4-16-26 Afternoon Rush - Epstein Bombshell, Did Trump Pay A Victim Settlement Last Year?! & MTG Exposes Coverup On Piers Morgan
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
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🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The walls are closing in.
In this afternoon episode of The Rush Hour, we break down a bombshell new development in the Jeffrey Epstein saga — with shocking claims that Donald Trump may have paid hush money as recently as 2025. If true, this completely reshapes the narrative around one of the most scrutinized scandals in modern history.
And in a twist no one saw coming, Marjorie Taylor Greene is now publicly calling Trump out — not behind closed doors, but on a high-profile appearance with Piers Morgan. What does it mean when one of Trump's most loyal allies starts asking questions?
We unpack the claims, the timing, and the political fallout — plus why this story could have major implications heading into the next election cycle.
It's messy, it's explosive, and it's exactly the kind of story that doesn't go away quietly.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the rush hour. Your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride. |
| 0:07.7 | Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand-up comedian Dave Neal. |
| 0:14.0 | Good afternoon, everybody, on this Thursday, April 16th, 2026. I have all of your news for your rush hour ride home. What a wild time to be alive. |
| 0:23.3 | We are living in one of the greatest conspiracies in our government's young history. |
| 0:27.7 | And now we're finding out that Donald Trump may have provided hush payments to a victim of his. |
| 0:34.5 | This according to Jeffrey Epstein's accountant. |
| 0:37.3 | The accountant either had a slip a tongue |
| 0:39.2 | quickly backtracks on what they were saying. I'm going to play that video for you guys. Plus, |
| 0:44.3 | we have Marjorie Taylor Green calling out Trump on the Pears Morgan show, you know, just kind of |
| 0:50.3 | revealing the whole blueprint as to how Trump tried to avoid the release of the Epstein files in the first place. Did Donald Trump have Pam Bondi fired because she was about |
| 0:59.0 | to testify? Listen, we are living in the greatest conspiracy of our country's young history, |
| 1:05.2 | by all means. And we're going to share just exactly how all of this information seemingly is just coming out, |
| 1:12.7 | leaking through the cracks. So I'm going to get into what Epstein's accountant said, |
| 1:18.1 | alleging Trump, you know, paid out a settlement to one of his accusers. But first, I wanted to |
| 1:24.3 | share Marjorie Taylor Green. Again, we all know all of this already. We've reported on this ad nauseum. But when you look back just a few months after the government shutdown and when we see where we are with this war in Iran, it's absolute wild the levels of distraction they're willing to go to, the amount of human lives they're willing to destroy |
| 1:46.4 | in order to cover up the Epstein files. |
| 1:49.6 | He's covering it up. |
| 1:51.2 | He fought us the entire time. |
| 1:54.3 | He did everything in his power to stop the Epstein files to be released. |
| 1:58.6 | He even forced Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, to do |
| 2:02.2 | everything he could do to stop it from being released. It was the most unbelievable thing |
| 2:07.0 | I've ever seen. We were even shut down for eight weeks. We had a government shut down back |
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