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rt your lie with these words. Trump literally started with "I would say" that these files were made up by Comey and the others. I would say if you start your explanation with "I would say" you're basically saying I'm making this up. Do you remember when OJ wrote his book "If I Did It"? If I Did It. What if you see "If I Did It" on OJ's book, you say to yourself, he's telling us he did it. If your…

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say you're for transparency.

Thomas Massie introduced a discharge petition to compel the Department of Justice to release all relevant Epstein documents. So that's happening. I don't know if that's going to get any purchase, but at least there's some motion to release everything.

Here's what I would like to see. And ask yourself why you haven't seen this yet. I would like to see all the guards, just the regular guards, not the management, not the warden, but just the regular guards who worked in that area of the jail when Epstein died. Why have we never seen them in public? Because I did hear through a source, which I think is probably credible, that there would be at least one of those guards who would tell you that the FBI took the video away and there was nothing wrong with the cameras and they told them to shut up about it. Now I can't guarantee that that's true. I'm just saying that I heard it through a source that I don't have any reason to question that there is a guard who has told somebody in person, yeah, I was there. The FBI took the video. There was nothing wrong with the cameras.

Now I'll say it again. I don't know that that's true, right? Because I'm not, I didn't talk to a source directly. But why have we never heard from the other guards? There must be what maybe a dozen guards who are there or have direct or indirect knowledge of what happened because there's no way you could keep all of that from all the guards. So there might be somebody who has something to talk about.

Of course the Democrats would like to make a big deal about the division in the MAGA base because some people are mad at Trump. And so there's a publication, a left-leaning publication called The Bulwark where somebody called Will Sommer was writing an article about the quote Epstein civil war in MAGA and it listed on the cover five MAGA, I guess MAGA personalities who were in this alleged Epstein civil war. So the names that they said are in this civil war are Roger Stone, Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, and me. So there were only four figures who were mentioned on the cover. Anyway, the cover. So my picture's on the cover of the story, etc.

Now did you know there's an Epstein civil war? I feel like I'm in a civil war and nobody told me. I thought I was just talking about it and speculating what could be true and letting my audience know. Am I in some kind of civil war? Have I ever said, you know, don't vote for Trump because of this? No, absolutely not. I think that it's trivial and that whatever the reason is, even if it's the wrong reason. Are you going to throw everything that you've gained away because of the one thing? Well some people say yes, and that would be your privilege to do that. I would say don't. But I don't know that any of these people, Roger Stone, Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, or Scott Adams, would any of those people say you shouldn't vote for Republicans in the midterm? I don't think we would. Would any of them say you should stop supporting Trump in all the other things he might want to get done? I don't think anybody said that.

So a lot of people are sure that voters will decide to stay home, and they might. But I just would disagree with the civil war part. What I

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think is that the Democrats convinced themselves that Trump supporters were a cult and that we agreed on everything no matter what it was. And then when they see quite obviously that that's not the case, instead of going back to their own assumption and saying, oh, I guess we've been wrong for years, they were never a cult. It's just that they were on the same page that the followers and Trump wer…

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