Trump attempts one last-ditch effort to bury the Epstein files, and I've got foreign

interviews, Bernie Sanders, Jamie Raskin, J.B. Pritzker, and Potsave America's John Lovett.

I'm Brian Tyler Cohen. You're listening to No Lie.

So the walls are very clearly closing in on Trump. For the first time that I can remember,

there are full-blown public defections, including from his own party. Marjorie Taylor Green, one of his closest allies, has publicly bailed on him. She, along with three other Republicans, Mace, Massey, and Bobert, all voted for the discharge petition to compel a House vote on the Epstein Files release. And now that it's happening, a raft of other Republicans have begun announcing that they

also are going to vote for it. So far, some of the names include Eli Crane, Warren Davidson, Kevin

Kylie, that's just to name a few. Rokana and Thomas Massey have said that they expect anywhere

from 30 to 50 other Republicans to ultimately vote for its release, recognizing the inevitability

of its passage and,

you know, therefore not wanting to be the person who offers up some symbolic vote protecting

pedophiles. Like if you can't even help Donald Trump actually suppress these files, you might as well

not be on record suppressing these files and protecting pedophiles. Now, Trump, for his part,

has tried everything. The guy has slow walked

the files that are being released in the Oversight Committee, relying largely on files that were

already made public. With the help of Mike Johnson, he kept the government closed for months,

refusing to swear in Adelaide Grahalva so that the discharge petition wouldn't ripen.

Once she was sworn in, Trump summoned Lauren Bobert to the

Situation Room, where conspicuously, you can't record anything, and that was to pressure her to

remove her name from the petition, which of course she didn't. And now that the petition's passed,

he's publicly attacking Marjorie Taylor Green, having unendorsed her and is lending support to

anybody who wants to challenge her in a

primary, and that's a way of him to send a message to other Republicans who dare defect, all of

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