Trump's Kryptonite: The Epstein Files

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🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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This week, Rick's Elephant in the Room highlights the incredibly contradictory statements made by Pam Bondi, Dan Bongino, and Kash Patel as they backtrack on their previous comments about the Epstein files, now claiming "there's nothing to see here, folks." (Shocker.) This has caused a major MAGA meltdown -- cut to Alex Jones crying in a self-filmed iPhone video, Steve Bannon calling for a special prosecutor to investigate, and Elon Musk claiming that Bannon is also in the Epstein files. But here's a fun little fact...Donald Trump has more photos with Jeffrey Epstein than anyone else, even more than Ghislaine Maxwell. In February of this past year, Axios released documents from the 2021 US vs. Ghislaine Maxwell case -- those materials remain public to this day. We've included a link below so you can view the public materials while they remain available...who knows what the Trump administration will do with them? Only a guilty person would work so hard to keep their secret safe. Link to the Epstein materials from Axios: https://www.axios.com/2025/02/28/jeffrey-epstein-documents-release-names-flights • • • • • Follow Rick Wilson at @TheRickWilson on X and @therickwilson.bsky.social on Bluesky, and subscribe to his Substack at therickwilson.substack.com. Join the fight with the Lincoln Project at www.lincolnproject.us and follow LP on X at @ProjectLincoln. If you'd like to help us continue our critical work, visit https://action.lincolnproject.us/helplp to make a difference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and battlehardt.
0:06.0	There is not a liberal America and a conservative America. There is the United States of America.
0:14.5	Good night and good luck.
0:16.9	Hey folks, it's Rick. Welcome back to the Lincoln Projects, the elephant in the room, where every
0:21.6	Friday we try to peel apart a political issue that's going on in this country, pull the curtain
0:26.2	back, let you see the ugly machinations inside, and let you have a little perspective on what I
0:32.3	really think is going on. This week's elephant in the room is sick. It's perverse. It's degenerate. It's Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
0:45.8	The Epstein cover-up is in full swing. Not only is the Epstein cover-up in full swing. The MAGA cover-up of its previous
0:52.7	upsettedness about the Epstein cover-up is in full swing.
0:56.3	I want to cover the grotesque nature of this as bluntly as I can. Donald Trump and Jeffrey
1:01.7	Epstein, as has been thoroughly documented for decades now, were the closest to friends for
1:07.2	about a 20-year period. They partied together. They did business together. They
1:11.1	traveled together. Trump took his jet seven times, the various places that we know of.
1:16.2	All of these things, this relationship led to Donald Trump being at a position in the world
1:22.2	where there are more photographs of him with Jeffrey Epstein than Jeffrey Epstein with any other
1:30.2	person. There are more photographs of Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein. Think about that again
1:35.3	than with Jeffrey Epstein with any other person. Even Glenn Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's longtime
1:40.5	companion, the relationship was undeniable. And so was Epstein. Epstein's behavior in court
1:46.2	filings, in the Florida case against him, in the federal case, or monstrous. And here's the
1:51.9	sickness that this instantaneous or near instantaneous MAGA accommodation with the cover-up presents.
1:59.4	It's not just that the MAGA folks are taking a giant dose of copium,
2:02.5	which they are. They're smacking a big old, big old needle full of copium right now. The problem with
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