Trump DOJ: There's Nothing to the Epstein Story; State Dept: Syria's Al-Qaeda are No Longer "Terrorists"
System Update with Glenn Greenwald
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🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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The DOJ announces that there is no incriminating client list in the Epstein files despite the administration having promised MAGA influencers that there would be bombshell revelations in the case. Plus: the State Department drops the "terrorist" designation for the Al-Qaeda affiliated HTS organization, showing the emptiness of the "terrorism" label.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. It's Monday, July 7th. Welcome to a new episode of System Update. Our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern exclusively here on Rumble. The free speech all turned it to YouTube. Tonight, one of the most significant scandals among Maga pundants and operatives within pro-Trump discourse generally over the last four years has been the one involving Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 0:40.8 | Many leading Maga pundits, including some who now occupy the highest law enforcement positions in the entire U.S. government, |
| 0:48.7 | spent years vehemently accusing Biden officials of corruptly hiding the truth about Epstein, about his client list, |
| 0:55.8 | about his associates, about his ties to intelligence agencies, and about his supposed suicide, |
| 1:01.7 | all in order, they said, to protect powerful people caught up in his sex trafficking pedophile ring. |
| 1:08.3 | That is why it was so disconcerting to many Maga faithful to watch not only |
| 1:12.9 | delays for months, but numerous excuses emanating from many of those very same officials as to why |
| 1:19.1 | they were not yet releasing these documents, one excuse after the next. Those oddly phrased claims |
| 1:25.0 | were coming from people like Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI director Cash Patel and his deputy director, Dan Bongino, all of whom vocally affirmed over and over the last four years that the U.S. government was guilty of hiding incriminating truths surrounding Epstein and all of whom vowed to release all those secrets and all those files once they got into power. |
| 1:45.4 | They are now in power. |
| 1:47.2 | And yet in less than five months there, the DOJ announced today, the one under Pam Bondi, |
| 1:52.0 | that they are closing the investigation, given the certainty that they say they have, |
| 1:56.5 | that Epstein had no client list. |
| 1:58.2 | There's no such thing as an Epstein client list that he never tried |
| 2:02.5 | to blackmail anyone, that no powerful people were involved whatsoever with him in his sexual |
| 2:07.7 | abuse of minors. He just acted alone for his own benefit. And they say that he undoubtedly killed |
| 2:14.1 | himself that there's no question about that. Now, all of this is such a blatant betrayal of what was promised all of these ears such that all but the most blindly loyal Trump |
| 2:24.5 | followers, like the real cult numbers, a lot of them almost certainly paid to be that, are reacting |
| 2:29.6 | with understandable confusion and anger over what happened today and over the last several |
| 2:33.4 | months. We'll delve into all of this and what this means. Then, as recently as December of 2024, |
| 2:38.2 | just six months ago, the U.S. Justice Department on its own site promoted a $10 million bounty |
| 2:44.1 | on the head of someone they referred to as Muhammad Al Jolani, whose picture appeared on the DOJ site under this red-lettered phrase in all |
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