Epstein File Vote: TV News Misses the Point .. Again

Billionaire TV News Reports What They are Told (for ratings) with Scant Comprehension

November 18, 2025 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion.

Billionaire TV News Reports the Headlines but Misses the Meaning

Billionaire TV News is waiting at the Capitol to cover the House vote to open the Epstein files.

Like it actually matters.

If you have absolutely nothing else going on in your life, then stay glued to the TV News screen to find out how the House and Senate will vote on the issue.

But it doesn't matter and it won't make a difference, as Donald Trump is doing what he does best. Making fools on the American people and the rule of law, by deceiving them and finding loopholes in the law to exploit. Both skills that Donald J. Trump has been practicing all of his life.

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Current TV News Teams Cover Events Like Chimpanzees - They go thru the Motions but don't Seem to Really Seem to Understand What it is they are Doing

TV News waiting on this vote, like it matters. And telling you the same. This reminds of how just over a year ago, TV News responded to Trump's false claim that Haitian immigrants were eating their neighbors pets. Kamala Harris laughed, David Muir put on his "I'm a serious anchorman face" and news outlets headed to Springfield, Ohio on a wild goose chase.

Trump got what he wanted. Which was a distraction from what would have been the news - that Kamala Harris was better prepared and more knowledgeable about policy during that debate than Trump was - essentially winning it.

But she reaped zero benefits because TV News spent the next few news cycles 'investigating' as only the totally clueless could do, while talking endless nonsense about Trump's false claims about Haitian immigrants eating their neighbors' pets in Springfield, Ohio.

Trump Orders DOJ to Open Investigation into Democrat Larry Summers in Relation to the Epstein Files

Republican Leaders Thune & Johnson Continue Their Historic Effort, to Bury their Ostrich Heads in the Sand, While Colossally Failing the American People

Yesterday, Trump ordered an investigation into Larry Summers in relation to the Epstein files. He simultaneously went from trying to keep the Epstein Files genie in the bottle, to fully supporting Republicans to vote in favor of it - which they were going to do anyhow.

Why? Because by having the DOJ and FBI open an investigation with court proceedings, based on the Epstein Files, against Democrat Larry Summers, Trump has effectively empowered himself and his DOJ to keep the public from seeing the Epstein Files until after the investigation is over.

Meanwhile, Republicans Senate Majority Leader John Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson, stand idly by. And by failing to assert the power vested in them by the Constitution, they are failing the people who elected them. But this past year, these two men have failed us multiple times (I won't digress into that conversation at this time), most notably leaving it to the courts, to uphold / assert their constitutional powers, to levy taxes on the people, via tariffs.

The power to levy taxes lays clearly with Congress and Congress only. This Grade School American History 101. Article I, Section 8, Clause 1, in the U.S. Constitution states: "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States."

The Opening of the DOJ Investigation Will Likely Preclude the Files from Being Released Until the Litigation has Ended ... After Trump Presidency Ends

By protocol, not law, the Epstein files are not likely to see the light of day in the public realm as long as Trump is president and his DOJ swears oath to him - not the Constitution - in violation of the law. Court documents are public record but access can be restricted, particularly if they pertain to pending litigation. The court can seal or redact documents to protect sensitive information. This is likely what the Trump DOJ will do.

The DOJ Filed Litigation Against Summers & This Will Likely Prevent Real Disclosure Thru the Trump Presidency

Even if the Summers investigation comes to a close before Trump's presidency ends, Trump will likely order the DOJ to open another investigation into another Democrat found in the Epstein files, which would keep the files in limbo as long as Trump is president, and Republicans Thune and Johnson shirk their duty to the nation.

After Blocking the Epstein Files Release for Months, Trump Does an 180 Pivot

Was it Because he Found Other [Illegal?] Ways to Keep Himself out of Public View?

Trump reportedly ordered teams from the Bondi DOJ and Patel FBI to comb through the Epstein Files within a couple of months of being inaugurated president in January 2025. By May 2025 they had reportedly informed him that his name was all over them.

Thus, in June 2025 Bondi and Patel told the American public there was nothing in them of interest. Dan Bongino, who long pushed the Epstein File conspiracy, almost resigned because of this announcement. Conservative celebrity, Charlie Kirk, called for their release too, only a couple of months before his assassination.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/us/politics/epstein-files-trump-bondi-justice-department-fbi.html

https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/kash-patels-u-turn-on-epstein-files-thousands-of-pages-withheld-by-fbi-heres-why/3762793/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/27/pam-bondi-jeffrey-epstein-release-criminal-file/85338256007/

With Implied Presidential Consent, Speaker Johnson Delayed the Epstein File Release in August, & Again in September, October and Most of November

In July 2025, Kentucky Republican Congressman Thomas Massie, along with Ro Khanna initiated a discharge petition seeking the release of the Epstein Files by the DOJ. Speaker Mike Johnson delayed any action on the Epstein File Discharge petition by recessing the House early, in August. And then again from September thru mid November, by closing down Congress for an entire month and a half, in order to avoid the swearing in of Arizona Democratic congresswoman Adelita Grijalva, which provided Massie and Khanna with the votes they needed to pass the discharge petition.

How Long Before TV News Either Figures It Out & / or Informs the American Public that the Senate and House Votes to Release the Epstein Files have been Rendered Meaningless by the DOJ Investigation? Or do they Only Care About the Ratings Associated with What Seems a Phony Made for TV Drama?

Pay attention to how long it takes the numbskulls on network TV News to figure this out. And then use that observation to guide you on who to rely upon to keep properly informed going forward. Some billionaire TV News networks will string this out for as long as they can. Essentially they are manipulating you to keep watching TV News' false drama of meaningless outcomes to prop up their ratings. We're unlikely to ever see the real Epstein Files, just like we'll never see the real JFK assassination files, and just like we never saw the Trump tax returns. Powerful people, like Trump, invariably wield power to pursue their own ends. So don't hold your breath or you'll die.

Trump, Epstein, Michael Wolff - The Real Allegations Ignored by TV News

Here is a link to a related report we filed earlier this year. The link contains a couple of short reports, of which one is about author Michael Wolff, who is in my mind, one of the leading experts on the Epstein case.

In our report we included a url to a video interview with him which I found fascinating and inclusive of facts that billionaire TV News has conveniently managed to keep omitting from their narratives, like that Trump was allegedly an FBI informant on more than one occasion - including rumored to have been the informant who turned in Epstein to the FBI in a pre-emptive strike on Epstein, as Epstein was said to be considering turning in Trump for laundering Russian oligarch cash through his real estate transactions.

https://www.gothambuzz.nyc/article/586/in-nearly-four-years-has-eric-adams-done-anything-to-rein-in-landlord-harassment-amp-slumlord-millionaires

Conclusion - You're as Likely to see the Real Epstein Files Involving Trump, as you are to see the JFK Assassination Files, Trump's Taxes, the DOGE $5,000 Dividend Check or the $2,000 Tariff Rebate Check

I admit I could be wrong. But Trump has a life long track record of dishonesty and deceit. I believe he will continue in that vein until the day he dies, because, as the old saying goes, a skunk doesn't change stripes. This may be something that TV News people are either too young, too handsome or pretty, or too urban yokel to understand.

Addendum. What Puzzles Me?

What puzzles me, is how so many Americans seem unable to recognize a genuine con man when they see one. Worse, they don't get it, even after they are given ample opportunity to do so. Of course, for those who rely on network TV News it's even more difficult, because so many of the TV Newspeople act more like amateur celebrities, than like anything having to do with real journalism.

Let's Briefly Review. Just during his Presidencies. Russia hoax [Senate majority said credible], Epstein Files hoax [seems very credible], Trump is a fraud hoax [proven in court], drain the swap and see the free jumbo jet donation to Trump Library from Qatar, crooked Hillary but no crooked Don whose company was fined for laundering Russian money via Trump Casino, lying Ted Cruz but no lying Don to whom the Washington Post attributed 30,573 false or misleading statements in his first term [and yet TV News broadcasts him making more of the same incorrect statements all of the time without corrrecting them which is one reason they have become so disinformational to the American public], the Donald is a compulsive liar who lies again and again and again, says stop the steal and yet asks the Georgia Secretary of State to essentially create 11,000 votes so he can win that state in 2020, as well as numerous other vote shenanigans including false elector slate(s) and helping instigate the Insurrection on January 6th, rigging the system with gerry manders in Texas [Courts as of this post have declared invalid] and Missouri, but thankfully rebuffed in Indiana, which is a Republican state, and home to former VP 'Hang' Mike Pence, drain the swamp and yet via his son Eric cashes in on the billionaire crypto swamp, drain the swamp and you'll find ballroom donations by billionaire oligarchs with hundreds of millions in government contracts, drain the swamp and you'll find Trump organization real estate deals with Saudi Arabia done in tandem with U.S. military technology transfers which experts think compromise this nation's advantage vis-a-vis the Chinese, claims witch hunts yet hard to know which witch hunt is he talking about like his DOJ going after his former NSA John Bolton, his former FBI James Comey and NYS AG Letitia James or some other, in 2015 / 2016 tells us he'll release his taxes to the public as soon as he's done being audited [the audits ended long ago and we still haven't seen them], and of course all the fake news about him. Or is the news real, but he is 'the enemy within', who just happens to be a fake president?

Sadly the nation voted in Trump's favor in 2024. To me, democratic elections have seldom or never been choices of who I want, so much as choices of who I don't want. I believe Trump won largely because too many voters rely on what has become disinformational TV News, which has been miserably and increasingly failing the American public for a long while [decades] now. Trump also won because of the quarter billion in campaign spending by billionaire Elon Musk, in the last couple of months leading up to the election in the swing states. This spending got out the vote and shifted the 2024 election in Trump's favor.

Thankfully we get to decide again in 2026, and again in 2028. For my part I wonder how long it will take voters to realize that paying attention - aka being woke - just like being educated - isn't a bad thing, but in fact a good thing. Thomas Jefferson said, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be." Please don't ignore that TV News can be very disinformational. And that the best, most reliable and most robust information source is the web. Here's a link to a section we started to help folks navigate their way toward trustworthy reliable sources on the web. We started it in July and I need to update it at some point because I've learned a bit more since then.

https://www.gothambuzz.nyc/article/580/nyc-billionaire-press-billionaire-tv-news-nyc