'Donald Trump is gonna hate it': Mobile Epstein files museum hits the road

[0:00] Exactly one week ago, more than two dozen survivors of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sent an open letter to Republican Senators John Cornyn and Tom Tillis, urging them to reject Trump's pick for Attorney General Todd Blanche. [0:12] And their reasons were pretty clear. I mean, after their brief meeting with Blanche, they said that he showed no remorse for the horrific release of materials that exposed survivors' identities and images. [0:22] They also said he also gave no indication that he believed there were investigative leads worth pursuing or that he intended to seek accountability beyond Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. [0:33] And while both Cornyn and Tillis continue to withhold their support for Blanche, as I was just discussing with Senator Whitehouse, it's worth noting that Cornyn's reservations seem entirely centered on Blanche's improper IRS settlement with Trump, rather than his apparent attempts to downplay and cover up the Epstein scandal. [0:48] Regardless, the outrage over Blanche's mishandling of the Epstein files is definitely not going away. In fact, it might be coming to a city near you. [0:58] Remember the pop-up Epstein files reading room that drew lots of attention for good reason a few months ago, where you could go and read 3.5 million pages of Epstein files or whatever portion of that you could make it through? [1:09] Well, now the Institute for Primary Facts and Defiance.org, who organized that installation, are taking it on the road. [1:15] And they are literally rolling out a truck that will carry millions of pages of the Epstein files for public viewing. [1:22] You can see it right there. And it's said to be officially unveiled on Capitol Hill tomorrow morning. [1:27] It's a big, fat, visual, traveling reminder to senators that Todd Blanche is uniquely unfit to serve as attorney general. [1:35] Joining me now is Myles Taylor. He was chief of staff in the Department of Homeland Security during Trump's first term and is now one of the organizers of this Trump-Epstein bookmobile. [1:43] Myles, thank you for being here. [1:45] Thanks for having me. [1:46] I bet you wouldn't have predicted this is exactly your path a couple of years ago, but here you are. [1:50] You know what's not, but let me just say at the outset, I mean, in the two and a half years I worked under Trump, one thing became clear. [1:57] He was the most corrupt human being I've ever met. And no episode epitomizes his corruption better than what has happened with the Epstein files. [2:07] So in a way, it makes perfect sense that this is the story arc. [2:11] No doubt. I mean, I have to ask you because the 3.5 million pages of documents are online. [2:16] People can read them. They're technically available online, I should say. [2:20] Why did you decide physically? Tell me about the decision to take them on the road. [2:25] What are you going to be doing? Where are they going to be going? How will this work when it comes to a community? [2:29] It's the creative genius of our partners at the Institute for Primary Facts to just say, [2:35] let's print this and have people see what the magnitude of the files look like. [2:41] And I'll tell you, when I went up to New York City, still having talked with them for months about this, [2:46] I thought, you know, it's interesting, but is it going to feel like an exhibit worth visiting? [2:51] I walked in. I went downstairs. I saw six survivors, half of them in tears. [2:57] Yeah. People were moved by this exhibit. And it wasn't just Epstein survivors. [3:02] Strangers coming off the street to come tour the thing. [3:05] If they could get a ticket because it was sold out. [3:08] They were so moved by just seeing the totality of the files. [3:12] And you actually pull something off the shelf and you read and you realize, oh, this isn't just [3:16] a scandal that's been hyped in the media. We're talking about a thousand victims. [3:22] We're talking about one of the most sprawling sex trafficking networks in American history. [3:27] We're talking about files that include allegations about the president of the United States [3:32] engaging potentially in, you know, nefarious activity with minors. [3:38] We're talking about some very shocking stuff. And to see it is to really start to understand it fully. [3:44] It also reminds you about what you don't see. You see the magnitude and you realize millions of files [3:50] have not been released. Thousands of people have not received justice. [3:55] At least dozens of co-conspirators have not been revealed. [3:58] And you recognize this cover up. It's not over yet. And it needs to be uncovered. [4:03] It's there are certainly a lot of a lot of pages that have not been released. [4:08] I would remind everybody Trump has denied wrongdoing, as we always like to note. [4:11] But let me ask you about the Blanche hearings here, because in a subsec post, you called this effort [4:17] the closing argument against Blanche. I was just discussing with Senator Whitehouse [4:22] the opposition or the seeming we're kind of watching them very closely. [4:26] Senator Cornyn and Senator Tillis, the issues they have really put forward are this IRS settlement, [4:31] which is abhorrent in its own right. But I wonder what you think of why that's the issue [4:36] that seems to be giving some Republican senators pause. And there aren't any, at least publicly, [4:42] that seem to be the driving force around the mishandling of the Epstein files. [4:48] The fact that Todd Blanche, we don't know what role he played in transferring Ghislaine Maxwell, [4:54] her transfer. We still have a lot of questions on that. The fact that he interviewed her, [4:58] the fact that he's not releasing documents. Why do you think that is not? [5:01] It received a lot of votes. [5:03] Well, look, I think Cornyn feels like he's on safer political ground to not touch something [5:08] that he also knows is a live wire with the president. But it should be about the Epstein files. [5:14] Todd Blanche bungled one of the biggest investigations in the recent history of the [5:19] Department of Justice, what should have been a massive investigation, not just into sex trafficking, [5:25] also into counterintelligence concerns, also into a range of other potential public [5:30] corruption issues. I can tell you right now, not even having been on the inside of that [5:35] investigation, I can identify from the public files reasons there still needs to be a national [5:41] security investigation open into Jeffrey Epstein and his associates. And there is not. And we all [5:47] know why. We all know why. And that's the big 800 pound gorilla in the room in Washington, D.C. [5:54] And that's why we're doing this. We're doing this because whatever happens to Todd Blanche [5:57] this week, whether he gets confirmed or not, the survivors are saying we're not going to be shut [6:02] up. We're going to call attention to this and we're going to keep doing it for years until someone is [6:07] in power to reopen these investigations. And in fact, tonight, Jen, if folks want to go vote on what [6:13] cities this go to, they can. As of right now on air, they can go to Trump Epstein Bookmobile dot com [6:19] and they can say what cities they want this to travel to. Survivors are going to be going to these [6:24] cities. We are not going to let them redact the survivors the way they've tried to redact the [6:29] co-conspirators in these files. [6:30] You want this. You want this bus. You're coming your way. You can you have a voice here. [6:34] Let me ask you. I mean, one of the most I mean, these survivors are so incredible. You've spent time with [6:39] them. I've spent time with them as well. And they've been so fierce and strong through so many [6:43] moments over the last couple of years and long before that. The Blanche meeting for many of them [6:49] was extremely disturbing and upsetting because of what he conveyed, because they have how he treated [6:54] them. In many ways, Blanche is the most emblematic version of what you're talking about here, [6:59] these sycophants who Trump has surrounded himself with. Of course, Trump wants him to be confirmed for [7:05] a full term. What should people understand about the damage that he could do if he's full if he's [7:12] confirmed, fully confirmed? Well, first, people should remember these folks are people. Let me [7:17] mention one of them. I think you probably had her on your show. Danny Bensky, one of the most courageous [7:22] women I have ever met, someone who is one of the Epstein victims, the type of person who could get [7:28] steamrolled by bringing the allocation allegations she brought forward into the public domain. And she did [7:34] it anyway. That bravery is a real person facing real risks, the power of a real administration. [7:40] That's significant. But on the other side of this, I would say when it comes to Todd Blanche, [7:47] you've got to be thinking about what this means in the long run for our country, what it says about [7:53] whether we're going to let justice be weaponized. And that vote this week is about more than just Todd [7:59] Blanche. It's a vote about the future of the Department of Justice and about justice in this country. [8:03] So folks should go check out the site. Folks should get the files to their city and take [8:08] action. Miles Taylor, thank you so much for being here. Thanks, Jen.