Popular pro-Trump podcaster turns on president over Epstein files: ‘It’s insulting our intelligence’
A comedian and podcaster who supports Donald Trump broke with the president over the Epstein files and other campaign promises broken by Trump, according to the entertainer.
Andrew Schulz, who cohosts the popular “Flagrant” podcast which Trump made an appearance on during the 2024 campaign, was reacting to the president’s meltdown over a reporter’s question on the “missing minute” in the hours-long Jeffrey Epstein jailhouse video released by the Department of Justice earlier this week.
Trump claimed the Epstein question– made on the heels of Attorney General Pam Bondi saying there was no “client list” months after she told Fox News the list was sitting on her desk — was a waste of time.
“I mean, I can’t believe you’re asking a questions on Epstein at a time like this when we’re having some of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened at Texas,” the president said. “It just seems like a desecration.”
But Schulz, who voted for Trump, said the question was a legitimate one, especially because the president campaigned on releasing the so-called Epstein files if elected.
“Yeah, we’re talking about [Epstein] because of you,” Schulz said on his podcast Tuesday. “You’re the one who keeps the conversation going when you hand out the binders to the social media influencers.”
Schulz pointed out that FBI Director Kash Patel also promised to release information on the Epstein case.
But in a Sunday night memo, Attorney General Pam Bondi and the FBI said a list of Epstein’s clients does not exist despite Bondi confirming a client list during a Fox News interview in February.
Bondi claimed she misspoke during the interview and that she intended to say that files, not a a list of clients who received trafficked underage girls from Epstein, were on her desk.
Schulz wasn’t buying the explanation.
“That happens. Like, don’t you misspeak about thousands of hours of footage of adults having sex with children?” the comedian said with sarcasm. “You would oopsie-daisy that.”
“That is what I think is enraging people right now. It’s insulting our intelligence,” Schulz continued.
“Obviously the intelligence community is trying to cover it up. Obviously, the Trump administration is trying to cover it up. Something changed, because they ran on this idea of exposing it all. All these guys had great ideas – Cockeyed Kash, Dan Bongino,” Schulz said, referring to the FBI director and deputy director.
Patel “was ready to tear it all down,” Schulz said.
“Then he goes on Joe Rogan and says, ‘do you think if I had it I wouldn’t share it with you?’ Yeah, I do believe that. One hundred percent, especially when you’re staring at me like this,” Schulz said, doing a cockeye gesture with his eyes, “telling me that.”
“Once you protect pedophiles, you are the most cockeyed person in the entire world,” the comedian said.
The Epstein files isn’t the only beef Schulz has with the president, adding that he receives messages on social media when Trump announces a policy he disagrees with.
“They’ll be like, ‘you see what your boy’s doing? You voted for this.’ I’m like, ‘I voted for none of this,’” Schulz said. “He’s doing the exact opposite of everything I voted for.
“I wanted him to stop the wars – he’s funding them. I wanted him to shrink spending, reduce the budget – he’s increasing it,” the podcaster said.
“It’s like everything that he said he’s gonna do, except sending immigrants back – and now he’s flip-flopped on that, which I kinda like.”
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