During an interview on the Lex Friedman Podcast, Donald Trump hinted that he would release the Epstein client list if he wins the White House. But would that be the final straw for global elites? Glenn explains why he believes Trump’s life is in danger: the global cabal was blindsided once. They can’t let him win again, especially if he’ll expose everything. And Glenn isn’t the only one who believes this. He reviews a clip of Eric Weinstein, who recently made the same argument on the podcast Modern Wisdom.
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GLENN: Did you hear Eric Weinstein?
What the podcast he was on. Modern wisdom?
STU: I didn't hear the clip. I was reading about it, though.
GLENN: Okay. You really. This is a good podcast you should probably listen to. A lot of wisdom there. A lot of wisdom.
And it's kind of what we've been saying for a while now.
But I don't know. Eric says it, and it just seems much, much smarter.
It's kind of like, Eric is much, much smarter.
But if he had an English accent, it would be game over.
Everybody would listen to everything he has to say.
So here he is, on Donald Trump. Listen.
VOICE: I don't know whether -- I don't know whether Donald Trump will be allowed to become president.
VOICE: What do you mean by that?
VOICE: I think that there's a remarkable story, and we're in a funny game, which is, are we allowed to say, what that story is?
Because to say it, to analyze it, to say it, is to bring it into view.
I think we don't understand why the censorship is behaving the way it is. We don't understand why it's in the shadows. We don't understand why the news is acting in a bizarre fashion.
So let's just set the stage, believing that was in in February.
There is something that I think Mike Benz is just referred to as the rules-based international order. It's an interlocking series of agreements, tests, and understandings. Explicit understandings.
Clandestine understandings.
About how the most important structures keep the world free of war. And keep markets open.
And there has been a system in place, whether understood explicitly, or behind the scenes, or implicitly. That says, that the purpose of the two American parties, is to prune, the field of populist candidates. So that whatever two candidates, exist in a face-off, are both acceptable to that world order.
So what you're trying to do, from the point of view.
Let's take it from the point of view of, let's say, the State Department, the Intelligence Community, the Defense Department, and major corporations that are -- have to do with international issues, from arms trade to, oh, I don't know, food. They have a series of agreements that are fragile and could be overturned, if a president, entered the Oval Office, who didn't agree with them. And the mood of the country was, why do we pay taxes into these structures?
Why are we hamstrung?
Why aren't we a free people?
So what the two parties would do is they would run primaries. You would have populist candidates, and you would pre-commit the populist candidates to support the candidates who won the primaries. As long as that took place, and you had two candidates that were both acceptable to the international order. That is, they aren't going to rethink NAFTA or NATO or what have you.
We called that democracy. So democracy was the illusion of choice.
What's called magicians choice. Where the choice is -- pick a card. Any card. The magician makes sure the card that you pick, is the one that he knows.
In that situation, you have magician's choice in the primaries. Then you would have the duopoly. Two candidates. Either of which was acceptable. And you could actually afford to hold an election.
And the populace would vote. And that way, the international order wasn't put at risk every four years. Because you can't have alliances, that are subject to the whim of the people in plebiscites. So under that structure, everything was going fine until 2016.
Then the first candidate ever to not hold any position in the military. Or position in government.
In the history of the Republican Party. Or Donald Trump. Broke through the primary structure.
This was a full-court press. Okay. We only have one candidate acceptable to the international order. Donald Trump will be under constant pressure, that he's a loser. He's a wild man. He's an idiot.
And he's under the control of the Russians. And then he was going to be a 20 to one underdog. And then he wins.
And there was no precedent for this. They learned their lesson you cannot afford to have candidates, who are not acceptable to the international order. And continue to have these alliances. This is an unsolved problem.
GLENN: Now. I've been saying for a long time, they're going to kill him.
Because it upsets their plans, and he's the one standing in the way, because he won't play their game. Now, Eric may have expressed this -- expressed this, in a more understandable way. But he's absolutely right.
100 percent right.
And that's why honestly, they're playing the game in the Democratic Party.
Where you didn't get a choice. You didn't have a primary.
You didn't have a primary.
And that's because the president is going to run. But the president can't run. So now, you didn't have a primary, and you have the most unpopular candidate. Ever!
She's never been, she was never popular. She wasn't popular just two months ago.
But now, oh, my gosh, she's hung the moon and the stars.
And we don't know anything about what she plans on doing. Okay.
All right. But she won't upset the international order.
She won't upset the -- the plans, that places like the WEF, and the United Nations. And now all of the western leadership, has come up with.
But you'll notice, those plans are extremely unpopular, with the people, all around the world.
Every -- every Western country now, is in turmoil.
Because they're doing the same thing to them, that they're doing to us. And that is collapse us.
Now, I believe this is to be true, I believe they'll do anything to stop him from winning.
They would put us into chaos. They would put us into Civil War, before they would have him win. They would put us in world war, before they would have him.
And Donald Trump, I just -- please, Mr. President. Please.
They've tried to kill you once. Please.
Don't make it worse. Don't make it worse. Yesterday, he was on a podcast, and he was on the Lex Friedman Podcast. And he got a lot of questions on Lex on foreign policy, et cetera, et cetera. The future going forward.
You know, he started talking about, you know, the Kennedy files. And how the Kennedy files, he kept classified.
Because it was protection of people. Which I'm not sure is exactly accurate.
I don't know what is in the Kennedy file. I have talked to people who have seen it.
And they have led me to believe, that it is not about people. It is about institutions.
But who knows? But Trump said, you know, I probably would not release the Kennedy files. However, Stu, what's the one thing you could say as a presidential candidate, that's pretty much guaranteed that you -- you're dead?
STU: Well, you're going to release the Epstein files.
GLENN: Yes. Yes.
STU: And that would be --
GLENN: Yes. Yes.
But I am going to release the Epstein files. And the client list.
It's very strange for a lot of people, that the list of clients, that went to the island has not been made public.
Yeah. It's interesting, isn't it? Said Donald Trump.
It probably will be.
He said, I'll take a look at it, on the client list. But, yeah.
I'm inclined to do the Epstein thing.
I would have no problem with releasing that list.
Okay. All right. All right.
Remember, Donald Trump is definitely not suicidal.
But if they could put him in jail, he might become suicidal. And some cameras might go down.
Oh, my gosh.
STU: It's happened before, Glenn.
GLENN: This is -- oh, it did?
STU: Yeah. It's happened before.
GLENN: Really? But not related to Epstein?
STU: No. A philanthropist. No.
GLENN: The philanthropist. Yeah.
STU: Do we have this clip here, do you want to hear it? Yeah. Here we go.
DONALD: But a lot of big people went to that island.
Fortunately, I was not one of them.
VOICE: It's just very strange for a lot of people. That the list of clients that went to the island, has not been made public.
DONALD: Yeah. It's very interesting, isn't it? Probably will be, by the way.
VOICE: If you're able to -- you would be --
DONALD: I would certainly take a look at it. Now, Kennedy is interesting because it's so many years ago. They do that for danger too. Because, you know, in dangers, certain people, et cetera, et cetera. So Kennedy is very different from the Epstein thing. But, yeah, I would be inclined to do the Epstein. I would have no problem with it.
GLENN: Hmm. Hmm.
It's currently with the FBI. And it's under the control of one person at the FBI.
So what could possibly go wrong with that?
If it disappears, that would be unfortunate, wouldn't it, Stu?
And completely unexpected.
STU: Yeah. It would be shocking. That would be a shocking development. Look, sometimes, people lose documents.
You know --
GLENN: Happens all the time.
GLENN: Oops. I just dropped it in the shredder.
STU: Yeah. My daughter lost her homework, just last week.
And it was a rough day at school.
GLENN: Right. Right.
STU: This happens to people all the time.
There are shredders all over the place.
GLENN: All the time. You sometimes -- sometimes, you get up in the morning. And you almost exit -- I will step in the shower. And you almost step into the shredder. It happens. It happens, all the time.
STU: All the time.
Another example is, you noted yesterday, that your neighbor's property was on fire. What happened if a fire broke out, where that document was.
GLENN: Yeah. What happened? Oh, man. In the safe. In the safe. In the safe at the FBI.
STU: Yeah. Sometimes. Fires can happen anywhere, Glenn. Sometimes there are little fires that start up in safes.
GLENN: I knew we shouldn't have put it in the same safe, where we put the matches and the gremlin. You know.
I don't know what were we thinking?
What were we thinking? Oh, that's too bad.
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