The Justice Department says it's released "every document required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act," but CBS News has identified numerous gaps.
A day after advancing to a Republican runoff, megachurch pastor Jackson Lahmeyer suspended his congressional campaign on Wednesday amid a flirtatious texting scandal with a former Miss Oklahoma.
Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt unloaded on Vice President JD Vance in a YouTube video published this week, zeroing in on Vance's interview on "The View" and pinpointing a key moment when one co-host tore a hole in his lies."Here's Vance explaining that you don't understand the Epstein files," said Schmidt. In Vance's reckoning, he said, "it was Donald, like a latter-day Magnum P.I. dropping the dime, narcing on [Epstein], as JD Vance says, communicating to the police the crimes of Epstein. You see, it was Trump that brought Epstein to justice like the Lone Ranger."However, Schmidt continued, "Ana Navarro was having none of it" — and he played a clip of Vance getting smacked down."What I disagree with is the idea that the White House wasn't committed to full transparency," said Vance. "I was inside the room when some of these decisions were made. The Epstein Files Transparency Act, the one that the president signed, the one that led to all these files that we're seeing, the emails ... you know, one of the things you see in the Epstein emails is that Jeffrey Epstein hated Donald Trump and that Donald Trump literally reported Jeffrey Epstein to the police. That's one of the things that came out."Navarro then cut in. "They were best friends for about a decade," she said. "And remember, he signed that Transparency Act under duress when some Republican women, Congresswomen like Lauren Boebert, like Marjorie Taylor Greene, did not give in to his pressure of not signing. He brought Lauren Boebert into the Situation Room to pressure her into caving on not voting for that bill."That was one of the biggest moments of humiliation for Vance, Schmidt said, but far from the only one: "it went on and on and the lying never stops."Ultimately, he concluded, "J.D. Vance is strange and corrupt" and trying to position himself to take over an America that has "lost a war" and is flooded with "masked agents" because of his boss. "Let's be clear ... things in America are not okay. Rather, they seem to be falling apart. Defiance is the cure to all of this. We must never get in line with this insanity. Not for an hour, not for a day." - YouTube www.youtube.com
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proactive defense in the face of multiple federal investigations — the governor is accusing President Trump of lawfare and rampant corruption — is starting to draw pushback, as the California leader’s own record has frequently raised questions of pay to play.
Donald Trump had a team of recruiters roaming Trump Tower searching for women for him to have sex with, according to an explosive FBI interview buried in the Epstein files.In a 2021 interview, a woman told agents she was approached in the 1990s as she sat in the public atrium at the base of the Fifth Avenue skyscraper in New York City.Two men asked her if she wanted to meet Trump, the report stated, adding, “The man winked and said [Trump] could do whatever she liked."[She] felt that it was clear that sex was on the table, even though the man never mentioned sex. [She] felt these men were playing the role of recruiters for Trump.“The man told her that if she did not want to meet Trump right then, she could go to a party. The man told her that she could bring a friend if the friend looked like her, but she could not bring a guy.“The invitation was in or around 1990/1991 and the invitation had Jeffrey Epstein’s address on it.”The woman, whose name was redacted throughout the filing, contacted a law firm several years later as Epstein’s sex crimes became public knowledge and after watching a 60 Minutes report about Trump’s relationship with adult movie star Stormy Daniels, which resulted in him being found guilty of 34 felony counts related to a hush money payment. That law firm directed her to contact the FBI, the filing stated.The record of the interview was buried within millions of documents released by Trump's Department of Justice in the Epstein Files. Lying in an FBI interview is a federal crime.During the 1990s and 2000s, Trump and Epstein socialized together in the New York City and Palm Beach circles. Epstein was arrested in 2006 after he was accused of molesting multiple underage girls. He pleaded guilty to two prostitution charges under a controversial plea deal and was sentenced to 18 months in a minimum security facility — which he was allowed to leave for 12 hours a day.In 2019, he was arrested again on federal sex trafficking crimes. He was found dead in his jail cell in New York City later that year.The woman told agents that she was a student taking night classes in the early 1990s, and spent her days working at the luxury French shoe boutique Charles Jourdan, which had a flagship store inside Trump Tower. She would study during her lunch break at a table in the public atrium.The lower four floors of Trump Tower — at the top of which is nestled the now-president's three-story penthouse home — are lined with upscale stores, cafes and restaurants, and include public seating areas and an 80-foot indoor waterfall. Trump was required to give public access as part of a deal with the city. In exchange, he was allowed to make his tower taller than zoning normally allowed.The woman, who was in her 20s at the time, said it was during one of these lunch breaks that she first saw the men she called Trump's “recruiters.”“[She] met a colleague and he pointed out two men in their early 30s,” the FBI report stated. “[She] described one of the men was dark haired and looked like Antonio Banderas, while the other man was blonde and looked like the surfer type. Her colleague told her that the men constantly picked up [redacted] women.”Shortly after, the woman said, they approached her.“He asked her if she knew who Donald Trump was and told her he was meeting people that day,” the FBI report stated, referring to one of the men.“... [She] told the man that she knew who Trump was. The man asked if she wanted to meet Trump and told her that she did not need to work so hard to go to school. The man winked.”The student told the FBI that she declined the invitations, both to meet Trump and to go to the party. After that, she started to get threats, she said.“[She] said that she received death threats when she did not want to go meet Trump. The threats consisted of the men saying that they knew where she worked and could find her. [She] never told the police because she did not think they would believe her.”She also described watching the same men approach other women in the following six months. “[She] saw girls, usually blondes, approximately 15/16 years old with one of the two men and them get on an escalator. [She] never saw any females meet with Trump.”In a dark twist, she told FBI agents that she knew a woman who said that her daughter had been waiting to meet her at Trump Tower, and had been persuaded to go upstairs with the recruiters.“This was in the early 1990s. [The student] recalled sometime later seeing [redacted] at a cocktail party and the woman said something horrible happened to her daughter that day. The daughter had dropped out of school, got into drugs and committed suicide.”Trump has not been charged with any crime following the woman's interview with the FBI. He has not been formally accused of any wrongdoing in connection with the Epstein Files, in which he is mentioned thousands of times.
Vice President JD Vance triggered the hags on The View on Tuesday when they attempted to press him on the Epstein Files, and he corrected their lies that Trump was Epstein's "best friend." During the excruciating five-minute exchange, Vance was questioned on a New York Times report about the White House's meetings surrounding the Epstein files "I am, frankly, kind of a conspiracy theory on the Epstein stuff, and that story says that that's one of the things that's true, is that some people called me a conspiracy theorist on the Epstein stuff," Vance explained when pressed on the report. The report alleged that in Situation Room meetings with top White House officials, Vance was "panicked" over the Epstein issue and the rift it was causing in the MAGA base. The post WATCH: Vance Calls Himself a “Conspiracy Theorist” on Epstein, Angers Hags on The View by Correcting Their Lies About Trump’s Ties to Epstein appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
An individual allegedly involved in a thwarted terrorist attack aimed at Sunday’s UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House parroted Democrat conspiracy theories about President Trump protecting child predators connected to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to federal court documents. The revelation came on Tuesday, when Fox News reported on how the FBI and […]
Vance referred to himself as a Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theorist.
In a note written on July 22, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein appeared to portray himself “as a victim of the #MeToo movement,” and also compared his situation to the 19th century antisemitic persecution of a French Army officer, The New York Times revealed Tuesday after obtaining a collection of “never seen before” notes from the convicted child sex offender.The note in question was written four days after Epstein had been denied bail, and scrawled across the top was the phrase “J’ACCUSE,” which roughly translates to “I accuse” in English. The phrase, the Times notes, is a likely reference to the 1898 open letter of the same name accusing the French government of antisemitism for the persecution of Alfred Dreyfus, a military officer who was falsely accused of espionage and imprisoned on a brutal prison island.“‘Jewish – Rich – Politics,’ he wrote, seemingly comparing himself to Dreyfus,” the Times’ report reads. “‘Believe the victim = Believe the Accuser’ he wrote, adding, ‘CRAZY!’”It would also be just hours later after the note was written that Epstein would be discovered in his cell semi-conscious with a noose around his neck in what was reported to be a suicide attempt, though Epstein initially claimed his cellmate had attacked him before walking the allegation back.Epstein’s portrayal of himself as a victim of the MeToo movement – the social movement that brought some accountability to prominent figures accused of sexual abuse or harassment – also came several years after Epstein had attempted to arrange a meeting with leaders of the MeToo-inspired group Times Up, Raw Story previously reported.