3/24/25 Jesse Trentadue and Richard Booth on the OKC Bombing Cover-Up

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Jesse Trentadue returns to the show after a long hiatus for a deep dive on the Oklahoma City bombing with Scott and Richard Booth. The three explore what we know about what happened, how it differs from the official narrative and what most likely explains the gaps in our knowledge. Discussed on the show: Oklahoma City Bombing Archive In Bad Company: America's Terrorist Underground by Mark S. Hamm The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed—and Why It Still Matters by Andrew Gumbel and Roger G. Charles “Why did this cop turn up dead?” (CNN) An American Bombing: The Road to April 19th (IMDb) Richard Booth is the Glenn D. Wilburn Fellow at the Libertarian Institute and an independent citizen journalist and member of the Constitution First Amendment Press Association (CFAPA). You can find Richard’s journalism at The Libertarian Institute, and on his Substack. Follow him on Twitter @booth_okc Jesse Trentadue is a lawyer and the brother of Kenneth “Kenny” Trentadue, who Jesse believes was killed by police after being mistaken for Timothy McVeigh’s accomplice in the Oklahoma City Bombing. Jesse is on a decades-long quest to seek justice for his brother’s death and unveil what really happened in the days and weeks surrounding the April 19, 1995 attack. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Roberts and Robers Brokerage Incorporated; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; Libertas Bella; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, you, welcome to the Scott Horton Show.
0:11.6	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of anti-war.com,
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0:37.2	All right you guys in introducing great Jesse Trenadu, the man who may hold the key to the
0:45.2	truth behind the Oklahoma City bombing.
0:48.0	And our good friend Richard Booth, who is the Glenn Wilburn Fellow at the Libertarian
0:53.2	Institute and the keeper of the most important archive of Oklahoma City bombing documents and information at Libertarian Institute.org slash OKC, and that is the great Richard Booth. Welcome also to the show. Welcome both of you. How are you? Good. Thank you for having back on, Scott.
1:14.7	Very good as well. Thank you. I appreciate being here. And I think that your audience is, you don't want to hear from Jesse, because it's been quite some time.
1:23.1	Yes, we were just talking about that. I didn't really realize, Richard, but you say, or you guys
1:30.4	figured out, it's been almost 15 years, 13, 15 years since I've been able to interview Jesse
1:37.6	on the show. And I've had people over the years ask, hey, what's up with Jesse Trinandot?
1:42.3	How come you don't interview him anymore?
1:48.6	And, well, we still talk on the phone sometimes and, of course, email back and forth.
1:53.0	But there's been a reason I haven't been able to interview you.
1:57.3	Jesse, can you explain what has been the hold this whole time?
2:04.9	Well, we had the big trial of the FOIA lawsuit that went to trial in 2014.
2:12.6	And that's when the FBI threatened my witness, John Matthews, if he testified. And the judge concluded the trial, but he did not issue ruling because he appointed a special master investigate the witness tampering.
2:21.1	And everything went underground then. It was sealed. It's still been sealed because the witness tampering
2:27.1	investigation has now consumed 10 years. And I wasn't able to speak in that time.
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