Is Trump trying to distract us from the Epstein files?
The News Agents - USA
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4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The deadline to release the Epstein files is now over a month old. Last night, a congressional committee confirmed Ghislaine Maxwell would appear before it in a hearing on February 9th. Although she may choose to say little. The vote in Congress last November created a legal obligation on the government to release the Epstein files. So what happens now if the justice department refuses to comply?
Later, how Gavin Newson rose through the Democrat ashes to lead the polls as the front runner in 2028. What has he discovered in how to deal with Trump?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | We have some breaking news into CNN. Jeffrey Epstein accomplice and convicted sex trafficker |
| 0:17.3 | Gillen Maxwell is offering to testify before Congress. But her lawyers say |
| 0:22.4 | she has a list of demands before she talks to them. Over a month has now elapsed since the |
| 0:29.1 | Justice Department was meant to have published all the Epstein papers. Only a tiny fraction |
| 0:36.1 | have so far been released. |
| 0:38.3 | But late last night, we received news that Gillen Maxwell, the only person now serving a prison sentence for sex trafficking in Epstein's ring, is going to appear before Congress. |
| 0:51.2 | Will that make any material difference to what happens now? Welcome to the Newsagents |
| 0:56.3 | USA. The Newsagents USA with Emily Maitliss and John Sopal. It's John. It's Emily. And we have had |
| 1:06.0 | a lot of people contacting us over the past few weeks saying, Er, Epstein, what's happening? |
| 1:12.6 | Has everyone forgotten about it? |
| 1:14.0 | Has it all been sorted? |
| 1:15.3 | Has it all gone away? |
| 1:16.4 | And it's easy to imagine that it has given the kind of avalanche of news about what's |
| 1:23.2 | happening with ICE officers in Minneapolis, what's happening in Greenland, and we are covering all those |
| 1:29.4 | topics extensively on the main newsagents feed. But on Newsagents USA, we want to come back to this, |
| 1:35.0 | because no way has the whole dossier over Geoffrey Epstein and what happened to those poor |
| 1:42.4 | young women who were trafficked to his island, has it gone |
| 1:45.4 | away? It is still very current and very hot. Let's take you back to November just to remind you |
| 1:51.8 | that Congress pretty unanimously voted to release the Epstein files. They put pressure on Donald Trump |
| 2:00.3 | when he was forced by members of his own |
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