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Bongino on Epstein

That title sounds gross lol

I will talk about this in greater detail during today’s show.

Goodwill, credibility and integrity are invaluable intangible assets that take years to develop. Not everyone is capable of developing them, because not everyone has character.

@dbongino has deservedly earned his goodwill, credibility, and integrity through years of life experience, incredible insight, and thoughtful analysis. One does not get to disregard all of that because you might disagree - even vehemently - with him on a specific issue.

We heard what he had to say about Epstein.

He says he believes Epstein killed himself.

I vehemently disagree with this statement, specifically because even if Epstein did “kill himself” literally - with the extra linens that were inexplicably provided to him, after the cell cameras malfunctioned, and the security guards slept - though he may have “killed himself” in the literal semantical sense, it is inaccurate in the material sense.

It was an inside job to tie up loose ends.

But Bongino says he believes Epstein killed himself.

He is either right or wrong.

If he is right, OK. If he is wrong it, so be it. People are entitled to be wrong from time to time. Absolutely nobody is perfect or infallible on every issue.

The bigger issue is whether or not he sincerely believes Epstein killed himself, or if he doesn’t believe it but is saying it for other as-of-yet unknown reasons,m.

There could be a number of reasons for this, some tactical, others sinister.

But with the goodwill he has developed over years, sacrificing it all to serve country, the fair thing would be to presume there is a good reason for which he might say this even if he doesn’t truly sincerely believe it.

And for that, we will need to wait.

If it were anyone from the Biden regime or MSM trying to convince me Epstein actually killed himself, I would laugh them out of the room.

I still don’t believe it, even coming from Dan. But he deserves the benefit of the doubt until definitive proof to the contrary.

My humble two cents that absolutely no one asked for.

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A miracle… And his name is Lucky!

This was our most recent experience with the chicks.

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Wainwright Alberta military disaster

I listened to that whole press conference. This section is so irritating to listen to.

It’s obvious the government prioritizes DEI over competence.

And now these incompetent buffoons are going to keep themselves employed for the next year, investigating how this occurred under their negligent to watch.

After three minutes of verbal diarrhea, she finally mentions that the fire was a pre-existing fire that they for some reason could not put out.

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Abdul El-Sayed

Remember that video we played earlier this week, with "Tommy" at the Town Hall. Abdul had a lot easier time bullying Tommy than he did with Bret Baier when asked the same question.

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February 17, 2024
Appearance on Richard Syrette

I did a quick hit on Richard Syrette yesterday. Gotta keep Canadians apprised of the U.S. madness.

Appearance on Richard Syrette
The Barnes Brief, Podcast Format: Monday, July 17, 2023

Closing Argument: Birthright citizenship is deeply American, and wholly Constitutional.

The Barnes Brief, Podcast Format: Monday, July 17, 2023
Declaration of Independence

Audio podcast style.

Declaration of Independence
Board Poll: Saturday Movie

A 3way tie. Pick your favorite.

Saturday Night Movie: Halloween Themed

Identify your favorite Halloween film in the replies, and the one with the most likes will be the choice for tonight.

Good Good evening, from the Close Enough Corral. 😁

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The Barnes Brief: Weekend of October 24, 2026
I. THE INTRODUCTION
 

Special Notices

 
A. Art of the Day 
  • I love globes and maps, especially those with a vintage flavor or ancient maps of how we perceived the world in the past, to show quickly the world can change, how connected so many part of the world can be, the ever present reality of geography in history and contemporary geopolitics, continuing to shape the world we inhabit and how rapidly it we can shift. 
 
B. Wisdom of the Day
  • “Each betrayal begins first with trust.” Martin Luther. 

C. Appearances & Publications
 
 
D. Daily Picks
 
E. *Bonus: Board Post of the Day
 
II. THE EVIDENCE: BARNES LIBRARY
 
A. Food & Medicine
 
B. Economics
 
C. Politics
 
D. Geopolitics
 
E. Law
 
III. HOMEWORK: Ten of the Top Cases for Sunday Show
 
  1. ICE Detentions. https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28830924/sosnava.pdf
  2. ICE & Elections. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/california-nurses-vs-mullin-preliminary-injunction.pdf
  3. ID & Elections. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/scanlan-v-coalition-open-democracy-order-scotus.pdf
  4. DOJ sues Alaska over Senate race. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.akd.80263/gov.uscourts.akd.80263.1.0.pdf
  5. Bias rejected in Italy trial. https://courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/berlusconi-v-italy-echr-2026-judgment.pdf
  6. Tommy Robinson trial. https://courthousenews.com/british-far-right-activist-defends-messages-to-journalists-in-harassment-trial/
  7. DEI reversal cites AI judges. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/fifth-circuit-mississippi-dei-injunction-reversed.pdf
  8. 2A win in NY. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/buffalo-fed-body-armor-ruling.pdf
  9. Instacart discrimination. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/civil-rights-division-and-equal-employment-opportunity-commission-secure-5000000-joint
  10. 2A protects switchblades. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca5.225116/gov.uscourts.ca5.225116.136.1.pdf
 
IV. CLOSING ARGUMENT: Classes in the Constitution — Presidential & Vice Presidential Replacements
 
  • Section 4 of Article II the Constitution provides the President “shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” The House gets to be the sole judge of what constitutes a "high crime and misdemeanor" for impeachment while the Senate gets to be the sole judge of what facts constitute "a high crime and misdemeanor." 
  • Clause 5 of Section 2 of Article I vests the power of Impeachment solely to the House of Representatives. Given no specific requirement as to support to impeach, the majority vote default rule presides historically.
  • Clause 6 of Section 3 of Article I vests the power to try impeachments solely in the Senate, requiring "Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present." This means Senators who absent themselves from the Chamber may be excluded potentially from the baseline required to reach two-thirds. 
  • Clause 6 of Section 1 of Article II provides that the Vice President obtains the powers of the President — “all executive powers of the federal government — “in case of” either “removal, death, resignation or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said Office.”
  • In the instance both are removed, resigned, die, or are unable to discharge the duties, then Congress may legislate what Officer shall then act as President. The Presidential Succession Act of 1947 provides that the Speaker of the House becomes the officer who becomes President in case of Presidential and Vice Presidential absence, followed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and then the cabinet in priority of when that cabinet office was first established. In that last instance, the Secretary of State is first, the Secretary of Treasury second, and the Secretary of Defense third.
  • The Twenthy Fifth Amednment slightly amends that process, still proving the succession protocols. In the case of removal, or death or resignation, “the Vice President shall become President.” Replacement of the Vice President requires Presidential nomination and “confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.” 

 

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The Barnes Brief: Friday, October 16, 2026
I. THE INTRODUCTION
 

Special Notices

 
A. Art of the Day 
  • The old fold-down wooden desk, handcrafted by deliberate care, the little boxes to store letters and notes, the shelf above to carry papers and books, the firm backed, four quared chair with comforting armrests, above the wooden floor and near the open window, the neighboring painting on the wall, that could sit today just as it had centuries ago, taking the work of the mind back to the place our forefathers enjoyed the same. 
 
B. Wisdom of the Day
  • America is “the champion and vindicator only of her own”, a perfect articulation of America First.  John Quincy Adams. 

C. Appearances & Publications
 
 
D. Daily Picks
 
E. *Bonus: Board Post of the Day
 
II. THE EVIDENCE: BARNES LIBRARY
 
A. Food & Medicine
 
B. Economics
 
C. Politics
 
D. Geopolitics
 
E. Law
 
III. HOMEWORK: Ten Top Cases for Sunday Show
 
  1. Ex-agents sue Patel. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/fbi-agents-sue-patel-over-mar-a-lao-tied-firings.pdf
  2. Court allows non-resident voting. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/rnc-v-evnen-opinion-nebraska-supreme-court.pdf
  3. Social media limits approved. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/netchoice-v-attny-gen-georgia-eleventh-circuit.pdf
  4. California tries to stop ICE arrests. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/california-vs-ice-complaint.pdf
  5. Trans bathrooms & federal funds. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/fairfax-county-school-board-v-mcmahon-ruling.pdf
  6. Court allows sanctuary for illegals in NYC. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/sanctuary-city-dismissed-nyc-eastern-district-new-york.pdf
  7. Looted paintings. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/norton-simon-vs-jewish-federation-complaint.pdf
  8. Court demands lottery for immigrants. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/redeagle-v-rubio-ruling-101426.pdf
  9. California can’t regulate Feds. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/ninth-ciruit-no-vigilantes-act.pdf
  10. Scotus: Privacy suit. https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/10/court-appears-likely-to-allow-internet-suit-based-on-decades-old-video-privacy-law-to-go-forward/
 
IV. CLOSING ARGUMENT: Classes in the Constitution, Reminders from our Founding Fathers on Foreign Entanglements
 
Two founding documents of the founding generation’s approach to foreign entanglments consist of President Washington’s Farewell Address and John Quincy Adams July 4th speech to the House of Representatives in 1821. 
 
Cousin Adams address “on foreign policy” summarized America’s approach to foreign conflicts, by starting with America’s founding rejection of the politics of imperial empire, denouncing Britian’s “portentious system of despotism” with “oppressions of power” governed bby an appetite for “conquest” against the “claims of right” of self-governance. In such an imperial worldview “man had no rights”, where “neither the body nore the soul of the individual was his own” subjecting the people to the “impentarable gloom of this intellectual darkness, and the deep degradation of this servitude” which defined the “British nation” under its imperial mask. These imperial ambitions inflected “the delusions of all Europe” degrading the societies occupied by an intellectually and morally robust people. It was in rejection of these very ideas of empire and presumptions of imperial rule that guided the American revolution. 
 
This animating spirit requires America “respect the indpendence of other nations”, must “abstain from interference in the concerns of others, even when the conflict has been for principes to which America clings.” America “well knows that by enlisting under other banners than her own, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrictation, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition, which the assume the colors and usrup the standard of freedom” changing her “from liberty to force” creating the hated British “Imperial Diadem, flashing in falkse and tarnished lustre the murky radiance of dominion and power” to become the “distatress of the world” and no longer “the ruler of her own Revolutartionary spirit.” 
 
America is “the champion and vindicator only of her own”, a perfect articulation of America First.  That is why America “does not go aborad searching for monsters to destroy.” America’s “glory is not dominion, but liberty.” 
 
Washington warned in his founding Farewell Address: “the nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to it animosity or to its affection.” Washington discouraged any political connections beyond economic trade with nations of the world due to the likely subsuming of a foreign nation’s cause as our own, their antipathies or adversaries as our own, substituting a foreign nation for our own in decision making. Thus the “true policy” of our founders was “to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.” 
 
These principles — avoiding the trap of imperial logic, respecting each nation’s own sovereign path, and escaping the entanglements of foreign conflicts — animated the founders. Only when we abandon these precepts and principles do we lose our way. The first promoters of America First were our founders themselves. 

 

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The Barnes Brief: Friday, October 2, 2026
. THE INTRODUCTION
 

Special Notices

 
A. Art of the Day 
  • Another artistic expression of my own self-impression, the contemplative thought of looking out into the world through the oversized window amidst the shadows of dark and light, in between them both, uncovering and discovering along the way, a singular, solo figure in the space empty of objects but full of opportunities, sparse in materials but rich in ideas, waiting to be realized. 
 
B. Wisdom of the Day
  • "He who sacrifices a right for a perceived benefit trades a mountain for a mirage.” Political proverb. 

C. Appearances & Publications
 
 
D. Daily Picks
 
E. *Bonus: Board Post of the Day
 
II. THE EVIDENCE: BARNES LIBRARY
 
A. Food & Medicine
 
B. Economics
 
C. Politics
 
D. Geopolitics
 
E. Law

 

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