The Breakfast Club - DONKEY: Trump Defends Pam Bondi Over Epstein Files & Blames Democrats

Episode Date: July 14, 2025

Charlamagne Tha God gives Donkey of the Day to Donald Trump for defending Pam Bondi amid the Epstein files and blaming Democrats. Listen for more!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen to The Turning, River Road on the iHeart app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States. Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Out. He's fired. He's fired! Donald Trump, please step up to the congregation. Yes, you are a jackass. North, down, Trump. When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best.

They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists. He's a jackass. Yeah, it's dark here today for Monday, July 14th, goes the President Donald J. Trump and the whole Trump administration because they are doubling and tripling down on the lie that the Epstein client list doesn't exist. Now if you haven't heard, the DOJ said they have no evidence that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, blackmailed, powerful figures, kept the client list or was murdered even though they were the ones perpetuating that lie in the first place. Okay. Pam Bondi, the attorney general said the files were sitting on her desk. Let's

listen. The DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients. Will that really happen? It's sitting on my desk right now to review. That's been a directive by President Trump. I'm reviewing that. I'm reviewing JFK files, MLK files. That's all in the process of being reviewed because that was done at the directive of the president from all of these agencies. So, have you seen anything there? You said, oh my gosh. Not yet.

Okay. Well, we'll check back with you. Now they don't exist, allegedly. Donald Trump himself said on Fox News back in the day that he would declassify the Epstein files. Let's listen. Declassify the 9-11 files? Yeah. Would you declassify JFK files? Yeah. Would you declassify the Epstein files? Yeah, yeah, I would. All right. I guess I would. I think that less so because you know, you don't know. You don't want to affect people's lives if it's phony

stuff in there because there's a lot of phony stuff with that whole world but I think I would or at least I do you think that would restore trust help restore yeah I don't know about Epstein so much as I do the other certainly about the way he died and be interesting to find out what happened there because that was a weird situation and the cameras didn't happen to be working he sounded a little shaky a little reluctant but he never said back then that the files didn't exist, did he? Okay, you shouldn't have to sound that shaky about releasing something that doesn't exist. Now this weekend, Donald Trump put up a long ass post on True Social and he blamed the Epstein files on, you guessed it, the Democrats.

Yes, he said that the files were written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the losers and criminals of the Biden administration. Let's go to MSNBC for the report, please. Obviously, this is a story that has riled MAGA World over the past three, four days. And there seems to be an argument coming out of the White House that these files don't exist. And at the same time, the White House is saying, this is all a setup. These files were all setups by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Two things can't, those two things can't, we often say two things can be true at one time. Those two things cannot be true at one time you cannot have files that do not exist that works that were set up by

uh... brock obama when in fact all of this happened years after brock obama's for is the justice department uh... watching the investigation uh... happened few years after brock obama was like already golfing and when sailing and going on cruise ships. Great point Joe Scarborough. Okay and never mind the fact that Epstein was arrested on July 6th 2019 when Trump was in office. Never mind the fact he killed himself on August 10th 2019 while Trump was in office. I don't know what Democrats have to do with this, but you can't spin this as some Democratic

hoax, not when it was the MAGA crowd and the Trump administration who endorsed the Epstein client list to begin with. Now I personally believe the reason the Epstein list didn't come out was because it would be mutually assured destruction for everybody. Democrats, Republicans, politicians, and Israel, corporate CEOs, the royal family, If the Epstein flight logs are any indication, then this Epstein client list would hurt everybody. That's why Trump doesn't want to put it out. And that's why you never heard much about it from a certain class of Democrat.

Okay. Biden was in office for four years. I never heard them talking about that Epstein list. Why? Because he probably had people on there he needed to protect too. Okay. The powerful protect the powerful people. I feel like if they had Trump on the Epstein client list and just Trump and

nobody they needed to protect they would have let that list fly but I am simply here to tell a lot of Democrats this morning don't let go of the Epstein list okay I suspect it will be a lot of flooding of the zone from Republicans trying to get the Epstein list out of the headlines but don't let it go. Okay treat the Epstein client list the way MAGA treated the transgenders in sports issue. Alright don't ever stop talking about it because the reality is the transgender in sports issue was one thing we all could agree on. Okay MAGA could sound

completely crazy about a number of things but soon as they say men who have transitioned to women shouldn't be competing in women's sports we all like yeah I agree with that that's true that's what this Epstein client list issue is for Democrats now it's the only thing that can build a bridge between Democrats and the MAGA base. Okay Dem build a bridge between Democrats and the MAGA base. Dems have been trying to court the MAGA base. That's why Gavin Newsom will do a corny ass podcast where he has to talk to both sides. Listen, if you really want to talk to the other side, then you have to talk about things the other side cares about. And you know what

MAGA cares about? Conspiracy. The base of the MAGA movement is not conservatism, it's conspiracy and white supremacy. The same way Republicans and conspiracy theorists couldn't let go of Pizza Gate and they demonized Democrats because they thought they were running a child sex ring out of the back of a pizza shop in DC is the same way Democrats should demonize any Republican acting like the Epstein list doesn't exist. Pour gas on the flames, Ask questions. Why is Pam Bondi lying to us? Why are pieces of the footage missing? It's the most impactful thing Democrats could be talking about. The MAGABASE didn't budge on the administration when they let

Elon Musk take a chance. All the government agencies left so many government agencies functioning worse than they were before. The MAGABASE don't care about people getting deported with no due process. They didn't care about the insurrection. None of that mattered to them. But this Epstein client list issue? Oh it does. And that's why Democrats should never stop talking about it. It's the only thing to lean into. It's no downside. Even if it is powerful Democrats on this list. So what? You're not protecting pedophiles. I would hope not. I saw Superman this Democrats and Republicans can both agree Lex Luthor is a traitor. Something like that.

Well guess what? Democrats and Republicans can both agree that there is a cover up of the Epstein List. This is how you make a connection with the MAGA base. Because both parties can agree it's an obvious cover up. Okay Democrats, there's nothing else to discuss. Don't blow the layup. I know y'all suck at messaging, well this is the message. Okay, you've been looking for your transgenders

and sports issue, well here you have it. Every time Republicans try to turn the channel, turn it back. Okay, the only reason you wouldn't is because you trying to protect the pedophiles in your party. Are the pedophiles that fund your campaigns? Are the powerful pedophile politicians from other countries? But the moral of the story is we have no reason to protect pedophiles. And that should be the constant question to the Trump administration

in regards to the Epstein files. Why are you protecting the pedophiles by telling us this client lists, are these Epstein files don't exist? Let's discuss. Please give Donald Trump and the Trump administration the biggest. Y'all. All right. Well, thank you for that donkey of the day. Yes, ma'am.

Now during the latest, now during the latest with Lauren with Lauren you gotta ignore him sometimes during the latest with Lauren She was talking about Drake and Drake got a tattoo of LeBron and now he covered it up Yeah, as he rightfully so we're asking eight hundred five eight five one. Oh five one now Drake got LeBron or had LeBron tatted on him Do you think that's just a sign of respect for greatness or do y'all think that's a little too much? Oh, our respect for gayness. Okay, then put that one in there. What? 800-585-1051?

People be who they want to be. Because you can't say, you know, you only put it when people pass because there are a lot of people out there with Michael Jordan tattoos. But he covered it up. Didn't he cover it up with somebody else's name? Yes, Shia Alexander. Okay, that's the best. By the way, that's big D riding too though. Shy been from Toronto shy been balling, but you wait till he get a championship to now want to get his name tattooed on you. Stop moving your deck like that.

So that is the question. Six riding is crazy. What's that? Six riding five, eight, five, one, oh five one. Drake had a LeBron tattoo and he recently covered it up Do you think that's just a sign of respect for greatness or do you think it's going a little too far? Yeah Like I much my thing is Charlamagne. You still got the Wendy's answer DJ clues question mark logo right over your belly button. It's the question mark and the belly button is the period. Now. Now. Uh-uh. Boy, you got how you doing right over your butt crack. How you doing is crazy.

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and when you mess with the bull, you get the horns. So what happened to Chappaquiddick? Well, it really depends on who you talk to. There are many versions of what happened in 1969 when a young Ted Kennedy drove a car into a pond. And left a woman behind to drown. Chappaquiddick is a story of a tragic death and how the Kennedy machine took control. Every week we go behind the headlines and beyond the drama of America's royal family.

Listen to United States of Kennedy on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Just like great shoes, great books take you places. Through unforgettable love stories and into conversations with characters you'll never forget. I think any good romance, it gives me this feeling of like butterflies. I'm Danielle Robay, and this is Bookmarked by Reese's Book Club,

the new podcast from Hello Sunshine and iHeart Podcast, where we dive into the stories that shape us, on the page and off. Each week, I'm joined by authors, celebs, book talk stars, and more for conversations that will make you laugh, cry, and add way too many books to your TBR pile. Listen to Bookmarked by Reese's Book Club on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcasts. The Girlfriends is back with a new season, and this time I'm telling you the story of Kelly Harnett. Kelly spent over a decade in prison for a murder she says she didn't commit. As she fought for her freedom, she taught herself the law. He goes, oh God, Harnett, jailhouse lawyer. And became a beacon of hope for the women locked up alongside her. You're supposed to have faith in God, but I had nothing but faith in her.

I think I was put here to save souls by getting people out of prison. The Girlfriends, Jailhouse Lawyer. Listen on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I knew I wanted to obey and submit, but I didn't fully grasp for the rest of my life what that meant. For I Heart Podcasts and Rococo Punch, this is The Turning, River Road. In the woods of Minnesota, a cult leader married himself to 10 girls and forced them into a secret life of abuse. But in 2014, the youngest escaped. Listen to The Turning, River Road on the I

Heart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an iHeart podcast.