Sunday, November 16, 2025

Breaking: Trump says Republicans “should vote” to release Epstein Files

Trump SPIRALS in LATE NIGHT MELTDOWN as WALLS CLOSE IN

Chump does an about face to save his own fat ass

 Chump is a garbage can fire always.  And where to start is the question every day.  Let's start with TV.  Marni Rose McFall (NEWSWEEK) reports Chump's latest tantrum:

President Donald Trump has called on NBC to fire Seth Meyers, after being made the subject of multiple roasts on the host's late-night show.

Newsweek has contacted a representative for Meyers via an online contact form and NBC via email outside of regular working hours for comment.

Trump’s remarks come at a pivotal moment for the late-night television landscape. Hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert have faced suspension and cancellation, respectively, and the president has regularly made public criticisms over what they say on their shows, including having called Meyers a “deranged lunatic.”

These attacks have highlighted the increasingly fraught relationship between politics and entertainment, and concerns about freedom of speech.


That fat ass said and did every disgusting thing you can do on stage in 2024 while campaigning.  And now he wants to be offended?  TV critic is not the role of the US President no matter who holds the office and he needs to stop threatening people's employment because it's an abuse of power and because it only reminds the entire country that Chump only knows how to destroy jobs, not how to create them.  Making things worse, a lunatic on a board who thinks he serves Donald Chump and not the American people.  Giana Levy (DEADLINE) reports:


Brendan Carr, the chairman of the FCC, reshared Donald Trump’s demand for Seth Meyers to be fired from NBC after being made the subject of his roasts on the host’s late-night show.

Trump posted on Truth Social on Saturday, “NBC’s Seth Meyers is suffering from an incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). He was viewed last night in an uncontrollable rage, likely due to the fact that his ‘show’ is a Ratings DISASTER. Aside from everything else, Meyers has no talent, and NBC should fire him, IMMEDIATELY!”   


It's past time a lawsuit was brought against Brendan Carr.  He doesn't understand his job duties, clearly.  He is abusing his position of power -- a position America did not vote him into.  His moves continue to raise a mountain of ethical questions.  He needs to be sued and he also needs to be called before Congress  We are not supposed to have government censorship of the arts in this country.  


Next up for Chump.  All it took was diving poll numbers, former supporters going on Tik-Tok to burn their MAGA gear, members of Congress on both sides standing up to him and the public's growing suspicion that he's hiding something with regards to his best friend Jeffrey Epstein.  That's all it took to put Chump in turnaround.  Helen Sullivan (BBC NEWS) reports:


US President Donald Trump has called on House Republicans to vote to release the Epstein files, in a reversal from his previous position.

"House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide," Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday night.

The shift from days of Trump fighting the proposal comes as the House is expected to hold a vote this week on legislation that would force the Justice Department to release the files to the public.

Supporters of the proposal appear to have enough votes to pass the House, though it is unclear whether it would pass the Senate.

 

AP's Kevin Freking and Chris Megerian explain, "The president's shift is an implicit acknowledgement that supporters of the measure have enough votes to pass it the House, although it has an unclear future in the Senate. It is a rare example of Trump backtracking because of opposition within the GOP."  Ashley Ahn (NEW YORK TIMES) adds, "In a Sunday interview on ABC News, Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky, who has helped lead congressional efforts to release the files, suggested that “100 or more” House Republicans could vote in favor of releasing the Epstein files this week despite opposition from Mr. Trump. The House speaker also predicted a significant number of G.O.P. votes." 


Changing topics, ABC7 CHICAGO reports:


The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has left its "Operation Midway Blitz" command center at Naval Station Great Lakes, city officials confirmed to ABC7 Chicago Sunday.

The development comes as 200 federalized Texas National Guard members also vacated the base this week, and Customs and Border Protection Cmdr. Greg Bovino also left the Chicago area, being seen during a new surge in immigration enforcement in Charlotte, North Carolina.

And they took the chaos with them to North Carolina. Another peaceful city destroyed by Chump's gestapo. Eduardo Medina and Sonia A. Rao (NEW YORK TIMES) report


The Trump administration crackdown on illegal immigrants arrived in Charlotte this weekend, resulting in 81 arrests on Saturday. It continued on Sunday, with Border Patrol agents fanning out across the largest city in North Carolina.

An immigrant rights group said the tally, reported by a senior Border Patrol official on social media, was the largest number of immigrant arrests in the state’s recent history.

The presence of the agents, led by Gregory Bovino, who directed similar operations in Chicago and Los Angeles this year, has startled people in one of the fastest-growing cities in the country. Much of that growth has been spurred by international migration, especially from Latin America. The city is also home to large corporations in the retail, banking and manufacturing sectors.


Nick Sullivan (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER) explains that every where in the city of Charlotte was a target -- even churches:


Congregants of an east Charlotte church scattered into the woods Saturday when masked federal agents arrived and detained one of their members, according to witnesses. About 15 to 20 church members were doing yard work on the property off Albemarle Road while their children played games and their spouses cooked meals. Agents parked just outside a closed gate leading to the church parking lot and ran into the yard, said the pastor, who did not want to identify himself or his church. The agents asked no questions and showed no identification before taking one man away, whose wife and child were inside at the time, the pastor said. They attempted to grab others, too.

 

The location didn't matter and citizenship didn't matter.  Charlotte's WCNC reports:

As US Customs and Border Patrol began its operation in Charlotte on Nov. 15, 2025, a handful of encounters with agents were reported across the city. This included an encounter near a bar and grill on South Boulevard that a man said led to his truck's window being smashed.

Elsewhere in Charlotte, another encounter was captured on viral video. WCNC Charlotte first brought the video live in a special edition of our Live Impact News show on the WCNC+ platform. The location is unclear, but the video shows agents confronting a woman holding a cell phone. She then stumbles on a grassy area. Agents then proceed to handcuff her, and as she is handcuffed as she says, "I'm a US citizen," and bystanders yell at agents. Her phone is also confiscated during the encounter.


More storm trooper action from the lawless and feckless Chump administration.  Over on the Democratic Party side, there are leadership issues as well.  US House Rep Ro Khanna is only one of many who feels eight years of being the Democratic Party leader in the Senate is enough and Chuck Schumer needs to step down and let someone else lead.   Cheyanne M. Daniels (POLITICO) notes:

Rep. Ro Khanna is buckling down on criticisms of Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, throwing his support behind bolder Democrats as he calls for a change in Democratic leadership.

The California Democrat told host Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that though Schumer was “terrific” under former President Joe Biden, the New York lawmaker no longer inspires confidence in Democratic voters.

“The question is what is the future of Democratic leadership. Who is going to be effective? And most Democrats around the country just don’t think that person is Chuck Schumer,” Khanna said.

“I mean, he doesn’t inspire confidence. He’s not bold. He’s out of touch with the grassroots. He’s someone who cheer-led us into the war in Iraq. He doesn’t have the moral clarity on Gaza. He couldn’t say [Zohran] Mamdani’s name. And this was the final straw, where he was not strong on fighting for health care.”


Some get it, some don't.  Let's note another who gets it,  Arwa Mahdawi (GUARDIAN):

Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, has a pair of very sweet imaginary friends. They’re a middle-class couple called Joe and Eileen Bailey and they live on Long Island. At one point the imaginary couple, who feature in Schumer’s 2007 book, Positively American, were called the O’Reillys. According to the Hill, one Schumer aide said the name then was changed because the publisher thought O’Reilly was “too ethnic” for mass consumption. Another aide said that claim was false, and Schumer just wanted a name that “sounded more national”. Naming strategy aside, the key point here is that Schumer has said he runs all his policy decisions by this completely fictional couple. He’s referred to them hundreds of times throughout his political career.

With that in mind, you can probably thank the Baileys for the latest Democratic disaster. The US government has just emerged from the longest shutdown in history. About 700,000 federal employees worked without pay, desperately needed food benefits were disrupted, court cases were delayed, national parks closed and flights got cancelled.

All this pain was supposed to be in service of a very specific gain. Senate Democrats triggered the shutdown because they wanted to take a stand on healthcare. The 24 million people who get their health coverage through Affordable Care Act marketplaces (commonly known as Obamacare) are going to see their premiums more than double after an enhanced tax credit expires at the end of the year. The Democrats want to extend the credits; the Republicans have refused to commit to a vote on the issue.

You can certainly argue that shutting down the government to force a vote on Obamacare subsidies was the right thing to do. But it is very hard to find any strategic sense in putting Americans through a world of pain for 43 days only to shrug your shoulders and give up. Particularly as Schumer himself said the subsidies were a “life or death” issue and there was “no f**king way” the Democrats would cave on it.

[. . .]

Whatever Schumer does, I suggest he stop his conversations with the Baileys stat. We don’t need you talking to your imaginary friends, Chuck. We need you listening to the concerns of real people.


Let's wind down with this from Senator Patty Murray's office:

Washington, D.C. — Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee; Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee; Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies; and Senator Tina Smith, Ranking Member of the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development led a letter alongside their Democratic colleagues to Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner calling on him to immediately halt reported plans to make drastic changes to the Continuum of Care (CoC) program, which could result in nearly 200,000 Americans being forced out of their housing and back into homelessness.

The 42 Senate Democrats call on Secretary Turner to instead use the authorities that Congress already gave him to expeditiously renew existing CoC grants for fiscal year 2025 to prevent massive disruption and frightening uncertainty for hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Americans in the coming months.

“We write to express our deep concerns regarding the instability the entire homeless support system could face if funding delays, uncertainty, and rushed policy changes continue,” write the Senators. “HUD must immediately reconsider these harmful and potentially illegal changes that could result in nearly 200,000 older adults, chronically homeless Americans with disabilities, veterans, and families being forced back onto the streets. As Secretary, you have the authority to avoid this worst-case scenario by carrying out the previously planned and Congressionally authorized two-year NOFO, and we strongly urge you to do so expeditiously.”

The lawmakers note that the reported and potentially illegal plans to upend the program, which is the largest source of federal grant funding to prevent homelessness, would cause sudden and significant shortfalls and real pain across the country. Specifically, they write: “The most troubling of these changes is a new, arbitrary cap on the amount of funds that may be used for permanent housing. Currently, 87 percent of CoC funds support permanent housing, but the new NOFO reportedly limits the amount of funding for permanent housing to only 30 percent. This appears to be in contravention of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, undermines local decision-making authority, and ignores decades of research that has proven that permanent supportive housing and rapid rehousing are less costly and more likely to be successful in providing long-term stability than other strategies, particularly for chronically homeless people and families.”

“Each new administration can make policy changes when they take office,” they continue.“While we may not always agree on those policy changes, we should never have to question whether agency officials will faithfully follow the law and work to minimize harm to our constituents and communities when implementing those new policies. Reports of HUD intentionally blocking staff from examining the legality of the fiscal year 2025 NOFO changes with its own attorneys are deeply troubling.”

The Senators note that, since January 20, repeated, chaotic policy changes affecting the program have created needless, costly uncertainty for communities across the country—and the Department has failed to communicate clearly with stakeholders and Congress about its plans. “For months, our staffs have sent HUD countless questions about its intents and actions around CoC funding that have remained unanswered, undermining Congress’s ability to carry out its legislative and oversight functions. Real people in every community across the country rely on these funds to address homelessness. The funding competition process for fiscal year 2025 has not begun, and with CoC project awards beginning to expire in less than two months, HUD is simply out of time.”

“There is a better way forward,” they conclude. “HUD’s current path risks causing a dangerous spike in street homelessness and creating chaos in urban, suburban, and rural communities alike by forcing nearly 200,000 chronically homeless Americans with disabilities and families back onto the streets. We implore you to make the better choice and expeditiously renew current CoC grants for fiscal year 2025 as authorized by Congress to protect communities and avoid displacing thousands of our nation’s most vulnerable individuals.”

The full letter is available HERE and below:

The Honorable Scott Turner

Secretary

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

451 7th Street S.W.

Washington, D.C. 20410

Dear Secretary Turner:

We write to express our deep concerns regarding the instability the entire homeless support system could face if funding delays, uncertainty, and rushed policy changes continue. Reports indicate that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) intends to issue a new fiscal year 2025 Continuum of Care (CoC) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) and make substantial changes to how funds are awarded. HUD must immediately reconsider these harmful and potentially illegal changes that could result in nearly 200,000 older adults, chronically homeless Americans with disabilities, veterans, and families being forced back onto the streets. As Secretary, you have the authority to avoid this worst-case scenario by carrying out the previously planned and Congressionally authorized two-year NOFO[1], and we strongly urge you to do so expeditiously.

The Continuum of Care program is the largest source of Federal grant funds for providing a wide range of housing and services for individuals experiencing or at risk of homelessness that are responsive to local community needs. On September 29, 2025, Politico reported that the Department intends to make wholesale changes to the fiscal year 2025 CoC NOFO.[2] The most troubling of these changes is a new, arbitrary cap on the amount of funds that may be used for permanent housing. Currently, 87 percent of CoC funds support permanent housing, but the new NOFO reportedly limits the amount of funding for permanent housing to only 30 percent. This appears to be in contravention of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act[3], undermines local decision-making authority, and ignores decades of research that has proven that permanent supportive housing and rapid rehousing are less costly and more likely to be successful in providing long-term stability than other strategies, particularly for chronically homeless people and families. Today, CoC funds serve over 750,000 Americans experiencing homelessness each year, and every community will feel the impact of this dramatic cut. The cut will be largest for major cities in absolute terms, but rural communities—who experienced a 12 percent increase in homelessness between 2023 and 2024[4] and are more reliant on Federal funding—are likely to feel the impacts most severely[5].

In your written testimony for the June 2025 Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on HUD’s fiscal year 2026 budget request, you stated that your budget aimed to “better serve the American people while maintaining necessary assistance for the elderly and disabled.”[6] However, seniors are the fastest-growing demographic among people experiencing homelessness. The share of the homeless population aged 60 years and older in 2020 was 2.6 times higher than it was in 1990.[7] By dramatically cutting funding for permanent housing, tens of thousands of older adults and people with disabilities who currently reside in CoC funded permanent supportive housing could soon lose their homes and lose access to the supportive services they need to take care of their physical and mental health needs.

Each new administration can make policy changes when they take office. While we may not always agree on those policy changes, we should never have to question whether agency officials will faithfully follow the law and work to minimize harm to our constituents and communities when implementing those new policies. Reports of HUD intentionally blocking staff from examining the legality of the fiscal year 2025 NOFO changes with its own attorneys are deeply troubling. We are also concerned by HUD’s lack of communication with grantees, especially as any new NOFO at this point in the year would not provide grantees with adequate time or opportunity to plan for sweeping changes before some projects begin to run out of CoC funds in January 2026. Over the past decade, HUD has always issued the annual CoC NOFO by mid-August and provided on average 82 days for CoCs to develop applications. Without a NOFO published as of November 12, 2025, thousands of CoC project grants that expire between January and June 2026 will be at risk of funding disruptions or shuttering operations.

Further, HUD has taken several steps since January 20, 2025 to spark chaos and disrupt grantee operations, including applying new and likely illegal conditions to previously awarded CoC grants[8], repeatedly recompeting the fiscal year 2023 CoC Builds funding[9], proposing to eliminate the CoC program altogether[10], repeating rhetoric used by the President to villainize homeless people, and gutting the HUD workforce that implements the CoC and other community development programs[11]. All these actions raise serious questions and concerns about whether HUD is intentionally violating the law to prevent Congressionally appropriated funds from reaching the people and communities they were intended to support.

For months, we have heard from countless front-line workers, faith-based and non-profit service providers, mayors, and governors who have been frantically attempting to navigate HUD’s actions and anxiously waiting for HUD to provide details around the fiscal year 2025 NOFO changes. For months, our staffs have sent HUD countless questions about its intents and actions around CoC funding that have remained unanswered, undermining Congress’s ability to carry out its legislative and oversight functions. Real people in every community across the country rely on these funds to address homelessness. The funding competition process for fiscal year 2025 has not begun, and with CoC project awards beginning to expire in less than two months, HUD is simply out of time.

There is a better way forward. Congress already authorized HUD to compete CoC funds on a two-year basis for fiscal years 2024 and 2025, and communities already went through a two-year planning process. The shift to a two-year funding cycle had strong bipartisan support and aimed to reduce the burden on communities and provide greater predictability of funding, and members on both sides of the aisle support this approach.[12] HUD should make the responsible choice to renew current CoC grants, proactively work with communities to promote other proven strategies “based on research and after notice and public comment”[13], and work to ensure any policy changes meet all legal requirements to avoid more funding delays.

HUD’s current path risks causing a dangerous spike in street homelessness and creating chaos in urban, suburban, and rural communities alike by forcing nearly 200,000 chronically homeless Americans with disabilities and families back onto the streets. We implore you to make the better choice and expeditiously renew current CoC grants for fiscal year 2025 as authorized by Congress to protect communities and avoid displacing thousands of our nation’s most vulnerable individuals. 

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

###


[1] Section 242 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law 118-42) provided: “For fiscal years 2024 and 2025, the Secretary may issue a 2-year notification of funding opportunity, including any alternative procedures or requirements as may be necessary to allocate future appropriations in the second year, for the award of amounts made available for the continuum of care program under subtitle C of title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11381 et seq.), notwithstanding any conflict with the requirements of the continuum of care program.”

[2] Hapgood, Katherine. “Trump admin looks at deep cuts to homeless housing program.” Politico, September 29, 2025. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/29/trump-admin-looks-at-deep-cuts-to-homeless-housing-program-00585770?nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nname=playbook&nrid=029a6cb0-ce47-467b-b7ef-0a38ceb899fd.

[3] 42 U.S.C. § 11381 et seq.

[4] HUD. “The 2024 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress”. December 2024. https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-AHAR-Part-1.pdf

[5] National Alliance to End Homelessness. “Visualizing the Impact of the Presidents’ FY2026 Budget: Returns to Homelessness and Major Setbacks Could Be Ahead”. June 3, 2025. https://endhomelessness.org/resources/research-and-analysis/visualizing-the-impacts-of-the-presidents-fy2026-budget-returns-to-homelessness-and-major-setbacks-could-be-ahead/

[6] Turner, E. Scott. Statement Before the Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies. June 11, 2025. https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/secretary_scott_turner_testimony.pdf.

[7] Byrne, Thomas. “Persistence of a Birth Cohort Effect in the US Among the Adult Homeless Population.” December 26, 2024. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2828494

[8] King County v. Turner (2:25-cv-00814)

[9] National Alliance to End Homelessness v. Turner (1:25-cv-00447)

[10] HUD. “Congressional Justifications for the FY2026 Budget, Office of Community Planning and Development – Homeless Assistance – Emergency Solutions Grants.” https://www.hud.gov/sites/dfiles/CFO/documents/2026_CJ_Program_HAG.pdf.

[11] According to data provided to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations, the Office of Community Planning and Development lost 37 percent of its workforce between January 2025 and June 2025.

[12] Letter to Secretary Scott Turner from 22 Republican Members of the House of Representatives. October 28, 2025. https://endhomelessness.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/GOP-Letter-to-HUD-on-the-CoC-Grant-Final-w-Signatures-10.28.25.pdf

[13] 42 U.S.C. 11386b (d)(2).



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Chump and his roll dog Epstein

Donald Chump's friend and roll dog Jeffrey Epstein remains in the news.  Andrea González-Ramírez (THE CUT) notes


This narrative persists in the 23,000 pages of emails and documents from Epstein’s estate that were released by Congress on Wednesday. The documents appear to show just how sprawling Epstein’s reach was, including communications with the former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Trump’s ally Steve Bannon, right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, several members of previous Democratic administrations, and prominent media personalities and artists. Many of these influential men have since disavowed Epstein, said they regret their interactions with him, and denied that they knew about his sex crimes. They were simply taken in by his unmatched philanthropism and intellect, they’ve explained. Renowned academic Noam Chomsky, for example, wrote in an undated character reference that the financier “quickly became a highly valued friend and regular source of intellectual exchange and stimulation.”


A lot of exposure as a result of those e-mails.  Including the one where Epstein notes Chump "knew about the girls."  Schuyler Mitchell (MOTHER JONES) explains how Chump has elected to respond:


For months, President Donald Trump begged America to forget about Jeffrey Epstein. But this week a House committee released a trove of the late sex offender’s emails, and Trump’s name was all over them. Now, he’s suddenly once again very interested in figuring out who enabled or even partook in Epstein’s prolific sexual abuse of underage women—as long as the only people being investigated for crimes are Democrats.

On Friday, Trump directed the Department of Justice, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation 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.” Bondi quickly hopped on the case, announcing on X that she had assigned a prosecutor to “pursue this with urgency and integrity.”

Trump, a friend of Epstein for many years, has strenuously denied any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes. But his Friday directive reversed the Trump administration’s previous stance that there was nothing left to see in the Epstein case: In July, Bondi’s DOJ and the FBI released a memo claiming it had exhausted all of the evidence in the government’s possession and determined that “no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted.” That move was itself a stunning reversal, angering many of Trump’s supporters who believed he would fulfill his campaign promise to release all files from the government’s Epstein investigation. After the July announcement, Trump blasted his supporters who felt betrayed as “stupid” and “foolish” for still believing in the “Jeffrey Epstein hoax.”

A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers emerged to push for the full Epstein files. Following the long-awaited swearing in of Arizona Rep. Adelita Grijalva on Wednesday, a Democrat whose support was needed to advance the release, the House will soon vote on a bill that could compel the DOJ to release what it has. 


Strange.  So were his other responses.  He tried to persuade Republicans who signed onto the bill.  US House Rep Nancy Mace apparently had the common sense to avoid his calls.   US House Rep Lauren Boebert got called to the White House Situation Room where they tried to pressure her to take her signature off -- pressured her to the point that she found the entire encounter worrying.  US House Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene, he's been attacking her online.


Clearly, he's got something to hide  You don't order Speaker of the Closet Mike Johnson to send Republicans members of the House home for weeks and refuse to swear in Adelita Grijalva for weeks in order to continue the cover up unless you have something to hide.  And you don't then distract the people (and abuse the Justice Dept) by ordering a government agency to go after your political rivals. 


You have to be hiding something and clearly Chump is hiding a great deal. Robert McCoy (THE NEW REPUBLIC) reports:

As President Donald Trump and Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s feud over Jeffrey Epstein boils over, survivors of the late sex criminal have reportedly issued a collective statement of support for the Georgia Republican.

The bizarre development comes amid a deepening internal rift in the MAGA movement.

The letter, as reported Saturday by MeidasTouch News, thanked Greene “for standing up against the intimidation, silencing, and abuse that Epstein survivors have endured for decades.”

“When you speak the truth and refuse to bow to threats, you become a survivor by proxy—an ally who carries part of the fight with us,” the message continued. “That courage matters. You have our full support. We stand united with you against any attempt to bully, rewrite history, or shut down accountability.”

The 27 reported signatories, who faced or were otherwise impacted by Epstein’s abuse—such as Maria and Annie Farmer, Courtney Wild, and the family of Virginia Roberts Giuffre—promised to defend Greene “with everything we have” and offered “to help and to talk.”


Meanwhile, Ryan Coopeer (TAP) wonders about how some newly surfaced facts have been buried for so long:

Well, now we have it. On Wednesday, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released another batch of documents related to notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Among them were several emails about Donald Trump. One was from Epstein to his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell back in 2011. He wrote: “i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.. [victim] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75 % there[.]” (Excuse the spelling and grammar errors, that’s all Jeffrey.)

By now, we’re all familiar with what “spent hours” meant in the context of rich, powerful men and Epstein’s victims—particularly given the reference to ‘barking,’ which has to mean going to prosecutors or the media.


Chump lies and his underlings lie.  Travis Gettys (RAW STORY) reports on Deputy AG Todd Blanche:

"An important side note about today's Epstein/Trump revelations," noted conservative attorney George Conway on X. "They show that Todd Blanche's questioning of Ghislaine Maxwell was either (a) completely incompetent; or (b) intentionally crafted not to elicit facts incriminating Trump. Either way, he is not fit to serve as Deputy Attorney General of the United States."

Blanche spoke to Maxwell over two days in July at a prison where she's serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking and other charges, and he publicly asserted that she had told him she never saw Trump act inappropriately, and he disputed Conway's criticism.

"George, you’ve never been confused for a trial lawyer, and these kinds of posts explain why," Blanche replied. "When I interviewed Maxwell, law enforcement didn’t have the materials Epstein’s estate hid for years and only just provided to Congress. Stop talking. It’s unbecoming."

The Justice Department official's explanation didn't pass the smell test for many social media users, however.

"Todd, didn't the Justice Department have these emails when they seized Epstein's computers, phones, iPads, and other electronic devices from his homes in Manhattan and the US Virgin Islands?" posted Business Insider's Jacob Shamsian.

"Mr. Blanche - When you questioned Maxwell you simply let her spew a narrative contradicted by evidence already in your possession," said retired attorney Tirah Att. "I'm not sure what the point of the interview was, but we know the result - she was moved to a cushy prison not meant for sexual predators."


If she lied to him, Todd has croaked for months, she could face legal consequences.  Well she did lie.  Jen Psaki (MS NOW) points that reality out noting the photo of Virginia Giuffre with  the King of England's brother Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell:

 

I’ll spare you the rest of the truly wretched details, but Giuffre said that she and Andrew had sex that night at Epstein and Maxwell’s direction. It was the first of three such encounters.

Both Maxwell and Andrew have vehemently denied that any of this ever happened. A key part of that denial has been asserting that the photo of the trio is fake.

Even just this summer, in an interview with Donald Trump’s personal lawyer-turned-deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, Maxwell flat-out denied it and told him she believed it was “literally a fake photo.”

However, according to one of the emails included in the trove of documents released on Wednesday, that doesn’t appear to be the case.

On July 1, 2011, just months after the photo was first published in the British tabloids, Epstein allegedly sent an email in which he wrote: “Yes she was on my plane, and yes she had her picture taken with Andrew.”

Epstein denied everything else that took place and seemed to defend the photo by adding that many of his employees had taken pictures with Andrew.

It should be noted that Epstein himself is not exactly a reliable or trustworthy source. But the idea that Epstein, way back in 2011, said this photo was real throws into question everything both Andrew and Maxwell have said about the rest of that story.

The fact that, just months ago, Maxwell told Blanche that the photo was fake now adds all the more reason to be skeptical that anything she told the deputy attorney general in that meeting was true.


Back to a real prison for Ghislaine?  No, that would mean Donald wasn't scared of her and what she might squeal about.



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