BLOGMay 19, 2017

How Do You Say Dude in Russian? And Other Musings on Running a Country

Does Bill O'Reilly think there should be an independent investigation into the president's dealings with Russia and James Comey?

"Absolutely," O'Reilly said Friday on The Glenn Beck Program.

But only to clear him of any impeachable wrongdoing. While both Glenn and Bill agree Trump didn't break any laws, he did act in very imprudent ways.

"I don't believe that Donald Trump is involved in some scheme with Vladimir Putin. I don't believe that he was trying to, in nefarious ways, get Comey to drop it. I think what he was looking for was, 'Look, dude, I want you to be my friend,'" Glenn theorized.

The biggest problem facing President Trump? Himself.

"The president has got to learn that this is not a business deal. You're the president of the United States," Glenn said.

But is it possible for Trump to learn lessons from his terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week?

"That is the most astute question that you've asked in this hour," O'Reilly jabbed, jokingly. "The big mistake that Trump made --- and he can't make it again --- was having a private meeting with James Comey. If you're president of the United States, you don't have a private meeting with anybody. Didn't the Lewinksy thing, you know, [teach you anything]?"

Enjoy the complimentary clip or listen to the entire segment for details.

GLENN: Bill O'Reilly joins us now for a look at the week in review. Bill, Donald Trump had a pretty hair-raising week.

BILL: I think that's true. And if you want to break it down, we can do that in about a minute.

The first thing that put him back was a allegation that he gave classified information to Russians when he met with them. The Russian ambassador and the foreign minister. That story's bogus, and it has gone away pretty much now. But the antiTrump media ran with it heavily. Okay? But, look, Trump was trying to convince the Russians to help him with ISIS more. So he said, look, they want to bomb everybody's airlines. You already lost one airline over the Sinai. Here's what they're doing. Our intel says they're close to doing it. That's not giving away national security, and he has a perfect right to try to convince the Russian -- these are the two top guys, so it's like talking to Putin. That was a bogus story.

GLENN: I will tell you that, you know, Israel couldn't be more happy that Trump is in office, and they said it was us and the official word is we're good, et cetera, et cetera. But some of their generals did come out, and they were pushing for we can't trust America with anything.

BILL: Yeah, all right.

GLENN: So it was a big deal, but it wasn't an impeachable offense, which the media was trying to make it into.

BILL: I'm looking at it from a does it hurt the American people? And it does not. Okay.

The second one, much more serious. So he fires Comey. I don't think Trump, by the way, because he's such a wealthy man in his life never really had to deal with blow back understands that when you take a controversial action, people are going to come after you. So what happened was he fires Comey, Comey's friends in the FBI said. Okay. Now it's our turn. So they leak out notes that the former FBI director took on on a one-on-one meeting with the president. And the notes say that Trump wanted Comey to lighten up on the national security adviser Flynn who was fired as well. Okay. Big story. Got to get to the bottom of that story. But here's the deal. As soon as I heard that, I went "Didn't Comey testify under oath that there was no interference in the Russian investigation with congress?" Yes, he did.

GLENN: Hang on. Wait, wait.

BILL: That there was no -- McCabe that there was no Russian interference? Yes, he did. Okay. So now you have Comey and McCabe both saying under oath, hey, you know, there's no interference. All right. So then . . .

GLENN: What did she wait, wait. Can I just point out something? I want to point something out here. He answered a very specific question about was there interference from the justice department. He did not talk about White House interference. He was -- he answered a very specific question. Was there interference from this person, this person, or this person? And that's the answer. No, there was no interference there.

BILL: Okay. But on McCabe, it was much broader. And all I'm saying to you is this: If President Trump did put the arm on James Comey in a private meeting to somehow go easy on the Russia investigation in total, in total, that should have been reported, and it was not.

GLENN: Right.

BILL: Okay?

GLENN: Yes.

BILL: That's all. So then you basically say all right. We have a mess. It's a mess. And of course, the anti-Trump media is impeach him. Hang him. Set him on fire, you know? All of that. So I'm sitting here going. Okay. Why don't we have level-headed -- now, I did call for BillOreilly.com on the podcast, which was nice of you to mention, I did call for a special investigator to be appointed. Because then Trump could say I'm going to concede my mistake. And it's a good choice. With one exception. Muller is a friend of Comey's. So there's no doubt that the leak came from the FBI, and that's why Comey got fired in the first place because Trump felt that the FBI was leaking all kinds of stuff out.

Now, I think that's going to be blown out to be true, in my opinion.

GLENN: So you're one of the only people -- by the way, talking to Bill O'Reilly from BillOreilly.com. Who knew he had a podcast or a book? But he had just written a book called old school.

BILL: Two books.

GLENN: What's the other book?

BILL: "Killing the Rising Sun" and "Old School." Get them for dad.

GLENN: Yeah, they have to sell. They're backing up in Bill's garage. They have to get them moved out. He has to pull his family van in there. Anyway. BillOreilly.com.

This is interesting because a lot of people's knee-jerk reaction is special prosecutor, we don't need a special prosecutor. I think this is actually good because I really don't believe -- I don't believe that Donald Trump is involved in some scheme with Vladimir Putin. I don't believe that he was trying to in nefarious ways get Comey to drop it. I think what he was looking for was, look, dude, I want you to be my friend. There's nothing here he's leaving anyway, let's just move on. And I think he doesn't think of things the way he needs to because he's president. He's thinking of things like a businessman.

BILL: I agree. But here's the question for you. How do you say dude in Russian?

GLENN: I don't.

BILL: Look, the key part of your question was the word jerk. So on the left, whatever Trump does is impeachable, and we have to murder him. On the right, we don't want to know because we like him. So the special counsel, whatever you want to call Muller is necessary to stop the madness, which it has. Which it has. Stop the madness. We have a country to run here. If we need a fourth investigator, FBI one, senate two, house three. If we need a fourth, fine. Now, it isn't Trump's style, and I can tell you this because I know him very well, to make back room deals that don't benefit Trump to the tune of billions of dollars. He doesn't do that. He did want to have a good relationship with Putin. Yes. Did he sell out? Did he do anything untoward? We'll find out. We'll find out. But right now on the record, there isn't anything.

GLENN: So but you do believe that these investigations are important and can clear this up?

BILL: Yes. Absolutely. You've got to have that.

GLENN: So there's a lot of people, Bill, though, who are on the right who just don't want to hear it, and they think that this is --

BILL: So what. That was Nixon too when. Nixon left office, 33 percent of Americans didn't want him to, according to the exit poll when he got on the helicopter and waved goodbye. You're always going to have that.

GLENN: So let me ask you this: The other part of this, one, we have to have an independent investigation. Let's just get it done. The second part of this -- leave out the press because I don't think the press is curable at all. But the president has got to learn that this is not a business deal. You're the President of the United States.

BILL: Absolutely.

GLENN: Will he learn that?

BILL: That is the most astute question that you've asked in this hour. The big mistake that Trump made, and he can't make it again, was having a private meeting with James Comey. If you're President of the United States, you don't have a private meeting with anybody. Didn't Lewinksy thing, you know -- you don't meet privately with anybody ever. You always have somebody there. Andy Card was velcroed to Bush the youngers side--

GLENN: Bill, you were there with the height of my controversy with me where I was white hot, you know hatred or love, and even I at that point would never have meetings with people by myself. Ever. And that's me. I just knew I was a target.

BILL: Absolutely.

GLENN: The president has got to learn this.

BILL: I always left my door open when anybody would come into my office. You can't. And the fact that Comey -- and Trump doesn't even trust him, and you meet with him alone? You can't do that.

GLENN: So if you're an adviser, and you're talking to Donald Trump, what is the advice you give to him to make this stop?

BILL: Well, he's already done it. The justice department appointed Muller, but you know Trump had to okay that. Sessions doesn't do anything on his own. So he's already done it, and it's already succeeded to some extent. Now he goes abroad. It's a big dog and pony show over there. And the anti-Trump press is going to come out with something every day. Every day there's going to be something else. Somebody will leak something, and they'll do this and that. But it doesn't reach critical mass; right? Unless there is a very specific allegation. And now Trump has just got to say hold it. You got four investigations. Let him do it. Let him do it. And then he doesn't have to be involved with it anymore, so I think he avoided the bullet but, boy, you can't make too many more mistakes. He just cannot do it.

GLENN: Going over to Israel, he won't say -- or he said that they're going to move the embassy. If I said there was anybody that would move it, it would be him.

BILL: Yeah, but that's a Netanyahu call, though. He's not making that call. He's going to do what Netanyahu wants. We don't know. We're not privy to what Netanyahu wants. But if Netanyahu wants the American embassy in Jerusalem, it will be there. If he doesn't, it won't. That's what's going on there.

GLENN: You're saying Netanyahu tells our president what to do on that?

BILL: On a case like this? Yes.

GLENN: Wow. Bill O'Reilly from BillOreilly.com. I pay him in sandwiches, so I promise him that he could say something nice about something --

BILL: Yes, we need to get everybody mobilized. Go to BillOreilly.com. Signed books. I'll give you yours for free.

GLENN: I don't believe I have any of your books signed. I don't think you signed a single book for me. Not one.

BILL: Now I will. And -- but who are you going to give it to? This is what I want you to know. I'm going to send you two signed books. Now you can put them right up on eBay and make some money. But if you're going to give them to somebody, who are you going to give them to?

GLENN: I'm going to give one of them to my dad.

BILL: Good. Old school. I'm sure he's an old school guy; right?

GLENN: I'm going to take a shovel and bury your book right next to him, and he's going to love it.

[Laughter]

BILL: Oh, I see.

GLENN: BillOreilly.com. Grab his books. The killing the rising sun is fascinating. You'll learn more than you ever knew about World War II and Japan and old school.

BILL: Can I say one more thing?

GLENN: Oh, jeez. What?

BILL: If people came in on this interview late, Beck post it on The Blaze, and I post it on BillOreilly.com. The whole interview from top to bottom. So I think people want to listen to it again if they came in the middle.

GLENN: And I especially want you to go back and listen to the warm, friendly greeting that Bill did.

PAT: It meant so much to you, right?

GLENN: It meant so much.

BILL: I'll work harder on it.

PAT: No, you couldn't do it any better.

GLENN: People say that you're a cold bastard, and I don't see it.

PAT: No. Oh, my goodness. No.

BILL: Would it help, Beck, if I called you dude? Would that help?

[Laughter]

STU: I think so.

GLENN: No. No, it really wouldn't. No, it really wouldn't.

STU: I think you should go back too and listen to the incredible compliment that Mr. O'Reilly paid to you, Glenn, when he said this is the most amazing question you asked in this hour. Which was huge. What a hurdle to clear.

GLENN: The most astute.

STU: You have the most beautiful girl in the room.

GLENN: We're alone. Bill, thanks a lot, man. Appreciate it.

BILL: All right. Guys, we'll see you next week.

GLENN: See you next week. Bill O'Reilly every Friday and every day at BillOreilly.com.

STU: One thing I like Bill O'Reilly is he never makes me feel panicked. Whenever there's a really stressful situation, he just kind of says stuff, and I'm, like, okay. I guess we're all right. Who cares. We'll make it through this.

PAT: Very calming.

STU: There's something calming about the way he talks about issues that I really enjoy.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: You freak me out. He --

GLENN: No, and you know what? I want to -- but he -- his deal is he never reads beyond the day. He has told me over and over again. Off the air. I'll say come on, Bill. George Soros. Come on. And he's, like, you can live ahead of the news cycle. I live today. This I know to be true today.

STU: You need both. Both.

GLENN: But that's where the tension between us comes, which I really enjoy. That and the fact that he is just --

PAT: Oh.

GLENN: He smells like a funeral home. When you talk to him, don't you just.

JEFFY: Feel that funeral home --

GLENN: Yeah. Okay. I'm only saying that because I know he's listening.

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SHOCK POLL: The % of Young People Who Support SOCIALISM is Insane

New polling reveals a shocking truth: young Americans aren’t just open to socialism... they overwhelmingly want a socialist president in 2028. Glenn Beck and Justin Haskins break down five alarming surveys showing massive ideological shifts among voters ages 18-39, including young Republicans. Why is socialism exploding in popularity, and what does this mean for the future of America? Are we on the brink of a political transformation or potentially even a national crisis?

Watch This FULL Episode of 'Glenn TV' HERE

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott joins Glenn Beck to expose why Texans are being crushed by skyrocketing property taxes — and how local governments, not the state, keep driving homeowners deeper into financial distress. Gov. Abbott breaks down his five-point plan to impose strict spending limits, force voter approval for tax hikes, reform out-of-control appraisals, empower citizens to slash taxes themselves, and eliminate school district property taxes for homeowners altogether. Glenn argues that property tax is morally wrong because it prevents Texans from ever truly owning their land, and Abbott lays out his strategy to fight both parties in the legislature to finally deliver lasting relief.

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Joe Rogan & Glenn AGREE: We just got CLOSER to civil war

Joe Rogan recently warned that we may have gotten to Step 7 of 9 in the lead-up to civil war. Glenn reviews the 9 Steps and explains why he believes Rogan nailed this one. But Glenn also lays out what Americans MUST do to reverse this trend...

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Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: So if you take what Fetterman said yesterday about how people are cheering for him to die on the left, and then you couple it with something that was on the Joe Rogan show on Tuesday. He was saying that the reaction to the death of Charlie Kirk makes him think that the US is closer to Civil War than -- than he thought.

Now, let me quote him. He said, after the Charlie Kirk thing. I'm like, oh, my.

We might be at seven. This might be he step seven on the way to a bona fide Civil War. Charlie Kirk gets shot, and people are celebrating.

Like, whoa. Whoa. Whoa.

You want people to die that you disagree with?

Where are we now on the scale of Civil War?

Well, let me go over the scale of Civil War, because it's sobering.

Now, none of this has to be true. If we wake up and decide, I don't want to do this anymore!

Okay?

Here's step one.

Step one. Loss of civic trust.

Every civil conflict begins when people stop believing that the system is fair. Are we there?

We're so far -- we're so far past the doorway, we are comfortably asleep on the couch on this one. Gallup and Pew both show trust in Congress, the media courts, and the FBI government are now at record lows.

The Edelman Trust Barometer classifies the US now as severely polarized. Majority of Republicans distrust federal elections. Majority of Democrats don't trust the Supreme Court.

Americans are really united on one thing, and that is the other side is corrupt!

When faith in the rules collapses, the republic begins to wobble. But that's step one. Step two, polarization hardens into identity!

Political disagreement is normal!

Identity conflict is fatal!

But that's what Marxists push. Identity politics. This is when politics stopped being about policy, and started being about who you are as a person.

Have we crossed this one into step two?

I mean, we're neck deep into this. A study on this, from PRRI.

It's a survey, found 23 percent of Americans believe political violence may be necessary to save the that I guess.

I think that's an old study. Americans now sort themselves by ZIP code into ideological enclaves. The big sort: Universities, activists, corporations. Everybody is promoting oppressor versus oppressed.

And that -- does what?

It puts us into incompatible tribes. Opponents aren't wrong anymore. The opponent is dangerous!

If I go back and you look at civil wars, Lebanon, before 1975. Yugoslavia, before 1991. That's -- we're doing that. Okay?

Step three. Breakdown of the gatekeepers. The gatekeepers are kind of like the referees of society. It's the media, political parties, churches, civic leaders.

When they fail, extremism fills the vacuum. Okay. Where are we on this? Have our gatekeepers failed us?

Yeah. I think both parties, especially the left, you know, everything I predicted that the left was going to be eaten by the extreme left, and then the communists and the socialists is now happening.

They've lost control of the fringe of each party. Media transformed, you know, from referees into team coaches. Tech platforms. It's outrage for profit. Universities are not there to cool things down. They heat them up.

Churches. Churches are useless. Useless.

When the referees leave the field, the game devolves into a brawl. And the refs are gone off the field. So there are only nine steps. We're at step four. Here's step four.

Are you ready for this one?

Parallel information realities.

Civil wars don't require different opinions. They require different realities.

I remember reading about Germany, at the beginning of, you know, the Nazi era. How the two new newspapers. One was propaganda for the government.

And the other one, it was the last one that was kind of the holdout.

And they said, you could read them, and they would cover the same thing.

But they had almost no information was the same. Except, that happened yesterday.

Here's what they said. And then everything else was different. That's exactly -- I mean, step four is complete!

We can't agree on facts, right?

Crime rates. Border numbers. Inflation. Election security.

Two Americans can watch the same video. And see opposite truths.

Social media algorithms are creating customized political universes.

Digital echo chambers. Deepfakes. We're just at the beginning of that. And both sides accuse the other of running disinformation machines.

Why? Because we don't have a shared reality. So if you don't have a shared reality. How do you settle any dispute?

On the nine steps, we're up to number five. Coming in at number five.

Loss of neutral rule of law.

This out of the nine steps with, five is the pivot point.

It's not corruption, it's the belief that the law is no longer neutral.

Are we there yet?

Let me tell you the CBS you.gov poll. 67 percent say the justice system is used for political purposes.

I think that's low. January 6 defendants given years in prison, 2020 rioters were released. High profile political figures, prosecuted or shielded based on party.

FBI whistle-blowers alleging pressure to inflate domestic extremism numbers. States like Texas, directly defying federal directives, on border enforcement.

And now, leading the way, with the federal government.

History is really cold and unforgiving on this point.

Once the people believe justice is political! Remember, this is the turning point.

The republic stands on borrowed time. Once you no longer believe that justice is achievable. Step six.

Are we there?

I think we are.

Step six. Normalization of political violence!

This is where violence stops shocking the system. Are we there?

Remember, where violence stops shocking the system. Look at evidence just from Virginia. What they just voted for.

He was calling for the death of a -- a political opposition.

Calling for his children to be killed.

Was called on it, never apologized.

Never said anything other than, yeah. I know. He dug it deeper.

Was anyone shocked by it? Apparently not. They elected him. Here's the evidence. 2020 riots.
574 events. $2 billion in damage. Was anybody outraged by that? Or was it downplayed and excused?
Assassination attempts. Assassination attempts against the president. Supreme Court justice.

Fistfights. And mob actions on college campuses. To silence speakers. Rising to do for punching a fascist or stopping genocide. Depending on the ideology. Online chatter discussing Civil War, national divorce, and revolution.

When violence becomes part of the political language, a nation crosses an invisible line. We're now up to step seven out of nine.

This is where Joe Rogan said, are we at step seven?

The rise of militias and parallel forces.

When a state loses he is monopoly on force.

Countdown accelerates. So where are we on this one?

I think we're seeing, maybe early signs of this.

You're starting to see the -- the states kind of organize these mobs, you know, to go after ICE.

Right?

Armed groups, right-wing, left-wing radical secessionists. Anyone.

Once they start forming their own police forces. Or their own option forces, then you have -- then you have everything really falling apart.

Entirely!

I don't think we're there, yet!

But we're starting to see the beginnings of this.

Step eight. The trigger event.

Civil Wars don't begin with a plan. They begin with a spark.

So where are we?

We're not here yet. The conditions are right. Potential triggers, disputed election in '26 or '28.

Political assassination or major attack.

Supreme Court decision that ignites mass unrest.

Financial crisis or dollar crisis.

A state federal standoff turning violent!

Nothing is ignited yet, but the room is soaked in gasoline. So we don't have seven. We're on the verge of eight, at any time. And here's nine.

This is the point of no return.

When police, military, or federal agencies split, even if no one calls it that, well, where are we?

Well, I just read a story about how with the Mamdani election in New York, a good number of the police force is going to leave. And they're going to go join police forces elsewhere. You also have the tension between the state National Guard, and the federal directives, the state guard and the state directives. Law enforcement recruitment is at crisis lows. The distrust of the FBI, DOJ, CIA. Tens of millions of Americans. I always really respected those institutions. I have no respect for them now. If you have states openly defying federal rules on immigration, drug laws, sanctuary policies.
Whistle-blower claims of internal politicization.

All of these things are in play for the first time in 150 years, people can imagine!

So I give this to you, not to be fearful of, but to know where you are. As a map!

Know where you are.

And hopefully, it might wake some people up, if you chart America on, on the nine step model of Civil War. Steps one through four, completed!

Step five, happening!

Step six, happening! Step seven, beginning! Step eight, just waiting for it. And step nine, avoidable, only if step eight, never happens. Again, I'm not telling you for doom purposes, this is diagnosis. This is a doctor going, I want you to look at the chart.

And this is a doctor saying, I want you to look at -- do you see what's happening to your body?

If you don't stop this habit, you are going to die. You don't have to die. You can stop smoking and drinking right now. You can start exercising. But if you don't, you are going to die.

The question is, are we the nation that says, nah, that's not going to happen to me. Or are we the nation that wakes up and sees our chart and says, good heavens, it's way far more gone than I thought it was. But I feel something in the air.

I'm going to change my behavior. The nation that refuses to look and wake up and stop calling their neighbors enemies, is the nation that fails!

We have to strengthen these things that have already fallen. And, you know what, the easiest one to do is?

Church. Where are you ministers and pastors priests and rabbis?

Where the hell are you?

I think there's going to be a special section for you, when you cross over to the -- because you're doing things in the name of God!

So when you get to the other side, I think there's going to be a special section for those who remained silent. While his rights were being taken away.

You don't own that right.

I don't own that right.

The Lord gave us those rights, and said, protect them!

By you, being the representative, the voice box, if you will, of the Lord, to shepherd his people. By you not standing up and saying, hey, by the way, we have -- we have a moral responsibility to protect these rights for the next generation! By you refusing because you're afraid. Because I think, there's no politics in the Bible! There's no politics in the Bible. Really?

The whole thing is about politics. Is about the moral way you have to live your life.

Calling things as you see them. Calling them back to eternal principles.

He didn't tell anybody how to vote. Render to Caesar what is Caesar's.

But there are certain principles that you have to have, or you lose not only this citizenship, but the next citizenship. The one that really matters. And, boy, if you are doing it because you're a coward, you are in the wrong business!

Get out of the pulpit, and go to work at Jack in the Box.

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Democrat “SMOKING GUN” on Trump & Epstein gets DESTROYED by facts

The House Oversight Democrats recently released "new" emails allegedly proving President Trump lied about his knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes. However, Glenn points out a glaring issue with these emails that destroys their entire narrative...

Transcript

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GLENN: Well, let's dive right into the Epstein Maxwell emails. My gosh, Stu!

Why are they trying to cover up that Donald Trump had sex with children!

STU: I mean, it's just clear, as -- as day, in the emails!

GLENN: Yeah. No.

STU: He spent hours with one of the victims. What else could have possibly have occurred in that arrangement? We don't know!

GLENN: And it's -- it's one of the victims, Stu. One of the victims!

STU: One of the victims, that's all we know. One of the victims.

GLENN: Let me read what Jeffrey Epstein wrote. I want you to realize that the dog who hasn't barked is Trump. Victim redacted. Victim spent hours at my house with him. He has never once been mentioned. Police chief, et cetera.

Okay. New information, just released. Or is it?

Because in 2011, 2011, that was released and everybody knew it. It's been out floating around. Here's the change: In 2011, this is what it read.

I want you to realize that the dog hasn't barked is Trump. Virginia spent hours at my house with him.

Why would you redact a name that is already out in the public square!

It's already out!

The memo is already out. The email is already out. It's been out for years. Why would you redact that name now?

Well, because it makes it all of a sudden, new and shiny. Shiny and new. If you don't know who said it, you see victim, and you're like, oh, you see victim. Who is the victim?

I don't know. But when you know it's Virginia, you know this has already gone to court. This is -- she already testified about this!

He didn't partake in any of this, any sex with any of it. It's true. He didn't partake in any sex with us, and I'm quoting, this is from the testimony. But it's not true, that he flirted with me. Donald Trump never flirted with me. Have you ever met him?

Yes, at Mar-a-Lago, my dad and him. I wouldn't say they were friends, but my dad knew him, and they would talk. Have you ever been in Donald Trump or Jeffrey Epstein's presence with one another? No!

What's the basis of your statement that Donald Trump is a good friend of Jeffrey? Jeffrey has told me that Donald Trump is a good friend of his.

He didn't partake in any of -- any of the sex with any of it. He flirted with me.

It's true, that he didn't partake in any sex with us. But it's not true that he flirted with me.

So I don't understand that. But she goes on. Donald Trump never flirted with me!

Okay. So what -- what's new about this?

This is the same girl, this is the same person that -- didn't she work at Mar-a-Lago?

Or she was going to get a job at Mar-a-Lago.

STU: Yeah. I believe she did at one point.

GLENN: Yeah. So we know they know each other. We know they know each other.

We know that at Mar-a-Lago, Jeffrey Epstein would come, and he was poaching the employees. The girls there. To go work for him.

And Donald Trump went to him. And said, "Hey, man. Stop it. Stop poaching people from me. That's not cool. Don't do it." And then he said, "Oh, yeah. All right." And then he did it a second time. And he's like, "You know what, you're out. I don't want you here anymore. I asked you not to do it, and you did it." Now, that doesn't mean that he knew what was happening to the girls or what was happening or anything else.

And even if it did mean something was happening with the girls, he was saying, "Hey. Stop it! Don't take any of the girls or the women here.
Don't do it." I don't believe he knew anything about any of this. But God only knows! And really, God only knows!

This is not new news. Donald Trump, he might end up beating Bezos as the richest man on the planet! When all is said and done!

Because, again, the -- they're presenting this as new fact, a giant scandal. Stu, I don't know if you know this. This is -- this breaking news is a giant scandal.

STU: Yeah. I've heard democratic representatives saying that over the past 24 hours. Yeah. We need to investigate this.

This is shocking stuff. It's a massive scandal. Even ABC News, I heard, pushed back against this. And said, well, what scandal? What are you implying occurred here?

We know who the victim was. We know the victim. Like why. Why did you even redact that name?

And they're like we always redact name of victims.

Do you really? When they're already out publicly?

Not to mention, this particular victim is not even alive.

You know, she sadly died. I mean, it's a terrible, terrible story.

GLENN: Terrible story.

STU: Yeah. She passed away.

A suicide. It was at least the report I believe. But she has a posthumous book coming out. But like a terrible, terrible story.

But, you know, to act as if you have to protect her identity when, number one, she's dead.

GLENN: Is ridiculous.

STU: Number two, everybody already knows who she was, including the news sources, who also have a policy, you would think.

And ABC has a policy. They redact, that was in this type of situation. But it's already been out. We already knew who it was.

So they redacted to make it look like he's with other people who have not already told us nothing bad occurred! You know, and it is an absolutely awful tactic. And at least --

GLENN: I think litigation should follow again. I think he should sue them again. Anyone who is presenting this as new information.

ABC did their job. Congratulations for ABC. They did their job.

They pointed out, this is not new information.

Why would you redact. Why are you releasing this now? And you're redacting a name this -- this email is already out!

You're presenting this as a new scandal.

And you redacted that name. This is completely dishonest. The news media shouldn't even run with it. They shouldn't even run with it. They should have said, old news. Old news. And if you did run with it, you should have handle it had like ABC handle it had. Wait a minute. Why did you redact name.

What do you mean that there's a new scandal. She already testified exactly opposite of what you're believing Jeffrey Epstein over the victim right now. I just want to make sure you understand the Democrats right here. You're taking the name of Epstein, over the victim.

Oh, okay. All right.

STU: And Epstein doesn't even say that anything occurred.

GLENN: No.

STU: There's not -- it's just -- it would be something you would have to jump to a conclusion, to accuse Donald Trump of something like this.

And we know what happened, because the victim said nothing!

Said, it was nothing!

GLENN: Right.

STU: In fact, it wasn't even a flirtation. Which, by the way, even that, you might have thought was creepy. It wasn't even a crime.

It wasn't even flirtation. So it's a disgrace in every single way.

GLENN: All right. So let me take you here. Let me take you here.

If you remember when the shutdown first started, what did the Democrats say, the reason why they did the shutdown?

Not them! Why Mike Johnson and everybody else wouldn't negotiate!

Why wouldn't -- why wouldn't the Republicans negotiate?

Because the heat was on, to release the Epstein files.

And they didn't want to have to do that. So they shut the government down!

Okay?

They wouldn't negotiate. You didn't hear any of this? Oh, it's so arrogant.

STU: It doesn't make any sense at all. That's probably what they said.

GLENN: I know. I know. So the government is open, and what does Mike Johnson do yesterday?

He said the House is going to vote on a bill to release all of the files related to the late financier, convicted child sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein next week. He said on Wednesday that a discharge position to bypass leadership and force a vote on the bill, hit the benchmark for needed signatures. It's been decided by him to expedite the vote for the bill, which under the current rules could have been delayed until at least early September.

So he says, as soon as that petition hit, the needed 218 signatures, I brought it up. Unanimous consent. Let's go! Release it.

So he's pushing this forward. Good, Mike!
Release all of it. Thank you!

Get it out. Lance this boil.

I mean, if anybody thinks that you're ever going to get the truth on this in the first place, it's madness. It's madness. Everybody -- I mean, so many important people were involved in this, and it was in the hands of the Democrats for the longest time. Okay?

So they had all of this information. You don't think it was all picked through? And if there was anything about Donald Trump, you don't think that would have come up between 2020 and 2024?

There's nothing in there about Donald Trump. These people are so stupid. This time, we've got him, boys. This time, we've got him.

No, you don't. This time, it's like Wile E. Coyote. This time, we've got the Roadrunner!

No. You're never going to catch him on this. It doesn't work. The guy was the most investigated person in the history of the world, and you've got nothing! Now, it's good to come out.

But if you think you're going to catch a bunch of people on the left, you're not going to. Because they had it, you know, in their possession.

You don't think all of the names were taken out? You don't think things were destroyed, if there was anything? I believe there was something. But I don't believe there's any names in it anymore. You're not going to get the truth on this one. You're just not going to get the truth, but release everything that we have. Everything!

Oh. Oh, by the way, also in the Epstein emails. How come nobody is talking about this one, Stu?

This one is from Michael Wolff, to Jeffrey Epstein. And then Jeffrey Epstein responds.

So Michael Wolff writes, "What's the thumbnail on Nes Baum (phonetic) Foster?"

And Jeffrey Epstein writes back, "Nes Baum White House Counsel, dot, dot, dot, Hillary doing naughties with Vince."

Now, Vince Foster killed himself, you know, and then killed himself at the White House. And then drug himself across the street to the park.

I mean, I don't know -- the Vince Foster thing is so old. And it doesn't -- but why is nobody talking about that one?

Why is no one talking about that?

Also, this the Jeffrey Epstein email bundle, ABC, you don't feel that's necessary to bring that one up?

Huh. Interesting.

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