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Sat Jan 31, 2026, 07:13 AM 17 hrs ago

Justice Department makes shocking Epstein announcement - Another Day - Brian Tyler Cohen



BTC: Another batch of the Epstein files was just released and you won't believe how many rich white guys are in there. Actually, it's pretty believable. This is just another day.

December 19th of last year was the date all of the Epstein files were required by law to be released. But as the federal government always says about your tax forms, your payments, and court appearances, better late than never.

(cut to video from CNN News Central)
Boris Sanchez: The Department of Justice releasing its remaining documents from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche saying the records will be posted throughout the day, including more than 2,000 videos, more than 180,000 images, some of the material so explicit you have to verify being an adult before you can actually access it.

(cut to studio)
BTC: Well, that's comforting. Good to know. Our Department of Justice is taking its security cues from online vape shops, because nothing says impenetrable firewall quite like having to click yes. Fun fact, if you click no, Matt Gaetz gets an alert on his phone.

And isn't it nice that our DOJ, which has spent the last year doing everything in their power to cover up a pedophile ring, are finally focused on the children? I just think it's sweet. But let's hear what Todd Blanche has to say.

(cut to video at DOJ)
Todd Blanche: Now, I want to talk for a few minutes about the department's document identification and review protocols. It consisted of multiple layers of review and quality control designed to ensure compliance under the act and protect uh victims.

(cut to studio)
BTC: Well, that's honestly a good thing. These victims have been through enough trauma the last thing they need is to deal with the heartache of having their names out there.

(cut to video from CNN)
Unidentified Host: We're now hearing from some Epstein survivors though who say their names appear unredacted throughout the documents despite assurances directly from DOJ that no personally identifiable information about victims would be released.

(cut to studio)
BTC: Hey, at least they took their time and still fucked it up.

Now, obviously, one of the biggest criticisms of this entire process has been that the DOJ has done anything and everything to protect Dear Leader from culpability. But Mr. Blanche reiterated today that nothing could be further from the truth.

(cut to video at DOJ)
Todd Blanche: We did not protect President Trump. We didn't protect or not protect anybody. I mean, I think that that we that there's a a hunger or a thirst for information that I do not think will be satisfied by the review of these documents. Um, and and there's it's not there's nothing I can do about that.

(cut to studio)
BTC: Nothing. I can think of one thing, which is release all the files. Oh, and also maybe not doing this could help.

(cut to video from CNN)
Kim Brunhuber: It appears at least a couple of the documents that we're talking about here have been removed since they were posted earlier by the by the Justice Department. We don't know why that is.

(cut to studio)
BTC: At this point, it's just embarrassing that the DOJ thinks they can post files online, remove them, and the internet won't notice. What's next Blanche--keeping them under wraps by taking him to a Coldplay concert?

And it just so happens that some of the files which were removed are all about Donald Trump and they are truly disturbing. One allegation was that a woman was forced to perform oral sex on President Trump 35 years ago in New Jersey. In another allegation, Donald Trump is accused of regularly paying a 13-year-old to perform sex acts on him in 1984. And in another, it states that Trump and Epstein had calendar girl parties at Mar-a-Lago, where girls were auctioned off and then assaulted by them. Gee, I can't imagine who would ask to have those files taken offline. Hm.

What makes the Epstein files and this administration's blatant cover up of them so offensive is that this isn't just about one billionaire who acted alone. Besides Ghislaine Maxwell, it is clear that multiple other men were involved in the abuse of these young girls. But like the files themselves, it might be a little while before those names come to light.

(cut to video at DOJ)
Reporter: Is the public going to learn the identities of the men who abused the girls with the information that you're releasing? And if not, why not? And then I have a quick follow-up.

Blanche: I mean, you just baked in an assumption into your question that I have never said and I don't know to be true. Is the public going to learn about men that abuse these girls? Like, what does that mean? I don't understand what that means.

(cut to studio)
BTC: Wow. Todd Blanche really pretending like it's his first day on the job. Abuse? Girls? You're saying there's some kind of sex trafficking ring? How could a physical ring be big enough for that? And if there's traffic, doesn't that mean they're actually not moving?

Sorry, Todd, if the world isn't buying it.

(cut to video at DOJ)
Todd Blanche: There's this built-in assumption that somehow there's this hidden tranche of information of men that we know about that we're covering up or that we're not we're choosing not to prosecute. That is not the case. I don't know whether there are men out there that abuse these women. Um, if if we learn about information and evidence that that allows us to prosecute them, you better believe we will. But but I don't think that that that the public or you all are going to uncover um uh men within the Epstein files that abuse women, unfortunately.

(cut to studio)
BTC: Well, that really flies in the face of what your current FBI director has been saying.

(cut to video)
Kash Patel: Put on your big boy pants and let us know who the pedophiles are.

(cut to studio)
BTC: That's right. Kash Patel is keeping his eye on you. As for what the other eye is doing, I couldn't say. But sorry, that clip is from way back in 2023 before Kash worked for Trump, back when he was demanding that our elected officials put on their big boy pants. Here he is more recently.

(cut to video of Senate hearing)
Sen. John Kennedy: You've seen most of the files. Uh 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.

(cut to studio)
BTC: Hm. Guess they didn't have any big boy pants in Kash's size. But I guess Todd Blanche is right. Unfortunately, we may never uncover the names of men who abuse women. But with today's release, we will uncover names of men who tried to convince the world that they didn't even know who this Epstein guy was. Remember this little nugget from the ketamine king?

(cut to video from Fox News displaying post from Elon Musk)
Reporter reading Musk: Time to drop the really big bomb. President Trump @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files.

(cut to studio)
BTC: Well, turns out the man in all black was calling the kettle black because he is also in the files. Here's an email exchange between Musk and Epstein from 2013.

We'll be in the BVI British Virgin Islands/SBarts area over the holidays. Is there a good time to visit? And Epstein responds, "I will send heli," meaning helicopter for you. And his email signature says, "Sorry for the typos." Which means, "Of all the errors Jeffrey Epstein is willing to apologize for, it's spelling that he lands on." That's like Jeffrey Dahmer apologizing for making a mess in your kitchen.

But if you thought that it was just one rich white male from Trump's administration trying to hide his friendship with Epstein, think again. Here's Howard Lutnick recalling a meeting that he had with his then neighbor back in 2005.

(cut to video)
NY Post Podcaster: He was your neighbor for 10 years. How well did you know him?

Howard Lutnick: All right. So, we are in number 11 and he lives in number nine. We share a wall. Right. Right. So, it's in New York City. So, he invites us in. We have coffee in this and he says, "Do you want a tour?" And he opens the doors and there's a massage table in the middle of the room. and candles all around and stuff. So I ask very insightful cutting questions. I say to him massage table in the middle of your house. How often you have a massage?

(cut to studio)
BTC: Yes. How insightful and cutting. With a question like that, I'm surprised you didn't replace Daniel Craig and Knives Out, but sorry to cut you off. Please continue.

(cut to video)
Lutnick: And he says, “every day.” And then he like gets like weirdly close to me and he says, "And the right kind of massage." And in the six or eight steps it takes to get from his house to my house, my wife and I decided that I will never be in the room with that disgusting person ever again.

(cut to studio)
BTC: You know how after a really big night of drinking, you wake up with a terrible hangover and you say to yourself, "I will never drink again." But then next weekend rolls around and you find yourself totally off the wagon. Well, apparently that's how Howard Lutnick is with pedophiles.

Because in 2012, meaning 7 years after that email, he emailed Epstein so that they could have dinner together with his wife and kids in St. Barts. When Lutnick said, "I will never be in a room with that disgusting person ever again." What he meant was ever again without my wife and children.

Even Trump's new pick for the Fed chair, Kevin Warsh, has his name in the Epstein files. At this point, it would probably be easier to start identifying Trump administration officials who somehow weren't implicated in the Epstein files.

The sad reality is closure and justice for Epstein's victims may take much longer than anybody wants. And that is because it is impossible to achieve those things when the people responsible for bringing it are lying at every turn. For some reason, the Trump administration expects the public to trust them when their favorite pastime is lying their fucking asses off.

They lie about our electoral process.

(cut to video)
Trump: It was a rigged election.

(cut to studio)
BTC: They lie about crimes that we witnessed with our own eyes.

(cut to video)
Kristi Noem: An individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently.

(cut to studio)
BTC: Even today when we are being asked to have faith that this administration is telling the truth, Donald Trump cannot help but throw another lie onto the fire.

(cut to video from C-SPAN at Oval Office)
Reporter: On the Fed, should the DOJ continue with its investigation into Jay Powell? That seems to be a sticking point for Senator Tillis.

Trump: Well, he he's got a building that uh you know, I build buildings and I build them under budget, ahead of schedule.

(cut to studio)
BTC: I think your big beautiful ballroom would slightly disagree considering the original price tag was $200 million, but in December it was updated to $400 million, double the original estimate.

How many more lies do we have to endure from this administration before they qualify as completely untrustworthy? Because to me, they have provided more than enough. The American people deserve more than having to suffer through endless amounts of disinformation from wealthy white men who frown upon them and the working class who constantly demean anybody who questions their motives.

(cut to video at DOJ)
Todd Blanche: I don't understand what that means.

(cut to studio)
BTC: Why am I not surprised?
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