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Simon. President Trump is- So this is from the weekend show Up First, but I have it down here as The First And the clip, there's three clips here which has a punchline. The first NPR Trump in Scotland hit piece. In Scotland the home country of his late mother President Trump will be playing golf promoting the golf resorts he owns there and meeting with British and European leaders but questions about other things have followed him there. Gaza at the Federal Reserve His dead former friend, the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Wow! And there are protests... Wow his dead former friend wow uh is that good?

That is good. His dead former friend, the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein And there are protesters! And Pierce Lauren Frayer is at a demonstration in Edinburgh joins us from there. Lauren thanks for being with us Thanks for having me Scott What kind of welcome is the president receiving in Scotland? Well I'm outside the US consulate in Edinburgh where several hundred people gathered today There are Scottish bagpipers one of them is holding a sign that says At least this bag of hot air serves a purpose There are Palestinian flags over the crowd. I also see a sign that says Scotland is already great, a reference to making anything great again. Protest organizers here call this a festival of resistance. Here's protester Niamh Convin-Smith. Why on earth is this convicted

fifth People here say they're motivated by Trump's climate policy. In fact, some climate protesters actually abseiled belayed themselves on ropes down off a bridge here last night Others say they're protesting US policy in the Middle East Many Scots are also angry at the cost to taxpayers of Trump's visit here and there are even a few Jeffrey Epstein posters in the mix here Yeah Some of the headlines were Convicted Felon Visits Scotland

Oh those British tabloids. It's unbelievable, this is the kind of hit piece it's not news at all it's just a hit piece and it gets worse but it doesn't get to the third clip which is their real killer showing that they're there just they can't even do a good report this is the first NPR Trump in Scotland too. A topic that the president might have hoped to leave on his side of the Atlantic I should think But it's one of the things that the traveling press asked him about moments after Air Force One touched down here last night. Trump denied ever being briefed that his name might be in the Epstein files, he said he has the power to pardon Epstein's ex Ghislaine Maxwell who is in prison but that he hasn't thought about doing that and he said if you're gonna talk about Epstein

Talk about all of his friends, talk about the hedge fund guys that were with him all the time. Don't talk about Trump." So Trump was dodging questions about Epstein here but it's not just the media talking about this Scottish protesters stealthily put up a sign outside one of Trump's golf resorts here this week that says quote twinned with Epsteen Island The president does have deep family ties to Scotland as we mentioned His late mother was born and raised there Do Scots like to consider him a native son? Yeah, I mean his mother was born on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides Islands. A place that Trump wants on a visit called Serious Scotland and her first language was actually Gaelic. Trump has long owned golf resorts here so Scots have been well acquainted with him for a long time even before he became president. Trump says he loves Scotland but he's also

He's teamed up, he only works on the weekends makes $400,000 plus a year. That really bothers you doesn't it? We only work two days a week we just don't make his kind of money but you know we have the same basic deal. No everybody at NPR makes 400 thousand a year and so they team him up with Alicia that would the black woman who just this creature And it must, I think they did it to torture him to be honest about it because he's so you know kind of... Old school broadcaster, but let's listen to this. Here is the classic opening. President Trump is in Scotland But it can't escape questions about Jeffrey Epstein You're making a very big thing over something that's not a big thing I'm Aisha Roscoe And I am Scott Simon and this up first from NPR News Trump and his allies call it Alligator Alcatraz The immigration detention center in Florida Everglades Now people being held there say guards are abusive That chicken sauce would have gone

Yeah, well everyone you know a couple people got to go to Scotland so yeah that's it's good I guess. They...yeah. I was looking at what is Fox and Jackie Heinrich I think her name and it looks like a completely different person because when she's in the studio or into in the country she's cutting professional makeup And then she has to guess when you're on the Trump trip, they didn't send a makeup artist with her. And it's just like is this the same woman? Well yeah makeup can do a lot well since since NPR could not stop bringing up Epstein might as well just play the latest which we all pretty much know about by now This morning President Trump is calling the Jeffrey Epstein controversy a scam accusing Democrats of using unreleased court records to distract from his political success

And she answered every one of them. She never just said, I'm not gonna answer and never declined. Oh! And she answered them all truthfully! Truthfully? Oh Joe you answered every question! Truthfully... Yeah but there was another report uh.... President Trump is spending the weekend at his golf resort in Scotland where he will celebrate the opening of a new golf course. Next week, he will hold meetings on trade with European leaders The trip comes as here at home Trump continues to face questions about Jeff Epstein People should really focus on how well the country's doing or they should focus on the fact that Barack Hussein Obama led a coup

In Florida, Deputy Attorney General Tom Blanche a former Trump criminal defense lawyer has now conducted two closed-door meetings with Epstein's co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell in an effort to quiet criticisms the administration is blocking access to... How does that even...? Quell criticism. I think it only riles it up for two quiet criticisms The administration is blocking access to the Epstein files Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison term defense attorney David Marcus said she is cooperating freely We haven't asked her anything This is not a situation where we're asking anything in return for For testimony or anything like that yet the media have raised questions Liz back and replay that again

All of these social networks are now just completely flooded by intelligence agencies massaging a narrative. And it doesn't mean that they're doing it for the benefit of the administration, they're doing it for the benefit of whatever their messaging is nothing quite sums it up. And why wouldn't you do that? Exactly and nothing quite sums it up as the Harvard cyber speech from President Obama where he was clearly projecting, and in hindsight like wow this is really taking place right now the Epstein conversation's a part of it, the Mossad Israel all of this is a part of it. In Myanmar

You know, you should have someone watching you when you post on X. Which one? What post got ya? The one where you said WHO IS THIS WOMAN NEXT TO TRUMP?! HOW COME SHE'S NEVER MENTIONED! I didn't do that... Yes you did! ...I said this picture shows up a lot who is this woman next to Trump and i wanted somebody to tell me Oh okay It's clearly Melania It doesn't look anything like her No it's totally Melania It doesn't look anything like her and it has to be pre-2004. He wasn't dating her then! I don't know how long he's been dating... Well, that doesn't mean that... What do you mean? Has to be pre 2004 Because he broke up with Epstein as a note. It is documented in 2004. You never saw him again Or spoke to him after 2004 That was the date. You got get all the clips you want When did he start dating Melania

So that your timeline well, maybe you're right. Maybe I'm completely wrong and she's changed her look which wouldn't surprise She's 25 years older or 20 years older than the picture Marla Mabel got divorced in 1999 there There you go but because he was dating with Melania in 98 hello So the timeline works. Okay, so you got me... Well now I know! I wonder who this picture of this woman was? It's Melania! It's so obvious! Okay well now I didn't know that's why i asked that's what I use Twitter for I use it for a point of information No! No! I see this picture keeps showing up over and over and over again and nobody identifies And they say here's Trump with Epstein and Epstein is with Gislaine There's no mention to the woman

I mean, he did lower the interest rates just before Paris got out of the blue. He said well let's lower it now and make the economy kind of perk up a bit and it did and then hasn't done anything since And he was hired by Trump to begin with. I don't know what the thing is going on there, it could have been just the bad advice Trump received for the first term. He put people in there one person after another that were just bad and yeah Right on cue, which is exactly what I would have done if i had the Epstein scandal. I'd jack everything up and say hey you know what now we got everybody believing that I got Colbert fired

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