FiveStack with Dean Blundell & Zev Shalev

This episode of The FiveStack is brought to you by Ground News — the app we use every day to find the stories that matter. Get 40% off the Vantage plan at groundnews.com/fivestack or just click this button. 5️⃣ Lutnick’s Epstein Web Grows Deeper New details from the Epstein files reveal Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s extensive financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein, including a Manhattan mansion a...

5️⃣ Cohen Flips Again Michael Cohen surfaced on the PBD podcast in a pre-recorded interview that Lev Parnas flagged as an audition tape for Donald Trump. Cohen spent ten minutes insisting he never once witnessed Trump interact with Jeffrey Epstein — still calling him “the boss” — then let slip: “However, there was one file.” A Jane Doe lawsuit crossed his desk. Trump said “make it go away.” Cohen...

🎂 Happy 53rd birthday to Dean Blundell, the birthday boy of the FiveStack. To celebrate, Dean opened the show with a meditation on minimalism, the hedonic treadmill, and why Donald Trump is a cuckoo bird who kicks everyone out of the nest. “Nero had everything. He was buried with his donkey. We are months away from watching Donald Trump get buried with the donkeys.” That’s the birthday energy we’...

This episode is brought to you by Ground. News—the media literacy tool we use every day to prep The FiveStack. Get 40% off at groundnews.com/fivestack. 5️⃣ Lutnick Finally Admits He Went to the Island Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick testified before the Senate Oversight Committee today and conceded for the first time that he did in fact visit Jeffrey Epstein’s private island — directly contradic...

5️⃣ I Am Not Your Personal Incubator Narativ’s investigation of the Epstein files has unearthed a journal written in code by a 16-year-old victim — a journal the FBI never bothered to decode. Researcher Ellie Leonard cracked the code and what she found is staggering: at least eight documented pregnancies, multiple forced abortions, and children taken from their mothers. The decoded entries name Le...

BREAKING: Just after the show, former President Bill Clinton posted a bombshell thread demanding the full release of the Epstein files and a public hearing before the House Oversight Committee. Clinton said he has provided a sworn statement and agreed to appear in person, but Republicans want cameras only behind closed doors. “Who benefits from this arrangement? It’s not Epstein’s victims, who des...

Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today Show anchor Savannah Guthrie, was taken from her Catalina Foothills home on January 31st—just 60 miles from the Arizona-Mexico border. Ransom demands for millions in Bitcoin were sent to TMZ and local news outlets. Police discovered a sophisticated operation: the doorbell camera was digitally disconnected at 1:47 a.m., physical hardware was removed fr...

Today’s FiveStack became a One Stack. The allegations in the Epstein files were too significant to rush through. Congressman Ted Lieu stood before reporters and said what everyone has been thinking: “Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands and thousands of times. There’s highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump raping children, of Donald Trump threatening to kill children.” That’s not...

This episode is brought to you by Ground. News—the media literacy tool we use every day to prep The FiveStack. Get 40% off at groundnews.com/fivestack. BREAKING: The House just passed spending bills 217-214 to end the partial government shutdown. The package funds most of the federal government through September 30 and the Department of Homeland Security through February 13—a 10-day window for Rep...

I joined Wajahat Ali this weekend to discuss what I’m finding in the Epstein files. The short version: everywhere you look, two names keep coming up—Russia and Trump. We covered: * Leon Black went to Russia with Donald Trump in 1996. The same Leon Black who paid Epstein $158 million. The same Leon Black who sat on Putin’s sovereign wealth fund board. * Peter Thiel advised Ehud Barak to invest in P...

A special report live from Nuuk, Greenland with Malcolm Nance, Dean Blundell, and Jacob Kaarsbo bringing firsthand reporting on NATO’s response to Trump’s territorial demands while covering the day’s critical stories from Minneapolis to Beijing. 5️⃣ Trump Deploys Homan to Minneapolis After Video Exposes Lies Trump deployed border czar Tom Homan to Minneapolis for meetings with Governor Tim Walz an...

5️⃣ Europe Stands Up, Trump Backs Down Trump wanted Greenland and threatened to take it by force. The European Union told him to back off, and according to Washington Post analysis published today, pushback actually works. When the EU threatened retaliatory tariffs over Trump’s military threats, Trump ruled out using force within hours. The pattern is clear, as Zev explained: when confronted by eq...

The second part of Jack Smith’s testimony delivered the most damaging evidence against Trump. Democrats played audio of the infamous Raffensperger call where Trump demanded Georgia’s Secretary of State “find 11,780 votes.” Smith testified that Trump threatened Raffensperger with criminal prosecution when the Republican official wouldn’t comply. A Georgia fake elector witness described being told h...

5️⃣ Trump Backs Down on Greenland—Or Does He? Trump told world leaders at Davos the U.S. “won’t use force” to take Greenland, sparking celebration in Denmark until the next sentence: “I don’t have to take it militarily or by force.” Jacob Kaarsbo, former Danish intelligence officer, urged caution on today’s show. “He can flip again tomorrow,” Kaarsbo warned, noting Trump’s latest Truth Social post...

5️⃣ Danish MEP Tells Trump to “F**k Off” A Danish member of the European Parliament delivered the most direct response yet to Donald Trump’s Greenland threats when Anders Vistisen told the chamber: “Let me put this in words you might understand, Mr. President: f**k off.” The Parliament vice president immediately censured Vistisen for offensive language, but the MEP defended his approach, saying “t...

5️⃣ Insurrection Day: 1,500 Troops on Standby for Minnesota The Pentagon has ordered 1,500 active-duty soldiers from the 11th Airborne Division in Alaska to prepare for possible deployment to Minnesota as Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act for the first time in the 21st century. “This is the first time that I can recall in my history, the United States government willing to send in mil...

5️⃣ ICE Tear Gasses Family With Six Kids A Minneapolis couple driving home from their kid’s basketball game Wednesday night got caught between ICE and protesters in North Minneapolis. Six children in the car, the youngest just six months old. ICE surrounded them, started lobbing tear gas and stun grenades, and a canister rolled under the vehicle. “The blast set off the airbags, smoke filling the v...

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MICHAEL COHEN AND THE EPSTEIN FILES Investigative journalist Ellie Leonard broke major news on today’s show about Michael Cohen’s previously unknown connections to Jeffrey Epstein’s network. Leonard, who has been meticulously combing through the Epstein files, discovered that Cohen was working on Epstein-related matters as early as 2003 - years before his official role as Trump’s personal attorney...

Former Senior Border Patrol Agent Jenn Budd joined Nick Paro and Zev Shalev today with revelations that explain exactly how Renee Nicole Good ended up dead on a Minneapolis street. THE GREEN LIGHT TO KILL Budd points to an executive order from September 25, 2025 that labeled people with “extreme views on gender” and “extreme views on migration” as domestic terrorists. Good had a gay pride sticker...

Renee Nicole Good, 37-year-old mother of three, was shot and killed by ICE Officer Jeffrey Ross Thursday morning in Minneapolis. Her wife Rebecca Good witnessed the shooting while filming with her phone. Vice President JD Vance posted edited footage from Ross’s phone claiming the officer fired in self-defense, but over 40 videos including ring camera footage from across the street tell a different...

Wednesday morning in Minneapolis, less than a mile from where George Floyd was murdered, ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good through her windshield. Three shots. She died at Hennepin County Medical Center. She was a poet, a wife, a mother to a six-year-old who is now orphaned. Her partner was in the car. Stuffed animals in the front seat. Golden Grahams in the back. She’d ju...

This morning, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, 37, in south Minneapolis during what the Department of Homeland Security calls “the largest immigration operation ever.” The shooting happened at 34th Street and Portland Avenue around 10:45 AM local time. Good’s mother identified her daughter to the Minnesota Star Tribune. The woman - a white, middle-age...

5️⃣ Canada Prepares for US Military Coercion as White House Confirms Military Options for Greenland The unthinkable became thinkable this weekend as Canada’s Globe & Mail published what independent outlets have been warning for months: Canada must prepare for US military coercion. Not invasion, but leverage. Then the White House made it official—Reuters reported today that Trump and his team are a...

5️⃣ Maduro’s Manhattan Court Appearance Reveals the Staged Capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro appeared in Manhattan Federal Court at noon today for arraignment on narco-terrorism charges, but the photos tell a completely different story than the one Trump is selling. Images show Maduro giving a double thumbs up to DEA agents, smiling and joking during what was supposed to be a high-stakes...