Farmer, who was preparing to do some work for Epstein, said she was wearing running shorts when she turned up at the building to find Trump in a suit. Farmer told the Times that she started feeling scared as Trump allegedly stared at her bare legs, but Epstein came into the room and broke the tension. Farmer said Epstein reportedly said to Trump, “No, no. She’s not here for you.”
Rhian Lubin (INDEPENDENT) adds:
Farmer’s account is among “the clearest indications yet” of how Trump may appear in the Epstein files, the Times notes, though the White House disputed the alleged encounter.
“The president was never in [Epstein’s] office,” said White House communications director Steven Cheung. “The fact is that the president kicked him out of his club for being a creep.”
It follows a turbulent few weeks for the Trump administration after MAGA outrage over the Epstein files boiled over last week. Despite campaigning on a promise to release the files, Trump’s Justice Department announced in July that no further evidence in the case would be released, unleashing turmoil among the president’s MAGA supporter base.
So there are some revelations. Graeme Massie (INDEPENDENT) offers some more:
Donald Trump once hosted a party with “young women” where the disgraced late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein "was the only other guest,” according to a report.
The president is under pressure to release all files relating to the Epstein case, which he has so far refused to do despite a 2024 election promise.
The anecdote was part of a New York Times piece on Saturday entitled “Inside the Long Friendship Between Trump and Epstein.”
It states that “For nearly 15 years, the two men socialized together in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Fla., before a falling out that preceded Mr. Epstein’s first arrest.”
The
piece goes on to describe Trump hosting “a party at Mar-a-Lago for
young women in a so-called calendar girl competition, Mr. Epstein was
the only other guest.”
It states that the party was organized by Florida businessman George Houraney.
“Mr. Houraney recalled being surprised that Mr. Epstein was the only other person on the guest list,” it states.
“I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s,” Mr. Houraney told the newspaper about the party in 2019. “You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
They never learn, do they? As details emerge, they deny and that only eggs the press on. Every time.
It never works out for the person egging the press on.
Senator Dick Durbin is asking for answers and has made public three letters he's sent:
For a PDF of the letter to Attorney General Bondi, click here.
For a PDF of the letter to Director Patel, click here.
For a PDF of the letter to Deputy Director Bongino, click here.
This is from the Bondi article:
Dear Attorney General Bondi:
On July 7, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
released an unsigned memorandum regarding the Trump Administration’s “exhaustive review of
investigative holdings relating to Jeffrey Epstein.” This memorandum made two official findings:
(1) “[t]his systemic review revealed no incriminating ‘client list’”; and (2) “[a]fter a thorough
investigation, FBI investigators concluded that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in his cell at
the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City on August 10, 2019.”1
The first finding directly contradicts public statements you have repeatedly made. On
February 21, 17 days after your confirmation as Attorney General, you were asked directly by
Fox News’ America Reports host John Roberts: “DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey
Epstein’s clients; will that really happen?”2 Your response was: “It’s sitting on my desk right now
to review.”3 On February 27, you released binders of documents related to Epstein to
conservative influencers and commentators,4 but despite the major media event the White House
staged around this release, these files were largely already publicly available.5 After intense
blowback from this incident, you appeared on another Fox News show, Life Liberty Levin, and
claimed that a “whistleblower” told you that “New York SDNY [was] sitting on thousands of
pages of documents”; that “we will get everything”; that you were “assured” there was more; and
that the country would eventually see “the full Epstein files.”6
According to information my office received, you then pressured the FBI to put
approximately 1,000 personnel in its Information Management Division (IMD), including the
Record/Information Dissemination Section (RIDS), which handles all requests submitted by the
public under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Privacy Act, on 24-hour shifts to
review approximately 100,000 Epstein-related records in order to produce more documents that
could then be released on an arbitrarily short deadline. This effort, which reportedly took place
from March 14 through the end of March, was haphazardly supplemented by hundreds of FBI
New York Field Office personnel, many of whom lacked the expertise to identify statutorily-
protected information regarding child victims and child witnesses or properly handle FOIA
requests.
My office was told that these personnel were instructed to “flag” any records in which
President Trump was mentioned. Notably, in 2002, Mr. Trump said of Mr. Epstein, “I’ve known
Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy, He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful
women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”7 Just yesterday, it was
reported that the Department previously reviewed a “leather-bound album” comprised of dozens
of letters from Mr. Epstein’s friends in celebration of his 50th birthday in 2003.8 The letters were
collected by Mr. Epstein’s partner Ghislaine Maxwell and included one from President Trump
that allegedly “contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman,
which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker … and the future president’s signature is a
squiggly ‘Donald’ below her waist.”9
Despite tens of thousands of personnel hours reviewing and re-reviewing these Epstein-
related records over the course of two weeks in March, it took DOJ more than three additional
months to officially find there is “no incriminating ‘client list,’” and the memorandum with this
finding includes no mention of the whistleblower or additional documents, the existence of
which you publicly claimed on February 27.
A whistleblower is also mentioned in the letter to Patel. David McAfee reports:
Reports that federal workers were tasked with reviewing Jeffrey Epstein files to flag any mention of Donald Trump are indeed true, according to a legal expert on Sunday.
Legal analyst Allison Gill, better known as Mueller, She Wrote, did a little investigating of her own after it was reported that FBI agents were instructed to "flag" any mention of Donald Trump in the Jeffrey Epstein files.
"When I saw that over one thousand people had been put to work reviewing the Epstein files, I put a call out on my BlueSky account," the legal expert said as she explained her request for anonymous details from members of the FBI who were tasked with the assignment.
She adds, "In the 24 hours since, I’ve received several messages, including from a former analyst that was assigned to review the files, and a few things stood out to me."
According to Gill, "First, approximately 1,000 personnel in the Information Management Division (IMD) and the FBI New York Field Office were assigned to this task, confirming the whistleblower account made to Senator Durbin’s office. I can also confirm that a log exists tracking the mentions of Donald Trump in the files, and that there were approximately 100,000 files containing roughly 300,000 pages. Individual analysts were told to flag mentions of Trump by document and page number by logging them in an Excel spreadsheet, then they’d hand in their spreadsheet at the end of their (sometimes 24 or even 48-hour) shift. But it’s important to note that the agents were not told to flag Trump until later in a process that began mid-March."
Saturday, US House Rep Jasmine Crockett spoke with Alex Witt.
Are Republicans -- who give some lip service on the importance of Epstein -- going to join with Democrats?
US House Rep Jasmine Crockett: We saw a bunch of Republicans that just skipped a vote this week so I don't anticipate that we will get to any resolution on this. I think they again want to straddle the fence, they want to show that they are loyal to this -- I don't even know what to call him, I've called him so many things -- this wannabe Hitler, for sure. They want to pledge their loyalty to him and they know that he does not want this released. I think they also are concerned about the damage it may do. e if he's trying to hide it, they understand that he is most likely problematic for him as well as the as the MAGA brand as well as the Republicans. So I did not anticipate that they will be on board for doing anything that may harm them or their fearless leader.
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