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The Parnas Perspective — Trump Melts Down as Epstein Push Grows!. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
0:00The White House and the President have a problem today. There is a rapidly growing movement on Capitol Hill to get justice and accountability for the Epstein survivors. You may not have heard about it, but there is another Epstein Files Transparency Act 2.0. And it's gaining rapid steam right now. This legislation would give Epstein survivors the ability to sue the Department of Justice to go after Todd Blanche. Republicans have co-sponsored this legislation. There is a real push. And so what does the White House do on this Labor Day? AI Slop on AI Slop. Posting an image or rather a video of an 80-year-old president becoming Green Lantern. Talking about how they're going to rename New Mexico to New America. All well-gassed prices have hit their highest ever on the Labor Day. Food prices are also surging right now in the United States of America. And an emergency declaration has been issued for the state of Hawaii. Lots to cover right now. Make sure to like, comment, share, the more you do, the more people see. And if you can, subscribe to support this work. Because for me, seeing all of the craziness
1:00over the past 24 to 48 hours about renaming New Mexico and this Green Lantern video, which I'll show you, is in a lot of ways an effort to remove the Epstein files and the Epstein survivors from the conversation. And that's something I would never do on this platform. We need to keep them focused. This coverage is and always has been survivor focused. And there is a real push right now to get them justice. So if you want to support that type of journalism, make sure to subscribe today. Right now there is that major push on Capitol Hill to get more justice for survivors and it's growing rapidly. More than 100 lawmakers have now signed on to a discharge petition filed by Congressman Thomas Massey to force a vote on the Epstein files Transparency Act 2.0. The legislation would allow state attorneys, general victims and members of Congress to directly sue Todd Blanch in the Department of Justice for not only withholding Epstein files, but also overredacting Epstein files. Massey says the department is still homophily withholding more than 3 million files
2:00and he wants this bill to bring in his words, accountability to the Department of Justice and closure for survivors. Here's the math that matters. He needs four Republicans to sign on to it, including himself to hit the 218 signature threshold that would force a house vote. They have two already. They have two. And it's growing and it's likely to hit that four. Massey has been directly pitching as Republican colleagues, especially those running in competitive districts to sign on before the midterms telling them to take credit for it and be a hero. On Democratic side, Representative Brokhanis says that if this doesn't get done before the end of this Congress, Democrats would absolutely keep pushing it next term. Though he believes it'll actually happen before the end of the year, forcing a floor vote and ultimately getting this legislation to the president's desk, it is a bipartisan piece of legislation. There is a real push on Capitol Hill right now. And it comes as right now, your wallets are hurting. Gas prices have hit a record high for any Labor Day this year with an average regular gas averaging $4.15 a gallon. That's nearly $1 higher than last year
3:01and well above the previous Labor Day record of $3.82, which was set back in 2012. Diesel hit its own all-time record too. $5.90 a gallon on Monday and since trucks and freight systems run almost entirely on diesel, the cost is rippling straight into grocery prices and packaged delivery. Experts point to the fallout from the US and Israeli strikes on Iran back in February, which sent crude oil traffic through the Strait of Rammus plunging and Iran still hasn't reopened the waterway. Brent crude won from $72.48 a barrel before the war to $95.52 by Friday, a 38% increase in gas prices since the war began. And it's not just gas, food prices have risen year over year too. Energy Secretary Chris Freight acknowledged this but pointed to future markets suggesting gasoline could drop about 35 cents by November because he says that once people drive less, they'll be less gas prices will also be reduced. It is Labor Day weekend, one of the heaviest travel times of the year.
4:02The average cost of the gallon of gas this weekend is the highest on record, $4.13. You said on the show five months ago that high gas prices had peaked but between not just the Iran war but the Russia-Ukraine war and the US's own dwindling reserves. Is it a possible gas prices could go up even more? Well, if you look at, I don't want to have an opinion on that, but if you look at the futures market right now, what can you buy gasoline for two months in advance from where we are today? It's down more than 30 cents a gallon from where it is today. So we are hitting the end of the summer driving season. The Trump administration has changed blending requirements for American refiners which allows them to produce more gasoline just as demand for gasoline is about to start heading down. I should point out that New York, Connecticut, California, and several other Democrat government states have decided not to adopt those standards.
5:04They apparently want to keep driving up prices on their residents, but that Trump administration is doing everything we can to drive energy prices down as we have since the day we arrived in office. Respectfully as the energy secretary shouldn't you have an opinion on where gas prices are and where they're going? Well, gasoline production is about to go up and demand is about to go down. So if I had to guess, they're more likely to go down and go up. So you have Epstein accountability rising. You have gas prices rising. An economy that is struggling this Labor Day. And so what does the president do? What are the 20 in? What are the numbers of his White House staff do? They post AI Slop. AI generated videos of Trump as the superhero Green Lantern. You don't have to believe me. This is what was posted on Labor Day. This is what the president says. In the brightest day in the darkest night, no evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evils might be where my power Green Lantern's light.
6:06That's what they posted. This wasn't a one-off either. It came the same week in Trump posted bizarre images of himself meeting George Washington in the Oval Office, himself renaming New Mexico as New America with the official White House account suggesting that. And that weekend of AI fantasy postings is exactly why officials are once again openly raising the president's ability to serve, openly raising the 20th Amendment of the United States Constitution. Part of what triggered this was Trump's new generation, new next generation space force uniform design, which explicitly described as inspired by the discipline and functionality of the starship trooper uniform. Problem is, starship troopers is a satire about a future earth ruled by fascist regime and critics compare the design to the imperial army in Star Wars. And then there's New Mexico. Trump posted visually that he's going to change a name from New Mexico to New America simply because it has Mexico in the name. New Mexico officials, like Governor Michelle Lujón Grigian,
7:07says, New Mexico's name is an up for debate. It's been ours since before the United States existed. What is up for debate? Who is showing up for working families? Well, the president tries to distract Americans from the disastrous war in Iran. Gas prices keep soaring. Martin Heinrich, the senator, says, three things I will always call by their actual names, the Gulf of Mexico, Lake Ontario, New Mexico. And so that's where we're at right now. It's a very kind of precarious position for this White House. And you're not going to hear a lot of people talk about how there's a relation between the push for survivor accountability on Capitol Hill and all of this craziness on truth social and on the official White House pages. But they are connected. That is why this is happening. Because the White House would rather you talk about Greenland turn than they would about the Epstein files. But we won't. That's not what we do here. So as always, if you can't subscribe, support this work like common share. And I'll see you soon with another update.
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