Congressman Dan Goldman sat down with Ben Meiselas on the MidasTouch network to have an interesting and illuminating conversation about the Epstein files. You see, the Congressman called it months ago. He was the first to warn about the cover-up by Trump. He knew back then. I wasn’t subscribed to Meidas+ back then, but I wish I had been. I have learned some things I had never known from them. It’s been frightening, to say the least. But, back to Congressman Goldman. There’s a podcast and this article here:
Let’s start with this week’s bombshell: a Wall Street Journal report revealed that the Department of Justice told Donald Trump back in May that his name is in the Epstein files. So naturally, Trump waves the “deep state hoax” wand and blames Obama, Clinton, Comey, your grandma, your dog…basically anyone but himself.
The report was eye-opening. tRump knew *months* ago his name was in the files. So he’s twisting and turning and prevaricating, anything to keep from releasing them. He would have been better off to redact the victims and anything personally identifying and put them out. At this point, everyone knows he’s in them because he’s trying so hard to keep them hidden.
Trump then sent a phony request for grand jury testimony, admitting in his own court filing that his administration wasn’t entitled to the materials. Yes, you read that right—the DOJ argued against itself. Why? Because they wanted to create the illusion that they tried to get the files released, only to be “denied” by the courts. It’s yet another con.
Well, I don’t know about you, but I felt off about this from the get-go. The truth came out soon enough that this was a farce, a bone thrown out to the angry mobs to distract us from the files not being released. Well, that redirect lasted for the equivalent of 15 minutes. Then we were back to it. We were getting restless. We were asking.
And here’s what Congressman Goldman made crystal clear: this is not about grand jury testimony. The real files, 300 gigabytes worth, include witness interviews, intercepted communications, photos, videos, and documents seized from Epstein’s properties. This is evidence sitting on DOJ hard drives that could be released right now, redacting victim names, if there was a will to tell the truth. But instead, we are getting the usual. Gaslighting. Lies. Distractions.
I don’t think any one of us will be satisfied until we see the information. We won’t be satisfied until we know. The more El Presidente Imbécil tries to hide them, the louder grow our demands. By now, we deserve to know. He could have released them back in MAY. He has his defenders. So what? We are more than he tries to make us be. We are more.
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Hi, Susan. I don’t understand the purpose of this column. What it mainly does is report on an interview that Meidas Touch conducted on July 26 with U.S. Rep. Goldman. Neither you nor Meidas identifies who Goldman is: his party, the state he represents, what city he comes from, or what relevant House committee he is on. The Politizoom headline refers to excuses made by the Trump Administration, while Meidas mentions a cover-up. I understand the cover-up that Meidas highlights, but I don’t see the excuses that Politizoom mentions.
We already knew before the Meidas interview that Trump’s DOJ requested the grand jury files in May, that DOJ admitted it had no right to them, and that the judge denied DOJ’s request to obtain the files. We also knew that the relevant evidence is in Epstein’s files, which the DOJ possesses and could release if it wanted to.
On July 23, three days before Goldman’s interview with Meidas, the Wall Street Journal reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi told Trump his name was in the Epstein files. So, the Meidas interview does not reveal new information here.
Susan, I realize you wrote an opinion column, not a news story, so you can share your opinion about something no matter how long ago it happened or how many others have already given theirs, even if it’s the same as yours.
So, was this the main point of your column? That you are demanding that the DOJ release the full Epstein file, with only the appropriate redactions?
Thanks in advance for the clarification, Susan.
Hello David!
I apologize for the muddiness of this column. It wasn’t intentional, I assure you.
Congressman Goldman is a Democrat. He is from the 118th and 119th districts in NYC proper. I was trying to show that he knew Trump was in the Epstein files way back before this mess started, when Bondi said there was no list. So I was trying to show that he knew more than “everyone” was saying with closing the investigation.
This is a special kind of mess. Yes, I want to see them. I want this even more now that Trump and Bondi, and Patel are insisting there isn’t anything there. We don’t know for certain, but even MAGA knows the files exist. They now see him as being part of the “deep state” he was going to rip wide open. At this point, the more Trump blathers, the more we know that he’s in them. I hope this doesn’t fall under that stupid immunity the Supreme Court idiots gave him. I don’t think it does. But one of these days, it’s going to turn around and bite him in the butt.
Hope this helps. Let me know.