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Bombshells: AG Bondi Accuses NY FBI Field Office of Deliberately Hiding Jeffrey Epstein Files plus NY Post Reports Trump's Attempted Assassin in Butler may have had an Accomplice
Fri, 28 Feb 2025
1. Jeffrey Epstein Files Controversy: - Attorney General Pam Bondi's Accusations: Bondi accused the New York FBI Field Office of deliberately withholding significant parts of the Jeffrey Epstein files. She sent a formal letter to FBI Director Cash Patel, demanding the full release of the files and an investigation into why her orders were not followed. - Details of the Letter: Bondi's letter, dated February 27, 2025, outlines her repeated requests for the full Epstein files and the discovery that thousands of pages were being withheld. She set a deadline for the FBI to deliver the complete files and to investigate the non-compliance. - White House Briefing: Conservative influencers were invited to the White House, where they received Phase One of the Epstein files. The briefing revealed that the FBI in New York had not provided all the documents, and there were suspicions of audio and video recordings being withheld. - Media and Public Reaction: The media criticized the release, calling it a "nothing burger," while conservative influencers emphasized the significance of the withheld documents and the deep state resistance. 2. Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump: - New York Post Report: The document discusses a New York Post article suggesting that the would-be assassin of Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, may have had an accomplice. The FBI is accused of suppressing information related to the investigation. - Details of the Incident: Highlighting the lack of information about the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, and the possibility of a criminal network involved in the assassination attempt. Private investigator Doug Hagman suggests that Crooks did not act alone and that there were coordinated efforts to carry out the assassination. - FBI's Role: We raise concerns about the FBI's handling of the investigation and the need for transparency. It mentions the frustration of local law enforcement and the public over the lack of information. Please Hit Subscribe to this podcast Right Now. Also Please Subscribe to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson and the Ben Ferguson Show Podcast Wherever You get You're PodcastsYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@VerdictwithTedCruzSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What are the accusations against the NY FBI Field Office regarding Epstein files?
Welcome, it is Vernick with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you as well. And Senator, it was a very big day Thursday as we got part one of the Epstein files that were released to the public by a lot of conservatives that were at the White House.
And then Pam Bondi came out afterwards and dropped a bomb that was pretty much, hey, I may be the attorney general and Kash Patel may be the FBI director. But there are people in New York that are hiding documents from us that deal with Jeffrey Epstein.
Well, that's exactly right. And let me start by saying thank you to Pam Bondi for honoring the promises she made. I have been calling on the Department of Justice to release the full Jeffrey Epstein files. And she is working to do that. And so she released the first tranche of information today.
That was good, although a lot of the observers who saw the information were underwhelmed by what was in it. She released it to a group of conservative influencers online and gave them a binder with the information. And there were no big smoking guns in what came out initially. We do know that the new Jeffrey Epstein contact list included Alec Baldwin, Michael Jackson, and Mick Jagger.
But it was for people who want to know who were Jeffrey Epstein's clients, who was who was complicit and who is guilty as he was of sexually abusing teenage girls. There was relatively little information in the files that were released. But then there was a bombshell because Pam Bondi accused the New York FBI office. of withholding significant parts of the Epstein files. That's a big, big deal.
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Chapter 2: Why did Pam Bondi send a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel?
And she did so in a formal letter that she sent to Kash Patel. So she sent a letter on February 27th. I'm going to read you the entire letter because this letter is a big deal. February 27th, 2025. Dear Director Patel, before you came into office, I requested the full and complete files related to Jeffrey Epstein. In response to this request,
I received approximately 200 pages of documents, which consisted primarily of flight logs, Epstein's list of contacts, and a list of victims' names and phone numbers. I repeatedly questioned whether this was the full set of documents responsive to my request and was repeatedly assured by the FBI that we had received the full set of documents.
Late yesterday, I learned from a source that the FBI field office in New York was in possession of thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation and indictment of Epstein. Despite my repeated requests, The FBI never disclosed the existence of these files. When you and I spoke yesterday, you were just as surprised as I was to learn this new information. By 8 a.m.
tomorrow, February 28th, the FBI will deliver the full and complete Epstein files to my office. including all records, documents, audio and video recordings, and materials related to Jeffrey Epstein and his clients. Regardless of how such information was obtained, there will be no withholdings or limitations to my or your access.
The Department of Justice will ensure that any public disclosure of these files will be done in a manner to protect the privacy of victims and in accordance with law, as I have done my entire career as a prosecutor. I am also directing you to conduct an immediate investigation into why my order to the FBI was not followed.
You will deliver to me a comprehensive report of your findings and proposed personnel action within 14 days. I appreciate your immediate attention to this important matter. I know that we are both committed to transparency for the American people, and I look forward to continuing to work with you to serve our president and our country. Sincerely, Pamela Bondi, Attorney General.
This letter was incredible. And I actually talked to someone that you and I both know, Chad Prather. He was invited as one of the 15. He's a fellow Texan that went to the White House. And I as soon as he left, we actually talked on the phone and he said, Ben, He said, none of us that were invited up here knew we were going to get the Epstein files, number one.
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Chapter 3: What was revealed during the White House briefing on the Epstein files?
We were actually brought up to the White House to talk about communications, and we were going to meet with the vice president. We didn't know we were going to be meeting with the people in the cabinet. We didn't know we were going to be meeting with the president. We certainly didn't know we were going to be given these Epstein files.
And he said there was two parts of this that the big mainstream media clearly didn't didn't understand or they were angry that we got the files before they did and so they wanted to say today was a nothing burger he said when they gave them to us they said look there's really nothing new in here that you're going to find this is why we're calling it part one
And then they said, what we want you to know is exactly the letter that you just read, which was, we don't have the majority of the intel that we've been demanding because there are bad actors in the deep state who were refusing to give it to us.
In fact, what they said was even more shocking was Pam Bondi did an interview with Waters last night on Fox, and she was talking about the, quote, 200 pages. that she had. There was, in essence, a whistleblower that saw the interview and said, I need to tell you right now that you're missing a lot of pages and they're not giving them to you from New York FBI.
Chapter 4: How did the media and public react to the Epstein files release?
And that's how fast this all came about. So when you're thinking about, when you're the Attorney General of the United States of America, You're going on TV, and only because you gave a page number, which was about 10% of apparently what is actually out there, based on what the whistleblower said.
This is insane that this is our government right now, and there's that many people fighting against the will of the people who elected the president, who had put Pam Bondi and Cash Patel into these positions.
Well, and from the letter, there may be audio and video recordings. There may be some issue that some of the materials were seized illegally. I mean, there's a suggestion there that regardless of how it was accessed, I want it. But look, I got to say, listen, I worked in the Department of Justice 25 years ago.
I have been been working in and around law enforcement for virtually my entire adult life. I have never seen something like this happen. So so understand the FBI. reports to the Department of Justice. Kash Patel, his boss is Pam Bondi. The FBI is in the org chart reporting to the Department of Justice. So when the attorney general orders the FBI, I want to see these files.
In every instance I'm aware of, the FBI complies. They're supposed to be law enforcement. If the attorney general says, I want to see something, you give it to the Look, presumably we will find out, and we'll find out, I guess, within two weeks when Kash Patel prepares his report saying, here's what happened.
But it is astonishing if you have rogue agents in the New York office of the FBI who are just defying the attorney general. That is a level of open warfare, right? That I've never seen, and it really does indicate the need to clean house in a major way.
There was also another aspect of this, and again, this is coming from Chad, and he was meeting, right, with the president and the vice president and these other cabinet members, Pam Bonney, Kash Patel. And he said they were also, the letter has been basically just completely misconstrued as if there's some sort of disagreement or wedge between Pam Bondi and Kash Patel.
But when you understand the backstory, he said they're lockstep. She's giving this letter out to give him the power to then go get the answers from the demands. And yet the media was reporting this tonight all over the place like, oh, there's a big rift between the attorney general and the FBI director. That is also not the case at all. Another lie.
Yeah. And I think that's very clear from the letter where it says, when you and I spoke yesterday, you were just as surprised as I was to learn this new information. And so Kash Patel has just been confirmed. As you know, I went to Kash Patel's swearing in at the White House last week. He's brand new on the job. He has a mandate to restore integrity to the FBI.
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Chapter 5: What are the latest developments in the attempted assassination of Donald Trump?
There was another shocking headline that also came out today, and that deals with the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. The headline for The New York Post is, quote, would be Trump assassin may have had an accomplice. And data shows, as investigators say, FBI suppressed info.
I wouldn't believe that headline if I wouldn't have just had the conversation with you for the last 10 minutes that we just had about the FBI covering up Epstein information as well.
Well, this is a stunning article. I do not know if it is true, but if there is evidence that the attempted assassin, the man who shot Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, had an accomplice or multiple accomplices, that would be a big damn deal. And, you know, I got to say, it has been a long time. It has been 229 days since since President Trump was shot at that rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
And yet we know next to nothing about the shooter. It's almost as if it just dropped into a memory hole and disappeared. And I want to read some of this article from the New York Post because it has some very interesting information in it. It's not clear what's true or not, but let me read from the New York Post.
Quote, it's been almost nine months since a seemingly mild-mannered 20-year-old attempted to assassinate then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, and we still have no good reason why. Sources told the Post the FBI has obstructed efforts to solve the mystery of why Thomas Matthew Crooks, who left no manifesto, did what he did.
It's left local law enforcement as well as Crooks' former friends, classmates, and teachers frustrated. Those who may know, Crooks' parents, Matthew and Mary, have refused all interviews and remain in their small three-bedroom home, sealed off from the world like hermits. Neighbors say they only leave the house at 3 a.m. to buy groceries.
Quote, by the way, why do we know nothing about that guy in Butler? Elon Musk yelled out to the audience at CPAC last week before warning that FBI Director Kash Patel is going to get to the bottom of it.
A veteran private investigator from Erie, Pennsylvania, who was hired shortly after the fateful July 13th event at Butler Farm to look into crooks by a private client, told the Post he believes a, quote, criminal network was operating with him at the time of the assassination attempt, is still in existence and still wants to kill President Trump.
Doug Hagman, whose team of six other investigators had been working the case for months and have interviewed more than 100 people, said they also conducted extensive geofencing analysis of cell phones and tablets not belonging to Crooks that were found with him at his home. at the rifle range where he took target practice, at the rally, and at Bethel Park High School where he graduated in 2022.
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