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The Jim Acosta Show

Busting Trump's Dangerous DC Distraction from Epstein with Adam Kinzinger and Miles Taylor

The Jim Acosta Show

Jim Acosta

Politics, News

4.9634 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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0:00.0

Welcome, everybody, to the Jim Acosta show. It's another day that ends in Y and Trump's cover-up of the Epstein scandal.

0:06.2

Trump has deployed the National Guard and federal agents to distract the public from the fact that he has still not released the Epstein files, as he promised.

0:13.0

One man last night became so frustrated here in D.C. He threw a sandwich at a federal law enforcement officer and became a hero.

0:20.3

No pun intended here in Washington. Talk about a club became a hero, no pun intended, here in Washington.

0:22.4

Talk about a club sandwich. Okay, that pun was intended.

0:26.3

Is joining me today to talk about this is for Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger,

0:31.5

former member of the January 6th Committee, and I'll stop telling dad jokes at some point.

0:35.8

But Adam, good to see you.

0:38.3

I guess we should jump right into this,

0:41.4

and there's a lot of ground to cover here.

0:43.0

But, you know, Pam Bondi sent a stern warning saying,

0:47.5

if you touch any law enforcement officer,

0:49.1

we will come after you.

0:50.1

I guess they arrested this guy for hurling the subway sandwich,

0:54.0

and apparently he's been charged with, um, uh, assault with a deli weapon.

1:00.6

Well, listen. Okay. So first off, you heard that part anyway. So first off, like, that's crazy. But here's a deal. You know, I guess, let me just say, this is a caveat.

1:12.2

Don't throw a sandwich at a federal office. Don't throw a sandwich. That's right. Don't do it. Now, is that assault? Look, that court is going to figure that out. But I think the bigger picture is the thing that bothered me the most about what's going to obviously getting deeper into the subject, but it was the president himself,

1:28.3

I believe it was the president that said, if they spit, they'll have hit, right? So he basically

1:35.2

said, I'm tired of law enforcement officers being mistreated, and I've told them, like, no holds are

1:42.3

barred, basically. Now, here's the thing.

1:44.8

The vast majority of law enforcement officers are not going to then turn around and go,

1:48.1

oh, cool, we can beat the crap out of everybody, you know, that one of the time.

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