The Great Epstein Backstab (E332)
Many Trump voters were under the naive impression that his administration would release information about Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirators in his child trafficking operation. So it came as a shock when the DOJ released a memo claiming that they couldn’t find any “client list,” there is no evidence of Epstein blackmail activities, and they did not find “evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.”
Not even MAGA loyalists are buying this.
Jake, Julian, and Travis try to make sense of the DOJ’s blundering attempt to put an end to Epstein chatter, discuss how the memo contradicts previous statements by FBI Director Kash Patel, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and Deputy Director Dan Bongino, and explore whether this is scandalous enough to fracture Trump’s base for good.
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REFERENCES
DOJ Epstein Memo
https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1407001/dl?inline
Metadata Shows the FBI’s ‘Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified
Investigation and Review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Custody, Care, and Supervision of Jeffrey Epstein at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, New York
Deputy FBI Director Bongino has told people he is considering resigning amid Epstein files fallout, sources say
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/11/politics/bongino-consider-resigning-epstein-files
Comments (105)
This episode might have been my fav episode of any podcast ever.
A little bit of extracurricular viewing... Great to see three beautiful boys on with BTC. https://youtu.be/eixpKkNHQUc?si=hMqCeQdk3HbMYj14
Here’s my unfounded theory: Bannon was used by Trump to “catch and kill” the Epstein story. Wasn’t Bannon supposed to be making a documentary?
Why does Julian keep suggesting that people are being threatened with their whole family being killed? Isn't this really similar to MAGA conspiracy theories about the 'deep state'?
The adds of going into and out of Kendrick but with updated lyrics - chef’s kiss
Julian’s outburst are very Kanye-like. Just as impactful.
This is Julian at his best. Everyone should be as pissed off as he is
ok which one of you nerds is tracking exactly which episodes they apologized at the end in. I'm thinking it's at least 50%
I want a timeline on the WSJ letter. How long has the admin known that was in the pipeline? Did the existence of that letter cause him to start this whole "Dems created the Epstein hoax?" Or did the WSJ only release the letter because they saw a crack and exploited it for clicks?
I first saw that news the day Colbert announced the end of that late show franchise (unrelated, but hard start to when that news was broken).
God you love to see Julian unhinged in this episode!
ngl i was genuinely worried about Julian this time, there was a vein in his brain only tenths milimeters from bursting
This has gotta be one of my all time favorite episodes. I am so damn glad to have you guys narrate the insanity of the moment. Deep dish bless
Living these days is so surreal I feel like Mulder & Scully caught in the magic mushroom 🍄 and this is all just a really bad trip. I find it all so perplexing.
petition to banish Dan Bongino and Kash Patel to the FBI in the xfiles universe
Oh my!
Orangutans, morons, and rapists! Oh my potus and scotus! Ick.
I really believe a lot of MAGA supporters are chemically dependent on Trump. They’re addicts
Is that Derek of fucking Cool Cat fame in the autoqueue??
Oh boy oh boy oh boy! I was waiting for this episode lol.
we're all cooked
I do worry that some people are under the impression that jails and prisons are all above board, recording everything diligently, have the best and brightest running the facilities, and that they’re a place where no one wants to die by suicide. So sorry to say that’s simply not the case
Reason (of all the horrible news sites) published an article after Epstein's death that documented a bunch of horrible ways people killed themselves or managed to die in federal prison without anyone knowing or caring, making the astute point that someone killing themselves in jail and cameras not capturing it is only shocking if you're completely ignorant of the conditions in American prisons. That's something I've always kept in mind. I'm sure whatever "list" exists implicates Trump in some way, but I'm still pretty solidly on the, "He probably did kill himself," team.
And the meltdown continues today!
Please do a follow up episode. Trump is getting more upset.
Julian, you're shilling as well as Nick ever could! Kudos!!!
Imagine your bestie calling you a creep after you die
This Julian's finest hour 😂
Appreciate you guys fr 💯
Trump’s brother did not crash a plane. He was a pilot, tried to make a life for himself outside the Trump clan, but was driven into alcoholism by the constant derision, abuse and contempt from his father. As far as I know he was the only decent person of the lot, and that broke him. And the moronic but useful Donald was promoted to heir and golden boy. And then the world got to suffer for it …
promoted not by virtue of anything but merely because Fred Jr. (QUITE FUCKEN UNDERSTANDABLY!!!) wanted no part in the family business
Hearing Travis swear is my favorite treat
Incredible! Thanks Travis, I love you.
Does anyone else find the fact that MAGA now really cares about Epstein odd? As someone who’s been listening for years my impression is that MAGA had oddly little interest in Epstein precisely BECAUSE of the Trump connection. They would name check it but not much else- but now it’s apparently central? When and why did this change?
Was Trump’s mistake that he made an explicit promise to release the files. Is it that the idea that Epstein was a mossad agent has gained traction on the radical left?
Goddamnit what the fuck is Julian’s ethnicity?!?!?
Italien
Wow! Julian referenced Ralph Steadman’s drawings! I’m impressed!
I love when Jake puts things in terms I can understand
Jakeism
TW: Julian says a brand at 17:50
it's cold and it's a broken dan bongino
Dan bongino, dan bongino...
Back to the old jams baby!
what I don't get is why tf wouldn't they just make up a list to purge their political enemies forever and consolidate power instead of doing this?? are they stupid?
Great episode again,lads! But,Jimmy "Seville"? C'mon now, pronounce his name right,eh? Savile was probably our most notorious sex offender. Have some respect now, hasn't the poor guy suffered enough?!😜
The fact that this episode just starts off with Travis screaming.
Do Julian and Travis have beef or is that for the show? I know Julian was being extra but sometimes I feel some tension.
unsubscribe due to links awakening slander
I have too much knowledge on how government works. I am positive there is “no client list”. So they actually would have go through tons of receipts, passager lists, witness testimony, and other data to truly find out whom Epstein clients were. I can see a meeting, where they realizes this is too much work, so how do we avoid all this work for an outcome that would be uncertain. “Let’s not do the work, therefore, no list.”
this assumes they are absolutely committed to releasing a list ONLY if it’s 100% accurate
Julian's assumption is 100% correct about the true nature of the epstein case
"Jimmy Savile with less fucking charisma"/"the wrong type of Sex Guy" got his ass; I hope when he 🤞 half-accidentally snorfs a fat line of fent we can excise and preserve that fucking back tattoo tho it deserves to be in a museum (not a compliment)
it feels like it’s impossible that faith in MAGA goes on any longer after this but i know that’s too good to be true. no matter how obvious all of the corruption and lying gets this will go on forever. nothing ever happens
Wait what’s the beef with Hamilton? I thought the consensus is that it’s cringe but well done
I don’t think it’s anything about the musical itself so much as a case of overexposure that then got sucked into the labyrinth of American political tribalism.
Holy shit Julian talking about adobe cracks and chiptunes took me back. Good times 🏴☠️
“LET MEGETHTOUFH ONE SENTENCE ONSENTENCE”
travis' lisp is based and an icon in and of its own right
"underage women"? Really? 😐
Struggle with that myself, also the “fucking kids“ when we talk about child rape.
Love the regular content in addition to the side quests!
One thing about the clip of Trump at about 15:30 that I can't get over is how he talks about "that Epstein guy" as if he didn't know him well for years and years. He fucked his wife on Epstein's plane! I just can't fathom the people who thought Trump would do anything about this. Send a pedophile to catch a pedophile, I guess.
🧊
Julian is deranged
I feel like Julian is going down the Blueanon rabbit hole.
I love these episodes for how deranged they are but my God, Julian constantly does the "he's a fed" thing that online weirdos do to anyone or any situation that is hard to explain or is too convenient. Everyone is a Mossad agent if you are a terminally-online far-leftist.
release the "Julian threatening the audience audio!" (I am subscribed to cursed media btw)
Julian is prolifically rude and is part of why i pay you prolifically. However I prefer Jake being prolifically silly.
I would pay 27$ a year for soothing Jake’s takes podcast that could put me to sleep or help me get through the day.
“YOU COULD BE A PROLIFIC INTERRUPTOR!!” Ahhhh Travis LOL 🥰
you could be prolifically RUDE
Just sayin…still get excited by the “new” theme song
I usually listen to my poddies over a Chromecast thru a set of tellies from like, the turn of the decade (...the previous one) so even if it's only thru my fucken, airpods lmao, it still goes way harder than usual when it kicks off my bus ride/shopping trip 😭
What a phenomenal autoqueue. Chiding us for listening to QAA, proclaiming Trump's authority via Divine Right, signing off with a "let Bartlett be Bartlett." Simply sensational.
Maybe it is not Chipotle. This is some dingy small office i federal building when they are brought and then some nice old fellow brings projector and starts showing JFK assassination video. They realise that it is not Zapruder tape. It is shot from the perspective of the second shooter. After Kennedy head explodes the camera turns and shows a young face of the shooter and the movie ends. The old fellow asks them if they have any questions and just before they ask it they realise that this old fellow is awfully similar to the shooter from the video but around 60 years older. So they answer that everything is clear, they don't have any questions and that Epstein killed himself.
the camera turns and shows their own face. the older fellow asks "any questions?" in their own voice. "no, sir" they respond.
Travis delivers another perfect zinger 38:12
I love the "d'egg" seal pup. I love the part where he says "fimbsh". I love the contextual information that he is putting off & complaining about it being his first swim underneath the ice without his mum.
A+ interruption and response 🧑🍳🤌💋
Excellent
Julian quoting Kendrick multiple times throughout the episode 💯
In defense of Link's Awakening, they told you from the getgo that it was all going to be a dream. It's called "Link's Awakening" FFS.
Woke Link
If only Jones would've thrown up and choked on it live.
look we're all trying to find the guy who crashed the banana car
Julian is matching my current vibe 🤌🏻
You know any mother fucker that’s covered up all this crime against humanity shouldn’t just be removed from this world I think the rope is too easy an out I want them fucking kerbstompped 🤯
love to see kerb spelled correctly 🤝
Carole Baskin killed Epstein.
Voidzilla on YouTube goes over the video and the investigation file, showing the angle of camera and everything.
early days intro. feels good man!
A few min in so I don’t know where this episode goes but it’s so funny you’re kinda siding with the baking right now but also 100% justified, my blood’s boiling
I have infinitely more respect for someone who routinely falls for Instagram porn bots than I do someone who thought Trump was gonna do anything about Epstein
Prolific New York financier
Liv… agar…
Travis View
I want to think im Jake or Travis.... but im Julian
Oh shit i mean liv agar
prolific
Jake Jake Jake
Liv agar
hell yeah
Liv agar
The Great Liv Agar