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 The Epstein files where are they?

Hello, Bob Barney with The Plain Truth today, brought to you by theplaintruth.com. And today’s subject, I thought we would just mention this, is whatever happened to the Epstein file, whatever happened to the court order, for example, to release all of the files, there’s over a million of them. And as of Friday, the last I looked, there was only 1% ever released. But we’ve had a crisis over Greenland, we’ve had crisis over the woman being shot in Minnesota roads, I believe her name was a couple of weeks ago.

And now we have the problem with the Minnesota man being shot while they were trying to bring him down. And that’s a big controversy that anybody’s seen the video, we did a show about it, and not going to get back into that. Whatever happened to the Jeff Epstein files, whatever happened to them? The House Democrats, aided by just a handful of Republicans, forced the passage of the Epstein File Transparency Act back in November.

And the statute directed the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, to release publicly in electronic form, with certain redactions, of course, all the unclassified materials related to Jeffrey Epstein, and do so within 30 days. And a few things trickled out, very little trickled out, only 1%, as I just mentioned, was released to the public so far. And then all of a sudden, we had problems with Ukraine, we had problems with Gaza, and making us Peace Board, and we had problems with Greenland, and we had problems at Davos, and we had problems with Greenland again, and the settlement.

And then just in time, we had another shooting in Minnesota, like I just mentioned. But what happened to the files? And why aren’t they being released? And is there a problem that just everybody wants to cover up? And over the last week, even Joe Rogan, who was a big time Trump supporter, and who is starting to have second questions, and again, he’s like the Walter Cronkite of the youth today. If you lose Joe Rogan, you probably lost your youth, male youth anyway, support this coming November.

And this is what Joe Rogan’s, in an interview that he had with a guest, this is what the guest said, and what Joe Rogan replied to. It’s very interesting, to say the least. Joe Rogan went off about the Epstein file cover up during the latest episode of JRE, featuring Hasan Ahmad, who made his third appearance on the podcast after releasing his new special Too Soon.

I just don’t understand how anybody can go to jail for sex trafficking when you don’t have anybody they sex trafficked to. Like that don’t make any sense. Like if I was Ghislaine’s lawyer, I’d be like, to who? To who? Like, how did he not do that? Like, you want to tell me there’s some sort of a compromise trial? How do you not have a lawyer that goes, who did she sex traffic to? Right? There’s some sort of backdoor deal that was like, hey, spend this time in jail, and we won’t kill you.

Or also, she’s working with them, right? Like, especially that kind of a crime where there’s a person that hires you or gives you money or that you use to get influence from and then you sex traffic to them. So there’s another person involved. And that other person is completely eliminated from the trial.

Because what? Because they’re billionaires? Because they’re heads of state? Prominent scientists? What is going? Like, how is that? Okay, that doesn’t even make sense that you get through a whole trial like that. I’m sorry, Rogan goes on in the same interview and talks about maybe a cover up here. It’s gonna go on for a long time, I suspect.

I mean, they said they released them, but what did they release? No, they’re still not all out yet. But what did they release? Yeah, yeah. Like, it’s weird.

The whole thing’s weird. It reminds me of that Onion article, where they’re like, oh, CIA realizes they’ve been using a black highlighter this entire time. It’s like that.

It’s like, okay, you just blacked out pages. Redacted the shit out of everything. Yeah.

It’s like, what did they release? Did they release something recently? No, they haven’t released anything in a minute. They had that initial release where everything was blacked out. And it was that picture of Winnie the Pooh, which was hilarious.

But isn’t there talk about some new releases that are happening soon? Have they? It feels like everything’s been drowned out by everything else been going on with like Somali, the Somalians and the ice shooting. It feels like that’s completely drowned out. Anything about it? I think some of that’s on purpose.

Something is done on purpose. That’s what Joe Rogan whispered. Of course, he wanted everybody to hear that.

He’s actually now accusing the administration of staging these ice raids. I don’t think he was saying they intended to kill people, but that could be the, you know, a result that happens when you send in a bunch of armed cops into an area where there’s a lot of protesters being incited by Democrat operatives. The governor and the mayor, in particular, in Minnesota and Minneapolis.

But his whispering, which, like I said, he intended everybody to hear his whispering. I’ll play it again. Anything about it? I think some of that’s on purpose.

Oh, a hundred percent. He whispered, maybe it’s done on purpose. And of course, the guest agreed to that.

And I have to say, you have to admit that Trump was against releasing any of the files. He said it was a hoax. And then he lost control of the situation in Congress.

And then he had to tell the Congress people because he knew he was going to be overruled anyway. So he had, because enough Republicans started siding with the Democrats over the Epstein files, that he had to have them vote on the bill that we just talked about in Congress to mandate the release of all the files, redacted, of course. And that itself is a joke.

And then all of a sudden they put out 1% of all of the files and 99% of that 1% was redacted. Do you remember seeing the pages were like 40, 50 pages in the row? There was not even one word. Everything had a black mark through it, entire pages after pages after pages.

And I was told by one of the shows I was listening to on YouTube that it amounted about 98, 99% of what they released was redacted. It was almost like shut up your rear end kind of a release by Pam Bondi. And then you have to say again, why do they not want these files released? Now I have been on record and I’ve been on record for a long time saying, I don’t believe even though Trump’s name was mentioned in a report Pam Bondi gave to the president back in, I think, August or September, that his name was mentioned in the files some 10,000 times.

I don’t necessarily believe that means necessarily that Trump himself has anything to hide. We all know what Donald Trump was back in the 1990s up until the breakup between him and Joe, Jeff Epstein. We all, we know that.

And if anybody, I know there’s a lot of people out there who want to put Trump on the right hand of God, but Trump was a player and most billionaires and most people with power, most men and a lot of women with power do play around. And that I know of Donald Trump mainly played around when he was not married, but he did live a pretty playboy type lifestyle. And I know a lot of people who really like Donald Trump and they’re trying to make him like a God-like figure and that he’s, he’s found religion and all of a sudden he’s the greatest thing to happen to Christianity.

What kind of Christianity? That’s another story because as you know, I think almost all mainstream Christian religions are fake Christianity as mentioned by the apostle Paul, but everybody who lived in the area and I did live in the West Palm Beach area for quite a few years, about what, 15 years back in the 1980s and nineties. I actually saw Donald Trump in a Burt Reynolds dinner theater one time at the bar probably in 1988 or 89. He was by himself by the way.

And then there was the famous picture that the Democrats put out with him with a 20 year old girl, by the way, I mentioned on this program, there’s nothing wrong with a 45 and that’s what he was, divorced man. If he was even dating a 20 year old girl, there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s a lot different than dating a 14 or 15 year old girl, which I don’t think there’s been evidence to say that, but why is he trying to cover it up? Is it because he can’t explain all of his actions? I know things and I know about things in Donald Trump’s personal life because I was involved somewhat with the local news.

I won’t get into that, how I know it, but I was involved with someone who was a news editor of a local TV station and one of the reporter rats, and she was a very pretty girl, came in one day boasting she did the Donald, but he wasn’t married at the time. But if anybody thinks that he lived a very religious Christian type moralistic life, when he was a bachelor at least, you have a thing coming there too. So maybe Donald Trump now with his newfound faith that everybody thinks he has, I don’t by the way, I don’t believe, I agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene, I don’t believe he’s a true Christian in any way.

And why I can say that? Well let me see if I can find this and play this for you. So I found it and here is an interview that he gave, I think back in looking here when that was, I want to be sure, I think it was back about 10 years ago when he was running for president. He was not yet president.

But here is a question, and I want real Christians out there, people who even claim they’re Christians, and especially evangelical Christians who come out for Donald Trump in big support in both elections, listen to this question and answer. We’ve got people lined up for questions. I just got one more because you used the word Christian.

Have you ever asked God for forgiveness? That’s a tough question. I don’t think in terms of, I’m a religious person. Shockingly, because people are so shocked when they find this out, I’m Protestant, I’m Presbyterian, and I go to church and I love God and I love my church.

And Norman Vincent Peale, the great Norman Vincent Peale was my pastor, the power of positive thinking. Everybody’s heard of Norman Vincent Peale and I love my church. And Norman Vincent Peale, the great Norman Vincent Peale was my pastor, the power of positive thinking.

Everybody’s heard of Norman Vincent Peale. He was so great. He would give a sermon, you never wanted to leave.

Sometimes we have sermons and every once in a while we think about leaving a little early, right? Even though we’re Christian. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, Frank would give a sermon. I’m telling you, I still remember his sermons.

It was unbelievable. And what he would do is he’d bring real life situations, modern day situationsinto the sermon. And you could listen to him all day long.

When you left the church, you were disappointed that it was over. He was the greatest guy. And then, you know, he passed away, but he was a great, he wrote the power of positive thinking, which is a great book.

But have you ever asked God for forgiveness? You notice he didn’t want to answer. I’m not sure I have. I just go and try and do a better job from there.

I don’t think so. I don’t think I’ve ever asked God for forgiveness. Well, the mainstay of being a Christian, anybody, I don’t care if you think you’re a Christian, if you’re Roman Catholic or Protestant or a Baptist or a Seventh-day Adventist, I think the main theme of being a Christian is admitting that you’re a sinner and you ask God for forgiveness and God will forgive you.

God will not forgive somebody who’s never asked for forgiveness. It’s just, that’s a simple rule. And I’m not trying to, I’m not trying to debase Donald Trump.

I voted for the man three times. I knew what he was when I voted for him the first time, because like I said, I lived in an area, I knew a lot about Donald Trump in the West Palm Beach area. I lived there for 15 years and I was involved with people who interviewed the man and knew the man.

And I voted for him in 2016. I voted for him in 2020. And I admit to this day, I think he won the 2020 election.

I think it was a stolen election. Maybe as Richard Nixon said, he, the Democrats and Joe Biden stole it fair and square. I won’t, I won’t admit that, but I voted for him.

I gave money to his campaign last time. And in 2024, I voted for him for the third time. So I have no problem thinking that Donald Trump could have been a great president and could still maybe be a great president.

But what gets me is when I listen to people who say that he’s such a strong Christian and he, has he defended Christianity? Yes, he has. Has he defended Christianity in the nations where they’re being butchered alive by Muslims and other groups? Yes, he has. Conveniently, he has never sided with the Christians in China.

And in China, they are persecuted probably as much as anywhere else in the world. And yeah, I haven’t heard Donald Trump say anything about that. But getting back to the Epstein thing, people think that the ever Trumpers, I should say, think that this man lived like a near perfect life all of a sudden, when he did not.

He was a player. He was a playboy. And that is what rich, powerful men do.

I’m sorry if I break your heart about that. I’m sure there are rich people out there, billionaires out there who have been loyal to their wife all the time. I’m sure of it.

And I’m sure there’s strong Christians who are billionaires. But at the same time, most powerful men in business are not what you would consider very moralistic people when you come to mainline Christian beliefs. And that’s the point.

And I think that Donald Trump, with these Epstein files, there are files that could be released that does not necessarily put him in that great light that he wants to be looked up to today. He wants everyone to think that he’s basically, I do believe God saved his life, and he has said that. He has said that himself.

And I think he basically wants people to think that God is on his side no matter what decisions he makes. And that is therefore my problem with the Donald Trump 2.0, because I do not believe that God is for Donald Trump’s policies that he’s doing this time around. I think Donald Trump was a great president the first time around, and that mainly was because he surrounded himself with capable aides, capable cabinet members.

And he has not done so this time. Pete Hegseth, for example, who now has found Christianity, or so he claims, and you never know what really is in somebody’s heart, but the man is not capable of doing the job as a defense secretary. And I’m sorry, it’s not secretary of war, it’s a secretary of defense.

And that’s one of the things that just bothers me about this whole Donald Trump 2.0, this warrior thing he wants to be. You can’t be a warrior unless you’re a warrior for Christ. You know, the idea, I remember back in the 70s, and there used to be headlines in Lebanon about Christian gunmen killing Muslims or other people who were attacking their villages, and they were defending themselves.

And by the way, I do believe that a Christian has the right to defend himself with guns or any other means, or with soldiers, or with military. But the phrase, Christian gunmen, is an oxymoron,because you don’t think that Christian and gunmen go along. And I want to make this clear again,it is okay for a Christian to carry a gun.

Peter carried a sword right up to the time that Jesus was arrested, and he actually used that sword, the gun of the day, to cut off the ear of a soldier that was trying to arrest him. And of course, everybody knows the story, Jesus picks up the ear and puts it back on the guy’s head, and the guy is miraculously healed of that wound, which you think that would bother the people trying to arrest him, but it obviously did not. But the idea that a Christian can’t carry a gun or defend himself is just not biblical.

But at the same time, when you want to be a warrior president instead of a peace president, he wants to get the Nobel Peace Prize, but he changes the name, or he tries to, because it’s notlegal. He changed the name from the Department of Defense to the Department of War. Now, there’s a reason why our leaders in the 1940s decided to change the name from the Department of War to the Department of Defense, or Secretary of War was the title, to the Secretary of Defense, was because it was decided after World War II and the loss of so many American lives trying to protect the world from Hitler in Japan, that we thought that maybe, just maybe, that we should be more of a defensive country and not a colonial empire.

And I mentioned this a few weeks back, America, as Colin Powell said, has never tried to conquer land in World War II. All we looked for was land to bury our dead. We are not like what England did.

We’re not like what Netherlands did, or the Roman Empire, or the colonial-type power. And the idea that you’re going to go around, and you’re going to take Greenland, and you’re going to take this place, or you’re going to do this, and you believe you deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, and he wonders why he didn’t get it, and he’s evidently mad that he didn’t get it. But at the same time, Donald Trump needs to be looked at like any other man.

He’s not a god. He’s not on the right side of God, or the right hand of God. I believe that God used him, and would still use him, if Donald Trump would just change from his arrogant behavior.

I know many people, ever-Trumpers, as I call them, and they’re good friends of mine, and they all have one thing in common. They all say, if the man would just shut his mouth, he’d get more accomplished. And that is true.

But he doesn’t shut his mouth because of his arrogance. And arrogance and God do not mix well. And so we get back to the Jeffrey Epstein story.

What could be going on here? I think Donald Trump does not want people to know certain things that he did, when I think mainly when he was a bachelor. I’m not sure if he’s ever fooled around on any wife. He probably did.

Most billionaires and rich people do. Many middle-class men and women do, for that matter. But that’s not the problem.

If you go to God for forgiveness, you’re okay. But the thing is, and it should be notified or noticed here, is I think there are things in the Jeffrey Epstein file that Donald Trump at first used to get elected, said he would release them all. But after Pam Bondi gave him the report of his name in there some 10,000 times, I think he decided it would be best right now that he did not really let those files get released.

And that’s the plain truth. And that’s what’s going on here. There may be stuff in there he finds embarrassing.

I also believe there are people’s names in there that are personal friends and people he needs in order to get money, get things done. And so he’s kind of protecting maybe some pedophiles. I’ll be right back.

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And all I wanted to say is I think there is a diversion. And I think Joe Rogan was right that this Justice Department and the people around Donald Trump are trying to protect him and his image that he has now managed to create. And it’s a created image that he would be embarrassed if certain things about himself was released.

I myself would not hold it against him unless, of course, it turned out he was a pedophile and he was doing 14, 15-year-old girls. I don’t believe that’s going to be the case. I really don’t.

Was he dating 20-year-old blonde, beautiful women? Well, I think he was. I think it’s obvious. He met his wife, Melania, through Jeffrey Epstein, according to the records I’ve uncovered or anybody can do from some searches.

And so they were good friends. And I don’t think he wants to admit how good of friends they were before they had their schism and they fell apart and he banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago. I think the real reason that he banned Jeffrey Epstein from Mar-a-Lago is he was forced to.

His aides and his people working there basically was telling him over and over again all the things that Epstein was doing with the young girls there, taking them away to really be prostitutes. And for a long time, Donald Trump really didn’t want to hear it from his aides and workers at Mar-a-Lago. But finally, to his credit, went along with it.

And I think shows you a good decision that he made, even against somebody at the time that he made that decision, was probably he was still friends with. So I think that was the right decision.And I think if you look at the whole picture, you know, from a neutral point of view, I don’t think he really should be worried about the Epstein files.

But I may be wrong. But when you got Joe Rogan thinking there’s something there and there’s smoke there, you have a public problem. You have a public relations problem.

It’s not just with ICE. It’s just not over with Greenland. It’s just everything in this administration is going south, and it is going south because of the people around him are not good for him.

A report that I read, I put up on the Plain Truth about a month or two ago, is that Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t just a frequent visitor to Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago in the 90s and early 2000s. The club was also sending spa employees, usually a young woman, to Epstein’s mansion that was nearby for massages, manicures, and other spa services, something that they do for their big clients. The house calls went on for years.

Even spa employees warned each other about Epstein, that they knew among themselves he was too sexually aggressive to these young girls. A manager then sent Trump a fax relaying that the employee’s allegations and urged him to ban Epstein from Mar-a-Lago. Trump then told themanager that the letter was good and they were right and that he would kick him out, which hedid.

The beautician disclosed the house call to the club’s human research team, one of the former employees said. The incident wasn’t reported to the Palm Beach police, however, according to the employees involved. But again, there is nothing wrong with what Donald Trump did.

There’s no indication that they weren’t friends when he kicked him out, but he saw that it wasinappropriate behavior and that I do believe he realized that it was time that they cut ties. Again, why wouldn’t you want to let these files out? And I think there’s, the two reasons are, I think his arrogance does not want to have to admit that he had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, a very close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, that he was a playboy type guy, which he was proud of back in the 90s, by the way. And the other reason is there are powerful people that I think Donald Trump needs around him or their money that would be named and probably their whole life would be ruined if that got out.

And that’s what I think is going on here. But there’s been, what, now two months and we have not had another release of the Epstein files. I think every time we get close to one, there’s going to be some news event that stops it from happening.

And that’s the problem that I have with this drive-by media, as Rush Limbaugh called them. You know, three months ago, it was all about Mar-a-Lago. Do you remember? All the Democrats could talk about was Jeffrey Epstein and Mar-a-Lago.

That was the news every day, every story you listened to on TV or read in the newspaper had to do with Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. But then they found something new they could go after, and that is these ice raids and then the Greenland thing. And there’s always something that gets the news away from a story.

There’s never follow-ups. What’s happened to Nashville, North Carolina, for example? Is there any news follow-ups about the disaster that happened when Hurricane Helene went through? No. The press made their stories about it when it happened, and they moved on.

How about the fires in Los Angeles that happened over a year ago now? Again, it was the mainstream coverage on all the different reporters and all the different shows. No updates. You don’t see shows about, by the way, only about 2,000 or 15,000 homes were ever rebuilt, and most of those by corporations and not by individuals.

You don’t hear that kind of stories. There is never a follow-up. And that is what the politicians know.

If they can just get by the drive-by news of the day and they can delay it long enough for other things to get the reporters’ attentions away, then they’ve won the battle. And that’s what Donald Trump is doing. And that’s what’s going on with all the things he is doing, because he does not want these Epstein files released.

And more and more people, even pro-Trump people, are starting to admit that. Now, a lot of them,I get a laugh out of this, a lot of them think, well, it’s not a big story because, you know, just what I told you. But it was a big story before.

It was unconscionable before when it was Bill Clinton. And Bill Clinton, there’s no evidence that he ever had inappropriate relationships with any of the girls. Not one.

Even the girls that blamed Prince Andrew and people like that, they said Bill Clinton was always a gentleman. But when it was Bill Clinton, everybody on the ever-Trumper side said that was the story. It was all Bill Clinton.

It was all Bill Clinton. And when Donald Trump gets 10,000 names, his name in there 10,000 times, all of a sudden we want to just drive on by and forget about the story. Well, I don’t.

I want to get to the bottom of the Epstein story. And I wish the press would do their job and follow up on stories they serve. But they don’t do that.

The press, I’m sorry, the politicians know they don’t do that. And that is why politicians always drag things along, because they understand the press like Rush Limbaugh did. They’re going to drive by, shoot a few bullets at them, and then go to the next story.

And then everything is forgotten if you can just survive the today, because tomorrow will be a different story. And that’s what’s wrong with the modern-day press. That’s something Plain Truth is trying to not do for you.

We try to bring back old stories and say whatever happened to the message board, I do that. I keep all the stories wrapped up in the same string on purpose that you can go back and you can look at a particular story, like we have the Epstein saga. That’s every single story to do with Jeffrey Epstein, going back years and years and years, you can find on our message board and all the different stories.

We try to keep people informed with the plain truth. This has nothing to do probably with God and God’s news and the headlines of tomorrow, but it has to do with the news. And we are a news site.

But we do try to do our due diligence and show you that the stories that went by still are important to follow, but nobody wants to follow them. And until the press starts doing their job, you’re going to have Donald Trump’s and Joe Biden’s and Hunter Biden’s and Bill Clinton’s learning how to manipulate the press to their advantage. And that is what’s going on.

Joe Rogan pinpointed it and he’s accurate about it. And I hope it can change, but I don’t think it will. Well, this is Bob Barney for the Plain Truth today with just a casual observance about the Epstein files, whatever happened to them, whatever happened to the release, and don’t expect much in the next few months.

Now, I do believe when the Democrats get back in control of the House and the Senate, the Epstein files are going to raise their ugly heads again when they think they can get Donald Trump on something and they will release more files when they get control of the House and the Senate. And then the story will come back and the drive-by media will again be covering something today they’re not covering. Anyway, thank you for listening to today’s Plain Truth Today brought to you by theplaintruth.com. And we’ll be back again tomorrow.

Thank you very much for listening. Bye-bye.