The top 10 Crime and Justice Stories of the Year - #8 - THE EPSTEIN FILES: TRUMP'S BROKEN PROMISE, PRINCE ANDREW'S FALL & THE NAMES.

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm read Carter. Today is Tuesday, December sixteenth, twenty twenty five. We're continuing our countdown of the top ten legal stories of twenty twenty five. Number eight, The Epstein Files. Jeffrey Epstein died in a Manhattan jail cell on August tenth, twenty nineteen, ruled a suicide, awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges, accused of exploiting more than two hundred and fifty underage girls at his homes in New York, Florida, and his private island in the US Virgin Islands. Six years later, we're still fighting over what he left behind. The files, the flight logs, the names, the so called client list that conspiracy theorists swore would bring down the powerful twenty twenty four campaign trail, Donald Trump promises to release the Epstein files. I would have no problem, he told Lex Friedman in September. I'll make the client list public. His MAGA base ate it up. Finally, someone who would expose the truth, drain the swamp, name the names. January twenty twenty five, Trump takes office. The files stay sealed. February twenty twenty five, Attorney General Pam Bondi releases a first phase of documents, flight logs, a redacted contact book, a masseuse list, almost everything already public, nothing new. Critics called it a cover up. July twenty

1:37 twenty five, the DOJ and FBI release a joint memo. No client list exists, no credible evidence Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals, no evidence to prosecute anyone else. Case closed, But it wasn't closed, not for the survivors, not for Congress, not for the American public who wanted answers. April twenty twenty five, Virginia Jeuffrey, the most prominent Epstein survivor, died by suicide at her farm in Australia. She was forty one years old, left behind three children a lifetime of trauma from being trafficked as a teenager. October twenty twenty five. Her posthumous memoir, Nobody's Girl, published detailed three alleged sexual encounters with Prince Andrew when she was seventeen. King Charles stripped his brother of every royal title. Andrew is now just Andrew Mountbatten Windsor Commoner. November twenty twenty five Congress finally acted. House voted four hundred twenty seven to one to force the release of all Epstein files. Senate passed it unanimously. Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act on November nineteenth. DOJ has until December nineteenth to comply. Eight days from now.

2:56 I'm Red Carter today. The Epstein files, the broken promises, the names, the cover up, and what happens next. This is celebrity trials. Let's start with the promise. June twenty twenty four, Fox News interview reporter asks Trump if he'd declassify the Epstein files. Yeah, Yeah, I would, Trump said. The clip went viral. Trump campaign shared it on Twitter, but here's what they cut out the full answer. You don't want to affect people's lives of it's phony stuff in there, because it's a lot of phony stuff with that whole world hedging already leaving himself an out. September twenty twenty four Lex Friedman podcast, Trump says he'd have no problem releasing the files, would probably make the client list public, more promises, more enthusiasm from the base. January twentieth, twenty twenty five, Trump sworn in as forty seventh President MAGA supporter's expected action. The Epstein files were supposed to expose demicocrats, Bill Clinton, Hollywood elites, the deep state pedophile cabal, but nothing happened. February twenty seventh, twenty twenty five, Attorney General Pam Bondi announces the first release, calls it a transparency effort president Trump's commitment to lifting the veil? What did they release? Flight logs from Gislaine Maxwell's criminal trial already public a redacted contact book. Gawker published the unredacted

4:30 version in twenty fifteen. A masseuse list an evidence inventory about two hundred pages total. Nothing new, nothing damaging, nothing that would bring down anyone. Critics exploded, Where's the rest? Bondi blamed the FBI said she was later informed of thousands of additional pages that weren't initially disclosed, promised more was coming. July twenty twenty five, the f released surveillance footage from Epstein's jail cell the night he died. Showed no one entered, ruled out murder conspiracy theories, but also showed the so called missing minute was just a DVR reset.

5:13 Nothing sinister. Same month, the DOJ and FBI released a joint memo the findings, no incriminating client list, no credible evidence Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals, no evidence to support prosecuting uncharged third parties. The client list everyone wanted doesn't exist, according to the government. Pam Bondi had told Fox News in February that the client list was sitting on my desk right now to review. Turns out there was no list or she was lying. Take your pick. July twenty first, twenty twenty five, House Speaker Mike Johnson cancels the scheduled vote on a bill to force the release, puts the House into recess. Early says the Trump administration should have the space to do what it is doing. Translation, we're not releasing anything. Here's what was happening behind the scenes.

6:06 Republican Representative Thomas Massey had filed a discharge petition in September to force a vote. You need two hundred eighteen signatures to bypass leadership and bring a bill to the floor. Democrats signed on, so did a few Republicans Nancy Mace, Lauren Bober, Marjorie Taylor Green, but most Republicans refused. A White House official called signing the petition a very hostile act to the administration. Trump himself called the whole thing a Democrat hoax, said the files were fabricated by his political enemies, called the push for transparency old news. His own supporters were furious. Joe Rogan called the refusal to release the files a line in the sand. Elon Musk, then still a Trump ally, would soon make explosive accusations.

6:58 Make it make sense. Trump promised to release the files one votes because of that promise, then spent his entire second term fighting to keep them sealed. Either the files contain nothing damaging and there's no reason to hide them, or they contain something worth hiding your tax dollars at work. We'll be right back with. June twenty twenty five, Elon Musk accuses Trump of being in the Epstein files, deletes the tweet and the feud that almost destroyed MAGA. June fifth, twenty twenty five, Elon Musk and Donald Trump are in the middle of a spectacular public feud. Musk is angry about the big beautiful bill working through Congress, calls it an abomination, tells his two hundred twenty million followers to call their Senators and kill the bill. Trump fires back, threatens to cut federal contracts to Musk's companies SpaceX Tesla.

8:06 The relationship that defined Trump's first year back in office is imploding. Then Musk drops a bomb. Time to drop the really big bomb. Musk posted on x real Donald Trump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT. He followed up, mark this post for the future. The truth will come out. No evidence, no documentation, just an accusation from the world's richest man that the President of the United States was in the files of the world's most notorious sex trafficker. The White House responded immediately. Press Secretary Caroline Levitt called it an unfortunate episode from Elon who is unhappy with the One Big, Beautiful Bill because it does not include the policies he wanted. Vice President j. D.

8:55 Vance said the accusation was absolutely not true, hoped Musk would come back into the fold. Trump himself dismissed it. That's called old news, he told reporters. I was not friendly with Epstein for probably eighteen years before he died. I was not at all friendly with him, but here's the context Trump left out. He and Epstein were photographed together at parties throughout the nineteen nineties. Trump called Epstein a terrific guy in a two thousand and two interview, said he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. Trump's name appeared in Epstein's flight logs and contact book. None of that proves Trump participated in Epstein's crimes, but it proves they had a relationship, a closer relationship than Trump now admits. By Saturday, June seventh, Musk had deleted the tweets, also deleted a repost of someone calling for Trump's impeachment.

9:52 The feud was cooling down. Musk later said he went too far and apologized, but the damage was done. Trump, his own ally, had publicly accused him of being in the Epstein files. The accusation spread across the Internet, screenshots everywhere. The deleted tweets became the story. Musk's excuse for deleting. He said he'd apologize profusely as soon as there is a full dump of the Epstein files. That post was also deleted. September twenty twenty five, new documents released by the House Oversight Committee. Musk's name appears in Epstein's twenty fourteen diary reminder elon Musk to Island December six, Is this still happening? Musk exploded, called it a false narrative, said Epstein tried to get him to visit the island multiple times and he refused. Called Sky News utterly misleading for naming him before Prince Andrew So. Both Musk and Trump had connections to Epstein, both denied wrongdoing, both appeared in the files, and both spent twenty twenty five trying to avoid the spotlight. The difference Musk isn't President Trump is the one who promised transparency and delivered stonewalling. April twenty fifth, twenty twenty five, near Gabby, Western Australia, a forty one year old woman found unresponsive at her farm.

11:18 Police attempted first aid, couldn't revive her. Pronounced dead at the scene. Virginia Giuffrey, the most prominent survivor of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse, the woman who spent two decades fighting for accountability, dead by suicide. Her family released a statement she lost her life to suicide after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking. Virginia was a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse and sex trafficking. She was the light that lifted so many survivors. In the end, the toll of abuse is so heavy that it became unbearable for Virginia to handle its weight. Geoffrey was trafficked by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, starting when she was sixteen working as a SPA attendant at Mara Lago when mac Xwell approached her lured into Epstein's world, abused for years, trafficked to powerful men around the globe. She went public in twenty fifteen, filed lawsuits named names accused Prince Andrew of sexually assaulting her when she was seventeen. The infamous photo Andrew with his arm around her waist, Maxwell smiling in the background, became evidence. Epstein arrested on federal charges, dead by suicide a month later. Giuffrey kept fighting. Gislaine Maxwell convicted five counts of sex trafficking, twenty years in prison.

12:37 Geoffrey sued Prince Andrew. He settled for an undisclosed amount, reportedly around twelve million dollars. No admission of wrongdoing, but the settlement spoke volumes. At the time of her death, Geoffrey was going through a divorce custody battle for her three children. A car accident weeks earlier that she said nearly killed her the toll of a life time of trauma, but she'd finished one last project, a memoir, Nobody's Girl, published posthumously in October twenty twenty five. The book detailed three alleged sexual encounters with Prince Andrew when she was seventeen. Andrew allegedly acted as if having sex with me was his birthright. Maxwell allegedly told her afterward, you did well.

13:25 The Prince had fun Epstein allegedly paid her fifteen thousand dollars. Andrew has always denied the allegations, says he never met Gufrey claimed in a disastrous twenty nineteen BBC interview that he couldn't have sexually assaulted her because he was at a pizza Express in Woking that night. Said he couldn't sweat due to a medical condition from the Falklands War. The memoir revived public fury, combined with new emails released by Congress showing Andrew remained in contact with Epstein longer than he admitted, the pressure became unbearable. October Nober seventeenth, twenty twenty five, Andrew announced he would no longer use his titles the Duke of York his military honors. Thought he could keep Prince since he's the son of a queen.

14:13 October thirtieth, twenty twenty five, King Charles said otherwise. Buckingham Palace announced the King initiated a formal process to remove the style, titles and honors of Prince Andrew. Andrew would now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, not Prince, not his royal highness, not Duke, just a commoner evicted from royal Lodge his residence on the Windsor estate. The last time a British prince had that title formally stripped was over a century ago. Prince Charles Edward, Queen Victoria's grandson, lost his title for fighting for Germany in World War One. Geoffrey's family responded, Today an ordinary American girl from an ordinary American family brought down a British prince with her truth and extraordinary courage. Today she declares victory. Virginia Giuffrey was forty one years old, mother of three, abuse survivor advocate, the woman who refused to stay silent when everyone told her to rest in peace, Virginia, someone has to say your name coming up. The Epstein Files Transparency Act passes, Congress, Larry Summers resigns from Open AI, and what happens on December nineteenth when the DOJ deadline hits. By November twenty twenty five, the pressure was overwhelming. Trump's own supporters were

15:45 turning against him over the Epstein Files. Congress decided to force his hand. November twelfth, twenty twenty five, Representative Thomas Massey's discharge petition hit two hundred and eighteen signatures, the minimum needed to bypass House leadership and force a floor vote, four Republicans and two hundred fourteen Democrats. Raoul Grihalva, who won a special election in September, provided the final signature. Same day, House Democrats released a new batch of emails from Epstein's estate, including one where Epstein wrote to author Michael Wolfe, of course he knew about the girls, as he asked Gislaine to stop he was Trump. The email appeared to reference Trump asking Maxwell to stop recruiting young women from mar Lago. The White House response these emails prove absolutely nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong. But the emails kept coming. Over twenty thousand pages released by Republicans and Democrats, names everywhere, Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, Larry Summers, Noam Chomsky, former Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump. Most weren't accused of crimes, just connections, emails, dinners, flights, the web of a man who cultivated powerful friends while trafficking children. Larry Summers faced the worst fallout. Former Treasury Secretary Under Clinton, former Harvard President Open AI board member.

17:13 His emails with Epstein showed years of friendly correspondence, jokes about women's intelligence, seeking romantic advice from a convicted sex offender. November nineteenth, twenty twenty five, Summers resigned from OpenAI's board, stepped back from teaching at Harvard, while the University investigates lost his paid contributor role at Bloomberg lost his contract with The New York Times opinion section said he was deeply ashamed of continuing to communicate with Epstein. Trump ordered Attorney General Bondi to investigate Summers, Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman and J. P. Morgan Chase for their Epstein connections, turning the scandal into a weapon against Democrats, never mind that his own name appeared throughout the documents. November seventeenth, twenty twenty five, Trump announced he would sign the Epstein Files Transparency Act if it reached his desk, a stunning reversal after months of calling it a hoax and fighting to keep the files sealed. November eighteenth, twenty twenty five, House vote four hundred twenty seven to one. Only Clay Higgins of Louisiana voted. No. Epstein survivors watched from the gallery, embraced each other cheered. Hours later, the Senate passed it by unanimous consent, no debate, no recorded vote, straight to Trump's desk. November nineteenth, twenty twenty five, Trump signed the bill, posted on truth Social that he'd ask Speaker Johnson and

18:44 Majority Leader Thoon to pass it, took credit for the almost unanimous votes, never mentioned that he'd spent ten months fighting against it. The law requires the Attorney General to release all unclassified Epstein related documents within thirty days, searchable, downloadable, no redactions for embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity. That deadline is December nineteenth, twenty twenty five, but there are exceptions. Documents that would jeopardize an active federal investigation can be withheld, and BONDI just opened a new investigation into Clinton, Summers and Hoffman. Convenient timing if you want to delay releases.

19:26 The FBI says there are over three hundred gigabytes of data, photos, videos, documents, some depicting sexual abuse of miners. That material won't be released the law prohibits it, but everything else is supposed to come out. Will it or will the Trump administration find new reasons to delay. Gislaine Maxwell meanwhile, sits in a minimum security prison camp in Brian, Texas, transferred there after praising Trump in an interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, getting special privileges, unlimited toilet paper, private meals her own cell. The warden allegedly warned inmates that anyone who talks to the press about Maxwell's treatment will be transferred to a harsher facility. Maxwell says she'll plead the fifth if Congress calls her to testify, wants immunity first.

20:16 A pardon from Trump would let her testify openly and honestly. She's reportedly seeking clemency. The woman who recruited girls for Epstein living comfortably hoping for a pardon from the president who promised transparency but delivered cover ups, make it make sense. The Epstein files number eight on our countdown of the top legal stories of the year. Jeffrey Epstein died in twenty nineteen. His crimes destroyed hundreds of lives. His connections reached the highest levels of power in politics, business, entertainment. Virginia Geuffrey spent twenty years fighting for accountability, died by suicide in April at forty one. Her posthumous memoir brought down a prince. Prince Andrew now Andrew Mountbatten Windsor stripped of every royal title. In October, first time in over a century, Larry Summers resigned from open AI and Harvard career in ruins over emails with a convicted sex offender.

21:17 Elon Musk accused Trump of being in the files, deleted the tweets, both denying wrongdoing. Donald Trump promised to release the files, spent twenty twenty five fighting to keep them sealed, only signed the Transparency Act after Congress forced his hand with a four hundred twenty seven to one vote. December nineteenth, the DOJ deadline to release everything. Will we finally get answers or more excuses? The survivors deserve the truth, the victims deserve justice, and the American public deserves to know who was connected to the worst sex trafficker of our time. Virginia Giuffrey was forty one years old, fought for two decades, never stopped, never backed down, changed history. Rest in peace, Virginia.

22:04 You declared victory tomorrow number seven on our countdown the CEO assassination that shocked America, Luigi Mangione and the killing of Brian Thompson. I'm Red Carter. This is celebrity trials.