FiveStack with Dean Blundell & Zev Shalev

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The Top 5 stories of the moment with Canada's #1 Shock Jock Dean Blundell and Former CBS News executive producer Zev Shalev. www.narativ.org

  1. Iran’s New Supreme Leader, Russia and China Join the War, Western Alliance Shatters, Oil Crisis Deepens, and Trump Holds America Hostage With the SAVE Act

    23H AGO

    Iran’s New Supreme Leader, Russia and China Join the War, Western Alliance Shatters, Oil Crisis Deepens, and Trump Holds America Hostage With the SAVE Act

    5️⃣ Khamenei’s Son Takes Power Iran’s Assembly of Experts, 88 clerics in total, did not hesitate for a single minute in naming Mustafa Khamenei, 56, as the country’s new Supreme Leader — one week after a joint U.S.-Israeli airstrike killed his father, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with his mother and brother. Mustafa was already considered more hardline than his father before the assassinations, and Trump’s response was to say he’s “not happy with the choice” and that the new leader “won’t last long.” As Blundell put it, “You’ve just put the craziest son of a b***h in the bloodline in power — the bloodline of the people that Donald Trump literally just murdered in cold blood.” The Ayatollah is not merely a head of state in Iran; he is seen as Allah’s representative on earth. A camel herder in Kuwait found empty ATACMS and HIMARS missile containers this weekend, confirming Kuwait allowed the U.S. to fire precision-guided munitions into Iran from its territory. Blundell called it what it is: “Donald Trump has started a generational blood war — signed on behalf of the United States when America has not given approval for this war.” 4️⃣ Russia and China Join the War Against America The Washington Post confirmed what multiple U.S. officials have now verified: Russia is providing Iran with satellite imagery and targeting intelligence on the locations of U.S. warships and aircraft. This is the first confirmed evidence of a major U.S. adversary actively participating in the war effort against American forces. Meanwhile, China has deployed its Liawang-1 signals intelligence vessel to the Gulf of Oman and is supplying Iran with ballistic missiles and the chemicals needed to manufacture them. When asked about Russia’s targeting of U.S. forces aboard Air Force One, Trump said “I still trust Putin.” When asked about China’s intelligence ship, he said “I’m not worried about it.” An estimated 23 American service members are dead, some potentially from intelligence shared by Russia with Iran. Shalev called it plainly: “This is a Chinese-Russian-Donald Trump-Israel alliance to destabilize America. This is treason.” 3️⃣ The Western Alliance Is Shattered The Western alliance that held together through the Cold War, two Gulf Wars, and the war on terror is fracturing in real time. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told Parliament the UK would not join U.S.-Israeli offensive strikes, then reversed course and offered to send two aircraft carriers and 50 F-35Bs to help rotate American forces. Trump responded on Truth Social: “We don’t need people to join wars after we’ve already won.” This on the same day Iranian missiles pummeled U.S. military installations in Bahrain and Kuwait’s social security building burned to the ground. Blundell revealed exclusive intelligence that Trump’s next pretext to break Canada is already built around Iran — Canada’s Border Services Agency has been investigating 95 cases involving high-ranking members of the Iranian regime living in Canada, with 28 formally identified as inadmissible and only one removed. Blundell warned that Iranian sleeper cells may have already been activated and Trump will use IRGC networks in Canada as a ready-made excuse to escalate against America’s northern neighbor. 2️⃣ Oil Spikes, Economy in Free Fall G-7 leaders met Monday to discuss tapping emergency oil reserves as crude prices spiked to levels not seen since the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — and walked away with nothing. Brent crude spiked overnight to just under $120 a barrel. Diesel hit $4 to $5 a gallon, strangling the supply chain that keeps the American economy moving. Roughly 400 oil tankers are sitting idle in the Strait of Hormuz while Iran dares anyone to try to pass. Trump’s solution, offered on Fox News: “Some shipping company’s got to have the guts to give it a go.” He then told Americans they should consider it “an honor” to pay sky-high gas prices because they’re taking out a terrorist regime. 1️⃣ Trump Locks the Doors With the SAVE Act While war rages and the economy craters, Trump announced he will not sign any legislation until the Senate passes the SAVE Act — a bill designed to rig the November elections. Blundell’s detailed breakdown exposed the scope: the bill requires documentary proof of citizenship to register, but 146 million Americans lack valid passports and the bill does not accept driver’s licenses, Real ID, or even military ID. It kills online voter registration in 42 states, requires in-person registration for any change including moving apartments or changing your name after marriage. That last provision alone would disenfranchise an estimated 69 million American women whose birth certificates no longer match their legal names. The bill also creates criminal penalties for anyone who registers a voter without proper documents. Blundell was blunt: “Every single piece of this bill is designed not to suppress, but to gut voters’ rights. He’s coming for the female vote, the migrant vote, the color vote, the poor vote, the old person’s vote.” A transnational criminal organization has seized control of the United States, launched a treasonous war that serves Russia and China, and is now locking the doors so no one can vote them out. The FiveStack is available as an audio podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. The FiveStack is a co-production of deanblundell.substack.com and narativ.org. Thank you J Dziak, Cat: Poli-Psych, francine hardaway, Robin Payes, Niamh Cooper, and many others for tuning into my live video with Dean Blundell! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.narativ.org/subscribe

    50 min
  2. Epstein Trafficked Club Drugs, Russia Helps Iran Target US Bases; US Begs Ukraine for Help, Epstein Helped Scuttle Oslo Accord

    3D AGO

    Epstein Trafficked Club Drugs, Russia Helps Iran Target US Bases; US Begs Ukraine for Help, Epstein Helped Scuttle Oslo Accord

    5️⃣ Bloomberg Reveals Secret DEA Probe of Epstein Bloomberg’s Jason Leopold dropped a bombshell: the DEA opened a secret investigation into Jeffrey Epstein in 2015 centered on money laundering, drug trafficking, and procuring Eastern European women for high-profile clients. The probe grew out of Operation Chain Reaction, a long-running investigation targeting associates of the Genovese crime family. An informant told agents Epstein was funding and distributing ecstasy, ketamine, and methamphetamines. Former congressman Denver Riggleman, who joined today’s show, put it simply: “Criminals that crime usually do other crimes because they like to crime.” Dean Blundell connected it to Trump’s pardoning of the former Honduran president, a convicted Sinaloa cartel kingpin, and the administration’s dismantling of OCDETF, the very task force that built the Epstein case. As Riggleman noted, “Whether you get shot on purpose or shot on accident, you’re still getting shot” — the investigations are gone regardless of why. 4️⃣ America Begs Ukraine for Drone Help In what Dean Blundell called “schadenfreude at its f*****g greatest,” the United States is now turning to Ukraine for help defending against Iranian drone strikes — the same country the Trump administration abandoned. Riggleman, a former Air Force intelligence officer who runs AI targeting company Rig, explained that Russia is providing Iran with specific coordinates and imagery to target American installations, while the U.S. military is burning through munitions firing hundred-thousand-dollar missiles at twenty-thousand-dollar Shaheds. Ukraine, out of desperation, built the world’s most advanced drone warfare capability — and during a recent NATO exercise, took out American troops with drones while the U.S. had no idea what to do. Riggleman warned that AI-powered drone swarms with no humans in the loop are coming next, and “America is not prepared because we’re shortsighted.” 3️⃣ Epstein and the Oslo Accords Zev revealed new reporting connecting Epstein to the derailing of the 1990s Middle East peace process. Between the famous Rabin-Arafat handshake and the collapse of negotiations, Epstein made 17 visits to the Clinton White House. The Norwegian prime minister who helped negotiate the Oslo Accords was arrested last week for corruption tied to Epstein. Zev argued this isn’t ancient history — the same network, the same players including Netanyahu, who opposed the peace talks then and encourages war with Iran now, have controlled American foreign policy for decades. “We would never have gotten here,” Zev said, “if the peace talks back in the 90s had been successful.” 2️⃣ Michael Wolff: Epstein’s Double Agent Investigative journalist Ellie Leonard joined the show with explosive findings from 1,800 pages of emails between Michael Wolff and Jeffrey Epstein. Wolff signed an NDA to read an advance copy of James Patterson’s Epstein book — then sent the entire email thread to Epstein. He killed a New York Magazine piece by forwarding the photo editor’s correspondence directly to Epstein. Emails show Epstein telling Wolff about sending something to Bill Barr with the subject line “Mueller” — and Wolff never reported any of it. Zev posed the key question: if Wolff had unlimited access to both Trump and Epstein, was he serving as a go-between for two men who couldn’t be seen talking to each other? Leonard confirmed she’s only through 100 of the 1,800 pages. There’s much more to come. 1️⃣ DOJ’s Vanishing Epstein Files The DOJ reposted thousands of Epstein files after Congress subpoenaed Attorney General Pam Bondi — but not all of them. Of 53 missing pages containing allegations against Trump by a woman interviewed by the FBI four times, only 16 have returned. The longest interview — 37 pages — is still missing. Leonard described the returned documents as containing details so specific they’d be nearly impossible to fabricate: particular concerts, the population of a small island, a cologne that triggered the victim years later, traceable to the exact period described. Leonard and Zev noted a mysterious “Mr. Atkins,” described as an Ohio university financial administrator connected to Leslie Wexner’s territory, whose name cannot be found in any faculty records. The Fivestack runs deep on Fridays. Two guests — former congressman Denver Riggleman and investigative journalist Ellie Leonard — helped connect the DEA’s Epstein drug probe to Trump’s cartel connections, Ukraine’s drone supremacy to American military incompetence, and Michael Wolff’s double life to the DOJ’s desperate scramble to hide what’s in those files. The FiveStack is available as an audio podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. The FiveStack is a co-production of deanblundell.substack.com and narativ.org. Thank you Jim Bourg, Robin Payes, Cathy Orten, Grace Lovelace, Andy Collen, and many others for tuning into my live video with Ellie Leonard and Denver Riggleman! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.narativ.org/subscribe

    1h 12m
  3. Noem Fired, Bondi Subpoenaed on Epstein, and Lev Parnas Enters the Ring

    4D AGO

    Noem Fired, Bondi Subpoenaed on Epstein, and Lev Parnas Enters the Ring

    Lev Parnas announced he is running for Congress in Florida’s 27th District, and he joined me on the FiveStack to lay out his case. The former Trump insider who helped build MAGA told the FiveStack he’s the only candidate in any race who actually knows Trump’s inner circle from the inside — Pam Bondi, Corey Lewandowski, the whole operation. “I helped build MAGA, and I’m the only one that knows how to take MAGA apart piece by piece, truth by truth, fact by fact,” Parnas said. He’s running a grassroots campaign, no corporate money, no billionaires, in a district where Donald Trump himself would be one of his constituents. The primary is in August. 4️⃣ Senate Kills War Powers Vote — Again The Senate voted 47-53 to reject a resolution blocking Trump from further strikes in Iran without congressional authorization. Only one Republican, Rand Paul, voted yes. Democrat John Fetterman voted no. It’s the eighth failed war powers vote since June 2025, and Congress still won’t call it a war. Meanwhile, U.S.-Israeli strikes continue across Iran, a fourth front has opened with Kurdish forces, the conflict is spreading to Azerbaijan, a thousand people have been killed since Saturday, and oil routes through the Strait of Hormuz have been disrupted. Oil prices climbing toward $80 will gut any Republican hopes of juicing the economy before November. 3️⃣ Bondi Subpoenaed on Epstein The House Oversight Committee voted 24-19 to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi for a closed-door, taped deposition on the DOJ’s handling of Epstein records. Five Republicans crossed over to join Democrats — a stunning break in party discipline. Bondi will be the highest-ranking sitting official to appear before the panel. She either tells the truth, which devastates the president, or she dodges perjury while refusing to give the full story. Either way, terrible optics for Trump heading into November. 2️⃣ DOJ Scrubs FBI Interviews With Epstein Victim The DOJ removed and withheld FBI interviews with a woman who accused both Epstein and Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was approximately 13. The FBI interviewed her four times. Only the first interview was released — and that one doesn’t mention Trump. Three interviews totaling 50 pages are simply gone. There are also unconfirmed reports of another 50,000 Epstein files from the FBI set to drop. 1️⃣ Noem Fired, Mullin Takes Over DHS Trump announced on Truth Social that Kristi Noem is out as Secretary of Homeland Security, replaced by Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma effective March 31. Noem threw Trump under the bus under oath on the $220 million ad campaign, couldn’t answer whether she had sexual relations with Corey Lewandowski, called slain Americans domestic terrorists, and let her lover run the department. Mullin is a friend of Noem’s and an MMA fighter who will bring a harder edge to the immigration file — but the damage is done. This is the first real loyalist fired from Trump’s cabinet, and the cracks in the presidency are showing. The FiveStack returns tomorrow with Dean Blundell. Today’s show featured Lev Parnas as a special guest. The FiveStack is available as an audio podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. The FiveStack is a co-production of deanblundell.substack.com and narativ.org. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.narativ.org/subscribe

    40 min
  4. Holy War, AI Revolt, Clinton Depositions, School Shooter Verdict and the Texas Primary

    6D AGO

    Holy War, AI Revolt, Clinton Depositions, School Shooter Verdict and the Texas Primary

    5️⃣ Iran War Day 4: Holy War The United States is four days into an unauthorized war against Iran and the numbers keep climbing — the actual American death toll may be far higher than the six the Pentagon has confirmed, with embassies in Riyadh and Kuwait City shuttered and no U.S. diplomatic presence left in the Middle East. Iran has retaliated against at least eight Arab states. But the most alarming development came from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, which has now received over 200 complaints from service members reporting that commanders are telling troops this war is part of God’s plan to bring about Armageddon. Dean Blundell, who grew up in the evangelical church, read one of the complaint letters on air — an NCO describing how a senior officer told troops that “President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to start and cause Armageddon.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has crusader tattoos and “Deus Vult” inked on his body, truly believes he is ushering in the age of Christ with the world’s most powerful military. As Dean put it: “It’s ISIS in the West. That is what this regime is.” 4️⃣ AI Used to Bomb Iran Despite Ban Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, refused to let the Pentagon use their technology for domestic surveillance or autonomous weapons — so the Trump administration labeled them a “supply chain risk” and banned all federal agencies from using their products. Hours later, the Pentagon used Anthropic’s Claude AI to help select bombing targets in Iran anyway. Meanwhile, ChatGPT’s parent company OpenAI agreed to provide the Department of Defense with surveillance access, prompting nearly 900 employees at Google and OpenAI to sign an open letter called “We Will Not Be Divided” demanding limits on military use of their technology. Dean canceled his ChatGPT subscription on air and called for a consumer boycott, arguing that everyone should be running to Anthropic — the company that actually drew a line. 3️⃣ Clinton Epstein Depositions Released The House Oversight Committee released roughly nine hours of deposition footage from both Bill and Hillary Clinton testifying about their connections to Jeffrey Epstein — the first time a former president has been compelled to testify before Congress. Bill Clinton claimed he met Epstein in 2002, but Zev Shalev’s research into the Narativ archive of 83,000 documents shows the relationship goes back to the early 1990s, when Epstein made donations to the DNC and visited the White House at least 17 times. Hillary Clinton stormed out of her deposition after Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert secretly photographed her during testimony and leaked it online. Neither side, Zev argued, is asking the real questions — about the intelligence operation, the financial architecture, or the fact that Ken Starr prosecuted Clinton over Monica Lewinsky while simultaneously defending Epstein. 2️⃣ School Shooter’s Dad Found Guilty A Georgia jury convicted Colin Gray — father of accused Apalachee High School shooter Colt Gray — of second-degree murder, the first time in American history a parent has been convicted of murder for a school shooting committed by their child. Gray gave his 14-year-old son an AR-style rifle as a Christmas gift and claimed he saw no warning signs. Dean offered a nuanced take, calling it a “sticky wicket” — acknowledging the precedent while asking the harder question: “Wouldn’t it just be easier to get common sense gun laws passed?” He called the focus on parental liability an NRA psyop designed to blame everything except the guns. 1️⃣ Texas Primary — Election Day Voters went to the polls in what may be the most consequential Democratic primary of the 2026 cycle, with Rep. Jasmine Crockett facing state Rep. James Talarico for the Texas Senate nomination. Talarico outraised Crockett $20.7 million to $8.6 million and represents what Dean called “philosophical Jesus, not savior Jesus” — a Baptist who believes Christianity is about helping the vulnerable, not legislating biblical doctrine. Both hosts predicted Talarico would win, with Dean connecting the race back to the show’s opening theme: if Pete Hegseth is the model for what a Christian American looks like, maybe Talarico offers a different vision — one that could flip Texas. An unauthorized holy war, an AI rebellion, presidential depositions, a historic verdict, and an election that could reshape the Democratic Party — all in one day. That’s the Fivestack. The FiveStack is available as an audio podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. The FiveStack is a co-production of deanblundell.substack.com and narativ.org. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.narativ.org/subscribe

    1h 5m
  5. FiveStack: Trump's Iran Invasion is an Election Ploy That's Already Backfiring

    MAR 2

    FiveStack: Trump's Iran Invasion is an Election Ploy That's Already Backfiring

    The FiveStack threw out the playbook today, dedicating the full hour to former Congressman and military intelligence expert Denver Riggleman for a war special on Day 3 of the Iran conflict. Four U.S. service members dead, three F-15Es downed by friendly fire from Kuwait, the U.S. Embassy hit, nine countries under Iranian attack — and an administration that, as Riggleman put it, is “confused and incompetent” with no day-after plan. Riggleman, who tracked Qasem Soleimani in 2006-2007 as an F-15E intelligence officer and ran the Counter-ID Operations Integration Center monitoring Iranian EFP supply chains, brought firsthand expertise that cut through the noise. 5️⃣ The Quagmire Is Real Riggleman laid out why this war has no exit strategy. The CIA warned Trump directly that killing Khamenei wouldn’t lead to regime collapse, but sycophants told him it would be like Venezuela — quick and easy. “You can’t topple a movement,” Riggleman said, pointing to 93 million Iranians, Hezbollah networks across the region, and Iranian sleeper cells that have been preparing since 1979. Dean drove the point home after Riggleman departed: Trump is “bucket listing” as a dying president who doesn’t care about consequences, standing at a podium saying “I don’t get bored” while stumbling through sentences. 4️⃣ Draft EO 14248: Nationalizing Elections The bombshell of the show was Riggleman’s analysis of a 17-page draft executive order on election interference. He traced the conspiracy pipeline from 2016 Stop the Steal through Italian satellites, Chinese servers, German server farms, Hammer and Scorecard, EO 13848, the December 18 White House meeting with Patrick Byrne, Michael Flynn, and Sidney Powell — all the way to the current draft order. “This is absolutely nationalizing elections,” Riggleman warned, noting the order targets specific swing counties, not all 50 states. With Texas primaries tomorrow serving as a bellwether for 2026, the timing is not coincidental. 3️⃣ Three Reasons for War Riggleman offered the sharpest framework for understanding why this war happened: election manipulation and rationalization for seizing election infrastructure, personal enrichment for Trump, MBS, and Netanyahu — including the Qatar jet, Air Force One billing, real estate deals, and Kushner’s Saudi connections — and cratering poll numbers, since wars historically boost presidential approval. MBS wants geographic control and oil dominance, Netanyahu wants a regional rival eliminated, and Trump needs a distraction. Dean added that Trump has now launched 626 bombing sorties on seven countries, three of which the United States has never attacked, timed precisely to Epstein developments and bad polling. 2️⃣ The Missing Epstein Transcripts Five days after James Comer promised the Clinton Epstein deposition transcripts within 24 hours, they still haven’t been released. The videos haven’t been released. As Zev noted in the closing, the question remains: why aren’t we hearing from Bill and Hillary Clinton directly, in unedited testimony, about what they said about Donald Trump? The Iran war conveniently buried that story, and as Dean’s data shows, you can set your watch to Trump’s distraction wars. 1️⃣ Sabotage — The Anthem for 2026 Dean closed with a moment that stopped the show — reading the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” lyrics and connecting them to exactly what’s happening in America. “Scheming on a thing, that’s a mirage. I’m trying to tell you now, it’s sabotage.” Written in 1994 by three Jewish rappers from Brooklyn who understood the government wasn’t their friend, the song maps perfectly onto 2026: the mirage of manufactured crisis, the push of a button to shut you up, the Watergate-level political interference. Zev connected it to the Iran-Contra playbook — sponsoring both sides of a war to control the outcome while using crisis for domestic policy influence. Putin’s playbook. Same sabotage, new century. The FiveStack is available as an audio podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. The FiveStack is a co-production of deanblundell.substack.com and narativ.org. Thank you Lev Parnas, Ellie Leonard, Brodee Myers-Cooke, Cat: Poli-Psych, Cathy R. Payne, and many others for tuning into my live video with Dean Blundell! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.narativ.org/subscribe

    1h 10m
  6. Clinton Testifies on Epstein as Trump Moves to Seize Elections, AI, Media and War

    FEB 27

    Clinton Testifies on Epstein as Trump Moves to Seize Elections, AI, Media and War

    Today’s show opened with breaking news: former President Bill Clinton testifying under oath before the House Oversight Committee at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center. Clinton’s opening statement — “I saw nothing and I did nothing wrong” — set the stage for what Zev called “one of the most important days in the Epstein investigation,” noting that Epstein likely targeted Clinton as an intelligence asset and even claimed credit for setting up the Clinton Global Initiative. 5️⃣ The Epstein Network Is Crumbling The walls are closing in on the Epstein network globally. World Economic Forum CEO Borj Brande resigned after it emerged he attended three dinners with Epstein. The Telegraph ran a headline about Ariane de Rothschild pleading “don’t leave me over Epstein” — the same Rothschild family whose Edmond de Rothschild bank signed a $25 million contract with Epstein’s Southern Trust Company in 2015. Howard Lutnick, Trump’s Commerce Secretary, was also in the spotlight after photos surfaced showing him on Epstein’s island with metadata confirming the location. “The network is unraveling,” Zev noted, “and it goes all the way to the Rothschilds, who have been connected to Epstein since 1987.” 4️⃣ Trump Moves to Seize AI The Pentagon gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a 5:01 PM deadline to drop safety guardrails from Claude, the company’s AI model, so the military could deploy it without restrictions. Amodei refused. “This is not about national security,” Dean argued, “this is about surveillance and control.” Trump reportedly wants an ownership stake in Anthropic, and the administration is floating nationalization — which Zev called “hardline communism, pure and simple.” The AI wars are no longer theoretical; they are a live fight over who controls the most powerful technology on earth. 3️⃣ War on Two Fronts Six countries have begun evacuating citizens from Iran as the USS Gerald Ford and massive American firepower positions in the Mediterranean. Nuclear talks between the US and Iran produced no deal. Meanwhile, China quietly shipped anti-ship missiles to Iran. In a separate theater, Pakistan bombed Taliban positions in Kandahar, Afghanistan — the first strike of its kind. “You’ve got two active war fronts developing simultaneously,” Zev said, connecting the military buildup to Rothschild banking interests in the Gulf region. 2️⃣ Media Mega-Monopoly Netflix dropped an $83 billion bid for Warner Brothers Discovery, while Paramount and Skydance offered $111 billion — a deal that would absorb CNN, TNT, TBS, the Cartoon Network, Discovery, and the entire Warner empire. Combined with Larry Ellison’s CBS takeover, where he installed Barry Weiss to turn the network into what Zev called “Trump regime state media,” the consolidation leaves virtually no independent major media voice standing. “We can tell you about the Rothschilds until we’re blue in the face,” Zev said, “but you won’t see that on CNN.” 1️⃣ Trump Moves to Steal Elections A group of right-wing activists working with the White House is circulating a draft executive order that would give Trump unilateral power to ban mail-in ballots and voting machines before the 2026 midterms. The basis is a debunked conspiracy theory that China interfered in 2020. Dean warned that Maduro could become central to the scheme, with the administration pressuring the captured Venezuelan president to corroborate claims of foreign election interference. The SAVE Act died in the Senate, but an executive order could still strip voting access from an estimated 130 million Americans who lack passports. “Don’t boo — vote,” Dean said, channeling Obama. “It’s going to be so vitally important that we go full Obama in 2026.” From Clinton under oath on Epstein to Trump seizing elections, AI, media and war — Day 38 of the second Trump administration is a roadmap to authoritarianism, and it’s happening in real time. The FiveStack is available as an audio podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. The FiveStack is a co-production of deanblundell.substack.com and narativ.org. Thank you Dean Blundell, Stephanie G Wilson, PhD, Robin Payes, Iulia Huiu, Sue Ploeger’s script to novel, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.narativ.org/subscribe

    1h 12m
  7. Clinton Testifies on Epstein, DOJ Cover-Up Exposed, Cuba Shootout, Trump Juices Economy and Plans Election Emergency

    FEB 26

    Clinton Testifies on Epstein, DOJ Cover-Up Exposed, Cuba Shootout, Trump Juices Economy and Plans Election Emergency

    BREAKING NEWS: Hillary Clinton testified behind closed doors today before the House Oversight Committee in Chappaqua, New York, with Bill Clinton set for tomorrow. Clinton demanded the hearing be public, telling Chairman Comer, “If you want this fight, let’s have it in public.” Comer refused. Then Rep. Lauren Boebert broke committee rules by passing a photo from the closed-door deposition to conservative influencer Benny Johnson, who posted it online, pausing the hearing. Clinton’s opening statement was direct: “I had no idea about their criminal activities. I do not recall encountering Mr. Epstein.” She then delivered what Dean called “a stake in the heart of Comer,” noting that the committee held zero public hearings, refused media access, and that not a single Republican member showed up for Leslie Wexner’s deposition. The real question, as Zev put it, is why the committee is interrogating someone with no connection to Epstein while the man with 5,400 mentions in the files sits in the Oval Office untouched. 5. Armed Cubans Shot Off Coast A Florida-registered speedboat carrying ten armed Cuban nationals opened fire on the Cuban Coast Guard about a mile off the coast, seriously injuring the commander. Cuban forces returned fire, killing four and wounding six. They seized assault rifles, body armor, and Molotov cocktails. Dean, who broke the story on his Substack, raised the Gulf of Tonkin comparison, pointing to a pattern of incursions including an incident where Americans planted a flag on a Mexican beach from Elon Musk’s Space City. “They are actively trying to start a war with Cuba,” Dean said, noting the Trump administration’s oil embargo has already crippled the island. Rubio said he didn’t have enough information, which Dean found hard to believe from the Cuban-American Secretary of State who has openly pushed Cuba as the next target. 4. Trump Juicing the Economy Mortgage rates fell below 6% for the first time in three years, and Trump took credit at the State of the Union. What he didn’t mention: he ordered Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to buy $200 billion in mortgage-backed bonds to push rates down. “That’s not a free market move,” Zev explained. “He’s doing this only to win the next elections. It’s one of the first signs we’re seeing of him juicing the market to get the economy humming so he can win in November.” Dean compared it to Ontario’s premier handing out cheap booze and rebate checks before elections. “It’s just another cooked up bribe,” Dean said, while warning that it actually works and Democrats shouldn’t assume November is in the bag. 3. Trump Plans Election Emergency A Washington Post exclusive revealed that pro-Trump activists coordinating with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order declaring a national emergency over elections, claiming China interfered in 2020. The order would let Trump ban mail ballots and voting machines by executive fiat, bypassing Congress and the Constitution. The SAVE Act died in the Senate, so this is Plan B. Dean imagined a bingo wheel in the White House spinning through countries to blame: Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Italy, Iran, and now China. “The Chinese had no interest in helping Biden get elected in 2020,” Zev noted, pointing out that China rolls out the red carpet for Trump, not his opponents. Combined with the mortgage rate manipulation, these two stories reveal Trump’s full midterm strategy: juice the economy and rig the rules. 2. Democrats Say DOJ Running a Cover-Up NPR identified more than 50 pages the DOJ withheld from the Epstein file release, including four FBI 302s from a woman who testified under oath in 2019 that Trump and Epstein sexually abused her when she was between 13 and 15. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and dozens of major outlets have now confirmed the story. Rep. Robert Garcia called it a “White House cover-up” and opened a parallel investigation. “Pam Bondi, on orders from the president, took it upon herself and the entire DOJ and the FBI to delete these files out of the public record,” Dean said. “These are 302s. These are victim statements under oath.” The DOJ said it would “review and republish.” They got caught. 1. The Rothschild-Trump-Epstein Network New Narativ analysis published today reveals the financial architecture connecting Trump and Epstein. Zev reported that Wilbur Ross, who ran Rothschild’s bankruptcy practice in the United States for two decades, bailed out Trump’s Atlantic City casinos by convincing bondholders to keep Trump in control. Three years earlier, Baron Elie de Rothschild personally endorsed Epstein to Leslie Wexner. Both men then moved through the same banks for decades. The Commerce Department seat went from Rothschild’s man Ross to Epstein’s man Howard Lutnick, whose photo with Epstein and his two sons on Little St. James Island surfaced during the show. Newly uncovered emails from the Epstein files show Epstein claiming descent from the Ritter von Epstein banking dynasty of 1870s Vienna, a claim accepted without question by the Rothschilds themselves. “No one’s asking those questions,” Zev said. “They’re not actually concerned about the organized criminal ring trafficking underage girls. They’re trying to score points against the Democrats.” The Clintons testify while Trump hides. Fifty pages vanish. The financial network stays invisible. And the committee asking questions is looking everywhere except where the evidence points. The FiveStack is available as an audio podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. The FiveStack is a co-production of deanblundell.substack.com and narativ.org. Thank you This Will Hold, Brodee Myers-Cooke, Cathy R. Payne, Iulia Huiu, Karen Gordon, and many others for tuning into my live video with Dean Blundell! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.narativ.org/subscribe

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  8. FEB 25

    Epstein Cover-Up Explodes on State of the Union Night: Missing FBI Pages, Stand Down Orders, and Names on the House Floor

    Hours before Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union address, the Epstein case detonated on multiple fronts — and the FiveStack brought Denver Riggleman and Lev Parnas along for a special prime time broadcast to cover it all live. NPR confirmed what Roger Sollenberger first reported on Substack: the Trump Justice Department has withheld or removed 53 pages of FBI interviews with women who accused Trump of sexually assaulting them as minors. One woman was interviewed by the FBI four times — credible enough for four separate sit-downs — and only the first interview, the one that doesn’t mention Trump, made it into the public database. A second woman described being taken to Mar-a-Lago as a minor, where Epstein introduced her to Trump and said, according to the FBI document, “This is a good one, huh.” That interview was removed from the database after publication and restored only after Sollenberger flagged it. “They basically covered up for the president of the United States,” Zev said. “And they have no interest in giving us the truth.” Meanwhile, Ryan Goodman at Just Security documented a bombshell buried in the newly released files: five days after Epstein’s arrest in July 2019, the FBI directed NYPD’s Special Victims Unit to stand down on all Epstein investigations. The email in the files reads: “SVU has been directed to stand down and that all Epstein stuff needs to go to and through us.” By January 2020, an FBI agent wrote that after the order, “our assumption was obviously that they closed anything they had after his death.” New York was ground zero for Epstein’s crimes, and the FBI shut down the investigators best positioned to reach co-conspirators. “This is a pattern of shutting down parallel investigations,” Zev noted, pointing out that New Mexico’s investigation into Zorro Ranch was also closed in 2019 at the request of SDNY. Congressman Thomas Massie went to the House floor and named three men from the Epstein files that the DOJ should investigate: Leon Black, the billionaire former CEO of Apollo Global Management; Jes Staley, the former head of JP Morgan’s investment bank; and Leslie Wexner, the founder of L Brands whom the FBI internally labeled a co-conspirator in 2019. “Those aren’t the first people that come to mind in terms of rape, although they are associated with rape,” Zev observed. “But those are the first people that come to mind when you come to think of financial crimes related to Jeffrey Epstein. Leon Black, very connected to Russia. Les Wexner, very connected to Israel. Jes Staley was Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend while he was in charge of the private wealth bank at JP Morgan, who funded this huge organization. And guess who else they funded? They funded this man who’s giving the speech right now.” As Trump spoke, Epstein survivor Annie Farmer sat in the gallery as a guest of Oversight Committee Ranking Member Robert Garcia. She had told CBS earlier in the day: “We’re not going away until the law is followed.” Her sister Maria Farmer, the first person to report Epstein and Maxwell to law enforcement in 1996, sent a statement read on air: “I’m so proud of my sister Annie for representing us both since I’m unable to fly. We are all deeply honored to be part of the awakening Virginia’s cause. Thanks to all whose minds are recognizing the significance of her sacrifices.” Dean drove the point home throughout the broadcast: “That man on our screen right now, the president of the United States, has been credibly accused of or settled 31 different rape and sexual assault suits. And as a man, I have a problem with that.” The show closed with the hosts refusing to watch another minute. “I’d much rather listen to Annie Farmer than to Donald Trump,” Zev said. “This is the night for the survivors,” Dean said. This is a night for the people who have fought so hard to bring this man to justice.” Zev’s final message was direct: “Reply to everybody, everywhere — Jeffrey Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein — because that is the only story here tonight.” The FiveStack is available as an audio podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. The FiveStack is a co-production of deanblundell.substack.com and narativ.org. Thank you John Liccione, ESBC NFL And SportsBetting, Robin Payes, Richard Hogan, MD, PhD(2), DBA, Elaine Cimino, and many others for tuning into my live video with Dean Blundell and Lev Parnas! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.narativ.org/subscribe

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