The State of the Union is Sadistic Elites on a Crime Spree

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🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

We are up against a transnational mafia, as Gaslit Nation has long warned, and the Epstein files expose it, despite the ongoing cover-up. This week, investigative journalist Dave Troy joins the show to connect the dots between Epstein, the Kremlin, and far-right operatives who have spent decades dismantling our democracy, including the Florida 2000 recount that ensured George W. Bush came to power. (Bush's administration gave Epstein an illegal "sweetheart deal," allowing him and Maxwell to continue their crime network, trafficking children to the ruling elite).

"The U.S. government has been infiltrated by these networks for decades," Troy says. Epstein was not a lone wolf. He was deeply embedded in a transnational crime syndicate with ties extending to Russian intelligence and powerful oligarchs who are still trying to create a lawless "network state" where they can operate above the law.

We also discuss the dangerous complacency of assuming our institutions will protect us, especially when the very people tasked with upholding the law, from the DOJ to high-profile attorneys, protect the shadow network. Their goal is to demoralize us with complexity. By tracing their connections, we can understand their playbook and fight back.

Show Notes:

Trump is friends with at least five known pedophiles https://www.gaslitnationpod.com/episodes-transcripts-20/2019/4/8/kleptocracy-world-order?rq=Five%20pedophiles

Dave Troy's news site: https://america2.news/author/davetroy/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Gaslit Nation. I am your host, Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker and the writer and producer of the journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones,
0:21.7	the film The Cremlin doesn't want you to see, so be sure to watch it.
0:25.5	Today, I am joined by a very special guest that I have a million questions for, and that is
0:31.9	the investigative journalist, Dave Troy, and you must check out his reporting on his site,
0:38.6	America2.News, hosted by Ghost.
0:41.8	That's America2.
0:42.9	Dot News.
0:43.9	And we are going to connect the dots between Trump, Epstein, and Russia, as well as the far
0:50.9	right Republican traders in their long game to hijack American democracy and live
0:57.7	above the law.
1:00.5	Before we get into that, I want to ground everybody in how extraordinary and criminal and
1:08.3	corrupt Epstein's sweetheart deal was that he signed in September 2007
1:14.7	under Republican President George Shelby U. Bush.
1:18.9	John Ashcroft was Attorney General at the time, and representing the United States
1:23.4	government in Southern Florida was federal U.S. attorney Alex Acosta. And what is significant here
1:30.9	is that the female FBI agent, her name was Nesbit Kurikendel, she had put together an airtight
1:40.2	case that would land Jeffrey Epstein, pedophile, behind bars for the rest of his life.
1:48.0	There's something like 40 counts in this airtight document.
1:52.1	She promised several of his survivors that the FBI would finally get this man.
1:57.7	And the Palm Beach, Florida detectives that were first on this investigation
2:03.5	were working with the FBI, helping them, giving them the whole backstory, tracking the case,
2:11.0	being supporters, and they were convinced that should Epstein's go to trial, that would be it. Prison for life for Epstein
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