The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - #BecauseMiami: Epstein: "Case Closed" Cover Up?

Episode Date: July 11, 2025

Yes...we're still talking about Jeffery Epstein...no matter how badly the Trump administration wants to sweep the issue under the rug. Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie K. Brown joins Billy Co...rbin to discuss new details involving this case. Plus, the population of eligible Latino voters in the United States are finding out the hard way what it's like to vote against their own interests. Sasha Tirador of The Sasha View talks about why you shouldn't feel bad about laughing at those who FAFO'd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:22 The U.S. government is now saying financier Jeffrey Epstein never kept a client list. Some of the president's most strident supporters are furious. Pam Bondi needs to be fired. The whole thing that this tape shows he didn't kill himself is like a joke. Like they're not fooling anybody. By coming in and being part of the cover-up, the Trump administration has become part of it. So I'm going to go throw up actually. I mean I'm physically gonna puke probably right now. Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy's been talked about for years. We have Texas,
Starting point is 00:00:53 we have this, we have all of the things. And are people still talking about this guy, this creep? Seriously, are we still talking about this guy? This creep? We've been talking about him, it feels like, it feels like we've been talking for, what, how, 10 years? 15 years? How long has it been now, Roy? We've been talking about Jeffrey Epstein. Forever.
Starting point is 00:01:22 We've been talking about him so long that anyone born at the start of us talking about him is too old to date Jeffrey Epstein now. That's how long it's been. And now Donald Trump doesn't want to talk about Jeffrey Epstein anymore. He loves to talk about the 2020 election. But we have been talking, when I say we, everybody in the country has been talking about this guy from the very beginning. Well, I'm sorry, after they tried to cover it up and Julie K.
Starting point is 00:01:46 Brown helped expose what was going on. We've been talking about it and particularly Republicans, particularly as you heard supporters of the president, a lot of the right wing podcast, a sphere, Tucker Carlson, you heard from Alex Jones, Alex Jones. He was crying. Alex Jones was crying in the car. I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe it. I can't believe it.
Starting point is 00:02:06 Balled with a goatee. Went right out there and said, Donald Trump is covering up for Jeffrey Epstein. So we've got to go right to the source. Julie K. Brown, award-winning Miami Herald investigative reporter, author of Perversion of Justice, the Jeffrey Epstein story. Julie, we were promised new files. we were promised a client list, which
Starting point is 00:02:27 probably doesn't exist in the form that people think a client list exists, but we were told there's all kinds of information, all kinds of files, all kinds of videos, all kinds of victims. You know, maybe he didn't commit suicide, that maybe, you know, all this stuff. And then all of a sudden, July 4th, news dump dump. Oh, hey real quick by the way, Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide There's no client list and we're not releasing any more files. Bye So it's no wonder that everybody is like, well, this is super fishy So what happened this week? What is the reason because that's the other thing too is that people get distracted with some of the shiny objects some of the terminology like client list like but what
Starting point is 00:03:07 was the shady shit this week what happened that we should be there's a video but it's missing 61 seconds it's like oh no you can't even get out of your own way here like what is that what is that real headline from from this week on the Jeffrey Epstein story or or what the what the president has now declared the end of the Jeffrey Epstein story or what the president has now declared the end of the Jeffrey Epstein story. This is sort of a theme with the Trump administration, right? They put out this, you know, red meat stuff for their supporters to get them all riled up
Starting point is 00:03:38 and then it just doesn't happen. And so I think all along with his administration, his supporters have said, well, this didn't happen. And so I think all along with his administration, his supporters have said, well, this didn't happen because of that. Oh, he couldn't do it because of that. But this Epstein case is different than all these other things that he has promised because it's very hard, I think,
Starting point is 00:04:01 for the public to understand why he, after at least his attorney general was saying, his US attorney was saying, we're going to do this. And here we even have files and a truckload is coming to my office. She kind of perpetuated this idea that something was coming, something was coming. And then to do this, it's sort of like, wow, you know, who do we believe now? I mean, why, you know? And the other irony I have to say about this is Trump's really not been a big part
Starting point is 00:04:38 of the Jeffrey Epstein case. He was friends with Epstein a very, very, very long time ago. We honestly do not have any evidence that he was involved with Epstein's operation at all. And but the irony of this whole thing is by doing this, he now becomes part of the story because he's now being accused of covering it up. So that makes you question what's in the files that he doesn't want you to see. Well we know, like you said, I mean, Jeffrey Epstein, there's a recording of him saying that Donald Trump was one of my best friends.
Starting point is 00:05:13 Of course, Donald Trump famously told New York Magazine in 2002 that his buddy Jeffrey Epstein was a fun guy who likes beautiful women as much as I do and many of them are on the younger side. We of course have Trump, I think no less than what, seven times appearing in the flight logs of the so-called L'Elite Express, Jeffrey Epstein's private plane. So there are some known Trump connections to the story, if you will, but certainly now that he's president, we were supposed to get the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, And now it's like nothing to see here. Well, that to me is more, in a way, more, you know, deserves more scrutiny because I know,
Starting point is 00:05:52 because I know the case so well, there were tons of people that rode on his plane that couldn't possibly have been involved in his, you know, there were children who went with their families on vacations to his islands, okay? There were people that were in his orbit that weren't part of his operation. So you can't implicate everybody just because they were friendly with him. And that's been my thing.
Starting point is 00:06:17 You can't say Trump committed a crime just because he was friends with him 30 years ago. But now that he has, that Trump has said, we're not going to do anything. We're going to keep it quiet. You have to think what is in there? You know, there must be something in there because if he's not in there, then why wouldn't he just release some of it at least? Let's respond to some of the memes. This is weird. You're a real life investigative journalist and I'm asking you to respond to memes
Starting point is 00:06:44 and tweets and things. But a lot of people are saying, well, what is Juslaine Maxwell? Am I pronouncing that right? Right? What's her friend's name? Is Juslaine? G-H-I as my husband. Yeah, Jelaine.
Starting point is 00:06:54 I say Jelaine. I say Gh-laine. Gh-laine? Gh-laine, Gh-laine. Gh-laine, I say. But I think there's a couple of different ways of pronouncing it. So my question is, everybody's like, well, if there's no victims, if there's no clients,
Starting point is 00:07:08 what is she in prison for? So to clarify, what is she in prison for? Well she's in prison because there were three courageous victims that testified at trial about how they were abused not only by Epstein but by her, directly by her. These were women who painfully, because I was in the courtroom when this happened, painfully described how they were recruited, painfully described how they were led to believe that he was going to change their lives and make them, you know, help them go to college or to beauty school or modeling school.
Starting point is 00:07:47 I mean, he used fraud and coercion and other things to get these women to do what he wanted. And Maxwell was in some ways the mastermind of this whole Ponzi scheme, so to speak, that he created of young girls recruiting other girls to have sex with him. So you don't need a client list to put her away when the women are saying she sexually abused me, which is exactly what some of the women said that she in fact was also involved in some of the sexual activities that happened.
Starting point is 00:08:24 And in terms of complicity of third parties, we know that some Epstein survivors did file class action lawsuits against some banks, right? JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank. I believe they settled for like hundreds of millions of dollars between the two of them. Right. I think it was reported like 290 million from one, maybe 75 million from another.
Starting point is 00:08:46 It's a lot of money. And I think we've heard from United States Senator Ron Wyden out of Oregon that he had actually delivered with a little bow on top a case to the DOJ that basically says, well, if there's not just perhaps civil complicity, but there might be some criminal complicity as well here, what do we know about because people are looking for blood for scalps. I'm not I don't think political motivation should be how prosecutorial discretion is wielded, but are there other complicit parties if not in
Starting point is 00:09:21 the abuse perhaps knowing about the abuse covering up the abuse profiting and perhaps even indirectly from it. What else do we know? Look, Epstein did not do this by himself. He had a whole team of people helping him. Some of the names of the people that were helping him, we already have already been reported. Uh Gielin Maxwell being among them, but there were other people that were helping him. We know that he did business with uh Les Wexner who was a billionaire
Starting point is 00:09:54 founder or owner of Victoria's Secret. Somehow he ended up with Lexner's mansion which by the way was or may still be the biggest private residence in the whole city of New York. How did he get that house? There's no evidence that he got it just by buying it. He got it from Wexner for a reason. I mean, it's the proverbial, follow the money. Follow the money. It was really a lot about money. And there were a lot of men with money who
Starting point is 00:10:28 gave Epstein just just oodles of money. And there's no evidence that he did anything for the money. I'm sure that's what the senator and the it's looking at. Like, why did Leon Black give him all this money, millions of dollars for tax consulting, he could hire a real tax accountant, a real tax guru. Epstein was not that. So there is a lot of people in those kinds of categories who, I mean, Leon Black paid the U.S. Virgin Islands a settlement. And he went, why did he do that? We still don't know. They had an investigation and you have to wonder what they found out in order for Black
Starting point is 00:11:12 to just give him a lot of million. I think it was something like $15 million that he gave the government. What do you make of US Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Cash Patel saying that Epstein wasn't extorting anybody. No one was paying him protection money because he had any goods on them, you know, abusing any of these young women or girls.
Starting point is 00:11:34 What do you make of that? I mean- Well, if you read their statement, it's pretty carefully worded. For one thing, they said they found no credible evidence. Now, that doesn't mean that there wasn't any evidence and yes it's it is their job to decide whether it's credible or not but the problem is this case is mired in situations where the government has covered up information that was credible that they
Starting point is 00:11:59 previously said was not credible. A lot of the information that I uncovered during my said was not credible. A lot of the information that I uncovered during my work on the case, you know, it was dismissed. It was girl upon girl upon girl who gave evidence and had emails and had stuff like that from indicating that they were being abused and they didn't consider that credible at the time either. So you have to wonder whether this, you know, statement that they found no credible evidence that he was blackmailing people. You have to wonder what the word credible,
Starting point is 00:12:34 whether the word credible was used in a credible way, if you will, you know? And here's the other thing too. Epstein really wasn't the kind of character, I mean, when you say black man, what do you mean? Was it you do this? First of all, he's not put it in an email.
Starting point is 00:12:50 He's not going to say, hey, if you don't do this, I'm going to reveal a video of you with somebody. That's it. That wasn't what these guys do. They do it first of all on the phone. We already know he did that because there was a banker with JP Morgan and that, let's try to remember his name, which I can't remember his name, but there was a banker there that he purposefully spoke in with code, like he used one of the girls, they were calling her Snow White.
Starting point is 00:13:21 So, you know, what do you call black? There's no credible evidence he was blackmail. Well, but did they find, did they go to bank accounts? Did they look to see how much money that Epstein was paid? I mean, did they dig past the surface stuff and really follow the money and see what was happening here? Speaking of incredible evidence, can we talk about the prison video with the missing 61 seconds according to the timecode embedded on the video that they claim the federal government now claims
Starting point is 00:13:55 proves that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide. I'm not saying he didn't but they're saying that this piece of video with this missing footage somehow proves that he committed suicide. What do we know saying that this piece of video with this missing footage somehow proves that he committed suicide. What do we know about that video and other video or missing video around his cell? It turns out that might not even be video of his cell door. It is in his cell. The whole thing again is a big, big red herring and they think the people and I guess there are some people that look at this because it's a frame of two cells. Okay. And then they point to them, him walking down below, you can barely see him. And now they're saying, oh, a minute is missing. Well, it doesn't matter.
Starting point is 00:14:36 The video doesn't show abstinence cell at all. It doesn't even show where people are going in and out of his shell. So and if you read the report on his investigation, the guy who who ran the cameras in the prison, the tech guy says to investigators, none of the cameras were recording. OK, they worked in real time. There was one camera that was recording That is the camera that they showed you the footage of but that camera is of the what they call the common area It doesn't show the walkways for example
Starting point is 00:15:16 Let's just say another inmate wanted to go in his cell You would never know that because we don't have footage of his wing There is a camera at the end of his hallway, but it wasn't recording. It wasn't working. So somebody could have, you know, left one of the other inmates cells unlocked. The inmate could have gone in and done something to him. I'm not saying this is what happened, but think about this. They're showing you a camera that doesn't even show his cell. So the
Starting point is 00:15:45 fact that there's a minute missing is sort of like immaterial at this point. The footage that they showed you isn't even relevant. And you do, and you mentioned it on the show before, Michael Baden, a private famed pathologist, did examine the records and claim that there is some evidence that it was a homicide rather than a suicide. So at least there are some questions by some legitimate people and it seems clear that the video evidence itself is not exculpatory. It does not prove anything one way or another. No, and there's other problems that have been outlined extensively with that whole mess.
Starting point is 00:16:22 Michael Bodden has examined it extensively and he even does forensic seminars using his case as an example of something that was really screwed up from the very beginning. And let me tell you one more thing. I covered prisons for about four years and I can't even tell you some of the stuff that people get away with in those prisons.
Starting point is 00:16:43 They know exactly where the cameras are. They know exactly how to commit crimes where nobody knows how to do them. It is a science to them. They know exactly some of the horrible, horrible things that happen in prisons have actually, including some of my stories that I've written about, have actually been made into TV shows.
Starting point is 00:17:03 I mean, these prisons are full of corrupt people and it's just not a far-fetched idea and not a conspiracy theory to think that something else may have happened. Now I'm not saying he was murdered I just don't think we know the full story. Pam Bondi says no more We're not seeing anything else. There's no more records. There's no more lists. Is that legit?
Starting point is 00:17:28 Are there more Epstein files? Oh my god, yes. There's tons of files. Tons, tons of files. When she said she had the files sitting on her desk, I was just stunned. I'm like, those files wouldn't even fit in her office. I mean, it's it's remember they did an investigation way back in 2005.
Starting point is 00:17:54 All that stuff had to land at the Justice Department because, you know, they did a subsequent investigation in New York, so they had to look at everything. And remember the Department of Homeland Security has records because he went in and out of all those airports with his private planes. They kept track of who was on his planes. They haven't released that. The FAA has flight records that haven't been released. There's been tons of material in different government departments that even hasn't been released.
Starting point is 00:18:29 And like I said, you can look on the vault. There's like, I don't know, 20, 30 parts? Jeffrey Epstein Part 1, 2, 3, 4. If you click on all those things, you'll see, you know, hundreds of pages. So there's probably tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of pages of documents, you'll see, you know, hundreds of pages. So there's probably tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of pages of documents, you know, so. That are still missing, that are ostensibly at this point being covered up.
Starting point is 00:18:54 Right, cause they're all redacted. If you look, if you click on one of those Epstein files in the FBI vault, it's gibberish because it's all in code or they put big boxes around stuff essentially redacting almost the whole document and there's thousands and thousands and thousands of pages like that. And so it can't be necessarily just for the protection or you know the reaction of a victim if there's pages completely redacted.
Starting point is 00:19:20 No complete pages and the ones that are in the vaults that are so-called public that are redacted, you can see that some of them are early FBI reports where they're basically just saying, we got a tip that he was doing such and such in New Mexico and we're following up on it and we're going to New Mexico next week with some agents. I don't understand why they need to redact a document like that. You know, there are some that are just literally just, you know, just part of the job where they're saying what they're doing and doesn't reveal the name of any victim or just tells you what they're doing, you know.
Starting point is 00:20:03 So it doesn't even make any sense. There's tons of material. I mean, what about all the stuff they found when they did the most recent search of his home when they arrested him? You know, what did they find in his safe? They said they found two couple of passports, a lot of photos.
Starting point is 00:20:21 I mean, there's just tons of reports that are out there that haven't been made public. Well, we accidentally got the best part of the interview in at the end after I said that we were done with it. So thank you. Well, you have to answer the right question, Billy. It's all my fault. No, no, it's not. I wasn't. I was calling myself out. You know, as RFK, the good one, once said, hang a lantern on your problems, right? So... Yeah.
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Starting point is 00:23:58 Like so many other Venezuelans, she cheered when Donald Trump was elected. She's a Venezuelan immigrant, now terrified of being deported. Thank you, Justice! Through tears, wearing an ICE-issued uniform, Cynthia Oliveira begs for help. She too supported President Trump's promise to launch the largest deportation program of criminals in American history. Who did you vote for?
Starting point is 00:24:22 I feel embarrassed to tell you. You voted for Trump. How do you vote for? I feel embarrassed to tell you. You voted for Trump. How do you feel now? Horrible. All my family voted for Trump. Do you feel deceived? Beyond betrayal, they used us.
Starting point is 00:24:31 I feel like living in South Florida surrounded by Republican voices, I was brainwashed into thinking I was one of them. I voted for change, but I didn't vote for this change. Nearly 70% of Cuban Americans in Miami-Dade County voted for Donald Trump in 2024. 61% of Doral, which is known affectionately as Doralzuela, it is the largest concentration of Venezuelan immigrants anywhere, I believe in the United States, the city of Doral, home to the Trump Doral,
Starting point is 00:25:14 right by Miami International Airport. It turns out that MAGA is Spanish for Fafo, right? Because there's this genre now, a subgenre of social media, of these videos going viral. I mean tens of millions of views on my IG alone of like people crying and that they voted to deport themselves or they voted to deport their son or their daughter or their husband or their wife. They didn't know that this was gonna happen to them. It's like I didn't vote for this. I voted to deport their son or their daughter or their husband or their wife. They didn't know that this was going to happen to them. It's like, I didn't vote for this. I voted to deport your husband, not my husband. It's a wild phenomenon and kind of the danger here of,
Starting point is 00:25:55 you know, low information voters or self-hating voters. I don't really know what to make of it, but I know someone who does, and that is Sasha Tirador, who is a purveyor, a great aggregator of these videos. We played some English ones. Most of them are in Spanish and subtitled because the people who were here voting were not speaking English, which is weird because Sasha, the president of the United States, a couple months ago, signed an executive order declaring English as the official language of the United States. So how are these people even voting if they can't go on TV and bemoan the deportation
Starting point is 00:26:31 of their sons, husbands, spouses if they can't speak English? That's a rhetorical asshole question. You don't have to answer that. But more importantly, find Sasha on YouTube on social search, the view s a s h a her stuff is Fantastic. It's hilarious. It's also profoundly sad in a way, isn't it? I'm not sure what to make it's very schadenfreude. Like what do you make of these of these videos people love them No doubt, but but isn't it sad? It's sad. It's sad and in the high Billy I'm so happy to be here with you. It's such an honor. So,
Starting point is 00:27:07 I love your show. So, yes, it's sad. Thank you. But there's a purpose of why I'm doing it, especially in Spanish. It's because the Hispanic community does not learn by reasoning. You cannot reason. And I can, I know it, you know, if any other nationality were to say this, Oh my God, that's racism. No, that's BS. We don't reason. We need to make them feel embarrassed because that's the only way Hispanics learn, especially non-English speaking Hispanics. When they feel embarrassed is when they check themselves. Other than that, there is no reasoning because to reason, especially my own community, the
Starting point is 00:27:55 Cuban American community, for us to admit that we are wrong, it is such a hurdle that it usually does not happen because the majority of Cuban Americans are very, I want to say they have an inferiority complex. So in order for them to admit they're wrong, it's not going to happen. So you're always going to have your percentage of Cubans that it doesn't matter if Trump comes and slaps them in the face, physically, personally, they're still going to say, oh, I love Trump. So you're always going to have that. And history, all you have to do is look at history. You still used to have people in Cuba saying, oh my God, I love the revolution. They have no teeth, they have no medical care, they have no food, but they are still for
Starting point is 00:28:40 the revolution. And that's a very small percentage. And for years to come, you're always gonna hear in South Florida, especially a Cuban say, oh, I still love Trump. So those are the forget about that percentage. Now the other percentage, which you were talking about at the beginning,
Starting point is 00:28:57 yes, they are ill informed because people are, all people, are a reflection of the media they consume. And in South Florida, we have a crisis. It's actually a crisis across the nation, which I can post a 48 hour old news piece in Spanish. And people are like, really? Wow, that happens? Because Spanish media was created to entertain, not to inform.
Starting point is 00:29:27 Well, misinformation is a problem everywhere. It has always been, I mean, Miami was sort of the progenitor of it. I mean, the OGs, if you will, Spanish Talk Radio is what taught, in a weird way, Rush Limbaugh how to do what he does. They taught Fox News how to do what they do. And I wonder about this, how things,
Starting point is 00:29:44 you opened up so many cans of worms I want to talk to you about. But let's stay on this, sort of like the lack of information or misinformation in Spanish language media in this market. I wonder, for example, what are they even hearing now? There's a lot of stories, as we said, in Spanish. So people are seeing Spanish of these folks outside of immigration court, downtown here,
Starting point is 00:30:04 sobbing about their husbands being taken away. They are seeing some of this. But I wonder, like you listen to Spanish language radio, there's this really tragic story of this 75 year old man who was busted for pot hauling back in like 1980. It's like a 40 year old pot bust from back in the day. He's got a family. He's got kids.
Starting point is 00:30:24 He's 75. He's frail, he was in poor health, he's just kind of chilling, living out the rest of his life in Key Largo, living the Florida dream. Goes to the community center, gets picked up by ICE, and dies at Chrome. So basically gets a death sentence 40 years later for some potholing charge from when he was a kid. And we're in Miami, where a lot of people got caught up in a certain lifestyle and a certain industry
Starting point is 00:30:46 back in the day, particularly young immigrants. They got caught, they did their time, they paid their debt to society, and now they're dying in immigration prison. Like, so I'm wondering, are people hearing about that in Miami, in Spanish language media, on Spanish language radio, for example? And what do they think?
Starting point is 00:31:03 They are. Okay. Cases like that that are so extreme. Yes, they have no other choice than to speak about it. Uh, but when they do, it's always the butt, right? So it's Spanish, right? So you have a 75 year old, uh, resident that died. And in detention, right?
Starting point is 00:31:29 But he was a drug dealer. Ay, yo mio. Specify, yeah, they don't specify it was for pot. They don't, you know, they, it's just, so this Spanish speaker that's listening to that says, oh, well, he was, you know, a criminal, just like Trump said, and that's the problem. Uh-huh, right, of was, you know, a criminal just like Trump said. And that's the problem. Uh-huh. Right. Of course. Right. He's a convicted criminal, even though it was 40 years ago.
Starting point is 00:31:50 Yeah, I just... So there's... You said it's an inferiority complex. You could look at the comments. A lot of people, other Hispanics from other countries, or whose families are from other countries, think it's a superiority complex, not an inferiority complex. Sometimes those two things come hand in hand, you know, I
Starting point is 00:32:09 get that. But I'm trying to think about how to phrase this because it's really interesting to me. There is a lot of people, we're all subject to this now, but there's a lot of people taking pleasure in watching the misery of these families, of these people, because they're kind of like, you know, have the day you voted for, you know, kind of, Fafos Lacy's is one of the nicknames for some of these ladies, for example. Like, I'm curious, just like, what do you make of the joy? You see the comments in your posts.
Starting point is 00:32:44 What do you make of the joy you see the comments in your in your posts what do you make of the of just the the joy that people feel about other people's pain which I I find really disturbing. I think it's two things. I don't think it's joy of other people's pain. I think it's accountability. I think that Democrats need to read the room because it's not only the Hispanic community. We are sick and tired of Democrats playing by the rules and always trying to be politically correct and not hurt other
Starting point is 00:33:10 people's feelings. We want their feelings to be hurt because we are hurt. So if me making fun of you for being an idiot hurts your feelings, tough, tough because we're losing our democracy because of your stupidity. So excuse me if your feelings are hurt. There is zero empathy. We need to hold them accountable. And if they are truly sorry, well, you know how to better vote next time. And at the end of the day, it's about making people responsible for their actions.
Starting point is 00:33:44 That's all it is. And I think it's across the board. I think it's all nationalities. I think people are pissed off and people don't want this. Oh, well, you know, he's sorry. You're sorry. You just screwed up the whole country. Well didn't go much better in Cuba, to be perfectly frank. We can say that now! So what is it? Is it a propensity towards strongmen? Whether it's right-wing strongmen like Batista or left-wing strongmen like Fidel.
Starting point is 00:34:16 A lot of people who initially supported Fidel were some of the very same people who fled or escaped. Is it a matter of, like you were saying, kind of pride in that you can't admit you were wrong? It's hard to admit that. That's why a lot of con men target elderly people. They have a nest egg, they can be kind of gullible, they don't know technology that well, they can be very trusting, and then they're too prideful later to admit or report that, hey, I was duped.
Starting point is 00:34:42 I was, you know, I'm too old, I'm too slow. I might've been taken advantage of. What is it? How do you get through to these kinds of voters now? Well, you, the Democratic Party needs to wake up and they need to understand that we have a very serious, they have a very serious issue. And those of us that are registered in the party, well, you know, we pay the price.
Starting point is 00:35:03 You cannot get Hispanics to pay attention to you by just auto-dubbing, you know, an English show and expecting them to understand. So here's the thing, the misinformation is so great. I have hundreds of followers that write me all the time and thank me because I explain very simple things as to what is a state representative. So when they hear the word representative, they assume it's a congressman or a congresswoman.
Starting point is 00:35:36 So every time that I talk about politics on my show, I am sure to explain, hey, simple kindergarten stuff garden stuff, because they don't know. There is the Congress, state, there are your federal representatives and your Senate. And by the way, every state has a mini Congress. And your mini Congress has your state reps and your state senators and I explain it. And they find out for the first time that that exists after years of being an eligible voting citizen. So we have a problem not only the misinformation across the board, not only in South Florida when it comes to Spanish media, we have a big problem because they don't know how the system works.
Starting point is 00:36:26 Something as simple as a school board member, they don't know what the function is. So if you don't go back to basics and you just assume that everybody knows what you're talking about, well, then you get the results that you get in the presidential election. Now, how do we fix it? We fix it by information.
Starting point is 00:36:43 The first thing that needs to be addressed is the crisis. It is a crisis that span 35% of the Hispanics in the United States do not speak English. They don't. But what about the executive order from the president? I don't understand. Well, you know, if they even found out about it, because I still have people that write to me and argue that there is no official language in the United States. Oh, I don't know. And then when I present them, hello,
Starting point is 00:37:19 this is an executive order signed by your papa Trump, they're like, that's fake news. Oh, well, I also signed an executive order saying that it's the Gulf of America now. So, you know, like, right, right. And then you have your goddamn right. Meatball. I think that there is, um, for campaigning purposes, right?
Starting point is 00:37:42 I think that Democrats need to understand that for campaigning purposes, right? I think that Democrats need to understand that for campaigning purposes, there are Latinos and there are Hispanics. Hispanics are those that do not speak the language. For campaigning purposes, they need to divide it up like that and they need to understand that there's a big crisis. So golf of America, you know,
Starting point is 00:38:04 you'll have the followers, the Trump supporters saying, Okay, fine, golf of America. Those are your Hispanics. And then your Latinos are like, hell no. Sasha, let me ask you this. Before we go, you post such a glut of compelling, amazing, funny, tragic content. What is the one that you can think of recently that made you sip the hardest from your MAGA tears mug? Oh, the redhead, the redhead, you might as lacy's. The reason why I call them you might as lacy's is because there is a very specific demographic in the Cuban American community that their names start with Y
Starting point is 00:38:48 and if your name starts with a Y as a Cuban, I know that you haven't been in the country long, right? Why is that? Well, because they, after the revolution, parents started naming their kids like, for example, In alphabetical order? I mean how wise? Because everything that sounds American starts with a Y for example, US Navy. So how do you say US Navy? Not in Spanish, but in Cuban, you say us Navi.
Starting point is 00:39:15 Us Navi. So that's what the Y. So they just started putting Y on everything. So it's a very popular name and it's a joke that all Cuban Americans understand. So this redhead goes on camera for I think it was Telemundo. And she says the story of how now she can't be reunited with her daughter. She's a permanent resident. She is not a citizen. Okay, she is a permanent resident. She was waiting for her
Starting point is 00:39:46 daughter. Boom out of the blue. Trump says no more reunification. Everything is suspended. Right. So she can't reunite with her daughter that had already been approved. And she goes on camera to say, this is very painful because I had a lot of hope and trust in our president. I supported him. How the hell do you support someone without having the right to vote? How does that happen and how do you think it's okay to even admit that you're not a citizen
Starting point is 00:40:22 and you supported the fact that you were going to screw every other nationality but oh you know I'm Cuban so I'm privileged. That privilege that she thinks she deserves or that she earned she did not. The only reason why Cubans have any privilege it's because of the first Cuban exile and it was a trade-off to the men that were trained to go and fight the Bay of Pigs war, in turn for not recognizing them as veterans. Here you go, you can have the Cuban Adjustment Act. That's all it was.
Starting point is 00:41:01 So they're very entitled, they don't even know why they have these rights. So that's the one that stood out the most to me and the most where I actually sipped the hardest, MAGA tears. And she actually did a reply video. Really? Yeah, she did. I haven't seen the follow-up yet.
Starting point is 00:41:17 You know, I haven't done it yet. I'm going to do it this week because I've been, I've been a little busy, but I'm going to reply to her because she talks about how, you know, she's a political refugee, yet I have video of her partying in Cuba. So explain that to me. Uh-oh. Comorita! Comorita!
Starting point is 00:41:37 I have to tell you, there's so much, I'm sure you've been busy, there's so much of this content. My favorite, not favorite, but the most twisted one for me is the woman whose son has been in the United States for 22 years. He's got a family now. But back when he was a teenager, he was like in high school, he didn't graduate until he
Starting point is 00:41:53 was 19. He had a high school girlfriend. It was one of these Romeo and Juliet situations though, and he became a registered sex offender. As a result, not making excuses, just giving the facts. The man's a registered sex offender, okay, since 2007, this conviction for lewd and lascivious battery with a person 12 to 15 years of age. But here's the thing, his mother,
Starting point is 00:42:15 speaking in Spanish on Telemundo, says, my son has been arrested by ICE and is going to be deported. And she feels, quote, very betrayed because I never thought Trump would do this to me. And I'm like, you voted for Trump knowing your son was a registered sex offender. And if you said to me right now, listen Bill, I'd like everybody to have due process. I'd like everyone to be considered as unique individuals based on the facts of their case. But if you said to me, listen, they're going to draw a red line. Every registered sex offender, every immigrant convicted of red,
Starting point is 00:42:50 who lost their green card or whatever, they're going to be deported. How could you argue with that? Meaning this lady voted to deport her son and is now on TV crying about her sex offender son being deported. Because she was told through Spanish media because there you have a perfect example of someone that does not speak English and she was told through Spanish media that Trump was the best friend of the Cuban community. Best friend of Jeffrey Epstein.
Starting point is 00:43:20 That's why she thought her son was safe. Right. Well, it could be. If she even knows who Jeffrey Epstein. That's why she thought her son was safe. Right? Well, it could be even knows that Jeffrey Epstein is but at the end of the day, that's what you have. What about the video of the old lady lying in bed saying Trump I had so much faith in you. How can you support my grandson? I had so much you know, like they they speak into the camera as if they
Starting point is 00:43:42 are personal friends of Donald Trump, because that is how the Spanish media portrayed Trump to the Hispanic community. But besides that, the Cuban and the Venezuelan community voted in a very selfish way, because Because those that did know that he is a criminal voted because they believed that Trump was going to liberate Venezuela and Cuba for them. And they did not care that they would destroy the democracy in the United States as long as their countries were free. So that's the other percentage of the Spanish community that voted in a selfish way, knowing that they were voting for a delinquent.
Starting point is 00:44:31 Sasha Tirodor, check her out the Sasha view on YouTube, the TikTok machine, Instagram, fabulous follow, even if you don't speak Spanish, by the way, she's still amazing. Sasha, thank you so much. Please, please come back. Thank Sasha, thank you so much. Please come back. Thank you for having me. Anytime, please come back. Will do, bye bye.

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