IHIP News - Trump Gets Bomb Dropped on Him, DOJ Handed New Epstein Evidence with Brett Meiselas

Episode Date: July 23, 2025

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We have a great guest today, one of the founding members of the Midas Touch podcast, Brett Mycelis. It's great to be here. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so glad you did this. I mean, on a perfect day, the Epstein stuff just, it gets bigger every day. And so we have Senator Ron Wyden, who just posted in light of what we released last week for my staff's investigation, I'm handing Trump's DOJ a ready-made case with seven different

lines of investigation for them to follow the money on Jeffrey Epstein. What do you think? I mean, I think this is just another long line of the drip, drip, drip that we are seeing of the story. Donald Trump and Republicans want this Epstein story to go away. It's not going away. These are decades and decades and decades of crimes. These are decades of connections between Donald Trump and Epstein. And widen is saying

that he that four big banks flagged $1.5 billion billion dollars in potentially suspicious money transfers involving Epstein. And he says that much of that appeared to be related to his massive sex trafficking network. And at the center of that were 4,725 wire transfers. Wyden is highlighting also that Epstein used Russian banks to process millions in payments, suggesting that these transactions were part of the sex trafficking operation. And so when he has these, when he's talking about these seven lines of inquiry, I think he wants to see exactly what, where was this money going?

What was he doing with all this money? And to be honest, what we're kind of, everybody's all kind of confused about is where did Epstein even get his money in the first place? He's this kind of Gatsby-esque figure. Nobody really knows how he kind of how h successful as he got so q into Epstein's past, it's in the finance world and sudden buddying around wi know, in finance and in p

of people are just like, go from a person who gradu dropped school, dropped out of school, ended up being a school teacher to being plucked and then being put in the middle of this finance world becoming such a major player and becoming involved in all this. And so I think Senator Ron Wyden is seeing a lot of this, you know, very suspicious activity in the finances. He's trying to flag it for Trump's Justice Department. And as we're seeing every step of the's try Trump's Justice Department

every step of the way, Tr They like to call themsel administration in history got a little bit of a loo files. They noticed that was all over them. Sudde we don't need to see the all, let's all close our

our ears. Nothing to see know what's interesting to me is now the Justice Department is saying, oh, we're transparent. We're going to go talk to Ghislaine Maxwell. Nobody on planet earth has more of an incentive to lie than Ghislaine Maxwell. I mean, full stop. Trump is the only person that can get her out of jail. And she also jail. information that she can tell, you know, everybody the list. I mean, there's or testimony. I think tha

talk to glane Maxwell the I mean, that's just my op incentive is entirely to to get released. She's se a 20 year prison sentence. Where do you think her incentives lie? She wants to get the hell out of there. And you have to remember,

she was like best friends with Donald Trump. They were all a part of this circle together, going back years and years and years. It's why Donald Trump, when he was asked about Ghislaine Maxwell after the trial, after the conviction, he said, I wish her well. He could have s

that moment. But she's a and I've seen a lot of pe Oh, Trump's gonna pardon perspective of all that i her everything that she n prison early without part fall out of the pardon. H the entire case, the enti

operation for which she i democratic hoax. And you Maxwell's attorneys stari they push for a retrial a early release. And here's doing it to himself. He i got the MAGA base frothing Jeffrey Epstein because he projects everything.

I think you say on your show all the time, every statement is an admission. Like every projection tells you exactly what's going on with him. And he knew he was all over the Epstein files. He knew and he just continued to do it. Okay. Someone that is dying to get away from the Epstein file, Mike Johnson. Moses Mike Johnson, the world's biggest Christian. He wants to protect children. He loves kids. Here he is.

I mean, obviously we've seen conservatives shut down the House floor routinely. You saw that you had to pull the rule because of fear of the Epstein votes. No, we don't have any fear. No, no, hold on. No, Greece. No, there's no fear here. No, there's no fear. There's no fear. We're not going to allow the Democrats to use this as a political cudger. Remember, could you imagine being that big of a liar and acting like you're the world's biggest Christian? Like you're so good. My faith tells me to protect Children. Christian, like you're so good. My faith tells me to protect children.

He lies as much as anybody. He grosses me out so much. Yeah, he definitely, he gives you that ick factor. I think anytime you see Mike Johnson, you're like, I don't like this. He's clearly lying. He is shutting down Congress so that the Republicans do not have to vote

on the release of the Epstein files. And just think about how contradictory that is. Uh, when you look at all of his statements made in the past, we need to be transparent. We need all of this to get out here and, you know, sorry to quote Donald Trump here, but Mike Johnson just does not have the cards because if, if Mike Johnson had the cards in this situation, he would say, uh, even if he's saying, Oh, Democrats are trying to wield this for political purposes, he would say, e Democrats are trying to w purposes, he would say, I

vote on it, let's release expose all those Democrats about. There's a reason he files out there. There's a Trump does not want those quite frankly, the more t on this issue, the guiltier all of them look. I think a lot of people who maybe not have even been down

the Epstein rabbit hole at all are now looking at Donald Trump's resistance to the release of the Epstein files. And they're probably going in the beginning like, yeah, so they were friends, they had some pictures together. And now with the constant denials, with the constant, you know, pushing this off and the creation of these Obama conspiracy theories

and all this other deflection, I think a lot of people are like, oh, not only were they friends, Donald Trump was deep in it and probably far more than anybody even knows at this point. And that's, because once you kind of realize that, all of his actions around this issue make a whole lot more sense.

And when he speaks about this as a hoax and then you think about all the the long list of things that Donald Trump has called a hoax over the past decade or so you realize, oh yeah, all those things were true. This is true as well. 100 percent. And I think how bad is it if they're shutting down Congress, if everybody is calling it a hoax, if they're doing all this stuff, it must be worse than the porn star.

The Playboy Bunny, like all the other things. And you know, election fraud, all an insurrection. I mean, it must be bad. At least my imagination goes crazy because of how he behaves generally in such opposition to how he's behaving now. I mean I just think it must be bad. It has to be really really bad and you know you just look at Trump and Epstein's relationship. I mean Epstein's

own brother has said repeatedly that Trump and Epstein were best friends with one another tied at the hip I think was the term that that he used Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein and we're seeing that like in the footage that CNN were best friends with on the hip, I think was the used Donald Trump and Jef we're seeing that like in CNN released last night o at the Victoria's secret at Donald Trump's wedding You see how close these t

you see them together, th of friends. I know Michael author has all those tapes with Epstein prior to his talking about how he was b Trump for at least 15 yea way back. We have document Donald Trump like in the

article where he said Ep guy who liked and these w want anybody to get mad a women on the younger side. And so it's very clear that Donald Trump at minimum knew what was going on in the Epstein world. But when you see Trump's ties and connections to not just Epstein, but all the kind of ancillary figures in that world as well, I think you kind of have to say, okay, so was Donald Trump

the only person not engaged in all this behavior when all these people were doing these things? world as well. I think yo say, okay, so was Donald not engaged in all this b people were doing these t just have to kind of look at this time. He and I th are everything, which is is so important because h individuals basically lik

you know, and and he view become friends with Bill friends with Donald Trump friends with Prince Andrew Epstein wanted to claim t and he rose as I was sayi a teacher at the prestigi Um he was let go from that job.

They said it was due to poor performance, though there were lots of reports of inappropriate behavior with him and the students there. While he's there, he tutors the son of the Bear Stearn CEO, Alan Greenberg. He's impressed by him. He gets a job at Bear Stearn, rises quickly in the finance world,

becomes a limited partner by 198 1981. His biggest kind of is Les Wexner, who's the brands and bath and body secret, Victoria Secret. by bringing in supermodel in the Victoria Secret Fa brings you to the CNN foo Trump sitting just a few supermodels and by bringi secret fashion show. That footage where we saw um D

just a few seats down fro at the Victoria Secret Fa you start looking into th and this whole kind of mo start seeing the seedy un this stuff because you co like a Jean Luc Brunel wh scout with ties to Epstein

and John Casablanca's who ran elite model management and Trump who had his Trump model. He had Next Management Corporation. He faced allegations of sexual assault and trafficking that went back decades. Virginia Joufray said that Epstein sent thousands of girls to Brunel. Brunel was convicted after Jeffrey Epstein died in prison.

And then Brunel ends up dying by suicide in prison overseas. You look at John Casapankas at Elite Model Management. We dug up that footage on Midas Touch, on the Midas Touch podcast, for the 1991 Look of the Year event. That was a popular pageant that they had with girls as young as 14 years old. Donald Trump was one of the main judges

of that competition. And this was a competition that the Guardian has done exposés on and said that John Casablanca, the founder and others, used the competition to engage in sexual relationships with theseio models. It was an abusive and by the and by the way relationship with a 15 ye the end of his marriage. H

year old in 1993. He was and impregnating a 15 year Trump put Ivanka Trump in used of raping and impregn old in 1988, Donald Trump in elite model management world when she was age 14 know that Brett, you are said he would have sex wi wasn't his daughter. Yeah

gross talk about feeding to the wolves. And I think when you look at all these modeling agenc Trump was good friends wi that very kind of creepy see and it's a black and his kids and you see Epst somebody's face all the w

of that photo. The person corner of the photo is J ran elite model management. So you see the connections between all of these. And then, you know, it's not even a conspiratorial rabbit hole. This is just this is just documented proof that these people were friends and work together. But I think when you look at that, I think you have to look at the whole Trump models kind of empire that he was doing in a whole different light.

Well, and sexual abuse allegations that have stemmed allegations for years. The aging caro all leads to the same pa did hear Maria Farmer on said, and she was the fir Epstein, this whole thing had the FBI followed her. Trump to the FBI twice. W I see all these things is

women have gone through a re traumatized on a feder in the media. And I think these victims because it' It's not Donald Trump. It Bondi or Todd Blanch. So I have how traumatized these vic

this. This is a, it's a r and you know, it's obviou at the core of this are r very nefarious ways. But at the core of this are really sad stories, really sick people who've done really horrible things to innocent girls who are now still decades later dealing with their trauma, dealing with the ramifications of that. And every time this is dragged through the news, you know, I have to imagine they are reliving these scenarios in very traumatic ways. And I have to assume also that a lot of these victims have been looking for justice, all they want is some accountability. And it's now been decades and decades and decades and there has been none. Not only is there now not accountability, but the guy who is ostensibly the most powerful person in the world is now saying what they experienced was a hoax. And not only that, he is shutting down the federal investigation into the

clients into the network of people who victimized all of these people. And I feel like that's not getting enough attention. That was Donald Trump's decision that he made. So you could say, Oh, you know, well, what are they going to do? They're going to hold more hearings, you know, how are these they going to do hold more hearings? You k these people going to be not. Donald Trump, his de They shut down the investig They closed the case. The

here. They said Prince An to travel around. We're n anymore. Anybody who has c don't worry, you're off t something Donald Trump already did few weeks. Okay, one quic know you have to go. What will do if he pardons Gal

think they'll have an upr it would be incredibly da know, I feel like the Mag bit split into kind of a couple, a few different factions. And I think you have the folks who are kind of the online influencer grifter types who take their orders from the administration, who their job is pure propagandists. How are we going to spin this to help Donald Trump?

And you see people like Charlie Kirk who are legitimately they are getting phone calls from Donald Trump and where Trump says hey I need you to back off on this Epstein thing and then the next thing you know they start tweeting out you know what I don't even care about this Epstein thing anymore even though they were talking about this all the time. Then I think there are the real diehards the people who are actually deep in the cult who this is in many ways their origin story. If you remember how the entire kind of Trump, the rise of Trump happened in 2016, what was it around? It wasn't really around build the wall and all that other stuff which he did

push, but QAnon was a big part of that. And QAnon was about that there were these elite sex trafficking networks and that Donald who was going to take it was going to drain the sw his political opponents o and everyone was going to was the basis for the cult that solidified this mag m

it's like everything that they have rested their beliefs on is being proven to be a complete and utter lie and perhaps even worse they were taken advantage of to actually protect the people who were engaged in that behavior by redirecting their attention to others with that lie. That's how devious, that's how s were that were spread. So were to pardon a galane m would be highly damaging

of those true believers. to ramp up his distractio try to make them, you kno uh, you know, up, you kno squirrel, you know, they know, up, you know, where you know, they jangle the That's that's what he's c to try to redirect their

their eye or elsewhere. U you know, I think that wo make his base very pissed why he's almost looking t sort of achieve that end goal without doing that directly and I think we've already seen him take those steps where he's basically given galane maxwell a golden ticket to get out of prison early and he's continuing to do that with these meetings and whatever we see develop from here yeah I completely agree with you I think he

is setting the stage for her to rat out democrats pardon her, wrap everythi the road to grifting coru things he's good at. Bret good at that. I'll give h thing I will give him, I Riz, but I will give him than any evangelical pastor grifting. I mean it is

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