Daily Take: Is the Trump–Epstein Scandal Nearing the Critical Mass that Turned "Watergate" Into a White House Collapse?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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The coverup is widening, the documents are missing, and history suggests the collapse comes faster than anyone expects…
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| 1:00.0 | Is the Trump Epstein crisis nearing the critical mass that turned Watergate into a White House collapse? |
| 1:07.5 | We've only had one genuinely failed presidency in the modern era, Richard Nixon's. |
| 1:13.0 | I believe we're on the verge of a second, and for very similar reasons. |
| 1:18.4 | If it plays out the way I expect, the consequences could be world-changing, and will certainly |
| 1:22.8 | alter how our politics work for decades to come. |
| 1:26.5 | The tipping point began in a big way when |
| 1:29.1 | Attorney General Pam Bondi went before Congress to defend Trump. When asked how many of Epstein's |
| 1:34.6 | co-conspirators, she had indicted, she refused to answer and instead completely lost it, |
| 1:40.2 | going off on a bizarre rant that included Donald Trump signed that law to release all those documents. |
| 1:45.8 | He's the most transparent president of the nation's history. |
| 1:48.2 | None of them asked Merrick Garland over the last four years. |
| 1:50.3 | One word about Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 1:52.2 | The Dow. |
| 1:52.8 | The Dow right now is over 50,000. |
| 1:55.0 | The S&P is almost 7,000. |
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