Good evening, I’m British Chris, and this is Raw America.
Tonight, we’ve got four stories that expose the rot at the heart of Trump’s movement and show why Americans are finally saying “enough.” A newly released email proves Trump lied about cutting ties with Jeffrey Epstein. The “traditional values” movement implodes in a sex scandal involving papal blessings and workplace affairs. Two-thirds of Americans say Trump’s immigration enforcers have gone too far. And Trump’s billionaire friend is caught profiting from deporting Palestinians on his luxury jet.
The oligarch-controlled media will treat these as separate scandals. Raw America is here to show you they’re all symptoms of the same disease. If you value journalism that holds power accountable, please support our work. Subscribe, share, and consider becoming a supporter. We genuinely cannot do this without you.
Let’s start with the biggest lie.
Trump’s Epstein Problem Just Got Worse
A bombshell email released in the Justice Department’s Epstein Files destroys Trump’s carefully constructed timeline about his relationship with the convicted child sex trafficker.
On Christmas Day 2016—just weeks before Trump’s inauguration—Jeffrey Epstein bragged to Bill Gates’ advisor that he was or would be “in palm with all the trump boys. . = fun,” possibly alluding to January 4, 2017. The advisor’s response? “Have fun!!”
Remember Trump’s story? “I don’t think I’ve spoken to him in 15 years, I wasn’t a fan.” He claimed he cut ties in the early 2000s after Epstein recruited workers from Mar-a-Lago’s spa.
But this email from 2016—a month after winning the presidency—suggests Epstein was still close enough to the Trump family to say he’d spend Christmas or time directly around it with “all the trump boys.” Not one. All of them.
The White House’s response is telling: they’re calling Epstein “a known liar” while simultaneously claiming the allegation is false. Which is it? If he’s lying, why are you so defensive about a dead man’s claims?
What makes this particularly damning is the timing. This wasn’t decades ago when Trump could claim ignorance. This was 2016, when everyone knew exactly who Jeffrey Epstein was. Yet according to his own email, Epstein was celebrating Christmas with the Trump family just weeks before the inauguration.
The Traditional Values Scam Implodes
Speaking of hypocrisy, the “traditional values” movement that helped put Trump in power is eating itself alive over a sex scandal so absurd it reads like satire.
Far-right podcaster Elijah Schaffer—one of the biggest promoters of “trad” family values—has been exposed for allegedly having an affair with his employee Sarah Stock. The Bulwark reports that Sarah Stock converted to Catholicism and had her marriage blessed by Pope Leo himself.
Audio recordings suggest Schaffer plied Stock with alcohol and Benadryl before a sexual encounter that left her blacked out. This happened while Schaffer was married with two children and constantly lecturing other men about traditional marriage.
The timeline is particularly grotesque: Stock allegedly ended the affair when she got engaged, then flew to Rome to have Pope Leo bless her marriage. Meanwhile, Schaffer filed for divorce and had a public breakdown on his livestream, threatening violence against his wife and rambling about his “sexual proclivities.”
What’s revealing isn’t just the hypocrisy—it’s how the entire “trad” influencer ecosystem is built on performance rather than principle. As one conservative commentator put it: “The trad stuff is performative BS.”
These are the people who’ve spent years shaming others for not living up to impossible moral standards while privately engaging in exactly the behavior they condemn. It’s grift all the way down.
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Americans Reject Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
Here’s the most important story tonight: Americans are rejecting Trump’s policies in real time. A new NPR poll shows 65% of Americans say Immigration and Customs Enforcement has “gone too far”—an 11-point jump since last summer.
This shift is driven by two fatal shootings of U.S. citizens by federal agents in Minnesota, including a mother and a nurse. Neither victim fit Trump’s description of “hard criminals,” but that hasn’t stopped ICE from terrorizing communities across the country.
Trump’s overall approval has collapsed to 39%, with a staggering 51% strongly disapproving—the highest level of intense opposition since January 6, 2021. Even voters who supported him in 2024 are abandoning ship, particularly independents, Latinos, and young people.
The administration is clearly panicking. They’ve reassigned the ICE official in charge of Minnesota operations and drawn down 700 federal agents. Trump himself admitted they might need “a softer touch”—remarkable words from a man who promised mass deportations.
Luxury Jets, Palestinian Deportations, and Trumpworld Profits
But perhaps the most disturbing story reveals how Trump’s inner circle is literally profiting from human suffering. The Guardian discovered that ICE has been using a luxury private jet owned by Gil Dezer—a longtime Trump business partner and family friend—to deport Palestinians to the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Dezer, who’s built six Trump-branded towers in Miami and donated over $1.3 million to Trump’s campaigns, calls his Gulfstream his “little rocket ship.” ICE has been paying between $400,000 and $500,000 per flight to use it for deportations.
The details are horrific: Palestinians shackled at wrists and ankles on plush leather seats, flown across the world to be dumped “like animals” at West Bank checkpoints. One deportee, Maher Awad, lived in America for a decade and has never met his four-month-old son, born while he was in ICE detention.
Dezer attended Donald Trump Jr.’s birthday party and says Trump was at his wedding. This isn’t just policy—it’s personal enrichment through human trafficking, carried out by Trump’s closest allies.
The Pattern Is Clear
These stories aren’t separate scandals—they’re all part of the same corrupt ecosystem. Trump lies about cutting ties with child sex traffickers while allegedly celebrating Christmas with them. His movement’s moral leaders are exposed as frauds. His immigration crackdown is so brutal that two-thirds of Americans oppose it. And his billionaire friends are getting rich deporting people on luxury jets.
But here’s the hope: Americans are seeing through it. The polls don’t lie. The protests don’t lie. The resistance is real and it’s growing.
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I’m British Chris for Raw America. Thanks for watching.
Correction: This roundup has been updated for clarity. Epstein bragged that he was either spending Christmas or another day in January with “all the Trump boys.” Epstein’s brag took place on Christmas, 2016.
