Bieber’s Big F-You To Hollywood & Trump Gets Ratio’d Over Epstein | Episode 48

So guys, today's episode is all about who is standing on business and who is not.

And one of the people that is not standing on business is my new baby cow.

And I'm going to tell you all about him.

So I feel like this episode is literally going to have something for everyone because I often see comments where it's like, Brett, like I would just listen to an hour of you talking about farm stories.

And then I'll see something on Reddit.

And it's like, we only want you to talk about politics.

And then I'll get tagged and something.

And it's like, oh my God, when she talks about pop culture, it's my favorite.

So today, you're getting all three.

You are literally getting everything you want.

So if you don't want to hear about politics, you can skip ahead.

If you don't want to hear about the cows, you can skip the first part.

Whatever it is, there's something for everyone.

But we are filming this on a Sunday.

You guys are watching it probably on Monday when it comes out.

I just got back from Tampa.

I was there for the last four days.

I did two speeches with TPUSA.

They had their big student action summit this weekend where like 7,000 students come from around the country to hear from speakers.

So I did that speech yesterday.

And then on Thursday morning, I helped open their chapter leadership summit so that's like where all the students who are the presidents of all of the TPUSA chapters come anyway so I did two speeches the first one if you guys want to watch it I think they publish all of these online was about Gen Z mental health and how I actually think that Gen Z is really changing the narrative in terms of like taking control of our loneliness and our mental health problems and then the second one was my personal favorite this might have been actually my favorite speech that I have ever given and the entire idea was just like, don't waste your youth.

Like I feel like I am able to do what I do today and have the the career that I have because I literally did not waste any time.

And I was like so hungry and so driven for so many years when there were so many people around me who were just like wanting to go party or do whatever else or just focus on, I don't know, having fun, I guess, which.

I feel really fortunate because I love what I do.

So this is like really fun for me, but I was always super hungry and always super driven.

So that speech really meant a lot to me because I got to kind of like share that message with that whole group of students.

Anyway, so that is what I was doing over the last couple of days.

But at home, chaos was ensuing and if you were following along on my instagram i was posting about this but alex and i literally we got to the airport on wednesday evening after like a super long day we're like okay here we go like our flight was not delayed it was going to be great i got like pre-boarding because now i'm in my third trimester so like southwest was like rolling out the red carpet like you can board before everyone else everything was great and then out of the blue with no context my mother sends me a text of a newborn baby cow.

And I'm looking at this picture and I'm like, oh, that's cute.

And I'm like, like, I don't think that's one of ours.

Like, I haven't seen that before.

But she was just texting me earlier in the day about a guy who has a belt of Galloway.

That's the kind of cow we have.

I thought maybe she went and like visited him.

I have no idea.

She like makes best friends no matter where she goes.

So I was like, I don't really know.

I was like, ha ha ha, what's that?

And she goes, it's your new baby.

So we out of nowhere, this cow just drops this baby in the middle of the field, which is really how they do it.

We had no, like, guys, we had no idea that this specific heifer, now cow was pregnant.

We have two cows that are bred right now.

Two just delivered this spring.

This one, I did not even think was in the realm of possibility.

She is so young.

I think that like when we first got our bull this fall, it was just like, it was such a big learning curve of how to fence him in properly.

And we had this like four panel fencing and he was just breaking through every single day.

So we had like three weeks where Alex and I basically every single evening were like, oh my God, okay, the bull is next door.

Okay, the bull is in with these.

There very well could have been some magic that happened, but this cow was so young that she was not even weaned at that time.

Like we weaned her in the middle of that.

So somehow she got pregnant and she did not look pregnant like TMI, but her utters weren't full.

Like they didn't descend, like nothing was happening.

Like she out of nowhere drops this baby cow.

And my mom is out there because we're leaving town.

So she's out, you know, mosing around with our cows.

And it's like, oh, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10.

There is another cow.

And this is a tiny, tiny baby.

And so there Alex and I are just sitting in BNA.

I am no longer relaxed.

I am now very stressed.

I feel so awful because I had no idea that this tiny, tiny little heifer, now cow, was pregnant and I'm not there and I can't do anything about it.

Thankfully, my mom is way more experienced than both Alex and I are, so I felt like she was totally in control, which was great.

But we went on, we did the whole thing in Tampa.

It was a good time.

There were protesters.

Of course, they were literally walking around with like a big toilet paper on their head, like protesting TP USA.

They had Palestinian flags.

They had Charlie Kirk as a Nazi flags.

Like they were doing all of these different things, but we got through it.

We did the the speeches.

We got on the flight.

Everything was fine.

We get home and I wake up to a text from my mom.

And apparently she didn't want to stress me out yesterday, but she was like, hey, I really don't think this little baby, he's a bull.

We haven't named him yet at this point.

I don't think he's getting any milk because this mom is obviously very new.

I don't think she's producing a ton of milk.

We need to move them, get her some dairy ration.

We need to start bottle feeding.

this bull like today because he is so tiny and he's so premature.

And apparently last night she had like spotted him just like laying in the field sadly while the mom, who was obviously has no idea what she's doing because she's basically a teenager, she cares more about like going and standing by the fence where her mom is.

But my mom saw this little baby just like laying there and had to like scoop him up and bring him over and be like, hey, remember, you have a child.

Please go nurse.

So this is at like 6 a.m.

And I know that I'm going to be filming at like 9.30 in the morning.

She's like, we need to go do this now.

So I'm like shaking out.

So I'm like, we have to go move this cow.

We have to go move this cow.

So we wake up, we drive all the way down to the pasture.

We are traipsing around.

This is like our biggest pasture where all of these cows are.

We do not see the baby anywhere and my stomach drops.

I'm like, I swear to God, if we were gone for three days, if literally overnight while I was just like trying to get a good night's sleep, I was like going to be beating myself, even though I knew that there was like nothing I could have done.

I was like, if this baby cow like perished in the middle of the night, I will feel so guilty.

But finally, Alex spots him.

He's literally just like sleeping under a tree away from all of the other cows, but he's alive and we find him.

And so my mom says, okay, Alex, you need to scoop him up and we're going to move him to where all of her dairy cows are because she gives them a specific kind of grain that helps them produce their milk.

And that is what this little baby mama, for lack of a better word, needs right now.

So she's like, we're going to move the baby and then the mom will follow.

So Alex, who is just a saint at this point, like women out there, if you dream of ever moving to a farm one day and having cows and having chickens and your husband is like, no, I'm more of a city slicker, just know my husband, who used to live in New York City and drive a beamer and had no interest or even like concept, like idea that he would ever live on a farm, is now doing this and doing this happily.

But he went over and he picks up this tiny little, like, four-day-old bull.

And the bull just starts peeing all over him.

Like, Alex is holding him like this, and he just looks down.

And literally, I'm telling you, this pasture is huge.

It is our biggest pasture.

It is acres and acres.

He's having to walk up this entire hill.

And it is like this cow has not peed since the day he was born.

It is just like a constant flow.

And if you know Alex, you know that he is like, he's a bit of a germaphobe.

Like, it's just like things kind of gross him out.

And we're really trying to give him like exposure therapy before this baby arrives.

Because I'm like, we're about to have a boy, like, he's about to be like peeing all over the place.

And so, this was good exposure.

But literally, the entire walk up the thing, and you can see him, he's walking like so awkwardly, and he's like trying to hold this bull out to the side.

We'll put a video in here to like keep him away.

And it's just like a constant flow, like all down Alex.

My mom is like, ha ha, ha, ha, this is so funny.

And I know that he is just like losing his mind.

Meanwhile, I'm behind him trying to get this tiny baby cow to follow her even tinier baby cow.

And she is like not really interested.

And then then finally the other cows realize that I have a bucket of grain so then they all start pushing this mom up the hill so everybody's following Alex and the trail of pee coming from this bull he's now named him pee pants so that is we have it now we have a cow named Pea Pants we take them all the way up the hill and lo and behold we get up to the gate everything's fine and we turn around and my mom's little baby dairy heifer her jersey is standing just in the middle of the road in the middle of our driveway somehow she's gotten out of the pen over there i think my mom might have like turned off the fence so that we could like easily get these two new cows in there.

That cow immediately was like, freedom, this is amazing.

I swear to God, this cow whose name is Fanny, she was running around like she had never been outside of a fence ever before, like frolicking.

She was jumping so much that she literally like landed on her side and was like, oh my God, how do I get up?

Like it was pure chaos.

So we are now dragging pee pants.

We are dragging this other one.

We are dragging the mama, whose name is Sophia, dragging her across.

Meanwhile, Fanny is frolicking all around us.

my mom's like oh my god oh my god alex is like in the zone at this point he is covered in pea he's like all I need to do I just need to get to this pasture which is like 100 feet away we are getting them in there we are now shoving all of these cows in we do it but now once we're inside we have to show Sophia where the dairy ration is because she's just wandering around like where am I all my friends are over here so now we're pushing her even more even more to finally get up to the ration everything is fine she's eating her grain.

I like go up and I check her teats.

Sorry, again, TMI.

She actually is producing milk.

It's just like barely at all.

And because her udders didn't drop, it's like really hard for this little baby to be able to go and drink.

So that's why we're going to have to bottle feed him, but everything's fine.

And my producer is arriving in literally like 30 minutes.

I'm like, okay, I can go eat breakfast.

I can go like put on my makeup.

Everything is fine.

Everything is great.

My mom drives back over to her house.

She's meeting her handyman.

She's literally still staying with us trying to get moved in.

And we get a text and they are already out of the pen because this baby, guys, he's so tiny.

He literally like fully slipped underneath the hot wire and the mom followed and they are just standing out in the middle of our our property, not fenced.

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And so my poor producer drives up and we're like, listen, we need to go catch this cow.

So now it is all of us.

She's running around in her flip-flops.

I was like about to go put on makeup.

Alex literally has just gotten out of the shower after being covered in pee and I'm like, I'm really sorry.

You're gonna have to come back outside again.

And he was like, please, God, please don't make me do it.

So we're pushing this cow again and it takes like another 20 minutes we put them into a new pasture where it is tighter where they can't slip out probably hopefully i don't even know i'm probably gonna like leave the studio after filming this guys and they're gonna be like everywhere but we have a solution we just needed to like get them contained for now and then we have to move some pigs into another pasture and then that pasture is more secure that is where baby mama and little pee pants are going to go for the time being.

It is an easy place for us to bottle feed him.

My mom just pulled out all of her freeze-dried raw milk.

Then we're going to start start giving him in a bottle.

Anyway, that was my morning, and it is only 10 a.m.

So now that you guys have heard that whole story, we can go into the most important story of today, which is the fact that Justin Bieber released a surprise new album just two days ago, and I have a lot of thoughts.

But before we get into that, make sure that you're following our podcast page, and please rate the show if you're enjoying it.

And for all of my friends that live in Nashville or nearby, like me, I am doing two shows over the next couple of weeks at Zany's.

I felt bad because we didn't do anything in Nashville over the last few months and so I'm popping up.

This is going to be like really informal.

It'll probably just be a live version of the show.

It's a really intimate, fun venue.

We have all of those tickets on brettcooper.com so if you want to come make sure to go check that out.

All right guys so back to Bieber.

I am so excited about this.

Like this feels like the perfect ending to this entire saga that we have been going through over the last couple of months.

The insider information, the breakdown between him and Scooter, all of this information, everything came to a head on Friday afternoon.

Well, really, it came to a head on Thursday, which is when he announced it.

But then Justin released his first album in four years on Friday morning at midnight.

So basically like Thursday night, but it came out on Friday and that album is called Swag.

And guys, I don't know how you feel about it.

I freaking love it.

And I love it because he sounds amazing.

He sounds like him, but I love it for a much bigger reason than that, because this is the first album that Justin has ever produced, has ever had full, complete control over.

Like moving forward, Justin owns 100% of his masters, of his music.

He has complete control over the writing, the producing, how it is released, everything about it.

And this is the first time that has ever happened in his entire career.

And that in and of itself is reason to stream the album.

It is reason to celebrate because it was not easy to get here.

And if you guys have not been following the story, go back and watch my original episodes on Justin and what was going on with him because it took so much to get here.

Now, this album was not the only thing that came out on Friday because a lot of stuff happened last week.

So first of all, Justin was able to fully launch his new clothing brand Skylark.

That happened on Friday as well.

He released the new album and all of the news came out that he had officially settled with scooter Braun.

Now, Justin is not able to come out and say, hey, the only reason that I am able to now sell this clothing and start my brand and release this album is because of the settlement, but I think we can kind of put the pieces together.

Now, one thing I do want to say is that in all of the media about the settlement, they're talking about the financial things and going back and forth with what Justin owes scooter, what was going on there.

There is so much else that is going on.

Like it wasn't just about the money.

It was about Justin trying to be free, trying to get out of the contract that he had been in since he was, God, what was it, 14, 15 years old?

Because again, this was the first time that he was ever able to release something independently.

He had been waiting for this.

He had been sitting on this music, just desperately wanting to release something, and he had not been able to.

The moment that deal was signed, he said, okay, I'm done.

We are launching Skylark and we are dropping this album.

And that is exactly what he did.

Now, I saw a bunch of tweets online on Thursday afternoon, right as he was like announcing that this album was coming.

And they were just cracking me up.

Like, there was this one girl, and she was like, Wow, this is like so embarrassing.

Like, what a fall off for Justin Bieber.

Like, he has no CDs and no vinyls, no hype.

He's just like randomly dropping this.

It's sloppy.

He obviously has no team.

Gosh, this is like so sad, like to see this incredible icon spiral.

Like, okay, yeah, that's literally the whole point.

The whole point is that it's literally just him now.

It's him.

It's Haley.

It is the very close, tight-knit team that they have built around them and their family that has helped them through this entire legal war over the past year and a half.

It's just them.

It's him and his music and the people that he chose to collaborate with.

And for the first time in over 15 years, he's doing it on his terms.

And I'm sorry, Justin Bieber does not need hype.

Justin Bieber does not need to do a special release with press and have vinyls and release singles.

He doesn't need to do any of that.

He's freaking Justin Bieber.

And I was so happy because Friday was the biggest streaming day in Justin Bieber's career.

I think it was over 200 million streams in one day.

And he gets to take home all of those profits.

He owns all of it.

Like, what an F you to everyone who doubted him, to everyone who was trying to control him for years, who was manipulating him, his family, who was allegedly misusing funds, the people that he hired, that he put his trust in, who then stabbed stabbed him in the back, all of that.

It's like, I don't need you because I am freaking Justin Bieber.

And that is the real story here.

Now, of course, I'm sure this will be unsurprising to a lot of you guys because now I think we know a lot about this man and his personality, but Scooter Braun could not wait to insert himself into this narrative and into Justin's success, which obviously we have seen after all of his clients would leave him, they would release new albums.

He would make posts being like, I always supported them.

I'm here for them.

It would never respond.

They would never say, thank you, Scooter.

That's really nice.

Had a great time working with you.

It was radio silence.

It was like his own side, his PR team trying to be like, hey, I'm the good guy.

I'm supporting you here.

I get all of this flack for no reason.

Nobody.

You get flack for.

reasons, a lot of alleged reasons.

And that's why nobody responds to this.

Like just a couple of weeks ago, when Taylor Swifts was finally able to buy back all of her masters, he came out and was like, yes, I helped with that and I was encouraging it.

And this is so incredible.

Her team literally came out and was like, yeah, you played no role.

played no role at all.

You were actually a hindrance.

I don't know why you're doing that.

Like, she didn't just go radio silent.

She actually went on the offense.

But anyway, all of that aside, Scooter made another post, and this time it was about Justin.

He said, I've been having a beautiful start to the weekend and be getting a lot of text about how I feel about Justin's new album.

So I will just leave this here.

God, okay, this is like so nauseating.

This is without a doubt the most authentically Justin Bieber album to date.

It is beautiful, raw, and truly him and that matters.

That's right.

That's true.

The only reason he's able to do that is because he settled with you and he is now free.

I had the privilege of witnessing his growth for almost two decades.

Along every journey, there comes a time when an artist fully steps into their own, and that is what he has done here.

He poured his soul into this project, and you can feel it in every single run.

Again, all of that is true.

We're all saying that online.

The way he chose to release it is just as intentional as the music itself, and I'm happy to see him do it in his way.

I have played no role in this one, but as someone who has always believed in him, I am incredibly proud and impressed and genuinely enjoying the music.

Justin has a special tone that I have witnessed for almost two decades.

It is the best in the world.

And because of that special tone, I have to say that Daisies is probably my favorite record on the album.

Stream, swag, and support an authentic voice.

And that last line there is the one that just really started grinding my gears because you're pretending to be so generous.

And oh yeah, go support authentic and genuine and independent artists.

This is so wonderful when we all know what has been going on behind the scenes.

This is so narcissistic.

Like this man had to fight to be able to do this.

You didn't help at all.

You literally said you played no role.

You actually allegedly were a deterrent to all of this.

And there are so many other things that I have been told and that I have heard that I literally can't even say on air that makes me even angrier about this because I know what you were saying to Justin.

I know what you were doing behind the scenes to allegedly stop this from happening and then to make this post and go, oh, go support, go stream.

It's so wonderful.

And then he ends it by being like, I'm off to take my kids to watch Superman.

Have a great weekend.

I'm just a normal.

I'm a nice guy.

Dude.

Like the jig is up.

Like you've tried to preserve your reputation.

Like he went on that podcast diary of CEO recently and he was trying to like rebrand himself and set the record straight.

It was hysterical because nobody believed him in the slightest.

They were like, yeah, BS, we have seen enough of you.

Like you can't fix this.

Then all the stuff with Hybe happened.

He had to step down with that very interesting PR statement that basically said nothing about his future.

All the stuff with Hybe in Korea where they are being investigated by the feds, all of his controversies, all of his artists leaving him.

Like, dude, just like, let it go.

Take some time offline.

Really, like, genuinely, my PR advice for all of these people, for the Megan Markles, for the Blake Lively's, for the Scoot of Rots, is stop posting.

Literally.

Every time you post, it just makes it worse.

But I know that you'll never stop because this is narcissistic behavior and you literally can't help yourself.

But I'm like genuinely saying this human to human.

Your life would be a lot better if you would just like zip it and actually focus on your kids.

Like leave Hyde behind.

Leave Justin behind.

Like seriously, like leave him alone.

You've settled.

We can all move on.

Let him do what he wants and just stop posting about it.

Now, I obviously have a lot of feelings about this and Justin's wife, Haley, did as well, because immediately after Scooter posted that, she posted this on her story.

So it's her making a funny face and then she just posted the Mariah Carey song, obsessed, basically being like, why are you so obsessed with us?

And Haley has also been out there on the front lines defending Justin.

I mean, she has throughout this entire ordeal, for the entirety of their marriage, she has been supporting him and defending him and standing by him as he has been in the battle for his freedom.

But she posted this when he announced the album and she said, like, is it finally clocking to you, effing losers?

And what she's saying there is a callback to Justin's now viral paparazzi video from a couple of weeks ago when he was at the beach and he was like, leave me alone.

I'm a dad.

I don't know who is sending you after me and who is making up all of these rumors.

It is not clocking to you that I am standing on effing business.

Like, that's what he kept saying.

Like, it's not clocking to you, which I told my team, I think that needs to be my Halloween costume this year because I'm going to be like freshly postpartum.

I like will not care about dressing up.

All I need to do is like wear a Justin Bieber blue hoodie and just walk around and be like, it's not clocking to you that I'm I'm standing on business.

Anyway, so that was what Haley was referencing there.

Guys, I am on Cloud 9 for them because I know how long this process takes.

Like the news first broke about Justin splitting from Scooter over a year and a half ago.

Like you don't just get to walk away after that.

There were so much residual things that they had to deal with.

All of the settlements, dealing with the financial stuff, how to unwind the contract, everything.

He has been dealing with that day in and day out.

These settlements, they take a long, freaking time.

Like when you think you're finally there, it just keeps going.

And he finally, finally freaking made it.

He had everything teed up and ready to go.

And this genuinely was like the best thing that Justin could have ever done.

Like he could have just like gone on vacation, taken a break, like, okay, I'm finally done with all of this.

Haley just sold her company for a billion dollars.

Like let's just go relax and hide away.

But he came out swinging.

He was like, no, I'm going to show you what I've been up against.

I'm going to show you what I've been wanting to bring you, my fans, what I've been wanting to create.

And obviously there was a lot here.

It was so soulful.

If you listen to the album i feel like there's so many like hidden messages in there he's talking about his marriage to haley there's this one song called walking away where he's like i'm not walking away from you i made these promises to you and i know that i've been struggling i know that i haven't been perfect and you've dealt with a lot by being married to me and i'm not walking away i'm here for you he had an entire song about dad love and so that was like dedicated to his son jack and then on top of those songs that he wrote about his family he also had a bunch of songs where they were kind of like nuggets in there about things that he's been going through.

I think, like, this is the most obvious to me, is an interlude that he had in the album.

It's called Therapy Session, and it's basically a conversation with him and his friend and mentor, Drewski, who is a comedian.

And I think the most important part of this interlude is where he says, it's been a tough thing for me recently.

It's feeling like, you know, I've had to go through a lot of my struggles as a human, as all of us do, really publicly.

And so people are always asking if I'm okay.

And that really starts to weigh on me, you know, because I'm like, well, when somebody keeps saying, why are you crying?

Why are you crying?

It's like, bitch, I'm not, but now I am, you know what I'm saying?

It starts to make me feel like I'm the one with issues and that everyone else is perfect.

That is what we know he's been going through, especially when he has been literally harassed by the paparazzi, which as you guys know, I feel like I've talked about this a million times now.

That's not normal in 2025.

Like it is not normal to have Britney Spears, Michael Jackson level paparazzi outside of your home, chasing you, being everywhere you are, no matter if you're at the beach in the middle of the night with your friends or at a smoothie shop, you know, outside of Coachella.

It is not normal to have these people hounding you, screaming at you about your financial problems, about your legal problems, about your marriage, and about your child.

That is not normal.

He knows that people were sending the paparazzi after him, trying to make up these stories.

No wonder we started to see him crumble under that pressure.

And I think it's so amazing that he was able to express this.

In one of the other songs, Butterflies, I think this might be my favorite song on the entire album.

He starts off the song with the audio from another paparazzi where he was like, money, money, money, all you care about is money.

Like he is so obviously speaking to us, speaking to the paparazzi, being like, I know, like, this is what I've been going through.

And I haven't been able to share myself publicly.

I haven't been able to like communicate in the way that I want to, which is through song and through music.

And then the first verse of Butterflies, I feel like he just really sets the tone for his life right now because he says, when the money comes and the money goes, because we know he's been dealing with financial stuff, the only thing that's left is the love that we hold.

Mix of pain and pleasure, never black and white, because the sun keeps shining when I close my eyes.

He's saying like, I know I've gone through so much, but I have this incredible love of my wife who I am dedicating all of these songs to.

I have an amazing family.

He has an amazing pastor that has stood by him through everything he has an amazing team that has worked on his personal business that has helped him through all of these legal troubles they are what is keeping him grounded keeping him sane that love is so important to him and he's like you can say all this stuff about the money you can say all this stuff about my legal battles and everything else and who i'm dealing with and what i'm posting but i am grounded because i have the love of these people and that is what he is trying to communicate through this album like this is a man who is saying i will not be silenced any longer.

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Now, is it the most polished album he's ever done?

No, but again, that's why I love it.

Because he just went with a bunch of friends.

I think he literally like recorded some of it in Iceland recently and he was just having a good time being able to be free and be himself for literally the first time in years.

And apparently, he's going to be releasing another album later this fall.

It'll be like more of a traditional release.

He'll do the C Ds, he'll do the vinyls for all of the naysayers on X, he'll do the whole thing.

But hopefully, it sounds like this.

Hopefully, it continues just being completely and authentically him, as Scooter Braun would say.

And I could not be more excited about that.

And all of this has just been a great distraction for me from everything happening on X with the freaking Epstein files.

And yes, Trump, we are still talking talking about it because surprisingly, I guess this was news to you, your base really does care about this.

And for anybody who was wondering, like, why is Epstein such a big deal?

Well, number one, it's a big deal because this is something that Trump ran on.

And it wasn't just about Epstein specifically.

It wasn't just like, we need to know what happened with Epstein.

It was about ending the corruption of the deep state.

It was about transparency and finally having answers that so many Americans have wanted on so many issues, whether it's Diddy or JFK or January 6th or Epstein.

Like we want answers because we feel like we have been gaslit and lied to for decades at this point.

Like our government has been so far away from us and the media has been compromised.

Like we have basically just been in the dark and people are done.

And Trump represented the antithesis of this and he ran on this idea that he was going to have radical transparency.

And I mean, yes, he also ran on fixing the economy and strengthening our border and, you know, peace through strength and ending wars.

and making sure that America stays out of them, which even though we had the 12-day war and that was a bit scary there, I think that he navigated that well.

Like all of those things are good.

He ran on all of those things.

But I think the broader message of his campaign, like what he represented was something that is so refreshing.

goes against all corruption, goes up against the government that we've become so used to.

And Epstein embodies all of that.

And I think what people are most upset about isn't the fact that we aren't seeing the files, but it's the way that this entire thing has been handled.

The fact that it was like this bait and switch of like, they're on my desk.

We're cutting, we have the binders.

It's all coming out, we're all doing it.

And then they release this memo literally in the middle of the night, in the middle of the week.

They leak it to Axios.

There's no press conference.

There's no statement from Trump.

There's no statement from Caroline Levitt until like two days later when she finally answers that question from Peter Doocy.

There isn't anything from Pam Bondi until she finally answers that question next to Trump.

And when Trump is finally asked about it, he's like,

You guys are still talking about that?

Like, get over it.

It's like, no, we deserve answers because this is something that you ran on.

And again, it embodies something that is much bigger about what you represent and what we all hoped for.

And the way that this has been handled now feels like, was there anything there to begin with?

Like, are you covering up for someone or something?

Like, we just don't know who to trust.

And that is why there is so much whiplash online.

Now, the updates since we spoke last is that there seemed to be trouble in paradise because Cash Patel and Dan Bongino, there were sources that came out and said that they were furious with Pam Bondi and everybody was trying to pin everything on Pam Bondi.

And they were saying, it's her, she did the rollout, she approved all of this, she's the one hiding everything.

And Cash and Bongino, they are allegedly saying it is her or us.

Like, apparently, Bongino had this whole like blow up with her and like walked out of the office and left DC.

And he was gonna quit if Pam Bondi did not get fired or step down.

But then, after all of that started coming out on X, everybody started getting all riled up, like, oh, we got to get rid of this woman.

Then the deputy attorney general came out and literally posted this.

He said, No, I worked closely with Cash Patel and Bongino on the joint FBI and DOJ memo regarding the Epstein files.

All of us signed off on the contents of the memo and the conclusions stated in the memo.

The suggestion by anyone that there was any daylight between the FBI or DOJ leadership on this memo's composition in the release is patently false.

So this guy came out and said, okay, I don't know who these sources are or what they're saying, but no, this was not some blow-up fight.

You can't release this.

I don't agree with this.

Everybody was in agreement.

We all signed off on it.

And then, of course, that then set everyone into a tizzy because it's like, okay, I don't know who we can trust, whose sources we can trust.

Can we trust Cash Partell?

Can we trust Dan Bongino?

And then the next day, the Wall Street Journal had this report.

They said, breaking, Dan Bongino had no issue with the Epstein memo or video rollout until he started receiving backlash online, which caused him to become extremely upset and leave DC.

So based on this report, they're now telling us that actually, okay, I know we said all these other things, but actually Bongino and Cash were okay with it.

They were only upset.

upset when they started getting backlash.

And then that is when everybody started pinning everything on Pam Bondi and she kind of became the scapegoat.

Now, I, like most people online, have no idea what is real here, and that is why this is so frustrating because there was no transparency.

Again, this memo was leaked to Axios basically in the middle of the night, in the middle of the Texas Camp Mystic tragedy and the flooding.

That's why Trump was saying, like, we need to focus on other things.

It almost feels nefarious, like, this was just like slipped out in the middle of it, hoping that people would not notice.

Obviously, we did.

Now, the back and forth of like who actually signed off on it, who didn't.

Now, there's even more additions to this story because Charlie Kirk posted yesterday and said, okay, guys, sorry.

I did see the emails and Cash Patel and Dan Bongino signed off on it.

House and Habit also saw the email.

She posted it on her sub stack.

She has all the time stamps.

She has the actual words that were written by Dan Bongino and Cash Patel saying, yep, signed off.

This is fine.

Go ahead.

Everything is good.

So literally, it's like, what the heck is going on?

Like, I literally am going whiplash, whiplash.

I'm just like listening to like Justin Bieber's new album, like trying to like find peace because I'm like, I literally have like no idea what is going on.

And then last night, right after my speech, Trump posts on Truth Social.

And guys, I think this is the first time Trump has ever been ratioed on his first platform.

And he makes this entire post about how ridiculous this entire situation is.

And honestly, it's just him doubling down on that awful statement that he made to the reporter where he was like, why does everybody care?

The best part about his post was the way that he started it.

And this is just like an iconic line now.

But he said, what's going on with my boys?

And in some cases, gals?

That's like how he's talking about his supporters.

I have no idea why he wrote it that way but it cracked me up but guys look how long this post is he's basically rambling and he's saying why do we care about epstein move on he defends pam bondi which i'm not surprised about because he values loyalty and pam has been very loyal to him so he's saying she's not the problem she's not going anywhere but the thing that was so insane about this post that caught everybody off guard was that he wasn't finally saying like guys i'm telling you there's nothing there i empathize with you we should have done this differently like get over it move on he wasn't saying there are more things we need to deal with we just can't release them right now.

There are things going on behind the scenes.

Instead, he pins the entire thing on the Democrats.

So, literally, within the span of a week, we went from, there are Epstein files, they will shock you, they are on my desk, to actually, there's no client list, there really isn't anything in the files, we're closing the case, there's nothing going on to now.

There are actually files, and they were created by the Democrats.

That is literally what he writes in this post.

He says, Why are we giving publicity to files written by Obama, crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the losers losers and criminals of the Biden administration who conned the world with the Russia-Russia-Russia hoax, 51 intelligence agents, the laptop from hell, and more.

They created the Epstein files just like they created the fake Hillary Clinton-Christopher Steele dossier that they used on me, and now my so-called friends, the boys and gals, are playing right into their hands.

Why didn't any of these radical left lunatics release the Epstein files?

If there was anything in there that could have hurt the MAGA movement, why didn't they use it?

But this also was a major red flag to people because it couldn't have just been the Democrats behind the Epstein files because yes, Epstein was first arrested in 2006.

I think he served like 13 months.

He had some kind of like slap on the wrist, but it was in 2019 during the Trump administration that Epstein was arrested by federal agents.

And then he committed suicide.

And there were still seven months left of the Trump administration in his first term that we didn't learn anything.

So we don't actually know when these files were created.

There could have been files that were created in 2006.

There could have been files that were created under Biden, but there certainly was a lot going on under Trump's first term.

So you can't just blame shift and put it all on them.

And even if that is true, even if they created all of this and it's all a weird conspiracy and very odd, we don't trust anything now.

Like we're genuinely, it is whiplash.

We're confused.

We don't even know who in the DOJ and the FBI to trust.

We have no idea if it actually is Pambody.

We have no idea if it's coming from Trump, which in my opinion, it is because we know how Trump operates and he controls everything.

Like everything comes directly from him.

This is not Biden where he was on the beach for the majority of his presidency, half asleep, stumbling up and down stairs.

Like we know Trump is on it.

That's why I voted for him because he's so alert because he literally looks like younger than he ever has in years because he runs on McDonald's and Diet Coke in a dream, basically.

And he is aware of everything going on around him.

So you're not really going to convince me that he didn't know that this was happening and that it's all on Pam Bondi and the Dan Bongino didn't know.

In fact, like it just doesn't make sense.

And it all has just now spiraled completely out of control that this post from Trump, even if there is stuff in here that might be accurate, it is not going to help at all.

In fact, this just fueled more conspiracies.

There's another line in here where he says, Epstein, the man who can't be killed.

So everybody then started running with that and being like, oh my God, is he alive?

Is he hiding somewhere in a different part of the world?

Like, it just didn't help at all.

And I understand that Trump just wants to move on from this because this was a major miscalculation by him and his team.

He wants to brush this under the rug.

He wants to get back to the fact that his administration is winning and objectively is doing great stuff.

Like, prices are down.

The border is more secure.

People are not flooding in.

He's cracking down and saying committed to all of the social issues that we care about.

Like, there is a lot of good stuff here.

He had an amazing month.

And so obviously he's upset that we're all focusing on this.

But again, like I said at the beginning of this little like segment, this is a big freaking deal.

It's not just about Epstein.

And that is what he needs to understand.

That's what his team needs to understand.

It's not about just this one man.

Like, why do you care about Epstein?

It's because of the transparency.

It's because of the commitment to getting rid of the deep state and exposing everything.

And this seems to go against what we all believed and what we put our trust in you for.

Like this doesn't make me hate Trump.

I'm so glad that he is our president.

I think that our country is moving in the right direction.

But I think again, it's just a major miscalculation from him and his team that they don't really seem to understand what this means to his base.

And I think that is why we are seeing him flail online.

And I'm sure when he logged onto Truth Social last night with his Diet Coke before he went to bed at like 3 a.m.

He was horrified by the fact that he was literally ratioed on his own platform.

Now, I'm going to be releasing this episode in like 24 hours.

Again, I'm filming this on a Sunday.

I am sure that there will be more information.

Like already his administration had said that the footage that they released of Jeffree Epstein's cell, that that was totally raw, but then Wired came out and looked at the metadata and actually it wasn't raw and they had like stitched it together and they had exported it multiple times and there's still that minute missing.

Like there's so much going on.

There's no answers.

Every single source seems to have a different story.

I'm sure that there will be more updates, but we can talk about that on Thursday.

So to go back to the point of this episode, episode, my husband and his cow chasing and carrying and getting peed upon self is standing on business.

Justin Bieber is standing on business, but Scooter Braun and the Trump administration-sorry, I'm clocking it.

Right now, you're not standing on too much business.