Shocking update on Ghislaine Maxwell - Another Day - Brian Tyler Cohen

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BTC: Ghislaine Maxwell tries to shake down the Trump administration because why not? This is just another day.

Since Trump began his second term, he hasn't made us wait around on much. In just over a year, he's already bulldozed the White House, incited a street war in America's friendliest city, and made a movie about the least compelling first lady in American history. Oh, please, Mr. President, do Zachary Taylor's wife next. I heard she loved canning.

Trump's expediency makes the snails pace roll out of the Epstein files since Pam Bondi's promise to release them last summer all the more confusing. But today, after months, nay, years of promising to deliver, a major truth bomb dropped care of Trump's congressional oversight chair, James Comer.

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James Comer: As expected, Ghislaine Maxwell took the Fifth and refused to answer any questions. This obviously is very disappointing. We had many questions to ask about the crimes she and Epstein committed as well as questions about potential co-conspirators. We sincerely want to get to the truth to the American people and justice for the survivors. That's what this investigation is about.

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BTC: Extra extra--read all about it. Convicted child sex trafficker not particularly interested in getting justice for the victims she herself victimized. Evidence suggests pedophile may not be a good or helpful person and may only be compelled to do right when she gets something out of it.

That's right. Shockingly, simply asking Ghislaine Maxwell to implicate other wrongdoers in the Epstein scandal that she herself helped orchestrate did not break this case wide open. The funny thing is, while Congressman Comer claimed that this morning the outcome was as expected, he was trying to sell us a different bag of goods just this past Friday.

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Comer: We've negotiated with her for a long time. She's threatened to plead the Fifth. Sometimes people threaten to plead the Fifth. But then when they get sworn in, they they their conscience kicks in and they say, "I don't want the American people to see me pleading the Fifth to all these questions." And they they start to answer questions.

Again, why, after 25 years of enabling and colluding with Jeffrey Epstein, did Comer think this right now was the moment Ghislaine Maxwell's conscience was going to kick in? You don't leave your broken down car on cinder blocks for 25 years and then suddenly decide, well, might as well try and fire the old puppy up today. Today is going to be the day. Because alas, much like a car engine left to the elements, Ghislaine Maxwell's conscience was overtaken by rust and rats a long time ago.

Of course, if there was anything more predictable than Maxwell pleading the Fifth, it was what she did next. When, according to her lawyer statement, she tried to get a little something for herself.

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CBS Morning News Host: On his advice, Ghislaine Maxwell respectfully invokes her Fifth Amendment right to silence and declined to answer any questions today and then says later, "if this committee and the American people truly want to hear the unfiltered truth about what happened, there is a straightforward path. Miss Maxwell is prepared to speak fully and honestly if granted clemency by President Trump.”

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BTC: Yes Ghislaine, slay queen, ask for what you want and be prepared to get it. She's taken a page right out of the Lean In playbook.

And hey, when it comes to Donald Trump, what's the harm in asking? This president has already shown us that he does not give a fuck who he pardons. Half the time he claims he doesn't even know who they are.

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Reporter: The latest pardon was for a cryptocurrency tycoon who is known as CZ. The company CZ founded, Binance, helped boost the profile of the Trump family's crypto firm, World Liberty Financial. He plead guilty in 2023 to violating anti-money laundering laws. The government at the time said that CZ had caused significant harm to US national security, essentially by allowing terrorist groups like Hamas to move millions of dollars around. Why did you pardon him?

Trump: Okay, are you ready? I don't know who he is.

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BTC: Really, Donald? You really don't know who he is? Because we're talking about one of the biggest crypto moguls in the world. We're not talking about Eric.

Of course, historically, Trump has made it clear how he feels about refusing to answer questions.

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Trump: If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?

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BTC: And yet, when it comes to Ghislaine Maxwell, Trump has been uncharacteristically silent. In fact, I've only heard him voice one opinion about her.

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Trump: I just wish her well, frankly.

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BTC: Ah, yes. I wish her well for who am I to judge really? Hate the sin, love the sinner. That's what I always say. Unless the sin is asking me to speak to my role in the Epstein files, then I say

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Trump: Quiet, quiet piggy!

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BTC: Still, despite the fact that Trump seems bizarrely unjudgmental of Maxwell's situation, there is one problem with her pardon plan. The information that she's dangling over Congress is stuff that as of today, its members already have complete access to.

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CBS News 24/7 Host: And starting today, Congress members are now able to view unredacted versions of the evidence in Epstein's case. So far, the Justice Department has released more than three million documents. CBS News congressional reporter Taurean Small is live on Capitol Hill for us once again today. Uh Taurean, can you break down what's happening and how this release is working?

Taurean Smalls: Yeah, Mugo. So, we know from the Department of Justice that at least two lawmakers is headed over this afternoon to take a look at those unredacted files. This is something that uh Trump administration officials said is uh available at their behest because there's been bipartisan concern over whether or not the Trump administration has been slow walking the release of this information after Congress uh passed a law and the president eventually signed it into law compelling them to do just that.

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BTC: Okay, so as of today, if she wanted to, Nancy Mace could just throw on a Snuggie, make some chamomile tea, and curl up with the complete unredacted Epstein files. What a cozy way to pass a chilly afternoon in our nation's capital. I hate to be cynical, but I can't help but think this might be a little more complicated than it sounds.

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Taurean Smalls: So, we know that Representative Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie, the Republican from Kentucky, will be the first two to lead this charge and headed to the Department of Justice this afternoon to take a look at that.

Massie has been doing something interesting. He uh reached out to his followers on Twitter asking them specifically where he should look at these files. Uh it is massive as you pointed out. Several million files have been released so far. So he's asking what may be intriguing to them that he could then report back on. The problem though is because this is legally sealed, it's unclear exactly how much he can share.

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BTC: Okay, so there's so much to sort through. Members of Congress are literally crowdsourcing their constituents to help them figure out where to look. And even if they do find something incriminating, it's unclear whether they can legally share it. It's like the Department of Justice is forcing Congress to look for a needle in a hay stack while also designating needles as class 3 firearms.

When you consider the futility and time wasted by asking Ghislaine Maxwell for information when you know she's going to plead the Fifth, or by calling the Clintons before Congress when it promises to be nothing but a spectacle, or by asking Congress to do what it wants with 3 million documents without any help curating it. It really seems like the Trump administration and its justice department are unserious about this Epstein investigation. It is a bad fucking look and it's making some of Trump's biggest cheerleaders question his motives.

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Tim Dylan: Everyone in the world now knows that there was 100% a human trafficking operation where Jeffrey Epstein was procuring girls for wealthy and powerful people. Everybody knows that friend of the show Kash Patel. Let's see what what he got out of it (viewing tape of Congressional hearing).

Sen. John Kennedy: Who, if anyone did Epstein traffic these young women to besides himself?

Kash Patel: Himself. There is no credible information, none. If there were, I would bring the case yesterday that he trafficked to other individuals and the information we have again is limited.

Kennedy: So the answer is no one.

Patel: For the information that we have in the case.

Tim Dylan: So Kash Patel's a liar. He's a big fat liar. He's a liar and he should resign and step down because he's lying. Why is he lying? Why would he tell such a fib? That is a lie. It is a lie. And he's bad at it. He's terrible at it. And we knew it was a lie when he said it. And now it's such a lie, it's actually funny.

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BTC: That's Tim Dylan, the guy who interviewed JD Vance a week before the 2024 election. No one spends time with JD Vance unless they're doing it for Trump except Don Jr., he's just really happy for the company.

But why wouldn't Tim Dylan call out Kash Patel, who claims nothing in the Epstein files incriminates anyone but the man himself when just across the pond, these emails are literally tearing apart the monarchy. The Trump administration seems to think that they can just render pedophilia and abstraction. That if they slow roll this investigation long enough, we'll just forget we're talking about it and defer to the guy whose team we're usually on. But it isn't working. And if you don't believe me, just look at the parade of MAGA darlings who aren't willing to forget that we are talking about kids being sex trafficked.

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RW Podcaster: It's so devastating for the Trump administration, man. Just on every like the mishandling of this is legendary. Like I mean it'll go down in history if we all survive as like one of the worst handled political scandals. I the fact that the fact is that there's just no getting around this is that all of the all of the people at the top of the administration in relation to this. Meaning the Justice Department and the White House just fucking lied through their goddamn teeth, dude.

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Brett Cooper: Pam Blondi and Kash Patel saying there was nothing there which is all so ironic because remember last year Pam was like, "The files are on my desk. I have the list. I'm making binders. We're going to release all of it." And then randomly, like two weeks later, she was like, "Oh, there's a list? There's nothing to prosecute. There's no file. We can't tell you anything. Sorry, we can't drop anything else. No files. The list does not exist." Like Kash Patel even testified about that. He sat in front of all of our representatives on camera and said, "There is nothing there. We have no evidence that we need to prosecute anyone else. It was just Epstein trafficking children to himself. There is nothing there.”

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RW Podcaster 1: They are legitimately proactively protecting pedophiles.

Ro Khanna: They are protecting pedophiles at this point.

RW Podcaster 1: By redacting the abusers names by the White House. Listen up everybody. The fucking White House is protecting pedophiles.

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RW Podcaster 2: Bro, the Epstein thing is just

Joe Rogan: Nothing but a hoax.

RW Podcaster 2: It's just It's just I I don't even understand. I don't get it. I don't get it. It's It is the easiest political victory.

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Laura Ingraham: How many of you are satisfied? You can you can clap. Satisfied with the results of the Epstein investigation. Clap. (Booing from audience).

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BTC: Here's what Donald Trump, Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, James Comer, and anyone else still trying to protect the president doesn't seem to understand. When you have Joe Rogan and Laura Ingraham agreeing with Ro Khanna and Adam Schiff, you've already lost. This administration can stall the release of the Epstein files all at once, but standing in the way of the truth is kind of like pleading the Fifth. And we know what Trump thinks about that.

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Trump: If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?

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BTC: Exactly.