RADIOAugust 12, 2024

Former FBI Agent Reveals Suspicious Links Between Failed Trump Assassins And FBI

There are still way too many unanswered questions about the Butler, Pennsylvania, assassination attempt against Trump. But now, more information is coming out about a second would-be assassin. This time, it was a Pakistani man who was arrested after allegedly plotting with Iran. But FBI whistleblower and former agent Steve Friend tells Glenn that everything about this story – and the Pennsylvania attempt – points to FBI grooming. Is the FBI influencing potential assassins just to arrest them and ask Congress for more money? Steve Friend also weighs in on the story of Secret Service agents who broke into a salon during a Kamala Harris event.

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GLENN: A -- a very brave man, and a good friend of the program, Steve friend is joining us.

He is from the center of renewing America fellow -- he's a fellow, sorry, at the center for renewing America.

He is also the FBI whistle-blower.

That objected to being put on to duty, to investigate grandmothers, as domestic terrorists.

He blew the whistle. And the rest of it is history. Welcome to the program, Steve, how are you?

STEVE: I'm doing well. Thanks for having me on today.

GLENN: You bet. So you were with the FBI. And I know it's not the same. But I think you probably could comment on this. I'm not hearing anything satisfying coming from the FBI, or the Secret Service.

On the assassination attempt. There's three things.

Assassination attempt of Donald Trump.

The guy that they just let in.

They knew he was on the terror list. And they just let him in, anyway.

Who was coordinating an assassination on Donald Trump.

And then the third comes out of Massachusetts, this weekend. Where Kamala Harris was on stage someplace, at an event. And the Secret Service. And local police needed a bathroom. So they covered up somebody's private security, on their business.

And then picked the lock, went in, used their bathrooms. Occupied the space for hours.

And then closed back the shop. Didn't lock it back up. But closed it.

The lady came on Monday. And she's like, what the hell happened here?

That's against the law, isn't it?

STEVE: Oh, absolutely it is. And I think if you or I were to do any sort of activity, that there would be criminal charges against us, at the very least for some sort of trespass.

But I think what these three elements that you are talking about expose more than anything else, is what I would like to dub the myth of competence, that we all sort of have in our federal law enforcement agencies. Because in pop culture, TVs, movies shows that you consume, the -- the characters in those shows and those movies, they're really sophisticated and really great at their job. And they're hunting down the criminal, and they're chasing down the back alleys, slapping the handcuffs on, and then they just fade to black.

But in reality, these agencies have now devolved into essentially DMVs with guns and badges.

And that's why, the Trump assassination attempt. You know, there are all these theories that are out there.

And you can count me in sort of the Klan that believe that incompetence was sort of heavily involved in it. And I think there's one sort of presupposition that has gone into that, that so many people have their questions about it, and rightfully so.

But we are presupposing that the Secret Service is always great, at its job.

GLENN: Oh, I think they're terrible.

STEVE: Yeah, I think that these failures are happening at every single event.

And it's just because of the providential nature of the country, and then also because of the myth of competence, that nobody has really tried and tested them. Which is why going forward, I think there's probably a heightened risk for any of these events that he will hold. But to pivot to this, the second issue with the FBI and investigating this -- this assassination attempt. I think one of the most disturbing elements, that hasn't been picked up on, was when the deputy director of the FBI, Paula Bates, said that they were going to investigate him as domestic terrorism. And that to me, to the layperson seems reasonable. You don't want to have blinders on. But being a subject mater expert here, the FBI is now going to slap a classified label on this investigation. And they're not going to be able to be transparent because you don't have a need to know.

GLENN: Jeez.

STEVE: You don't have the security clearance. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Congressman. That's an ongoing investigation. So that's detrimentally disturbing. And the last thing, I definitely want to get to is this Pakistani National.

Now, this is what I like to call the playbook that the FBI has been running the last two and a half decades since 9/11, where essentially what they do to justify their existence as a bureaucracy, as a self-licking ice cream cone, they will identify a vulnerable person in a motion to serve maybe someone with radical intentions. But not capable of carrying forward an actual attack without the involvement of the FBI. They'll identify them. Use confidential human sources. Use undercovers. And then groom them for as long as it takes to engage. Or at least agree to engage in an activity, that can be labeled as terrorism, and then they will arrest them.

In the end, what was here, was that they imported this Pakistani through the border.

They sponsored him arriving. The FBI/Dallas office was actually assigned on him arriving, and it wasn't just to slap the cuffs on him. They followed him. And orchestrated this, that could never have happened without the involvement of government, for three months. And then justify their existence with this big dismantlement stack, which is also tied to their quotas.

This is just the FBI version of Fast & Furious, but except -- with the exception of him being with the ATF, who are now running terrorists so that we can justify our resistance as an agency.

GLENN: So he was supposed to leave right after he had set something up before the assassination.

So did they -- because I don't even know if I read what they had busted, other than him. Did they actually bust something up?

STEVE: The plot is completely absurd, Glenn. I've read through the affidavit.

This is an individual, who was essentially indigent. Didn't have the finances. And we're led to believe from the FBI, that he arrived here. And then just happened the first person, that he had a conversation with, was an informant for the government.

About soliciting hitmen for carrying forward not only assassinations, but he wanted dozens of people to have protests, that would have cover while they did reconnaissance. He wanted to get people that were going to steal documents and thumb drives from government figures. And all for the low, low price of $5,000, which he didn't actually have.

And he was doing things like asking the -- the informant to put his phone in a drawer, while they had conversations. I mean, that's not a Faraday bag. Not really operational security. These illusions of grandeur that he had, to me, indicate that he was a prime person that the FBI likes to target. The people who are vulnerable. And not for nothing. You know, let's just say, he's a bad guy. What's to say, they don't import him here.

And he just says, you know, this plot that I have. Doesn't sound like it is going to be achievable. I'll just grab a butcher knife and stab the next infidel that I see. And then the FBI should be up for that.

So this is them believing in their own competence, that certainly nothing bad will happen while we have him on the hook for three months.

And they have been lucky. We have been lucky, that nothing worse has happened. I think the bottom line, is that the FBI is inventing these cases, so that they can go to Congress, and say, look, all the good work we've done here.

Why don't you give us enhanced funding. Why don't you give us enhanced tools?

Think of all the good work that we could do, that Lindsey Graham wants to do now, and that is giving the FBI, back door access, to encrypted communications. That way, the FBI can circumvent the Fourth Amendment.

GLENN: Jeez. Oh, my gosh.

Lindsey Graham. Lindsey Graham. Lindsey Graham.

So let me see if I have this right. Was this guy that they picked up, or, you know, finally arrested.

And told us all about it. Was this just a distraction from the assassination?

BLAIR: I think the timetable works out to be, that he was arrested on July 12th. The assassination attempt happened on the 13th. Which to me, certainly explains the -- the messaging that we got about this Iranian threat. Because the FBI was really super concerned about who they groomed, to engage in our terrorism, which never was going to happen.

And really did have their eye on the ball. And then at least get to the speculation about a character like Crooks, who not for nothing, kind of strikes me as fitting squarely into the profile of somebody who would be recruited and targeted for grooming to engage in something that he was not predisposed to do.

And then maybe did the thing that I just talked about. When instead of grabbing the butcher knife and stabbing an infidel, grabbed his dad, and said, I will take a shot at a candidate for office.

GLENN: So who is -- who should pay for -- for this? I saw that the -- I think it was the fire chief of Butler County just resigned over this. Because of staging and everything else. I don't -- I could be wrong. I don't think it's the local laughter's place.

I mean, you know, when the Secret Service come in. They usually come in and say, here's what you're doing. And you do that. And you don't ask any questions.

You know, who -- whose fault really was this?

Who should pay for this?

STEVE: There's going to be a lot of accountability, hot potato as it comes to the assassination attempt. Because you can see Kim Cheatle go up there and says, the buck stops at me.

But it was really local law enforcement's job. And just having been at both levels, you can easily see that route being something where the locals say, hey, that should be covered. And the Secret Service said, okay. We'll cover it. And then it didn't get covered. And then they're looking back and forth at each other, saying, hey, that's your job. No, that's your job.

And then meanwhile, that didn't get covered at all. But I think ultimately, because the Secret Service is supposed to be the chief agency there who is calling the shots, it needs to be them, who falls on this.

And it needs to be an independent investigation. Because I don't trust the FBI. And it's not just a personal amendment. The FBI has a track record for investigating assassination attempts like a 2017 congressional baseball shooting, where the shooter with the Bernie Sanders supporter showed up at the ball field. And asked where the Republicans were, and then proceeded to shoot Steve Scalise. And the FBI said, that's not an assassination attempt. That's suicide by cop.

So there needs to be an independent investigation maybe funded here, can be used in the Congressional leverage here for the upcoming budget.

It can also be a request from the Pennsylvania State Police. Because I know there's a federal nexus here. But it was in their backyard. And I just don't see any reason why they couldn't conduct a thorough investigation. I would trust them far more than the FBI, which is to say, this was domestic terrorism, perhaps. Or perhaps we already have a domestic terrorism case opened on Crooks. Either way, we can't talk about sources and methods. This is an ongoing investigation.

Maybe we'll give you something here in a decade, when nobody is really paying attention.

GLENN: So one last thought, the woman in Massachusetts, that had her business just taken over. Without her permission. Without her even being there or knowing it.

They covered the camera.

They broke in. Picked the lock. And went in and spent hours in there. Just because, I guess they could.

She's not pressing charges.

She says, you know, I'm really angry. I am feeling violated.

You know, they have a job to do.

No. If people don't stand up, I think that's a violation of the -- of the Third Amendment.

I mean that never gets any attention.

I think that's a violation of the Third Amendment. But it's certainly breaking and entering. And if people don't push back, and say, no. I'm sorry.

If that were anyone else, you would be in jail today.

So I -- I am sorry, I might like you guys, I understand your situation. But you cannot do that. Because it will never stop.

STEVE: This is the national consequences of what we experience in 2020, when they said, you have to stay home and stay safe, and shut down your nonessential businesses that you use to feed your family and pay your mortgage.

And this is the chilling effect that it has. And I share your sentiment about the Third Amendment. It would be interesting to see an energetic attorney take that up.

But the government does not respect your civil liberties. They do not respect the Bill of Rights. And this is just another example of a fact that they are willing to impede on those. Just for their own convenience. I mean, how hard is it to find a bathroom?

GLENN: Yeah.

Steve, thank you so much. Thanks for everything that you do. Stay safe. Steve Friend. Former and current whistle-blower on the FBI.

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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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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.

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...

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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.