Trump’s Missing Files

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FBI interview records describe Epstein bringing a 13-year-old girl to Trump's Mar-a-Lago and telling Trump 'this is a good one, huh' — a document later removed from the DOJ public database.

Dana Goldberg is filling in while Alison Gill is out, and she starts by thanking listeners for sticking around and sending kind notes. Then the news gets busy. A federal grand jury in D.C. unanimously rejected an attempt to indict six lawmakers who told military and intelligence personnel not to follow unlawful orders. Epstein is back in the middle of things, too. Goldberg says Jeffrey Epstein was the subject of a DEA probe, and that the Justice Department has withheld and removed more Epstein files tied to Donald Trump. Texas is no calmer. Rep. Tony Gonzalez is under pressure over affair allegations as a March 3 primary approaches, while Goldberg says plainly that Brandon Herrera would be worse. She still sees a chance there. If organizers do the work in Texas, she argues, it may not matter which Republican runs in that seat, because she thinks it can flip blue. Then the episode moves northeast. Citing the Boston Globe, Goldberg walks through the failed plan to turn a Merrimack, New Hampshire warehouse into an immigration detention facility. The details are bleak: a 324,000 square foot site meant for 400 to 600 detainees, folded into a $38 billion detention initiative. DHS documents make it bigger than one warehouse. Goldberg says Merrimack would have been part of a proposed national network built to incarcerate more than 92,000 people. She does not buy the official explanation. When the governor points to talks with Kristi Noem, Goldberg credits months of local protest and public pressure instead. Her read is simple: keep pushing, because organized resistance may have stopped at least one piece of the mass deportation plan. The episode closes with the show's usual take-care ritual, Goldberg's own loose signoff, and credits for the Daily Beans team and MSW Media.

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A pointed Daily Beans episode where national accountability fights meet a concrete local win over an ICE detention plan in New Hampshire.

Trump's Missing Files moves through a packed day of legal and political pressure: a D.C. grand jury rejecting an attempt to indict six lawmakers, renewed questions over Epstein files tied to Donald Trump, Rep.

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You want the Epstein-file mess, the Merrimack ICE fight, and the Tony Gonzalez pressure story in one clean, fast pass.

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