Newsmax guest says Steve Bannon “was staying BFFs with Jeffrey Epstein up until the very end”
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From the February 2, 2026, edition of Newsmax's Chris Plante: The Right Squad
JASON NICHOLS (GUEST): Well, so there are some issues. For example, the Meidas Touch podcast, they actually spoke to a woman who said that they didn't release everything because she made a report to the FBI, and it was not included in the 3 million documents. Trump was also mentioned a thousand times in those -- in the 3 million documents and there are some horrific things that he is accused of. I don't believe there's any evidence to corroborate it that I've seen thus far. But he's certainly accused of some really horrific things. Peter Thiel is another one that you're forgetting is also in those documents. But when we say --
MATTHEW FOLDI (GUEST): I don't think Peter Thiel is into young women.
NICHOLS: When Chris makes the comment that this has been litigated over and over again, none of it's been litigated. That's the point, is, none of these people have been held to account for the, you know, what's happened to maybe dozens, thousands of women. That's part of the reason why this comes out. And if it's Bill Clinton who has asked for all of these documents to be released -- like whether it's Bill Clinton or Donald Trump or whomever, they all need to be held accountable.
FOLDI: I will say, if it's a Meidas Touch, you can rest assured you can't believe it --
MERCEDES SCHLAPP (GUEST): Which is why, Foldi --
FOLDI: Mercy. You dealt with Michael Wolff in the first Trump admin. What do you make of Trump invoking that villain of your past?
SCHLAPP Well, I mean, it's all for him -- it's all about the gossip, right? And it's a lot of these sources close to the White House. In a lot of cases, it's all to create a false narrative or a negative narrative of Donald Trump. But what I'd like to see, is I'd like to see Bill Clinton at a hearing in Congress to answer a lot of these questions. And I think the DOJ is making the right step of saying, hey, come on in. You're invited to come read any of the unredacted materials regarding the Epstein files. And I think the Democrats are just keep stepping into this.
TIANA LOWE DOESCHER (GUEST): I mean --
FOLDI: If past is prologue, Tiana, we're going to be discussing this next Groundhog Day as well. Will anything have -- will we learned anything new in the next year about this?
DOESCHER: No, because no one wants to admit the unpopular thing to say is, in terms of like the tiers of badness of associating with Epstein, you have Steve Bannon who was staying BFFs with Jeffrey Epstein up until the very end versus both Trump and Clinton, there is no evidence that they hung out with Jeffrey Epstein after 2008 when it was known that he was soliciting prostitution from a minor, which is another word for rape.