Name: Kevin O'Leary: Epstein focus is 'poop on a stick'
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What they care about, look at the American economy right now.

A lot of people had a lot of mistrust on the tariff issue.

Every country on earth wants to cut a deal with America.

The average person at the kitchen table is not worrying about Epstein.

They want to provide for their family, and they are.

Let me just say, Jerome Powell just announced that he's going to hold off on cutting interest rates again because of the tariffs.

And we've already started to see the inflationary pressures.

We have a lot more on the economy later in the show.

But just one thing that you said, Kevin, that I think is.

I think on the one hand, I think you're right that it's kind of like a niche interest here, this Epstein thing.

But the niche is Trump's base, people in Trump's base.

But secondly, on the broader picture of what is happening in the country and how do Americans feel about it, CBS YouGov poll asked, how do you think things are going here in this country?

That's not exactly a great indictment of the Trump economy.

And then on top of that, to what I was saying earlier, on the Epstein files, this is what Republicans want. 83% want the files released.

So I think both of those things is part of why Trump is having a hard time right now.

And the base right now is, they're unsteady.

I don't understand why he hasn't released the files.

As he said, it's one of the reasons I believe that they released today the files on Martin Luther King Jr.

Because now he's able to show, hey, look, I told you I was going to release the MLK file, the JFK file, and also the Epstein file.

Personally, I don't think people are going to find Donald in that file as much as they think that they're going to.

That's just my personal opinion, kind of knowing him for a decade and a half.

I'm sick and tired of all of the conspiracy theories that are popping up.

If you are a detractor, yeah, he's guilty of something.

If you are a supporter, he didn't do anything.

How about just put the documents in front of the American people, release it, and let us then examine the documents, as we call it in law, documentary evidence.

It'll speak for itself instead of listening to all the nonsense.

I would love for them to release the files.

However, I care deeply about it because I'm not going to buy this argument that these young girls were raped by what, by what, did they rape themselves?

No, they got raped by people who are in powerful positions.

And I want to know how many of those individuals are currently serving in our government in some role or the other.

The average American awake for 18 hours a day, how many minutes do you think they spend worrying about this stuff?

Maybe they were raped, maybe they weren't.

This is not what American families give a damn about.

Just to be clear, we do know that there were victims, so that's not speculative.

And the thing is, people can compartmentalize, right?

And the reason why people care about this a lot, not just because of the very real Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking and the crimes that were committed, it is the fact that Donald Trump himself spent years, him and his allies, promised their base, we are going to deliver the Epstein client list that's going to take down all of your Democratic enemies.  Well, yes, bring it, Donald, please.

But other people do, including people like me who want justice, and I want to know how many of those people are in our government.

The poll seems to show something's different than that.

I mean, look, on the MLK files, I mean, it's interesting because the family did not want this released in this way.

And Bernice King, Dr. King's daughter, posted this on X just a little while ago.

Now do the Epstein files, as she says, with a photo of her father.

Because Trump's argument on the Epstein files is that, oh, you know, people might get hurt by what's in this.

He didn't seem to be that concerned about that when it came to the MLK files.

No, but Abby, they did warn the family that these things are coming down the pipeline and it's gonna be released tomorrow.

She is a Trump supporter, but she was pure, like, yeah, transparency all day long, let's go.

So, you know, so maybe the family split on this idea that these files are gonna get released.

Ultimately, I do want to know, you know, who killed, or, well, we know who killed him.

Listen, I'm not suggesting that it should remain secret forever because there was a date by which this would be released, but the timing of this very moment, I think her implication here is that it is being used as a tool to distract.

Everything in politics is used as a tool.

I mean, we have to be, for example, they turn around and they show this photo of Donald Trump's birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein.

Again, if you are a Trump supporter, saying, what does it mean?

It has nothing to do with, it's not, there's no evidence, there's no criminality.

If you're a detractor, yeah, this just goes and it shows proof positive that Donald Trump was somehow involved in this thing.

You know, I keep saying, and people get angry at me, oh, why are you taking a knee?

I'm stating a fact that in the decade and a half that I was by the man's side, I never saw him doodle once.

There are a lot of images that Donald Trump drew and auctioned.

None of those were drawn by him, by the way.

All right, so that's some news here that he auctioned off photos that he signed as his images that he did not draw.

Worst case scenario, all this stuff's true.