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Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein Had a Yearslong Relationship

Mar 9, 2026Far Left

At the close of February 2016, Jeffrey Epstein was, as was often the case, trying to find a way to get together with his good friend, Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel. He would be in Europe the following month, he emailed him, then on his private island in the Caribbean, and if neither of […]

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Billionaire Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Warns Woke AI Company Anthropic Could Rig 2028 Election for Democrats

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Billionaire Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Warns Woke AI Company Anthropic Could Rig 2028 Election for Democrats

Billionaire technology Peter Thiel warned that AI company Anthropic could use its technological advantage to influence the 2028 presidential election in favor of Democrats. The post Billionaire Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Warns Woke AI Company Anthropic Could Rig 2028 Election for Democrats appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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Justice Department defends decision not to release, unredact more Epstein files

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Justice Department defends decision not to release, unredact more Epstein files

The DOJ’s response came in the final hours of a court-ordered deadline to remove redactions in at least a dozen documents.

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Justice Department defends decision not to release, unredact more Epstein files

The Justice Department (DOJ) declined on Thursday to release additional unredacted records from its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, telling a federal judge that it has already adequately complied with the law. The DOJ’s response came in the final hours of a court-ordered deadline to remove redactions in at least a dozen documents…

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‘So dumb!’: Reporter who nailed Trump over Epstein unloads another thundering beatdown

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‘So dumb!’: Reporter who nailed Trump over Epstein unloads another thundering beatdown

Reporter Katie Phang recently nabbed a huge win against interim AG Todd Blanche and his crusade to keep the Epstein files under wraps. After months of stalling by the administration of President Donald Trump and ignoring the letter of a new law demanding the release of the sex-trafficker’s files, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan opened the floodgates on Trump’s longtime friend. Sullivan sided with former MS NOW show host Katie Phang in her lawsuit demanding the Trump administration adhere to the Epstein Transparency Act.Now, fresh off her big win, Phang tells “Left Hook” podcaster Wajahat Ali that Blanche, Trump and his entire crew appeared to be a bunch of idiots who had no real plan to protect Trump from being implicated in the Epstein files.“They're damned if they do and damned if they don't,” howled Phang. “You either produce it and now we have information that I and others can track down and do more reporting on, or you don't … it means they're trying to hide s——.”“If I were them I'd comply,” Phang told Ali. “I'd say ‘here are the names of the co-conspirators. Here are the names of the bad people that sent these terrible f—— emails. Here are the names of possible perpetrators. Have a nice day.’ But they are so dumb the way that they play this game. They had no f—— strategy and p—— off a federal judge like Emmett Sullivan … [who] told [Trump conspiracist] Michael Flynn to his face ‘you are a traitor to this country.’”Sullivan’s ruling means Blanche now must explain to a court why he shouldn't be forced to release names redacted from emails and documents that reference potentially damning videos and allegations of abuse of minors. Also included in redacted info includes the potential names of Epstein’s co-conspirators, as well as potentially damaging FBI interview notes from a victim who claimed Epstein introduced her to President Donald Trump when she was only 13.Phang told Ali that she had no doubt Sullivan put Trump administration in terrible danger.“Starting last year right … in the spring of 2025 they convene in the situation room about the Epstein files and it's not just the vice president of the United States, JD Vance there,” said Phang. “It was also then-attorney general Pam Bondi. It was FBI director Kash Patel. It's the deputy director of the FBI, Dan Bongino. It was then-deputy attorney general Todd Blanche. … It's the White House chief of staff Susie Wiles. It's the White House council … and a slew of other people. If something [fatal] had happened to that situation room pretty much … the entirety of the trump administration upper echelon would be f—— exterminated.”“The fact that you convene all those people repeatedly in the Situation Room you don't have to be a Rhodes scholar to figure out that there is something politically toxically horribly bad for the President of the United States [in those files],” she said.Phang added that she deliberately targeted Blanche in the suit to make him the prime target.“Unlike in other lawsuits when the DOJ is being sued and they parade in some junior federal prosecutor who has to go hat-in-hand to sit there and explain what happened or why they didn't do it, I only sued one person,” Phang said gleefully. “So, Todd Blanche … is gonna have to show up. You can't just send in some lackey.”

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Billionaire Peter Thiel stuns liberal crowd, warns democratic socialists will take over their party

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Billionaire Peter Thiel stuns liberal crowd, warns democratic socialists will take over their party

"When the Democratic Party goes, this country is over," Thiel said.

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Netanyahu’s lawyers compare his treatment by court to Adolf Eichmann as yearslong trial could go to 2028

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Netanyahu’s lawyers compare his treatment by court to Adolf Eichmann as yearslong trial could go to 2028

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s legal team says the demands being placed on him for his yearslong corruption case are comparable to Israel’s treatment of a Nazi war criminal. Defense attorney Amit Hadad, who is representing the prime minister as he continues to navigate a corruption trial that began in 2019, said at the Jerusalem […]

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Experts flag new legal woes for Trump in Epstein case: 'It's become a big problem'

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Experts flag new legal woes for Trump in Epstein case: 'It's become a big problem'

President Donald Trump has had a hard time distancing himself from the Jeffrey Epstein saga, and a new development in the case might prove to be more of a headache than he wants, according to two legal experts. Earlier this month, convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein's assistant, Lesley Groff, testified before Congress about her relationship with the disgraced financier and his crimes. The transcripts of that interview were released late last week, and some of the details Groff shared with investigators raised red flags for attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian, who co-host the "Civil Action" podcast on the Legal AF Network. For instance, Kabateck pointed out in a new episode on Sunday that Groff testified she began working for Epstein in 2001 and that Epstein and Trump were in contact for at least a decade. That seems to contradict Trump's previous claim that he cut off communications with Epstein in 2004 or 2005, well before Trump became president, Kabateck noted. Another issue is that those dates extend beyond Epstein's 2008 felony conviction for soliciting a minor, which is another "problematic" aspect of the timeline, Kabateck said. Karnickian said the transcript showed that Trump "has something to hide" in the case. "Early on, we talked about Epstein, and we thought this is a sideshow, and maybe Trump's deliberately putting it out there," Karnikian said. "It's become a big problem for him, and it's clear that he has something to hide here."

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Fox's Peter Doocy mocked for hyping turnout for Trump event — in front of near-empty field

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Fox's Peter Doocy mocked for hyping turnout for Trump event — in front of near-empty field

Reporting from the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Fox News’ Peter Doocy claimed that people were “still coming out” to the Great American State Fair, though he soon became the butt of a joke online after viewers noted a glaring contradiction directly behind him.“It’s really something!” Doocy said Sunday, speaking from an elevated news desk on the National Mall about the fair, organized by the President Donald Trump-linked group Freedom 250. “The weather, not the best today, but people are still coming out.”The problem, as noted by countless online critics, was that the expansive field behind him – the hub of the fair’s state exhibits – was almost completely empty.“There’s literally no one behind them,” quipped Joanne Carducci, a prominent liberal influencer and commentator, writing in a social media post on X Sunday to her more than 1 million followers.Carlos Turnbull, another prominent liberal influencer, said that even the descriptor of “not many people” would be a “generous way of describing attendance at the Trump fair,” and John Hartzell, who runs popular political humor social media accounts, quipped that Trump’s group behind the fair “was called Freedom 250 because that’s how many people went.”Beyond what appears to be lower-than-expected turnout, the fair has been plagued with challenges since opening to the public last Thursday, including from power outages that halted a Ferris wheel and melted perishable foods. Weeks before the fair opened, artists slated to perform at the event pulled out en masse after learning of its ties to Trump.There’s literally no one behind them. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 https://t.co/ocrv8ulHt1— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) June 28, 2026

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