheartedly and followed with a question we all want answered: “What do you do to restore the trust [in the medical industry]?”
“What we now know because of the Wuhan lab ... [is] they’re messing with Ebola and they’re messing with Chikungunya and all of these really horrific diseases ... with 50%, 20%, 10% [mortality rates],” he told Glenn, adding that “of course some of them escape every year.”
Who’s behind this atrocity?
If you guessed Anthony Fauci, you’re correct.
Kennedy explained that when the Patriot Act was passed, it mandated “that any federal officer or employee who violates [the Geneva Convention or the 1973 Bioweapons Convention] cannot be prosecuted.”
“That relaunched the bioweapons arms race,” he said. The Pentagon “started redirecting all that money to Anthony Fauci to do bioweapons research.”
“So, why isn’t he in jail?” Glenn asked.
“He’s not in jail because Joe Biden is president,” was Kennedy’s frank answer.
That honesty perked up the ears of news outlets such as the New York Post and the Daily Mail, which published articles covering Glenn and Kennedy’s candid conversation.
To see the full interview, watch the video below.
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Last week, independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sat down for an extensive interview with Glenn Beck. The two discussed a range of subjects, including the World Economic Forum (which Kennedy fittingly called the “billionaires boys' club”), the complexities of NATO, the depravity of Big Pharma, and the ongoing conflicts between Russia/Ukraine and Israel/Gaza, among other issues.
Glenn also pressed Kennedy on his thoughts regarding ESG, the Second Amendment, as well as the candidate's previous statements on climate change — one of which was aimed directly at Glenn.
At a Live Earth concert back in 2007, RFK Jr. made the following statement:
“So, I'm gonna tell you this, that the next time you see John Stossel or Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity — these flat-earthers, these corporate toadies lying to you, lying to the American public, and telling you that global warming doesn't exist — you send an email to their advertisers and tell them you're not going to buy their products anymore. This is treason and we need to start treating them now as traitors.”
“You’re smart enough to know what that means constitutionally,” Glenn said after reading the quote.
“I wouldn’t say that today,” was Kennedy’s humble response. “Part of the reason I wouldn’t say that is because I watched our country run over not only the First Amendment but all three arms of the First Amendment.”
He then cited the way the government “closed a million churches for a year,” “[rolled] over the rights of freedom of assembly,” “shut down 3.3 million businesses with no due process, no just compensation,” and “got rid of the Seventh Amendment” as the reasons he feels differently today.
“The First Amendment was not written to protect speech that we all want to hear. It was for the speech nobody wants to hear,” even if it’s “embarrassing,” “appalling,” or shares “ideas that are horrible ideas,” he told Glenn.
“I would never say anything like that today,” he continued, referring to his 2007 statement. “My thinking on it has evolved, and I can see how dangerous statements like that are.”
To hear Glenn’s response, watch the video below.
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