Full Transcript for Mega Edition: It's Time To Talk About What Steve Bannon Knew And When He Knew It

00:04:24.649 who are gung-ho about this Epstein case and who have 70 00:04:24.689 --> 00:04:27.949 totally bought in on the fact that the FBI and 71 00:04:27.970 --> 00:04:30.589 the CIA were providing him cover, out of the other 72 00:04:30.629 --> 00:04:32.959 side of their mouth, they talk about how the FBI 73 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:36.519 is going to get this one or that one. I 74 00:04:36.560 --> 00:04:39.699 don't know how people come to terms with that. And 75 00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:43.050 what it does, it really exposes a lot of people 76 00:04:43.079 --> 00:04:46.870 and their biases. You know, During the last administration, you 77 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:49.699 had a lot of people running around, pointing fingers, talking 78 00:04:49.740 --> 00:04:54.279 about this one's biased, that one's biased. But now we're 79 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:59.930 really seeing who is biased. And it's pretty obvious. So 80 00:04:59.990 --> 00:05:03.209 all those people who are running around talking about, oh, 81 00:05:03.269 --> 00:05:06.550 everything's falling apart, everything's in danger, and now they're quiet 82 00:05:06.589 --> 00:05:09.899 about it. Well, guess what? Things are still falling apart. 83 00:05:10.949 --> 00:05:14.779 And we're very close to really slipping into a place 84 00:05:14.839 --> 00:05:23.959 we don't want to go. According to Wolf, who reportedly 85 00:05:24.019 --> 00:05:26.910 tried to buy New York Magazine with Epstein and disgraced 86 00:05:26.949 --> 00:05:32.089 Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, Barack asked Epstein the million-dollar question 87 00:05:32.569 --> 00:05:35.329 of who was in charge at the White House. What 88 00:05:35.449 --> 00:05:38.550 I know, what I want to know from you all 89 00:05:38.610 --> 00:05:42.800 knowing people is, who is in charge? Who is, Barack said, 90 00:05:42.899 --> 00:05:47.459 putting on an American accent over his often impenetrable Israeli one, 91 00:05:47.839 --> 00:05:51.519 calling the shots. This was a resumption of the reliable 92 00:05:51.579 --> 00:05:56.449 conversation around Epstein. The vagaries of Donald Trump, once among 93 00:05:56.550 --> 00:06:00.829 Epstein's closest friends. Here is the question every government is asking. 94 00:06:01.569 --> 00:06:05.269 Trump wins. is obviously not in charge because he is. Huh? 95 00:06:07.180 --> 00:06:11.310 What does that even mean? So, I guess Trump's not 96 00:06:11.350 --> 00:06:15.990 in charge because Barr is in charge, according to Wolf. 97 00:06:16.449 --> 00:06:18.589 I don't buy that, okay? I don't believe that Bill 98 00:06:18.629 --> 00:06:21.670 Barr was in charge. Now, do I believe that Bill 99 00:06:21.730 --> 00:06:25.670 Barr exerted a lot of influence over Trump as far 100 00:06:25.889 --> 00:06:33.500 as legal stuff goes? Absolutely, 100%. But this... comment here 101 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:36.939 that Barr was in control? I don't know if I 102 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:42.689 buy that. Wolf claims that Epstein interrupted the former Politico 103 00:06:43.069 --> 00:06:47.250 and called Trump, his former Playboy party pal, a moron, 104 00:06:47.529 --> 00:06:51.009 then confided, at the moment, Bill Barr is in charge. 105 00:06:51.529 --> 00:06:55.889 The pedophile financier continued, it's Donald's pattern. He lets someone 106 00:06:55.930 --> 00:06:58.939 else be in charge until other people realize that someone 107 00:06:59.250 --> 00:07:01.980 other than him is in charge. when that happens, you're 108 00:07:02.019 --> 00:07:05.839 no longer in charge. Barack allegedly pressed, but let me 109 00:07:05.980 --> 00:07:08.019 ask you, why do you think Bill Barr took this 110 00:07:08.060 --> 00:07:13.129 job knowing all this? The motivation is simple. Money, Epstein replied. 111 00:07:13.569 --> 00:07:15.769 Barr believes he'll get a big payday out of this. 112 00:07:16.110 --> 00:07:18.730 If he keeps Donald in office, manages to hold the 113 00:07:18.790 --> 00:07:22.529 Justice Department together, and help the Republican Party survive Donald, 114 00:07:22.930 --> 00:07:25.389 he thinks this is worth big money to him. I 115 00:07:25.430 --> 00:07:29.379 speak from direct knowledge, extremely direct, trust me. Now remember, 116 00:07:29.439 --> 00:07:32.339 this is Epstein saying this. And we know that Epstein 117 00:07:32.420 --> 00:07:35.779 is not really a reliable narrator, right? So that's why 118 00:07:35.860 --> 00:07:38.259 I prefaced all of this with, take it with a 119 00:07:38.279 --> 00:07:42.120 grain of salt. Michael Wolff has been known to make 120 00:07:42.189 --> 00:07:46.970 some pretty silly comments in the past. So I don't 121 00:07:47.009 --> 00:07:51.689 take everything he writes as 100% truth. Everything is taken 122 00:07:52.569 --> 00:08:00.839 with a discerning eye. The book also claims that Epstein 123 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:05.199 and Barack, along with Epstein's lawyer Reed Weingarten, called Steve Bannon, 124 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:09.009 a new friend who had been introduced in December 2017, oh, 125 00:08:09.569 --> 00:08:12.490 after Trump was elected, huh? Hmm, interesting. And talked over 126 00:08:12.550 --> 00:08:16.610 a PR strategy with him to rehabilitate Epstein's image after 127 00:08:16.649 --> 00:08:21.000 the damaging expose by the Miami Herald dredged up allegations 128 00:08:21.040 --> 00:08:24.899 that Epstein had molested and raped dozens of underage girls 129 00:08:25.279 --> 00:08:28.459 at his properties in Palm Beach, New York, and his 130 00:08:28.540 --> 00:08:31.899 private island in the Caribbean. Bannon told the New York 131 00:08:31.939 --> 00:08:34.919 Times that he disputed Wolfe's account of the conversation and 132 00:08:34.940 --> 00:08:38.419 that he never media trained anyone. Okay, well, but Bannon 133 00:08:38.440 --> 00:08:41.600 disputes it. So again, you have two notorious liars here, 134 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:45.820 Bannon and Wolfe, and it's up to you, the fantastic

listeners, 135 00:08:46.220 --> 00:08:48.580 to figure it out. You know me, I don't tell 136 00:08:48.620 --> 00:08:50.750 you folks what to think. I don't tell you folks 137 00:08:50.779 --> 00:08:53.029 what to do or how you should go about your lives. 138 00:08:53.669 --> 00:08:56.690 I'm here to narrate this story. I'm here to chronicle it. 139 00:08:57.230 --> 00:08:58.950 And if I have a few opinions that I want 140 00:08:58.970 --> 00:09:01.710 to slip in there about my personal views, that's what 141 00:09:01.750 --> 00:09:04.389 I'll do. But as far as telling anyone how they 142 00:09:04.429 --> 00:09:07.389 should think or what they should believe, certainly not going 143 00:09:07.409 --> 00:09:12.009 to happen on this podcast. Wolf claims that Bannon laughed 144 00:09:12.049 --> 00:09:14.289 at Epstein. You were the only person I was afraid 145 00:09:14.309 --> 00:09:17.929 of during the campaign. And that Epstein replied, as well 146 00:09:17.990 --> 00:09:21.250 you should have been. The pair had deeply bonded, the 147 00:09:21.269 --> 00:09:26.740 book says, partly out of the shared incredulousness incredulousness about 148 00:09:26.779 --> 00:09:32.240 Donald Trump, Bannon was often astonished by what Epstein knew. Now, again, 149 00:09:32.259 --> 00:09:35.409 it could be very possible. We know for a fact, 150 00:09:35.490 --> 00:09:39.690 and it's not disputable, that Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein 151 00:09:39.750 --> 00:09:43.830 palled around for a very long time in the 90s 152 00:09:43.889 --> 00:09:47.590 and the early 2000s. We know that. And anybody who 153 00:09:47.610 --> 00:09:59.559 tries to say differently is engaging in some gaslighting. Wolfpaint's 154 00:09:59.610 --> 00:10:00.500 bad enough. some gaslighting. Wolf paints Bannon as a man 155 00:10:00.529 --> 00:10:03.200 who was eager to advise Epstein on rehabbing his image, 156 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:09.080 despite the many serious accusations against him that he had 157 00:10:10.399 --> 00:10:14.480 serially prayed on the very young and vulnerable girls. So 158 00:10:14.559 --> 00:10:16.960 where is the comms piece in this? The book quotes 159 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:20.059 Bannon as asking, who is handling it? Who's on point? 160 00:10:20.600 --> 00:10:25.139 Are these your people, Reed? The book says Bannon pressed Weingarten, Epstein, 161 00:10:25.179 --> 00:10:28.990 and Barack about why there was no communications team and 162 00:10:29.129 --> 00:10:31.629 asked what was the response from Jeffrey's side to the 163 00:10:31.669 --> 00:10:36.210 Florida story. Who engaged? He probably can't be hated anymore. 164 00:10:36.470 --> 00:10:39.669 We flatlined on this. He can't get debtor. While the 165 00:10:39.710 --> 00:10:43.289 chances of reviving him are remote, what's the alternative? So 166 00:10:43.309 --> 00:10:45.669 it just shows you the sick character of Steve Bannon 167 00:10:45.730 --> 00:10:50.309 as well. He's a sick, disgusting... decrepit old bastard, in 168 00:10:50.350 --> 00:10:56.889 my opinion, and he is a harmful human being. Now, 169 00:10:57.269 --> 00:10:58.549 I'm not going to sit here and say, oh, he 170 00:10:58.590 --> 00:11:01.740 should be silenced. I don't believe in that. As somebody 171 00:11:01.750 --> 00:11:04.919 who has been censored themselves, I don't believe in silencing 172 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:08.120 people like him. What I believe in is challenging his 173 00:11:08.220 --> 00:11:13.559 ideas head-on and shattering them with the actual truth. And 174 00:11:13.639 --> 00:11:16.039 that's the way it's supposed to go. You're not supposed 175 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:20.850 to censor people you don't agree with, or people who 176 00:11:20.889 --> 00:11:24.090 might have a different opinion than you, you destroy that 177 00:11:24.149 --> 00:11:26.940 opinion in the public square. And if you can't do it, 178 00:11:27.090 --> 00:11:30.649 get out of the way and let somebody who can do. 179 00:11:35.690 --> 00:11:38.970 Wolf says Weingarten then suggested trying to arrange an appearance 180 00:11:39.049 --> 00:11:41.960 on 60 Minutes or Gayle King, to which Bannon dryly 181 00:11:42.019 --> 00:11:45.179 pointed out how well that had worked for singer R. Kelly. 182 00:11:46.039 --> 00:11:49.259 King's interview with Kelly was widely regarded as a disaster. 183 00:11:49.779 --> 00:11:53.720 Kelly later was convicted of sexual exploitation of children. Well, 184 00:11:53.779 --> 00:11:55.639 what do you know? Every one of these guys that 185 00:11:55.710 --> 00:11:59.289 goes and gives an interview gets absolutely crushed. And you 186 00:11:59.330 --> 00:12:02.669 know why? Well, because they're lying, okay? Point blank, period. 187 00:12:03.269 --> 00:12:05.549 If you're not telling the truth, well, not too hard 188 00:12:05.590 --> 00:12:13.230 to get crushed. Weingarten fumbled about, suggesting maybe an advocate 189 00:12:13.269 --> 00:12:15.509 or a surrogate could go on 60 minutes to plead 190 00:12:15.570 --> 00:12:20.710 Epstein's case. Dude, come on, Bannon allegedly replied in exasperation. Well, 191 00:12:20.789 --> 00:12:25.200 Rachel Maddow then, Weingarten replied. You're the Jeffrey surrogate sitting 192 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:28.639 with Rachel Maddow. And she's going to say, how many 193 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:32.399 girls were there? Were there 10? Were there 100? 1,000? 194 00:12:32.399 --> 00:12:36.289 Bannon continued according to the book. Now, you're on national television. 195 00:12:36.549 --> 00:12:39.570 What do you say? I'm confident it's less than a thousand. 196 00:12:39.830 --> 00:12:43.529 Was it? He asked Epstein. Yes, less, the multimillionaire said. 197 00:12:44.309 --> 00:12:50.129 The book then recounts a horrifying exchange between Bannon and Epstein. Actually, 198 00:12:50.429 --> 00:12:53.509 here is the first question, said Bannon. What's the age 199 00:12:53.549 --> 00:12:56.379 of the youngest girl? That would be good, said

Epstein, 200 00:12:56.620 --> 00:12:59.039 because the answer to that question is that there was 201 00:12:59.240 --> 00:13:02.059 one girl who was fourteen years old, and she told 202 00:13:02.100 --> 00:13:05.320 police she lied about her age. She told everyone she 203 00:13:05.340 --> 00:13:07.820 was eighteen. because she was afraid she would never be 204 00:13:07.860 --> 00:13:10.830 allowed into the house and never be invited back. That's 205 00:13:10.870 --> 00:13:13.549 the only one. That's the only one who was under 206 00:13:13.570 --> 00:13:17.870 the age of 18? No, the youngest one. I mean, really? 207 00:13:17.909 --> 00:13:19.929 And we know it's not 14. We know it's younger 208 00:13:19.950 --> 00:13:23.139 than that, even. The fact that Bannon was sitting here 209 00:13:23.179 --> 00:13:27.419 with him shouldn't shock anybody, but it is extra cringeworthy. 210 00:13:27.980 --> 00:13:34.820 Extra cringeworthy, considering what a scumbag Bannon is himself. Wolf's 211 00:13:34.860 --> 00:13:37.720 book portrays Epstein and his circle of confidants as men 212 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:41.259 who saw the outside world as a place increasingly hostile, 213 00:13:41.580 --> 00:13:44.539 not just to Epstein, the easy fall guy, but to 214 00:13:44.659 --> 00:13:48.889 themselves as well. Weingarten allegedly moaned that we are on 215 00:13:48.909 --> 00:13:52.090 the absolute other side of every cultural issue that has 216 00:13:52.149 --> 00:13:56.169 currency right now. Yeah, no shit. The tables have turned, MF-er. 217 00:13:57.190 --> 00:14:00.350 And your days of running the narrative with your powerful 218 00:14:00.409 --> 00:14:05.990 law firms are long over. So enjoy it. Enjoy the 219 00:14:06.110 --> 00:14:10.240 wave that you have all created. And when the tsunami 220 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:15.500 comes pouring over you, don't come crying to us. In 221 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:19.240 absolute juxtaposition to the view in the outside world, the 222 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:23.419 view among Epstein's wide circle of loyal, devoted, and largely 223 00:14:23.500 --> 00:14:27.909 unquestioning friends was that Epstein was guilty of only venal sins. 224 00:14:28.450 --> 00:14:31.090 That he had more than paid for them with his 225 00:14:31.190 --> 00:14:35.350 plea to prostitution in 2008. serving 13 months in a 226 00:14:35.389 --> 00:14:39.450 Palm Beach jail, and that ever since, and with increasing zeal, 227 00:14:39.809 --> 00:14:43.049 he was being pursued by plaintiffs and their lawyers, all 228 00:14:43.100 --> 00:14:47.139 with clear financial interests, and a media that, feeding off 229 00:14:47.340 --> 00:14:52.860 unchallenged and self-serving allegations, had found a handy personification of evil, 230 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:55.700 Wolfe writes. No, nobody had to find anything. It was 231 00:14:55.799 --> 00:14:59.970 right there, just to be exposed. And when it was exposed, 232 00:15:00.389 --> 00:15:04.320 everybody took note. And

everybody... for the most part, is 233 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:10.460 sickened by what happened. Barack, whom Wolf calls a frequent guest, 234 00:15:10.980 --> 00:15:14.580 an almost fixture at Epstein's mansion, where he suspected there 235 00:15:14.600 --> 00:15:18.730 were hidden cameras, allegedly complained, prostitution, it seems, is no 236 00:15:18.779 --> 00:15:23.669 longer called prostitution. It is something else, much worse. Underage 237 00:15:23.710 --> 00:15:27.750 prostitution is an oxymoron under American law. It is considered rape. 238 00:15:28.210 --> 00:15:32.570 So yeah, I heard Barack. You're a sick fucking bastard too, okay? 239 00:15:34.149 --> 00:15:38.129 You and your trips to the apartment building over on 240 00:15:38.230 --> 00:15:40.840 East 66, what, you think we forgot about that? Oh, 241 00:15:40.860 --> 00:15:45.620 you're on the radar, Barack. Believe it. Wolf says Barack 242 00:15:45.659 --> 00:15:48.960 was part of a revolving door of friends, acquaintances, experts, 243 00:15:49.100 --> 00:15:54.370 visiting international dignitaries and despots, petitioners for contributions and investments, 244 00:15:54.830 --> 00:15:58.690 lawyers and other holders of vast fortunes, a network of 245 00:15:58.789 --> 00:16:02.490 worldly influence and interest arguably as great as any in 246 00:16:02.549 --> 00:16:07.070 New York. who sat at Epstein's dining conference table, engaged 247 00:16:07.110 --> 00:16:12.320 in something that was part seminar, part gossip, part coffee klatch, 248 00:16:12.700 --> 00:16:17.379 and part elite conspiracy. Elsewhere, Wolf claims Barack joked that, 249 00:16:17.639 --> 00:16:21.090 we have nothing to worry about. The secrets are safe. Oh, 250 00:16:21.149 --> 00:16:24.889 I bet they are. I bet they are, Ehud Barack, 251 00:16:25.210 --> 00:16:27.250 and I wonder what part you played in making sure 252 00:16:27.289 --> 00:16:33.110 they stayed that way. Epstein, whom Wolfe characterizes as a germophobe, 253 00:16:33.370 --> 00:16:36.049 who would not even shake hands with close friends, touching 254 00:16:36.090 --> 00:16:40.350 their elbows instead, refused to take his predicament seriously, and 255 00:16:40.409 --> 00:16:45.370 responded flippantly when talk of his crimes came up. When 256 00:16:45.429 --> 00:16:48.809 Weingarten allegedly whined, every time I turn on the television 257 00:16:48.850 --> 00:16:51.110 and look for the Celtics score, I see that my 258 00:16:51.169 --> 00:16:56.580 boy is a monster. Everybody's favorite monster. The devil. Pedophile. 259 00:16:57.009 --> 00:17:01.620 Sex trafficker. keeping little girls in the basement. Trump friend. 260 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:06.769 Epstein then joked, that would be the worst. Wow. I mean, 261 00:17:07.630 --> 00:17:10.029 if this book is real and this stuff really happens, 262 00:17:10.089 --> 00:17:13.009 can you imagine what it must have been like to 263 00:17:13.049 --> 00:17:18.210 be a fly on the wall? Later, the pedophile asked, 264 00:17:18.289 --> 00:17:20.509 what kind of cover do we get from Bob Kraft, 265 00:17:20.829 --> 00:17:23.099 the New England Patriots owner who had been arrested for 266 00:17:23.130 --> 00:17:27.089 allegedly patronizing a Palm Beach massage shop? You know, the 267 00:17:27.109 --> 00:17:30.390 whole thing that got dropped, by the way. Bob gets dinner. 268 00:17:31.230 --> 00:17:33.930 Bob gets dinner out. I get taken, said Epstein with 269 00:17:33.990 --> 00:17:36.940 a flippancy that often exasperated the people trying to help 270 00:17:36.960 --> 00:17:39.819 defend him. So what he means by that is, you know, 271 00:17:40.599 --> 00:17:43.589 Bob Kraft would go to these places to get his jollies, 272 00:17:44.089 --> 00:17:47.940 to go do whatever it is he was doing. But Epstein, 273 00:17:48.420 --> 00:17:50.089 I don't bother with that. I have these girls come 274 00:17:50.130 --> 00:17:52.710 to me. That's what he's saying there. And it's so gross. 275 00:17:52.970 --> 00:17:55.910 When you think about it with everything we know, so 276 00:17:56.190 --> 00:18:02.430 absolutely disgusting. Epstein's powerful circle saw him an astute student 277 00:18:02.470 --> 00:18:06.359 of power and a collector of powerful friends as somehow 278 00:18:06.680 --> 00:18:11.220 particularly unsuited to this power game. Wolf writes, too much 279 00:18:11.299 --> 00:18:14.519 the free spirit, too much the helpless bad boy, too 280 00:18:14.559 --> 00:18:19.960 heedless to properly protect himself. Epstein characterized his troubles as 281 00:18:19.980 --> 00:18:23.279 a chronic illness. It can't be cured, but it won't 282 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:27.859 kill me. Months later, he was dead in a jail cell. So, 283 00:18:28.140 --> 00:18:30.359 there you have it, folks. The book from Michael Wolff, 284 00:18:31.039 --> 00:18:34.240 the talk about Donald Trump and Bill Barr actually being 285 00:18:34.259 --> 00:18:38.339 the one at the controls, and all of the other 286 00:18:38.980 --> 00:18:44.210 juicy little tidbits that Mr. Wolff has for you. Personally, 287 00:18:45.450 --> 00:18:47.920 I know the whole entire thing was a shitshow, And 288 00:18:47.960 --> 00:18:49.980 I know that none of these presidents are really running 289 00:18:50.019 --> 00:18:54.559 the show anyway. So that much smacks true to me. 290 00:18:55.500 --> 00:18:58.119 But I will leave it up to you, the listeners, 291 00:18:58.380 --> 00:19:03.000 to come up with your own decision and blow wherever 292 00:19:03.059 --> 00:19:06.750 you think the wind is going. If you'd like to 293 00:19:06.789 --> 00:19:10.849 contact me, you can do that at bobbycapucci at protonmail.com. 294 00:19:11.190 --> 00:19:18.480 That's B-O-B-B-Y-C-A-P-U-C-C-I at protonmail.com. You can also find me on 295 00:19:18.519 --> 00:19:24.990 Twitter at B-O-B-B-Y underscore C-A-P-U-C-C-I. All of the links that 296 00:19:25.029 --> 00:19:28.309 go with this episode can be found in the description

box. 297 00:19:28.950 --> 00:19:31.650 All right, folks, I'll be back tomorrow, and we'll pick 298 00:19:31.789 --> 00:19:36.269 up where we left off. Have a great Saturday, everyone. 299 00:19:38.569 --> 00:19:41.630 What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the 300 00:19:41.710 --> 00:19:44.890 Epstein Chronicles. As I continue to make my way through 301 00:19:44.910 --> 00:19:48.250 the Jeffrey Epstein emails that have been released One thing 302 00:19:48.509 --> 00:19:52.539 is very apparent. That Steve Bannon was a lot closer 303 00:19:52.599 --> 00:19:56.160 to Jeffrey Epstein than he ever let on. This man 304 00:19:56.220 --> 00:19:58.519 ran around with all of his nonsense for how long? 305 00:19:59.259 --> 00:20:03.700 Talking all kinds of BS about cabals, all this QAnon BS, 306 00:20:04.660 --> 00:20:08.410 while at the same time, sitting around and hanging out 307 00:20:08.430 --> 00:20:12.329 with Jeffrey Epstein? So let's just cut the bullshit and 308 00:20:12.349 --> 00:20:15.910 say the quiet part out loud. Steve Bannon wasn't orbiting 309 00:20:16.109 --> 00:20:20.190 Epstein like some objective observer or detached strategist. He was 310 00:20:20.230 --> 00:20:23.630 feeding off that connection like a lamprey sucking blood from 311 00:20:23.670 --> 00:20:28.630 a shark. The emails don't read like negotiations between two 312 00:20:28.690 --> 00:20:32.539 wary operators. They read like two men who already understood 313 00:20:32.579 --> 00:20:36.500 each other, who already shared a worldview, who already recognized 314 00:20:36.539 --> 00:20:39.920 the same hunger in each other's eyes. There's a casual 315 00:20:39.980 --> 00:20:42.680 smoothness to the language, the type that only shows up 316 00:20:43.019 --> 00:20:45.759 when two people have shaken hands in private and already 317 00:20:45.819 --> 00:20:49.960 agreed on real terms. The rhythm isn't cautious, it's confident. 318 00:20:50.359 --> 00:20:54.279 It's intimate in the worst possible way. Anyone who's ever 319 00:20:54.319 --> 00:20:57.380 been around real power brokers can see it instantly. This 320 00:20:57.440 --> 00:20:59.640 is the tone of the men who have already crossed 321 00:20:59.660 --> 00:21:03.000 the line. And nobody who's ever watched true power operate 322 00:21:03.200 --> 00:21:07.660 will mistake that cadence for anything other than collusion. you 323 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:10.200 can hear the relaxed arrogance in the subtext like a 324 00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:14.450 hum under the words. And that ease doesn't come from curiosity. 325 00:21:14.849 --> 00:21:18.329 It comes with being familiar. This is the voice of 326 00:21:18.390 --> 00:21:21.609 a man who knows he's speaking to an equal in corruption. 327 00:21:22.089 --> 00:21:24.890 And what makes this even more rancid is watching Bannon 328 00:21:24.910 --> 00:21:28.089 play the role of grizzled prophet screaming warnings about hidden 329 00:21:28.130 --> 00:21:32.049 predators and global sex trafficking rings. All the while, the 330 00:21:32.089 --> 00:21:35.450 motherfucker was exchanging cozy notes with the most prolific trafficker 331 00:21:35.750 --> 00:21:38.509 of the century, like they were sipping bourbon on the 332 00:21:38.549 --> 00:21:43.069 porch discussing football. And for me, it's the theatrics that 333 00:21:43.130 --> 00:21:47.150 makes it unbearable. Performing moral outrage as a costume while 334 00:21:47.170 --> 00:21:50.299 shoveling access and opportunity into his pockets behind the curtain. 335 00:21:51.039 --> 00:21:54.680 If hypocrisy had a stench, it would smell exactly like this. 336 00:21:55.559 --> 00:21:58.680 Like formaldehyde in cheap cologne covering a corpse that's been 337 00:21:58.720 --> 00:22:02.609 sitting too long. This was a man who was using 338 00:22:02.670 --> 00:22:06.559 a public crusade as camouflage for private advantage. A wolf 339 00:22:06.579 --> 00:22:09.799 wearing a wolf mask while screaming that wolves are coming. 340 00:22:10.460 --> 00:22:13.160 And the worst part is how many people swallowed that 341 00:22:13.200 --> 00:22:17.960 performance whole. Millions were emotionally manipulated into believing that he 342 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:21.259 was some kind of righteous warrior standing between them and 343 00:22:21.299 --> 00:22:24.839 the abyss. Meanwhile, the abyss was sitting at his table 344 00:22:25.240 --> 00:22:28.059 eating with them. And the timing is what rips the 345 00:22:28.099 --> 00:22:31.349 floor out from under the whole illusion. These weren't exchanges 346 00:22:31.390 --> 00:22:34.789 from decades prior when someone could play dumb and claim ignorance. 347 00:22:35.670 --> 00:22:38.470 These were happening while Bannon was physically rotting inside the 348 00:22:38.490 --> 00:22:41.700 White House like the forgotten ham in a refrigerator that 349 00:22:41.740 --> 00:22:45.420 no longer seals. He was right there, feet planted on 350 00:22:45.440 --> 00:22:48.839 the federal carpet with Epstein whispering in his inbox. We're 351 00:22:48.859 --> 00:22:51.640 not talking about a coincidence here, folks. We're talking about 352 00:22:51.720 --> 00:22:56.410 straight up contamination. This wasn't an infection creeping in from 353 00:22:56.450 --> 00:23:00.710 the outside. The infection was already seated at the fucking table. 354 00:23:01.440 --> 00:23:05.480 And that proximity should terrify anyone who still believes institutions 355 00:23:05.819 --> 00:23:09.079 aren't soaked in corruption. It means there were no safeguards, 356 00:23:09.420 --> 00:23:13.029 no moral boundaries, no internal alarm sounding while this was happening. 357 00:23:13.809 --> 00:23:17.210 It means the leadership structure was already compromised from the inside. 358 00:23:18.349 --> 00:23:20.809 And the shock isn't that it happened, it's that they 359 00:23:20.849 --> 00:23:24.210 thought no one would ever know. Look, people need to 360 00:23:24.230 --> 00:23:28.319

understand the psychological violence of that kind of betrayal. Bannon 361 00:23:28.359 --> 00:23:31.519 positioned himself as the lone warrior screaming into the void 362 00:23:31.859 --> 00:23:35.299 about the monster in the attic. Meanwhile, he was having 363 00:23:35.339 --> 00:23:40.299 late-night strategy conversations with the architect of the dungeon. You 364 00:23:40.319 --> 00:23:44.220 can't get more deranged than that. I mean, it's premeditated sociopathy. 365 00:23:45.039 --> 00:23:47.829 And watching people still defend him is like watching someone 366 00:23:47.869 --> 00:23:52.089 adopt a crocodile that just ate their family. That level 367 00:23:52.130 --> 00:23:55.430 of self-delusion is a medical condition. It's the kind of 368 00:23:55.470 --> 00:24:00.279 mental collapse that destroys entire societies when it scales. People 369 00:24:00.319 --> 00:24:03.490 don't recover from that kind of betrayal. They calcify around it. 370 00:24:04.000 --> 00:24:08.240 The damage clings, like smoke, in the lungs. And look, 371 00:24:08.289 --> 00:24:11.950 these emails, they don't just reveal logistics, they reveal alignment. 372 00:24:12.609 --> 00:24:15.950 People who have never seen how power operates don't understand this. 373 00:24:16.609 --> 00:24:20.890 Powerful men don't need paragraphs. They communicate in shorthand because 374 00:24:21.009 --> 00:24:24.930 everything essential has already been spoken elsewhere. The way they 375 00:24:24.970 --> 00:24:28.230 speak to each other is the evidence. Tone is evidence. 376 00:24:28.680 --> 00:24:33.069 Being familiar is evidence. And anyone pretending otherwise is lying 377 00:24:33.089 --> 00:24:36.210 to themselves because the truth is too ugly to swallow 378 00:24:36.490 --> 00:24:40.349 without breaking your teeth. The truth is written between the sentences, 379 00:24:40.410 --> 00:24:44.359 not inside them. It's encoded in comfort, not content. It's 380 00:24:44.430 --> 00:24:47.960 visible in what they never have to explain. That's how 381 00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:53.950 you identify predators in collaboration. And Steve Bannon's documentary excuse 382 00:24:54.410 --> 00:24:58.160 is the most pathetic shield ever constructed. Nobody writes emails 383 00:24:58.200 --> 00:25:01.200 like that to a subject they're planning to expose. That's 384 00:25:01.240 --> 00:25:03.700 not the voice of a hunter. That's the voice of 385 00:25:03.740 --> 00:25:07.569 an accomplice rehearsing shared goals. You don't joke with the 386 00:25:07.619 --> 00:25:10.650 man you're trying to destroy. You don't soften your tone 387 00:25:10.670 --> 00:25:13.970 with the man whose crimes you supposedly intend to blast 388 00:25:14.029 --> 00:25:18.289 across the world. That friendly cadence is the blueprint of complicity. 389 00:25:19.029 --> 00:25:22.039 It's the audio signature of corruption. And the fact that 390 00:25:22.200 --> 00:25:24.759 anyone tries to sell that excuse with a straight face 391 00:25:25.069 --> 00:25:29.710 is an insult to basic intelligence. Only the profoundly gullible 392 00:25:30.029 --> 00:25:33.690 or the willingly complicit would accept it. It wreaks a desperation, 393 00:25:34.069 --> 00:25:37.809 not defense. Anyone who has ever confronted real evil knows 394 00:25:37.829 --> 00:25:40.849 you don't speak to it like a casual pal. And 395 00:25:40.890 --> 00:25:43.509 my disgust comes from what this did to real people. 396 00:25:44.450 --> 00:25:48.319 While Bannon was building his mythology of heroism, thousands of 397 00:25:48.339 --> 00:25:51.240 broken families were still living with the scars Epstein carved 398 00:25:51.299 --> 00:25:54.940 into them. People who lost decades of their lives. People 399 00:25:54.980 --> 00:25:59.079 whose childhoods were amputated. People who wake up every morning 400 00:25:59.140 --> 00:26:03.019 suffocating under the weight of memories they never deserved. And 401 00:26:03.059 --> 00:26:06.079 here's Bannon treating the devil like a network in contact? 402 00:26:07.819 --> 00:26:10.319 You can't walk away from that unchanged. You walk away 403 00:26:10.400 --> 00:26:13.119 knowing the world is more diseased than you ever imagined. 404 00:26:13.539 --> 00:26:17.200 And you start to understand why people lose faith in everything. 405 00:26:17.640 --> 00:26:19.490 And it's because you start to see how deep the 406 00:26:19.529 --> 00:26:23.369 rot runs. And you understand why survivors don't trust a 407 00:26:23.410 --> 00:26:27.569 single promised reform. The carnival of excuses now emerging from 408 00:26:27.609 --> 00:26:31.910 Bannon's Defenders is a comedy routine written by the clinically insane. 409 00:26:32.369 --> 00:26:36.039 Suddenly these dudes are all worried about context. Suddenly everyone 410 00:26:36.079 --> 00:26:39.670 thinks they're a forensic linguist analyzing tone. These are the 411 00:26:39.710 --> 00:26:43.329 same people who spent years howling that everyone even vaguely 412 00:26:43.369 --> 00:26:47.950 within Epstein's gravitational pull deserves public execution. But now that 413 00:26:47.990 --> 00:26:52.059 the spotlight has turned inward, they've all gone blind. Incredible 414 00:26:52.099 --> 00:26:57.319 how fast righteous fury evaporates once it requires self-immolation. Silence 415 00:26:57.359 --> 00:27:02.269 becomes a strategy when accountability becomes personal. Hypocrisy becomes camouflage. 416 00:27:03.309 --> 00:27:08.630 And cowardice, well, that becomes your political identity. And let's 417 00:27:08.650 --> 00:27:11.109 not forget how much money was changing hands in the shadows. 418 00:27:11.490 --> 00:27:17.259 Nobody nurtures a relationship with Epstein without expecting payment, financial, informational, strategic, 419 00:27:17.519 --> 00:27:21.660 or social. Epstein wasn't handing out spiritual guidance. He was 420 00:27:21.700 --> 00:27:26.079 a broker, a dealer, a fucking cartel of access. Bannon 421 00:27:26.099 -->

00:27:29.269 wasn't standing at that window because he wanted to expose injustice. 422 00:27:29.730 --> 00:27:33.069 He was standing there because he wanted everything within arm's reach. 423 00:27:34.299 --> 00:27:36.880 You don't seek out that man unless greed is your religion, 424 00:27:37.269 --> 00:27:40.930 and nobody walks into Epstein's orbit without offering something in return. 425 00:27:41.509 --> 00:27:45.410 Access to power is never free. That's the currency being 426 00:27:45.470 --> 00:27:50.500 counted behind every line in those emails. And look, the 427 00:27:50.519 --> 00:27:54.059 fallout from this should be seismic. If there were consistency 428 00:27:54.099 --> 00:27:56.960 in moral outrage, Bannon's name would already be ash in 429 00:27:56.980 --> 00:27:59.960 the wind. There would be marches, there would be screaming, 430 00:28:00.140 --> 00:28:04.339 there would be torches, but instead silence. A silence so thick, 431 00:28:04.660 --> 00:28:09.880 it feels radioactive. Silence means protection for the powerful. And 432 00:28:09.960 --> 00:28:13.380 silence means they know exactly how devastating the truth is. 433 00:28:14.839 --> 00:28:17.079 And look, let's not call it a scandal, because that's 434 00:28:17.099 --> 00:28:21.279 selling it short. A scandal is when someone cheats on 435 00:28:21.299 --> 00:28:26.240 their spouse. This is structural corrosion. This is terminal rot 436 00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:29.900 in the bones of the American political bloodstream. Bannon wasn't 437 00:28:29.940 --> 00:28:33.049 some rogue idiot tweeting from his couch. He was inside 438 00:28:33.069 --> 00:28:36.410 the goddamn command center. And Epstein's shadow was sitting right 439 00:28:36.470 --> 00:28:40.450 next to him like a ghost puppeteering the future. Imagine 440 00:28:40.470 --> 00:28:43.509 the scale of damage that kind of access implies. Imagine 441 00:28:43.529 --> 00:28:47.009 the conversations that were never recorded. Imagine the doors that 442 00:28:47.150 --> 00:28:51.109 opened without signatures. That's the part that should freeze your blood. 443 00:28:52.710 --> 00:28:55.529 And this whole mythology of Bannon as a warrior collapses 444 00:28:55.890 --> 00:28:59.630 instantly once you recognize the truth. Warriors don't kneel. Warriors 445 00:28:59.670 --> 00:29:04.130 don't grovel. Warriors don't sweet-talk traffickers. If you still call 446 00:29:04.150 --> 00:29:06.890 them a fighter after seeing those emails, you're not loyal. 447 00:29:07.329 --> 00:29:12.809 You're clinically disconnected from reality. What you're doing is engaging 448 00:29:12.849 --> 00:29:16.289 in spiritual lobotomy. You have to amputate half your brain 449 00:29:16.569 --> 00:29:19.210 to maintain that kind of illusion. You have to kill 450 00:29:19.250 --> 00:29:21.869 the part of yourself that knows when something is very, 451 00:29:21.910 --> 00:29:26.009 very off. You have to abandon dignity to continue believing. 452 00:29:26.589 -->

00:29:29.240 And once you do that, well, you're owned. And I 453 00:29:29.259 --> 00:29:32.119 think it's important that we remember once again how many 454 00:29:32.160 --> 00:29:35.710 innocent people got swallowed by the machinery he built. People 455 00:29:35.750 --> 00:29:39.089 who genuinely thought they were fighting evil. People who believed 456 00:29:39.109 --> 00:29:42.809 the nightmare was real. People who risked their lives, their freedom, 457 00:29:43.049 --> 00:29:47.549 their sanity. Meanwhile, the architect of their crusade was treating 458 00:29:47.589 --> 00:29:52.130 the real world, Mephistopheles, like an old college roommate. The 459 00:29:52.170 --> 00:29:55.859 emotional violence in that betrayal is straight up horrifying. It's 460 00:29:55.890 --> 00:29:58.680 like finding out the priest you trusted was passing communion 461 00:29:58.720 --> 00:30:03.119 wine to the devil under the altar. That's the sort 462 00:30:03.140 --> 00:30:06.920 of thing that rearranges the architecture of your brain. It 463 00:30:06.980 --> 00:30:13.059 permanently rewires trust into suspicion. That's psychological shrapnel. And now, well, 464 00:30:13.299 --> 00:30:16.119 now he hides. Now he pretends the emails don't exist. 465 00:30:16.420 --> 00:30:19.220 Now he deflects like a cornered animal, gnawing off its 466 00:30:19.299 --> 00:30:22.240 own foot to escape the trap. Not a single word 467 00:30:22.259 --> 00:30:26.269 of accountability, not a single acknowledgement of what those messages reveal. 468 00:30:26.950 --> 00:30:29.410 If he had even one atom of courage, he would 469 00:30:29.450 --> 00:30:33.430 stand in front of cameras and explain himself. Instead, he 470 00:30:33.470 --> 00:30:37.410 vanishes behind rhetoric and narratives. And that should tell you everything. 471 00:30:38.450 --> 00:30:43.009 Cowards never confess, they smother. Guilty men don't debate, they disappear. 472 00:30:43.509 --> 00:30:47.160 Silence is the language of predators when they're cornered. And 473 00:30:47.200 --> 00:30:49.220 just like I said with Stacey Plaskett, this is a 474 00:30:49.259 --> 00:30:52.779 moment where real moral clarity should erupt like a volcanic blast. 475 00:30:54.019 --> 00:30:56.920 You can't claim to despise Epstein while defending the men 476 00:30:57.160 --> 00:31:00.930 who collaborated with him. You can't call yourself a protector 477 00:31:01.170 --> 00:31:04.930 while shielding the people who benefited from his network. That 478 00:31:04.970 --> 00:31:07.529 makes you part of the machinery of harm. That makes 479 00:31:07.589 --> 00:31:11.349 you guilt adjacent. That makes you the reason that evil 480 00:31:11.390 --> 00:31:16.700 thrives unchallenged. Selective outrage is the religion of cowards. and 481 00:31:16.759 --> 00:31:21.269 cowards built this crisis. And they've sacrificed truth at its feet. 482 00:31:22.930 --> 00:31:26.829 The survivors deserve a reckoning, not symbolic, not theatrical, but total. 483 00:31:27.430 --> 00:31:30.490 They deserve to see everyone who fed on Epstein's empire 484 00:31:30.829 --> 00:31:33.759 dragged under a microscope until there is nowhere left to hide. 485 00:31:34.400 --> 00:31:37.920 They deserve to see reputations collapse into dust. They deserve 486 00:31:37.940 --> 00:31:40.319 to see the facade ripped off the faces of the 487 00:31:40.359 --> 00:31:43.700 men who pretended to be saviors while dining with devils. 488 00:31:44.569 --> 00:31:49.470 Their pain demands consequence. Their wounds demand extraction. Their silence 489 00:31:49.509 --> 00:31:52.970 is not an option anymore. And that reckoning begins by 490 00:31:53.009 --> 00:31:58.130 naming every last collaborator without mercy. No sanitized language. No hesitation. 491 00:31:58.490 --> 00:32:03.509 No sacred cows. Burn every shield to the ground. And 492 00:32:03.549 --> 00:32:06.809 for anyone trying to spin this into partisan theater, choke 493 00:32:06.910 --> 00:32:11.309 on it. This isn't left vs. right. This is predator vs. humanity. 494 00:32:12.029 --> 00:32:15.539 This is corruption vs. truth. This is the eternal war 495 00:32:15.759 --> 00:32:19.160 between parasites and the people that they drain. If your 496 00:32:19.220 --> 00:32:22.769 loyalty to a political tribe outweighs your loyalty to survivors 497 00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:25.650 and the nation, then you belong in the same pit 498 00:32:25.930 --> 00:32:30.269 as every other enabler. No exceptions, no exemptions, no negotiation. 499 00:32:30.809 --> 00:32:33.170 And if you're offended by that, I don't give a fuck. 500 00:32:35.109 --> 00:32:37.490 I don't want reform. I don't want a speech. I 501 00:32:37.509 --> 00:32:41.049 don't want a carefully crafted apology delivered through a PR necromancer. 502 00:32:41.410 --> 00:32:46.359 I want destruction. I want reputational, annihilation. I want the 503 00:32:46.420 --> 00:32:49.779 truth to detonate the mythology and scatter the debris into 504 00:32:49.819 --> 00:32:53.039 the ocean. I want Bannon's legacy to be a cautionary 505 00:32:53.099 --> 00:32:56.079 tale taught in classrooms as an example of the most 506 00:32:56.220 --> 00:33:01.680 disgusting form of duplicity. Nothing less than obliteration qualifies as 507 00:33:01.740 --> 00:33:05.960 justice here. Let his whole empire collapse like a rotten cathedral, 508 00:33:06.460 --> 00:33:09.960 and let the ashes choke every last coward who worshipped them. 509 00:33:11.210 --> 00:33:15.180 Let the stench remain, for generations, as a warning. So yeah, 510 00:33:15.539 --> 00:33:18.960 drag his ass by his proverbial collar through every forum, 511 00:33:19.299 --> 00:33:23.589 every hearing, every court, every camera lens. Rip the costume 512 00:33:23.700 --> 00:33:26.309 off and let the world see the wheezing husk underneath. 513 00:33:27.049 --> 00:33:29.789 The man pretended to be a prophet while selling access 514 00:33:29.829 --> 00:33:32.869 to hell's administrator? Let

him rot under the scrutiny he 515 00:33:32.910 --> 00:33:37.140 deserved years ago. Because it's about time to let accountability 516 00:33:37.259 --> 00:33:42.650 finally sharpen its teeth. Look, Steve Bannon is not some 517 00:33:42.690 --> 00:33:46.089 misunderstood strategist. He's not a martyr. He's not a patriot. 518 00:33:46.390 --> 00:33:49.710 He is the living embodiment of betrayal wearing the skin 519 00:33:50.049 --> 00:33:53.269 of a revolutionary. He fed the public a myth and 520 00:33:53.309 --> 00:33:58.970 dined privately with the monster. His legacy deserves disintegration. His 521 00:33:59.049 --> 00:34:03.490 legend deserves burial under concrete. And history should remember him 522 00:34:03.549 --> 00:34:06.490 as the coward who preached about demons while shaking hands 523 00:34:06.710 --> 00:34:09.760 with the devil himself. He should be a warning label 524 00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:13.199 for blind loyalty. He should be a case study in 525 00:34:13.260 --> 00:34:17.099 weaponized deceit. And the aftermath of his exposure should leave 526 00:34:17.139 --> 00:34:22.989 scorched earth where his tower of bullshit once stood. All 527 00:34:23.010 --> 00:34:25.750 of the information that goes with this episode can be 528 00:34:25.809 --> 00:34:30.829 found in the description box. Doesn't come as a shock 529 00:34:30.849 --> 00:34:32.369 to me and it shouldn't come as a shock to 530 00:34:32.429 --> 00:34:38.960 anybody else. That disgusting ass Steve Bannon Would be working 531 00:34:38.980 --> 00:34:45.300 with Jeffrey Epstein. In any capacity. So. Let's jump into 532 00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:48.860 this article. From the Guardian real quick. And let's see 533 00:34:48.920 --> 00:34:54.880 what's going on. With Steve Bannon. And Jeffrey Epstein. Headline. 534 00:34:55.280 --> 00:35:00.059 Steve Bannon prepped Jeffrey Epstein. For CBS interview. Michael Wolff claims. 535 00:35:00.550 --> 00:35:05.329 Now caveat here. Michael Wolff has played with the truth. 536 00:35:05.550 --> 00:35:10.070 In the past right. So. Take it for what it's worth. Obviously, 537 00:35:10.190 --> 00:35:12.369 I can't confirm any of this. I can't, you know, 538 00:35:13.010 --> 00:35:15.489 I wasn't there. I don't have the sources he has 539 00:35:15.550 --> 00:35:18.710 or whatever that that he sat down with. So I can't, 540 00:35:18.809 --> 00:35:20.869 you know, say to you, oh, yeah, this is 100 541 00:35:20.869 --> 00:35:24.849 percent factual. This happened. But this is what Michael Wolff 542 00:35:25.309 --> 00:35:28.039 is saying happened. And when it comes to somebody like 543 00:35:28.099 --> 00:35:32.039 Steve Bannon, I don't doubt it in the least. Steve 544 00:35:32.079 --> 00:35:35.300 Bannon doesn't give a fuck who you are. He's trying 545 00:35:35.320 --> 00:35:37.469 to fill his pockets with all of the gold he 546 00:35:37.489 --> 00:35:41.210 could possibly find, pilfered or not. And if that means 547 00:35:41.289 --> 00:35:46.050 working with a pedophile, a rapist, a disgusting fuck like 548 00:35:46.090 --> 00:35:49.389 Jeffrey Epstein, all you gotta do is show Steve Bannon 549 00:35:49.409 --> 00:35:54.650 where to sign on the line. This article was authored 550 00:35:54.730 --> 00:36:00.030 by Martin Pengley for the New York Times. Jeffrey Epstein 551 00:36:00.050 --> 00:36:03.789 gave a series of interviews on film in 2019. in 552 00:36:03.829 --> 00:36:08.760 which his interviewer said the financier and convicted sex trafficker, pedophile, 553 00:36:09.260 --> 00:36:14.219 was engaging, not threatening, and not at all creepy. A 554 00:36:14.280 --> 00:36:19.480 sympathetic figure. Breaking news, okay? There is no kind of 555 00:36:19.639 --> 00:36:24.760 refurbish or polish that you can put on Jeffrey Epstein 556 00:36:24.800 --> 00:36:27.570 to not make him creepy. To not make him look 557 00:36:27.610 --> 00:36:32.510 like a disgusting individual, okay? Even Steve Bannon, with all 558 00:36:32.530 --> 00:36:39.199 of his Disgusting tricks. Couldn't have pulled this off. The 559 00:36:39.320 --> 00:36:44.099 interviewer was the former Trump strategist, Steve Bannon. The episode, 560 00:36:44.380 --> 00:36:47.280 as reported by the New York Times, is described in 561 00:36:47.340 --> 00:36:51.099 a book of profiles, two famous, the rich, the powerful, 562 00:36:51.380 --> 00:36:55.820 the wishful, the notorious, the damned, due out in October. 563 00:36:56.519 --> 00:36:59.550 The author is Michael Wolff, who wrote Fire and Fury 564 00:36:59.769 --> 00:37:03.940 and two other exposés of Donald Trump's presidency. Now again, 565 00:37:03.960 --> 00:37:07.250 like I said with Michael Wolff, he is a muckraker, right? 566 00:37:07.429 --> 00:37:10.289 Definitely one of those guys that likes to stir the pot, 567 00:37:10.349 --> 00:37:15.840 stir shit up. Some of his comments have been proven false, 568 00:37:16.719 --> 00:37:18.699 but some of the other stuff he's talked about has 569 00:37:18.739 --> 00:37:23.519 been spot on. So again, when it comes to somebody 570 00:37:23.559 --> 00:37:25.889 like Michael Wolff, you're going to have to make your 571 00:37:25.929 --> 00:37:28.369 own decisions on what you believe and what you don't believe. 572 00:37:29.769 --> 00:37:32.630 Some of the stuff he talks about is so bombastic 573 00:37:32.670 --> 00:37:35.329 that I have a hard time believing it without evidence, right? 574 00:37:35.789 --> 00:37:38.469 Here's the thing. I'm at a point right now where 575 00:37:38.969 --> 00:37:42.340 whenever I see unnamed sources, I almost feel like the 576 00:37:42.389 --> 00:37:44.860 legacy media is almost making things up at that point. 577 00:37:45.260 --> 00:37:49.679 And then just protecting their misinformation by labeling it an 578 00:37:50.219 --> 00:37:54.239 anonymous source, you know? Or source close to the incident 579 00:37:54.280 --> 00:37:58.480 that can't speak on it. So I'm so cynical when 580 00:37:58.500 --> 00:38:01.699 it

comes to the legacy media. When I hear anonymous source, 581 00:38:02.119 --> 00:38:05.260 I almost automatically think that the legacy media is making 582 00:38:05.280 --> 00:38:11.469 some shit up. The Times also reported that Bannon told 583 00:38:11.610 --> 00:38:14.409 Epstein to look directly into the camera now and then. 584 00:38:14.889 --> 00:38:17.829 So as not to come across as stupid and advised 585 00:38:17.869 --> 00:38:20.639 the subject not to share his racist theories on how 586 00:38:20.719 --> 00:38:24.000 black people learn. Oh, isn't that nice? Not only was 587 00:38:24.039 --> 00:38:29.659 he a contender, An absolute disgusting rapist scumbag pedophile. He 588 00:38:29.699 --> 00:38:37.039 was also a disgusting rapist pedophile. I mean, we heard 589 00:38:37.320 --> 00:38:40.110 what Maria had to say about how these folk like 590 00:38:40.130 --> 00:38:45.110 to talk about people of color. And it was absolutely 591 00:38:45.150 --> 00:38:48.250 disgusting then. This is just more of a confirmation. You 592 00:38:48.670 --> 00:38:50.659 know when I talk about all of those little gold 593 00:38:50.719 --> 00:38:53.460 nuggets we find in these articles? Here's one right here. 594 00:38:54.929 --> 00:38:59.010 Steve Bannon talking about this goes and corroborates what Maria 595 00:38:59.050 --> 00:39:01.989 said previously. And if you weren't paying attention to the 596 00:39:02.010 --> 00:39:04.480 case and you're not following it closely, you'll miss all 597 00:39:04.500 --> 00:39:11.460 of that. And a guy like Steve Bannon certainly knows 598 00:39:11.500 --> 00:39:15.079 who Jeffrey Epstein is, certainly knows what Jeffrey Epstein is, 599 00:39:15.539 --> 00:39:19.000 and knows that Jeffrey Epstein is obviously a racist. So 600 00:39:19.039 --> 00:39:22.800 he's coaching him to avoid racism. talking about that. Not 601 00:39:22.840 --> 00:39:24.679 saying to him, look, dude, you shouldn't be a racist, 602 00:39:24.699 --> 00:39:28.590 you sick fuck. What's wrong with you? No. He's coaching 603 00:39:28.630 --> 00:39:31.869 him how to avoid losing. like one. And that's the 604 00:39:31.909 --> 00:39:35.320 big problem, isn't it? We have so many people who 605 00:39:35.380 --> 00:39:43.860 walk around with this false face on. And it's hard to, 606 00:39:43.920 --> 00:39:46.659 you know, disseminate who is who. You really can't decide 607 00:39:46.679 --> 00:39:52.619 sometimes what's what and who's who. Because people are good, right? 608 00:39:52.699 --> 00:39:55.119 People are good at the hustle. They'll have you believe 609 00:39:55.179 --> 00:39:57.059 in that they care about the world. They'll have you 610 00:39:57.099 --> 00:39:59.659 believe in all kinds of crazy shit. And before you 611 00:39:59.699 --> 00:40:03.909 know it, you'll be putting hashtag insert dumbass politician's name 612 00:40:04.230 --> 00:40:07.409 into your social media profile and fighting with your friends 613 00:40:07.469 --> 00:40:12.730 about it.

But in reality, that same person that acts 614 00:40:12.750 --> 00:40:15.710 like they care about you really fucking does not care 615 00:40:15.750 --> 00:40:19.949 about you. And those are just the facts. It doesn't 616 00:40:19.989 --> 00:40:22.920 matter which politician it is or which side of the 617 00:40:22.940 --> 00:40:30.880 aisle they're standing on. Mainly, Mr. Bannon tells Mr. Epstein 618 00:40:31.119 --> 00:40:33.199 he should stick to his message, which is that he 619 00:40:33.260 --> 00:40:37.789 is not a pedophile. By the end, Mr. Bannon seems impressed. Well, 620 00:40:38.250 --> 00:40:40.369 I don't see why you wouldn't. I mean, you have 621 00:40:41.530 --> 00:40:45.900 two people who are basically... demons walking the earth, right? 622 00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:47.949 I'm not a religious guy or whatever, but I think 623 00:40:47.969 --> 00:40:51.170 that that's a good way to explain these dudes. This 624 00:40:51.190 --> 00:40:54.889 whole entire circle, I mean, each one of them scummier 625 00:40:54.949 --> 00:41:00.710 and shittier than the next, it seems like. The fact 626 00:41:00.730 --> 00:41:06.190 that Bannon's sitting here coaching Jeffrey Epstein, it's just, I 627 00:41:06.230 --> 00:41:12.719 can't even explain to you how ridiculous it is. Two 628 00:41:12.760 --> 00:41:15.900 of the scummiest dudes in the world sitting down and 629 00:41:15.980 --> 00:41:18.219 Bannon's like, look, I'm a little less scummy than you. 630 00:41:18.260 --> 00:41:21.500 At least I'm not accused of raping kids and stuff. 631 00:41:21.519 --> 00:41:23.750 So I guess I can coach you a little bit here, huh? 632 00:41:25.630 --> 00:41:29.110 Maybe Leon Black should have just called Steve Bannon and 633 00:41:29.170 --> 00:41:32.610 avoided getting the advice from Jeffrey Epstein altogether because obviously 634 00:41:32.670 --> 00:41:37.179 Steve Bannon's the real guru, right? You need your reputation repaired? 635 00:41:37.719 --> 00:41:42.800 Call in Steve Bannon, a man of integrity. A pillar 636 00:41:43.510 --> 00:41:51.869 of the community, said nobody ever. It is absolutely hilarious 637 00:41:52.010 --> 00:41:55.090 that Jeffrey Epstein would think having Steve Bannon working with 638 00:41:55.170 --> 00:41:58.150 him is a good idea. Reports that the interviews were 639 00:41:58.190 --> 00:42:03.070 preparation for an interview with CBS 60 Minutes, which never occurred. 640 00:42:03.780 --> 00:42:06.260 Bannon confirmed to the Times that he taped more than 641 00:42:06.260 --> 00:42:08.969 15 hours of interviews with Epstein. but said he was 642 00:42:09.010 --> 00:42:13.030 not media training him, but rather making a previously unannounced 643 00:42:13.050 --> 00:42:18.789 8-10 hour documentary about Epstein's perversions and depravity towards young 644 00:42:18.829 --> 00:42:22.769 women and links to the global establishment. Oh, is that 645 00:42:22.829 --> 00:42:26.909 what it was, Steve Bannon? You were making a documentary 646 00:42:26.969 --> 00:42:31.340 about Jeffrey Epstein, is it? I mean, does anybody believe 647 00:42:31.360 --> 00:42:33.559 a guy like Steve Bannon at this point? Anybody out 648 00:42:33.599 --> 00:42:38.199 there believe anything he has to say? I mean... I 649 00:42:38.239 --> 00:42:47.630 certainly don't. The guy's a straight up fool. Earlier this year, 650 00:42:47.809 --> 00:42:51.110 Ira Rosen, a veteran 60 Minutes producer, discussed how he 651 00:42:51.150 --> 00:42:54.030 set up one of the all-time great 60 Minutes interviews 652 00:42:54.130 --> 00:42:58.110 with Bannon himself. Bannon, he said, told him he believed 653 00:42:58.190 --> 00:43:01.989 Trump had early stage dementia and might be removed from office. 654 00:43:02.449 --> 00:43:05.329 That claim did not make the final tape. Yo, what's 655 00:43:05.349 --> 00:43:08.239 with All right, let's just get to it right away 656 00:43:08.320 --> 00:43:10.889 and be right up front with it. What's with electing 657 00:43:10.909 --> 00:43:13.849 these old-ass dudes all the time? We ain't got somebody 658 00:43:13.869 --> 00:43:17.130 a little bit younger who has, you know, their faculties 659 00:43:17.190 --> 00:43:22.929 about them. It's quite obvious that Uncle Junior Soprano, a.k.a. 660 00:43:22.989 --> 00:43:26.389 Joe Biden, has no idea where he is anytime he 661 00:43:26.409 --> 00:43:28.809 gets on a stage, right? I'm waiting for him to 662 00:43:29.090 --> 00:43:31.380 yell at one of the reporters and call them Pussy 663 00:43:31.409 --> 00:43:37.920 Malanga before he goes running off of the stage. I mean, 664 00:43:38.800 --> 00:43:41.619 are you guys kidding me right now with these old 665 00:43:41.780 --> 00:43:47.059 ass dudes? There's 350 billion thousand people that are available 666 00:43:47.099 --> 00:43:52.039 for American Idol. And these old ass dementia ridden people 667 00:43:52.099 --> 00:43:54.139 are the only ones that we have to choose from 668 00:43:54.840 --> 00:43:58.559 for president? That doesn't seem wrong to anybody else. Maybe 669 00:43:58.619 --> 00:44:01.739 I'm the one who's fucked up, right? Maybe I'm the 670 00:44:01.880 --> 00:44:05.590 one who is misinterpreting the world and everything's fantastic with 671 00:44:05.630 --> 00:44:12.280 these old guys as presidents. Asked by Yahoo News how 672 00:44:12.360 --> 00:44:16.079 seriously people should take Bannon's claims, Rosen said, the trick 673 00:44:16.119 --> 00:44:18.739 in trying to deal with Steve was to work out 674 00:44:18.800 --> 00:44:21.679 how much was meant simply to draw attention to himself. 675 00:44:22.480 --> 00:44:24.860 And there's a lot of bombastic people like that, right? 676 00:44:25.280 --> 00:44:30.030 And most of them find themselves, somehow, ironically, in Trump's circle, 677 00:44:30.050 --> 00:44:36.369 don't they? Pretty weird how that happens. Epstein was convicted 678 00:44:36.409 --> 00:44:40.579 in 2008 of soliciting sex from underage girls. He killed himself. 679

00:44:41.019 --> 00:44:45.619 allegedly in custody in August of 2019, awaiting trial on 680 00:44:45.679 --> 00:44:51.699 new sex trafficking charges. His former girlfriend, co-conspirator, fellow child abuser, 681 00:44:51.780 --> 00:45:01.409 general all-around scuzzbag, and bipedal serpent, Ghislaine Maxwell, awaits trial 682 00:45:01.449 --> 00:45:05.909 in New York on sex trafficking charges. She is pleaded 683 00:45:05.969 --> 00:45:09.409 not guilty. Last week, Prince Andrew was served with an 684 00:45:09.489 --> 00:45:14.590 affidavit in a lawsuit, brought by Epstein survivor Virginia Roberts, 685 00:45:14.929 --> 00:45:17.329 who says she was forced to have sex with him 686 00:45:17.610 --> 00:45:21.969 when she was 17. An allegation the prince absolutely and 687 00:45:22.030 --> 00:45:25.250 categorically denies. Well, we're going to see what's what soon 688 00:45:25.269 --> 00:45:29.230 with that, right? That phone call with the judge presiding 689 00:45:29.329 --> 00:45:32.670 over the Virginia Roberts suit, that's going to happen today. 690 00:45:33.170 --> 00:45:36.250 So obviously we're going to have another talk about that 691 00:45:36.309 --> 00:45:38.610 later on after that all occurs and we get to 692 00:45:39.010 --> 00:45:42.869 hear a little bit about what happened. We'll definitely recount that, 693 00:45:42.969 --> 00:45:46.920 but that's happening later on today, a couple hours from now, 694 00:45:46.940 --> 00:45:52.500 a few hours from now. Bannon, a hard-right political gadfly 695 00:45:52.760 --> 00:45:56.679 who chaired the Trump campaign in 2016, was a major 696 00:45:56.719 --> 00:46:00.309 source for fire and fury, Wolf's huge bestseller about the 697 00:46:00.369 --> 00:46:04.230 first year of the Trump presidency. So there's no doubt 698 00:46:04.369 --> 00:46:09.210 that Steve Bannon is a me-man. He doesn't have loyalty 699 00:46:09.269 --> 00:46:12.010 to Trump or to party or to country or to 700 00:46:12.130 --> 00:46:14.869 anybody but himself and his bank account. And one of 701 00:46:14.929 --> 00:46:17.789 his favorite things to do is try and manipulate people, right? 702 00:46:18.110 --> 00:46:20.820 Try and get people all fired up. Try to get 703 00:46:20.909 --> 00:46:24.460 people foaming at the mouth. Try to create a boogeyman. 704 00:46:27.579 --> 00:46:29.880 And it's something that both sides love to do, right? 705 00:46:29.900 --> 00:46:31.920 They have to have a boogeyman or none of their 706 00:46:31.960 --> 00:46:39.550 bullshit divisiveness works. Bannon left the White House in August 707 00:46:39.550 --> 00:46:43.530 2017 amid uproar over a neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville, Virginia. 708 00:46:44.170 --> 00:46:46.300 But he remained a key figure in the Trump world 709 00:46:46.550 --> 00:46:50.840 and an influence on Wolf's next two books, Siege and Landslide. 710 00:46:51.519 --> 00:46:55.139 Trump pardoned Bannon on charges of fraud. Of course he did. 711 00:46:56.860 --> 00:46:58.719 All of these presidents are going to do that same 712 00:46:58.760 --> 00:47:01.219 exact thing, make sure their buddies are taken care of 713 00:47:01.260 --> 00:47:03.840 when the time's right. Take a look at how many 714 00:47:03.880 --> 00:47:09.590 people Bill Clinton pardoned. Just another one of these so-called 715 00:47:09.630 --> 00:47:12.639 traditions that we should all just accept. Here's an idea. 716 00:47:14.260 --> 00:47:18.239 They should have to pardon people who are serving sentences 717 00:47:18.380 --> 00:47:23.420 on low-level drug offenses, possession and shit like that. Instead, 718 00:47:23.440 --> 00:47:27.250 they'll pardon all of their political buddies, right? But you're 719 00:47:27.269 --> 00:47:29.070 the one who's crazy if you take a look at 720 00:47:29.130 --> 00:47:31.710 it and you call it for what it is. You're 721 00:47:31.750 --> 00:47:35.710 the one who's engaging in the ultimate act of rebellion 722 00:47:35.750 --> 00:47:39.619 by asking questions these days. Well, let me tell you folks, 723 00:47:39.639 --> 00:47:48.460 keep asking those questions. The Times reported that Wolf also 724 00:47:48.539 --> 00:47:51.989 recounts an offer from the film producer Harvey Weinstein, made 725 00:47:52.030 --> 00:47:54.650 during his rape trial in which he was convicted last year, 726 00:47:55.030 --> 00:47:59.630 to co-write an autobiography. Wolf also told the paper, Epstein 727 00:47:59.690 --> 00:48:02.210 wanted me to write something about him, a kind of book, 728 00:48:02.670 --> 00:48:08.940 though it wasn't clear why. Well, alrighty then. So... According 729 00:48:08.960 --> 00:48:11.380 to Wolf, this is what went down. And again, I 730 00:48:11.440 --> 00:48:14.300 can't confirm or deny any of that stuff. I don't know, right? 731 00:48:14.559 --> 00:48:16.519 I don't have access to Steve Bannon or any of 732 00:48:16.579 --> 00:48:19.079 these people. I'm not a journalist like I always tell you. 733 00:48:19.119 --> 00:48:22.539 I just commentate on what these knuckleheads are up to. 734 00:48:24.400 --> 00:48:26.360 And when it comes to Steve Bannon, one thing I 735 00:48:26.400 --> 00:48:30.139 know for sure is he is one of the most self-serving, 736 00:48:30.519 --> 00:48:36.059 me-first MFs in the whole entire world. And any kind 737 00:48:36.340 --> 00:48:40.960 of press for Steve Bannon is good press. So, again, 738 00:48:41.039 --> 00:48:43.460 you never know with somebody like this when it comes 739 00:48:43.539 --> 00:48:45.800 to what they're up to, right? When you're looking at 740 00:48:45.860 --> 00:48:50.219 it from a strategy point of view, a guy like 741 00:48:50.260 --> 00:48:55.400 Steve Bannon is very, very shifty. Hard to pin down. 742 00:48:55.440 --> 00:48:57.219 You don't know what he's going to be doing next. 743 00:48:57.900 --> 00:49:02.610 But one thing is certainly clear. Steve Bannon is a 744 00:49:02.699 --> 00:49:06.780 fellow traveler. If you'd like to contact me, you can 745 00:49:06.820 --> 00:49:15.670 do that at BobbyCapucci at ProtonMail.com. That's B-O-B-B-Y-C-A-P-U-C-C-I at ProtonMail.com. 746 00:49:16.210 --> 00:49:22.489 You can also find me on Twitter at B-O-B-B-Y... underscore C-A-P-U-C-C-I. 747 00:49:23.320 --> 00:49:25.400 All of the links that go with this episode can 748 00:49:25.440 --> 00:49:27.280 be found in the description box.