FiveStack with Dean Blundell & Zev Shalev

The Wall Street Journal just documented what we’ve been reporting for years. Trump trafficked young girls from Mar-a-Lago’s spa to Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion. Trump didn’t “steal Epstein’s girls”—he supplied them. That’s not the only bombshell today. 5️⃣ RIP CBS EVENING NEWS Tony Dokoupil debuts as CBS Evening News anchor on Monday in what the network is calling a mission to “win back trust.” CBS h...

We showed up on Substack in March 2025—bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, checking out this platform thing. Zev mentioned to Dean: “Let’s do a daily show where we countdown the biggest stories of the day.” Within three weeks, we had built something nobody expected. Dean connected with Lev Parnas. Michael Cohen showed up. A Danish intelligence officer texted: “Hey, want to do a show?” Wajahat Ali of the Le...

Dean was unavailable, so instead of The FiveStack, I brought together Lev Parnas and Ellie Leonard for a special report. We covered the five biggest stories of the day—and they all connect to the same pattern. 5. LEV PARNAS AND MEIDAS TOUCH PATCH THINGS UP Lev interviewed Ben Meiselas from Meidas Touch yesterday, focusing on unity and democracy—not infighting or drama. This is what the mission sho...

Danish intelligence analyst Jacob Kaarsbo joined us fresh from a South African safari to deliver a sobering assessment of Trump’s Greenland gambit: “The American ambassador gets called more to our foreign ministry than the Russian ambassador nowadays.” That sentence alone tells you where we are. Today’s FiveStack is presented by Ground News — Get 40% off for our viewers 5️⃣ DENMARK SUMMONS U.S. EN...

5️⃣ House Democrats Drop 68 Epstein Photos One Day Before DOJ Deadline House Oversight Democrats released 68 new photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate one day before the Friday December 19 deadline for the Justice Department to release Epstein files. The photos come from a trove of 95,000 images the committee received last week, and the timing is deliberate—Garcia wants these in public view before...

5️⃣ White House Exodus Begins The FBI Deputy Director’s office sits empty as Dan Bongino clears out ahead of his January departure, while Trump’s own Chief of Staff spent months telling Vanity Fair he has an alcoholic’s personality and his cabinet is filled with zealots and conspiracy theorists. Bongino clashed with Attorney General Pam Bondi over the Epstein files and yelled at people during meet...

5️⃣ Wiles Tells All: Trump’s “Alcoholic Personality” Trump’s chief of staff gave 11 on-the-record interviews to Vanity Fair and New York Times reporter Chris Whipple over the past year, revealing unprecedented details about the administration’s inner chaos. Susie Wiles told Whipple that Trump has “an alcoholic’s personality,” called JD Vance “a conspiracy theorist for a decade” whose conversion wa...

5️⃣ Trump’s Gleeful Post About Rob Reiner Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were found stabbed to death in their Brentwood home yesterday. Their 32-year-old son Nick, who struggled with addiction, has been arrested. Billy Crystal and Larry David arrived at the house after police. Tributes poured in from Obama, Kathy Bates, Steve Schmidt. Then Trump posted on Truth Social that Reiner died from “Trump...

The House Oversight Committee dropped 95,000 photographs from Jeffrey Epstein’s vault today. Ninety-five thousand images from the convicted sex trafficker’s personal collection. And in those photos, there’s Donald Trump—on Epstein’s plane, surrounded by young women in private settings. And they prove he lied about all of it. Trump claimed he was never on that plane. Here’s photographic evidence he...

5️⃣ The Citadel Exposed Tucker Carlson told Olivia Nuzzi to fear for her life and offered her a shotgun. When the scandal broke, Nuzzi was elated—it meant she was back in touch with RFK Jr. She recruited her CAA agent and CNN spokesperson to smear Ryan Lizza. This is “an absolutely dark look into mainstream media’s collection of information to kill information or to keep powerful people in power.”...

5️⃣ Miami Delivers Democrats Their First Win Since 1997 Eileen Higgins didn’t just win Miami’s mayoral race—she crushed Trump’s handpicked candidate with nearly 60% of the vote in a county Trump carried by 12 points last year. The Republican Party’s three-decade stranglehold on Miami just ended, and the message is clear: Hispanic voters who delivered the red wave are already pulling back. When Tru...

The pattern tells the story. Multiple strikes in the Caribbean. Eighty-six dead across 22 operations. Zero evidence of drugs. Every detainee released by Colombia and Ecuador as innocent. Videos ordered destroyed. Photographs deleted. Survivors who waved for help killed by follow-up strikes. And now Congress forcing accountability through the one mechanism that works: withholding Pentagon funds unt...

Dean was out today, so I brought in the experts who’ve been breaking this story wide open. Nick Paro and Melissa Corrigan joined me for what turned into one of the most significant FiveStack episodes we’ve done. Melissa broke news that changes everything about the Hegseth scandal, and what we learned suggests systematic criminality at the highest levels of the Pentagon. That wasn’t the only breaki...

Burke County, Florida held over six million votes on election night. Problem: there is no Burke County in Florida. Never has been. Florida has 67 counties and Burke isn’t one of them. T runs a 60-person team called the Common Coalition—veterans, intelligence analysts, data scientists—and her Substack “This Will Hold” has been dissecting election anomalies since November. What they found in DDHQ’s...

5️⃣ MAXWELL MAKES HER MOVE Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer filed a letter in Manhattan Federal Court today announcing a habeas corpus petition challenging her 2021 sex trafficking conviction. This comes weeks after Todd Blanche — Trump’s former lawyer, now DOJ’s number two — conducted a two-day interview with her, followed by her quiet transfer from a Florida prison to a minimum-security Texas camp. Ma...

5️⃣ PENTAGON DIVORCES TRUMP AND HEGSETH While Pete Hegseth sat in today’s cabinet meeting playing the loyal soldier, Pentagon spokesperson Kingsley Wilson was at the podium torching the White House’s scapegoat strategy. Asked about Admiral Frank Bradley’s role in the second strike that killed two survivors clinging to wreckage, Wilson didn’t mince words: the strikes were “presidentially directed,”...

5️⃣ TRUMP’S $2 TRILLION UKRAINE HEIST The Wall Street Journal laid it bare: Trump’s “peace plan” was never about peace. Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and Kremlin-linked Kirill Dmitriev have been negotiating megadeals to revive Russia’s $2 trillion economy — with $300 billion in frozen Russian assets as seed money for Trump-aligned investors. As Dean put it: “This is how Donald Trump can enrich his...

DEAN WILL BE BACK ON MONDAY 5️⃣ HEGSETH’S MURDER ORDER Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a direct verbal order before the first Caribbean boat strike: “Kill everybody.” When two survivors were spotted clinging to burning wreckage after the missile hit, the SEAL Team 6 commander ordered a second strike. The Pentagon told Congress it was to “remove a navigation hazard.” Former military lawyers cal...

* DURING THE LIVE BROADCAST ABOVE, I QUOTED AN INCORRECT NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINE THAT THE NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERS WHO WERE SHOT IN D.C. HAD BEEN KILLED. THAT WAS WRONG. THE TWO ARE IN A CRITICAL CONDITION AFTER UNDERGOING SURGERY. THE TWO MEMBERS ARE SARAH BECKSTROM, 20, AND ANDREW WOLFE, 24. SPECIAL GUEST: Jacob Kaarsbo. - FORMER DANISH INTELLIGENCE OFFICER 1️⃣ BREAKING: NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERS SHO...

5️⃣ TRUMP APPROVAL CRASHES TO SECOND-TERM LOW The Economist/YouGov poll dropped Trump to 38% approval—his worst of this term—with 57% disapproving. Women have abandoned him at historic levels: 31% approve versus 64% disapprove, a collapse from -22 to -33 net in a single week. His base backbone of older Americans is crumbling too, with both 45-64 and 65+ groups hitting record-low approval. Even Fox...

Three DOJ Cases Implode Monday delivered a trifecta of humiliation for Trump’s weaponized Justice Department. Comey & James Dismissed: Federal Judge Cameron Currie threw out indictments against James Comey and Letitia James—and ejected the prosecutor. Lindsey Halligan, an insurance lawyer with zero prosecutorial experience, was Trump’s handpicked attack dog. The judge wrote that under the governme...

The White House called him a “commie.” Trump threatened to bankrupt New York City if voters elected him. On the eve of the election, the president personally endorsed disgraced ex-governor Andrew Cuomo over him. Zohran Mamdani won anyway with 50.4% in the highest turnout NYC election in over half a century—then walked into the Oval Office and made Trump fold. That closed-door meeting Friday aftern...

5️⃣ TRUMP’S DEATH THREAT MELTDOWN Donald Trump spent last night threatening to execute six Democratic lawmakers—all military veterans or intelligence professionals—for reminding U.S. troops that they have a legal duty to refuse illegal orders. Hours after being forced to sign the Epstein Files Transparency Act following a 427-1 House vote, Trump posted “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” an...

Attorney General Pam Bondi stood at a podium Today and accidentally revealed the entire plan. Asked about new Epstein investigations she’d just announced—conveniently targeting only Democrats—she stammered through non-answers about “information” and “things” before finally admitting she’d defer to a deputy’s social media post. The performance would be laughable if it weren’t so transparent: create...

The United States House of Representatives voted 427-1 today to pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act, forcing the Department of Justice to release its files on Jeffrey Epstein. Only one member—Republican Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana—voted against transparency. Everyone else chose the survivors. Narativ Live assembled an extraordinary panel to cover this historic moment: Vicky Ward, the journa...