Saturday, November 15, 2025

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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