The Stack: Epstein Files Firestorm and Political Theater in Congress
Fireworks erupted in Washington as Attorney General Pam Bondi testified before Congress amid renewed controversy over the Epstein Files. Democrats staged dramatic confrontations, including calls for public apologies to victims, while Republicans pushed back against what they viewed as political spectacle.
But beyond the viral clips and soundbites lies a serious constitutional question: What does justice actually require? Todd examines the tension between transparency and due process, the legal thresholds for prosecution, and the dangers of turning oversight hearings into campaign theater—especially in a midterm election year.
Are lawmakers genuinely seeking accountability for victims, or leveraging outrage for political advantage? Todd argues that justice must be rooted in evidence, not anger—and that both parties have incentives that complicate the truth.
In a moment defined by suspicion, redactions, and partisan drama, Americans deserve clarity—not chaos.
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📝 Transcript: Epstein Files Firestorm and Political Theater in Congress
The Todd Huff Show – February 13, 2026
Todd Huff: Yesterday, my friends, there were Fireworks in Washington, D.C. as we have come to expect. We're in the mist, as I've said many, many times for a long, long time. We're in the midst of a cold civil war. It is. I mean, the emotions are cranked all the way up. We've got. We've got a lot of things that we're fighting about. Plus there's a government shutdown. A partial government shutdown. It looks like the Department of Homeland Security, which. Listen, I'm not a fan of all these departments and everything, but there are legitimate responsibilities our government has in protecting the homeland. Whether there's an actual Department of Homeland Security or not, but the things that are happening within that. Within that department protecting the homeland. Are legitimate. Sometimes we're doing maybe things we shouldn't be doing and so forth as it pertains to certain things. But there's a lot of things that are happening in there that are absolutely the job of the government, and those apparently are going to be stopped here for at least a period of time.
Todd Huff: With the temporary government shutdown, which will begin tonight, depending upon when you're listening to my lovely voice here tonight. Friday night, the 13th, 11:59pm that looks to be where we're headed. When the clock strikes midnight. Yes, my friends, we know what happens. There will be a government shutdown unless something. Which, again, is not going to happen because the Senate and the House are both not even. Not even going to be there anyway. This is where we're headed. But there's fireworks of another variety that happened yesterday when Pam Bondi, attorney general here in the US Was called the Testify. And again. There was just a lot that I want to unpack and discuss here today. As it pertains to the Epstein files, the Department of Justice oversight from Congress over matters like this. That's what I want to talk about here today, my friends.
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Todd Huff: Okay, let's talk about the Jeffrey. Epstein controversy. The. There's. There's theories, there's conspiracy theories, there's all sorts of things surrounding this. This is an emotionally charged thing, and for good reason. For good reason. And I want to start by asking you. What do you think reasonable people want? What is the reasonable expectation and outcome? Of what has happened here. You know we want. Justice. But people in Congress know this, and they create spectacle to make it look like they're trying to pursue justice. But what they're trying to pursue is politics. I don't think. Listen, I don't want my side. Doing that, and we'll talk about that a little. I think we want evidence. I think we want people who have enough evidence against them to face the consequences of that, which would be a trial. They need to be presumed innocent and so forth.
Todd Huff: We don't just want people locked away. I don't think. For suspicion. I remember again, I was on a jury. I've shared this on here. You know this? I've told stories about this. It was. A pretty, pretty impactful thing for me to be a part of. There was a jury that I was on back eight years ago now, I believe. And it involved the death of. Of a little boy. It wasn't a murder trial. It was a conspiracy to commit murder trial, and it was. It was horrific. But one of the things the attorneys for the defendant said at the very beginning was that. He basically acknowledged, because he knew when it got time for evidence to be introduced to the jury, that we were going to see things. That painted his client in an absolutely horrible light.
Todd Huff: And during the questioning process, right? Both the prosecutor and the defendant are able to. Dismiss jurors that they think won't be. Beneficial to the outcome that they're seeking and so forth. But even during that process, the questions that the defendant, the defense attorney, I guess, was. Was asking, were questions to decide if we, the people on the jury, could be fair. You know what happens if you understand that the person on trial, this was the sort of questions that he. He was asking. Our juror pool. What happens if you find out that the charges that the man you are going to be hearing his case? If those involve children and some people. The guy next to me literally said, if someone is alleged to have harmed a child, I think they're guilty. No matter what. These aren't the things that people make up. Now, was he just saying that to get off the jury? Was he? Is that really what he believes? I don't know. But that's not good either, right? I mean, you. You want to be impartial. You want to say, listen, these things, these charges are terrible. Let's take a deep breath and let's actually spend our time not being angry. And just looking for someone to blame. Let's make sure that this person is the one who needs to be held accountable. And some people can't do that.
Todd Huff: So we want evidence. We don't want just suspicion. We definitely don't want the equivalent of modern day witch trials and so forth. Then you've got the fact, and I alluded to this off the top. You've got oversight from Congress versus political theater. Congress absolutely has oversight, and they can ask questions. They can request that the Department of Justice or other representatives of the executive branch come in and give an accounting of some of the things that are going on. And this is fair game. But political theater is. Is unfortunately the name of the game. In fact, if you watched any of that, Of that spectacle yesterday. You will know exactly what I'm talking about. It. At one point in the process, Representative Jayapal from Washington State, there were victims. Epstein victims were in that hearing room, and those are small rooms. When I was in D.C. i went to a couple of hearings, I guess. And they were in the room. And Representative J. Paul asked Pam, Bonnie, turn around, she says, Look at the victims behind you and apologize to them. Now, listen, this is not how legitimate oversight is done. This was done to elicit a reaction. Pam Bondi refused to turn around. Of course. There's pictures of this, and they're saying, look how heartless she is. But this is. This is political theater. This is manipulation. This is the intention of going out to try to score political points. And we. That's not what we want. Either side. Either side of this. And then, of course, we want transparency. Without violating the due process rights of others when it comes to releasing these files. Which. What does that even mean? I don't. I don't know. You know, I don't know what is going on here. There's a lot of questions.
Todd Huff: And you get things that are released and then they're heavily redacted. The law that Congress passed last year, I think it was basically called for these to be as transparent as possible. But the problem is there are other laws on the books. I mean, friends, this. You know, when a new law is passed, it doesn't just supersede anything else that's out there. Right. This is part of the reason we have courts to go back and interpret these things and say, look. I don't know how to. You know, sometimes the courts will say this Congress needs to address this because this is irreconcilable. This law is saying that, that this needs to be basically not redacted at all. But then there's another law that says if you're releasing these, you have to respect. You know, certain information and privacy and victims and even people who are. Potentially alleged. I mean, there might be reason. There might be a lot of reasons. A lot of laws and red tape. We want transparency. We don't want to. Simply because the crimes are heinous. To throw that aside, which, again, is an interesting thing to talk about right now. Because people are claiming that those who are deported civilly here in this country are having their due process rights taken away. They are not. It's a different process when you're not being charged criminally. That's the reason that they do it. It's administer if it's a civil. If they choose to enforce it civilly. It's not the same process. It's not the same burden of proof. You don't get a trial by jury trial and those sorts of things. If, if it's a. If it's a civil charge and you're not here, if you're not here legally and you can't prove it, the process is simply deportation. You have people crying that that that's somehow a violation of people's rights, when in reality it isn't. And then you've got people who want to see the alleged people here. Who committed these heinous acts. Of course I want justice, but I don't want to throw out the legal process, whatever it is, even the part of the process I think the stupid, which maybe there are some, I don't think constitutionally stupid. I mean, Some of the things that have happened. Over the course of time with legislation, maybe there's again conflicting or irreconcilable sorts of situations where one law says to release this, the other says you can't. What do you do? Right? And it's. It's. It's just a mess. So we want justice. We want there to be evidence. We want people to be held accountable. We want there to be oversight, even if our parties the one being overseen. That's the way that this works, and it has to work that way.
Todd Huff: And we want transparency and we want due process, but justice for the victims. To me is is paramount. And we want real accountability for anyone who knowingly participated in the. Evil and wicked things that were being done. Allegedly by jeffrey epstein. Ghislaine maxwell. And again. There's other people who are that they facilitated to engage in these illegal, evil, wicked acts, and we want accountability for those folks. For everyone. We want justice for the victims, transparency. Without destroying innocent people. And a clear explanation of what exists and what does not. And that's part of this as well. I know about a year ago, Pam Bondi had mentioned all this evidence they had that's sitting there on her desk, and there's. It's just not been smooth since that point in time. It hasn't been. And of course, that raises lots of questions. Why wasn't it smooth? Are they trying to protect somebody? Is there a legal reason? Is there something else going on here?
Todd Huff: You know, when we talked about the Epstein files or heard about the Epstein files, which we've heard about them for years, I think some people expected or had envisioned in their mind almost. You know, if it's a physical paper trail or a digital paper trail, there's folders with names of people. And then evidence. Pictures, videos, text message. Well, text messages, emails. Whatever that implicates each person. Some people thought that maybe Jeffrey Epstein had almost like a customer log. This person came in. They? He paid me and he got. You know, this is what happened. These are the names of the victims. I don't. Know that. That we've not seen bats. If it does exist. I don't know that it does. Exist, but that's what a lot of people had in mind. And so when that's not forthcoming or that's not being presented to the public, Then there's lots of questions about this, and I understand, understandably, so they need to answer these questions.
Todd Huff: What do they have? That, you know, they act as though they've released virtually everything. I guess. I don't know. But do they have more? Information, more evidence. Are there laws on the books that prevent them? From being released. How heavily redacted do these things have to be? Are they opening themselves up to a lawsuit? If there is a. If they release something and they don't have the evidence to charge somebody. What happens there? I don't. I don't know the answers to these questions. But it would be nice to have a clear explanation, and you can't have that when one side. Listen, you can make the case that Pam Bondi is trying to. You know, sweep whatever's left of this under the rug and just obstruct and all that. You can make the case? Certainly. You can also make the case. That the other side is trying to make a spectacle out of this.
Todd Huff: By the way, where were they? Where were they just a little over a year ago when their guy was in office? And there wasn't even a peep about this stuff. This stuff? The. The Epstein files have been. There have been. I mean. In the record for a long time in our government's control, whatever they were. Why wasn't there pressure then? Why does it only matter now? And you don't have to have much insight and wisdom to realize the reason for that is that they didn't want to hold the other administration accountable. They wanted to make a political spectacle over this. It. It's not real, the outrage that these leftist politicians have. I mean, most of them. I can't speak. Person by person, but it's less to me in my estimation. About the things I talked about off the top. It's less about justice to them. And it's more about political opportunity. It's more about imposing damage upon your political opponent. And that's the sad state of affairs that we're in.
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Todd Huff: My friends, I'm going to just play you a couple of things here. To give you a flavor. Of this hearing. These clips. By the way, you'll find. In our daily truth. Daily truth. Summary of the program, which goes out by email. There's more. Links to articles. Here we dig a little bit deeper, get into things sometimes that I can't talk about on the show for time purposes. You can sign up for that at toddheveshow. Com. It's totally free. And I hope that you do that. We're doing more stuff with the inner circle. My friend. Okay? Yeah, we'll get to that in a moment, my friends. One more thing.
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Todd Huff: All right. I referenced this clip a couple of times earlier. Representative J. Paul. Addressing pam. Bondi, wanting her to turn and to apologize to the victims. Which again, it's just the spectacle. This is not how adults behave. But this is. This gets applause by people on the left and. And candidly, sometimes things like this get applause from the right. I have got no problem. If a representative goes after someone who's being evasive and not answering questions. This happens all the time. This happens all the time. And, and people like Senator Kennedy, when this is in the Senate, do a great job of exposing it and holding people accountable. And I think the right, the right way. This is not. This is spectacle. What you're about to hear here. And not only that, it's. It's worth noting that, remember the main complaint against Pam Bondi? And Cash Patel and the administration here is that they haven't released the Epstein files. They've covered up something. Now, if you listen to what Representative J. Paul's saying, She's saying that they've released too much information that's harmed the victims further. Again. The purpose here? Is for her to inflict harm on Pam Bondi, on Republicans. Trying to hammer home the point that they've caused all this. They're not fit for office. Vote for us. In November. That's where this is headed. So here's Congresswoman Jaya Paul making her comments to Pam Bondi during her five minutes of questioning during the hearing yesterday.
Todd Huff: Attorney general bondi. You apologize to the survivors in your opening statement for what they went through at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein. Will you turn to them now and apologize for what your Department of Justice has put them through with the. UN Absolutely unacceptable release. Of the Epstein files and their information. So again, turn around and apologize. Right. She already admitted that she'd apologized to them. For what they went through, they should be. Apologized too. Pam Bonnie didn't do create the mess. And where were previous departments of justice on this? There's crickets. Why didn't Democrats listen? Why didn't they care about this in the past? They suddenly care about this again for obvious. For obvious reasons.
Todd Huff: There were again some other fireworks. Pam Bondi. This is a short clip of Pam Bonnie going after Representative Jamie Raskin, referencing his as many Congress members of Congress have a very incredible, very stellar record when it comes to stock trading. She made this comment. During her testimony. Ashley was being, you know, attacked by people like Raskin as well. The dow was over $50,000. I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader, as I hear. Raskin, the dow is over 50,000 right now. Yeah. She says you're a great stock trader. Why are you. Why are you laughing at what I'm saying here? You. I mean, you're benefiting from. From this again. This is just the spectacle that it's. That it's become. I don't. Again, I don't have problems with. With, you know, calling people out. Referencing some of the other shenanigans. You know, I. I both think there should be a certain amount of respect in the halls of Congress while at the same time. Not so much respect where we don't pretend that we see. What's really going on in Congress and some of these questions, as it's been said before, in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king, my friends. And we have people that are spiritually and. And politically and culturally blind, or they're doing intentionally, sometimes intentionally so. Blinded by their own ambitions, Personal. Personal enrichment, personal power, party preference. And what's the cost of that? The cost of that is that victims in this case are paying the price. Friends, I've got to go. I hope you have a wonderful weekend. We'll see you on Monday. SDG.
