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Epstein files and foreign policy. Trump reverses course

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🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Epstein files and foreign policy. Trump reverses course

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0:00.0

All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is going on with the Epstein files.

0:06.0

And we have a statement from U.S. President Trump, where he is now saying to Republicans in the House to vote for the release of the Epstein files.

0:19.0

It's an act that I believe was was put forth by Thomas Massey,

0:23.6

or at least he was one of the people leading the way for this act to be voted on in Congress.

0:35.2

I believe it's called the Epstein Transparency Act or something along those

0:39.4

lines. Anyway, Trump, for the past few months, has been very resistant to releasing the Epstein

0:48.4

files, or at least all of the Epstein files. And all of a sudden, he is now saying, OK, a vote to release everything.

0:58.4

What are your thoughts?

0:59.3

Well, it's a capitulation.

1:01.2

He's agreed to it because it was going to happen.

1:04.7

Thomas Massey, as you rightly say, proposed it.

1:08.2

There's a significant number of Republicans who support it too, and the Democrats for their

1:13.9

own reasons.

1:15.3

And by the way, I would not be surprised if there's eventually backfires on them, but they

1:20.1

were also going through the motions of pretending to support it as well.

1:24.4

So it would have passed.

1:26.3

And what Trump cannot afford politically at the moment,

1:31.0

and we've already discussed in programs which we've done with each other and with Robert Barnes

1:38.2

last week, that he's currently politically very damaged. Anyway, he cannot afford to go down to a massive defeat over

1:47.3

an issue like this. I mean, what would he have done? Let's say Congress had passed a bill like

1:52.5

this. Would he have vetoed it? I'm going to think what the effect of that would have been.

1:57.1

So he had no choice. And very grudgingly and very angrily, and after making

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