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Hey, James, our guest is author, journalist, activist, and someone who is exceptionally well-in-formed

about almost everything, Sidney Blumenthal.

Sidney, let's start with the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Trump was rolled.

Basically, you've got to give great credit to those victims and to Roe Kana and to Tom

Massey and a few Republican women.

They resisted it. Trump did every step of the way.

And so now the House passed it, the Senate passed it, Trump's going to sign it. I am deeply suspicious of the Justice Department. Two things bother me. Number one, he launched a phony

investigation of Democrats only by the Justice Department,

and I can see them saying, wait a minute, we can't release files while we have ongoing investigations.

And secondly, I don't trust Pam Bondi anyway.

I think there's bad stuff in there.

Am I being too conspiratorial?

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