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Bob says, “I’m in the Epstein files,” because a 2013 Huffington Post article was blind-cc’d to Jeffrey Epstein.
1. The Bob Cesca Show centers on the March 4, 2026 State of the Union, with Tuesday’s episode framed around Trump, the 2026 midterms, and a possible Patreon live stream. 2. Bob Seska is the host, Jody Hamilton and David Ferguson are the on-air regulars, and Mary Trump is mentioned as a Trek Politics conversation partner because the episode keeps returning to Trump-era politics and media behavior. 3. The episode is for tracking what Trump, Epstein, and Republican power look like when discussed through news, personal archives, and live commentary. 4. Bob says more than a dozen Epstein survivors will attend the State of the Union, and he notes that some Democrats will attend while others will not. 5. The hosts say the speech will be long, and Bob argues that Trump may be using one of his last chances to speak to the entire country at once. 6. Bob announces a possible Patreon watch-along for the speech, with the condition that listeners be subscribers at patreon.com/slash Bob Seska Show. 7. Bob reveals he searched his own name in the DOJ Epstein files and found himself because a Greg Brown newsletter from May 19, 2013 blind-cc’d Jeffrey Epstein. 8. That newsletter included Bob’s Huffington Post article, “10 examples of Bush and the Republicans using government power to target critics,” and Bob reads the headline aloud. 9. Bob lists items from the article, including Planned Parenthood, ACORN, voter ID laws, voter purges, the firing of U.S. attorneys, and Bush-era actions involving Greenpeace and the NAACP. 10. Bob argues that those examples show Trump as a continuation of a decades-long Republican project rather than an aberration. 11. The episode turns to NPR’s report that the Justice Department withheld or removed Epstein files related to Trump and a woman who accused him of sexual abuse as a minor. 12. Bob says the missing material includes more than 50 pages of FBI interviews and notes from conversations with the accuser. 13. He also says some hidden files relate to a separate woman who was a key witness in Ghislaine Maxwell’s prosecution. 14. Bob calls the handling of the material a cover-up and says the Justice Department declined to explain the specific missing files on the record. 15. Bob and the hosts discuss Ryan Goodman’s finding that the FBI told the New York Police Department to stand down on an Epstein investigation five days after Epstein’s arrest. 16. Bob connects that instruction to the NYPD SVU and to the broader claim that Trump’s first administration was already involved in shielding Epstein-related scrutiny. 17. The episode’s tone shifts into angry, improvised group banter, with Bob, Jody Hamilton, and David Ferguson interrupting each other and joking while moving between hard-news items. 18. The format blends news roundup, personal anecdote, and riff-heavy conversation, with Bob often pausing to underline why a document, email, or court filing matters. 19. Listeners following Trump, Epstein, GOP hypocrisy, and daily political news will get the most from it. 20. Listeners wanting a tight, non-ranting interview or a single-topic deep dive may skip it.
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