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Mid-Day Digest · February 24, 2026

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“There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.” —James Madison (1788)

IN TODAY’S DIGEST

EXECUTIVE NEWS SUMMARY

The Editors

  • State of the Union preview: Donald Trump will give his first State of the Union Address of his second term tonight at 9:00 p.m. Eastern. (The speech the newly inaugurated president gave at this time last year was a “Joint Address to Congress.”) Trump has promised that the speech will be a long one because “we have so much to talk about.” Many Democrat members of congress will not attend or plan to walk out during the speech to stage counterprogramming. The president invited the triumphant men’s and women’s hockey teams to celebrate their Olympic victories. The men’s team told the president “We’re in,” while the women’s team respectfully declined due supposedly to scheduling conflicts.
  • First tariff refund lawsuit: As anticipated, following the Supreme Court’s ruling that President Trump exceeded his authority to levy tariffs via the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the first of what is sure to be a litany of lawsuits was raised on Monday. FedEx is suing the Trump administration for a “full refund” of the tariffs it paid over the past year, plus interest, though it did not specify an amount. Trump responded to the Court’s decision with his intention to impose 15% global tariffs under the Trade Act of 1974, which would be a temporary measure to maintain the tariffs, but it does not address the restitution that companies will pursue from the tariffs they paid thus far. Meanwhile, Senate Democrats introduced legislation requiring the Trump administration to refund $175 billion in tariffs collected within 180 days of the law’s enactment, should it be passed.
  • SCOTUS takes up Colorado climate change law: The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear Suncor Energy v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, a case that challenges holding oil companies liable for climate change. Boulder County, Colorado, raised a case against fossil fuel companies, claiming they were responsible for causing damaging climate change. Colorado’s Supreme Court upheld the lower courts’ rejection of the fossil fuel companies’ attempts to dismiss, on the grounds that the Clean Air Act regulates interstate air pollution. The Justice Department is siding with the oil companies. This is now the second case the Court has taken up involving claims that blame fossil fuel companies for climate change.
  • Gavin Newsom’s implied racism: Which party is the party with a long, notorious history of racism? It’s not the Republicans, no matter how incessantly Leftmedia outlets and Democrats claim otherwise. Democrats have long plied identity politics as their primary electoral strategy, relying on stereotyping to sell their brand. This political dynamic was blatantly displayed when California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat presidential hopeful, recently told a crowd of mostly blacks in Georgia the following: “I’m not trying to impress you, I’m just trying to impress upon you [that] I’m like you. I’m no better than you. You know? I’m a 960 SAT guy. … I cannot — you’ve never seen me read a speech. Because I cannot read a speech.” Does Newsom believe blacks are dumb and near-illiterate? Recall that Joe Biden appeared to hold a similar view when he opined, “Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.”
  • Jack Smith’s report blocked: Former legal hitman special prosecutor Jack Smith is desperate to fulfill his mandate to smear Donald Trump, but U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has seemingly put an end to his attempts once and for all. In July 2024, Cannon ruled that Smith had been unlawfully appointed as special counsel and dismissed the charges against President Trump. Smith was undeterred and compiled a report intended for circulation among members of congress. That final report was sent to then-Attorney General Merrick Garland and was set to become public on Tuesday, except for Cannon’s action. “The Court strains to find a situation in which a former special counsel has released a report after initiating criminal charges that did not result in a finding of guilt,” said Judge Cannon.
  • Biden did have prior knowledge of the Mar-a-Lago raid: Former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre lied. That’s not news. What is news is that there is now proof that she was specifically lying when she told the press that President Joe Biden was not briefed about the 2022 FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago and learned about it “just like the American people did.” FBI communications from August 3, 2022 — days before the raid — say the “event is dependent upon the timeline of President Biden’s brief, decision, and coordination between [White House] Counsel and DOJ.” It sure seems that if the timing of the raid was dependent on Biden’s decision, he must’ve been aware it was going to happen. Biden may have protested innocence, but he was the one weaponizing the government against his political opponent, and now we have the receipts.
  • Newsom pardons a savage illegal alien convict: In 1996, Somboon Phaymany, then a green-card holder, was a member of the Oriental Boy Soldiers gang. He was in deep enough to participate in a drive-by shooting, even bringing along a weapon as he sat in the passenger seat. He was convicted of 10 counts of attempted murder and 18 counts of assault with a firearm, among other charges. He was sentenced to two life sentences. California Gov. Gavin Newsom now says that Somboon has “demonstrated his fitness for restoration of civic rights and responsibilities,” and he granted this illegal immigrant gang member a full pardon, which removes the criminal offense for which he would be immediately subject to deportation. Newsom’s office insists that the pardon “does not minimize or forgive his conduct or the harm it caused,” except, of course, it does exactly that.
  • GOP infighting may squander any chance for a Republican victory in California: Thanks to California’s ridiculous jungle primary system and a crowded field of Democrat candidates, voters in the deep-blue state could find themselves choosing between two Republican candidates for governor. Thus far, two Republicans, former Fox News host Steve Hilton and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, have risen to the top in recent polling, setting up the possibility of just such a scenario. In order for a Republican to have any real shot at winning the gubernatorial election, both of them must end up being the top two in a runoff election. In large part, they have avoided attacking each other. Unfortunately, though, they have begun to do just that as they vie for the top Republican spot. They may want to rethink that strategy.
  • Anniversary of Russia’s Ukraine invasion: Ukraine is entering its fifth year of defending itself from the predations of Russia. Volodymyr Zelensky is frustrated, and Vladimir Putin is obstinate. No progress toward peace has been made after months of U.S.-led negotiations. Following four war-torn years, Russia now occupies 20% of Ukrainian territory, but Putin does not view this as the completion of his goal and will press on with his historical justification for the war. Zelensky continues to reject Putin’s assertion that all of Ukraine belongs to Russia — even just the Donbas — saying, “He has not broken Ukrainians.” The war has taken its toll on both countries, with nearly half a million dead and 1.5 million either wounded or missing. Civilian casualties increased in Ukraine last year, which was the deadliest for civilians since the invasion. Six million Ukrainians are living outside the country as refugees.

Headlines

  • Millions dig out from deadly blizzard (Fox Weather)
  • Adam Schiff says he’ll skip the State of the Union (Fox News)
  • Maryland sues Trump administration to stop construction of ICE detention facility (Washington Examiner)
  • Ex-British Ambassador to U.S. Peter Mandelson arrested in Epstein probe (NY Post)

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FEATURED ANALYSIS

Was Mar-a-Lago Intruder Motivated by Epstein Obsession?

Nate Jackson

“You used to have to have facts before you said stuff,” complained Whoopi Goldberg on “The View” last week. Notwithstanding Goldberg’s extensive experience spouting off about things without the facts, her gripe was a response to reports that her name showed up in Jeffrey Epstein’s emails.

“Well, Trump is on this list 38,000 times,” retorted her cohost, Joy Behar. “I mean, come on.”

Goldberg replied, “Well, I can’t speak to him, but I’m speaking about me because I’m getting dragged.”

Like every American, I’ll await with bated breath to hear what Whoopi and the gang have to say about the man who was killed by Secret Service agents on Sunday because he showed up at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate with a shotgun and a gas can due to the president’s name being in the Epstein files. Goldberg is “getting dragged”? Well, Trump’s life is on the line. Again.

“The View” didn’t discuss it yesterday, so I guess I’ll keep waiting. Much of the rest of the media downplayed it.

To be sure, this wasn’t a near-miss like Butler, Pennsylvania, in July 2024, when 20-year-old Thomas Crooks fired eight shots with his rifle and came within an inch of taking Trump’s life. He did kill Corey Comperatore, a former local fire chief, and critically wounded two other men.

This wasn’t even a replay of West Palm Beach, Florida. While Trump was playing a round of golf in September 2024, Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, hid in the bushes with a rifle, ready to take a shot before Secret Service agents spotted and arrested him.

On Sunday, 21-year-old Austin Tucker Martin of Moore County, North Carolina, didn’t get close to Trump, who wasn’t even at his Florida estate at the time. But despite his Trump-loving family background, Martin was likely motivated by the same kind of hateful and deranged rhetoric that has become the stock in trade of Democrats these days.

There doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of “there” there with the Epstein files, but many Americans — maybe especially young, disaffected men — are obsessed with the rampant criminal corruption they believe has overrun our institutions of power, including Donald Trump’s White House. Martin seems to have been “fixated” on the files.

“I don’t know if you read up on the Epstein Files, but evil is real and unmistakable,” he wrote in a text thread with a coworker a week ago. “The best people like you and I can do is use what little influence we have. Tell other people about what you hear about the Epstein files and what the government is doing about it. Raise awareness.”

He was deeply concerned about a concerted government cover-up intended to help elites keep “getting away with it.” Congressional Democrats have encouraged that exact sentiment about Trump because his Justice Department hemmed and hawed and foot-dragged about releasing the files.

So did Joe Biden’s Justice Department, but never mind that.

Also, never mind that if Trump had even a whiff of criminal behavior alleged in the files, Democrats would have been trumpeting and prosecuting it years ago.

Still, the New York Post reported an unintentionally hilarious line: “Authorities haven’t revealed a motive for the potential thwarted attack.”

Sure. Maybe Martin just wanted to go through Melania Trump’s underwear drawer like the FBI did in 2022. Yeah, that’s it.

“Got a lot of people gunning for me, don’t I?” Trump whimsically responded on Monday. “You read about all these crazy shooters, but they only go after consequential presidents,” he added. “They don’t go after non-consequential presidents.”

His daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, was much more circumspect. “Whenever you just casually throw around terms like Nazi, like fascist, like Hitler, and racist, what do you think the consequences of that ultimately will be?” she asked rhetorically. “And I’ll tell you as a family member, I keep wondering how many chances does one man get? He’s not gonna be lucky enough at some point,” she continued. “You don’t get lucky every single time.”

No, you don’t. Charlie Kirk wasn’t lucky.

In any case, with tonight’s State of the Union Address, Democrats and their Leftmedia propagandists will return to their regularly scheduled Trump derangement.

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  • Douglas Andrews: Trump Hosts Angel Families — The Democrats no doubt wish that these devastated families would just go away, but Donald Trump is committed to making sure we never forget.
  • Michael Swartz: Taking the Offensive Against Cartels — The drug kingpin known as “El Mencho” was killed by Mexican authorities, opening a new chapter in the war on cartels.
  • Emmy Griffin: The Inspirational Ben Sasse and Nearing Glory — We are all going to die one day. The question is, how are we going to live?
  • Jack DeVine: The Peanut Gallery Pipes Up — Their message every week: everything President Donald Trump does is awful, and democracy will be gone by next Tuesday.
  • Caleb Nunes: America at 250 — America’s uniqueness lies in its foundation on republicanism: the rule of a people through law and representation, rather than the rule of a ruler, a caste, or a permanent managerial class.

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BEST OF VIDEOS

  • I’m Not Falling for Gavin Newsom — Governor Newsom tried to relate to his audience in Atlanta by saying “I’m just like you” after boasting of his low SAT score. Does he think black people are stupid?

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Lawfare, Continued…

“If these corporations think that the Democrats, when they come back in power, are going to, you know, play by the old rules … and say, ‘Oh, never mind. We’ll forgive you for all the people you fired, all the policies and principles you’ve violated, all, you know, the laws you’ve skirted,’ I think they’ve got another thing coming.” —former UN Ambassador and Netflix board member Susan Rice threatening corporations with retaliation for not maintaining the leftist line

The BIG Lie

“The Republicans, you know, they’re setting up these internment camps.” —Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) on ICE detention centers

Defamation

“They thought Trump was the one to take down the secret pedophile ring. … He’s right in the middle of it.” —Senate candidate James Talarico (D-TX)

Hollyweirdo

“[Donald Trump] will never leave. We have to make him leave. … It’s up to us to get rid of him. … Like Vietnam, you got to get out there and protest.” —actor Robert De Niro

Dumb & Dumber

“The followers of President Donald Trump are at a crossroads of repentance. The choices, as ever, are stark: to continue to belong to a cult of personality that has led to blood in the streets, or to choose change, and all the sacrifices that might entail.” —UC Berkeley professor Kaya Oakes

“If waving the American flag or chanting ‘USA!’ turns you off right now, you’re not alone.” —the subtitle to HuffPost senior reporter Monica Torres’s piece, “There’s A Name For The Discomfort You’re Feeling Watching The Olympics Right Now”

Faux Pas

“I’m not trying to impress you. I’m just trying to impress upon you [that] I’m like you. I’m no better than you. You know? I’m a 960 SAT guy. … You’ve never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech.” —California Gov. Gavin Newsom to black southerners

Clapbacks:

“His way of bonding with black ppl is to tell them how stupid he is & that he can’t read. This means my first read on him was correct. He’s been handed so many things & put in high positions he never earned or deserved.” —singer-songwriter Nicki Minaj

“Why does Gavin Newsom think cussing will distract us from the fact that he equated blackness with being a dumbass?” —podcaster CJ Pearson

Stranger Than Fiction

“New York’s Communist Mayor demands 3 forms of identification to be an Official Volunteer Snow Shoveler during a blizzard. He will also have you know that these are extremely racist criteria if you want to vote.” —Guy Benson

Upright

“This is all about our country right now. I love the USA. I love my teammates. … I’m so proud to be American today.” —Olympian Jack Hughes after his gold medal-winning overtime score in hockey

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BREAKING: Disgraced Former Prince Andrew ARRESTED on His 66th Birthday Over Epstein Scandal | The Gateway Pundit

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BREAKING: Disgraced Former Prince Andrew ARRESTED on His 66th Birthday Over Epstein Scandal
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ARRESTED: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

‘Randy Andy’ is now living what he never thought possible.

In an explosive turn of events, it has been reported that disgraced former Prince Andrew has been arrested.

The former Duke of York, son of the late Queen Elizabeth II and brother to reigning King Charles III, has been arrested on the day of his 66th birthday.

Thames Valley Police arrested Andrew on suspicion of misconduct in public office, and he is in custody.

Police are also searching addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk.

🚨 BREAKING

Royal Correspondent @CameronDLWalker reports on breaking news that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, brother of King Charles, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. pic.twitter.com/dkvtJOFrH8

— GB News (@GBNEWS) February 19, 2026

The Telegram reported:

“Police have been assessing claims against Mr Mountbatten-Windsor that emerged in the Jeffrey Epstein files, including allegations that he shared sensitive information with the pedophile when he was a UK trade envoy.

Six unmarked police cars and about eight plain-clothed officers, with one carrying a police-issue laptop, were seen arriving at Wood Farm on the Sandringham estate just after 8am.”

BREAKING: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, according to Thames Valley Police.

Read more: https://t.co/8W5qVkwuCB

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— Sky News (@SkyNews) February 19, 2026

“An unmarked police car was seen leaving around 30 minutes later, followed by another unmarked police car and then a third car thought to be containing Mr. Mountbatten-Windsor’s security.”

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Andrew kneeling over a young woman – presumed victim of sex trafficking – in a photo released in the Epstein files.

Statement from Thames Valley police:

“As part of the investigation, we have today (19/2) arrested a man in his sixties from Norfolk on suspicion of misconduct in public office and are carrying out searches at addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk.

‘The man remains in police custody at this time.

‘We will not be naming the arrested man, as per national guidance. Please also remember that this case is now active so care should be taken with any publication to avoid being in contempt of court.”

Assistant Chief Constable Oliver Wright said: “Following a thorough assessment, we have now opened an investigation into this allegation of misconduct in public office.

‘It is important that we protect the integrity and objectivity of our investigation as we work with our partners to investigate this alleged offence.

‘We understand the significant public interest in this case, and we will provide updates at the appropriate time.”

This is a developing story. Stay tuned for more.

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Disgraced Former Prince Andrew Reportedly Shared Confidential Document With a Banker Friend While Acting as a UK Trade Envoy

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Mid-Day Digest · February 18, 2026

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“The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.” —George Washington (1796)

IN TODAY’S DIGEST

EXECUTIVE NEWS SUMMARY

The Editors

  • The latest on the Rhode Island trans murders: The picture of trans lunacy that led to Robert Dorgan killing his ex-wife and son at a hockey game on Monday is becoming increasingly clear. On Sunday, a day before his lethal attack, Dorgan responded to a social media post that correctly identified Rep. Tim “Sarah” McBride as a man with this chilling message: “keep bashing us. but do not wonder why we go BERSERK.” Dorgan underwent some form of “gender reassignment surgery” in 2020, which contributed to his divorce. The trans movement deliberately reshapes the minds of those susceptible to its cult-like messaging so that they undergo irreversible surgeries and feel that there is no turning back. Dorgan is yet another example of why the trans movement, and trans individuals, cannot be celebrated in a functioning society. For more on trans lunacy, read Mark Alexander’s column this afternoon.
  • Minnesota gaslighting? In the latest example of abject cognitive dissonance, Minnesota’s Democrat leaders are calling on the federal government to shell out billions in taxpayer funding to “pay for what they broke.” Pointing to DHS’s efforts to round up criminal illegal aliens, Gov. Tim Walz called for “accountability on the things that happened, but one of the things is the incredible and immense costs that were borne by the people of this state.” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey also demanded that the feds cover some of the economic cost, estimated at over $200 million, from the anti-ICE “protests.” These demands are laughable given the fact that an estimated $18 billion in welfare fraud, much of it tied to the immigrant Somali community, occurred in Minnesota under their watch. Had these two simply worked with ICE rather than against DHS, then maybe the negative economic hit never would have occurred.
  • Schumer introduces a bill protecting the pride flag like the American flag: The year is 2026, the 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States of America, and Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer’s idea of a celebration is to protect … the pride flag’s right to fly at national monuments. Schumer’s legislation would make the LGBT pride flag a congressionally authorized symbol, giving it the same protections as the U.S. flag, military flags, and POW/MIA flags. The background surrounds Stonewall National Monument, the site of a clash between gay bargoers and the police in 1969, sometimes considered the birthplace of the gay rights movement. Department of the Interior guidance temporarily removed the pride flag from that site, although it has since been reinstalled. Schumer wants to make sure that the flag of perverse sexual identities can never again be removed.
  • Top Dem fundraiser tied to Epstein: The latest release of the Epstein files from the Justice Department reveals that fundraisers working for high-profile Democrat lawmakers, including the likes of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, had no problem seeking help from Jeffrey Epstein even after his sex-offender conviction. These fundraisers repeatedly sought Epstein’s assistance through 2017. One example shows that Epstein was sent an invitation to a “Schumer Senate Candidate Reception,” which featured then-Rep. Martin Heinrich, who was running for the Senate in New Mexico. The files show that it was primarily the Democrat fundraising and public affairs outfit Dynamic SRG that repeatedly reached out to Epstein on behalf of several Democrat candidates, including New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York Sen. Kristen Gillibrand.
  • Vatican says no to Trump’s Board of Peace: The Vatican has rejected an invitation from the Trump administration to join the president’s Board of Peace, the group that will oversee the rebuilding of Gaza. Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin explained that the papacy “will not participate in the Board of Peace because of its particular nature, which is evidently not that of other States.” Parolin added that the Vatican’s position is that “at the international level it should above all be the U.N. that manages these crisis situations.” Donald Trump has envisioned his Board of Peace as an eventual replacement for the UN, arguing, “The UN should have settled every one of the wars that I settled.” While the Vatican has rebuffed Trump, Italy will join the board as an observer, but not yet a full member.
  • Wages up 1.9% under Trump: The economy under the second Trump administration is not blowing Americans away with its rapid growth, but the signs of growth and responsible policy are showing up. Real wages are up 1.9% after declining nearly 4% during the Biden administration. “Real wage” is a measure of how purchasing power actually stacks up after inflation and other economic factors are taken into account. Voters may still be upset that prices aren’t coming down, but when wage growth outpaces inflation, the result is much the same. There are other signs of a strong economy, too. Government spending is up 2% for FY 2026, but revenues are up 12%, which, combined with other factors, has reduced the deficit by 20% in the first third of the fiscal year. An economic boom hasn’t materialized yet, but for the first time this decade, there’s hope for one.
  • 8,000 abortion-pill attempts successfully reversed: Good news — more babies’ lives saved, which means more moms’ minds and hearts changed. Heartbeat International says the number of women who went through the Abortion Pill Reversal Network to save their baby is now 8,000, an increase from 7,000 in June. Despite Democrats lying that abortions can’t be reversed and social media platforms like Google restricting advertising, limiting awareness online, the Abortion Pill Reversal Network has grown “steady and incremental each year,” as have inquiries to their hotline. Mifepristone, a two-pill regimen usually prescribed via telehealth, is responsible for two-thirds of abortions nationwide. If progesterone is taken within 24 hours of the first abortion pill, it counteracts the effects of mifepristone, often saving the pregnancy. Christa Brown, Heartbeat’s director of medical impact, stated, “Time matters, and so does accurate information.”
  • U.S. VIP aircraft fleet gets new color scheme: For the first time since the Kennedy administration, a president is rethinking the color scheme of Air Force VIP jets, including those that serve as Air Force One and Two. The now classic colors have been robin’s egg blue and white, but as the executive fleet comes in for repair and maintenance, it is being repainted in navy blue, deep red, and gold. President Trump, who has a well-known fascination with gold, probably couldn’t help himself. New jets are getting the new paint, including the 747-8i intended to serve as Air Force One, which was donated by Qatar last year. The refurbishment of the donated plane is well underway, and it is expected to enter service by this summer.

Headlines

  • Socialist New York mayor announces 9.5% property tax on “working and middle class” (Not the Bee)
  • CBS denies it pulled Colbert’s Talarico interview (The Hill)
  • Iran and U.S. agree on “guiding principles” of nuclear deal, Tehran says (NY Post)
  • DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin to leave Trump admin (Fox News)

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The Leftmedia Loves Mercenary Athlete Eileen Gu

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Twenty-two-year-old decorated freestyle skier Eileen Gu is competing in her second Winter Olympics. So far in her Olympic career (Beijing and Milan/Cortina), she has won five medals. Not only that, but she is a model and a student at Stanford University with a near-perfect SAT score. The American media has fawned over her since her first Olympics in 2022.

There’s just one very big, very obvious problem: Gu is an American citizen, born and raised in San Francisco, California, yet she has chosen to represent her mother’s home country of China. That prompts a question: Why on earth is the media gushing over her?

She’s not our athlete. In fact, she represents our biggest geopolitical enemy, communist China, all while reaping the benefits of living in a free market economy and a constitutional republic.

Perhaps it’s a question of following the money. While Chinese companies do not directly own any part of news organizations like NBC that give Gu attention and air time, there is enough of a relationship to wonder whether money has exchanged hands.

Perhaps it’s the beauty factor. Gu is very attractive, charismatic, and evidently intelligent.

Whatever the reason, elevating her instead of focusing on the accomplishments of our own American athletic representatives in Italy is yet another reason the media is a hypocritical cesspool. They jumped all over skier Hunter Hess for saying that he has mixed feelings about representing the U.S. — even though they asked him about politics — and now they’re happy to promote a Chinese athlete as inspirational.

“Charisma and good looks cannot fully explain the almost complete absence of a sense of betrayal or disloyalty in the American media’s extensive coverage of Gu,” podcast host Mike Pesca observes in The Free Press. “The skiing star’s decision to compete for America’s most important geopolitical rival has been almost completely frictionless — bringing in its wake only great celebration and remuneration. This would have been hard to imagine at any other time in U.S. history.”

Syndicated columnist Rich Lowry was even more pointed when he explained, “Gu skis for China, a choice that is a little like deciding to represent a fascist country during the 1930s.”

We have slightly more recent history to consider than Nazi Germany. Gu’s choice to represent China is akin to an American during the Cold War choosing to represent the USSR. It’s a bad look that should give any patriotic American heartburn. Russia, whose goal during those Cold War years was to present its culture and communist political system as premier, would have loved such a coup.

Zituo Wang, a USC-based researcher and Chinese national, told Pesca, “Even if [the Chinese people] know she was American, they think China is so strong that they can turn an American girl to represent us. That shows the strength of China.”

China loves its American turncoat athlete and pays her millions to represent its deleterious values and win medals on the world stage. Gu was the fourth-highest-paid female athlete in 2025. According to The Wall Street Journal, Gu and a fellow American competing for China, figure skater Zhu Yi, have received a combined $14 million over the past three years.

While it’s not outright legal treason, it’s “adjacent to treason,” posits National Review’s Charles C.W. Cooke, himself a naturalized citizen who emigrated from England. “She chose to represent a communist dictatorship over the United States. That is the wrong call.”

There is also a question about the legality of Gu competing for China while still retaining her U.S. citizenship. China does not allow dual citizenship, yet Gu is an American citizen and, apparently, a surreptitious Chinese one as well. Otherwise, how would she be allowed to compete in the Olympics representing the ChiComs? According to Olympic bylaws, “Any competitor in the Olympic Games must be a national of the country.” Gu routinely avoids these citizenship questions, and how this is allowed is a mystery.

Eileen Gu has made her choice and profited from it. And the legacy media that is pushing this “All-American Girl” story should be loudly rebuked. Gu is not an inspiring figure. She is a mercenary who chose to represent a communist dictatorship over the free Republic that raised and nurtured her. Celebrating that decision is why we call leftists unpatriotic. They give more grace and nuance to actual authoritarian regimes than they do to their own people and our coequal system of government. It’s truly disgusting.

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  • Nate Jackson: The ‘Warmth of Collectivism’ Brings Middle Class Tax Hikes — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is playing a high-stakes game with Governor Kathy Hochul, threatening big property tax hikes if she doesn’t allow him to tax the rich.
  • Thomas Gallatin: Reflecting on Jesse Jackson — The former civil rights leader may have marched with Martin Luther King Jr., but he never lived up to MLK’s legacy.
  • Sophie Starkova: DOJ Sues Harvard Over DEI — The battle between the Trump administration and the prestigious university continues, as the two duke it out over race-based admissions.
  • Michael Smith: Ruminating on Ruemmler — Uncle Jeffrey’s “niece” has been in and around some pretty nasty stuff. She wasn’t an observer; she was a participant.

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A Trip Down Memory Lane

“Let’s admit the truth. Everywhere people go, they’re asked for a Social Security card. In fact, one way to prove you’re a bona fide person who can have a job is to ask for a driver’s license and a Social Security card. This is an anti-fraud amendment.” —Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who’s anti-SAVE Act, in 1996 regarding the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act

The BIG Lie

“For 50 years, the religious Right, a political movement — that is the perfect description for it — they convinced a lot of our fellow Christians that the most important issues were abortion and gay marriage. Two issues that aren’t mentioned in the Bible. Two issues that Jesus never talked about.” —Senate candidate James Talarico (D-TX), who falsely claims to be a devout Christian

Spin Doctor

“Ted Cruz calling a dyslexic person illiterate is a new low, even for him.” —California Gov. Gavin Newsom after Senator Cruz called him “historically illiterate,” which has nothing to do with dyslexia

Here in the Real World

“Rent’s due, mortgage is due, and all these bills are due at the beginning of the month. And so that’s when it really hits home.” —TSA employee in Utah on the effects of the Democrat shutdown

Double Standards

“For years, the media ignored or ridiculed anyone who said mass migration was straining resources — from Springfield, Ohio to border towns. They even attacked Texas for trying to build a border wall. Now they’re worried about detention centers overwhelming towns in red states?” —Lydia Moynihan

Political Futures

“[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] is to strategic thinkers what Gayle King is to astronauts. She projects all the authority of an International Relations 101 student who didn’t realize that there was going to be a pop quiz before spring break.” —Rich Lowry

“This is a woman with some political talents and political gifts. It’s just that knowledge doesn’t seem to be one of them.” —journalist Brit Hume on AOC

“The dirty little secret about politics and politicians is that if they solve a problem, they no longer have an issue to run on. Keeping their place in office with all its perks has become the primary objective of too many members.” —Cal Thomas

Re: The Left

“Whether the scene is Minneapolis today or Seattle six years ago, what’s happening in America’s cities is not just a revolt against law enforcement — it’s an attempt to establish different laws, different borders and a different kind of government, not through anything like a democratic electoral process but by directly seizing power in the streets.” —Daniel McCarthy

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BOMBSHELL: Pam Bondi Announces ALL Epstein-Related Materials Released — Pelosi, Obama, Newsom, Biden and Other Democrats Named in Files — HERE IS the Complete List of 300+ Individuals | The Gateway Pundit

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BOMBSHELL: Pam Bondi Announces ALL Epstein-Related Materials Released — Pelosi, Obama, Newsom, Biden and Other Democrats Named in Files — HERE IS the Complete List of 300+ Individuals
Image shows a split scene with a woman speaking at a podium on the left and three individuals, including a former president, interacting on the right.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has officially transmitted to Congress the Department of Justice’s Section 3 report under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, confirming that the DOJ has now released ALL Epstein-related materials in its possession.

The February 14, 2026, report — addressed to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member Dick Durbin, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, and Ranking Member Jamie Raskin — confirms that the Department has released all the files.

“In accordance with the requirements of the Act, and as described in various Department submissions to the courts of the Southern District of New York assigned to the Epstein and Maxwell prosecutions and related orders, the Department released all ‘records, documents, communications and investigative materials in the possession of the Department’ that ‘relate to’ any of nine different categories,” the letter read.

The Department released materials tied to the following nine categories:

  1. Jeffrey Epstein — all investigations, prosecutions, and custodial matters
  2. Ghislaine Maxwell
  3. Flight logs and travel records — aircraft manifests, itineraries, customs records, vessels, vehicles used by Epstein or related entities
  4. Individuals named in connection with Epstein’s criminal activity, civil settlements, immunity deals, plea agreements, or investigations
  5. Entities (corporate, nonprofit, academic, governmental) tied to Epstein’s trafficking or financial networks
  6. Immunity deals, non-prosecution agreements, plea bargains, sealed agreements involving Epstein or associates
  7. Internal DOJ communications regarding decisions to charge or decline prosecution
  8. Communications regarding destruction, deletion, or concealment of evidence
  9. Documentation of Epstein’s detention and death, including incident reports, witness interviews, autopsy files

The DOJ stated:

“No records were withheld or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary.”

The only materials withheld were those protected by traditional legal privileges such as attorney-client or deliberative-process privilege.

Bondi’s letter also details the redaction process. According to the report, redactions were limited to:

  • Victim personal and medical information
  • Child sexual abuse material (CSAM)
  • Information that could jeopardize active investigations
  • Graphic images of death or abuse

No classification-based redactions were used.

Unredacted versions are available for congressional inspection at the DOJ.

The letter includes a list of more than 300 high-profile names. The list is a “Who’s Who” of the liberal elite and establishment figures, including Barack and Michelle Obama, Joe and Hunter Biden, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, and Bill Gates.

And yes, Nancy Pelosi and Gavin Newsom make the list!

The DOJ states that the following individuals were included because:

Their name “appears in the files released under the Act at least once” in any context.

The Department cautioned that names appear across a “wide variety of contexts” — including:

  • Emails
  • Press mentions
  • Third-party reporting
  • Peripheral document references

And that:

Some individuals are mentioned “only in a portion of a document… unrelated to the Epstein and Maxwell matters.”

Full Name Index (As Listed in DOJ Report)

Acosta, Alexander
Adelson, Miriam
Allen, Woody
Allred, Gloria
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
Assange, Julian
Arthur Edward Rory Guinness
Audrey, Strauss
Avakian, Stephanie
Babino, Vincent
Baldwin, Alec
Band, Doug
Bannon, Steve
Barak, Ehud
Barr, William
Becerra, Xavier
Belohlavek, Lanna
Berman, Geoffrey
Bezos, Jeff
Beyonce
Biden, Ashley
Biden, Hunter
Biden, Jill
Biden, Joe
Birger, Laura
Bistricer, David
Bistricer, Marc
Black, Leon
Blair, Tony
Blanche, Todd
Blinken, Antony
Boies, David
Bolton, John
Bongino, Dan
Bono
Book, Lauren
Booker, Cory
Bowdich, David
Boyd, Stephen E.
Bradshaw, Ric
Brennan, John
Branson, Richard
Brockman, John
Brunel, Jean Luc
Buckley, Sean
Bull, Gerald
Bush, George W.
Bush, Jeb
Bush Jr., George
Byrne, Patrick
Calk, Stephen
Capone, Russell
Carlson, Tucker
Carper, Tom
Castro, Fidel
Cheney, Dick
Cher
Chomsky, Noam
Clayton, Jay
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, Chelsea
Clinton, Hillary
Clooney, George
Cobain, Kurt
Cohen, Michael
Colleran, Brian
Collins, Linda
Comey, James
Comey, Maureen
Conway, George
Copperfield, David
Cosby, Bill
Daza, Omar
De Niro, Robert
Desantis, Ron
Dershowitz, Alan
Diana, Princess of Wales
Diller, Barry
Donahue, Phil
Donaleski, Rebekah
Dupont, Kathleen
Economou, George
Egauger, Michael
Eisenberg, John
Elizabeth II
Ellison, Keith
Emmanuel, Rahm
Epstein, Jeffrey
Erben, Germann
Ferguson, Sarah
Feinberg, Stephen
Filip, Mark
Flynn, Michael
Foley, Mark
Fortelni, Marius
Friedland, Edward
Frost, Phillip
Garland, Merrick
Gates, Bill
Gates, Melinda
Geithner, Timothy
Giuliani, Rudy
Goldman, Dan
Graham, Lindsey
Haley, Nikki
Harris, Kamala
Harrish, Joshua
Hatch, Orin
Hawk, Rony
Heiss, Howard
Higgins, Tony
Ho, Stanley
Holder, Eric
Hoffman, Reid
Horowitz, Andreesen
Horowitz, Michael
Hosenball, Mark
Hoyer, Steny
Huckabee, Mike
Huckabee, Sarah
Hutner, Florence
Inge Rokke, Kjell
Iveagh, Clare
Jackson, Michael
Jagger, Mick
Jarecki, Henry
Jay Z
Jayapal, Pramila
Jeffries, Hakeem
Johnson, Hank
Jones, Alex
Joplin, Janis
Kasich, John
Kendall Rowlands, John
Kennedy Jr., Robert F.
Kerry, John
Khanna, Ro
Kline, Carl
Krisher, Barry
Kudlow, Larry
Kushner, Jared
Kyl, Jon
Lady Victoria Hervey
Lefkowitz, Jay
Lefroy, Jeremy
Leo, Leonard
Lew, Jack
Lewinsky, Monica
Lieu, Ted
Lofgren, Zoe
Lonergan, Jessica
Lorber, Howard
Lord Robert May
Lutnick, Howard
Lynch, Loretta
Mace, Nancy
Mandelson, Peter
Mao, Coreen
Margolin, James
Markey, Ed
Markle, Meghan
Massie, Thomas
Maxwell, Ghislaine
Maxwell, Robert
May, Theresa
McCain, John
McFarland, Nicole
Meadows, Mark
Menendez, Robert
Milikowski, Nathan
Milano, Alyssa
Milken, Michael
Mnuchin, Steve
Moe, Alison
Monaco, Lisa
Monroe, Marilyn
Mook, William
Moskowitz, Jared
Mueller III, Robert S.
Mulvaney, Mick
Murdoch, Rupert
Musk, Elon
Nadler, Jerry
Napolitano, Janet
Nassar, Larry
Netanyahu, Benjamin
Newsom, Gavin
Ocasio Cortez, Alexandria
Obama, Barack
Obama, Michelle
O’Donnell, Rosie
Oz, Mehmet
Papapetru, Sophia
Parker, Daniel
Patel, Kash
Paul, Ron
Pecorino, Joseph
Pelosi, Nancy
Pence, Mike
Pestana, Diego
Phelan, John
Plaskett, Stacey
Plourde, Lee
Podesta, Tony
Pompeo, Mike
Pomerantz, Lara
Pope, Susan
Pope John Paul II
Power, Samantha
Presley, Elvis
Presley, Lisa Marie
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
Prince Philip
Pritzker, JB
Pritzker, Thomas
Quayle, Dan
Raskin, Jamie
Ratcliffe, John
Ratner, Brett
Readler, Chad
Reagan, Ronald
Recarey, Joseph
Reiter, Michael
Reno, Janet
Reynolds, Tom
Rice, Susan
Richardson, Bill
Rod-Larsen, Terje
Rohrbach, Andrew
Romney, Mitt
Roos, Nicolas
Rosen, Jeffrey
Rosenstein, Rod
Ross, Diana
Rossmiller, Alexander
Roth, John
Routch, Timothy
Rove, Karl
Rowan, Marc
Rubio, Marco
Rubenstein, Howard
Ruemmler, Kathy
Ryan, Paul
Salinger, Pierre
Sasse, Ben
Scanlon, Mary Gay
Scarola, John
Schiff, Adam
Schlaff, Martin
Schenberg, Janis
Schumer, Amy
Schumer, Chuck
Schwarzman, Stephen
Scott, Tim
Sekulow, Jay
Senatore, Adrienne
Sessions, Jeff
Shamir, Yitzhak
Shappert, Gretchen
Shapiro, Ben
Shea, Timothy
Siad, Daniel
Snowden, Edward
Soros, Alex
Soros, George
Spacey, Kevin
Spitzer, Eliot
Springsteen, Bruce
Stabenow, Debbie
Staley, Jes
Starr, Kenneth
Starmer, Keir
Stoltenberg, Jens
Stordalen, Gunhild
Stordalen, Petter
Straub, Glenn
Streisand, Barbara
Summers, Larry
Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem
Swalwell, Eric
Sweeney Jr., William
Taylor Green, Marjorie
Thatcher, Margaret
Thiel, Peter
Thomas-Jacobs, Carol
Trump, Donald
Trump, Ivanka
Trump, Melania
Tucker, Chris
Vance, JD
Villafana, Marie
Walker, Richard
Warsh, Kevin
Wexner, Abigail
Wexner, Les
Williams, Damian
Wolff, Michael
Woodward, Stanley
Wyden, Ron
Yung, Mark
Zampolli, Paolo
Zucker, Jeff
Zuckerberg, Mark

It appears the Epstein Files have backfired on the left. Multiple powerful Democrats have been exposed, and Trump has been VINDICATED as the whistleblower.

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‘He was Created… He’s Not Organic’ — Rep. Tim Burchett Claims Barack Obama Was ‘Created by the Deep State’ — Alleges Jeffrey Epstein Operated Freely During Obama Years | The Gateway Pundit

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‘He was Created… He’s Not Organic’ — Rep. Tim Burchett Claims Barack Obama Was ‘Created by the Deep State’ — Alleges Jeffrey Epstein Operated Freely During Obama Years
Two men engaged in a discussion during a virtual interview, with an American flag displayed in the background, highlighting a political conversation.

Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett just went there.

In an explosive interview with Benny Johnson, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) didn’t hold back, tearing into Barack Obama’s sudden political rise and his administration’s alarming proximity to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

While the mainstream media continues to run cover for the Democrat elite, Burchett is asking the questions they refuse to touch: How did Jeffrey Epstein operate so freely while Obama was in the White House?

The conversation kicked off with breaking news regarding Kathryn Ruemmler, Obama’s former White House Counsel, who recently resigned from Goldman Sachs.

Ruemmler’s name has surfaced repeatedly in connection to Epstein, raising serious questions about the access the disgraced financier had to the highest levels of the Obama administration.

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Former Obama White House Counsel – and Goldman Sachs’s Top Lawyer – Kathryn Ruemmler RESIGNS Over Epstein Files Showing Her ‘Extensive Relationship’ With the Late Pedophile

“The vast majority of Epstein’s most heinous crimes took place while Barack Obama was President,” Johnson noted. “Jeffrey Epstein got out of jail right as Barack Obama was being put into office… And it’s his lawyer, the White House Counsel, who’s communicating with this pedophile.”

Johnson pointed out the glaring double standard in how the media treats Obama compared to anyone else. “Obama is the one who’s skated on this, and nobody’s really brought up his name,” Johnson said. “Why is nobody asking Obama, ‘Why didn’t you do something about Jeffrey Epstein?’”

Burchett’s response was nothing short of a MOAB.

According to the Tennessee Republican, Obama’s presidency wasn’t a natural political phenomenon—it was a calculated move by powerful shadow figures.

“Because President Obama was created. He’s not organic,” Burchett said. “I mean, you pick this obscure guy from college who has zero records. You have college professors that don’t remember him ever being there.”

Burchett described a pattern of mysterious dropouts and unopposed races that paved the way for Obama’s meteoric rise from a state senator to the Presidency.

“He goes from a state senator to a US senator to an unknown to being President of the United States because he was created,” Burchett explained. “They found somebody that fit their mold.”

Burchett compared Obama to “Johnny Bravo” from the Brady Bunch—a character chosen solely because he “fit the suit.”

“That’s the way Obama was. He fit the suit,” Burchett said. “He was a good-looking, articulate guy… and came up through the corrupt Chicago machine.”

The Congressman warned that this wasn’t a one-time event, pointing to members of “The Squad” like AOC as other examples of candidates manufactured by billionaire donors to push a radical agenda.

“You had billionaires putting money behind probably 30 or 40 different candidates across the country, and they hit on a half dozen… that’s how they got there.”

Burchett also expressed frustration with the media’s refusal to cover the Oversight Committee’s work on the Epstein files and other corruption investigations, noting that despite having “20 or 30,000 pages” of evidence, the legacy press ignores it to protect their own.

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Authored by Patrick Keeney via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

The public fixation on the Epstein files has settled, predictably, on the most lurid elements of the story.

This is understandable.

Sexual exploitation, particularly of the young, is among the most corrosive of crimes, and the scale of Epstein’s abuse, as well as the apparent indifference of powerful institutions to it, demands moral outrage.

But to focus exclusively on the sexual scandal is to miss the deeper and more unsettling lesson the affair reveals.

Documents that were included in the U.S. Department of Justice release of the Jeffrey Epstein files are photographed on Jan. 2, 2026. Jon Elswick/AP Photo

What the Epstein files expose, above all, is the social and moral estrangement of American elites from the people they claim to govern.

Epstein was not merely a predator who gained access to power. He was a node within a closed world of wealth, influence, and immunity. The scandal is not that powerful people behaved badly in private—history shows many such examples—but that they did so with a confidence rooted in the belief they were insulated from the consequences of their behavior.

They moved through a transnational elite culture that had largely severed itself from ordinary moral constraints, legal accountability, and civic obligation. That culture did not merely tolerate Epstein but normalized him.

This echoes the point Christopher Lasch made decades ago, long before private islands and hedge-fund philanthropy became familiar symbols of elite excess. In his 1994 book “The Revolt of the Elites,” Lasch argued that the modern American ruling classes had stopped seeing themselves as stewards of a shared national project. Instead, they increasingly saw themselves as a mobile, globalized caste, educated in the same institutions, moving through the same cities, governed by the same tastes, and primarily accountable only to each other. Citizenship was seen as a minor inconvenience. Nationhood and patriotism were just sentimental relics from less enlightened times.

The Epstein affair reads like a case study in Lasch’s thesis.

Here was an individual whose wealth was opaque, whose sources of income were rarely scrutinized, and whose social standing seemed immune to ordinary reputational risk. He functioned as a social broker among financiers, politicians, academics, royalty, and celebrities, many of whom publicly advocated policies of moral uplift, social justice, and global responsibility. Yet in private, they inhabited a world defined by indulgence, entitlement, and a contempt for limits.

Elite detachment today is not only economic but also existential, and it is hardly confined to Americans. The governing classes of advanced democracies increasingly inhabit a world defined by mobility, abstraction, and insulation from consequence. Their loyalties are professional rather than civic, global rather than national, and managerial rather than moral. They experience society less as a shared inheritance than as a set of problems to be administered at a distance. In such a world, attachment to place, memory, and common fate appears parochial, even suspect, while belonging itself is quietly redefined as an obstacle to progress.

Those who create policies affecting immigration, policing, education, public health, and national security rarely face the consequences themselves. They do not send their children to failing schools, live in high-crime neighborhoods, compete for scarce housing, or navigate broken public institutions. Their lives are shielded by wealth, location, private services, and increasingly by law itself.

The Epstein files sharpen this reality because they reveal not just hypocrisy, but impunity. Despite extensive documentation, repeated warnings, and credible testimony, accountability arrived slowly and incompletely. This is not because the crimes were ambiguous, but because the accused moved within a protected sphere where consequences were negotiable and enforcement discretionary. Justice, like morality, was something applied elsewhere for other people.

What enrages the public is not prurience, but recognition. The scandal resonates because it confirms a growing suspicion among ordinary people that there is one moral universe for the governing class and another for everyone else. Elites preach restraint, sustainability, and responsibility while living lives of extraordinary consumption and indulgence. They urge social sacrifice while exempting themselves from its costs. They speak the language of progress while practicing a refined form of decadence.

Lasch warned that such a ruling class would eventually forfeit legitimacy, not because of ideology, but because of character. A society cannot be governed indefinitely by people who do not believe they belong to it. When elites become tourists in their own countries, financially global, culturally unrooted, and morally untethered, their authority rests on little more than coercion and spectacle.

The Epstein files should therefore be read less as an aberration than as a symptom. They reveal a governing class that has lost the habits of self-restraint that once justified its power, and the sense of common fate that once bound leaders to citizens.

For many, the salient point of the Epstein files is the scandal. I think it is more accurately seen as a disclosure.

The danger is not merely that such elites are corrupt, but that they are bored. Bored with limits, bored with norms, bored with accountability, and ultimately bored with democracy itself. That boredom, Lasch understood, is the precondition of revolt, not by the masses, but by those who no longer feel answerable to them.

If the Epstein affair provokes lasting anger, it is because it crystallizes a truth many citizens already sense, that the people shaping the future live in a world apart, governed by different rules, and increasingly incapable of moral seriousness. No society can long endure that division without consequence.

The question is not whether further revelations will emerge. It is whether the public will finally insist that elites once again live under the same moral and civic conditions as those they presume to lead.

Source: The Unsettling Truths The Epstein Files Reveal About Power And Privilege

Watch: Bondi Explodes Over Epstein During Shouting Match With Massie And Top Dems | ZeroHedge

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The Trump admin couldn’t hand Democrats a fatter pitch than how they’ve handled the Epstein release…

On Wednesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi clashed repeatedly with Democrats during a tense House Judiciary Committee hearing, deflecting pointed questions about the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files before the session devolved into a shouting match with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) over redactions, co-conspirators and DOJ accountability.

The fireworks began when Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) pressed Bondi on whether DOJ has indicted or is investigating any of Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators, citing what he called “concrete evidence of disgusting criminality” in recently released files. Bondi attempted to sidestep the question; when Nadler repeated it, she raised her voice and insisted she would “answer the question the way I want to answer the question,” talking over Nadler as colleagues tried to intercede. As the exchange escalated, Bondi pivoted away from Epstein entirely – invoking the Dow, S&P and Nasdaq and touting retirement accounts. 

Democrats kept the pressure on. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) accused Bondi of lying under oath after she cited a July 2025 DOJ memo asserting there was no evidence warranting investigations of “uncharged third parties.” Lieu pointed to images of former Prince Andrew and then played a clip of Donald Trump with Epstein, asking whether there were underage girls present. Bondi responded by attacking Democrats and praising Trump, saying there was “no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime.” When Lieu cited an FBI tip and witness statement and urged DOJ to interview the witness, Bondi snapped, “Don’t you ever accuse me of a crime,” then turned to a large white binder as she accused Lieu of deflecting from crime in his district.

Similar exchanges followed with Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), with Bondi repeatedly veering into personal attacks and unrelated topics rather than answering the questions posed. Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) ultimately moved the hearing along.

Rep. Jayapal (D-WA) brought Epstein accusers…

And when asked again to face them…

The hearing’s most explosive moment came when Massie, a co-sponsor of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, confronted Bondi with DOJ and FBI documents he said showed victims’ names disclosed while alleged abusers’ names were blacked out – and a 2019 FBI file that listed Epstein confidant Les Wexner as a “co-conspirator,” a designation Massie said was redacted in DOJ’s release. As Massie asked who authorized the redactions and why, Bondi interrupted repeatedly, insisting the issue had been “corrected within 40 minutes” and accusing Massie of acting as if there were a cover-up. When Massie noted the change came only after he flagged it, the exchange turned heated, with Bondi laughing off the criticism and attacking Massie personally.

“Who’s responsible?” asked Massie. “Are you able to track who in the organization made this massive failure and released the victims’ names?”

Bondi shot back that Massie was a “failed politician” and a “hypocrite.” 

Massie then played testimony from FBI Director Kash Patel, who told Congress there was “no credible information” that anyone besides Ghislaine Maxwell assisted Epstein in trafficking women and girls, and asked Bondi whether that was her position. Bondi did not answer directly, instead urging victims to call the FBI and attempting to redirect blame to prior administrations, including former Attorney General Merrick Garland. When Massie reclaimed his time and framed the matter as a decades-long failure spanning multiple administrations, Bondi shouted that he did not “get to reclaim time” and again declined to address the substance.

By the end of the exchange, Bondi had not answered whether DOJ agrees there is “no credible information” about co-conspirators, why a document listing Wexner as a co-conspirator was redacted, or who approved releasing victims’ names while obscuring alleged abusers. The hearing closed with unanswered questions—and a stark contrast between Democrats’ early sparring over evasions and a later, bipartisan rupture that put the department’s handling of the Epstein files squarely at the center of the controversy.

Source: Watch: Bondi Explodes Over Epstein During Shouting Match With Massie And Top Dems

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They aren’t telling us the truth. The newest release of documents related to the Epstein case has raised a whole bunch of alarming new questions. To me, this scandal is like an onion. The more layers that we peel away, the worse the smell gets. Jeffrey Epstein collected rich and powerful friends like some people collect baseball cards. It appears that Epstein spent most of his time socializing with his rich and powerful friends, and his emails prove that very young girls were often a topic of conversation. But we are supposed to believe that nobody other than Epstein ever abused any of the young girls that were constantly hanging around Epstein’s home.

And since Epstein is dead, he certainly can’t point a finger at anyone.

Interestingly, one of the newly released documents is a draft statement from the Southern District of New York’s U.S. Attorney’s Office confirming that Epstein is dead.

The problem is that this draft statement is dated the day before Jeffrey Epstein’s dead body was discovered…

Newly released Epstein files include a draft statement attributed to federal prosecutors that is dated the day before Jeffrey Epstein was found dead.

The draft appears among at least 23 documents in the disclosure labeled as statements from the Southern District of New York’s U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Uh oh.

Someone has some explaining to do.

I would start with U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman.

What did Berman know, and more importantly, when did he know it?

This appears to be a smoking gun.

So far, I have not heard any reasonable explanation for why this document is dated August 9th.

And there is another huge question that everyone should be asking right now.

Why was “an orange-colored figure” going up the stairs toward “the locked tier housing Epstein’s cell at about 10:39 p.m. on Aug. 9, 2019”?…

Justice Department documents show investigators reviewing jail surveillance footage flagged an orange-colored figure moving up a staircase toward the locked tier housing Epstein’s cell at about 10:39 p.m. on Aug. 9, 2019—hours before his body was discovered the next morning.

An observation log described the figure as “possibly an inmate,” while a separate review by the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General identified the same image as a corrections officer carrying orange-colored linen or bedding.

CBS reported that independent video analysts said the movement was more consistent with an inmate—or someone wearing an orange prison uniform—than a corrections officer. Prison employees told CBS that escorting an inmate at that hour would have been highly unusual.

Did someone arrange for an inmate in an orange prison uniform to enter Epstein’s cell very late on August 9th?

If so, who was that inmate, and did that inmate kill Epstein?

Of course that are many that are entirely convinced that Epstein is still alive, and that includes Prince Andrew’s ex-girlfriend Lady Victoria Hervey…

Speaking to LBC’s Tom Swarbrick Lady Hervey, who is named in the Epstein files 23 times, said: “I don’t even think Jeffrey Epstein’s dead anymore, to be honest.” When pressed on where he was if he was alive, she said she thought he was in Israel.

Epstein’s death and its aftermath have long been sources of fascination with many of the conspiracy theories originating from an anonymous post on 4Chan before Epstein’s death was made public.

The anonymous poster claimed to be a prison guard who alleged there was a body switch in which Epstein was smuggled away in a “trip van”.

This whole thing really stinks.

But what stinks even more is that most of Epstein’s rich and powerful friends are being protected.

Yes, there have been a few rich and powerful men in Europe that have suffered consequences for spending time with Epstein…

Former U.K. Ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson was fired and could go to prison. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces a leadership crisis over the Mandelson appointment, and on Sunday, his chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, resigned over having advised Starmer to appoint Mandelson.

Senior figures have fallen in Norway, Sweden and Slovakia. And, even before the latest batch of files, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, brother of King Charles III, lost his honors, princely title and taxpayer-funded mansion.

Thanks to the newly released documents, it has become clear that Prince Andrew has been lying to us.

He has always denied being in New York at the time when Virginia Giuffre claimed that he slept with her when she was just 17 years old.

But now a newly released email proves that Prince Andrew did indeed ask to stay at Epstein’s mansion in April 2001…

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was in New York on the date that his accuser, Virginia Giuffre, claimed he sexually abused her there when she was just 17 years old, the newly released Jeffrey Epstein files show.

New email exchanges between the disgraced former prince, who was referred to either as “The Duke” or “The Invisible Man” in the bombshell files, show that he did ask Ghislaine Maxwell if he could stay at Jeffrey Epstein’s £60million Manhattan mansion in April 2001.

Prince Andrew should have told the truth when he still had the opportunity to do so.

There is no way that he is going to be able to explain away this email.

Victims such as Virginia Giuffre have been trying to tell us the truth for many years.

And even though so much new evidence has now emerged, the FBI continues to insist that Epstein never trafficked any young girls to any of his rich and powerful friends…

The FBI has found that late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein did not run a sex trafficking ring for powerful people, according to a report.

During the FBI’s Epstein investigation – which included bank records, emails and proof he abused underage girls – there was little evidence of a sex-trafficking ring, according to the Associated Press.

In photos and videos found at Epstein’s homes in New York, Florida, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, some included nude images of females, some of whom appeared to be minors. Images of commercial child sex abuse material that Epstein obtained online were also found.

We are talking about gaslighting on an industrial scale.

They are literally hoping that we will not believe our own eyes.

In 2013, Epstein exchanged emails with New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch in which they discussed a “Ukrainian girl” that apparently had “a 10 ass”…

In a 2013 email exchange between New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch and Epstein, the two men discussed multiple women.

In one email, Tisch asked for details about a “Ukrainian Girl” who had lunch with him after meeting at Epstein’s house. He called her a “very sweet girl.”

Epstein replied that the woman had “a 10 ass” and is a “character,” adding he would get “all info” on her.

Tisch responded that he was “curious to know about” the woman, and asked Epstein if she is a “pro or civilian?” prompting Epstein to reply that he doesn’t “like records of these conversations.”

Will Tisch ever be held accountable?

I doubt it.

In 2016, Epstein exchanged very alarming emails with an individual that has had his or her identity redacted by authorities.  One email included an image of a child that was just 10 years old, and another email included an image of a child that was just 11 years old…

With huge swathes of many of the documents redacted and covered in black squares, there has been an increasing demand for transparency – something that has gained even more traction after the latest uncovered message. One of the files contains an email sent to Epstein on September 22, 2016.

The sender had been redacted, but the message itself contains just two chilling words: “Age 10”. The email then appears to have an image attached to it, though the photo itself has not been released.

People rooting through files also found a similarly eerie message, which is thought to have been from the same sender. Sent just two minutes later, another email with only the words “Age 11” as well as an attached image.

In 2011, Epstein exchanged emails with Hollywood producer Barry Josephson in which a young girl with an “insane rack” was discussed…

Recently released documents uncovered frequent communication between film producer Barry Josephson and the pedophile, with women and money among the topics discussed.

These included an email exchange in 2011, where Josephson, 69, told Epstein: ‘I have “the” girl,’ adding, ‘Young, attractive, insane rack.’

Josephson said the woman had been ‘smart, although not a genius, but very efficient, will do anything, and tight lipped period end of story,’ according to the documents released by the Department of Justice last month.

These are just a few examples from the recently released documents that I am able to share.

There are other examples that are so graphic that I do not feel that I am able to share them publicly.

If the FBI and the Justice Department fail to pursue justice in this case, they will lose all of their credibility with the American people.

In fact, there are those that would argue that this has already happened.

The American people desperately want justice to be done.

Unfortunately, it appears that instead of pursuing justice, our top law enforcement agencies are engaged in a massive cover-up instead.

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by Stefan J. Bos, Worthy News Europe Bureau Chief

LONDON/BUDAPEST (Worthy News) – Europe reeled Sunday after newly released U.S. Justice Department files detailing the late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s global contacts shook royal houses and governments, triggering resignations, investigations and political fallout across several .

The documents, part of a broader disclosure of investigative material in the United States, shed new light on Epstein’s network of contacts among political leaders, diplomats, business figures and members of European royalty.

Epstein died at age 66 in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. His death was ruled a suicide. He had pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting sex from a minor.

Officials have stressed that appearing in the documents does not in itself imply criminal wrongdoing. However, scrutiny has focused on individuals who maintained contact with Epstein after his 2008 conviction.

LEGAL AND POLITICAL FALLOUT INTENSIFIES

Mark Stephens, a London-based specialist in international and human rights law, said the disclosures demonstrate the scale of Epstein’s reach. “Epstein collected powerful people the way others collect frequent flyer points,” Stephens said. “But the receipts are now in public, and some might wish they’d traveled less.”

In Britain, Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing mounting pressure to resign after former U.K. Ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson resigned amid revelations that his contact with Epstein continued longer than previously disclosed.

UK police have raided properties linked to Mandelson as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged misconduct in public office, according to media reports. A spokesperson confirmed the searches were connected to the investigation.

Political opponents — and some members of Starmer’s own Labour Party — have called for his resignation over his decision to appoint Mandelson. Starmer has apologized to Epstein’s victims and pledged transparency regarding the vetting process surrounding the appointment.

Prince Andrew, brother of King Charles III, remains one of the most prominent British figures linked to Epstein. He previously settled a U.S. civil lawsuit brought by one of Epstein’s accusers while denying wrongdoing and was stripped of royal duties and public funding.

FALLOUT SPREADS ACROSS THE CHANNEL

The political implications spread from London across the Channel to Paris, where former French Culture Minister Jack Lang stepped down as president of the Arab World Institute after his name appeared repeatedly in the released Epstein files, several European media outlets reported.

French prosecutors have opened a preliminary financial investigation related to his past contacts with Epstein. Lang has denied wrongdoing.

Across Europe, the disclosures have prompted internal reviews and political debate over standards of conduct among public officials whose names appear in the files.

The controversy is also impacting Central and Eastern Europe, including Slovakia, where national security adviser Miroslav Lajčák resigned after correspondence with Epstein became public. No criminal charges have been announced.

CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE RESPONDS

Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said authorities would review the files to determine whether Polish citizens were involved as victims or associates. Tusk also said investigators would examine whether Epstein’s network had any links to foreign intelligence services.

In the Baltic states, Latvia and Lithuania initiated reviews to assess potential domestic connections and national security implications, according to regional officials.

Analysts say the swift reviews reflect broader regional sensitivity to corruption concerns and foreign influence risks.

In Scandinavia, Norway also faced political repercussions, with Norwegian Ambassador Mona Juul resigning after disclosures about her past association with Epstein prompted a government review.

SCANDINAVIAN INVESTIGATIONS EXPAND

Separately, Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit publicly apologized after communications and visits linked to Epstein became public. “I am sorry to all of you whom I have disappointed,” she said in a statement reported by several outlets.

Norway’s economic crimes unit also opened an investigation into former Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland over reported ties to Epstein, officials said. Jagland’s legal representatives said he would cooperate with authorities.

While the files originated in the United States, the political consequences so far appear more immediate in Europe, where resignations and official reviews have followed quickly.

The disclosures continue to generate parliamentary inquiries and institutional reviews across the continent as governments assess ethical, legal and security implications stemming from Epstein’s documented international contacts.

TRANSATLANTIC ACCOUNTABILITY CONTRAST

Observers note that the European reaction stands in contrast to the more limited immediate political consequences seen in the United States, despite the files originating there.

The unfolding developments are expected to continue shaping political debate across Europe in the coming days as further details emerge from the document releases.

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They Are All Part Of One Big Club And You Should Be Thankful That You Aren’t In It | End Of The American Dream

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Has anyone ever been more connected than Jeffrey Epstein? That is a serious question. Personally, I have never heard of anyone that has spent more time socializing with the rich and famous than Epstein. We are told that he was some sort of a financier, but in reality he seemed to spend almost all of his time hanging out with his elitist friends. Prior to being convicted, Jeffrey Epstein was a pillar of the New York social scene. Everyone wanted to know him, and that included many of the most powerful men in the world.

In those days, Bill Gates frequently spent time with Epstein.

But now Gates is trying to distance himself from Epstein as much as possible, and he is still insisting that he was not involved in anything inappropriate…

The billionaire continued: ‘You know, in retrospect that was a dead end and I was foolish to spend time with him. I am one of many people who regret ever knowing him.

‘Apparently, Jeffrey wrote an email to himself. That email was never sent. The email is, you know, false.

‘I don’t know what his thinking was there. Every minute that I spent with him, I regret and I apologise that I did that.

‘I was only at dinners… I never went to the island, I never met any women, and so, you know, the more that comes out, the more clear it’ll be, that although the time was a mistake, it had nothing to do with that kind of behavior.’

Perhaps Gates is telling the truth.

And perhaps all of the other ultra-wealthy men that were close to Epstein in those days are telling the truth.

But Epstein’s victims are telling us a very different story.

One letter that was just released in the latest batch of Epstein files contains some very alarming allegations about Prince Andrew…

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Jeffrey Epstein asked an exotic dancer to “engage in various sex acts” at the late convicted sex offender’s Florida home, a legal letter claims.

In a letter released as part of the latest tranche of Epstein files, the unnamed woman’s lawyers said she had been offered $10,000 to dance and that after she performed Epstein and Mountbatten-Windsor had asked for a threesome.

Lawyers said the woman had not been paid the promised amount and would keep the alleged 2006 encounter in which she was “treated like a prostitute” confidential in exchange for a payment of $250,000.

Of course this incident pales in comparison to what Prince Andrew is alleged to have done with an underage girl named Virginia Giuffre.

And we probably shouldn’t even talk about what Prince Andrew is alleged to have done in Thailand.

It appears that this latest allegation was the final straw, because Prince Andrew has been kicked out of his home even sooner than anticipated…

SHAMED ex-prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has skulked out of Royal Lodge under the cover of darkness to start his exile.

The former Duke of York is understood to have been booted out earlier than planned after his brother King Charles became increasingly concerned with shocking ­revelations.

If you or I had done the things that Prince Andrew is alleged to have done, we would be sitting in prison right now.

But I seriously doubt that Prince Andrew will ever be charged with anything.

In addition to rubbing elbows with royalty, Jeffrey Epstein was apparently also very close with the Rothschilds.

In fact, the name “Rothschild” appears more than 12,000 times in the latest batch of files that was just released…

Somehow we are supposed to believe that even though these elitists spent so much time with Epstein over the years, none of them had any idea what he was doing with underage girls.

In addition to abusing underage girls, Epstein was also apparently getting at least some of them pregnant…

But in a separate diary entry from an unnamed source, one Epstein victim claims to have delivered a baby girl in 2002 at the age of just 16 or 17.

The document includes a copy of a pregnancy scan showing 20 weeks’ gestation.

The female claims her child was taken away from her just 10 minutes after giving birth, the documents suggest.

She also alleged Epstein’s former accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell oversaw the ordeal.

The victim writes: “She was born, I heard her cries!

Some news outlets are running stories about Epstein’s “secret children”, and it appears that those children were part of an incredibly sick plot by Epstein to “seed the human race with his DNA”…

While Little Saint James Island, infamously known as Pedophile, Rape, and Epstein Island, has received the bulk of attention in the fallout from the cover-up of Epstein’s crimes, his Zorro Ranch property is another centerpiece of the crimes committed by his criminal network. Located in the high desert north of the Estancia Basin of central New Mexico, where Epstein was not required to register as a sex offender following his 2008 plea deal in Florida, the sprawling 7,600-acre ranch hosted numerous parties implicated in Epstein’s crimes. Epstein reportedly organized the ranch as the headquarters for his eugenic plot to “seed the human race with his DNA” by impregnating countless women and underaged victims on the property. Victim Annie Farmer, alleges that Epstein and his prime accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, sexually abused her at the ranch when she was just 16-years-old.

Zorro Ranch is located in the middle of nowhere, and it has an airstrip that Epstein would use to fly directly to the property…

Shockingly, Epstein would bring some of his most important friends to this ranch.

That even included Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton.

We are being told that they liked to stay “in a cowboy-themed village created by Epstein a mile south of the main house of the ranch”…

Following Epstein’s arrest and supposed death in 2019, allegations surfaced that Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton were also frequent visitors at the Zorro Ranch. During their visits, the Clintons would stay in a cowboy-themed village created by Epstein a mile south of the main house of the ranch. These accusations were based on information taken from reports made by security consultant Jared Kellogg, who was brought in by Zorro Ranch manager Brice Gordon to improve security on the property. The reports came to light after being released by the Zorro Ranch estate following Epstein’s alleged demise. Kellogg also stated that during his meetings with Gordon, the ranch manager bragged about how often the Clintons visited the compound. “Brice [Gordon] would be bragging about how the Clintons would visit, the whole family. Not just Bill, but Bill, his wife, and their kid, and they would stay on the ranch itself.” Kellogg stated.

How did Jeffrey Epstein get access to so many rich and powerful people?

And where did his money come from in the first place?

There are so many unanswered questions.

And since it appears that it is extremely unlikely that Epstein’s rich and powerful friends will ever be charged with anything, we will probably never get any solid answers.

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Epstein and Bill Clinton visited Russian Far East – US files | RT

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The late convicted sex offender declined to answer questions about the trip to Khabarovsk during his trial, according to court papers

Epstein and Bill Clinton visited Russian Far East – US files
FILE PHOTO. Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein are seen outside No 10 Downing Street in one of the images released by the US Department of State. ©  The US Justice Department / Handout /Anadolu via Getty Images

Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein flew to Russia on at least three occasions in the early 2000s, including traveling to the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk together with former US President Bill Clinton, files published by  Department of Justice have revealed.

Last week, the DOJ uploaded thousands of documents online under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, legislation signed by US President Donald Trump in November, compelling the agency to publish data tied to federal criminal investigations into the disgraced financier and his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

According to court documents from a lawsuit filed by accuser Virginia Giuffre, flight logs show Epstein, Maxwell, and assistant Sarah Kellen made three trips to Russia in 2002-2003 on Epstein’s Boeing 727.

The most notable was in May 2002. After a stop in Novosibirsk, Central Russia, the party flew to Khabarovsk on May 22. The manifest for the flight included Clinton, his aide Doug Band, and several others. The group then reportedly proceeded to Shenzhen, China.

A subsequent trip in November 2002 included a flight attendant and involved stops in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Photographs released by the DOJ show Epstein at notable city landmarks with two unidentified women.

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A fake video purporting to show Jeffrey Epstein attempting suicide.
Fake Epstein suicide video slips into DOJ release

When questioned in 2016 about the Khabarovsk flight with Clinton, Epstein invoked the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and declined to answer. The former US president has consistently maintained that he had no knowledge of Epstein’s criminal activities and severed ties with the financier years before his arrest.

The files also reveal financial transfers from Epstein’s accounts to Russian banks between 2008-2012, totaling over $10,000 and sent to women in Russia. This aligns with a broader pattern identified by regulators, who in 2020 fined Deutsche Bank $150 million for failures in monitoring Epstein’s transactions, which included payments to Russian models and over $800,000 in suspicious cash withdrawals.

The release comes after months of political pressure and public outcry related to the Epstein case, which has gained renewed attention since Epstein’s death in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges. Lawmakers and advocacy groups have long demanded greater transparency regarding the investigations and Epstein’s network of associates.

 

 

 

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JUST IN: Trump Goes Off After DOJ Finds 1 Million More Epstein Files – “Release all of Their Names, Embarrass Them, and Get Back to Helping our Country… Just another Witch Hunt!!!” | The Gateway Pundit

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JUST IN: Trump Goes Off After DOJ Finds 1 Million More Epstein Files – “Release all of Their Names, Embarrass Them, and Get Back to Helping our Country… Just another Witch Hunt!!!”
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Larry Summers (left), Bill Clinton (right)

President Trump on Friday again commented on the Epstein files, saying the Department of Justice is “being forced to spend all of its time on this Democrat inspired Hoax” and describing the Epstein files as “just another Witch Hunt.”

“The Dems are the ones who worked with Epstein, not the Republicans,” Trump said. “Release all of their names, embarrass them, and get back to helping our Country!”

This is a reversal from earlier this week, when Trump actually defended Bill Clinton and decried the exposure of “other people that innocently met Jeffrey Epstein years ago.”

While taking questions from reporters at Mar-a-Lago on Monday, Trump told reporters that he’s “always gotten along with Bill Clinton.” Trump added, “I hate to see photos come out of him, but this is what the Democrats, mostly Democrats, and a couple of bad Republicans, are asking for.”

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Reporter: Were you surprised by the number of photos of Bill Clinton in the Epstein files? And can you commit to their full release by the end of the year? Some of the victims were protesting that too many of them were redacted.

Trump: I know there are a lot of people that are angry about all of the pictures of other people, you know? But I think it’s terrible. Look, I don’t like the— I like Bill Clinton. I’ve always gotten along with Bill Clinton. I’ve been nice to him; he’s been nice to me. We’ve always gotten along. I respect him. I hate to see photos come out of him, but this is what the Democrats, mostly Democrats, and a couple of bad Republicans, are asking for. So, they’re giving their photos— of me too. Everybody was friendly with this guy, either friendly or not friendly, but, you know, he was around. He was all over Palm Beach and other places. The head of Harvard was his best friend, Larry Summers, and Bill Clinton was a friend of his. But everybody was. I actually threw him out of Mar-a-Lago. And as a person that was in Mar a Lago, I threw him out. Mar-a-Lago is— this is Mar-a-Lago. It’s the hottest place in, I think it’s the hottest place in the world, but it’s the hottest place in Florida.

And everybody would come. He’d come here. We actually threw him out. But no, I don’t like the pictures of Bill Clinton being shown. I don’t like the pictures of other people being shown. I think it’s a terrible thing. I think Bill Clinton’s a big boy. He can handle it, but you probably have pictures being exposed of other people that innocently met Jeffrey Epstein years ago, many years ago, and they’re highly respected bankers and lawyers and others, and they’ll end up because of guys like Massey, who’s a real low life whose polls are down to about 9% by the way in the great state of Kentucky. If you look at Kentucky, Kentucky is such a great place, but I don’t know, they’ve got a couple of people in there that are very strange in terms of leadership, but Massey is a loser, and he likes it. And he works with the Democrats. He’s just being used by the Democrats because what this whole thing is with Epstein is a way of trying to deflect from the tremendous success that the Republican Party has.

On Wednesday, the Department of Justice said that “over a million more” Epstein files had been located by the Southern District of New York (SDNY) and the FBI.

“The DOJ has received these documents from SDNY and the FBI to review them for release, in compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, existing statutes, and judicial orders. We have lawyers working around the clock to review and make the legally required redactions to protect victims, and we will release the documents as soon as possible,” the Department said in a statement. “Due to the mass volume of material, this process may take a few more weeks.”

Trump responded on Friday, noting that “1,000,000 more pages on Epstein are found,” and “DOJ is being forced to spend all of its time on this Democrat inspired Hoax,” he said.

“The Radical Left doesn’t want people talking about TRUMP & REPUBLICAN SUCCESS, only a long ago dead Jeffrey Epstein – Just another Witch Hunt!!!“

Now 1,000,000 more pages on Epstein are found. DOJ is being forced to spend all of its time on this Democrat inspired Hoax. When do they say NO MORE, and work on Election Fraud etc. The Dems are the ones who worked with Epstein, not the Republicans. Release all of their names, embarrass them, and get back to helping our Country! The Radical Left doesn’t want people talking about TRUMP & REPUBLICAN SUCCESS, only a long ago dead Jeffrey Epstein – Just another Witch Hunt!!!

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This also comes after Trump posted an ominous Christmas Day message, slamming the Democrats and Thomas Massie for what he described as a “Radical Left Witch Hunt.”

“Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas!” Trump concluded in an apparent warning shot to Democrats who associated with the late pedophile.

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JUST IN: Trump Posts Ominous Christmas Message Savaging Democrats who Visited Epstein Island – “Enjoy What May be Your Last Merry Christmas!”

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Chairman Comer Issues Ultimatum to Clintons – Appear for Epstein Depositions or Face Contempt of Congress | The Gateway Pundit

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Chairman Comer Issues Ultimatum to Clintons – Appear for Epstein Depositions or Face Contempt of Congress
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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has warned former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that their time for stalling is over.

Subpoenaed over four months ago as part of an investigation into the heinous crimes of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, the Clintons must now appear for depositions next week, reschedule for early January, or face contempt of Congress proceedings.

The subpoenas stem from a bipartisan vote by the Federal Law Enforcement Subcommittee in July, which authorized testimony from ten high-profile individuals, including the Clintons, former Attorney General William Barr, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and former FBI Director James Comey.

Comer said in a press release on Friday:

“It has been more than four months since Bill and Hillary Clinton were subpoenaed to sit for depositions related to our investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s horrific crimes. Throughout that time, the former President and former Secretary of State have delayed, obstructed, and largely ignored the Committee staff’s efforts to schedule their testimony. If the Clintons fail to appear for their depositions next week or schedule a date for early January, the Oversight Committee will begin contempt of Congress proceedings to hold them accountable.”

Chairman Comer officially issued the subpoenas on August 5. In November, he sent a letter to the Clintons’ attorney informing them that they must appear for their depositions in person.

Depositions are scheduled for Bill Clinton on December 17 and for Hillary Clinton on December 18.

A spokesperson for Comer echoed his sentiment, telling Fox News: “We communicated to the Clintons’ attorney today that they must appear next week or provide a date in early January to appear for their depositions or we will begin contempt of Congress proceedings. They’ve been dragging their feet for over four months. Time’s up.”

The Clintons appear to be the only ones defying the process, believing they are above the law.

There have long been questions about the Clintons’ ties to Epstein, the convicted sex offender who died in prison in 2019 under suspicious circumstances.

The Oversight Committee’s probe aims to uncover the full extent of Epstein and Maxwell’s network, which allegedly involved influential figures in politics, business, and entertainment.

Maxwell, Epstein’s accomplice, was convicted in 2021 on sex trafficking charges and is serving a 20-year sentence.

If contempt proceedings move forward, it could lead to fines, imprisonment, or even referral to the Department of Justice.

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Oversight Committee Urges Clintons: Comply With Subpoena To Testify on Epstein Ties – Ghislaine Maxwell Warns She Will Plead the Fifth, and Former Prince Andrew Ignores Requests | The Gateway Pundit

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Oversight Committee Urges Clintons: Comply With Subpoena To Testify on Epstein Ties – Ghislaine Maxwell Warns She Will Plead the Fifth, and Former Prince Andrew Ignores Requests
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Ghislaine Maxwell, Bill and Hillary Clinton and former Prince Andrew: trying to dodge speaking before congress.

Who’s afraid of the Oversight Committee?

To begin with, Congressional Republicans have warned Bill and Hillary Clinton to respect summons to appear for depositions next month.

The former president and secretary of state will answer questions on Dec. 17 and 18, respectively.

USA Today reported:

“Rep. James Comer, a Kentucky Republican and the chair of the committee, said Nov. 21 that any attempt by the Clintons, longtime political rivals of President Donald Trump, to avoid the depositions would be in defiance of congressional subpoenas.

‘The committee looks forward to confirming their appearance and remains committed to delivering transparency and accountability for the survivors of Epstein’s heinous crimes and for the American people, ’ Comer said in a statement.”

Two men posing together at a desk with a computer in the background, one wearing an orange hoodie and the other in a black jacket and blue shirt.

Lawyer to the Clintons, David Kendall, wrote to Congress on Nov. 3 saying the public’s demand for transparency about Epstein is ‘understandable and warranted’, but a deposition of his clients would be unnecessary.

“’ Former President Clinton and former Secretary Clinton welcome legitimate oversight in this matter that is grounded in fact, ’ he wrote. ‘In that regard, former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary Hillary Clinton have little to contribute to that legitimate goal, all of which can be readily submitted on paper. ’

Maxwell jogs in prison.

Besides that, we have Ghislaine Maxwell, who is set to plead the Fifth if called to testify before the Committee’s investigation on Jeffrey Epstein.

The Independent reported:

“Rep. James Comer, the Kentucky Republican who chairs the committee, told Politico that Maxwell — Epstein’s longtime associate who is currently in prison on sex trafficking charges — refuses to provide new information.

‘Her lawyers have replied that she’s not going to answer any questions’, Comer said.

‘She’s only going to plead the Fifth’, he added. ‘I mean, I could spend a bunch of taxpayer dollars to send staff and members down there, and if she’s going to plead the Fifth, I don’t know that that’s a good investment’.”

Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein in 2005 (Photo: Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

In July, Deputy AG Todd Blanche questioned her extensively about Epstein’s network, and Maxwell said she never saw Trump behave inappropriately.

“Last month, the Supreme Court denied an appeal from Maxwell after she asked the court to review whether prosecutors fairly brought a case against her.”

Andrew and Epstein in NYC’s central park.

And finally, we have the man formerly known as Prince Andrew, Duke of York.

Now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, he failed to respond to a request to testify before Congress over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

The Telegraph reported:

“The former Duke of York was given two weeks to respond to a summons from the Democratic members of the House oversight committee sent on Nov 6.

The committee said it was ‘time for him to come forward’ about his ‘ties’ to the convicted pedophile. Andrew was asked to respond to the summons by Nov 20.”

Virginia Giuffre, then Virginia Roberts, pictured with Prince Andrew of Britain and Ghislaine Maxwell, a confidant of now-deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Late Virginia Giuffre with former Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell (US district court)

“However, on Thursday, sources told The Telegraph that the committee had not heard from Andrew.

Congress cannot compel testimony from foreigners, nor issue subpoenas for foreign citizens living overseas, meaning that he was under no legal obligation to respond.”

A recently revealed email shows Andrew writing ‘we are in this together’, which Congressmen say ‘further confirms our suspicion that you may have valuable information about the crimes committed by Mr. Epstein and his co-conspirators’.

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BREAKING: “I HAVE JUST SIGNED THE BILL TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!” – President Trump Signs Epstein Files Transparency Act, Says The Truth About Epstein’s Democrat Affiliates “Will Soon be Revealed” | The Gateway Pundit

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BREAKING: “I HAVE JUST SIGNED THE BILL TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!” – President Trump Signs Epstein Files Transparency Act, Says The Truth About Epstein’s Democrat Affiliates “Will Soon be Revealed”
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President Trump has signed the Epstein Files Transparency act into law to release all files related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, the House overwhelmingly voted for the bill, with only one Republican defector, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA), voting against the bill, citing privacy concerns for victims of Epstein.

The Senate later approved the bill by unanimous consent.

The President called on Congress to pass the bill on  Tuesday, stating, “We have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party, including our recent Victory on the Democrat ‘Shutdown.’”

JUST IN: Trump Comments on Vote to Release Epstein Documents, Calls it a “Curse on the Democrats” – “We Have Nothing to Hide, and it’s Time to Move On”

President Trump released a statement on Wednesday, slamming the Democrats and highlighting Jeffrey Epstein’s support for Democrats and his affiliation with prominent Democrats like Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, and Larry Summers.

Fox reports, “Attorney General Pam Bondi told reporters Wednesday that she would comply with the law after it was signed, which directs the Justice Department to release the files online in a searchable format within 30 days.”

“Do not forget — The Biden Administration did not turn over a SINGLE file or page related to Democrat Epstein, nor did they ever even speak about him,” Trump said.

“For years our Great Nation has had to endure RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, IMPEACHMENT HOAX #1, IMPEACHMENT HOAX #2, and many other Democrat created Witch Hunts and Scams, all of which have been so terrible and divisive for our Country, and have been done to confuse, deflect, and distract from the GREAT JOB that Republicans, and the Trump Administration, are doing,” the President continued. “This latest Hoax will backfire on the Democrats just as all of the rest have! Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!“

Full statement below:

Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged by the Trump Justice Department in 2019 (Not the Democrats!), was a lifelong Democrat, donated Thousands of Dollars to Democrat Politicians, and was deeply associated with many well-known Democrat figures, such as Bill Clinton (who traveled on his plane 26 times), Larry Summers (who just resigned from many Boards, including Harvard), Sleazebag Political Activist Reid Hoffman, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (who asked Epstein to donate to his Campaign AFTER Epstein was charged), Democrat Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett, and many more.

Perhaps the truth about these Democrats, and their associations with Jeffrey Epstein, will soon be revealed, because I HAVE JUST SIGNED THE BILL TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES! As everyone knows, I asked Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, to pass this Bill in the House and Senate, respectively. Because of this request, the votes were almost unanimous in favor of passage. At my direction, the Department of Justice has already turned over close to fifty thousand pages of documents to Congress.

Do not forget — The Biden Administration did not turn over a SINGLE file or page related to Democrat Epstein, nor did they ever even speak about him. Democrats have used the “Epstein” issue, which affects them far more than the Republican Party, in order to try and distract from our AMAZING Victories, including THE GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL TAX CUT BILL, Strong Borders, No Men in Women’s Sports or Transgender for Everyone, ending DEI, stopping Biden’s Record Setting Inflation, lowering Prices, Biggest Tax and Regulation Cuts in History, ending EIGHT Wars, rebuilding our Military, knocking out Iran’s Nuclear capability, getting Trillions of Dollars INVESTED in the U.S.A., creating the “HOTTEST” Country anywhere in the World, and even delivering a HUGE DEFEAT to the Democrats on the recent Shutdown Disaster.

For years our Great Nation has had to endure RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, IMPEACHMENT HOAX #1, IMPEACHMENT HOAX #2, and many other Democrat created Witch Hunts and Scams, all of which have been so terrible and divisive for our Country, and have been done to confuse, deflect, and distract from the GREAT JOB that Republicans, and the Trump Administration, are doing. This latest Hoax will backfire on the Democrats just as all of the rest have! Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

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EXECUTIVE NEWS SUMMARY

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  • Saudi Crown Prince hosted at the White House: Mohammed bin Salman became the latest world leader to visit the White House yesterday. U.S.-Saudi relations had been strained by the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but this visit was friendly. Bin Salman upped his nation’s promised investment of $600 billion in the U.S. to $1 trillion at President Donald Trump’s prompting. Trump has eyed Saudi Arabia as a potential jewel of the Abraham Accords. “We want to be part of the Abraham Accords,” bin Salman said of the agreement that has begun normalizing Israeli-Muslim relations in the Middle East. A Saudi entry into the accords is not set in stone, but Trump’s friendly overtures and designation of the country as a “major non-NATO ally” are a step in that direction.
  • Federal court blocks TX congressional map: Texas’s redrawn congressional district map, which the state legislature passed into law and favors Republicans, has been blocked by a panel of federal judges. According to Judge Jeffrey Brown, who wrote the ruling, “The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics. To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 Map. But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map.” Brown further determined that the new map violated the Voting Rights Act because it broke up non-white majority districts. Gov. Greg Abbott blasted the court’s ruling, arguing that “any claim that these maps are discriminatory is absurd.” He said the “clearly erroneous” decision “undermines the authority the U.S. Constitution assigns to the Texas Legislature.” Abbott promised to “swiftly appeal to the United States Supreme Court.”
  • Trump downplays ObamaCare subsidy extension: Some $35 billion of ObamaCare funds are on the brink of expiring come December 31. These funds were first passed during the COVID pandemic to subsidize insurance payments, capping premiums for a “benchmark” plan at 8.5% of income. While Republicans like Jen Kiggans, a swing district representative, are attempting to extend the subsidies for one year, Trump and other Republicans have increased their attacks, making it clear they won’t allow an extension in its current form. “The only healthcare I will support or approve is sending the money directly back to the people,” Trump declared. Republican leaders have designated committee members to draft alternative options that would give the funds directly to Americans, perhaps through HSAs, FSAs, or even direct cash payments. Can they craft a plan that gets 60 Senate votes before time runs out?

  • Texas governor homes in on the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR: Gov. Greg Abbott designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist organizations on Tuesday. The step prohibits the organizations from purchasing or acquiring land in Texas and allows the state’s attorney general to sue to shut them down. The move comes amid a startling rise in the number of mosques in the state, with almost 50 being built since 2023. CAIR has also recently been exposed for paying $1,000 to college students on the Harvard, Columbia, and UPenn campuses who were punished for anti-Semitic protests.
  • House rebukes retiring Dem lawmaker: The House voted to officially rebuke four-term Illinois Democrat Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García on Tuesday after Washington Democrat Rep. Maria Gluesenkamp Perez accused him of “subverting an election.” García announced his retirement after the state’s election filing deadline, effectively ensuring that his chief of staff, Patty Garcia (no relation), would win his seat in the solidly blue district. The vote fell largely along party lines, though 22 Democrats joined Republicans to pass the motion 236-183. The rebuke carries no actual consequences beyond public embarrassment, but it allowed Perez to officially scold García and her own party. “If you’re not going to run, you don’t get to choose your successor, no matter how noble the work you have done beforehand,” she stated, adding, “This is not who we are as a country. People bled and died for the right to elect their own representative.”
  • Dem lawmakers urge U.S. military members to defy “illegal orders” from Trump: Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, and several other Democrat lawmakers posted a video on Tuesday urging service members to defy “illegal orders” from the commander-in-chief. The judicial ping-pong matches Americans have seen this year on all sorts of issues could provide ample grounds to argue that any particular order is illegal at any given moment. Democrats urged service members to “protect and defend this Constitution” and even mentioned threats “from right here at home.” White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller said Democrats are “openly calling for insurrection.” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth commented that those in the video suffer from “Stage 4 TDS.” Veterans on X were quick to point out that Democrats looked far less favorably on service members refusing orders when it came to the COVID vaccine mandates.

  • Ed Dept. offloads grant programs: In the latest move to effectively gut the Department of Education, Trump administration officials announced on Tuesday that the department was offloading billions in grant programs and transferring them to other federal agencies to administer. Education Secretary Linda McMahon explained, “The Trump administration is taking bold action to break up the federal education bureaucracy and return education to the states.” These educational grant programs will now be administered by four agencies: the Labor Department, the State Department, the Interior Department, and the Department of Health and Human Services. President Trump campaigned on eliminating the Education Department; however, doing so requires congressional approval, which he currently lacks the votes to secure. In lieu of that, his administration has worked to shrink the department’s size as much as possible.
  • AI-generated music? AI-generated songs have topped music charts in what is likely to be an increasingly common sight. “Walk My Walk” and “Livin’ on Borrowed Time” by the “artist” Breaking Rust reached the top of Spotify’s “Viral 50” songs. A Dutch anti-migration anthem, “We Say No, No, No to an Asylum Center,” reached the top of Spotify’s global chart of viral songs. Streaming app Deezer suggests that the sheer volume of AI-generated songs is contributing to the success of a few; more than 50,000 AI-generated songs are uploaded to the app each day. The app also surveyed 9,000 people and found that 97% could not distinguish AI-generated music from human creations. So far, AI songs are not reaching the top of traditional charts like Billboard’s “Hot Country Songs,” but the rise of AI music has begun.
  • Academy voters now “required” to watch films: Over recent years, it has been regularly noted how woke Hollywood has become, and nothing has exemplified this more than the Academy Awards and its growing set of woke rules. However, the Academy has issued a new rule for the Oscars that is so self-evident that it is surprising it needed to be codified. The new rule requires Academy members to have actually seen all the films they are voting on, or they will not be eligible to cast a vote. Apparently, the wokification of Hollywood has made many of the movies it produces unwatchable, even for the radical leftists who make up the guild. However, whether an Academy member has actually seen the movies in question will be determined entirely by the honor system. No actual evidence, such as ticket receipts, is required. In other words, it’s all just for show.

Headlines

  • Larry Summers to step back from public commitments after Epstein emails (WSJ) | Harvard to open new inquiry (NY Post)
  • Stacey Plaskett avoids censure over Epstein texts (Roll Call)
  • Democrat staffer fired after tricking DHS into releasing illegal alien (Newsweek)
  • Loyola New Orleans student court overturns previous decision barring Turning Point chapter (Fox News)
  • Half of all U.S. homes fall in value (Daily Mail)
  • Will Los Angeles be the latest city to elect a socialist mayor? (RedState)
  • Humor: In devastating blow, newly released emails reveal Trump not well-liked by pedophile (Babylon Bee)

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Jockeying for the Epstein Advantage

Nate Jackson

Perhaps President Donald Trump truly changed his mind on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files because he realized he could no longer corral his own party — especially after his campaign promises to release the files. Or maybe he dragged his feet, brilliantly waiting to make his 3D chess move until Democrats were heavily invested in publicizing those records before “caving” and giving them exactly what they may soon regret.

Either way, Trump’s about-face is welcome. After the president gave his blessing a few days ago, Congress acted quicker than you can say “sex trafficking” to pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

The House voted 427-1 (Republican Clay Higgins was the sole “no” vote), and the Senate soon approved it by unanimous consent. The bill now heads to Trump’s desk, where he’ll likely sign it. Then, Attorney General Pam Bondi would be directed to declassify and release all documents related to Epstein and his girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year sentence for trafficking. Redactions can be made to protect victims.

The information released so far has been frustratingly sparse. The much-ballyhooed February release of Justice Department binders to a group of right-wing social media influencers was a total dud and an embarrassment for Bondi. The media’s scoop on Epstein’s 50th birthday book, which contained a sketch allegedly drawn by Trump, was similarly an eye-roller.

Unfortunately, Trump’s transparently political demand that Bondi “investigate” various Democrat associates of Epstein simply in retaliation for the “hoax” they’ve perpetrated on him is not how the Justice Department should be run. His statement and Bondi’s obedience undermine the Rule of Law.

Still, the whole reason so many Americans on both sides are demanding actual information about Epstein and his “clients” is that there’s plenty of reason to believe that he wasn’t the only one abusing teenage girls. Powerful people are likely guilty of statutory rape, and the public wants to see justice done rather than two-tiered “justice” in which the rich and influential get away with it. Many, many young women have had to live with the shame of being exploited. One of them — Virginia Giuffre, a victim of the UK’s Prince Andrew — committed suicide earlier this year.

The Trump DOJ has said there’s no “client list,” which is likely true, but that doesn’t mean there’s no incriminating information among those in Epstein’s wide-ranging social network.

The trouble will happen if there aren’t convictions. “How will we know if this bill has been successful?” Representative Thomas Massie asked on the House floor. “We will know when there are rich men in handcuffs being perp-walked to the jail.”

The first embarrassed person (thanks to the trove of Epstein emails released last week) was former Harvard University President Larry Summers. He was also the treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton, another known pal of Epstein, and a chief economic adviser to President Barack Obama. Summers continued communicating with Epstein well after his crimes were known. Summers now says he’s “deeply ashamed,” has resigned from the OpenAI board, and is “stepping back from public commitments.” Harvard says it is “conducting a review of information concerning individuals at Harvard.”

As for the idea that Trump is implicated in any wrongdoing, which Democrats hope with every fiber of their being, Trump responded, “Nobody cared about Jeffrey Epstein when he was alive and, if the Democrats had anything, they would have released it before our Landslide Election Victory.” He’s right.

Heck, Epstein himself would have released it to help his own defense case — especially given his resentment after Trump dumped him as a friend when he discovered some of what was going on. “That island was an absolute cesspool, there’s no question about it,” Trump said in 2015. “Just ask Prince Andrew. He’ll tell you about it. The island was an absolute cesspool.”

In 2014, journalist Michael Wolff wrote an unpublished profile of Epstein. That, notes veteran columnist Byron York, was “when Epstein was alive and active” and yet “Trump wasn’t part of the picture.” At least until he ran for president, when Wolff tried to get Epstein to extract a “debt” from Trump via blackmail. The dirt never materialized. Why not?

Meanwhile, there’s Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Asked why Joe Biden didn’t release the Epstein files when he ran the Justice Department for four years, Schumer spluttered, “That’s the question every American is asking. … What the hell is he hiding!?”

Uh, what?

As for other Democrats, the maxim “be careful what you wish for” comes to mind. As a White House statement noted:

Why aren’t Democrats talking about the fact that Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-U.S. Virgin Islands) solicited (and was given) $30,000 from Epstein for the DCCC after he was already a convicted sex offender? Or the fact that Plaskett herself accepted maxed out donations from Epstein for her own campaign? Or the fact that the wife of the former Democrat governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands told Epstein “we would have a friend in Stacey” if he made said donations? Or the fact that Plaskett was literally texting Epstein during a committee hearing?

Why aren’t Democrats talking about the fact that former President Bill Clinton traveled on Epstein’s aircraft 26 times? Or the fact that one of Epstein’s victims wrote that she saw Clinton on Epstein’s island with two young women? Or the fact that Clinton’s visit to the island was corroborated by one of his former top aides?

There’s also a fundraising connection between Epstein and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in 2013, years after Epstein’s initial conviction. Congressman James Comer said, “Hakeem Jeffries’s campaign solicited money from Jeffrey Epstein.”

This sordid story is a long way from over. A lot of Washington’s politicos are using it for political advantage at the moment. Some of them may end up regretting that decision.

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  • Emmy Griffin: Hollywood’s Complacency and Decline — The film industry’s strategy of “survive until 2025” is backfiring spectacularly, as movies are failing to draw much of an audience.
  • Sophie Starkova: The Feminine Mistake — The fact that modern young women are increasingly eschewing marriage has its roots in the wokeness of the feminist movement.
  • Michael Swartz: Cash Where Credit Is Due? — As credit card giants rake in processing fees, there’s a movement and even legal settlements urging consumers to stop swiping the plastic for every purchase.
  • Thomas Gallatin: Zeldin Cleans Up the WOTUS — The EPA has proposed an update to the Waters of the United States rule, which the Obama administration ludicrously expanded and the Supreme Court subsequently ordered revised.

BEST OF RIGHT OPINION

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Who Broke It, Hakeem?

“We have a broken healthcare system, and unfortunately, Republicans have decided to break it even further.” —House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY)

Friendly Fire

“It’s hard to see how the government shutdown and reopening is anything other than a defeat for the Democrats. … The shutdown reinforced the image of the Democrats as feckless. They promise wonderful-sounding new programs — free child care, for example — but in fact preside over bloated bureaucracies and inept execution. If America has an affordability crisis, it tends to be in places Democrats govern, like New York, Illinois and California, which all feature high taxes, soaring housing costs and stagnant outcomes in basic areas like education and infrastructure.” —CNN’s Fareed Zakaria getting it right

What?

“I feel painful about families of 9/11 in America, but you know we have to focus on reality. Reality based on CIA documents … that Osama bin Laden used Saudi people in that event for one main purpose, [which was] to destroy this relation, to destroy the American-Saudi relation. That’s the purpose of 9/11. … He knew that strong relation between America and Saudi Arabia, it’s bad for extremism, it’s bad for terrorism.” —Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

Enemies Within

“This is a city of international law, and being a city of international law means looking to uphold international law. And that means upholding the warrants from the International Criminal Court, whether they’re for Benjamin Netanyahu or Vladimir Putin.” —New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (“This is one of the most insane things I’ve ever heard a politician say. … Last time I checked, I was pretty sure New York is an American city under U.S. law.” —Greg Price)

If the Shoe Fits

“I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.” —Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD)

Spin Doctor

“Biden and his officials were pointing to actual data that did indeed seem to paint a relatively positive picture of the economy. Trump and company, by contrast, are simply lying.” —economist Paul Krugman

Shot/Chaser

“The Left certainly stayed scientific.” —actor Patton Oswalt

“Parents should ask babies for ‘consent’ before changing their diapers: experts.” —New York Post headline

Belly Laugh of the Day

“I’m honored to stand before you as the very first former McDonald’s fry cook ever to become president of the United States.” —Donald Trump

Inquiring Minds Want to Know

“If [Democrats] were so concerned about the Epstein files and protecting the victims, why didn’t you do a darn thing about it for the four years of the Biden administration?” —House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA)

“Since Epstein had Stacey Plaskett’s ear someone needs to ask what other Democrat members of Congress was he controlling?” —Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN)

And Last…

“How will we know if this [Epstein] bill has been successful? We will know when there are rich men in handcuffs being perp-walked to the jail.” —Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY)

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Bill Clinton’s Administration was infested with creeps who reportedly visited Epstein Island.

President Trump is right.  It is time to investigate the Clintons and the entire Democrat Party for their connections to Jeffrey Epstein. 

Bill Clinton

We know that the Clintons are closely tied to Jeffrey Epstein.

We reported in 2019 that investigative reporter Conchita Sarnoff, the author of “Trafficking” on the Jeffrey Epstein case, joined Shannon Bream and said Bill Clinton flew on Epstein’s plane 27 times and ALMOST EVERY TIME that Clinton was on the plane there were underage girls on the plane.

Sarnoff also said Bill Clinton was lying about his flights with Jeffrey Epstein.

The Clintons were also regular visitors at Epstein’s ranch in New Mexico.

Al Gore

We also learned in 2019 after a release of files from the first Epstein case that one woman claimed Al Gore was at Epstein’s Island.

A woman who claims she was a sex slave for billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein says she met former vice president Al Gore, according to documents unsealed on Friday.

The documents were made public Friday after a U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a lower court decision to make public more than 2,000 pages of court filings in a since-settled 2015 defamation case brought by Virginia Roberts against Epstein confidant and aide Ghislaine Maxwell.

Larry Summers

We uncovered in 2019 that Larry Summers, the creepy former President of Harvard and President Clinton’s Secretary of Treasury, flew numerous times on Jeffrey Epstein’s jet and even flew to Epstein’s so called ‘Orgy Island’. 

Flight logs from the previous Epstein trial show that Larry Summers flew a couple times on the ‘Epstein Express’ to Epstein’s now infamous ‘Orgy Island’!  According to flight records released from the Epstein case, Summers took four trips on Epstein’s Jet.  On one trip he took his newlywed second wife, Elisa New, to Epstein’s Island for their Honeymoon in 2005.

(Note that Summers was Senior U.S. Treasury Department official throughout President Clinton’s administration (ultimately Treasury Secretary, 1999–2001) and former Director of the National Economic Council for President Obama (2009–2010). He is a former President of Harvard University (2001–2006)…}

Ten days after Larry and Elisa Summers were Married, on December 21, 2005, Larry and Lisa Summers flew from Bedford, MA to Epstein’s Island.  They were accompanied on this flight by ‘GM’ – Epstein’s close confidant Ghislaine Maxwell.

The flight logs show from BED (Laurence G Hanscom Fld – Bedford, MA) to TIST (Cyril E King Airport, St Thomas, US Virgin Islands).

Sandy Berger

Flight logs from the previous Epstein trial show that Larry Summers flew a couple times on the ‘Epstein Express’ to Epstein’s now infamous ‘Orgy Island’! According to flight records released from the Epstein case, Summers took four trips on Epstein’s Jet. On one trip he took his newlywed second wife, Elisa New, to Epstein’s Island for their Honeymoon in 2005.

…the same flight records show that President Bill Clinton’s National Security Advisor, Sandy Berger, flew on Epstein’s jet from his ‘Orgy Island’ as well.

Berger was also famous for being charged with stealing documents from the National Archives but stuffing them in his clothes to protect President Clinton and himself from actions related to Osama Bin Ladin.  US News reported about Berger –

It’s been almost eight years since Clinton-era national security adviser Sandy Berger smuggled classified documents out of the National Archives that detailed his boss’s efforts to thwart terrorist threats to the millennium celebrations. The crime cost Berger $50,000, 100 hours of community service, his security clearance, and his law license. But the agents who went after him haven’t forgotten. “It weighs on you,” says Archives Inspector General Paul Brachfeld.

And now they’ve made Berger the poster boy for a new anti-theft initiative. The outreach to archivists includes a slide show that pictures Berger and three other smugglers under the headline: “To Catch a Thief.” What’s more, Brachfeld now has an archival recovery team assigned to work theft cases. “Those acts I don’t think can be re-created today,” he tells our Caitlin Huey-Burns.

…On September 24, 2005, Berger flew from TIST (Cyril E King Airport, St Thomas, US Virgin Islands) to TEB (Teterboro Airport, Bergen, NJ).

The Clinton Administration was full of corruption and crime.

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President Donald Trump is done playing defense, and on Sunday, he unleashed a blistering statement demanding that House Republicans immediately vote to release the Epstein files, blasting Democrats for weaponizing the scandal as a distraction from his administration’s historic achievements.

Back in July, a new report released by the FBI and DOJ under Patel and Bongino boldly claims there is no evidence that Epstein blackmailed elites or maintained a “client list” of global power brokers connected to his child sex trafficking operation. It also parrots the long-disputed conclusion that Epstein died by suicide in his jail cell in 2019.

Conservative voices immediately erupted in disbelief, accusing the bureau of once again running cover for the elites and scrubbing the truth from public view.

Meanwhile, Democrats seized the moment to weaponize the scandal, suddenly insisting on releasing the Epstein files after years of blocking their disclosure to the public.

The Gateway Pundit reported last week that the Democrat Party suffered an epic humiliation after social media users caught them making up a lie about President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein that was so embarrassing.

On Wednesday, the Democrats’ Committee on Oversight released a so-called “tranche of correspondence” from the Epstein Estate, claiming to “strike a blow against the White House’s Epstein cover-up.” The three unrelated emails span the dates from 2011 to 2019.

Democrats redacted the name of a victim who publicly exonerated President Trump, even though the Epstein Estate itself did not redact her name.

In response to the release, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told FOX News Digital, “The Democrats selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump.”

In a fiery statement on Truth Social, Trump blasted Democrats and their media allies for what he calls a desperate, last-ditch effort to distract from the GOP’s growing momentum nationwide.

Trump reminded Americans that the real Epstein connections run straight through the Democratic Party, and he wants every last file released to prove it.

Trump wrote:

As I said on Friday night aboard Air Force One to the Fake News Media, House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party, including our recent Victory on the Democrat “Shutdown.”

The Department of Justice has already turned over tens of thousands of pages to the Public on “Epstein,” are looking at various Democrat operatives (Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, Larry Summers, etc.) and their relationship to Epstein, and the House Oversight Committee can have whatever they are legally entitled to, I DON’T CARE!

All I do care about is that Republicans get BACK ON POINT, which is the Economy, “Affordability” (where we are winning BIG!), our Victory on reducing Inflation from the highest level in History to practically nothing, bringing down prices for the American People, delivering Historic Tax Cuts, gaining Trillions of Dollars of Investment into America (A RECORD!), the rebuilding of our Military, securing our Border, deporting Criminal Illegal Aliens, ending Men in Women’s Sports, stopping Transgender for Everyone, and so much more!

Nobody cared about Jeffrey Epstein when he was alive and, if the Democrats had anything, they would have released it before our Landslide Election Victory.

Some “members” of the Republican Party are being “used,” and we can’t let that happen. Let’s start talking about the Republican Party’s Record Setting Achievements, and not fall into the Epstein “TRAP,” which is actually a curse on the Democrats, not us. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

The announcement came after Trump announced on Truth Social last week that he would be ordering Pam Bondi to investigate Epstein’s relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions to determine their involvement.

“Now that the Democrats are using the Epstein Hoax, involving Democrats, not Republicans, to try and deflect from their disastrous SHUTDOWN, and all of their other failures I will be asking A.G. Pam Bondi, and the Department of Justice, together with our great patriots at the FBI, to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions, to determine what was going on with them, and him, “Trump wrote.

“This is another Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, with all arrows pointing to the Democrats. Records show that these men, and many others, spent large portions of their life with Epstein, and on his “Island.” Stay tuned!!!”

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The Democratic Party suffered epic humiliation after social media users caught them making up a lie about President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein that was so embarrassing and massive it would make a toddler blush.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, the Democrats’ Committee on Oversight on Wednesday morning released a “tranche of correspondence” from the Epstein Estate, claiming to “strike a blow against the White House’s Epstein cover-up.” The three unrelated emails span the dates from 2011 to 2019.

One email from 2011 was a correspondence between Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell from April 2, 2011. Epstein wrote to Maxwell a little after 2pm:

i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.. [REDACTED VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him,, he has never once been mentioned.

The redacted victim, according to the House GOP Oversight Committee, is Virginia Giuffre, who tragically is reported to have taken her own life in April 2025. She had exonerated Trump from any wrongdoing.

In response to the release, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told FOX News Digital, “The Democrats selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump.”

But the lies from the Democrats only continued. The official Democrat Party account posted this claim on Thursday evening: Trump spent his first year as President having Thanksgiving with Epstein.

Yes, really.

“NEW: documents show Donald Trump spent Thanksgiving with Jeffrey Epstein in 2017,” the account wrote.

“At the time, Trump was already President, and Epstein was already a convicted sex offender.”

Email exchange revealing Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein's Thanksgiving plans in 2017, highlighting Trump's presidency and Epstein's status as a convicted sex offender.
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However, as one will notice in the actual email texts, while the words ‘Trump’ and ‘Thanksgiving’ are mentioned, there is no actual context suggesting that Epstein is planning to meet Trump for Thanksgiving that day or at all.

Most likely, the Democrats just cherry-picked unrelated emails to create this libelous smear.

The truth is, Trump was nowhere near Epstein. As CNN reported, the president visited the nearby Coast Guard Quarters and celebrated Thanksgiving at his Mar-a-Lago home.

It has been consistently confirmed that Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar-A-Lago in the early 2000s. Also, if Trump were meeting with the pedophile, this would have been wall-to-wall news on EVERY news network and the Democrats would be demanding his removal from office.

For his part, Epstein spent his Thanksgiving at the home of Glen and Eva Dubin, two prominent Democratic donors.

X users quickly took notice of the Democrat lie and put them on blast while noting where Trump really was on Thanksgiving 2017.

You are shameless liars. pic.twitter.com/q99QHIwlPX

— Gain of Fauci (@DschlopesIsBack) November 13, 2025

Democrats say Trump spent THANKSGIVING with Epstein while in office

Except, here’s where Trump actually spent the day

The Democrats, the pedophile, or the photo – who’s lying here? pic.twitter.com/9Si8OngYmj

— RT (@RT_com) November 13, 2025

Democrats boasted “NEW Documents show Donald Trump spent Thanksgiving with Jeffrey Epstein in 2017” but it was a complete lie. As proven below Trump was the President in 2017 and he spent it with local Coast Guard members in Florida. How desperate are these Democrats? https://t.co/7pgoVTG1hx pic.twitter.com/mejthOi3Op

— TLO (@TommyLeeOscar) November 14, 2025

In 2017 Jeffrey Epstein had Thanksgiving with Glen and Eva Dubin’s house, who made political contributions to Democrats, Abigail Spanberger and Pete Buttigieg. Trump was at Mari Lago 2017 Thanksgiving (not the Dubins) so that reference meant “Palm Beach” the town … Your scam is… pic.twitter.com/U2MO7hSBLD

— CRTruthcrusader⚖️️ (@ccarneyrichman) November 13, 2025

President Trump should sue the Democrats for this defamation! Another $1B win!

— JKash MAGA Queen (@JKash000) November 13, 2025

After getting called out, the Democrats quietly deleted the tweet.

BREAKING: The official X account of the Democrat Party has DELETED their post claiming President Trump spent Thanksgiving with Jeffrey Epstein in 2017

He was literally the President, dumbasses. You don’t think someone would’ve noticed?!

Trump should BANKRUPT the DNC for this… pic.twitter.com/dXiyOg4MYy

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) November 13, 2025

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Just In: Trump Announces He Will Order Pam Bondi to Investigate Bill Clinton, J.P. Morgan, and Other Leftist People and Institutions’ Ties to Jeffrey Epstein
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President Trump announced that he is directing the Justice Department to investigate Bill Clinton, J.P. Morgan, and other leftist people and institutions with ties to Jeffrey Epstein

As The Gateway Pundit reported, on Wednesday morning, the Democrats’ Committee on Oversight released a “tranche of correspondence” from the Epstein Estate, claiming to “strike a blow against the White House’s Epstein cover-up.” The three unrelated emails range in dates from 2011 through 2019.

In response to the release, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told FOX News Digital, “The Democrats selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump.”

Now, Trump is turning the screws on the REAL scoundrels in the Epstein saga. He announced on Truth Social that he would be ordering Pam Bondi to investigate Epstein’s relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions to determine their involvement.

“Now that the Democrats are using the Epstein Hoax, involving Democrats, not Republicans, to try and deflect from their disastrous SHUTDOWN, and all of their other failures I will be asking A.G. Pam Bondi, and the Department of Justice, together with our great patriots at the FBI, to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions, to determine what was going on with them, and him, “Trump wrote.

“This is another Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, with all arrows pointing to the Democrats. Records show that these men, and many others, spent large portions of their life with Epstein, and on his “Island.” Stay tuned!!!”

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/115548785919046772/embed

The development regarding Clinton is particularly intriguing, considering his long ties to the deceased pedophile.

TGP has revealed the following details:

Epstein reportedly visited the Oval Office when Clinton was President at least 17 times.

Clinton flew on Epstein’s infamous Lolita Express multiple times.

A witness said Clinton not only spent time on Epstein’s p*dophile island with Epstein and his procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell, but there were also two young girls present.

Clinton was photographed with his arm around one of Epstein’s sex slaves and getting a neck massage from another.

He even reportedly had an affair with Maxwell!

In the book, “Citizen,” Clinton admits that he flew on Epstein’s private jet. However, he claimed the plane was used solely for business purposes, not for pleasure.

This story is developing and will be updated.

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