2-18-26 Afternoon Rush - Trump Boys Admit To Grift In WILD Interview & Updates On Epstein Conspiracy
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
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🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Rush Hour – Afternoon Update
The gloves are off.
In today's episode, we break down the stunning moment the Trump administration appears to admit the quiet part out loud — the grift, the scams, and the self-enrichment critics have been warning about for years. Is it incompetence, corruption, or a strategy hiding in plain sight?
We also dive into the Epstein files as new voices escalate the rhetoric, with some now calling the alleged cover-ups "crimes against humanity." What does that actually mean? And why does accountability still feel so far away?
Plus: outrage grows as ICE faces backlash over reports of deporting a two-month-old baby, along with other chaotic immigration stories making headlines today.
It's messy. It's fast. It's Rush Hour.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the rush hour. Your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride. Buckle up and |
| 0:08.5 | enjoy the drive with your host, stand-up comedian Dave Neal. Hey folks, they're saying the quiet part |
| 0:15.8 | out loud. We've got the Trump administration basically admitting to all of the corruption they're |
| 0:20.7 | doing in plain |
| 0:21.5 | sight. We'll be discussing this plus the Epstein Files release and so much more on today's |
| 0:26.2 | episode of the Rush Hour podcast. We're here twice a day every day. It is Wednesday, February 18th, |
| 0:31.4 | 2026 and these are the stories for your rush hour ride home. Yeah, that's right. This clip is going |
| 0:36.6 | viral right here. When Donald's |
| 0:40.5 | Trump Jr. was asked about how they could possibly be in the business of curing favor from other |
| 0:47.0 | countries and the crypto scams and all these other things. Here's what they had to say. |
| 0:52.5 | Well, you know what the critics would say. |
| 0:54.3 | They'd say that the credibility factor is the Trump name and the Trump White House and that |
| 0:59.4 | everyone, you know, is here to curry favor. |
| 1:02.0 | Again, the great iron thing is they didn't give us much of a choice when you had every |
| 1:06.1 | they created this monster. |
| 1:07.5 | They did this to us. |
| 1:09.0 | They made us sell out. |
| 1:10.8 | They made us sell out. |
| 1:11.0 | They made us create a crypto scheme a day before the election so that people could funnel |
| 1:16.4 | billions and billions of dollars into an untraceable account. |
| 1:20.4 | They made this happen. |
| 1:22.0 | What were we left to do? |
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