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Joe Esposito's avatar

If the folks on the Right continue to dream up scandals and problems with the Trump administration over their personal pet issues America will be doomed.

To believe that every single issue can be fixed is childish behavior.

We live in a big complicated world and as adults we must allow compromise or we will be returning to the sick and demented policies of the Democrats and it will be the end of America.

Trump is our last great hope so we don t have any other options to fall back onto.

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Orenv's avatar

He is far from the last lets hope. Because in 3 short years he will be gone, and it will take more than 3 years to tame leviathan. We need to start cultivating options. Keep in mind that leviathan never sleeps and is always dreaming up ways to divert our attention (Epstein??, immigration sob stories, etc). They are good at diversions and are heavily funded and widely dispersed.

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Scott's avatar

Honestly, what is going on with this? Trump has said the SWAMP has got to be drained, and I don't think he has surrendered on that. I believe he's a few steps ahead of Washington and the media, and everybody, on this.

Trump has backpedaled on his promise to "get to the bottom of this."

Bondi said she had the Epstein lists on her desk, but suddenly they don't exist (?!?). Bongino and Patel have every reason to be very upset with how she is acted.

And Trump has gone behind and said he supports Bondi. And lots of MAGA people are upset about this, understandably. Is Trump now just sweeping this under the rug?

Hmmm. 🤔🤔🤔

I don't believe that he is. My theory is, he has said that he's not going to disclose this because the list is going to be used to crucify everybody.

But it's getting a lot of publicity...

And all of a sudden, the Democrats are very interested in seeing the lists and the evidence.

Trust me, if Trump or MAGA was implicated by these lists, the Democrats would have already disclosed that information before the 2024 election.

So what I believe is happening, Trump is a few steps ahead of everybody else...

The uproar will continue for a bit, and the Democrats will demand that this evidence get released. But it will actually implicate far more of them than it will Trump supporters. I expect that it will expose LOTS of Democrat and Republican establishment Washington types.

So, by finally giving in and having this information be shared with the public, will be giving the Democrats exactly what they are asking for... I believe it very well may happen this way.

So many of the things he has done, get obsessed about for awhile by the media and other politicians BEFORE he does them. The obsessive coverage builds an anticipation for what he supposedly will do. And builds an audience for it, without him having to spend millions on ads, to get the message out.

He hasn't let me down, yet. The fox is always a few moves, ahead of the rest of the dogs. I hope my faith in this, is not unfounded...

But, well, we'll see.

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Cat C.'s avatar

The only problem (and it may not be the case with the whole Epstein thing, as it's been so "front and center") is that he does make the move to solve an issue, but by then the media is doing less "obsessing" over that issue and when he fixes it, the media doesn't report it at all and the people don't know. I've literally come across this happening with other issues and have to tell people - "No, you're incorrect; Trump tackled that"......but me doing the educating that our media and elected representatives should be doing, takes time and I'm at a place where I don't have it (for reasons I won't go into here).

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Scott's avatar

💯

Well, if we had an unbiased media, how approval would be at about 60-65%.

Prove me wrong, Democrats...

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HL3's avatar

Just like Conservative media never wanted to admit one thing Democrats did was good.

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Scott's avatar

Yeah, except the mainstream media gets pumped into everybody's households whether they buy it or not.

You have to pay for cable.

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CStone's avatar

President Trump may have trusted her when she said “The files are on my desk.”

That’s why he has been more careful about who he appointed this time around. He trusted Judas Pence, Fauci and Birx…..he found out his trust was misplaced.

He has to trust those he appointed, and maybe she lied because she wanted to ‘look big and scary’, instead she had nothing, do she lied again about the videos.

Another Avenue could be that people he truly cares about maybe did visit the island, but nothing happened, and he doesn’t want their life’s ruined.

I just know that the demons are restless, doing what demons do…..seed chaos.

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Scott's avatar

Yeah, my impression of Bondi is not that great. I would be much more willing to stand with Patel and Bongino.

Unless Trump is standing with Bondi, as a way to get the Democrats to overplay their hand, and ask for everything to be exposed...

Which, we know, if Trump was seriously implicated in these files, or this list, the Democrats would have exposed it already.

Maybe he's trying to get the Democrats to shoot themselves in their foot, by demanding these files get released... 🤔🤔

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Joe Blow's avatar

OMG. Epstein liked kids. He was a pedo. He also made friends with a lot of rich people. You think he told all his friends that he was a child molester? Even scum like Clinton would drop a dime on him. But you nuts think that, not only did he tell them, but also got them to participate, and he secretly filmed them, and then entered everything into an Excel spreadsheet? Or, Occam's razor, did he and his GF get off on the kiddies, download a huge amount of child porn, procure a few underage girls for themselves, and keep it quiet because prison?

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Scott's avatar

What nuts are you talking about? 🤔 Nobody is saying Epstein had an Only Fans page where he entered in his every daily thought and action.

But it's obvious that the government has a lot more information on Jeffrey Epstein, that they have not shared with the public.

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Hebrides' Eilidh NicDhòmhnaill's avatar

I also was wondering something similar but from perhaps a different point of view. Trump & Bondi are buying time to figure out a way to get a "list" that is trump/bondi edited and approved or all together made up, what's the diff? in a way they can scream witchhunt should they be caught.

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Scott's avatar

That might be a plausible explanation, except... He hasn't done any of that, so far. When conservatives come out and prove the mainstream media to be off their rocker with their slamming of Trump, the media never covers that. They just go on to the next lie.

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Hebrides' Eilidh NicDhòmhnaill's avatar

The mainstream media likely thinks the Fox and all the lower ranking media are also off their rocker, too extreme, etc. so isn't likely to report their nuttery seeing that they think they're the sane ones. Typically in society, this has been not too difficult to discern, thus insane asylums, psyche wards, etc. Today, social media seems to have reflected back whatever we want to believe. We may see similar visuals, but what we feel can be quite different.

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BeadleBlog's avatar

The bench is fairly deep: Vance, DeSantis, Rubio, along with many in Congress and a few governors. The dems have zero on the bench, other than a few schmucks that have no chance in a national election.

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HEIDI's avatar

I think tuning out the hucksters would make an impact on their revenue as well.

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Matt L.'s avatar

I think you are full of shit, HEIDI.

Answer these questions about Epstein, and I’ll reverse my statement:

Why was Epstein running a child sex ring?

Who was Epstein working for?

Where did all his money come from?

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Texyz's avatar

Yes , read VDH, and then find Hugh Hewitt's comments. Epstein was not a big deal hedge fund guy, just a big time blackmailer. It is now a nothing burger, especially considering the ENORMITY of leftist Americans who are hard at work trying to start a bloody civil war. Especially considering that the TrumpAdmin MUST get millions of illegals out of the US by 2028 so they are NOT counted in the 2030 census for Democrats.

I know we were told a lot about Epstein over the years, and even Bondi said too much since January, but at this point, we need perspective of that which is TRULY important. We must not elevate Epstein -- we have a country to save, and at this point, it could go either way. The bigger picture is very important now.

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Judith Cleveland's avatar

Exactly right!

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234's avatar

Read Victor Davis Hanson's theory

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BD's avatar

Yes. Also see Megyn Kelly's latest vblog. Similar takes.

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Heyjude's avatar

It’s pretty clear from your comments that you think you already know who he was working for. The people who have launched a nefarious plot to rule the world, right?

Pure genius. Get 6 million of your people killed in gas chambers, then set yourself up in a barren patch of land surrounded by millions of fanatics who hate you. What could be a better way to take over the world?

Conspiracy rabbit holes indeed.

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CStone's avatar

Exactly. The world loves to blame Israel and President Trump for everything.

It’s so stupid.

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Matt L.'s avatar

And yet the 3 questions I and many in MAGA that voted Trump into office have not been answered about Epstein.

I’ll ask them again. How about engaging with the questions. If you don’t or can’t, then we part ways. I thought this was a Free Thinking platform and not a Leftist gaslight station.

Why was Epstein running a child sex ring?

Who was Epstein working for?

Where did all his money magically come from?

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TomD's avatar

I have no idea of the answers to your questions. I'll ask you this very hypothetical question - were we to have an election today and Trump was running against Kamala, Gavin, AOC or their ilk, who would you vote for! What is that saying, don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good? And yeah, I know Trump can't run a third time

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Matt L.'s avatar

When I voted for Trump this last time (and I’m a 3x Trump voter) it was under the pretext of him being my ‘Retribution’. And answering questions about where Epstein’s sudden wealth came from, that has been hidden (to protect elites?) was part of that ‘Retribution’. Yeah I won’t vote for Trump again. But I also won’t likely vote for his/her successor, either. Not if he/she is going to tell me Epstein is a nothing burger.

MAGA is a Populist movement, and all Populist movements eventually come to an end, once they are no longer viewed as working in interest of the common person.

This is a crack. More will come.

Fear is preventing answering of basic questions about Epstein that have long been asked and long been unanswered.

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Heyjude's avatar

The key to free thinking is actually thinking, not making insinuations about a Mossad plot. Ghislaine Maxwell’s father is buried in Israel!

I don’t pretend to know what went on in the Epstein situation, nor why Trump has evidently decided to lay it to rest. I suspect that the commenter here who said it would only be another circus distraction is probably correct.

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Matt L.'s avatar

I’m just asking what I see as legitimate questions . Nobody has investigated where Epstein’s sudden wealth came from. Nobody. And all the child sex ring issues stem from this. Why won’t anyone investigate this?

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Orenv's avatar

Yes, but I'm sure he didn't care if they were over 18 either so long as they were pliable as a side benefit to his clients. Younger are generally more pliable.

Himself, and his hedge fund investors.

His hedge fund.

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HEIDI's avatar

SJW's always project, Matt= POS

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Liz LaSorte's avatar

Sadly, Trump is increasing the national debt and that is a time bomb that will explode. That is the elephant too many people, including Trump, blow off. His family won’t suffer the consequences as much as those of us just trying to make it in the middle class, who have worked all our lives, so we can hopefully retire one day - not!

Our last hope is to fix the mess that Alexander Hamilton started: https://open.substack.com/pub/lizlasorte/p/a-modest-proposal-part-iv-amending?r=76q58&utm_medium=ios

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234's avatar

Trump has only been in office 6 months. Give his economic policies some time to work.

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HL3's avatar

GOP never gave Clinton, Obama or Biden a chance why should we give Trump a chance.

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234's avatar

Don't....it doesn't matter what you do because you do it to yourself. We don't care. What part of that don't you get, buttercup?

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HL3's avatar

I get what Trump has created a cult that attacks anything that dares criticize one thing he does.

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Matthew J Florio's avatar

Friend, you come on to a forum and aggressively bait people into schoolyard slap fights. Increasingly, that's what the left specializes in at multiple levels...going where they're not wanted specifically to start fights and cause a scene.

You're the assholes at the party who finally run their mouths too much and then moan about the horrible people who threw you out.

My bet is that, much like most of your fellows, you weren't like this before the internet put a layer between you and some natural consequences.

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CStone's avatar

You better get that TDS lanced. It sounds like you have it bad, hl

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Boze's avatar

It's okay to criticize, but it seems to be the only thing that folks do. What has he done well? Where are you satisfied with Trump? Why do you expect perfection? Do you expect the same of yourself?

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Sheila Nawrot's avatar

Ever hear the phrase, “It takes money to make money?” Many of the policies in the BBB have to be implemented before waste is stopped and then building back the economy can be fully realized. Give the man a chance. It’s been barely 6 months. The number of ball’s he’s juggling would take an ordinary man down. I’m upset about the Epstein files, as many are. However there are many ways to skin a cat.

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CStone's avatar

It won’t be 6 months until the 20th of July. Technically, if we’re going by months, he has only been President for 5 months. An AMAZING 5 months.

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Scott's avatar

YES!

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Matt L.'s avatar

Joe, what if all the movers and shakers that make decisions in this big, complicated world are ‘controlled’ by blackmail of having had sex on a Caribbean island with hot looking teenagers? What if Trump is one of them? Or Trump is clean. We still don’t know what motivated Thomas Matthew Crooks to shoot Trump. Maybe it was because intel community thought Trump would launch serious investigation into Epstein, how he got so rich, so fast, who he worked for, why he did what he did. Or maybe Crooks did it for some other reason.

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Texyz's avatar

Trump cannot be 'one of them' , cuz you know the Dems wudda already released that ENORMOUS news during the Biden years, during the 2024 campaign.

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BD's avatar

Or he is involved, along with many, many other high profile people (Presidents, Senators, business people) who are complicit. Regardless, there is certainly a tremendous amount of pressure involved here.

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Matt L.'s avatar

No, I don’t know that. Where did Epstein’s sudden wealth come from?

The ‘list’ is a distraction from this basic question.

Answering this question by government inquiry opens up new questions to answer until you get to bottom of whether or not Epstein/Maxwell child sex ring is still having a present day impact on the way elites and politicians make votes and decision.

Who is and who isn’t compromised?

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CStone's avatar

His ‘sudden wealth’ came from a reportedly gay billionaire, Les Wexner, the guy who owns Victoria’s Secret, Abercrombie and Fitch and many other businesses involving young people. He has been rumored to have been involved in cases of abuse of wrestlers, young male and female models.

But he has never been indicted. He appears to be one slippery sob.

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Ol’ Country Gal's avatar

Speaking of the “list” my question is WHO compiled the “list” and WHEN was it compiled?? WHAT was the purpose of the “list”?? Can anyone answer those questions? So if we ever find out who was involved are we going to waste time and money to talk about it for the next decade? Can we just get back to business to fix our country that the Biden administration screwed up?

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Matt L.'s avatar

I see. The elites never have to pay a price. Just schoolteachers and other normal plebes when it comes to child sex. Got it.

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Beth Nicolaides's avatar

Matt, what if monkeys fly out of my butt?

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Debby's avatar

Beth, then I’d say you get a problem.

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Matt L.'s avatar

Yes, as long as the Epstein investigation (who/what/why) is ignored we can ask endless questions of motivation, and travel down conspiracy rabbit holes. Maybe down one of those holes we’ll find a monkey with shit from your ass all over it.

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234's avatar

There are over 2,000 names on the list, all his clients or prospective clients. He fle tham down there to entice them to hire him. Like Alan Durschowitz they're not all creepy child sex perverts. Trump/Bondi are not releasing the list to protect the innocent who would be deemed guilty by association.

Time to move on

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Texyz's avatar

Exactly, it has become a nothing-burger now. No way can we splash a bunch of names to the press, essentially ruining the lives of some innocents. Maybe Bondi should send out a press release to explain that, and offer her regrets for prior remarks...she mis-spoke, etc.

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Matt L.'s avatar

You don’t need to reveal the list. But government does need to answer where Jeff’s sudden wealth came from, who he was working for (if anyone) and why he and Maxwell were running a pedo sex ring for wealthy / elite.

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Cat C.'s avatar

Plus, there's probably those who are very "large" in our world who aren't innocent: heads of state, heads of the largest banks and "funds" and corporations, more (besides British) children or relatives of royalty, etc. The news would be completely inundated by this, all over the world and calls for all these people to be removed, without due process (and here in the States, we'd require that, which would be a circus) and Trump's and Republican's work would be thwarted and the successes they do have, would be on the very last page of every real and virtual news.

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Matt L.'s avatar

That would be what I call a 4th Turning climax event. What Sasha has partly built her platform around.

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Scott's avatar

I'm not exactly sure that it's time to move on, because I think it's important that because Trump campaigned on this whole Epstein thing, then it needs to be revealed as to what's going on.

I'm willing to have a little patience on this... There's a lot more here than what anybody knows about. But there has been no closure on this.

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Orenv's avatar

Usually the answer is simple. Guy has rich people as investors. He wants to keep them around (lucrative) and figures out a way to satisfy some of their other needs (hobnobbing with big whigs, island vacations, and pliable companionship).

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Matt L.'s avatar

If the answers are simple, why hasn’t Trump and DOJ investigated it? It’s part of what we voted for. I hope Dan and Patel resign and come out and talk about how Trump/Bondi refuse to investigate.

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Scott's avatar

How do we know that the investigation is not ongoing?

We don't.

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Orenv's avatar

The answer has been given. The investigations done. It is literally "old news". It is in the public square. We know who went to the island. They were named from flight manifests. Does anyone really believe the Biden admin was covering for Trump?? It would have been the coup de grace.

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GabeReal's avatar

Or maybe it was staged

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R H's avatar
Jul 13Edited

The problem is, Epstein IS the swamp! There are no coincidences. Cameras don't just stop working and two prison guards don't fall asleep at the same time, and that renowned coroner doesn't find a broken hyoid bone after a suicide. People are tired of elites being above the law while the normal person will go bankrupt if the government drags them to court for whatever reason. Why is Maxwell in jail for sex trafficking if no one was having sex with the girls? This is disappointing at best, and if the current admin is complicit in the coverup, what's the point of voting? The nation will end up on the ash heap of other crumbled empires and civilizations. Just get to the bottom of this, release EVERYTHING to the public regardless of who is implicated and hurt by it (except the victims of course). This isn't hard.

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Stop Chemtrails Michigan's avatar

Dream up? lol….. yeah, it’s a giant leap from the Epstein files will be released to “are you still talking about that guy?“

It’s a giant leap from “I’ll end that war in 48 hours“ to continuing to send weapons.

The correlate to TDS is TCDNW….. Trump can do nothing wrong.

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JBell's avatar

Yep .... a giant leap into REALITY!

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Judith Cleveland's avatar

Everyone can make a decision I don’t entirely agree with— that doesn’t stop me from the big picture of saving the US as fast as humanly possible.

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CStone's avatar

TAW…..TRUMP ALWAYS WINS!!!

MAGA.

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Sheila Nawrot's avatar

I get what you are saying, and I agree. President Trump repeatedly stated that he would end the war in Ukraine on day 1. Many ppl took him at face value.

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BBS's avatar

"I would vote for him a thousand times over." Me, too, Sasha. Me, too!

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Debby's avatar

Me too!!! 💯

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Domenic P Maturo's avatar

Same here!

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Kurt's avatar
Jul 13Edited

Sasha, great job. Your clear description of events that totally inflame both the left and right, your calm interpretation and dispassionate delivery set you apart as a voice of reason in totally chaotic and crazy times. Everyone else in media is selling outrage. And boy how outrage sells these days. But you are different. You speak with care and concern. Your voice conveys the compassion of a big heart and is governed by a conscience that has caused you to change course in a big way in your life. And that has cost you dearly. The mob destroyed your business. Thank you for all your work, and your wonderful podcasts. You rock!

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Eddie Patterson's avatar

Let’s break it down. The Epstein list is potentially people who flew on airplanes either to or from Epstein bases or on “business”. Basically a whole lot of flight logs that tangentially link people to Epstein by airplane. Some say Epstein curated a client list and his henchwoman knows the names of the clients. The victims all know the names especially if they are famous. So many people know of people who are friends with people who shook Epstein’s hand or took a picture with him. So unless we know the source of a name from just a few of the possibilities above it’s all heresay that anything actually took place on a criminal level. And this is what we are trying to discover so we can what? Drag them through the mud on social media. Please give me a tangentially associated name or a name from a friend of a friend, or what have you, not to really do anything but to just trash their name for the hell of it. Feed my blog. Pay my advertisers. Horror of horror. It’s gossip plain and simple. It’s so the enquirer doesn’t go out of business. This heavy handed list of potential clients could fund someone’s retirement. I get it…leave Trump and Pam Bondi alone for not wanting to touch it with a ten foot pole. The MAGA base will be split…that’s a load of hogwash because when it comes to voting, it’s all coming down to the lesser of two evils and anyone associated with Trump wins at that political rate. Get real MAGA…obsess over the next controversy. And God forbid Trump has his own agenda. Not the Musk or Carlson or Rogan agenda…run for office you idiots making money being contrary…it’s all a racket…be a patriot and shut the f up.

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Texyz's avatar

Well said Ed. And I think Trump or Bondi could actually explain it how you just did, maybe in a press release. Probly Bondi, since she needs to come clean by saying she previously over-spoke about our ability to release Epstein info -- too many innocents would get smeared.

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Eddie Patterson's avatar

Well if she said what I said…big ole can of worms. Thank you, next prosecution.

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Domenic P Maturo's avatar

👏

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Mike Chalmers's avatar

Another great piece, thank you Sasha.

Those that don’t agree with you are entitled to their opinion of course, as are you.

That’s the essence of democracy.

Regardless of what folk may think of President Trump and his administration, just stop for a moment and consider where America would be under word salad Kamala….. I believe you’ve all dodged a bullet without a doubt!

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CStone's avatar

We are not a democracy. We are a Republic. Democracy operates by ‘mob rule’. Republic operates by ‘Rules of Law’

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Matt L.'s avatar

Sasha,

I think Tucker (and others before him) summed it up correctly on the Epstein fiasco - that it has been a cover up going on now for over 20 years. Acosta was told to go lightly on Epstein in ‘08 plea deal because Jeff was said to be an intel asset. Further, nobody knows how a private school math teacher in the late 1970’s suddenly went to owning a private island, multiple airplanes and the largest residential property in Manhattan.

It raises these questions, never answered:

Why was Epstein running a child sex service for elites around the world?

On whose behalf was Epstein working?

Where in God’s name did all the money come from?

Nobody has gotten to the bottom of these questions because nobody has ever tried. But, Trump made campaign promise to make this transparent. So did Patel & Bongino. And now, it’s getting swept under the rug.

Most people know that Ghislaine Maxwell was deeply connected to Jeff Epstein. What most people don’t know (and perhaps not you) is that Ghislaine dad, Rob Maxwell had deep, deep ties to the Israeli intel community, and very likely Ghislaine didn’t fall far from that tree. Rob was so tied to Israel that he was buried on Jerusalem Mount Olives and at his funeral the elegy was delivered by then Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Shamir. Israel President Chaim Herzog also attended the funeral along with six serving and former heads of Israeli intelligence. When reports surfaced of Rob Maxwell ties to MI6, KGB and the Mossad, Shamir declared that Maxwell “has done more for Israel than can today be said”

This Maxwell to Epstein connective tissue story is not being told because it suggests that the Intel community used child sex to blackmail people, and that many more knew (know) about it.

Many who brings this up are labeled cranks at best and antisemitic at worst.

But, there is a way to make it all go away, and it is not Trump’s current approach of saying ‘nobody cares about the Epstein story’. Or your fellow posters saying Tucker is a huckster or a fraud. That is what the Left does when they don’t want to hear your thoughts on climate change, gender affirming care, or illegal immigration. They call you uncaring, uniformed or a racist. It’s a tired playbook.

Instead, the way to put this Epstein issue to bed is to investigate and answer the questions above. That is what is ‘behind’ the ask to reveal the Epstein list.

The Intel community likely ran a ‘honeypot’ scheme of child sex with movers and shakers in the world in order to control them. And so many could be complicit.

That is truly an enemy of freedom. Because decisions and VOTES that impact our lives could be due to a deep state/ intel community puppet string puller. And this may have been made known to Trump, with the threat of derailing his BBB for example if he didn’t ’do his part’. A ‘part’ we are now seeing, and a backlash against.

This is why MAGA (and non-MAGA) want transparency. We want to know how deep this rot goes (or doesn’t).

What Trump doesn’t yet understand is that a section of his supporters (that includes me) will be unable to NOT think each and every military foreign policy decision is compromised or ‘led’ by deep state intel community (continue aid to Ukraine, Iran strike, likely sanctions coming onto Russia).

This is why getting to bottom of this is important. We want true freedom, not a fake one.

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234's avatar

Millions of us did not vote for Trump because we wanted to see the Epstein files.

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Texyz's avatar

Yep. Perspective.

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Matt L.'s avatar

Millions of us did though. This Epstein issue is part of the MAGA distrust of elites and experts. Similar to Fauci and Covid and Iraq War and WMD’s and I could go on, and on. We want to see Justice. If you can’t or won’t see that that’s on you. I guarantee the youth are watching and they are seeing Trump as a sell-out.

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CStone's avatar

You have a one-track mind. You are a demoRAT.

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Matt L.'s avatar

No, I am not. I’m a truth seeker.

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Ryan's avatar

This is a logical post. It is not unreasonable to want answers and clarity.

There are a lot of emotions controlling the conversation right now, but labeling people who have questions as being in Hitler territory and conspiracy theorists is just furthering the divide.

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Libertarian's avatar

Exactly. And frankly, we have three Jewish guys - Epstein, Zelensky and Bibi Netanyahu - screwing up MAGA by causing mistrust in Trump and Neocon warmongering.

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CStone's avatar

Say you’re a racist without shouting “I’m a racist”. You know nothing about Israel except what you hear from Tucker the backstabber.

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Libertarian's avatar

Zionists committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza in 2025 by killing over 50,000 women and children, maiming over 100,000, making homeless and starving over one million. The data and evidence is widely seen and objectively documented. Bibi is wanted for crimes against humanity. The world sees and is disgusted with Israel and Zionists.

I am Catholic and a U.S. military veteran and I oppose genocide and crimes against humanity.

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Michael Hunter's avatar

Thank you for your service in a country that uses & the best of our young badly. The Zionists are happy to blow torch the reputation of Jews around the globe for what they think is their ordained window of opportunity in a brutal tribal place and despite their trappings of civilization, they have proved that barbarism is one or a couple generations away from every human heart on the planet. I don't support Hamas, something evidently that was nurtured into being by Netanyahu with money to weaken the PLO. But as an American teenager during 9/11, I witnessed my land, that actor Reagan's beacon at the top of the hill, eat the bait everytime dragging this nation into the abyss. We lost world credibility. We have a two time WWF quality guest host as the savior of our nation against what? Equally weak bought out children of the boomer period and thereafter.

It's critical and crushing the betrayal. I am a lifelong independent, I am not scared to say how I see things. And this, under rule of law, was the entire purpose of this experiment called the United States. The individual as sovereign should be allowed to call a spade a spade. Even Theodore Roosevelt warned of the special interests, the eternal enemy that is the elites, back in 1912 before his ill fated Bull Moose party.

Sasha's political reawakening is legit but keeps me at arms length. Trump is Trump, a symptom of the diseases of modern times but no savior. No single man or woman can fit that bill. And a good man is worth only so much as the quality of the prevailing institutions...

Anyway, I hope you believe you have my thanks for your service. Keep your courage up and most importantly take care of those most who immediately who depend upon you.

When this madness settles, may we discover at worst an American Renaissance and at best a global one.

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Libertarian's avatar

Thanks Michael. Indeed I go to Mass daily and stay with a group afterward to say the Rosary to stay strong. Back atcha.

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Donald Barr (August 8, 1921 – February 5, 2004) was an American educator, writer, and Office of Strategic Services (Now known as the CIA) officer. He was an administrator at Columbia University before serving as headmaster at the Dalton School in New York City and the Hackley School in Tarrytown, New York, both members of the Ivy Preparatory School League.

For a brief time, at the end of his tenure as headmaster of the Dalton School, disagraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was employed as a math teacher. It is unclear whether Barr hired Epstein.

His sons are former United States Attorney General William Barr and physicist Stephen Barr.

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CStone's avatar

Les Wexner is at least one billionaire who backed Epstein.

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234's avatar

Hearsay Hearsay Hearsay.....and he's still light years better than Harris.

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Orenv's avatar

Reporting was that Trump banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago because he was messing around with the daughter of a friend. If we are going to hold powerful people to their marriage vows, good luck with that.....

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CStone's avatar

Trump threw him out of Mar-A-Lago for being inappropriate with a young person on his staff. So, no. It wasn’t over a simple ‘real estate deal’. He even offered to testify against him when he was charged in Florida. But DeepState forced them to drop the charges. He was a DS ‘asset’.

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Matt L.'s avatar

Now we’re getting somewhere. Yes, Acosta was ‘told’ (by some authority) Epstein was an intel asset and go easy on him during his 2008 plea deal. Some of Epstein friends heard him brag he was Mossad. Later, Epstein was arrested in 2019, but SDNY only investigated his $77M Manhattan home. And didn’t extend the warrant to search Jeff’s homes in New Mexico, Paris or little St. James island in the Virgin Islands. So, this is guy who became overnight rich, owned lots of planes and properties and then serviced rich /elite with child sex on a remote island. And he is potentially ann intelligence asset. Do you see the smoke and potential blackmailing that could result? If you can, are any of those possible compromised our current elected or appointed government officials? That’s the issue in a nutshell.

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Matt L.'s avatar

Trump is the one encouraging the gaslighting. By saying MAGA should drop this and no longer talk about it. Patel & Bongino built their professional podcast / online lives on this issue of elite evading Epstein justice. So now, both must resign or see their credibility shattered.

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HEIDI's avatar

Cucker Tarlson & his fellow Jew/Israel haters et. el., are just revealing who they truly are, hucksters seeking cash & prizes, fame & funding from the perpetually depressed, envious, Islamo/commie hot mess. Odd how they desperately try to portray Jews / Israel, a tiny country you'd need a microscope to find on a world map, fighting on behalf of Western freedom, as having some kind of magical oppressive power over everyone. All while sponsored clicks & cash pouring into their coffers comes from enemies of freedom.

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fuzzi's avatar

I'm not surprised at the sudden surge of Jew hatred, just disappointed at those who have embraced it.

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KenO's avatar

Heidi, I respectfully disagree.

Given the way Trump’s America got hustled into a full endorsement of Netanyahu’s Israel at a time when all possible deference to Commander in Chief 47, it is manifestly ‘Unfair’ to characterize Tucker as anything but upset at the way WE are being treated, herded, by the most powerful propaganda machine on planet Earth — Netanyahu’s Israel — enabled, funded, and set on ‘Cruise Control’ by the most powerful military-industrial Complex on the same planet, dominating and not hard to find on the North American continent.

The ambitions of ‘N’s’ Israel certainly have defensible points, but if you can hear the truth of what has happened in the course of that pursuit of hegemony and not be shocked at the human cost, historic archeological and religious heritage — check your soul for being thoroughly deluded by what ‘this world’ has to offer at the most exploitive cost of blood and treasure in world history.

So obviously, you think Tucker and the MAGA I know should just swallow the Scofield Bible twist on truth about ‘blessing Israel’ whole, with no regard for the deep deceptions and violations of reason it pushes as a wheelbarrow through sand on Omaha Beach on D- Day.

Tucker doesn’t claim to be a Biblical scholar, but he has a visceral logic, and a love for America and President Trump that requires a moment of silence for the truth, as well as the souls that are being sacrificed on the alters of fortunes’ ambitions.

Degrees of demonic possession, deceptions of scale, and the cruelty of mankind inherent in the narrative set by the Judeo-Christian religious tradition are not understood properly, and yet are speeding to a final solution in the Great Controversy between Christ and Satan. The history of that struggle is the most fascinating and real epic of all time. It is worth every due diligence to understand what is at stake for your own soul. And for Mankind.

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CStone's avatar

The utter hatred of Israel is demonic.

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Orenv's avatar

I guess the Jews must really be "Gods Chosen People".....

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Alan D Campbell's avatar

Yeah, I guess you read the Old Testament where Chosen-ness is very much a double-edged sword.

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HEIDI's avatar

Iran has been at war with America and the West since the Islamic revolutionary regime came to power in 1979. It has mounted countless attacks against Western interests, has had its fingerprints all over every major terrorist incident and has killed countless numbers of people. It’s been building intercontinental ballistic missiles to hit America and Europe, and repeatedly declares its intention to destroy the West.

So why is the West so blind to all this? Why doesn’t it understand that it needs to defend itself against this clear and present danger? Willful ignorance is being charitable, but possible : The HORRIBLE Truth About Iran the West Doesn't Understand - Matthew Syed ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1cNfkJvyLs&ab_channel=Triggernometry

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Clarissa Dearth's avatar

Speaking for myself , a Christian who has always been taught to revere and honor Israel bc they are Gods chosen people.. I have been studying the Old Testament for a few years in depth and realize that although God chose them as His people to be used as a sort of visual aid to show us that God is faithful even when we break our covenant with Him.. He also raised up heathen nations to punish them for repeatedly turning their backs on God. There is nothing about the current Israeli nation living in Israel that looks to God. They are a secular society that actually treats citizens who hold to Jesus as Messiah very harshly. These are not the chosen people. I believe we must be careful not to align with a glorified vision of what we want Israel to be instead of knowing the truth about our Mid Eastern ally. I say this as someone with proud Jewish heritage and as a Christian. Most of Israel is made up of Muslims or a form of Judaism that does not recognize Jesus as Messiah. True Messianic Jews are few .These ones who do follow Jesus are discriminated against openly. I don’t believe we are obligated to always unflinchingly support every decision Israel makes. This does not make me an anti Semite.. one who myself has Jewish heritage . We need to be wise about our entanglements. We can and do support Israel. The Abrahamic Covenant to Abraham was fulfilled and all nations have been blessed through Jesus!

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CStone's avatar

And the U.S. has followed in the same path as ancient Israel…..actually worse. We are NUMBER ONE in human trafficking, abortions, mutilation of children. And we are reaping the same judgements pronounced on Israel when they were disobedient. The parallelism is astounding.

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Clarissa Dearth's avatar

Wow, that’s fascinating and why shouldn’t we. Very sad. God judges rightly🙏

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Jim I's avatar

Do you prefer Iran?

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Clarissa Dearth's avatar

I prefer not embracing any country that doesn’t have our interests in mind. I’m not convinced that we should trust Netanyahu.. so, I guess now I’m probably not only an Antisemite but a cheerleader for Iran. 🤣 As Americans we love neatly wrapped packages and there’s always a good guy and bad guy. Unfortunately, that’s not life. I’m sure Trump knows more than I do about these matters. Just giving my humble opinion. Pretty sure it’s still ok to have an opinion in America .. have a blessed day

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steven t koenig's avatar

One of them does a lot of shouting "Death to America". The other does not. I think I can distinguish the good guys here

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Clarissa Dearth's avatar

Well, you perfectly nailed my opinion of Western politics.. always only a bad and a good guy. Maybe neither side deserves our allegiance at this point. That’s all I’ll say.

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Jim I's avatar

So you think Iran has our best interests in mind.

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Clarissa Dearth's avatar

That’s clearly never what I implied.. but,,.. ok. 🙄

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Jim I's avatar

It is is exactly what you implied:

“I prefer not embracing any country that doesn’t have our interests in mind. I’m not convinced that we should trust Netanyahu.. so, I guess now I’m probably not only an Antisemite but a cheerleader for Iran.”

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Mark Marshall's avatar

As soon as he stood up and pumped his fist and shouted, “fight, fight, fight,” I knew he had just won the Presidency.

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Teresa Maupin's avatar

"Both the Left and the Never Trumpers are using the Epstein case in hopes of dividing and conquering MAGA. And from the looks of it, they’re winning." Right on, Sasha! I'm someone who is not MAGA but voted for Trump 3 times based on his policy platform. I imagine there are other ordinary Trump voters like me who see the big picture and have developed Epstein fatigue for the very reasons Trump outlined in his Truth Social post. Also, as a long time Tucker fan, I could not be more disappointed with his casual disregard about boys playing in girls' sports. The trans madness takes a jackhammer to the very foundation of society that Tucker promotes -- stable family structure. Finally, I'm going to have to plagiarize myself: Another Tour de Force, Sasha!

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Dena's avatar

I don’t think Tucker would be so cavalier sounding about trans if one of his own children was targeted. He makes good points in this speech, but honestly I think his anti- war passion & fear that every US military action results in WW3, often overrides his rational thought process.

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CStone's avatar

There are two sexes/genders.

Male and Female.

Being against the mutilation of children is not cavalier, it is ANATOMY that is settled SCIENCE.

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Ken D.'s avatar

regarding the Trump administration's paradoxical behavior on the Epstein files, could it be merely a question of Trump wanting to "take his best shot" against the Deep State? In other words, releasing the files now would set off a media circus that could last the duration of his term, effecting both parties, and distract from Trump's ability to advance his anti-Deep-State agenda. In essence,could Trump be choosing to "let sleeping dogs lay", while he surgically attacks the Deep State from his current position of power?

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Heyjude's avatar

That makes too much sense. It’s gotta be that Trump is in on a nefarious plot by Mossad to control the world.

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CStone's avatar

And that one country, as small as NJ, and surrounded by an ocean of idiotic countries who constantly attack them, yet controls the entire universe.

I think you’re onto something here.

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Clarity Seeker's avatar

Lots of combative comments here. That's part of American freedom ( thank God). But ultimately politics and voting comes down ( or should come down in my opinion) to a choice between two packages ( here the left package v the trump package to simplify matters). You get to choose which package you prefer. If you lean right and choose not to vote the other side says thank you very much. The other side has little if any dissent and this helps them go further left. The right is a free for all. The more the right eats its own the more likely it is that come 26 or 28 the left package will be the one we will live with ( under is a better word). So those who voted for or supported trump and are now on the war path just keep in mind that elections always ha e consequences and the more that independents are scared or pushed away from trump the more likely that the leftist package becomes more than hopes and dreams. This is a very delicate balancing act in terms of how dissent from the right is framed and presented.

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Ruth H's avatar

Well said. The option of having Dems in control cannot be downplayed and we must make sure they never have power again. Dems are complete lunatics, fanatics, socialists radicals who will do great harm just like they all did under Biden.

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James Howard Kunstler's avatar

I expect that the country will get a more coherent resolution of the Epstein files in the days ahead.

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Jesper W. Rasmussen's avatar

Dear Sasha,

Your new podcast is a poetic, beautifully rendered reverse back through an unfathomable year. It literally feels like a different age to me. A different world.

The almost 250 years of transatlantic osmosis, namely the absorption of American cultural cells and thinking into the rest of the world, has for the last decade and a half proven so toxic for the rest of the West. Don't get me wrong, this not the fault of the US.

We distill all kinds of madness and insanity here in Europe - and (re)invent our own.

But, finally, in the aftermath of November 5th of last year, new red American blood cells will eventually reach our shores and begin osmosis into the weary body of old Europe - cells that are finally benign. Strong. Good. Just. Moral. Ethical. Based in Christian culture. And therefore sane.

And for that, President Trump - I thank you. And to those of my American brethren, that made it possible - I owe you.

We all owe you. God bless you. God bless the USA.

Allow me this plug-of-love for your country (there's an English version, too): https://gaydissent.substack.com/p/ny-podcast-jep-white-blue-episode

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Raenalle's avatar

I just had a MAGA condescendingly rip into me for the unforgivable sin of expressing my desire to move on from the “Epstein Files” and address many other major and more urgent issues. The emotional attachment to this issue concerns me. Of course it’s frustrating, but are we going to allow it to fragment a movement that’s our only chance to rescue the country from a toxic and despotic democrat left? Are there enough that gullible? Again, thank you for another great piece, Sasha. You have a gift for providing much needed clarity in treacherous times.

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Lady Mariposa's avatar

I used to lean left and I recall always feeling like I was having my strings pulled. "Aren't you outraged, yet?" over a different cause seemingly every week. When I was young, I jumped, but each time I jumped a little less high. Then one day I saw I was being manipulated and I stopped jumping.

The "emotional attachment to this issue" that you mentioned makes me think of how the left was always trying to get me to jump - and I don't jump any more.

Epstein is just one issue among many. Bad actors are using it as a way to get clicks at best and divide and conquer at worst.

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Matt L.'s avatar

Jeff Childers (Covid & Coffee) summed it up on his brilliant July 8th post by stating it this way, and why it’s so passionately important to certain slices of MAGA (which includes me):

“Epstein is undoubtedly one of the most important stories of our generation. It’s the Rosetta Stone of elite corruption— a case intersecting nearly every electrified rail of conservative, populist, and justified MAGA distrust: globalist depravity, the deep state’s immunity, two-tiered justice, media collusion, basic right and wrong, and child exploitation— and the sickening sense that the worst people in the world are the ones setting the rules.”

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/semi-transparent-tuesday-july-8-2025?utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

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CStone's avatar

But we canNOT afford to allow the RAT Party to sow chaos in our ranks. This truly is a spiritual war, and we are fighting demons. Notice they left out only the ‘n’ in the name of their party. They have been evil since they began as a party. Their entire existence has been to destroy this nation. We have to “Fight, fight, fight!!!”

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Stephen Obisanya's avatar

I love your work Sasha.

But this piece is such a GROSS oversimplification of Tucker’s sentiments (among others you referenced here). It’s actually a pretty disgusting tactic, and totally unexpected from someone of your caliber.

I think this is ultimately what Trump sycophancy does.

Tucker lays out clearly (in the very Turning Point excerpt you include) that he’s all for the cultural wins that ensure the removal of men from women’s sports, but that all of that stuff, in the grand scheme of things, pale in comparison to the issues that have plagued the country for decades.

Tucker drills that America-First policies—a thing that Trump ran on—are vastly more important than small cultural wins, as much as Tucker does believe that society must be steered back on track, away from the crippling ideologies of the Left. Tucker points out that as long as we continue to prop up foreign nations rather than our own, we will never truly see a country that ends up any better than the Obamas and Bidens have left it.

To go out of your way to malign Tucker’s message just shows how deeply sycophantic you’ve become about Trump. It’s honestly a bit sickening reading this attempt to malign those, especially independent journalists, who put forth real critiques of this administration and its failures. These are not emotional Leftists accusing Trump of being a “fascist.” On the contrary, these are people who voted for a candidate they believed would actually make an effort to restore their country to its rightful, prosperous place instead of doing the bidding of every foreign nation but America’s.

It’s wild to me how you’ve allowed yourself to swing from one side of the pendulum to the other side—from a Democratic loyalist to an uncritical MAGA loyalist who smears everyone who doesn’t “ride or die” for Trump like you do.

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Unwoke in Idaho's avatar

As opposed to Tucker sycophancy?

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Matt L.'s avatar

Stop with the name calling please. That is Leftist language. And Unwoke I know from your many posts that’s not you?

If you have issue with Tucker, state in plain language why so. Truth tellers often get labeled with black paint. That appears to be case here?

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CStone's avatar

ML, You are as woke as they come, little guy.

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Matt L.'s avatar

Sasha struck out big time on this post. Been a subscriber since nearly her launch and watched the journey. To thrown down on Tucker like this when his heart is about America first, was disappointing.

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Stephen Obisanya's avatar

BIG TIME!

You can’t say you left the Democratic Party because of their coercive “Vote Blue No Matter Who” tactics then literally employ the very same tactic scolding people for not being “Ride or Die Supporters” of Trump.

It doesn’t compute! And these are real, good-faith journalists and voters on the Right that she’s attacking for simply critiquing Trump’s administration for not delivering on ANYTHING he promised.

Shame.

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Buff McCharen's avatar

I agree. I voted for Trump because there was no other choice. I was hoping he would be true to his word. I'm very disappointed with his handling of Ukraine and Israel. His administrations actions have done everything but MAGA!

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Boze's avatar

Can you give it (the new POTUS Administration) at least 18 months?

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Mike Perceval's avatar

Amen Boze!!!

There is no way any leader of any organization - much less a nation, and far less the (elected) leader of what still is the most powerful country in the world - could possibly be effective, if every action or inaction was scrutinized, challenged, second-guessed, maligned, criticized, endlessly debated, and subjected to popular opinion polls at every step.

Trump has put together the greatest cabinet in my 70 years of life; perhaps even in the history of America. If they are to fail, may it be because of errors of judgement or execution of operations, not because the masses of people who have prayed for this one last chance to save our country, couldn’t give them the trust and continued support that such a Herculean task demands.

Satan and his minions; demonic and human, are stirring up dissension, disgust, and disunity within the MAGA base, seeking to defeat and destroy the only God-given means we have of stemming the imminent collapse of the nation. And so many of us are acting like petulant children, demanding our desires be fulfilled, as and when we insist they must be, rather than giving the men and women at the helm, the time, as well as spiritual and political support, they need to work for our welfare, and that of succeeding generations.

God help us, because only He can effectively do so.

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Buff McCharen's avatar

Of course! I keep hoping!

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Kyra's avatar

I agree, we need to look at politics without a bias if we really want to understand what is going on.

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CStone's avatar

You speak as though Tucker is the ‘be all, end all’.

He isn’t.

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Debby's avatar

Republicans seem to do what they always do, doom themselves to failure by acting like the perpetual “middle child “ who feels they never get enough attention. Shouting, look at me, I have things to say. When in actuality, they are mediocre and uninspiring, but they are loud and finally get the attention they crave. Even at the expense of the (MAGA) family. Shame on them.

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