Breaking: Top Epstein reporter makes bombshell discovery - Brian Tyler Cohen [View all]

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BTC: There is some massive breaking news that involves Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and the top reporter covering this pedophile ring.

Julie K. Brown is the Miami Herald reporter whose investigation led to the arrests of Epstein and Maxwell. She just posted {social media post displayed}, "Does somebody at the DOJ want to tell me why my American Airlines booking information and flights in July 2019 are part of the Epstein files (attached to a grand jury subpoena)? As the flight itinerary includes my maiden name (and I did book this flight) why was the DOJ monitoring me? And she included a document from the files that outlines her travel from July 2019.

Now, a few things to point out here about that particular moment in time. The president in July 2019 was Donald Trump, meaning Trump's DOJ was tracking this reporter who was investigating Jeffrey Epstein. Also at that time, Trump's labor secretary was a guy named Alexander Acosta, the former US attorney who gave Epstein a sweetheart non-prosecution deal, who was in his position until the same month, July 2019, at which point he resigned. Just weeks later, on August 10th, 2019, Epstein was found dead in his prison cell. Now, that might all be a coincidence, and it might not.

The news raises a lot of questions, chief among them, why was the Trump administration, Trump's own DOJ, tracking and investigating the reporter who was investigating Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell? Why were they tracking her travel? Were they following Julie Brown before Epstein's arrest on July 8th or after Epstein's arrest? And finally, what did Trump's DOJ know that it felt the need to launch this investigation?

I want to be clear, it is not normal for the DOJ to start tracking reporters and certainly not their personal air travel. So ask yourself why the DOJ might have been especially interested in this particular reporter? Remember, as I mentioned before, Trump appointed the US attorney who gave Epstein his sweetheart deal as a Cabinet member, which frankly wouldn't be the first time that Trump has done a favor for someone in Epstein's orbit. This is how he's spoken about Ghislaine Maxwell, for example, who's Epstein's accomplice and a fellow rapist when asked about her publicly.

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WH Reporter: Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison and a lot of people want to know if she's going to turn in powerful people and I know you've talked in the past about Prince Andrew and uh you criticized Bill Clinton's behavior. I'm wondering uh do you feel that she's going to turn in powerful men? How do you see that working out?

Trump: I don't know. I haven't really been following it too much. I just wish her well, frankly. Uh, I've met her numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach and I guess they lived in Palm Beach. Uh, but I wish her well, whatever it is. Uh, I don't know the situation with Prince Andrew. Just don't know. Not aware of it.

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Axios Reporter: President, the other day a reporter asked you about Ghislaine Maxwell. You said, "I just wish her well, frankly. I've met her numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach, but I wish her well, whatever it is." Mr. President, Ghislaine Maxwell has been arrested on allegations of child sex trafficking. Why would you wish such a person well?

Trump: I don't know that..

Axios Reporter: But I do know that she has, she's been arrested for that.

Trump: Her friend or boyfriend (Reporter: Epstein) was either killed or committed suicide in jail. She's now in jail. Yeah. I wish her well. I'd wish you well. I'd wish a lot of people well. Good luck. Let them prove somebody was guilty. I mean, you do you know that she…

Axios Reporter: Oh, so you're saying you hope she doesn't die in jail. Is that what you mean by wish her well?

Trump: Her boyfriend died in jail. And people are still trying to figure out how did it happen? Was it suicide? Was he killed? And I do wish her well. I'm not looking for anything bad for her. I'm not looking bad for anybody. And they took that and I mean…

Axios Reporter: She's a child sex alleged child sex trafficker.

Trump: But all it is is her boyfriend died. He died in jail. Was he killed? Was it suicide? I do. I wish her well.

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BTC: Of course he wishes her well. He wishes everyone well. Why wouldn't he wish her well? In fact, Trump's consistently been notably shy when it comes to offering any of the Epstein files publicly.

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Fox News Reporter: Would you declassify the 9/11 um files?

Trump: Yeah.

Fox News Reporter: Would you declassify JFK files?

Trump: Yeah. Would you? I did. I did a lot of it.

Fox News Reporter: Would you declassify the Epstein files?

Trump: Yeah. Yeah, I would. All right. I guess I would. I think that less so because, you know, you don't know it. You don't want to affect people's lives if it's phony stuff in there because there's a lot of phony stuff with that whole world. Uh, but I think I would or at least…

Fox News Reporter: Do you think that would restore trust?

Trump: Help restore trust? Yeah. I I don't know about Epstein so much as I do the others.

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BTC: So, look, the reality is that I am the furthest thing from a conspiracy theorist, but there are a lot of pieces to this that seem to tell a pretty clear story.

Trump was obviously close with Epstein for years. Epstein himself called Trump his closest friend for a decade. Epstein trafficked Virginia Giuffre from Trump's Mar-a-Lago spa. Trump then wins the presidency, appoints the guy who let Epstein off with a slap on the wrist to a Cabinet position. Then, in a 2018 message, Epstein said about Trump, "I am the one able to take him down." In July 2019, Trump's DOJ is tracking Julie K. Brown, the reporter who is investigating Epstein. Around the same time, Epstein then gets arrested while Trump is president, incarcerated by the Bureau of Prisons while Trump is president, and then is found dead with no video footage while Trump is president. Then in 2024, Trump wins the presidency again and suddenly decides a thousand FBI agents need to be dedicated to redacting his name out of the Epstein files. He's all over this thing in documents and photos.

Then Dan Bongino, who staked his entire brand on exposing the men involved with the Epstein ring, announces his retirement from the FBI. Pam Bondi reneges on her promise to release the files on her desk. The DOJ breaks the law that required the release of all the files by December 19th. And finally, Trump blurts out over Christmas that the DOJ should just stop releasing any files that pertain to Republicans. I'm sorry, but what the fuck are we doing here? Even if this was an afterschool special on TV, the writers would be accused of being too heavy-handed. What's next? Trump puts on a shirt that reads, "Not involved with Jeffrey Epstein."

The bad news for the Trump team is that Julie's confusion about being tracked is reaching the right people. The House Oversight Committee Democrats tweeted, "The Department of Justice needs to explain why travel, information, and booking itineraries for journalists are in the Epstein files."

In fact, here's Robert Garcia, the ranking member of that committee, explaining what it would mean if Democrats retake the majority after midterms as it relates to actually getting some answers from the people at Trump's DOJ.

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Robert Garcia: You know, we don't have the majority, right? So, we don't have the power of subpoena unless we somehow force the Republicans to join us, and we've done that a few times. Uh, but we can't get Todd Blanche in front of us. We can't force Pam Bondi in front of us unless we get the Republican majority to actually move with us. And so James Comer, if he really wants transparency, we should be demanding answers from Todd Blanche, the head of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Ghislaine Maxwell should be in. We should be asking questions of Pam Bondi, the former FBI directors. We wanted to have some of the former FBI directors come in and they James Comer dismissed it. I mean, he just, you know, he doesn't think it's important. And so that that work's got to continue and when we win that majority, the Oversight Committee on day one is going to get answers and get very aggressive on bringing these folks in.

BTC: And that's exactly the point that I wanted to discuss. What can you commit to in the event that Democrats are able to win the majority and you become chairman of the House Oversight Committee?

Robert Garcia: Well, I can tell you on the Epstein investigation, what all of the folks that we need to talk to, former members at the FBI, rank and file folks that are that are critical, certainly most importantly, Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, folks have been involved in putting the files together, the banks, all of the folks involved on on day one, we'll put out a substantial list and subpoena the appropriate people and institutions so that we get all the answers and that we can bring justice for the survivors and that'll happen day one.

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BTC: Ro Khanna, the co-sponsor of the Epstein Transparency Act, also tweeted, "Julie K. Brown has been tirelessly seeking the truth to expose the Epstein class. DOJ must answer for this."

But to Robert Garcia's point, that only happens if Democrats retake the majority because clearly while Trump is leading this cover up, his lackey like Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, Mike Johnson, Todd Blanche, and James Comer are helping him every step of the way. Forget that these people quite literally ran on exposing the deep state elites who could commit heinous crimes with impunity. These people are literally entrenching that very system. They are exactly the ones they warned you about. So keep the pressure on because that pressure works. But just know that so long as Republicans, other than basically Thomas Massie, are still in power, they will fight you every step of the way.

What we've gotten thus far is in spite of this GOP, not because of it. Something to think about as we head into 2026 with midterms on the horizon and the American people get to make a choice. Give more power to the people who are protecting the pedophiles or give power to the people who are exposing them. Take all the time you need with that one.