# FiveStack: Trump's Mailroom Coup Exposed

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Podcast: [FiveStack with Dean Blundell & Zev Shalev](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639)
Published: 2026-06-25T21:51:53+00:00
Episode link: https://www.narativ.org/p/fivestack-trumps-mailroom-coup-exposed
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## Resource

5️⃣ Leon Black Faces the Committee — $170 Million for “Tax Advice” Leon Black sits for House Oversight tomorrow, and Zev set the stakes: $170 million paid to Jeffrey Epstein over the years for what Black calls tax and estate planning. Narativ has reported that much of it ran through tax swindles — including the art-deal scheme the show investigated a few weeks ago, which Zev called one of the most egregious examples of how Black and Epstein conspired to steal from the American taxpayer. Zev set expectations low for the testimony itself. Black, he said, will follow the Bill Gates script — a 30-year friend of Epstein who claims he never knew, who will obfuscate, define the word “me,” and offer no real accountability. But Black is 1A in this story alongside Donald Trump: the financial crimes reach back to the 1987 crash, the $62.5 million he paid the US Virgin Islands in 2023 to escape prosecution, and the money that moved between Black and Russian women. Black has been photographed beside Vladimir Putin, and he traveled to Moscow with Trump in 1996. The money, Zev noted, keeps leading the same direction. 4️⃣ The Real Cost of Venezuela Comes Home Two earthquakes leveled the towns west of Caracas on Wednesday night. The toll climbed through the show — at least 188 dead, and rising — in a country the United States captured in January and has occupied ever since. Marco Rubio has already sent resources, and Zev noted the policy itself is sound: you endear yourself to a people you now hold. But Dean landed the contradiction hard. He reminded viewers of Hurricane Helene’s wreckage still unrepaired across North Carolina, of the Texas floods that killed children at Camp Mystic, of FEMA money Trump refused at home — while resources flow to Venezuela to protect oil. When you seize…

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