The Epstein files controversy reveals how political institutions prioritize protecting powerful figures over pursuing justice, as evidenced by the White House situation room meetings where officials discussed PR strategies to minimize fallout, the Department of Justice's extensive redactions of 2.5 million files, and the continued access Epstein received to young models through model agencies even after his 2008 conviction, demonstrating systemic failures in accountability and transparency.
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Tara Setmayer HUMILIATED & CORNERED MAGA Pundit into Silence in Heated Debate!
Added:I mean, I'm nobody. I'm I'm I'm somebody from the mountain.
>> When you meet some of this gives me very much so like Russia gate vibes. The reality is that the president [music] wasn't a Russian asset. He was never the Manchurian president, but he certainly [music] seemed to act like it. He was >> There are 2 and 1/2 million files that still have not been released. And if if Pam Bondi and and Dan Bongino and Cash Patel and all the people in the situation [music] room >> Do you want me to stop interview?
>> Yeah.
>> Can I ask a final question?
>> But do you know honestly, you are not you know, I'm very honest and sincere.
>> It sounds salacious.
>> What are you talking about?
>> really really provocative.
>> Arrest what are you talking about?
>> The Department of Justice people who are in in these files, they've covered [music] it up. They've have thousands of pages of redaction.
>> made in 2018 that said you were looking for a good-looking young assistant. If you're looking for models, why are you then looking for an assistant?
>> Did you have him hit asked by the president?
>> Right. Not Pam Bondi, that's right.
Deputy Attorney General with the little short hands.
>> And that is not their job.
>> Their job their job is not their job.
Their job is to protect the survivors.
>> Hello everybody. Guys, after experiment after experiment, he is still with us.
We got the Nutty Professor back on the panel along with his son and the Caspian in the black man costume, Camille Foster. And no, that's not really his dad. Let's get into this segment and we'll talk about it.
>> Tonight, stunning new reporting from the New York Times recounts the administration's freak out over the Epstein files and its efforts to contain the fallout. According to the Times on July 17th, 2025, top administration officials met in the White House situation room without the president to address the backlash over the DOJ's handling of the Epstein investigation and to attempt to regain control. 10 days earlier, the Justice Department had released a memo that was intended to put years of speculation surrounding Epstein to rest. But its findings that Epstein had killed himself and that a so-called client list didn't even exist and that no new charges were forthcoming set Maga in a fury. Among the new revelations in this story, in that meeting, J.D. Vance, the Vice President, reportedly proposed a PR gambit. Vance floated that colleagues at the White House could enlist Tucker Carlson to interview Epstein's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, while she's in prison. The Vice President reasoned it might help Trump if Maxwell were willing to state that he had not been part of any wrongdoing with Epstein.
>> Dirty.
>> I I do think that this particular There were a lot of meetings reported here, but that Situation Room meeting where they're going over should he pardon Ghislaine Maxwell? Basically, the gist of it is what all can we do to protect the president?
That is the stuff that I think is the fuel for conspiracies around the the bro a bro a broader cover-up of this Epstein scandal.
>> I mean, I just found this article so entertaining, which is not what you were supposed to get from it. But >> but it is it's revelatory.
>> It's revelatory of the degree to which, at least at the outset of this administration, they were so plugged in to the online right, which is where this stuff lives. It is not really bleeding out into the real world, and I have proof. It's not hard to find polling, even last year, where Republicans, Democrats majority say we don't approve of how this administration is handling the Epstein files. But is it a salient issue? Fox News Channel in July surveyed the people who said we disapprove of this president, 54%. Litanies of reasons they offered, you can imagine. 1% said the Epstein files, and that was exclusively Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents. It's just not a It was a Maga thing, but it was an online Maga thing. It wasn't in the real world.
>> but in that meeting, I mean, the Vice President thought it was a real thing.
And um and thought that it was effectively I think the quote was uh this is going to or Dan Bongino said this. He said, "This is going to be the president's Iran-Contra." Part of the reason Dan Bongino would say something like this is because they literally brought the conspiracy theorist into the White House.
>> as Noah said, he's he is an extreme >> Shut up, Camille. Abby, don't let Tinkerbell get away with what he just said there. That the Epstein files Yeah, sure. Maybe it's not anyone's number one or top three issue, but when you combine it, that was the first betrayal in MAGA's eyes. And then when you got into this war, and now they're feeling those prices aren't coming down that you effing lied to them. Only the die-hard cultist idiots that will never not support Trump are still with him. Trump could murder their family member, and these idiots, I promise you, these are the type of people that will still support him. Find a way to excuse it.
This is My Little Pony there way of trying to clean up and cover up. Yeah, it's crazy that Yeah, maybe Trump has abused these girls because then why would he act like this?
But hey, who cares? We saw this poll, and no one had it at the as their top issue. So, let's move on.
Unbelievably disgusting. This is the Republican Party, guys.
But but but let's focus on on Planer though, right? Yeah, that sounds right.
Oh, and I have an interview, if you saw those highlights, at the end of this segment.
It's a You have to watch that.
And remember what they said on this panel.
>> extremely online person, as is the president of the United States. It makes a lot of sense that he'd have interest in this. But all of this gives me very much so the like Russia gate vibes. The reality is that the president wasn't a Russian asset. He was never the Manchurian president, but he certainly seemed to act like it. He was obsessed with the story in the same way that his critics were obsessed with kind of promulgating these conspiracy. He fed it and gave it energy. And I think the the of the administration with respect to the Epstein scandal, which I think quite honestly is driven primarily by speculation, by by this belief that there must be some deeper story here, when in fact the that this is something that has occurred across multiple administrations, across multiple political parties. The reality is that if there was any sort of criminal conduct in these files related to the president of the United States, the current one, we would have known about it already. Every year there are leaks.
>> it hasn't happened.
>> Well, he didn't even know anything about either. I mean, they part of the what that you get from the story is that they were desperate to find out if there was stuff about Trump in >> Yeah, stuff that was >> So, they so they were like, we've got to figure out if he's implicated here and they dug through it.
>> Right. They >> He obviously >> respect, the Russia gate comparison, I think, doesn't hold up because um Robert Mueller and the Mueller report said that there was some problems here going on.
Maybe the term collusion isn't really a legal one, but there was some issues there and he was hoping that the Congress would take it up through or it would go through a legal process once once Trump got out of office. So, that was that and unfortunately, because of the Attorney General and all kinds of different things, they decided not to be that, but we can't just absolve him from whatever was going on with the Russians.
So, there's that. Now, for as far as Epstein is concerned, um the guy's name is in the Epstein files thousands of times. He was best friends with him for years. He was on his plane with him. They were big they were, you know, involved in all kinds of things.
>> nothing >> There are two and a half million There are two There are two and a half million files that still have not been released. And if Pam Bondi and and uh Dan Bongino and Kash Patel and all the people in the situation room, which is where you usually go when you need to things to be really, really, really secure, why are they going to the situation room?
>> here.
>> No, because they they're concerned about how what did the president know? How how much did he know and why? Is he legally culpable? We don't know, but he also has his minions in the Department of Justice who are covering this for him.
>> I have to agree with you. I also I also found it the very long article which I >> Camille is such a clown. Do you have any any evidence? The people in charge of the evidence, Trump, is not releasing it. You absolute bird brains. Like Camille, you think Trump has done nothing here? Done zero? He doesn't even know anything. He doesn't know anything either. So, those allegations from Maria Farmer that were sworn statements nothing there, right? We shouldn't look into that further? He was best friends with the guy. No, no, he hasn't seen anything, knows nothing, done nothing.
What a great analysis, Camille.
Guys, I believe Camille is He knows what he's doing. He knows he has to do cleanup for Epstein files for Trump. I mean, like how low can this guy go?
And these people This is what's necessary if you want to be accepted in Republican circle. Both him and the Naughty Professor know this very well.
Just like the racism from conservatives, they have to ignore it and defend it and excuse it any way they can. No, what did he say? No, Trump didn't really depict the Obamas as apes. This guy's a clown.
Also, that they can be invited invited into Republican groups. It's so embarrassing. It's so demeaning. And I'll keep bringing this up. They still still won't say if Ghislaine Maxwell Maxwell will be pardoned or not. I wonder why Trump brought her to a low-security prison and let her play with puppies. No reason, right, Camille?
Just It just looks funny. Nothing to see here, though.
I don't believe Camille is this stupid, guys. But I know he's capable of pretending to be.
This guy is pure dog >> I also found somewhat entertaining just for like the gossip value of it, right?
Like Bongino calling Pam Bondi Blondie, berating her in front of everybody and telling her you this up from the beginning. I mean, that was kind of glorious. But, >> [laughter] >> I I also got out of it that and how much they wanted her gone, right? I I also got out of it just how different J.D. Vance's take is within the administration from some of the people that are surrounding Trump, like Susie Wiles. He is obviously plugged in to the MAGA-sphere and the manosphere in a way that some of them some of the political folks that are around Trump >> beginning and just release the files instead of doing all the other shenanigans. I actually think this might >> time Enough time is past.
>> Shut up, Heavy D. Abby, why do you think there were shenanigans? Do we need Matlock here to figure this out? Like, come on, Abby.
How much more obvious can these people make it? Trump is screaming from the rooftops.
>> that we now know that if there had been any evidence if there had been any of these details >> J.D. Vance wouldn't have made that recommendation.
>> But, here's what I'm interested in. What if when Graham Ledger came to Washington, D.C. to meet with the Senate minority leader and all these other people, someone there was taking detailed notes and they decided to write a book. It's not so much >> what insider conversations talk about, it's about what ends up happening. It can sound salacious. It can sound really, really provocative.
>> What are you talking about?
>> The The The Department of Justice has not moved whatsoever on going after any of the people who are inside in these files. They've covered it up.
>> They've had thousands of pages of redactions.
>> You have >> [laughter] >> This is not how you behave when you're innocent.
>> to go and I think just to Tara's point, if there's one thing that you take away from all of the reporting in this story, it's at the highest levels of DOJ, their top priority as it relates to the Epstein files was protecting the president.
>> Pam Bondi >> Deputy Attorney General And that is not their job.
Their job is not to protect the survivors.
>> That Epstein was trying to extort him through knowing about his infidelity to me is more relevant because it might explain how the hell Epstein got all that money. Blackmail.
>> No, none of these people was a crimes prosecutor.
>> Guys, I have another segment for you.
You have to watch this. And guys, the nutty professor, how old are you with this whiny ass voice?
Guys, I mean, how much more obvious can Trump make it that he's effing guilty from the sworn testimony to Trump's own words about how he speaks about women, to E. Jean Carroll. I mean, Trump being held civilly held liable for rape.
He's yelling from the rooftop who he is.
He was named in the files more than anyone else. I mean, he was the guy's best friend and you tell me there's nothing to see here.
They won't release 3 million files, redacted things that are not supposed to be redacted and vice versa. Guys, even Trump's supporters don't even like um speaking about this because they know what's happening here.
We don't have evidence, pendejos, because they are literally blocking them from being released, hence why it's called a cover-up.
And they keep lying about and keep getting caught about stuff being released about him. Like that um birthday card about that he sent to Epstein. It's like, do we need Inspector Gadget here as well? Pink Panther?
And yes, I mean the Steve Martin Pink Panther as well. I don't care if that's blasphemous. I love Steve Martin. Guys, let's get to this interview.
Just watch this thing and you tell me if there's nothing else to see here, nothing else to look into.
>> No, his private life. Well, you did because he was a convicted child sex offender.
>> But again, he paid for it. He said I paid for it.
>> So, that's it?
>> For me, he he came. I mean, how can you let a a a >> [laughter] >> um a criminal like this person out from the the prison from from United States.
>> Paris, for years young models were recruited here for Jeffrey Epstein.
Digging through the Epstein files, CNN found Epstein received dozens of photos of young models sent by model scouts and agents. We identified at least six individuals not just sending him images of models but discussing arrangements for him to meet them even after his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution including with a minor.
Now, one source has agreed to meet with us here in Paris.
Okay, we're here.
Daniel Siyad dealt with Epstein for more than a decade arranging to send him models.
>> You didn't think in that time that sending young women, young models to the US to meet Epstein after he had a conviction for child sex offenses, that there may be any risk in that at all?
>> He has been very professional with me.
Never >> But you're not a young woman.
>> Sorry?
>> You're not a young woman.
>> no, listen.
My work with him has been strictly professional. I never doubt that because I never heard anything from anyone I introduced him who came back to me that they had a bad a bad situation with him.
>> The files show Epstein paid tens of thousands [music] of dollars to Siyad.
In reviewing their correspondence, we found messages like cute French girl in Marrakech, Siyad wrote. She said that she would be happy to meet you. In another, he says a woman is very polite and has potential as a model or assistant. See then sends a photo. Too old, Epstein replied.
>> So, Epstein wasn't a model agent.
Why was he paying you?
>> No, he was.
>> Because they opened an agency, MC Squared.
>> He was not the model agent leading that model agency.
>> He was a financier for, but was acting as a casting as a casting director for Victoria's Secret.
>> You believe Epstein was a casting director?
>> That's how he had been introduced and how he introduced myself also.
>> In fact, we found no evidence Epstein had an official recruiting role at either company, MC Squared or Victoria's Secret. You sent an email in 2018 that said you were looking for a good-looking young assistant. If you're looking for models, >> Yes.
>> why are you then looking for an assistant [laughter] for Jeffrey Epstein?
>> He asked He asked me for assistant.
Maybe it was not on the on the phone, but when I met him in >> that your job?
>> Sorry? No, but because I trusted in him, I believed this guy is professional person. He needs somebody. He knows I have a good connections around. If I find the right person who can who can assist him, I am honored.
>> One of the people Daniel Sia introduced to Epstein was Juliette. Back in 2004, she was a young model in Paris.
>> He told me, "Okay, so I am Daniel.
If you are interested, I can have opportunities for you in New York City.
Is that country interest you?"
I was like, "Oh, yeah, why not?"
>> Juliette had a flight booked for her to New York where she met Epstein. She described the encounter.
>> He asked me to undress me. So, I undressed me to and I keep and I kept like I always done underwear.
And at this moment, he look at me and say, "Oh, the bra, too."
He began to uh check at me and touch me. Say, "Oh, that that's not okay.
Here, that's not okay. He make me turn also and my um here I started uh to have fear.
And for me it wasn't normal.
>> What do you think you were afraid of?
>> I was fear because I didn't know about his intention.
He just asked me to put off my bra. All was weird and unclear.
>> We spoke to another former model, Svetlana, who shared a similar story saying Siad first introduced her to Epstein who later abused her. Siad maintains he didn't know that the women he sent to Epstein were abused.
>> No.
>> himself is also facing accusations of abuse. Ebba Karlsson has accused him of rape when she was a model in France in 1990. Siad denies her allegation.
>> To be honest with you, I don't remember at all this person. And plus I have never abused any model in my life.
>> She remembers you.
>> Listen, I I'd be very happy to confront her in the in the in the court. I don't remember.
>> Do you have any regrets about meeting Jeffrey Epstein?
>> Uh yes. Yes. Yeah. I I I I >> Did you think about that?
>> Um Uh >> Guys, this guy, nothing to see here, right? Guys, I want to say one more thing. Do you know that Knicks game that uh Trump went to?
You know that Don Jr. was getting married. He didn't go to his own son's marriage.
Don Jr., do you know who Don Jr. was marrying?
One of Epstein's fan financiers, one of his bankers, daughters. No, nothing to see here. Do you think maybe that should be looked into further? No. No, like Camille Foster said, "Ah, that's a nothing burger."
>> Uh >> [sighs] >> It's like a nightmare. I can't believe that this person uh [sighs] had another another uh I am >> You keep saying that but I keep repeating that this other side of him >> Yes.
>> was public knowledge.
>> She's good.
>> I am not um Yeah, I'm not a person who is like a press looking internet to do this kind of really >> But you were aware.
>> Sorry?
>> You were aware.
>> Of what?
>> His conviction for child sex abuse.
>> You're repeating the same question.
>> You're saying you're telling me that you don't read the press.
>> Exactly. Listen, I did not know a lot about him until when he comes to Paris and I told you again, he said he paid his he due to the to the government.
So, for me he's free man. He's he's clean. How can a government of the United States let this person out from jail? How?
>> It's It's not just the government though, is it? We have a personal responsibility.
If we don't think someone >> Listen.
>> That's my question.
>> The the justice This is super power.
>> That's enough, okay?
It's not a trial.
Right?
You want me to stop interview?
>> Yeah.
>> Can I ask a final question?
>> But do you know nasty? You are not I'm very honest and sincere with you and you are repeating the same thing. I mean, I'm nobody. I am I am I am somebody from the mountain. When you meet somebody a billionaire, well-known person worldwide and so on, he was convicted with all whatever he did as when I find out after and so on and he's free he come to Paris. He's free. He said I paid.
And the agency was closed. He was such a powerful person and the and the and the how can I not trust him?
>> After Epstein's >> Guys, he had the nerve to just call her the reporter there nasty. She is nasty.
You mother How effing dare you? She's the nasty one, right? Didn't even use that word to describe Epstein. And you know what? That word sounds familiar.
Hmm, who used that word against women?
Nasty, nasty. Hmm, someone help me out in the comments.
>> 2008 conviction, Siad wasn't the only one who continued giving Epstein access to the modeling industry.
Faith Kates, the co-founder of model agency Next Management, is another. In 2010, 2 years after his conviction, Epstein asked Kates for a great girl to take to an event. Kates replied, "Let me think, who is around? XOXO."
Kates reportedly left Next Management last year, and a spokesperson told CNN she was grossly misled by Epstein.
Then there was modeling scout Ramsey al-Haleq. In 2009, he describes to Epstein a model as "a gift that I had been planning on giving you."
And then there was Jean-Luc Brunel, who ran multiple model agencies and was accused in civil court in 2014 of bringing girls to the US to farm them out to his friends, especially Epstein.
Brunel was himself charged in France with underage sex crimes, but died in prison in 2022 while awaiting trial. He denied all charges.
There is now an ongoing investigation in France into Epstein and his connections there. Siad is under investigation, according to the Paris prosecutor's office, but he says police have not spoken to him.
For victims of Epstein around the world, they await justice from the courts.
Katie Polglase, CNN, Paris.
>> So, you tell me, guys, should we look into this further?
That guy seems completely innocent. Guy The dude is sweating like they do in cartoons. It's an exaggerated amount.
Do you think maybe this guy knows more than he is leading on? No, no. Like Camille said, there's just nothing to see here.
Guys, there are things that we could be doing, but we all know why Trump and Republicans wouldn't want to look further into this.
I think we all know very very well, right Camille?
Right, nutty professor?
But guys, I'm going to leave it there.
Let me know what you think about all this in the comments. Please leave a like, subscribe, really helps the channel, really helps push the message out there.
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